reasonable amount of time without success to relieve the symptoms or sideeffects. (11) ‘Paraphernalia’ has the same meaning as defined in Section 4453110. (12) ‘Parent’ means: (a) a custodial mother or father of a patient under the age of eighteen years; or (b) a person with legal custody of a patient under the age of eighteen years; or (c) a person who is the legal guardian of a patient under the age of eighteen years. (13) ‘Patient’ means a person who qualifies as a person with a debilitating medical condition. (14) ‘Physician’ means a physician who is licensed in good standing to practice medicine in this State pursuant to Chapter 47, Title 40. (15) ‘Registered caregiver’ means a person, other than a registered patient or a registered patient’s physician, who is eighteen years or older and who has been issued a registry identification card by the department, identifying the person as someone who has agreed to undertake responsibility for managing the wellbeing of a registered patient including, but not limited to, by assisting the registered patient with the medical use of marijuana. (16) ‘Registered patient’ means a person who has been issued a registry identification card by the department identifying the person as having a debilitating medical condition who is entitled to engage in the medical use of marijuana. (17) ‘Registry identification card’ means the nontransferable confidential registry identification card issued by the department to a patient or caregiver that identifies the patient as authorized to engage in the medical use of marijuana or a caregiver as authorized to help a particular registered patient engage in the medical use of marijuana. Section 44531730. (A) A registered patient may engage in the medical use of marijuana in a quantity that is medically necessary to address a debilitating medical condition, provided the quantity does not exceed the limits provided for in subsection (B). (B) A registered patient’s medical use of marijuana is lawful within the following limits: (1) up to two ounces of a usable form of marijuana; and
Section 44532230. The department may promulgate and enforce regulations to implement this article. Section 44532240. Not later than one year from the date of enactment of this article, the department shall promulgate regulations that address at a minimum: (1) establishment and maintenance of a confidential registry of patients and caregivers who have applied for and who are issued or denied a registry identification card; (2) verification of medical information for patients submitting applications for issuance or renewal of a registry identification card; (3) communications with law enforcement officials about suspended registry identification cards when a patient is no longer diagnosed as having a debilitating medical condition or when a registry card is expired or has been fraudulently obtained or altered as prohibited by Section 44531800; (4) receipt and review of applications for registration of a patient or caregiver on the confidential registry; (5) determining whether to include a disease or medical condition as a debilitating medical condition; (6) acceptable physician written documentation of a disease or medical condition to qualify as a debilitating medical condition; (7) the extent of assistance provided by a caregiver to be considered as managing the wellbeing of a registered patient, entitling the caregiver to serve as a registered caregiver; (8) receipt and review of applications for registration as a dispensary; (9) requirements to operate a dispensary including, but not limited to, security and record keeping; and (10) consumer protection requirements addressing, at a minimum, potency and purity of marijuana cultivated and harvested, packaging and labeling of marijuana, and transporting marijuana and marijuana paraphernalia. Section 44532250. Not later than one year from the date of enactment of this article, the department shall develop the process for receipt and review of a physician’s and patient’s petition for inclusion of a disease or medical condition as a debilitating medical condition, as defined in Section 44531720, and for, after a hearing as the department deems appropriate, approval or denial of a petition within one hundred eighty days of submission.