Oklahoma Legislation

OMMA has 90 days after the effective date of the act to regulate the prices of applications, qualifications, labeling standards, etc.

OMMA accepts and issues adult-use marijuana business licenses including adult-use marijuana commercial growers, processors, dispensaries, etc.

If more than half of the people vote yes on that ballot, then recreational marijuana is going to be passed and legalized 90 days after.

The highest fine is $250 and it’s for anyone who cultivates marijuana in an open space that the public can see.

As long as you follow the rules of the Act, things such as your parental rights and public assistance programs would not be denied to you.

It is lawful to be able to transport, use, and manufacture marijuana as long as you’re 21. Marijuana also has to be away from the public eye.

This Act is only regulating or talking about adult use and recreational use, and not medical marijuana or laws that are already in effect.

The act won’t touch any laws that are in effect prior to this act, so driving under the influence, or being under 21 and using marijuana.

If Oklahoma State Question 820 becomes law, it would be known as the Adult Use Marijuana Regulation Act. It would be regulated by the OMMA.

The governor can either put the question on a special election ballot or a primary election ballot in either 2023 or 2024.

In Oklahoma, each state question requires only a simple majority of votes, 51%, to be voted for or against.

State Question 820 is an initiated petition because the citizens brought it to legalize recreational marijuana in Oklahoma.

We are in the 10-day wait period after the publication of the signature account where anyone can oppose the account or the bylaw title.

This moratorium went into effect because the OMMA needs to catch up on its backlog and try to get every business in compliance.

A minor patient under the age of 13 years of age shall be permitted to medicate with inhalants… Shall not be permitted to medicate with inhalants without a specific written order from two board certified physicians, and education through a not-for-profit organization providing education for minors on inhalants. What this means is both of the recommending physicians that are board certified must agree that a child under the age, or a minor, under the age of 13 can use inhalants as a medical treatment. Now this doesn’t mean that they’re going to be smoking marijuana, this doesn’t mean that they’re not going to be smoking, it doesn’t mean that they’re not going to be using vapes. It depends on what the parent, the child, and the physicians recommend. Now and it also could mean that they are using an inhaler with THC in it, okay? There are different mechanisms for delivery. So an inhalant can be several things. It could be a nose spray that you put up your nose, it could be an inhaler like for people that have asthma, so it could be those and not actually the smoking of. So it could be the smoking of, it just depends on what that patient needs. A minor patient age 13 years of age or older shall be permitted to medicate with inhalers with a specific written order from one board certified recommending physician, and education through a not-for-profit organization providing education to minors on inhalants.

Medical marijuana dispensary shall at their discretion be permitted to offer delivery services to Oklahoma medical marijuana authority licensed patients. The delivery vehicle used shall have appropriate insurance. The person performing the delivery shall be a licensed driver. The patient has been informed of any and all delivery fees. The delivery vehicle shall be a nondescript vehicle with no industry marking or marking collateral. And the delivery person shall be employed by the dispensary or delivery company. Delivery shall be made to the patient’s home or the patient’s place of employment. It’s pretty simple. If a dispensary owner wants to hire a third party to make deliveries, they can do that, as long as they provide the patient with upfront pricing for fees and… What is it called? Any and all delivery fees.

Our proposed ballot title simply states this, “This measure adds new article to the Constitution of the State of Oklahoma. This article will heal state question 788, which the Oklahoma State Legislatures, the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority, the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, the Oklahoma State Department of Health, local governments has desecrated since 57% of Oklahoma voters passed state question 788 on the historic day of June 26, 2018. This article will not only heal the damage created by those named above. It will responsibly legalize, regulate and tax adult use marijuana for persons aged 18 and older under state law.”

State question 813 was written to help fix a lot of the problems in our Medical Marijuana Program and because there’s several state questions that were filed late last year and earlier this year that proposed recreational use marijuana, it was decided when they were drafting state question 813 to fix the Medical Marijuana Program that they would add adult use marijuana, but it’s in a very controlled format and fashion.

State question 812 is a constitutional amendment and it’s a criminal justice reform bill that simply does the following. It releases prisoners from prisons and jails for possession of marijuana. It keeps people from going to jail for marijuana possession in the future and it expunges the records of those who have been convicted of marijuana offenses for possession in the state and the state has to pay for the expungement. It’s pretty simple.

According to State Question 813, Section 11: Parental/Grandparent Rights: No parent, stepparent, foster parent, guardian, or grandparent who has a medical marijuana license issued by the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority, shall be denied custody, visitation, or parenting/grandparenting time with a minor child. No parent, stepparent, foster parent, guardian, or grandparent shall be denied custody, visitation or parenting/grandparenting time with a minor child for being an adult use marijuana consumer. We call adult use, others usually call it recreational. So there’s a difference here, licensed medical marijuana patient, and adult user or consumer.