PROPOSALS
RECOMMENDATION
By consensus, the Medical Marijuana Working Group recommends adoption of the following policy:
The Police Service Agency implements the low-priority policy as follows:
A. Status as a Caregiver or Patient is established--the person establishes medicinal use or primary care giver status to the satisfaction of the officer who makes the initial contact;
B. Amount of Marijuana
a. The medical marijuana patient possesses
1. Less than one and one-half pounds of marijuana in particle form, or the caregiver possesses no more than the amount specified above for each patient as to whom primary caregiver status is established to the officer's satisfaction.
(I) Indoor Plants--no more than 48 plants in flowering stage
AND-no more than 96 plants if the plants are indoors and less than 48 are flowering.
(II) Outdoor Plants--no more than 30 plants in flowering stage
OR-no more than 60 plants if less than 30 are flowering
(III) Combination of Indoor and Outdoor plants--no more than a total of 144 plants, provide that the maximum amounts for indoor and outdoor plans specified above (i.e. 30 flowering outdoor plants and 48 flowering indoor plants), may not be exceeded.
b. The primary caregiver possesses no more than the amounts specified above for each of the patients for whom proof of primary caregiver status is established to the officer's satisfaction.
C. The person completes a statement admitting ownership, possession and amount.
D. The person is not taken into custody for violation of laws unrelated to marijuana activities.
A. The individual does not establish primary caregiver status or medicinal use status to the officer's satisfaction, but based on the totality of the circumstances the officer determines that there is no evidence of criminal activity (e.g., intent to sell, informants, witnesses, sales records, etc...) and that the individual's claim of medicinal use or primary caregiver status is credible.
B. The person completes a statement admitting ownership, possession and amount.
C. The person is not taken into custody for violation of laws unrelated to marijuana activities.
D. The person provides proof of medicinal use or caregiver statue.
E. The person possesses less than the amounts specified in the applicable provision of II, above.