Cannabis cultivation facility -- Operating requirements.

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  • (1) A cannabis cultivation facility shall ensure that any cannabis growing at the cannabis cultivation facility is not visible from the ground level of the cannabis cultivation facility perimeter.
  • (2) A cannabis cultivation facility shall use a unique identifier that is connected to the facility's inventory control system to identify:
    • (a) beginning at the time a cannabis plant is eight inches tall and has a root ball, each cannabis plant;
    • (b) each unique harvest of cannabis plants;
    • (c) each batch of cannabis the facility transfers to a medical cannabis pharmacy, a cannabis processing facility, or an independent cannabis testing laboratory; and
    • (d) any excess, contaminated, or deteriorated cannabis of which the cannabis cultivation facility disposes.
  • (3) A cannabis cultivation facility shall identify cannabis biomass as cannabis byproduct or cannabis plant product before transferring the cannabis biomass from the facility.
  • (4) A cannabis cultivation facility shall either:
    • (a) ensure that a cannabis processing facility chemically or physically processes cannabis cultivation byproduct to produce a cannabis concentrate for incorporation into cannabis derivative products; or
    • (b) destroy cannabis cultivation byproduct in accordance with Section 4-41a-405.
  • (5)
    • (a)
      • (i) A cannabis cultivation facility may not purchase or otherwise receive industrial hemp waste unless the waste meets department cannabis testing standards, as determined by an independent cannabis testing laboratory, before the transfer of the waste to the cannabis cultivation facility.
      • (ii) Upon receipt of the industrial hemp waste described in Subsection (5)(a)(i), the cannabis cultivation facility shall assign a unique identifier to the industrial hemp waste that is connected to the facility's inventory control system.
      • (iii) Industrial hemp waste described in this Subsection (5)(a) is considered to be cannabis for all testing and regulatory purposes of the department.
    • (b) Except as provided in Subsection (5)(a), a cannabis production establishment or agent may not receive industrial hemp waste for entry into the medical cannabis program.
    • (c) A cannabis cultivation facility may not produce more than 120 kilograms of cannabis concentrate from industrial hemp waste in a single license year.




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