Source: http://www.loveandmarij.com/washington-cannabis-wedding-laws/
Timestamp: 2019-04-23 10:01:24+00:00

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Gifting/Sharing Cannabis is Prohibited: Sharing marijuana is a Class C Felony; this prohibition on sharing includes passing a joint or bowl.
TIP: Given prohibitions on sharing, adult attendees may bring their own supply (within legal limits) and use it where it is legal to do so. While the amount of marijuana possessed at a wedding may grow with the number of adults in attendance, all marijuana brought by guests should be kept on their person and not shared.
Limits: Recreational marijuana that is legally purchased at a marijuana retailer may be transported by the event host or an adult guest in her own vehicle, up to 1 oz per adult, solely for personal use.
TIP: In order to protect against charges of DUI-Marijuana, or consumption of marijuana in a moving vehicle, the driver must be sober, the marijuana should always be in the trunk, and no smoking implement should be in the front compartment. It reduces risk to actually take a separate trip only with smoking implements in the trunk and no marijuana.
TIP: if there are multiple adults in the vehicle, marijuana should be labeled with the possessor’s name to clearly indicate each person’s 1oz.
TIP: Keep track of pending regulations; Seattle has been supportive of HB 2638, which would create a pilot program for legal marijuana home delivery service in very large Washington cities. 58 However, the bill passed only one House committee in 2016 before it died, so building support will take time.
Federal and Tribal land: Consumption on federal lands, including national parks and forests, carries even higher risk because marijuana possession remains a federal crime, and it is more likely that federal law enforcement will enforce that crime there. Tribal lands will also enforce their own policies regarding marijuana use and possession.
Marijuana Club Prohibited: It is a violation of WA law to maintain a “marijuana club.” While “marijuana club” may be interpreted to require the operation of a business and/or collection of money, the law is unclear as to whether a wedding host, even if hosting occurs at a private residence and free of charge, will be exempted from criminal liability. Thus, this prohibition may extend to a privately owned business on private property,that is marked CLOSED for a private party, if the owner received compensation for closing off the venue to the general public.
Indoor Smoking Prohibited: indoor consumption that involves smoking marijuana is subject to the Washington Smoking in Public Places law (SPP), although consumption of edibles is not, and only needs to satisfy the above requirements. 22 The SPP prohibits smoking in public places 23 as well as in any “place of employment.” 24 This could mean that any consumption done indoors where there are workers employed for the wedding, even in a venue that is a private residence, will be disallowed by the SPP.
TIP: Confer with the Washington State Department of Health staff to confirm whether a consumption plan is permissible under the SPP, including whether “vape pens” are permissible in an indoor area in a given locale.
TIP: Next door neighbors are generally not considered to be the “general public” for purposes of defeating a “public view,” but passerbys on the street are, unless the windows are opaque or the shades drawn throughout the event.
TIP: Work with your locale to arrive at a creative solution. Special use permits have been granted that contain exceptions to consumption rules (albeit, such exceptions may be the result of purposeful non-enforcement as opposed to a legal exception). 28 The City of Seattle has permitted events to have fenced-in marijuana use areas provided such areas: (a) are not visible to the general public; (b) are limited to attendees ages 21 and over; (c) are not staffed internally by employees or volunteers (except for security or aid personnel responding to calls); and (d) are designed so that marijuana smoke from inside the use areas does not impact the general public.
Prohibition on Gifting Exemption: Industrial hemp is exempted. Marijuana products with up to a 0.3% THC concentration, including cannabis health and beauty aids, may be gifted with no restrictions. 19 Thus, the event host may have a canna-bar to give out unlimited supplies of cannabis health and beauty aids, and perhaps arguably high-CBD, super low- THC marijuana and marijuana products for consumption.
TIP: Use wedding invitations to direct guests to “Bring Your Own Cannabis (BYOC)” purchased in Washington. An Event host may provide information about nearby retail outlets and their hours of operation. They may inform adult guests about a planned legal consumption area and the wedding party’s plan to do a toast there at a certain time, so that hosts and guests may enjoy cannabis consumption alongside friends, while not sharing their marijuana with their friends.
Marijuana may be consumed by a non-driver in a private vehicle outside the property, without breaking any DUI-D laws. See Taxis and Limos section.
