Terms Used In Ohio Code > Chapter 3780 - Adult Use Cannabis Control

• Adult use cannabis operator: means a level I adult use cultivator, a level II adult use cultivator, a level III adult use cultivator, an adult use processor, and an adult use dispensary. See Ohio Code 3780.01
• Adult use consumer: means and individual who is at least twenty-one years of age. See Ohio Code 3780.01
• Adult use cultivator: means a level I adult use cultivator or a level II adult use cultivator. See Ohio Code 3780.01
• Adult use dispensary: means a person licensed pursuant section 3780. See Ohio Code 3780.01
• Adult use processor: means a person licensed pursuant section 3780. See Ohio Code 3780.01
• Adult use testing laboratory: means an independent laboratory located that has been issued a license by the division of cannabis control to have custody and use of adult use cannabis for scientific purposes and for purposes of instruction, research, or analysis. See Ohio Code 3780.01
• Advertisement: includes brochures, promotional and other marketing materials consistent with section 3780. See Ohio Code 3780.01
• Advertising: means any written or verbal statement, illustration, or depiction created to induce sales through the use of or a combination of letters, pictures, objects, lighting effects, illustrations, videos, sounds, or other similar means. See Ohio Code 3780.01
• Another: when used to designate the owner of property which is the subject of an offense, includes not only natural persons but also every other owner of property. See Ohio Code 1.02
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Applicant: means an individual or person who files an application for a license pursuant to this chapter. See Ohio Code 3780.01
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Bail: Security given for the release of a criminal defendant or witness from legal custody (usually in the form of money) to secure his/her appearance on the day and time appointed.
• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• Bond: includes an undertaking. See Ohio Code 1.02
• Certificate of operation: means a certification of operation or license issued by either the department of commerce or the state board of pharmacy to a person pursuant to Chapter 3796 of the Revised Code and Chapter 3796 of the Administrative Code. See Ohio Code 3780.01
• Child: includes child by adoption. See Ohio Code 1.59
• Confidential information: means information that is not a public record for purposes of section 149. See Ohio Code 3780.01
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Cultivate: means to grow, harvest, package, and transports adult use cannabis pursuant to this chapter. See Ohio Code 3780.01
• Cultivation area: means the boundaries of the enclosed areas in which adult use cannabis is cultivated during the vegetative stage and flowering stage of the cultivation process. See Ohio Code 3780.01
• Cultivation facility: means a facility where an adult use cultivator or a level III adult use cultivator is authorized to operate. See Ohio Code 3780.01
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Director: means the director of the department of commerce. See Ohio Code 3780.01
• Dispensary: means a person who has a certificate of operation to operate a dispensary under Chapter 3796 of the Revised Code and Chapter 3796 of the Administrative Code. See Ohio Code 3780.01
• Disqualifying offense: means :

  (a) A conviction or plea of guilty, including conspiracy to commit, attempt to commit, or aiding and abetting another in committing, the following:

  (i) Any offense set forth in Chapters 2925, 3719, or 4729 of the Revised Code, the violation of which constitutes a felony or a misdemeanor of the first degree;

  (ii) Any theft offense set forth under division (K) in section 2913. See Ohio Code 3780.01

• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• extract: means a substance obtained by separating or concentrating cannabinoids and other compounds from any part of the adult use cannabis plant by physical or chemical means, intended to be refined for use as an ingredient in an adult use cannabis product or as a standalone adult use cannabis product. See Ohio Code 3780.01
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• imprisonment: means being imprisoned under a sentence imposed for an offense or serving a term of imprisonment, prison term, jail term, term of local incarceration, or other term under a sentence imposed for an offense in an institution under the control of the department of rehabilitation and correction, a county, multicounty, municipal, municipal-county, or multicounty-municipal jail or workhouse, a minimum security jail, a community-based correctional facility, or another facility described or referred to in section 2929. See Ohio Code 1.05
• in writing: includes any representation of words, letters, symbols, or figures; this provision does not affect any law relating to signatures. See Ohio Code 1.59
• Internet: means the international computer network of both federal and nonfederal interoperable packet switched data networks, including the graphical subnetwork known as the world wide web. See Ohio Code 1.59
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• License: means a license by the division of cannabis control to a license applicant pursuant to chapter 3780 of the Revised Code and the rules adopted thereunder. See Ohio Code 3780.01
• License applicant: means an individual or person who applies for a license under this chapter. See Ohio Code 3780.01
• Licensee: means an adult use cannabis operator, adult use testing laboratory or an individual who is licensed under the provisions of chapter 3780 of the Revised Code. See Ohio Code 3780.01
• Manufacture: means the process of converting harvested plant material into adult use extract by physical or chemical means for use as an ingredient in an adult use cannabis product. See Ohio Code 3780.01
• marijuana: means marihuana as defined in section 3719. See Ohio Code 3780.01
• Medical provisional license: means a provisional license issued by either the department of commerce or the state board of pharmacy to a person pursuant to Chapter 3796 of the Revised Code and Chapter 3796 of the Administrative Code. See Ohio Code 3780.01
• Minority leader: See Floor Leaders
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Paraphernalia: means any equipment, products, or materials of any kind which are used, intended for use, or designed for use in planting, propagating, cultivating, growing, harvesting, composting, manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing, preparing, testing, analyzing, packaging, repackaging, storing, vaporizing, or containing cannabis, or for ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing cannabis into the human body. See Ohio Code 3780.01
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: includes , but is not limited to, an individual or a combination of individuals; a sole proprietorship, a firm, a company, a joint venture, a partnership of any type, a joint-stock company, a corporation of any type, a corporate subsidiary of any type, a limited liability company, a business trust, or any other business entity or organization; an assignee; a receiver; a trustee in bankruptcy; an unincorporated association, club, society, or other unincorporated entity or organization; entities that are disregarded for federal income tax purposes; and any other nongovernmental, artificial, legal entity that is capable of engaging in business. See Ohio Code 3780.01
• Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
• Primary residence: means the residence of an individual in which the individual's habitation is fixed and to which, whenever the person is absent, the person has the intention of returning. See Ohio Code 3780.01
• Processor: means a person who has been issued a processing certificate of operation pursuant to Chapter 3796 of the Revised Code and Chapter 3796 of the Administrative Code. See Ohio Code 3780.01
• Prohibited facility: means any church, public library, public playground, public park, or school, as defined in section 3796. See Ohio Code 3780.01
• Property: means real and personal property. See Ohio Code 1.59
• Provisional license: means a temporary license issued to an applicant for an individual license that establishes the conditions that must be met by the licensee before the individual is issued a license in accordance with the requirements and conditions set forth in chapter 3780 of the Revised Code and the rules adopted thereunder. See Ohio Code 3780.01
• Rule: includes regulation. See Ohio Code 1.59
• state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• THC: means the sum of the amount of delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and 87. See Ohio Code 3780.01
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• United States: includes all the states. See Ohio Code 1.59