5563549 Resolution 21-146, Medical Marijuana Cultivation Center Expansion Amendment Act Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2015

A RESOLUTION

                                                        

21-146

 

IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

 

June 30, 2015         

 

 

To declare the existence of an emergency with respect to the need to amend the Legalization of Marijuana for Medical Treatment Initiative of 1999 to allow applicants that received notification on July 25, 2014, that there medical marijuana cultivation center was eligible for registration to modify their application; to allow holders of cultivation center registrations that own or have valid leases for the real property adjacent to their existing cultivation centers to expand their facilities into that adjacent real property for purposes of increasing production not to exceed the authorized limit; and to increase the number of living plants medical marijuana cultivation centers may possess at any time to 1000.

 

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as the “Medical Marijuana Cultivation Center Expansion Amendment Act Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2015”.

 

Sec. 2.  (a) Enactment of the Medical Marijuana Cultivation Center Expansion Emergency Amendment Act of 2015, passed on emergency basis on June 30, 2015 (Enrolled version of Bill 21-255) (“Act”), will enable the District to increase the number of live marijuana plants to assuage the demand for medical marijuana in medical marijuana distribution centers.

(b)  The District is currently experiencing higher demand for medical marijuana than there is capacity to produce.

(c) The Act will enable existing cultivation centers to expand the size of their facilities when they have leaseholds for adjacent real property. 

(d)  The Act will also authorize twice the number of live marijuana plants, up to a maximum of 1000, for all cultivation centers. 

 

Sec. 3.  The Council of the District of Columbia determines that the circumstances enumerated in section 2 constitute emergency circumstances making it necessary that the Medical Marijuana Cultivation Center Expansion Emergency Amendment Act of 2015 be adopted after a single reading.

 

Sec. 4.  This resolution shall take effect immediately.