(iii) marijuana consumption complies with the SPP (not in a “place of employment”).
TIP: A tent on the property of a private residence where the event host paid money to the owner for use of the property likely violates the public place requirement. 37 A tent brought by the event host, placed on a nearby neighbor’s property, or a room in a nearby neighbor’s private residence, where the neighbor does not “realize any pecuniary gain” including money, food from the wedding, or marijuana, would likely be allowed for consumption.
Consumption by adults of their own legal recreational marijuana is likely prohibited under the “marijuana club” and/or “public place” prohibitions.
It may be lawful for a stylist to travel and perform styling services for the event host and other adults in a private hotel suite or private residence that allows for marijuana consumption on site, so long as the stylist does not sell any marijuana. Consumption of free alcohol in this room is also permitted.
TIP: The event host should confirm with the Department of Health staff to determine whether the hotel suite is considered a “place of employment” while the stylist is employed there. If so, event hosts smoke marijuana while the stylist is not in the room, and clear the air each time with fans. Again, consumption of edibles is unaffected by the SPP and vaporization is not as well, although vaporization may be banned by some local regulations.
TIP: Event host should ascertain hotel policies.
Most private vehicles with regular windows will not protect the adult from this “public view” prohibition. Stationary limousines or mobile homes with tinted windows may do so. 45 It is possible that such vehicles may even be parked on the public street, but the event host should check with the local jurisdiction on whether they would be considered a public place. 46 Because of the marijuana club and public place restrictions on the venue property, the vehicle should not park on the venue property. However, a venue neighbor who did not realize any pecuniary gain from allowing the presence of the vehicle would likely be allowed to host the vehicle on his property.
Vehicles should stay parked for the duration of marijuana consumption.
State-Chartered Vehicles Prohibited: consumption in a state-regulated private limousine or vehicle-for-hire, including a state-permitted charter and excursion vehicle, is prohibited, even with the existence of a partition between the driver and passenger 47 In a 2014 letter, the commission declared those charter vehicles to be “in view of the general public” as well as a “public place” and “place of employment” according to the SPP.
Private Party Buses Unclear: marijuana party buses exist in Washington, and permit consumers to smoke in its private compartments, operating in a legal grey area. 48 Yet scuh unregulated private vehicles for hire are unlikely to be SPP-compliant. 49 And some localities may also fully ban smoking anything and use of intoxicants in all of their vehicles-for-hire.
Use of Edibles Permitted: All edibles must be consumed on private property, and not in public view.
Sale of Edibles Prohibited: Only a marijuana retailer may sell edibles.
TIP: Allow the chef to cook legally purchased marijuana product into a marijuana-infused product, while standing by to maintain possession and defeat the definition of “delivery.” 61 In such a scenario, the chef’s labor MUST be donated, and no marijuana may be transferred to another person. These marijuana-infused products could also be brought to the wedding by the adult for personal use.
DIY Cannabis Bouquets: So long as the cannabis remains in your possession, you may affix less than 1oz of decorative cannabis into a personal bouquet or boutonniere.
TIP: Independent from a florist, event guests may work their own marijuana into bouquets or wearable pieces as long as such marijuana remains on one’s person and is intended solely for personal use (i.e., in a boutonniere or flower crown).
TIP: Remove the cannabis from your bouquet after the ceremony and save it for your own personal consumption at the cannabar.
Gifting and Sale Prohibited: The event host may not gift any marijuana to a florist, and a florist may not sell a floral arrangement containing marijuana to a client.
Display Arguable: The law is unclear whether a florist arrange marijuana in arrangements or centerpieces under the event host’s watch at her residence, or provide flower arrangements and rudimentarily tell the event host how to place the marijuana. However, if the point of the marijuana flower arrangement is to ultimately give it away to someone, and it will not be kept with the event host the entire time, such displays may be prohibited. Further, the concept of a marijuana flower arrangement may contradict security measures taken to keep marijuana separate from non-consuming or minor wedding guests, either on an adult’s person, or in the consumption area.
BYOC Permitted: The event host and each participating adult, having been directed to “Bring Your Own Cannabis” by the invitation, and purchased it legally at a retail outlet, may consume together in a legal consumption area (not in view of the general public), as long as everyone smokes or ingests their own marijuana products and are SPP compliant.
