The costs incurred by the department in seizing, placing under seal, maintaining custody, and disposing of any controlled substance under this subsection may be recovered from the registrant, any proceeds obtained from the disposition of the controlled substance, or from both. (b) Substances. (a) The commission shall place a substance in Schedule V upon finding that: (1) the substance has low potential for abuse relative to the controlled substances included in Schedule IV; (3) abuse of the substance may lead to limited physical dependence or psychological dependence relative to the substances included in Schedule IV. However, if the on-site visit discloses a violation with a direct or immediate relationship to public safety and the violation is not corrected, the board may investigate. [. Marijuana Possession under 40 Grams (RCW 69.50.4014) After Moncrieffe and Descamps August 2013 . It is a crime for any person to possess with intent to [manufacture] [or] [deliver] a controlled substance [except as authorized by law]. Licensed retailers prohibited from operating vending machines, drive-through purchase facilities for the sale of cannabis products. (c) Practitioners must be registered, or exempted under RCW. (q) "Deliver" or "delivery" means the actual or constructive transfer from one person to another of a substance, whether or not there is an agency relationship. Three thousand dollars of the fine may not be suspended. This authority is granted in addition to any other power to suspend or revoke registration as provided by law. The board must notify all other licensees in the county where the subject licensee has its premises of the suspension or cancellation of the license; and no other licensee or employee of another licensee may allow or cause any cannabis, cannabis concentrates, useable cannabis, or cannabis-infused products to be delivered to or for any person at the premises of the subject licensee. A person who delivers a controlled substance, which is subsequently used by the human delivered to and results in your death, is guilty off a class BARN felony punishable by go to 10 years imprisonment and/or a fine raise up $20,000. The board must reconsider and increase the maximum number of retail outlets it established before July 24, 2015, and allow for a new license application period and a greater number of retail outlets to be permitted in order to accommodate the medical needs of qualifying patients and designated providers. Unless specifically excepted or unless listed in another schedule, any material, compound, mixture, or preparation which contains any quantity of the following substances having a depressant effect on the central nervous system, including its salts, isomers, and salts of isomers whenever the existence of such salts, isomers, and salts of isomers is possible within the specific chemical designation. (iv) This subsection (3)(c) applies to cannabis retailer's licenses issued before and after July 23, 2017. (6) No person under twenty-one years of age may possess, manufacture, sell, or distribute cannabis, cannabis-infused products, or cannabis concentrates, regardless of THC concentration. If any seller fails to collect the tax imposed in this section or, having collected the tax, fails to pay it as prescribed by the board, whether such failure is the result of the seller's own acts or the result of acts or conditions beyond the seller's control, the seller is, nevertheless, personally liable to the state for the amount of the tax. The controlled substances listed in this section may be added, rescheduled, or deleted as provided for in RCW, Commission may change schedules of controlled substances: RCW. This section shall not be construed as precluding the prosecution from introducing or relying upon any other evidence or testimony to establish any element of the offense. RCW 69.50.401 (1). If a member has not been designated for a position set forth in this section, that position may not be counted for the purpose of determining a quorum. (5) It is lawful for any person over the age of eighteen to possess sterile hypodermic syringes and needles for the purpose of reducing blood-borne diseases. (2) Licensed cannabis retailers may not employ persons under twenty-one years of age or allow persons under twenty-one years of age to enter or remain on the premises of a retail outlet. (8) Merchandising within a retail outlet is not advertising for the purposes of this section. Sec. (r) "Department" means the department of health. The application fee for a cannabis retailer's license shall be two hundred fifty dollars. (5) In establishing a cannabis research license, the board may adopt rules on the following: (b) Cannabis research license renewal requirements, including whether additional research projects may be added or considered; (d) Security measures to ensure cannabis is not diverted to purposes other than research; (e) Amount of plants, useable cannabis, cannabis concentrates, or cannabis-infused products a licensee may have on its premises; (g) Conditions under which cannabis grown by licensed cannabis producers and other product types from licensed cannabis processors may be donated to cannabis research licensees; and. (ii) A cannabis product provided free of charge with the required purchase of another product. 