For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall
apply:
"Commercial marijuana activity"
means the cultivation, possession, manufacturing, distributing,
processing, storing, laboratory testing, labeling, transporting, or
selling of marijuana and marijuana products.
"Cultivation"
means any activity involving the growing, planting, harvesting,
drying, curing, grading, trimming, or processing of marijuana.
"Delivery"
means the commercial transfer of marijuana or marijuana products
to a customer. "Delivery" also includes the use by a retailer of any
technology platform owned and controlled by the retailer, or independently
licensed under California law, which enables customers to arrange
for or facilitate the commercial transfer by a licensed retailer of
marijuana or marijuana products.
"Dispensary"
means any business, office, store, facility, location, retail
storefront, or wholesale component of any establishment, cooperative
or collective that delivers whether mobile or otherwise, dispenses,
distributes, exchanges, transmits, transports, sells, or provides
marijuana or marijuana products to any person for any reason, including
members of any medical marijuana cooperative or collective.
"Distribution"
means the procurement, sale, and transport of marijuana and
marijuana products between entities for commercial or medical purposes.
"Manufacture"
means to compound, blend, extract, infuse, or otherwise make
or prepare a marijuana product.
"Marijuana"
means 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. The term "marijuana" shall
also include "medical marijuana" and "nonmedical marijuana".
"Marijuana accessories"
means any equipment products or materials of any kind which
are used, intended for use, or designed for use in planting, propagating,
cultivating, growing, harvesting, manufacturing, compounding, converting,
producing, processing, preparing, testing, analyzing, packaging, repackaging,
storing, smoking, vaporing, or containing marijuana, or for ingesting,
inhaling, or otherwise introducing marijuana or marijuana products
into the human body.
"Marijuana processing"
means any method used to prepare marijuana or its byproducts
for commercial retail and/or wholesale, including, but not limited
to, dying, cleaning, curing, packaging, and extraction of active ingredients
to create marijuana related products and concentrates.
"Marijuana products"
means marijuana that has undergone a process whereby the
plant material has been transformed into a concentrate, including,
but not limited to, concentrated cannabis, or an edible or topical
product containing marijuana or concentrated cannabis and other ingredients.
"Person"
means any individual, firm, co-partnership, joint venture,
association, corporation, limited liability company, estate, trust,
business trust, receiver, syndicate, or any other group or combination
acting as a unit, and the plural as well as the singular.
"Private residence"
means a house, an apartment unit, or mobilehome, or other
similar dwelling.
"Sale"
means any transaction whereby, for any consideration, title
to marijuana is transferred from one person to another, and includes
the delivery of marijuana or marijuana products pursuant to any order
placed for the purchase of the same and soliciting or receiving an
order for the same, but does not include the return of marijuana or
marijuana products by a licensee to the licensee from whom such marijuana
or marijuana product was purchased.
If any part or subsection of this chapter is for any reason
held to be invalid, unlawful, or unconstitutional, such invalidity,
unlawfulness, or unconstitutionality by a court of competent jurisdiction,
shall not affect the validity, lawfulness or constitutionality of
any remaining portions of this chapter.