Washington Administrative Code › Title 246 - Health, Department of › AGENCY DESCRIPTION › Chapter 246-71 - Medical cannabis authorization database › Section 246-71-010 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter
				  unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
(1) "Authorization" means a form developed by
				the department that is completed and signed by a qualifying patient's health
				care professional and printed on tamper-resistant paper approved by the
				Washington pharmacy quality assurance commission.
(2) "Compassionate care renewal" means a
				renewal of an authorization by a health care practitioner through the use of
				telemedicine if the health care practitioner determines that requiring the
				qualifying patient to attend an in-person physical examination would likely
				result in severe hardship to the qualifying patient because of the qualifying
				patient's physical or emotional condition. A compassionate care renewal of a
				qualifying patient's registration and recognition card also allows the
				qualifying patient's designated provider to renew the qualifying patient's
				registration in the database and recognition card without the qualifying
				patient being physically present at a retailer and without a new photograph
				being taken.
(3) "Consultant" means
				a person who holds a valid medical cannabis consultant certificate issued by
				the secretary under chapter 246-72 WAC and who is employed by a retail outlet
				with a medical cannabis endorsement.
(4) "Credential for access" or "credentials"
				means information, electronic device, or certificate provided by the department
				or the department's designee to a data requestor to electronically access the
				database. The authentication may include, but is not limited to, a user name,
				password, or an identification electronic device or certificate.
(5) "Database" means the medical cannabis
				authorization database established under
				RCW
				   69.51A.230.
(6) "Department" means the Washington state
				department of health.
(7)
				"Designated provider" has the same meaning as
				RCW
				   69.51A.010(4).
(8) "Dispenser" means a person authorized to
				dispense controlled substances other than cannabis under chapter 69.50
				RCW.
(9) "Health care practitioner"
				or "authorizing health care practitioner," for purposes of this chapter only,
				means a physician licensed under chapter 18.71 RCW, a physician assistant
				licensed under chapter 18.71A RCW, an osteopathic physician licensed under
				chapter 18.57 RCW, an osteopathic physician's assistant licensed under chapter
				18.57A RCW, a naturopath licensed under chapter 18.36A RCW, or an advanced
				registered nurse practitioner licensed under chapter 18.79 RCW.
(10) "Official" means an official of a local,
				state, tribal, or federal law enforcement or prosecutorial agency.
(11) "Prescriber" means a person authorized
				to prescribe or dispense controlled substances other than cannabis under
				chapter 69.50 RCW.
(12) "Qualifying
				patient" or "patient" has the same meaning as
				RCW
				   69.51A.010(19).
(13) "Recognition card" means a card issued
				to qualifying patients and designated providers by a cannabis retailer with a
				medical cannabis endorsement that has entered them into the medical cannabis
				authorization database.
(14)
				"Retail outlet with a medical cannabis endorsement" or "endorsed outlet" means
				a location licensed by the WSLCB under
				RCW
				   69.50.325 for the retail sale of usable
				cannabis and cannabis-infused products to the public, and under
				RCW
				   69.50.375 to qualifying patients and
				designated providers for medical use.
(15) "Telemedicine" has the same meaning as
				the definition of that term Amended by the authorizing health care
				practitioner's disciplining authority, whether defined in rule or
				policy.
(16) "Valid photographic
				identification" means:
(a) A driver's license
				or instruction permit issued by any state of the United States or province of
				Canada. If the patient's driver's license has expired, the patient must also
				show a valid temporary driver's license with the expired card.
(b) A state identification card issued by any
				state of the United States or province of Canada.
(c) An official passport issued by any
				nation.
(d) A United States armed
				forces identification card issued to active duty, reserve, and retired
				personnel and the personnel's dependents.
(e) A merchant marine identification card
				issued by the United States Coast Guard.
(f) An enrollment card issued by the
				governing authority of a federally recognized Indian tribe located in
				Washington, if the enrollment card incorporates security features comparable to
				those implemented by the department of licensing for Washington drivers'
				licenses.
A recognition card, whether current or expired, does not
				  qualify as valid photographic identification.