Washington Administrative Code › Title 314 - Liquor and Cannabis Board › Chapter 314-55 - Cannabis licenses, application process, requirements, and reporting › Section 314-55-073 - Cannabis research license

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
A cannabis research license allows a holder of the license to
				produce, process, and possess cannabis for the limited research purposes
				provided in RCW  69.50.372. The WSLCB designates a scientific reviewer
				(reviewer) to review research applications and make recommendations for the
				approval or denial of research projects and to assess licensed research
				activities. The following provisions are in addition to the requirements for
				cannabis research licensees provided in RCW  69.50.372.
(1)
Eligibility and continuing
			 requirements for research license applications, prohibitions and
			 restrictions.
(a) Other than the
			 restrictions listed in this subsection, any person, organization, agency, or
			 business entity may apply for a can-nabis research license.
(b) Other cannabis licensees may apply for a
			 research license. Facilities at which the research is conducted must be wholly
			 separate and distinct from the cannabis business, except:
(i) Licensed producers with a research
			 license and approved research project may grow cannabis plants or possess
			 cannabis for research purposes at the producer's licensed premises. However,
			 all can-nabis grown or possessed for research purposes or purposes other than
			 those related to the research project must be kept wholly separated and
			 distinct from commercial operations and must not be comingled with or diverted
			 to cannabis grown for commercial purposes or purposes other than those related
			 to the research project; and
(ii)
			 Licensed processors with a research license and approved research project may
			 possess cannabis for research purposes at the processors licensed premises.
			 However, all cannabis possessed for research purposes must be kept wholly
			 separated and distinct from all cannabis possessed for commercial purposes or
			 purposes other than those related to the research project and must not be
			 comingled with or diverted to cannabis possessed for commercial purposes or
			 purposes other than those related to the research project. Licensed processors
			 who do not also hold a producer license may not grow cannabis plants for the
			 purposes of research under a research license at the processor's licensed
			 location.
(c) Labs
			 certified to perform quality assurance testing on canna-bis and cannabis
			 products by the WSLCB may apply for a research license. Certified labs with a
			 research license and approved research project must ensure that all cannabis
			 possessed for research purposes is wholly separated from and is not comingled
			 with cannabis possessed for state required testing purposes for licensed
			 producers or processors or cannabis possessed for any reason other than
			 research purposes.
(d) All research
			 license applicants and persons conducting research under the research license
			 must be 21 years of age or older.
(e) All research license applicants and those
			 persons that have managing control over an organization, agency, or business
			 entity must pass a criminal background check and financial investigation prior
			 to being eligible to receive a research license.
(f) Except as otherwise provided by chapter
			 69.50 RCW and agency rule, no applicant for a research license may possess any
			 cannabis plants or cannabis for research purposes unless and until the research
			 project is approved and the applicant is notified that the research license is
			 approved in writing by the WSLCB.
(g) No research licensee may conduct research
			 unless and until the research project is approved by the reviewer and the WSLCB
			 in writing.