An Act To Clarify Provisions of the Maine Medical Use of Marijuana Act
Maine Legislature, Session 126, LD 1597
Committee Amendment CA_A_H665 (House)
Amends: 22 MRSA §2423-A, 22 MRSA §2428

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT" A " 
to H.P. 1168, L.D. 1597, Bill, "An Act To 
Clarify Provisions of the Maine Medical Use of Marijuana Act" 
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting clause and before the 
emergency clause and inserting the following: 
'Sec. 1. 22 MRSA §2423-A, sub-§3, ~B, as amended by PL 2013, c. 424, Pt. G, 
§ 1 and affected by §2, is further amended to read: 
B. A primary caregiver who has. been designated by a patient to cultivate marijuana 
for the patient's medical use must keep all plants in an enclosed, locked facility unless 
the plants are being transported because the primary caregiver is moving or taking the 
plants to the primary caregiver's own property in order to cultivate them. 
The 
primary caregiver shall use a numerical identification system to enable the primary 
caregiver to identify marijuana plants cultivated for a patient. 
Access to the 
cultivation facility is limited to the primary caregiver, except that an elected official 
invited by the primary caregiver for the pumose of providing education to the elected 
official on cultivation by the primary caregiver, emergency services personnel or a 
person who needs to gain access to the cultivation facility in order to perform repairs 
or maintenance or to do construction may access the cultivation facility to provide 
those professional services while under the direct supervision of the primary 
caregiver. 
Sec. 2. 22 MRSA §2428, sub-§6, ~, as amended by PL 2013, c. 374, §2, is 
further amended to read: 
I. All cultivation of marijuana must take place in an enclosed, locked facility unless 
the marijuana plants are being transported between the dispensary and a location at 
which the dispensary cultivates the marijuana plants, as disclosed to the department 
in subsection 2, paragraph A, subparagraph (3). The dispensary shall use a numerical 
identification system to enable the dispensary to track marijuana plants from 
cultivation to sale and to track prepared marijuana obtained pursuant to section 
2423-A, subsection 2, paragraph H from acquisition to sale. Access to the cultivation 
facility is limited to a cardholder who is a principal officer, board member or 
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employee of the dispensary when acting in that cardholder's official capacity, except 
that an elected official invited by a principal officer, board member or employee for 
the purpose of providing education to the elected official on cultivation by the 
dispensary, emergency services personnel or a person who needs to gain access to the 
cultivation facility in order to perform repairs or maintenance or to do construction 
may access the cultivation facility to provide professional services while under the 
direct supervision of a cardholder who is a principal officer, board member or 
employee of the dispensary.' 
SUMMARY 
This amendment retains the emergency language in the bill and replaces the 
remainder of the bill. It allows an invited elected official access to a facility in which 
marijuana is cultivated for medical use by a primary caregiver or a dispensary if access is 
given for the purpose of providing education to the elected official on cultivation. 
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