Source: http://legislature.maine.gov/legis/bills/bills_127th/billtexts/HP095001.asp
Timestamp: 2018-07-20 10:28:59
Document Index: 341298352

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 4922', '§ 4923', '§2383', '§1', '§2422', '§6', '§7', '§2422', '§10', '§5', '§2423', '§2', '§40', '§2423', '§10', '§2424', '§4', '§2425', '§4', '§10', '§2428', '§2', '§7', '§2428', '§2', '§2428', '§6', '§32', '§ 3001', '§ 3003', '§ 3004', '§ 3005', '§ 3006', '§ 3007', '§ 3008', '§ 3009', '§ 3010', '§ 3011', '§ 3012', '§2', '§6', '§6', '§ 5821', '§1103', '§1', '§115', '§156', '§1106', '§1', '§121', '§156', '§1107', '§2', '§127', '§156', '§1111', '§1', '§2', '§1111', '§4', '§20', '§1117', '§4', '§3', '§51', '§1124', '§ 1124', '§2231', '§4', '§1', '§2231', '§5', '§1', '§2152', '§4', '§2', '§2158', '§3', '§6', '§772', '§2', '§47', '§51', '§12004', '§36', '§283', '§264', '§ 264', '§ 282', '§ 283']

HP0950, LD 1401, item 1, An Act To Allow for and Regulate the Adult Use of Cannabis
HP0950
LD 1401 Session - 127th Maine Legislature
LR 1783
1. Cannabis. "Cannabis" means all parts of the plant of the genus cannabis whether growing or not, the seeds thereof, the resin extracted from any part of the plant and every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture or preparation of the plant, its seeds or its resin including cannabis concentrate. "Cannabis" does not include industrial hemp, cannabis fiber produced from the stalks of the cannabis plant, cake made from the seeds of the cannabis plant, sterilized seed of the cannabis plant that is incapable of germination or the weight of any ingredient combined with cannabis to prepare topical or oral administrations, food, drink or any other product.
2. Cannabis establishment. "Cannabis establishment" means a commercial cannabis cultivation facility, cannabis testing facility, cannabis product manufacturing facility or retail cannabis store.
3. Cannabis product manufacturing facility. "Cannabis product manufacturing facility" means an entity licensed under Title 28-A, chapter 110 to:
4. Cannabis products. "Cannabis products" means concentrated cannabis and products that consist of cannabis and other ingredients and that are intended for use or consumption, including, but not limited to, edible products, ointments and tinctures.
5. Cannabis testing facility. "Cannabis testing facility" means a public or private laboratory licensed and certified by the Department of Health and Human Services or accredited pursuant to standard ISO/IEC 17025 of the International Organization for Standardization by a 3rd-party accrediting body approved by the Department of Health and Human Services, such as the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation or the ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board, to analyze cannabis or cannabis products for contaminants, potency and cannabinoid profile.
6. Commercial cannabis cultivation facility. "Commercial cannabis cultivation facility" means an entity licensed under Title 28-A, chapter 110 to cultivate, prepare and package cannabis and to sell cannabis to retail cannabis stores, to cannabis product manufacturing facilities and to other cannabis cultivation facilities, but not to consumers.
7. Retail cannabis store. "Retail cannabis store" means an entity licensed under Title 28-A, chapter 110 to purchase or receive cannabis from a commercial cannabis cultivation facility and cannabis products from a cannabis product manufacturing facility and to sell cannabis and cannabis products to consumers.
§ 4922. Sales tax on cannabis products
§ 4923. Application of tax revenue
Sec. B-2. 22 MRSA §2383, sub-§1-A is enacted to read:
Sec. B-3. Maine Revised Statutes headnote amended; revision clause. In the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 22, chapter 558, in the chapter headnote, the words "marijuana, scheduled drugs, imitation scheduled drugs and hypodermic apparatuses" are amended to read "cannabis, scheduled drugs, imitation scheduled drugs and hypodermic apparatuses" and the Revisor of Statutes shall implement this revision when updating, publishing or republishing the statutes.
Sec. C-1. 22 MRSA §2422, sub-§6, as amended by PL 2011, c. 407, Pt. B, §7, is further amended to read:
6. Registered dispensary. "Registered dispensary" or "dispensary" means a not-for-profit an entity registered under section 2428 , subsection 2 that acquires, possesses, cultivates, manufactures, delivers, transfers, transports, sells, supplies or dispenses marijuana or related supplies and educational materials to qualifying patients and the primary caregivers of those patients.
Sec. C-2. 22 MRSA §2422, sub-§10, as enacted by IB 2009, c. 1, §5, is repealed.