Cannabar Gifting Exemption: Industrial hemp is exempted. Marijuana products with up to a 0.3% THC concentration, including cannabis health and beauty aids, may be gifted with no restrictions. 66 Thus, the event host may have a cannabar to give out unlimited supplies of cannabis health and beauty aids, and perhaps arguably high-CBD, super low-THC marijuana and marijuana products for consumption.
TIP: If a budtender is employed to check ID, even if the budtender is a volunteer, IDs should be checked outside of the consumption area.
Host Responsibility: Like serving alcohol, it is the responsibility of the event hosts & parents to make sure that minors are distanced from and have no access to marijuana.
Employing a budtender to check IDs and monitor all marijuana being used.
“Delivery” is the actual or constructive transfer from one person to another of marijuana. RCW § 69.50.101 (g). This has been construed to include “gifting,” which is not explicitly addressed in the regulations.
“Marijuana Products” consist of: (i) “useable marijuana;” (ii) “marijuana concentrates,” and (iii) “marijuana-infused products. RCW § 69.50.101 (w),(z),(cc),(tt).
“Useable Marijuana:” dried marijuana flowers.
“Marijuana-Infused Products:” products that contain marijuana or marijuana extracts that have a THC concentration up to 10%.
“Public Place” includes streets and alleys of incorporated cities and towns; state or county or township highways or roads; buildings and grounds used for school purposes; public dance halls and grounds adjacent thereto; those parts of establishments where beer may be sold under this title, soft drink establishments, public buildings, public meeting halls, lobbies, halls and dining rooms of hotels, restaurants, theatres, stores, garages and filling stations which are open to and are generally used by the public and to which the public is permitted to have unrestricted access; railroad trains, stages, and other public conveyances of all kinds and character, and the depots and waiting rooms used in conjunction therewith which are open to unrestricted use and access by the public; publicly owned bathing beaches, parks, and/or playgrounds; and all other places of like or similar nature to which the general public has unrestricted right of access, and which are generally used by the public. RCW § 66.04.010 (36).
“Marijuana Club” which is a “club, association, or other business, for profit or otherwise,” that “conducts or maintains a premises” for the purposes of providing a location where individuals may consume marijuana.
“Place of employment” means any area under the control of a public or private employer which employees are required to pass through during the course of employment, including, but not limited to: Entrances and exits to the places of employment, and including a presumptively reasonable minimum distance, as set forth in RCW § 70.160.075, of twenty-five feet from entrances, exits, windows that open, and ventilation intakes that serve an enclosed area where smoking is prohibited; work areas; restrooms; conference and classrooms; break rooms and cafeterias; and other common areas. A private residence or home-based business, unless used to provide licensed child care, foster care, adult care, or other similar social service care on the premises, is not a place of employment.
“’Smoke’ or ‘smoking’” means the carrying or smoking of any kind of lighted pipe, cigar, cigarette, or any other lighted smoking equipment.” RCW § 70.160.020 (1).
“Vapor product” means any noncombustible product that may contain nicotine and that employs a heating element, power source, electronic circuit, or other electronic, chemical, or mechanical means, regardless of shape or size, that can be used to produce vapor or aerosol from a solution or other substance. ‘Vapor product’ does not include any product that meets the definition of marijuana, useable marijuana, marijuana concentrates, marijuana-infused products, cigarette, or tobacco products. RCW § 70.345.010 (19).
II. City and county law enforcement (and occasionally the Washington State Police) are the enforcement authorities for all conduct by non-marijuana business licensees.
III. Washington State Department of Health is the enforcement authority for issues involving Smoking in Public Places.
1 RCW § 69.50.4013 (3)(a).
2 RCW § 69.50.4013 (3)(a); RCW § 69.50.360 (3); RCW § 69.50.412; RCW § 69.50.4121. http://mrsc.org/Home/Explore‐Topics/Legal/Regulation/Marijuana‐Regulation‐in‐Washington‐ State/Enforcing‐Recreational‐Marijuana.aspx.
3 RCW § 69.50.101 (w),(z),(cc),(tt).
4 Possession by an adult of more than 1 oz. to 40g (about 1.5 oz.) is punishable by a misdemeanor. RCW § 69.50.4014. Possession of more than 40g is a is a Class C Felony. RCW § 69.50.4013 (1), (2).
