Oklahoma Cannabis Law
What to Expect When Your Company Is Inspected by the OMMA
One, don't panic. From what I've seen, the inspectors with the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority are pretty fair and reasonable people. Read more »Are You Required to Open Up Your Business for Inspection From OMMA Inspectors?
The short answer to that is yes, definitely with a doubt. You are required to open up your business for inspection. Read more »Oklahoma Secretary of State Annual Certificate: What You Must Know
If you've got a medical cannabis business, you must have a business entity registered with the Oklahoma Secretary of State. Read more »OMMA Renewal: Certificate of Compliance Changes Effective 11/01/2021
November 1st, when you do your annual renewals with the OMMA, a Certificate of Compliances will not always be required. Read more »OBNDD Renewal: What You Must Know
All medical cannabis business owners must have an Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drug registration. Read more »OMMA Transportation Agent License Changes Effective 11/01/2021
As of November 1st, if you apply for a transportation agent license, you will no longer have to prove a two-year residency requirement. Read more »What is an OMMA Certificate of Compliance?
A Medical Marijuana Certificate of Compliance (MMCC) is an essential part of your application for a medical marijuana business license, whether you’re applying for a new license or a renewal. Read more »Flat-Fee vs Retainer: What's the Difference?
A retainer is you put X amount of dollars into a trust account, and we bill off of that X amount of dollars, and you are billed. Read more »What Is a Transportation Agency Business?
The cost of the transportation agency business is almost identical. The licensing is almost identical to all the other business licenses. Read more »What You Need to Know About Transportation Agent Licenses
A transportation agent license lets you transport your medical marijuana products from your facility to a different dispensary. Read more »Are Trade Names Required by OMMA?
So when a patient or a business owner files a complaint or makes an inquiry as to something involving your business to the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority, to OSBI, to the Department of Health, they don't have a record because you're known by your trade name on the street and not necessarily by your business name. Read more »Business License Application Rejected: What Can You Do?
There's a host of reasons your application could be rejected. It's not the end of the world if your application is rejected. Read more »Will This Property Work for a Cannabis Business?
You can always reach out to the county clerk and they can tell you who does that. If you're in a city, then you want to take and reach out to whoever does the permitting, the zoning, or planning, usually is who handles that. Read more »Seventh Step to Starting a Medical Cannabis Business in Oklahoma
Dispensaries need an Oklahoma tax permit because they sell retail and so they're going to be collecting taxes. So if you are wanting to start a dispensary, then you must apply for an Oklahoma tax permit through the Oklahoma Tax Commission. Read more »Sixth Step to Starting a Medical Cannabis Business in Oklahoma
Sixth Step to Starting a Medical Cannabis Business in Oklahoma: driver's license, and your proof of residency. Before you can make application to OMMA, you need to have all these documents ready. It'll make your life so much easier. The driver's license is for all owners. You have to provide a color copy of the front of your driver's license, and you have to also provide a copy of the back of your driver's license. It will make your life a lot easier, and prevents you from being rejected, if you remember to do your copy of your driver's license, in color, that's for the front. I get it that the back is black and white, and it's not going to change colors. But you need a copy of the back of your driver's license. And again, this is for each and every owner of the business. You will get rejected if you forget the back, or if you don't provide it in color. The next thing which is proof of residency. Read more »Fifth Step to Starting a Medical Cannabis Business in Oklahoma
The Fifth Step to Starting a Medical Cannabis Business in Oklahoma is the affidavit of lawful presence form and your background check requirements. So the background check is regarding you have to get this done at OSBI or through OSBI. That's the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigations if you're not familiar with that. And you also must not have any felony convictions in the last two years or any violent felony convictions in the last five years. Read more »Fourth Step to Starting a Medical Cannabis Business in Oklahoma
Step four would be to get the proof of distance from a school for the property, as well as your proof of location using GPS. Now, the OMMA has a tool on their website that will help you determine the distance from a school, which is a thousand feet. You must be at least 1,000 feet from any open school. I don't mean any school that is open just during the school year. It includes the non-school year as well. You would need to do that. Then, to get the GPS locations, you would put the address into Google and you would hit search, and then you'd get the Google map. When you go on the Google map, you can right click and it says, "What's here." If you click on that "What's here," it'll give you your GPS coordinates. Those are required for OMMA to obtain your license. This is for a grow, a dispensary, a processor's license, a transportation agency license. You have to have this GPS, I believe even for the laboratories, because this isn't about the school. This is just where the GPS location is. That's step four. Read more »Does Oklahoma State Question 813 Affect Minor Patients?
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. Read more »Do I Qualify to Open A Commercial Marijuana Business in Oklahoma?
There are multiple requirements you must be at least age 25 or older. There's no getting around that. You must be a resident of Oklahoma, to hold the majority license or sole license of a medical cannabis business. You must not have any felony convictions in the last two years. You can have no violent felony convictions in the last five years. So those are your primaries. Now, as far as residency goes, you must have lived in the state of Oklahoma for at least two years or you must have a business partner who has lived in the state of Oklahoma for at least two years. So now, if you are a non-resident or have not lived in the state of Oklahoma for at least two years, then you can only hold 25% of that business license. They require proof of residency. So, with that being said, you will need to be able to provide that if you want to hold more than 25%. Now, if you've lived in the state of Oklahoma for five years within a 25-year period, and you can prove it, then you can hold a license but you have to have the documentation to prove it. They're not going to just accept your word. Read more »Oklahoma State Question 813: Delivery Service
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. Read more »