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Solvent extracts and concentrates are covered by a number of California laws and case law. Propositions 215 and 64 both included extracts but did not remove cannabis from the controlled substances list. The Health and Safety Code […]
Conant v. Walters: Physicians have a First Amendment right to discuss cannabis with patients — not to help them obtain it. The order enjoins the federal government from either revoking a physician’s license to prescribe controlled substances […]
People v Luna: “while the [chemical extraction] manufacturing process need not be complete, it must at least be started.” “[W]hile the [solvent extraction] manufacturing process need not be complete, it must at least be started.” […]
People v. Urziceanu: While Prop 215 did not protect collective medical marijuana gardens or sales, SB420 HS 11362.775 did (ending in 2019). NOTICE: The California Legislature voted to terminate the legal defenses for Collective gardens and sales in […]
SB 420 / Senate Bill 420 Cannabis collective defense; AB266 / 243 Collective defense ends in 2019 SB 2679 Interim extraction licenses through 2019 Summary: In 2003 the California legislature (SB420) created a limited collective […]
People v. Bergen: Medical use is not a defense against charge, use of chemical extraction to manufacture a controlled substance Note: Because marijuana and extracts are in the controlled substance list, because the HS 11379.6(a) […]
People v Tilehkooh Qualified medical use is allowed during probation: “The people of California and a growing number of other states have recently enacted compassionate use laws. Congress should consider the wisdom of accommodating the […]
People v Windus “[W]e see nothing in the statute that requires a patient to periodically renew a doctor’s recommendation regarding medical marijuana use. The statute does not provide, as the Attorney General asserts, that a […]
PEOPLE v. ORLOSKY 233Cal.App.4th257(2015) • 182 Cal.Rptr.3d 561 Evidence of formally organized collective was not required for collective marijuana cultivation defense to be applicable in trial for marijuana possession and cultivation. (Note: Pursuant to HS […]
People v. JOVAN CHRISTIAN JACKSON 210Cal.App.4th525 • D058988 (Super. Ct. No. SCD222793) “As we interpret the MMPA, the collective or cooperative association required by the act need not include active participation by all members in […]