ARTICLE 2.5. Medical Marijuana Program [11362.7. - 11362.85.]
Article 2.5 added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 875, Sec. 2.
§§ 11362.7–11362.85 · 25 sections
- § 11362.7 For purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply: (a) “Attending physician” means an individual who possesses a license in good standing to…
- § 11362.71 (a) (1) The department shall establish and maintain a voluntary program for the issuance of identification cards to qualified patients who satisfy the…
- § 11362.712 (a) Commencing on January 1, 2018, a qualified patient must possess a physician’s recommendation that complies with Article 25 (commencing with Section 2525)…
- § 11362.713 (a) Information identifying the names, addresses, or social security numbers of patients, their medical conditions, or the names of their primary caregivers,…
- § 11362.715 (a) A person who seeks an identification card shall pay the fee, as provided in Section 11362.755, and provide all of the following to the county health…
- § 11362.72 (a) Within 30 days of receipt of an application for an identification card, a county health department or the county’s designee shall do all of the following:…
- § 11362.735 (a) An identification card issued by the county health department shall be serially numbered and shall contain all of the following: (1) A unique user…
- § 11362.74 (a) The county health department or the county’s designee may deny an application only for any of the following reasons: (1) The applicant did not provide the…
- § 11362.745 (a) An identification card shall be valid for a period of one year. (b) Upon annual renewal of an identification card, the county health department or its…
- § 11362.755 (a) Each county health department or the county’s designee may charge a fee for all costs incurred by the county or the county’s designee for administering the…
- § 11362.76 (a) A person who possesses an identification card shall: (1) Within seven days, notify the county health department or the county’s designee of any change in…
- § 11362.765 (a) Subject to the requirements of this article, the individuals specified in subdivision (b) shall not be subject, on that sole basis, to criminal liability…
- § 11362.768 (a) This section shall apply to individuals specified in subdivision (b) of Section 11362.765. (b) No medicinal cannabis cooperative, collective, dispensary,…
- § 11362.769 Indoor and outdoor medical cannabis cultivation shall be conducted in accordance with state and local laws. State agencies, including, but not limited to, the…
- § 11362.77 (a) A qualified patient or primary caregiver may possess no more than eight ounces of dried cannabis per qualified patient. In addition, a qualified patient or…
- § 11362.78 A state or local law enforcement agency or officer shall not refuse to accept an identification card issued pursuant to this article unless the state or local…
- § 11362.785 (a) Nothing in this article shall require any accommodation of medicinal use of cannabis on the property or premises of a place of employment or during the…
- § 11362.79 This article does not authorize a qualified patient or person with an identification card to engage in the smoking of medicinal cannabis under any of the…
- § 11362.795 (a) (1) Any criminal defendant who is eligible to use cannabis pursuant to Section 11362.5 may request that the court confirm that he or she is allowed to use…
- § 11362.8 A professional licensing board shall not impose a civil penalty or take other disciplinary action against a licensee based solely on the fact that the licensee…
- § 11362.81 (a) A person specified in subdivision (b) shall be subject to the following penalties: (1) For the first offense, imprisonment in the county jail for no more…
- § 11362.82 If any section, subdivision, sentence, clause, phrase, or portion of this article is for any reason held invalid or unconstitutional by any court of competent…
- § 11362.83 Nothing in this article shall prevent a city or other local governing body from adopting and enforcing any of the following: (a) Adopting local ordinances that…
- § 11362.84 The status and conduct of a qualified patient who acts in accordance with the Compassionate Use Act shall not, by itself, be used to restrict or abridge…
- § 11362.85 Upon a determination by the California Attorney General that the federal schedule of controlled substances has been amended to reclassify or declassify…