Sec. C-3. 22 MRSA §2423-A, sub-§2, ¶K, as reallocated by RR 2013, c. 1, §40, is amended to read:
Sec. C-4. 22 MRSA §2423-A, sub-§10 is enacted to read:
Sec. C-5. 22 MRSA §2424, sub-§4 is enacted to read:
Sec. C-6. 22 MRSA §2425, sub-§4, as amended by PL 2013, c. 396, §10, is further amended to read:
4. Primary caregiver registry identification card; cap. The Until December 31, 2015, the department shall issue a registry identification card to each registered primary caregiver, if any, who is named in a registered patient's approved application pursuant to subsection 1, paragraph E and, if the registered primary caregiver employs an employee pursuant to section 2423-A, subsection 2, paragraph I, to that employee. Beginning January 1, 2016, the department shall limit the number of primary caregivers issued a registry identification card to the number of primary caregivers registered with the department on December 31, 2015.
Sec. C-7. 22 MRSA §2428, sub-§2, ¶A, as amended by PL 2013, c. 394, §7, is further amended to read:
Sec. C-8. 22 MRSA §2428, sub-§2, ¶E is enacted to read:
E. If a registered dispensary reorganizes under Title 13-C with at least 2/3 of the same board members as in that registered dispensary's previous organization under Title 13-B, for all licensure purposes under this chapter, that reorganized registered dispensary is deemed to be the same registered dispensary previously formed under Title 13-B.
Sec. C-9. 22 MRSA §2428, sub-§6, ¶A, as amended by PL 2011, c. 407, Pt. B, §32, is further amended to read:
§ 3001. Short title
2. Cannabis accessories. "Cannabis accessories" means equipment, products or materials of any kind that are used, or intended or designed for use, in planting, propagating, cultivating, growing, harvesting, composting, manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing, preparing, testing, analyzing, packaging, repackaging, storing, vaporizing or containing cannabis or for ingesting, inhaling or otherwise introducing cannabis into the human body.
3. Cannabis establishment. "Cannabis establishment" means a commercial cannabis cultivation facility, cannabis testing facility, cannabis product manufacturing facility or retail cannabis store.
4. Cannabis product manufacturing facility. "Cannabis product manufacturing facility" means an entity licensed to:
5. Cannabis products. "Cannabis products" means concentrated cannabis and products that consist of cannabis and other ingredients and that are intended for use or consumption, including, but not limited to, edible products, ointments and tinctures.
6. Cannabis testing facility. "Cannabis testing facility" means a public or private laboratory licensed and certified by the Department of Health and Human Services or accredited pursuant to standard ISO/IEC 17025 of the International Organization for Standardization by a 3rd-party accrediting body approved by the Department of Health and Human Services, such as the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation or the ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board, to analyze cannabis or cannabis products for contaminants, potency and cannabinoid profile.
7. Commercial cannabis cultivation facility. "Commercial cannabis cultivation facility" means an entity licensed to cultivate, prepare and package cannabis and sell cannabis to retail cannabis stores, to cannabis product manufacturing facilities and to other cannabis cultivation facilities, but not to consumers.
8. Consumer. "Consumer" means a person 21 years of age or older who possesses cannabis or cannabis products for personal use or use by persons 21 years of age or older, but not for resale to others.
9. Licensee. "Licensee" means any individual, partnership, corporation, firm, association or other legal entity holding a cannabis establishment license under section 3007 within the State.
10. Locality. "Locality" means a municipality or, in reference to a location in the unorganized territory, the county.
11. Qualifying application. "Qualifying application" means a license application that meets the standards set forth in rules adopted by the bureau pursuant to section 3003, subsection 2.
12. Retail cannabis store. "Retail cannabis store" means an entity licensed to purchase or receive cannabis from a commercial cannabis cultivation facility and cannabis products from a cannabis product manufacturing facility and to sell cannabis and cannabis products to consumers.
13. Sample. "Sample" means cannabis or a cannabis product regulated under this chapter that is provided for testing or research purposes to a cannabis testing facility.
14. Seedling. "Seedling" means a female cannabis plant that is not in a flowering state.
§ 3003. Bureau duties
A. Continue to possess cannabis during the time the cannabis establishment's license is suspended, but it may not dispense, transfer or sell cannabis, cannabis products or cannabis accessories. If the cannabis establishment is a commercial cannabis cultivation facility, it may continue to cultivate cannabis plants during the time its license is suspended. Cannabis may not be removed from the licensed premises except as authorized by the bureau and only for the purpose of destruction; and
§ 3004. Exemption from criminal and civil penalties, seizure or forfeiture
§ 3005. Personal use of cannabis
D. Purchase up to one ounce of cannabis, or its equivalent in cannabis products, cannabis seedlings, clones, seeds and cannabis accessories from a retail cannabis store. For purposes of this paragraph, "clone" means a cutting from a mature cannabis plant that may be replanted and raised to produce cannabis buds.
