California Health and Safety Code ARTICLE 2.5 - Medical Marijuana Program

Section 11362.7.
For purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply:(a) “Attending physician” means an individual who possesses a license in good standing to practice medicine, podiatry,...
Section 11362.71.
(a) (1) The department shall establish and maintain a voluntary program for the issuance of identification cards to qualified patients who satisfy the requirements of this article...
Section 11362.712.
(a) Commencing on January 1, 2018, a qualified patient must possess a physician’s recommendation that complies with Article 25 (commencing with Section 2525) of Chapter 5...
Section 11362.713.
(a) Information identifying the names, addresses, or social security numbers of patients, their medical conditions, or the names of their primary caregivers, received and contained in...
Section 11362.715.
(a) A person who seeks an identification card shall pay the fee, as provided in Section 11362.755, and provide all of the following to the county...
Section 11362.72.
(a) Within 30 days of receipt of an application for an identification card, a county health department or the county’s designee shall do all of...
Section 11362.735.
(a) An identification card issued by the county health department shall be serially numbered and shall contain all of the following: (1) A unique user...
Section 11362.74.
(a) The county health department or the county’s designee may deny an application only for any of the following reasons: (1) The applicant did not...
Section 11362.745.
(a) An identification card shall be valid for a period of one year. (b) Upon annual renewal of an identification card, the county health department...
Section 11362.755.
(a) Each county health department or the county’s designee may charge a fee for all costs incurred by the county or the county’s designee for administering...
Section 11362.76.
(a) A person who possesses an identification card shall: (1) Within seven days, notify the county health department or the county’s designee of any change...
Section 11362.765.
(a) Subject to the requirements of this article, the individuals specified in subdivision (b) shall not be subject, on that sole basis, to criminal liability under...
Section 11362.768.
(a) This section shall apply to individuals specified in subdivision (b) of Section 11362.765.(b) No medicinal cannabis cooperative, collective, dispensary, operator, establishment, or provider who possesses, cultivates,...
Section 11362.769.
Indoor and outdoor medical cannabis cultivation shall be conducted in accordance with state and local laws. State agencies, including, but not limited to, the Department...
Section 11362.77.
(a) A qualified patient or primary caregiver may possess no more than eight ounces of dried cannabis per qualified patient. In addition, a qualified patient or...
Section 11362.775.
(a) Subject to subdivision (d), qualified patients, persons with valid identification cards, and the designated primary caregivers of qualified patients and persons with identification cards, who...
Section 11362.78.
A state or local law enforcement agency or officer shall not refuse to accept an identification card issued pursuant to this article unless the state...
Section 11362.785.
(a) Nothing in this article shall require any accommodation of medicinal use of cannabis on the property or premises of a place of employment or during...
Section 11362.79.
This article does not authorize a qualified patient or person with an identification card to engage in the smoking of medicinal cannabis under any of...
Section 11362.795.
(a) (1) Any criminal defendant who is eligible to use cannabis pursuant to Section 11362.5 may request that the court confirm that he or she is allowed...
Section 11362.8.
A professional licensing board shall not impose a civil penalty or take other disciplinary action against a licensee based solely on the fact that the...
Section 11362.81.
(a) A person specified in subdivision (b) shall be subject to the following penalties:(1) For the first offense, imprisonment in the county jail for no more than...
Section 11362.82.
If any section, subdivision, sentence, clause, phrase, or portion of this article is for any reason held invalid or unconstitutional by any court of competent...
Section 11362.83.
Nothing in this article shall prevent a city or other local governing body from adopting and enforcing any of the following:(a) Adopting local ordinances that regulate...
Section 11362.84.
The status and conduct of a qualified patient who acts in accordance with the Compassionate Use Act shall not, by itself, be used to restrict...
Section 11362.85.
Upon a determination by the California Attorney General that the federal schedule of controlled substances has been amended to reclassify or declassify cannabis, the Legislature...

Last modified: October 22, 2018