AB 1578: Cannabis programs: cooperation with federal authorities.

Existing law, the Medical Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MCRSA) Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of medical cannabis, commercial cannabis activity, which responsibility is generally divided between the Bureau of Marijuana Cannabis Control within the Department of Consumer Affairs, the Department of Food and Agriculture, and the State Department of Public Health. The Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), an initiative measure enacted by the approval of Proposition 64 at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election, provides for the licensure and regulation of commercial nonmedical marijuana activities, which responsibility is also generally divided between those same state entities. Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to establish and maintain a voluntary program for the issuance of identification cards to qualified patients who have a physicians recommendation for medical marijuana. cannabis. Existing law requires the counties to process applications and maintain records for the identification card program.

This bill would prohibit a state or local agency, as defined, from taking certain actions without a federal agent obtaining a court order signed by a judge, judge and presenting that order to the state or local agency, including using agency money, facilities, property, equipment, or personnel to assist a federal agency to investigate, detain, detect, report, obtain information, or arrest a person for commercial or noncommercial marijuana or medical cannabis activity that is authorized or allowed under state or and local law in the State of California and from transferring an individual to federal law enforcement or detaining an individual at the request of federal law enforcement or federal authorities for marijuana- or cannabis-related conduct activity that is legal under state or and applicable local law.