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| Marijuana Concentrates |
For
over a year, Californians were unclear on whether concentrates were
legal. For medical marijuana users, a court ruling made patients feel on
edge. Patients throughout the state, and of our patient at Outco, will
be glad to know that the ruling was overturned just a short time ago,
and it is now clear that concentrates can be used as a legal delivery
mechanism.
In
2013, Sean Patrick Mulcrevy was charged with unlawful possession of
concentrated cannabis. The ruling issued by El Dorado Superior Court
Judge James R. Wagoner determined that Mulcrevy had committed a
misdemeanor, noting that he violated his probation from failure “to obey
all laws.” On December 22, 2014, the three-justice panel of the 3rd District
Court of Appeal reversed the ruling. They made an important statement
that marijuana concentrates are protected under the 1996 Medical
Marijuana Law of California.
In 1996 California Proposition 215 stated:
“all
parts of the plant Cannabis sativa L.,whether growing or not; the seeds
thereof; the resin extracted from any part of the plant; and every
compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of the
plant, its seeds or resin.”
The justices M. Kathleen Butz, Vance W. Rays and Cole Blease based their ruling on the interpretation of that proposition.
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