Gardena City Zoning Code

means the recreational or personal use of cannabis by a natural person twenty-one years of age or older, as used in MAUCRSA.

means a person twenty-one years and older who is authorized by, and in compliance with, state law and the provisions of this chapter relating to the cultivation of cannabis for personal use.

means all parts of the plant Cannabis sativa Linnaeus, Cannabis indica, or Cannabis ruderalis, whether growing or not; the seeds thereof; the 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. "Cannabis" also means the separated resin, whether crude or purified, obtained from cannabis, and any product containing cannabis. "Cannabis" includes cannabis that is used for medical, nonmedical, or other purposes. "Cannabis" does not include the mature stalks of the plant, fiber produced from the stalks, oil or cake made from the seeds of the plant, any other compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of the mature stalks (except the resin extracted therefrom), fiber, oil, or cake, or the sterilized seed of the plant which is incapable of germination. "Cannabis" also does not include industrial hemp, as defined in California Health and Safety Code Section 11018.5.

means the cultivation, possession, manufacture, distribution, processing, storing, laboratory testing, labeling, packaging, transportation, delivery or sale of cannabis and cannabis products for nonmedical, medical or any other purpose, and includes the activities of any business licensed by the state or other government entity under Division 10 of the California Business and Professions Code or any other provision of state law that regulates the licensing of cannabis businesses.

means any activity involving the planting, growing, harvesting, drying, curing, grading, or trimming of cannabis.

means the commercial transfer of cannabis or cannabis products to a customer. Delivery also includes the use by a retailer of any technology platform owned and controlled by the retailer.

means a space within a building that complies with the California Building Code ("CBC") as adopted by the city of Gardena, or if exempt from the permit requirements of the CBC, a structure that has a complete roof, a foundation, slab or equivalent base to which the floor is secured by bolts or similar attachments, is secure against unauthorized entry, and is accessible only through one or more lockable doors. Walls and roofs must be constructed of solid materials that cannot be easily broken through such as two-inch by four-inch nominal or thicker studs overlaid with three-eighths-inch or thicker plywood or the equivalent. Plastic sheeting, regardless of the mil or inches, or similar products do not satisfy this requirement. If skylights are used, security bars shall be added to the skylights. The structure must provide complete visual screening.

means within a fully enclosed and secure structure.

means the Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act, as codified in Division 10 of the California Business and Professions Code (Section 26000 et seq.) as the same may be amended from time to time.

means the Medicinal Cannabis Patients' Right to Access Act, as codified in Chapter 26 (commencing with Section 26320) to Division 10 of the Business and Professions Code.

means both medicinal cannabis and medicinal cannabis products, as those terms are defined in Section 26001(ai)(1) of the Business and Professions Code.

shall mean the use of medicinal cannabis by a medicinal cannabis patient.

means a retailer authorized to engage in the retail sale by delivery of medicinal cannabis to medicinal cannabis patients pursuant to an M-license, as defined in the MCPRAA.

means a state-licensed, nonstorefront retailer that sells and delivers only medicinal cannabis and medicinal cannabis products to medicinal cannabis patients.

means a qualified patient or a primary caregiver for a qualified patient, as the same are defined in Section 11362.7 of the Health and Safety Code.

means a retailer that sells cannabis goods to customers only through delivery and whose business is closed to the public.

means any location that is not within a fully enclosed and secure structure.

means any person, firm, corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited liability company, collective, cooperative, nonprofit, trust, estate, association, club, receiver, syndicate, society, or other organization. The term "person" shall include any owner, manager, proprietor, employee, volunteer, or salesperson.

means a house, apartment unit, condominium, mobile home, or other similar dwelling that is lawfully used as a residence.