First of 10 DHSS Advisory Committees sets tone for review with deletion, amendment, and addition of questions

First of 10 DHSS Advisory Committees sets tone for review with deletion, amendment, and addition of questions

On Wednesday morning the Advisory Committee on Cultivation Facility Experience, joined Medical Marijuana Division counsel Richard Moore, who acted as moderator, to begin the process of reviewing questions pulled from the Facility License Application Questions Draft and suggestions submitted via public input and departmental feedback.

The committee comprised of Department of Agriculture Division Director of Plant Industries Paul Bailey, former state representative and educator Lyle Rowland, and Lincoln University Associate Professor of Plant and Environmental Science Hwei Ying Johnson, reviewed questions 119-126 of the Facility License Application Questions Draft and would go on to suggest and approve four additional questions as well.

Moore explained some questions would not be addressed on the application because of minimum requirements laid out in the amendment.

He also advised the committee that public comment for rules will be left open until until mid-May, hoping to garner as much feedback as possible.

Moore then went on to explain the process by which the committee would proceed during review, with the goal being to gain a consensus from the panel for each question in review.

Members of the committee were asked to rank the importance of questions as slightly important (1), important (2), highly important (3), or critically important (4).

During the review questions 119-122 were deleted, their original text is as follows.

  • 119. Will the facility have a physician or pharmacist retained for consultation to establish their processes?
  • 120. Will the facility have a physician or pharmacist retained for consultation after their processes are established?
  • 121. Describe your experience in cultivating plants for human consumption as food or medical products.
  • 122. Describe your experience with genetic modification or breeding.

Questions 123 – 126 were read, amended, and accepted as follows

  • 123 – Original text “Describe your experience with using clean growing rooms,” amended to and accepted as “Describe your experience with maintaining a sanitary grow facility, from seed or clone through packaging.” (Critically Important)
  • 124 Original text, “Describe your experience with tracking each plant in a harvest,” amended to and accepted as, “Describe your experience with product coding/traceability.”  (Critically Important)
  • 125 Original text, “Describe your experience with recalls,” amended to and accepted as, “Describe your experience with recalls and any proposed plan to recall medical marijuana.” (Important)
  • 126 Original text, “Describe any existing or future plans for utility provider agreements,” amended to and accepted as, “Describe any existing or future plans for utility provider (Electric and Water) rider agreements.” (Important)

Finally the committee offered suggestions for four new rules, the rules were read and accepted as follows.

  • Describe the design and capacity/size of your proposed cultivation facility Important
  • Describe the technology to be used in growing medical marijuana in your proposed cultivation facility. Important
  • Describe the plan for good agriculture practices (including any certifications) Important
  • Describe quality control plan for proposed facility  Highly Important

All rules and finalized questions for applications must be completed by June 4th.