California medical marijuana business license

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Testing licensees are required to have their facilities licensed in accordance with the regulations defined by the department. A testing licensee cannot hold a license in another cannabis license category. A licensee cannot also own or have an ownership interest in a facility licensed under the Bureau. The Type 10 license is issued to a facility that offers medical cannabis, medical cannabis products, or devices for the use of medical cannabis or medical cannabis products.

These services may be offered separately or in any combination, for retail sale, including an establishment that delivers, as part of a retail sale, medical cannabis and medical cannabis products under express authorization.

This license is issued to dispensers who have at most, three licensed dispensary facilities. It authorizes delivery if the local ordinance permits it. This license is issued for the distribution of medical cannabis and medical cannabis products from the manufacturer to the dispensary.

A Type 11 licensee is required to obtain a Type 12 or transporter license and register each location where the product is stored for distribution. A Type 11 licensee must not possess a license in a cultivation, manufacturing, dispensing, or testing license category. The licensee must also not own, or be interested in owning a facility licensed in those categories, excluding a security interest, lien, or encumbrance on property used by a licensee.

A Type 11 licensee shall be bonded and insured based on the provisions of the Bureau. The Type 12 license is Issued to authorize the transportation of medical cannabis or medical cannabis products between licensees.

Type 6: Manufacturer 1 Nonvolatile Solvents This is a license solely for conducting the production, preparation, propagation, or compounding of manufactured medical cannabis or medical cannabis products, either directly, indirectly, by extraction methods, or independently by means of chemical synthesis or a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis at a fixed location that packages or repackages medical cannabis or products or labels or relabels its containers.

Type 7: Manufacturer 2 Volatile Solvents This is a license solely for conducting the production, preparation, propagation, or compounding of manufactured medical cannabis or medical cannabis products, either directly, indirectly, by extraction methods, or independently by means of chemical synthesis or a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis at a fixed location that packages or repackages medical cannabis or products or labels or relabels its containers.

Type 8: Testing Laboratory This license is solely for a facility, entity, or site in the state that offers or performs tests on medical cannabis or medical cannabis products and is both : Accredited by an accrediting body that is independent from all other persons involved in the medical cannabis industry in the state, and Registered with the State Department of Public Health. Limitations: May not hold any other state licenses. Type Dispensary Dispensaries are facilities where medical cannabis, medical cannabis products, or devices for the use of medical cannabis products are offered, either individually or in any combination, for retail sale, including an establishment that delivers, pursuant to express authorization by local ordinance, medical cannabis and medical cannabis products as part of a retail sale.

There are two categories: Type Dispensary, General Limitations: May not hold any other state licenses. Type Distribution This is a license to engage in the business of purchasing medical cannabis from a licensed cultivator, or medical cannabis products from a licensed manufacturer, for sale to a licensed dispensary. Type Transporter This is a license solely for the transfer of medical cannabis or medical cannabis products from the permitted business location of one licensee to the permitted business location of another, for the purposes of conducting commercial cannabis activity.

Limitations: May apply for a Type 11 Distribution license. Important Additional Information on Certain Licenses Type 6: Manufacturer 1 This license is for manufacturing sites that produce medical cannabis products using nonvolatile solvents.

This license type is regulated by the State Department of Public Health. Type 7: Manufacturer 2 This license is for manufacturing sites that produce medical cannabis products using volatile solvents. This license type is regulated by the State Department of Public Health, and the number of licenses allotted are limited by that department as well. Type 8: Testing Testing licenses must have their facilities licensed according to regulations set forth by the State Department of Public Health.

Testing licensees cannot hold a license in another license category, and they cannot own or have ownership interest in any licensed medical cannabis or cannabis product facility.

In fact, it is required by law that the facility be independent from all other people and entities involved in the medical cannabis industry. Testing Facility Protocol The testing laboratory must adopt a standard operating procedure, which must use methods consistent with general requirements for the competence of testing and calibration activities.

This includes sampling. An agent must obtain samples according to a statistically valid sampling method for each lot. Samples must be analyzed in accordance with one of two ways: The most current version of the cannabis inflorescence monograph published by the American Herbal Pharmacopoeia; or Scientifically valid methodology that is demonstrably equal or superior to the American Herbal Pharmacopoeia, in the opinion of the accrediting body.

The mission of the Medical Board of California is to protect health care consumers through the proper licensing and regulation of physicians and surgeons and certain allied health care professionals and through the vigorous, objective enforcement of the Medical Practice Act, and to promote access to quality medical care through the Board's licensing and regulatory functions.

Be an informed patient. Check up on your physician's license status. January 1, , various licensing and enforcement law changes, including fee increases, will take effect.