27 Apr 2023 20:21:30 (2) As the regulated marketplace has been developing, Washington residents with a strong entrepreneurial spirit have taken great financial and personal risk to become licensed and part of this nascent industry. (ii) For each fiscal year, except for the 2019-2021 and 2021-2023 fiscal biennia, the legislature must appropriate a minimum of one million twenty-one thousand dollars to the University of Washington. (a) Application forms for cannabis producers must request the applicant to state whether the applicant intends to produce cannabis for sale by cannabis retailers holding medical cannabis endorsements and the amount of or percentage of canopy the applicant intends to commit to growing plants determined by the department under RCW, (b) The board must reconsider and increase limits on the amount of square feet permitted to be in production on July 24, 2015, and increase the percentage of production space for those cannabis producers who intend to grow plants for cannabis retailers holding medical cannabis endorsements if the cannabis producer designates the increased production space to plants determined by the department under RCW. (e) This chapter applies to violations of law, seizures and forfeiture, injunctive proceedings, administrative proceedings and investigations which occur following May 21, 1971. (3) Upon receipt of notice of the suspension or cancellation of a license, the licensee must forthwith deliver up the license to the board. Any person who violates this subsection is guilty of a crime and, upon conviction, shall be subject to the same term of imprisonment and/or fine as provided by this chapter for the . OLYMPIA, Wash., April 24, 2023 The 2023 legislative session ended last night without the passage of a new state law on the possession of controlled substances, leaving it now up to counties and cities to put local drug-possession laws in place once the state law adopted in 2021 expires on July 1. (a) The commission shall place a substance in Schedule I upon finding that the substance: (2) has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States; and. (b) A warning describing the psychoactive effects of the cannabis product, provided that the warning is truthful and not misleading. Seizure of real property shall include the filing of a lis pendens by the seizing agency. (5)(a) The delivery by a person twenty-one years of age or older to one or more persons twenty-one years of age or older, during a single twenty-four hour period, for noncommercial purposes and not conditioned upon or done in connection with the provision or receipt of financial consideration, of any of the following cannabis products, is not a violation of this section, this chapter, or any other provisions of Washington state law: (ii) Eight ounces of cannabis-infused product in solid form; (iii) Thirty-six ounces of cannabis-infused product in liquid form; or. The laws of drug delivery, possession and use are governed by the Uniform Controlled Substances Act, which is provided in RCW 69.50. The term "marijuana" as used under federal law generally refers to the term "cannabis" used throughout the Revised Code of Washington. (k) Prescriptions issued by a prescriber who has received a waiver from the department. (c) When the electronic system used for the communication of prescription information is unavailable due to a temporary technological or electronic failure; (d) Prescriptions issued that are intended for prescription fulfillment and dispensing outside Washington state; (e) When the prescriber and pharmacist are employed by the same entity, or employed by entities under common ownership or control; (f) Prescriptions issued for a drug that the United States food and drug administration or the United States drug enforcement administration requires to contain certain elements that are not able to be accomplished electronically; (g) Any controlled substance prescription that requires compounding as defined in RCW. This means that all other state drug laws are still in effect; the state laws still criminalize possessing a controlled substance with intent to deliver, delivery of a controlled substance, and manufacturing a . Where the license has been suspended only, the board must return the license to the licensee at the expiration or termination of the period of suspension. This chapter may be cited as the Uniform Controlled Substances Act. Controlled substances listed in Schedule I, II, III, IV, and V, which are seized or come into the possession of the commission, the owners of which are unknown, are contraband and shall be summarily forfeited to the commission. (h) Additional requirements deemed necessary by the board. (iv) The area has a high rate of arrest, conviction, or incarceration related to the sale, possession, use, cultivation, manufacture, or transport of cannabis. (iii) Had not enabled