2023 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 21a - Consumer Protection
Chapter 420f - Palliative Use of Marijuana
Section 21a-408s. - Prohibitions for laboratories and laboratory employees and when not subject to arrest, prosecution or certain other penalties. Laboratories to be independent. Security and safeguard requirements.
(a) No laboratory or laboratory employee may (1) acquire marijuana from a person other than a cannabis establishment or an organization engaged in a research program, (2) deliver, transport or distribute marijuana to (A) a person who is not a cannabis establishment from which the marijuana was originally acquired by the laboratory or laboratory employee, (B) an organization not engaged in a research program, or (3) obtain or transport marijuana outside of this state in violation of state or federal law.
(b) (1) No laboratory employee acting within the scope of his or her employment shall be subject to arrest or prosecution, penalized in any manner, including, but not limited to, being subject to any civil penalty, or denied any right or privilege, including, but not limited to, being subject to any disciplinary action by a professional licensing board, for acquiring, possessing, delivering, transporting or distributing marijuana to a cannabis establishment or an organization engaged in an approved research program under the provisions of this chapter.
(2) No laboratory shall be subject to prosecution, penalized in any manner, including, but not limited to, being subject to any civil penalty or denied any right or privilege, for acquiring, possessing, delivering, transporting or distributing marijuana to a cannabis establishment or an organization engaged in an approved research program under the provisions of this chapter.
(c) A laboratory shall be independent from all other persons involved in the marijuana industry in Connecticut, which shall mean that no person with a direct or indirect financial, managerial or controlling interest in the laboratory shall have a direct or indirect financial, managerial or controlling interest in a cannabis establishment or any other entity that may benefit from the laboratory test results for a cannabis or marijuana sample or product.
(d) A laboratory shall maintain all minimum security and safeguard requirements for the storage of handling of controlled substances as a laboratory that is licensed to provide analysis of controlled substances pursuant to section 21a-246 and any regulations adopted thereunder.
(P.A. 16-23, S. 11; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-1, S. 80.)
History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-1 replaced references to licensed producer and licensed dispensary with “cannabis establishment” throughout, amended Subsec. (a) by adding “laboratory” and deleting former Subpara. (B) re licensed producer and redesignating existing Subpara. (C) as Subpara. (B) in Subdiv. (2), added Subsec. (c) re laboratories to be independent and added Subsec. (d) re security and safeguard requirements, effective July 1, 2021.
