1. (a) No producer or employee of the producer may:

   1. (1) Sell, deliver, transport or distribute marijuana to a person who is not (A) a cannabis establishment, (B) a cannabis testing laboratory, or (C) an organization engaged in a research program, or (2) obtain or transport marijuana outside of this state in violation of state or federal law.
2. (b) No licensed producer or employee of the producer acting within the scope of such employee's employment shall be subject to arrest or prosecution or 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 cultivating marijuana or selling, delivering, transferring, transporting or distributing marijuana to a cannabis establishment, cannabis testing laboratory or research program.

(P.A. 12-55, S. 12; P.A. 16-23, S. 8; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-1, S. 74; P.A. 23-79, S. 15.)

History: P.A. 16-23 amended Subsec. (a)(1) by designating existing provision re licensed dispensary as Subpara. (A), adding Subpara. (B) re laboratory and adding Subpara. (C) re organization engaged in a research program; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-1 amended Subsec. (a) by deleting “licensed” before “producer”, replacing “licensed dispensary” with “cannabis establishment” in Subdiv. (1)(A) and amended Subsec. (b) by making a technical change, adding “transferring” and replacing reference to licensed dispensaries with “cannabis establishment, laboratory or research program”, effective July 1, 2021; P.A. 23-79 amended Subsecs. (a)(1)(B) and (b) by substituting “cannabis testing laboratory” for “laboratory”, and made a conforming change in Subsec. (b), effective July 1, 2023.