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Among the other latest changes:
- Allow for dispensaries and clinical registrants – a new entity that contracts with an academic medical center – to establish indoor or outdoor medical cannabis consumption areas. Smoking would not be allowed at indoor consumption areas.
- Delivery of medical cannabis to patients and their caregivers would be available, conducted by independent, third-party handlers certified by a new state Cannabis Regulatory Commission.
- The CRC would be able to set up an online service through which transfers between dispensaries and deliveries to patients could be requested and scheduled.
- The total number of medical cannabis cultivator permits would be limited to 23 during the first 18 months after the new law takes effect, including the six already in operation and six with preliminary approvals.
- Allow current and pending alternative treatment centers, or ATCs, to have up to three satellite dispensary locations.
- There would be a new permit type for medical cannabis wholesalers, authorized to acquire and resell medical cannabis.
- Applicants seeking to open an ATC would be required to file a community impact, social responsibility and research statement, as well as a diversity plan; they could also submit a prisoner re-entry program plan. ATC applicants with convictions for distributing less than 5 pounds of marijuana would not be disqualified.
- To expand the types of businesses that are licensed, one-third of each type of permits would be conditional permits and 10% of all permits are to be issued to microbusinesses
- Certain ATCs would not automatically be licensed for cultivation, processing and retail sales for recreational, adult-use cannabis, if and when that’s approved.
- All medical cannabis and products must have labels showing production date, strain, growth method, ingredients, storage requirements, allergen warnings and ATCs involved.
- A pediatric specialist could authorize a minor patient for medical cannabis, ending a requirement that such a doctor sign off on an authorization made by another practitioner.
- Edible forms are to be limited to forms that are medically appropriate for children.
- Revise reporting requirements for CRC to include driving under the influence offenses involving medical cannabis.