or ignored the violation or other similar violations in the past. (iii) An applicant who meets criteria defined in rule by the board after consultation with the commission on African American affairs and other commissions, agencies, and community members as determined by the board. (1) The board may issue a civil penalty without first issuing a notice of correction if: (a) The licensee has previously been subject to an enforcement action for the same or similar type of violation of the same statute or rule or has been given previous notice of the same or similar type of violation of the same statute or rule; (b) Compliance is not achieved by the date established by the board in a previously issued notice of correction and if the board has responded to a request for review of the date by reaffirming the original date or establishing a new date; or. (a) The commission shall place a substance in Schedule II upon finding that: (1) the substance has high potential for abuse; (2) the substance has currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States, or currently accepted medical use with severe restrictions; and. (b) For any other responsible individual, liability under this section applies only if he or she willfully failed to pay or to cause to be paid to the board the trust fund taxes due from the limited liability business entity. (1) This section applies to the board's issuance of administrative violations to licensed cannabis producers, processors, retailers, transporters, and researchers, when a settlement conference is held between a hearing officer or designee of the board and the cannabis licensee that received a notice of an alleged administrative violation or violations. (d) Stimulants. [, (1) On a schedule determined by the board, every licensed cannabis producer and processor must submit representative samples of cannabis, useable cannabis, or cannabis-infused products produced or processed by the licensee to an independent, third-party testing laboratory. (ii) The cannabis or cannabis product must be in the original packaging as purchased from the cannabis retailer. (d) A prescription for a substance included in Schedule II may not be refilled. Unless specifically excepted or unless in another schedule, any of the following synthetic opiates, including its isomers, esters, ethers, salts, and salts of isomers, esters, and ethers, whenever the existence of such isomers, esters, ethers, and salts is possible within the specific chemical designation, dextrorphan and levopropoxyphene excepted: (5) Bulk dextropropoxyphene (nondosage forms); (11) Levo-alphacetylmethadol, also known as levo-alpha-acetylmethadol, levomethadyl acetate, or LAAM; (21) Pethidine-Intermediate-C, 1-methyl-4-phenylpiperidine-4-carboxylic acid; (d) Stimulants. (a) The commission shall place a substance in Schedule IV upon finding that: (1) the substance has a low potential for abuse relative to substances in Schedule III; (3) abuse of the substance may lead to limited physical dependence or psychological dependence relative to the substances included in Schedule III. The survey must be conducted at least every two years and include questions regarding, but not necessarily limited to, academic achievement, age at time of substance use initiation, antisocial behavior of friends, attitudes toward antisocial behavior, attitudes toward substance use, laws and community norms regarding antisocial behavior, family conflict, family management, parental attitudes toward substance use, peer rewarding of antisocial behavior, perceived risk of substance use, and rebelliousness. The liquor and cannabis board may adopt rules that address the findings and recommendations in the task force reports provided under RCW. (3) The legislature therefore finds that in the interest of remedying harms resulting from the enforcement of cannabis-related laws in disproportionately impacted areas, creating a social equity program will further an equitable cannabis industry by promoting business ownership among individuals who have resided in areas of high poverty and high enforcement of cannabis-related laws. It is the intent of the legislature that this policy will be continued in the 2021-2023 fiscal biennium; and, (iv) Ninety-eight thousand dollars for fiscal year 2019 to the department of ecology for research on accreditation of ((, (e) Four hundred sixty-five thousand dollars for fiscal year 2020, four hundred sixty-four thousand dollars for fiscal year 2021, two hundred seventy thousand dollars in fiscal year 2022, and two hundred seventy-six thousand dollars in fiscal year 2023 to the department of ecology for implementation of accreditation of ((. The responsibility for providing staff support for the task force must be transferred to the office of equity created under chapter, (6) Legislative members of the task force may be reimbursed for travel expenses in accordance with RCW, (7) The task force is a class one group under chapter. It is the intent of the legislature that this policy will be continued in the 2023-2025 fiscal biennium; (d) Fifty percent to the