West Virginia Code of State Rules › Agency 64 - Health › Title 64 - LEGISLATIVE RULE WEST VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES › Series 64-110 - Medical Cannabis Program - Growers/Processors › Section 64-110-2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 28, July 12, 2024
2.1. "Act" means
				the West Virginia Medical Cannabis Act (W. Va. Code §
									16A-1-1
et
				seq.
)
2.2. "Adverse event"
				means an injury resulting from the use of medical cannabis dispensed at a
				dispensary. An injury includes physical harm, mental harm, or loss of
				function.
2.3. "Adverse loss" means
				a loss, discrepancy in inventory, diversion or theft of seeds, immature medical
				cannabis plants, medical cannabis plants, medical cannabis, funds, or other
				property of a medical cannabis organization.
2.4. "Applicant" means a person who wishes to
				submit or submits an application to the bureau for a permit to operate as a
				grower/processor or dispensary, or both, under the Act and this rule.
2.5. "Approved laboratory" means a laboratory
				that has applied for, and received, the approval of the bureau to identify,
				collect, handle, and conduct tests on samples from a grower/processor and test
				samples from the bureau used in the growing, processing, or dispensing of
				medical cannabis as required by the Act and this rule.
2.6. "Bureau" means the West Virginia Bureau
				for Public Health within the West Virginia Department of Health and Human
				Resources.
2.7. "CBD" means
				Cannabidiol.
2.8. "Cannabis" means
				all parts of the plant of the genus cannabis whether growing or not, the seeds
				thereof, the resin extracted from any part of the plant, and every compound,
				manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of the plant, its seeds,
				or its resin, including cannabis concentrate. "Cannabis" does not include
				industrial hemp, nor does it include fiber produced from the stalks, oil, or
				cake made from the seeds of the plant, sterilized seed of the plant which is
				incapable of germination, or the weight of any other ingredient combined with
				cannabis to prepare topical or oral administrations, food, drink, or other
				product.
2.9. "Caregiver" means the
				individual designated by a patient or, if the patient is under 18 years of age,
				and individual authorized under W. Va. Code §
									16A-5-1 et seq. to deliver
				medical cannabis.
2.10. "Certified
				medical use" means the acquisition, possession, use, or transportation of
				medical cannabis by a patient, or the acquisition, possession, delivery,
				transportation, or administration of medical cannabis by a caregiver, for use
				as part of the treatment of the patient's serious medical condition, as
				authorized in a patient certification issued under the Act, including enabling
				the patient to tolerate treatment for the serious medical condition.
2.11. "Clinical Registrant" means an entity
				that:
2.11.a. Holds a permit as both a
				grower/processor and a dispensary.
2.11.b. Has a contractual relationship with
				an academic clinical research center under which the academic clinical research
				center or its affiliate provides advice to the entity, regarding, among other
				areas, patient health and safety, medical applications and dispensing, and
				management of controlled substances.