A. A person who is not a qualifying patient under Title 22, chapter 558-C may cultivate up to 3 flowering cannabis plants at that person's place of residence, on property owned by that person or, with the permission of the owner, on another person's property.
This subsection may not be construed to deny a property owner the right to prohibit cannabis farming or cultivation on that person's property.
D. A person may allow consumption of cannabis on that person's private property.
§ 3006. Cannabis establishments
§ 3007. Licensing of cannabis establishments
7. Commercial cannabis cultivation facility licensing. An applicant for a commercial cannabis cultivation facility license shall designate the size category of the production premises and the amount of actual square footage in the premises that will be designated as plant canopy. For purposes of this subsection, "plant canopy" means the area covered by the flowering tops of harvestable female cannabis plants.
C. A person who has been convicted of a disqualifying drug offense is not eligible to be a licensee. For purposes of this paragraph, "disqualifying drug offense" means a conviction for a violation of a state or federal controlled substance law that is a crime punishable by imprisonment for one year or more. "Disqualifying drug offense" does not include an offense for which the sentence, including any term of probation, incarceration or supervised release, was completed 10 or more years prior to application for licensure or an offense that consisted of conduct that is permitted under this chapter.
F. If a registered dispensary reorganizes under Title 13-C with at least 2/3 of the same board members as in that registered dispensary's previous organization under Title 13-B, for all licensure purposes under this chapter, that reorganized registered dispensary is deemed to be the same registered dispensary previously formed under Title 13-B.
H. A cannabis establishment may not employ as a manager or leave in charge of the licensed premises a person who, by reason of conviction for a disqualifying drug offense or because of a revocation of that person's cannabis establishment license, is not eligible for a cannabis establishment license.
§ 3008. Cannabis testing facility
(2) Maintain testing results as part of the facility's business books and records; and
(4) Cannabis testing facility director qualification requirements, including the requirement that the director of a cannabis testing facility hold a master's degree or higher in a relevant science;
§ 3009. Local control
§ 3010. Cannabis Regulation and Licensing Fund established
§ 3011. Research authorized
§ 3012. Construction
Sec. C-11. Rulemaking by bureau. By June 1, 2016, the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages, Cannabis and Lottery Operations shall adopt routine technical rules under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A for the administration and the enforcement of laws regulating and licensing cannabis establishments pursuant to Title 28-A, chapter 110. These rules must be developed by the bureau and may not be contracted out to an entity outside the bureau. These rules may not prohibit the operation of cannabis establishments, either expressly or through restrictions that make the operation of cannabis establishments unreasonably impracticable. As used in this section, "unreasonably impracticable" means that the measures necessary to comply with the rules require such a high investment of risk, money, time or other resource or asset that the operation of a cannabis establishment is not worthy of being carried out in practice by a reasonably prudent businessperson.
12. Minimum security requirements, including standards to reasonably protect against unauthorized access to cannabis at all stages of the licensee's possession, transportation, storage and cultivation of cannabis; these security requirements may not prohibit outdoor cultivation in an enclosed, secured space;
Sec. D-1. 28-A MRSA §2, sub-§6, as amended by PL 2013, c. 368, Pt. V, §6, is further amended to read:
6. Bureau. "Bureau" means the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages , Cannabis and Lottery Operations.
Sec. D-2. Maine Revised Statutes amended; revision clause. Wherever in the Maine Revised Statutes the words "Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages and Lottery Operations" appear or reference is made to that entity or those words, those words are amended to read or mean, as appropriate, "Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages, Cannabis and Lottery Operations" or "bureau," and the Revisor of Statutes shall implement this revision when updating, publishing or republishing the statutes.
§ 5821-A. Property not subject to forfeiture based on use of cannabis
Property is not subject to forfeiture under this chapter if the activity that subjects the person's property to forfeiture is medical use of marijuana related to cannabis use and the person meets the requirements for medical use of marijuana under Title 22, chapter 558-C or personal or commercial cannabis activities under Title 28-A, chapter 110.