5 RCW § 69.50.445 (1). The maximum penalty and the default amount for a class 3 civil infraction shall be $50.00, not including statutory assessments. RCW § 7.80.120(1)(c).
6 Manufacture by an unlicensed adult is punishable as a class C felony. RCW § 69.50.401.
8 Manufacture of a controlled substance that isn’t exempted under the recreational marijuana law for licensed cultivators is also a class C felony. RCW § 69.50.401.
11 RCW § 69.50.101 (oo).
13 WAC 314‐55‐095 (1)(c). RCW § 69.50.360 (3).).
14 WAC 314‐55‐010 (31). WAC 314‐55‐095 (1).
17 RCW § 69.50.101 (v). RCW § 69.50.378. RCW § 69.50.575.
18 “Delivery” is the actual or constructive transfer from one person to another of marijuana. RCW § 69.50.101 (g). Except delivery in compliance with RCW § 69.50 by a licensed marijuana business, “it is unlawful for any person to deliver or possess with intent to deliver a controlled substance.” This delivery by an unlicensed adult is punishable as a class C felony. RCW § 69.50.401. While this was not explicitly stated in the statute, many interpretations of the law agreed on the existence of the prohibition on gifting. http://seattlecannabis.co/recreational‐marijuana‐information‐washington‐state; http://blog.seattlepi.com/vivianmcpeak/2016/05/18/washington‐the‐worst‐legal‐cannabis‐model‐dont‐ copy‐us/ www.leafbuyer.com/blog/washington‐marijuana‐laws‐penalties; http://thejointblog.com/fix‐ this‐sharing‐marijuana‐with‐your‐sweetheart‐is‐felony‐distribution‐in‐washington‐state; https://thinkprogress.org/what‐you‐need‐to‐know‐before‐you‐buy‐weed‐in‐washington‐ ad09158425fb#.8t1z49flf.
19 RCW § 69.50.101 (v). RCW § 69.50.378. RCW § 69.50.575.
23 “Public place” is defined much more broadly in the SPP than RCW but also protects “private facilities which are occasionally open to the public except upon the occasions when the facility is open to the public.” “Public place” under the SPP means that portion of any building or vehicle used by and open to the public, regardless of whether the building or vehicle is owned in whole or in part by private persons or entities, the state of Washington, or other public entity, and regardless of whether a fee is charged for admission, and includes a presumptively reasonable minimum distance, as set forth in RCW § 70.160.075, of twenty‐five feet from entrances, exits, windows that open, and ventilation intakes that serve an enclosed area where smoking is prohibited. A public place does not include a private residence unless the private residence is used to provide licensed child care, foster care, adult care, or other similar social service care on the premises.
24 RCW § 70.160.030. RCW § 70.160.020 (3).
25 RCW § 70.160.020 (1). RCW § 70.345.010 (19).
31 RCW § 66.04.010 (36).
32 RCW § 69.50.4013 (3)(a); RCW § 69.50.360 (3).
35 RCW § 69.50.505 (1) (h).
36 RCW § 69.50.331 (8)(b). RCW § 69.50.331 (8)(a).
40 RCW § 66.04.010 (36).
46 RCW § 66.04.010 (36).
53 RCW § 46.04.586. RCW § 46.20.308 (5). RCW § 46.61.502. RCW § 46.61.502. RCW § 46.61.504. RCW § 46.61.503.
55 RCW § 46.61.745 (1)(a)(i),(iii).
59 RCW § 69.50 RCW § 69.50.401. RCW § 69.50.401. RCW § 69.50.450 (1).
60 RCW § 69.50.360 (3).
61 “Delivery” is the actual or constructive transfer from one person to another of marijuana. RCW § 69.50.101 (g).
62 RCW § 69.50.101 (g). RCW § 69.50.401.
66 RCW § 69.50.101 (v). RCW § 69.50.378. RCW § 69.50.575.
67 RCW § 69.50.4013 (4). RCW § 69.50.401(2) (c), (d), or (e). RCW § 69.50.406 (2).
68 RCW § 46.20.117; WAC 314‐55‐150.

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