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Timestamp: 2019-12-16 04:21:46
Document Index: 740843972

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 11358', '§ 11359', '§ 11360', '§ 11366', '§ 11366', '§ 11570', '§ 11362']

Good News for California Primary Caregivers and their Qualified Patients - Medicinal and Adult Use Cannabis Business Formation
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The Great State of California protects Primary Caregivers and their Qualified Patients.
Primary Caregivers may receive compensation in full compliance with subdivision (c) of Section 11362.765 of the Health and Safety Code and are exempt from the licensure requirements of Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA).
If you are a Primary Caregiver or want to be one, our office can help you comply with California Law and ensure your success and service to your Qualified Patients.
Should you have any questions and would like a complimentary telephone consultation, please call our office toll free at 888-828-2483 between the hours of 9 am and 4 pm, Monday through Saturday.
The Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA) added a sunset provision to Health & Safety Code Section 11362.775 of the Medical Marijuana Program (MMP) that authorized collectives and cooperatives.
Early in 2019, Health & Safety Code Section 11362.775 that authorized collectives and cooperatives was repealed. Which means terminated and thus collectives and cooperatives formed under Health & Safety Code Section 11362.775 are no longer recognize under California law.
Health & Safety Code Section 11362.7(e) provides, “A primary caregiver shall be at least 18 years of age, unless the primary caregiver is the parent of a minor child who is a qualified patient or a person with an identification card or the primary caregiver is a person otherwise entitled to make medical decisions under state law pursuant to Section 6922, 7002, 7050, or 7120 of the Family Code.”
“(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 under Section 11357 (possession of marijuana), § 11358 (cultivation of marijuana), § 11359 (possession of marijuana for sale), § 11360 (sale, transportation, importation, or furnishing of marijuana), § 11366 (maintaining place for purpose of unlawfully selling, furnishing, or using controlled substance), § 11366.5 (knowingly providing place for purpose of unlawfully manufacturing, storing, or distributing controlled substance), or § 11570 (place used for unlawful selling, furnishing, storing, or manufacturing of controlled substance as nuisance).
This section does not authorize the individual to smoke or otherwise consume cannabis unless otherwise authorized by this article, nor shall anything in this section authorize any individual or group to cultivate or distribute cannabis for profit.”
What are the Limitations of a Primary Caregiver:
Business and Professions Code 26033(b) provides, “A primary caregiver who cultivates, possesses, stores, manufactures, transports, donates, or provides cannabis exclusively for the personal medical purposes of no more than five specified qualified patients for whom he or she is the primary caregiver within the meaning of Section 11362.7 of the Health and Safety Code, but who does not receive remuneration for these activities except for compensation in full compliance with subdivision (c) of Section 11362.765 of the Health and Safety Code, is exempt from the licensure requirements of this division.”
Health and Safety Code Section 11362.7(2) provides, “An individual who has been designated as a primary caregiver by more than one qualified patient or person with an identification card, if every qualified patient or person with an identification card who has designated that individual as a primary caregiver resides in the same city or county as the primary caregiver.
Although a “primary caregiver who consistently grows and supplies . . . medicinal marijuana for a section 11362.5 patient is serving a health need of the patient,” someone who merely maintains a source of marijuana does not automatically become the party “who has consistently assumed responsibility for the housing, health, or safety” of that purchaser.
Prepare and file Paracorp Incorporated’s Annual Information sheet
The Original Corporate Kit with corporate Seal – available in Black, Green and Burgundy – should be kept in a safe place as a backup to the Supporting Records binder for All Patients and includes:
Prepare Paracorp Incorporated Annual Information sheet and Annual Statutory Agent for Service of Process Agreement ($125 annual fee included),
Membership Certificates (Issued to Primary Caregiver(s)/Stakeholder(s),
Qualified Patients Agreements: Designation as primary caregiver.
Qualified Patients Accountability File Folder Check-List,
Qualified Patients Agreement,
Release and Waiver of Liability-Indemnity Agreement,
HIPPA – Medical Release of Physician’s Recommendation/Statement,
Qualified Patients, Transportation & Possession Agreement,
Supporting Documents and Qualified Patient Number Template –
All Download all to CD (in .pdf format).
“The Supporting Records Binder for All Qualified Patients” holds all of the formation documents referenced above AND all of the completed Qualified Patient documents. The documents in this binder are not stapled so that additional copies can be easily made to be placed in the “Supporting Records Binder” to be taken with the primary caregiver when transporting cannabis products to their Qualified Patients. See below.
The “Supporting Records Binder for Primary Caregiver” holds just the Article of Incorporation, Federal Tax ID number, Cultivation or Transportation Agreement and the documentation of each Qualified Patient to show compliance with the possession and cultivation guidelines. This binder only contains those Qualified Patient agreements that the primary caregiver is cultivating for or transporting to in the event compliance documentation is requested from law enforcement.Location of medicinal cannabis provider?
Health & Safety Code § 11362.768 provides,
“(a)This section shall apply to individuals specified in subdivision (b) of Section 11362.765.
(b)No medicinal cannabis cooperative, collective, dispensary, operator, establishment, or
provider who possesses, cultivates, or distributes medicinal cannabis pursuant to this article
shall be located within a 600-foot radius of a school.
(c)The distance specified in this section shall be the horizontal distance measured in a
straight line from the property line of the school to the closest property line of the lot on which
the medicinal cannabis cooperative, collective, dispensary, operator, establishment, or
provider is to be located without regard to intervening structures.
(d)This section shall not apply to a medicinal cannabis cooperative, collective, dispensary,
operator, establishment, or provider that is also a licensed residential medical or elder care
(e)This section shall apply only to a medicinal cannabis cooperative, collective, dispensary,
operator, establishment, or provider that is authorized by law to possess, cultivate, or
distribute medicinal cannabis and that has a storefront or mobile retail outlet which ordinarily
requires a local business license.
(f)Nothing in this section shall prohibit a city, county, or city and county from adopting
ordinances or policies that further restrict the location or establishment of a medicinal
cannabis cooperative, collective, dispensary, operator, establishment, or provider.
(g)This section does not preempt local ordinances, adopted prior to January 1, 2011, that
regulate the location or establishment of a medicinal cannabis cooperative, collective,
dispensary, operator, establishment, or provider.
(h)For the purposes of this section, “school” means any public or private school providing
instruction in kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, but does not include any
private school in which education is primarily conducted in private homes.