Cannacurio No. 70: Waste Licenses | cannabis media

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Any observer of cannabis licensing is familiar with the main categories of licenses: cultivation, manufacturing, and distribution/retail. At Cannabiz Media we strive to cover the entire value chain including testing, distribution, research and more recently event and consumption licensing. This article highlights the Waste License – a rare activity required in Oklahoma, Mississippi and Maryland.

We have identified 22 licenses in these three states and no company has more than one license, so it is safe to say that there is no MSO for waste licenses. Because these companies serve other licensees, Oklahoma, with nearly 12,000 licenses, is the market to be in. Below is an alphabetical ranking sorted by state and company name.

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When reviewing the regulations, applications and guidance, there are definitely some similarities between the three states:

• Track&Trace: All three states refer to litter as a critical part of their track and trace rules.
• Video: In both Mississippi and Maryland, the destruction must be captured on video
• fees: Fees vary widely (like most licenses). Maryland costs $100, Oklahoma $5,000, and Mississippi a one-time application fee of $5,000 and an annual license fee of $7,500.
• type of destruction: The waste must be rendered unusable. Maryland and Mississippi provide detailed information on the nature of the destruction.

Oklahoma

Oklahoma establishes the requirements for how this waste should be handled and the records that must be kept:

regulations Require that the medical marijuana business that submits the medical marijuana waste for disposal records in the electronic inventory system all waste that is placed in the secure container and delivered to the licensee of the medical marijuana disposal facility. The medical marijuana waste shipment inventory must also include this information. Any person authorized by the disposal facility permit holder to carry out transport to a disposal facility shall keep records before and during transport and at the disposal facility. The electronic inventory should be consistent with the inventory form prior to travel and upon arrival at the disposal facility.

Each waste facility uses the seed-to-sale tracking system established by the Ministry or a seed-to-sale tracking system that is integrated with the system established by the Ministry at the time of its implementation.

There’s an application fee of $5,000 — double the $2,500 for other Oklahoma cannabis licenses.

Maryland

Maryland highlights the procedures for tracking this process at the pharmacy and ensuring it is sent back to the licensed producer or processor. They provide a sample table for records and compliance. Their regulations focus on registering the drivers, vehicles and the companies involved in this practice. All must be in good condition.

Any product not returned to a licensed grower or processor must be immediately rendered unusable, recorded on the waste log and placed in the waste container. This action must be clearly recorded on video.

1. Flower/dry leaf trimmings are removed prior to mixing with a non-cannabis product at a ratio of 50:50 or higher non-cannabis product content (example: alcohol, bleach, any other solvent that will render it unusable, kitty litter, mulch, dirt or other loose non-consumable material rendering it unusable).

2. Non-flower/non-dry leaf waste is dumped into a non-edible product for disposal. Final destruction occurs no later than 7 days, when the waste is entered into the Cannabis Green Waste Log and placed in a designated commercial waste container for pickup and removal from the facility.

Similar to Oklahoma, all trash must be tracked and traced, and Maryland also has a requirement to video record the destruction.

Mississippi

In Mississippi, regulations focus on the facility where disposal occurs. The term “cannabis disposal company” means a Mississippi Department of Health licensed and registered company engaged in the commercial disposal or destruction of medical cannabis. These license holders are prohibited from transporting cannabis and/or cannabis products for general purposes such as B. Transfer from one medical cannabis facility to another.

All medical cannabis waste destined for disposal must be properly weighed and recorded in the state’s seed-for-sale system. Waste presented for disposal must be weighed and recorded.

Cannabis waste must be disposed of either through a process that renders the waste unusable and unrecognizable through physical destruction, or through a recycling process that the waste facility is authorized to perform under Mississippi law.

Disposal/destruction of cannabis waste must be under video surveillance through the cannabis disposal facility’s video surveillance system described in Rule 8.9.3.

Grinding and incorporation of cannabis waste into compostable mixed waste until it is unusable and unrecognizable: Cannabis waste intended for compost or other organic waste treatment may be mixed with the following types of waste:

The only anomaly in this state is Bragg Canna. They are the only license holder we found that has other state cannabis licenses.

About the author

Ed Keating is co-founder of Cannabiz Media and oversees the company’s data research and government relations efforts. He has spent his career working with and advising information companies on compliance issues. Ed has led product, marketing and sales while overseeing complex, multi-jurisdictional product lines in the securities, corporate, UCC, security, environmental and human resources markets.

At Cannabiz Media, Ed enjoys the challenge of working with regulatory bodies around the world as he and his team gather corporate, financial and licensing information to track the people, products and companies in the cannabis economy.

Ed graduated from Hamilton College and received his MBA from the Kellogg School at Northwestern University.

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