Conn. Agencies Regs. § 21a-408-36 - Dispensary facility prohibitions
(a) No dispensary
department shall be open or in operation, and no person shall be in the
dispensary department, unless a dispensary is present and directly supervising
the activity within the dispensary department. At all other times, the
dispensary department shall be closed and properly secured, in accordance with
sections 21a-408-53 and
21a-408-64 of the Regulations of
Connecticut State Agencies.
(b) No
marijuana shall be applied, ingested, or consumed inside a dispensary
facility.
(c) No food or beverages
shall be consumed by qualifying patients or primary caregivers at the
dispensary facility, except that complimentary food and non-alcoholic beverages
may be available for qualifying patients and primary caregivers who are at the
dispensary facility for a pre-scheduled education, counseling or therapy
program.
(d) No person, except for
a qualifying patient or primary caregiver, shall open or break the seal placed
on a marijuana product packaged by a producer except that a dispensary may
remove marijuana from a child-resistant container or package under the
conditions set forth in section 21a-408-35(e) of the Regulations of Connecticut
State Agencies.
(e) Except as
provided in subsection (f) of this section, no person, except a dispensary
facility employee, or a production facility employee who is delivering
marijuana products, shall be allowed on the premises of a dispensary facility
without a qualifying patient or primary caregiver registration certificate
issued by the department.
(f)
(1) Upon prior written request, the
commissioner may waive the provisions of subsection (e) of this
section.
(2) All persons not
permitted on the premises of a dispensary facility pursuant to subsection (e)
of this section, but who have been authorized, in writing, to enter the
facility by the commissioner shall obtain a visitor identification badge from a
dispensary facility employee, prior to entering the dispensary facility. A
dispensary or dispensary technician shall escort and monitor such a visitor at
all times the visitor is in the dispensary department. A visitor shall visibly
display the visitor identification badge at all times the visitor is in the
dispensary facility and shall return the visitor identification badge to a
dispensary facility employee upon exiting the dispensary facility.
(3) All visitors shall log in and out. The
dispensary facility shall maintain the visitor log, which shall include the
date, time, company affiliation if applicable and purpose of the visit and
which shall be available to the commissioner in accordance with section
21a-408-72 of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies.
(4) If an emergency requires the presence of
a visitor and makes it impractical for the dispensary facility to obtain a
waiver pursuant to subdivision (1) of this subsection, the dispensary facility
shall provide written notice to the commissioner as soon as practicable after
the onset of the emergency. Such notice shall include the name and company
affiliation of the visitor, the purpose of the visit, and the date and time of
the visit. A dispensary facility shall monitor the visitor and maintain a log
of such visit as required by this subsection.
(g) No person associated with a dispensary
facility shall enter into any agreement with a certifying physician, APRN or
health care facility concerning the provision of services or equipment that may
adversely affect any person's freedom to choose the dispensary facility at
which the qualifying patient or primary caregiver will purchase marijuana,
except that such prohibition shall not apply to an approved research
program.
(h) No marijuana shall be
sold, dispensed or distributed via a delivery service or any other manner
outside of a dispensary facility, except that a primary caregiver may deliver
marijuana to the caregiver's qualified patient and a dispensary facility
employee may deliver to a hospice or other inpatient care facility licensed by
the Department of Public Health that has a protocol for handling and
distributing marijuana that has been approved by the department.
(i) Notwithstanding the requirements of
sections 21a-408-1 to 21a-408-72,
inclusive, of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies, members of the
department may enter any area of a dispensary facility if necessary to perform
their governmental duties.
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