Sec. E-2. 17-A MRSA §1103, sub-§1-B, ¶A, as enacted by PL 2001, c. 383, §115 and affected by §156, is amended to read:
Sec. E-3. 17-A MRSA §1106, sub-§1-B, ¶A, as enacted by PL 2001, c. 383, §121 and affected by §156, is further amended to read:
Sec. E-4. 17-A MRSA §1107-A, sub-§2, ¶A, as enacted by PL 2001, c. 383, §127 and affected by §156, is further amended to read:
Sec. E-5. 17-A MRSA §1111-A, sub-§1, as amended by IB 2009, c. 1, §2, is further amended to read:
1. As used in this section the term "drug paraphernalia" means all equipment, products and materials of any kind that are used or intended for use in planting, propagating, cultivating, growing, harvesting, manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing, preparing, testing, analyzing, packaging, repackaging, storing, containing, concealing, injecting, ingesting, inhaling or otherwise introducing into the human body a scheduled drug in violation of this chapter or Title 22, section 2383, except that this section does not apply to a person who is authorized to possess marijuana for medical use pursuant to Title 22, chapter 558-C or personal or commercial cannabis activities pursuant to Title 28-A, chapter 110, to the extent the drug paraphernalia is used for that person's medical use of marijuana or personal or commercial cannabis activities allowed under Title 28-A, chapter 110. It includes, but is not limited to:
Sec. E-6. 17-A MRSA §1111-A, sub-§§4-A and 4-B, as enacted by PL 2011, c. 464, §20, are amended to read:
Sec. E-7. 17-A MRSA §1117, sub-§4, as enacted by PL 2009, c. 631, §3 and affected by §51, is amended to read:
Sec. E-8. 17-A MRSA §1124 is enacted to read:
§ 1124. Cannabis odor
For the purpose of this chapter and chapter 103, unless the term is more specifically defined, "adulterated" means made impure or inferior by adding extraneous ingredients. Goods that are prepared in food establishments that are licensed facilities under Title 22, section 2167 and that contain marijuana for medical use by a qualifying patient, pursuant to Title 22, chapter 558-C, and in a retail cannabis store that sells food containing cannabis pursuant to Title 28-A, chapter 110 are not considered to be adulterated under this subchapter.
Sec. F-2. 7 MRSA §2231, sub-§4, as enacted by PL 2009, c. 320, §1, is amended to read:
Sec. F-3. 7 MRSA §2231, sub-§§5 and 8, as enacted by PL 2009, c. 320, §1, are repealed.
Sec. F-4. 22 MRSA §2152, sub-§4-A, as amended by PL 2011, c. 407, Pt. A, §2, is further amended to read:
4-A. Food establishment. "Food establishment" means a factory, plant, warehouse or store in which food and food products are manufactured, processed, packed, held for introduction into commerce or sold. "Food establishment" includes a primary caregiver, as defined in section 2422, subsection 8-A, and a registered dispensary, as defined in section 2422, subsection 6, that prepare food containing marijuana for medical use by a qualifying patient pursuant to chapter 558-C and a retail cannabis store that sells food containing cannabis pursuant to Title 28-A, chapter 110. The following establishments are not considered food establishments required to be licensed under section 2167:
Sec. F-5. 22 MRSA §2158, as amended by PL 2011, c. 407, Pt. A, §3 and c. 657, Pt. W, §6, is further amended to read:
Sec. F-6. 26 MRSA §772, sub-§2, as amended by PL 2009, c. 631, §47 and affected by §51, is further amended to read:
Sec. H-1. 5 MRSA §12004-I, sub-§36-F is enacted to read:
Human Services Prevention and Control of Marijuana Use by Youth Advisory Council Expenses/Legislative Per Diem for Nonsalaried Employee Members 22 MRSA §283
Sec. H-2. 22 MRSA §264 is enacted to read:
§ 264. Cannabis Research Fund established
1. Fund established. The Cannabis Research Fund, referred to in this section as "the fund," is established in and administered by the department as an interest-bearing Other Special Revenue Funds account. Balances in the fund may not lapse and must be carried forward to the next fiscal year.
1. Advisory council. "Advisory council" means the Prevention and Control of Marijuana Use by Youth Advisory Council established in section 283.
2. Center. "Center" means the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
3. Program. "Program" means the Prevention and Control of Marijuana Use by Youth Program established in section 282.
4. Marijuana products. "Marijuana products" means any form of cannabis and any material or device, including cigarette papers and pipes, used in the smoking, eating or vaporizing of cannabis or other form of cannabis consumption. As used in this subsection, "cannabis" has the same meaning as in Title 28-A, section 3002, subsection 1.
§ 282. Prevention and Control of Marijuana Use by Youth Program
1. Program established. The Prevention and Control of Marijuana Use by Youth Program is established in the center. The purposes of the program are to prevent the State's youths from using marijuana products, aside from when a medical provider has recommended it for the treatment of an ailment. The program includes the following components:
(1) Monitoring and maintaining the program's effectiveness through an evaluation of each component;
§ 283. Prevention and Control of Marijuana Use by Youth Advisory Council
Part C also amends the Maine Medical Use of Marijuana Act to remove the requirement that dispensaries be nonprofit corporations, remove the restriction on how much marijuana may be transferred by a primary caregiver for compensation, require a primary caregiver's cultivation facility to be open to reasonable inspection by the Department of Health and Human Services and cap the number of primary caregivers registered with the department at the number registered with the department on December 31, 2015.