state basic health plan trust account to be administered by the Washington basic health plan administrator and used as provided under chapter, (e) Five percent to the Washington state health care authority to be expended exclusively through contracts with community health centers to provide primary health and dental care services, migrant health services, and maternity health care services as provided under RCW, (f)(i) Up to three-tenths of one percent to the office of the superintendent of public instruction to fund grants to building bridges programs under chapter, (ii) For each fiscal year, the legislature must appropriate a minimum of five hundred eleven thousand dollars to the office of the superintendent of public instruction under this subsection (2)(f); and, (g) At the end of each fiscal year, the treasurer must transfer any amounts in the dedicated ((, (A) Thirty percent must be distributed to counties, cities, and towns where licensed ((, (B) Seventy percent must be distributed to counties, cities, and towns ratably on a per capita basis. (6) Systems used for the electronic communication of prescription information must: (a) Comply with federal laws and rules for electronically communicated prescriptions for controlled substances included in Schedules II through V, as required by Title 21 C.F.R. (5) All signs, billboards, or other print advertising for cannabis businesses or cannabis products must contain text stating that cannabis products may be purchased or possessed only by persons twenty-one years of age or older. (e) A separate registration is required at each principal place of business or professional practice where the applicant manufactures, distributes, or dispenses controlled substances. (4) Except for the purposes of disposal as authorized by the board, no licensed cannabis retailer or employee of a retail outlet may open or consume, or allow to be opened or consumed, any cannabis concentrates, useable cannabis, or cannabis-infused product on the outlet premises. (Effective until July 1, 2023.) (4) [(m)] For the purposes of this section, the terms "long-term care facility" and "hospice program" have the meaning[s] provided in RCW. Unless specifically excepted or unless listed in another schedule, any material, compound, mixture, or preparation which contains any quantity of the following substances having a depressant effect on the central nervous system: (1) Any compound, mixture, or preparation containing: or any salt thereof and one or more other active medicinal ingredients which are not listed in any schedule; (2) Any suppository dosage form containing: or any salt of any of these drugs and approved by the Food and Drug Administration for marketing only as a suppository; (3) Any substance which contains any quantity of a derivative of barbituric acid, or any salt of a derivative of barbituric acid; (6) Any drug product containing gamma hydroxybutyric acid, including its salts, isomers, and salts of isomers, for which an application is approved under section 505 of the federal food, drug, and cosmetic act; (7) Ketamine, its salts, isomers, and salts of isomers, some other names for ketamine: (
Possession With Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance Other Than Dronabinol (synthetic) in sesame oil and encapsulated in a soft gelatin capsule in a United States food and drug administration approved product. (1) Whenever the board determines that a limited liability business entity has collected trust fund taxes and has failed to remit those taxes to the board and that business entity has been terminated, dissolved, or abandoned, or is insolvent, the board may pursue collection of the entity's unpaid trust fund taxes, including penalties on those taxes, against any or all of the responsible individuals. The parent or legal guardian of any minor to whom a controlled substance, as defined in RCW, This section shall not apply to a practitioner, as defined in RCW, (1) A person who unlawfully delivers a controlled substance in violation of RCW, (2) Controlled substances homicide is a class B felony punishable according to chapter. 25.2 Drug Abuse Sale, Purchase, Manufacture, . (3) Determining the maximum quantity of cannabis a cannabis producer may have on the premises of a licensed location at any time without violating Washington state law; (4) Determining the maximum quantities of cannabis, cannabis concentrates, useable cannabis, and cannabis-infused products a cannabis processor may have on the premises of a licensed location at any time without violating Washington state law; (5) Determining the maximum quantities of cannabis concentrates, useable cannabis, and cannabis-infused products a cannabis retailer may have on the premises of a retail outlet at any time without violating Washington state law; (6) In making the determinations required by this section, the board shall take into consideration: (b) The provision of adequate access to licensed sources of cannabis, cannabis concentrates, useable cannabis, and cannabis-infused products to discourage purchases from the illegal market; and.