Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 46 - PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL STANDARDS › Part LIII - Pharmacists › Chapter 24 - Limited Service Providers › Subchapter E - Marijuana Pharmacy › Section LIII-2445 - Marijuana Pharmacy Permit

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. The
				  board shall develop and configure a pharmacy permit designated as a marijuana
				  pharmacy permit.
B. The dispensing
				  of marijuana for therapeutic purposes shall be limited to those pharmacies
				  holding a marijuana pharmacy permit issued by the board, and only when that
				  permit is in active or restricted status.
C. When issued to a successful applicant, the
				  permit will authorize the operation of a marijuana pharmacy in compliance with
				  the provisions of this Subchapter.
D. When the permit is issued, it shall be
				  valid only for the owner and the specific location noted on the application and
				  recorded on the permit.
E. A
				  marijuana pharmacy permit is non-transferable from one owner to another owner,
				  and moreover, in the event the ownership of the organization that acquired the
				  permit changes by 50 percent or more, then the ownership will be deemed
				  sufficiently different as to require a new marijuana pharmacy permit. A
				  marijuana pharmacy permit owner continuing to operate a marijuana pharmacy
				  after its ownership has changed by 50 percent or more without obtaining a new
				  marijuana pharmacy permit shall be subject to disciplinary review by the
				  board.
F. Although a change of
				  ownership of less than 50 percent shall not require a new pharmacy permit, any
				  proposed change of ownership shall require prior notice to the board, and
				  further, approval by the board.
G.
				  The board shall not have more than 10 active marijuana pharmacy permits at any
				  given time. To facilitate compliance with that legislative restriction, the
				  board recognizes the nine regions previously declared by the Department of
				  Health, to wit:
1. metropolitan, composed of
				  the parishes of Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, and St. Bernard;
2. capitol, composed of the parishes of
				  Ascension, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Pointe Coupee, West
				  Baton Rouge, and West Feliciana;
3.
				  Teche, composed of the parishes of Assumption, Lafourche, St. Charles, St.
				  James, St. John, St. Mary, and Terrebonne;
4. Acadian, composed of the parishes of
				  Acadia, Evangeline, Iberia, Lafayette, St. Landry, St. Martin, and
				  Vermilion;
5. southwest, composed
				  of the parishes of Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, and Jefferson
				  Davis;
6. central, composed of the
				  parishes of Avoyelles, Catahoula, Concordia, Grant, LaSalle, Rapides, Vernon,
				  and Winn;
7. northwest, composed of
				  the parishes of Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, DeSoto, Natchitoches, Red
				  River, Sabine, and Webster;
8.
				  northeast, composed of the parishes of Caldwell, East Carroll, Franklin,
				  Jackson, Lincoln, Madison, Morehouse, Ouachita, Richland, Tensas, Union, and
				  West Carroll; and
9. southeast,
				  composed of the parishes of Livingston, St. Helena, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa,
				  and Washington.