“Commercial cannabis cultivation” means any activity involving the planting, growing, harvesting, drying, curing, grading, or trimming of cannabis for medical or recreational use, including nurseries, that is intended to be transported, processed, manufactured, distributed, dispensed, delivered, or sold in accordance with the Medical and Adult-Use Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA) for use by adult use and medical cannabis patients in California pursuant to the Compassionate Use Act of 1996 (Proposition 215) or recreational use pursuant to (AUMA), found at Cal. Health & Safety Code § 11362.5.

“Marijuana” means any or all parts of the plant Cannabis sativa Linnaeus, Cannabis indica, or Cannabis ruderalis, whether growing or not; the seeds thereof; the resin or separated resin, whether crude or purified, extracted from any part of the plant; and every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of the plant, its seeds or resin, including marijuana infused in foodstuff or any other ingestible or consumable product containing marijuana. The term “marijuana” shall also include “medical marijuana” as such phrase is used in the August 2008 Guidelines for the Security and Non-Diversion of Marijuana Grown for Medical Use, as may be amended from time to time, that was issued by the office of the Attorney General for the state of California or subject to the provisions of Cal. Health & Safety Code § 11362.5 (Compassionate Use Act of 1996) or Cal. Health & Safety Code §§ 11362.7 to 11362.83 (Medical Marijuana Program Act).

“Marijuana dispensary” or “marijuana dispensaries” means any business, office, store, facility, location, retail storefront or wholesale component of any establishment, cooperative or collective that delivers (as defined in Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 19300.5(m) or any successor statute thereto), whether mobile or otherwise, dispenses, distributes, exchanges, transmits, transports, sells or provides marijuana to any person for any reason, including members of any medical marijuana cooperative or collective consistent with the August 2008 Guidelines for the Security and Non-Diversion of Marijuana Grown for Medical Use, as may be amended from time to time, that was issued by the office of the Attorney General for the state of California, or for the purposes set forth in Cal. Health & Safety Code § 11362.5 (Compassionate Use Act of 1996) or Cal. Health & Safety Code §§ 11362.7 to 11362.83 (Medical Marijuana Program Act).

“Marijuana processing” means any method used to prepare marijuana or its byproducts for commercial retail and/or wholesale, including but not limited to: drying, cleaning, curing, packaging, and extraction of active ingredients to create marijuana related products and concentrates.

“Medical marijuana collective” or “cooperative or collective” means any group that is collectively or cooperatively cultivating and distributing marijuana for medical purposes that is organized in the manner set forth in the August 2008 Guidelines for the Security and Non-Diversion of Marijuana Grown for Medical Use, as may be amended from time to time, that was issued by the office of the Attorney General for the state of California or subject to the provisions of Cal. Health & Safety Code § 11362.5 (Compassionate Use Act of 1996) or Cal. Health & Safety Code §§  11362.7 to 11362.83 (Medical Marijuana Program Act). (Ord. 1081 § 2, eff. 6/29/18)