In addition to any other definitions contained within the city's Municipal Code, the following words and phrases shall, for the purpose of this chapter, be defined as follows unless it is clearly apparent from the context that another meaning is intended. Should any of the definitions be in conflict with any current provisions of the city's Municipal Code, these definitions shall prevail.
DISTRIBUTOR. A person engaged in the purchasing of marijuana from a cultivator, or marijuana products from a manufacturer, for sale to a dispensary, cooperative or collective.
MANUFACTURER. A person who conducts the production, preparation, propagation, or compounding of marijuana, or marijuana byproducts either directly or by extraction methods, or independently by means of chemical synthesis or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis, or that packages or repackages marijuana or marijuana products or labels or relabels its container.
MARIJUANA. Any or all parts of the plant Cannabis sativa Linnaeus, Cannabis indica, or Cannabis ruderalis, whether growing or not; the seeds thereof; the resin or separated resin, whether crude or purified, extracted from any part of the plant; and every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of the plant, its seeds or resin, including marijuana infused in foodstuff, or any other ingestible or consumable product containing marijuana. "Marijuana" shall also include "medical marijuana" as that term is used in the "Guidelines for the Security and Non-Diversion of Marijuana Grown for Medical Use," issued by the Office of the Attorney General for the State of California (the "Guidelines), as such Guidelines may be amended from time-to-time, or subject to the provisions of the California Compassion Use Act of 1996, or the California Medical Marijuana Program Act, as either may be amended from time-to-time.
MARIJUANA CULTIVATION. The growing, planting, harvesting, drying, curing, grading, trimming, or processing of marijuana.
MARIJUANA DELIVERY. The transfer of marijuana or its byproducts to or from a dispensary, collective, cooperative, primary caregiver, qualified patient or testing laboratory. "Marijuana delivery" also includes the use by any aforesaid transferor or transferee of any technology platform that enables any such transfer.
MARIJUANA DISPENSARIES. Any business, office, store, facility, location, retail storefront or wholesale component of any establishment, cooperative or collective that delivers, dispenses, distributes, exchanges, transmits, transports, sells or provides marijuana to any person for any reason, including members of any medical marijuana cooperative or collective.
MARIJUANA PROCESSING. Any method used to prepare marijuana or its byproducts for commercial retail and/or wholesale purposes, including but not limited to drying, cleaning, curing, packaging, and extraction of active ingredients to create marijuana related products and/or concentrates.
MARIJUANA TESTING LABORATORY. A facility, entity, or site that offers or performs tests of marijuana or marijuana products that is both:
(1) Accredited by an accrediting body that is independent from all other persons involved in the medical marijuana industry in the state; and
(2) Registered with the State Department of Public Health.
MARIJUANA TRANSPORTING. The transfer of marijuana or marijuana products from one location to any other location.
MEDICAL MARIJUANA COOPERATIVE or COLLECTIVE. Any group that is cooperatively or collectively cultivating and/or distributing marijuana for medical purposes that is organized in the manner set forth in the Guidelines.
TRANSPORTER. A person who transports or delivers marijuana or marijuana byproducts.
(Ord. 1068, passed 1-28-16)