§ 69.50.101 Definitions
§ 69.50.102 Drug paraphernalia — Definitions
§ 69.50.201 Enforcement of chapter — Authority to change schedules of controlled substances
§ 69.50.202 Nomenclature
§ 69.50.203 Schedule I tests
§ 69.50.204 Schedule I
§ 69.50.205 Schedule II tests
§ 69.50.206 Schedule II
§ 69.50.207 Schedule III tests
§ 69.50.208 Schedule III
§ 69.50.209 Schedule IV tests
§ 69.50.210 Schedule IV
§ 69.50.211 Schedule V tests
§ 69.50.212 Schedule V
§ 69.50.213 Republishing of schedules
§ 69.50.214 Controlled substance analog
§ 69.50.301 Rules — Fees
§ 69.50.302 Registration requirements
§ 69.50.303 Registration
§ 69.50.304 Revocation and suspension of registration — Seizure or placement under seal of controlled substances
§ 69.50.305 Procedure for denial, suspension, or revocation of registration
§ 69.50.306 Records of registrants
§ 69.50.308 Prescriptions
§ 69.50.309 Containers
§ 69.50.310 Sodium pentobarbital — Registration of humane societies and animal control agencies for use in animal control
§ 69.50.311 Triplicate prescription form program — Compliance by health care practitioners
§ 69.50.312 Electronic communication of prescription information — Exceptions — Waiver — Penalty — Commission may adopt rules
§ 69.50.315 Medical assistance — Drug-related overdose — Prosecution for possession
§ 69.50.317 Opioid drugs — Communication with patient
§ 69.50.320 Registration of department of fish and wildlife for use in chemical capture programs — Rules
§ 69.50.325 Cannabis producer’s license, cannabis processor’s license, cannabis retailer’s license
§ 69.50.3251 Cannabis manufacture, sale, distribution prohibited without a license — Tribal agreements — Synthetic cannabinoids prohibited
§ 69.50.326 Cannabis producers, processors — Use of additives to enhance CBD concentration of authorized products — Rules
§ 69.50.327 Cannabis processors — Incorporation of characterizing flavor in vapor products
§ 69.50.3271 Products combining cannabis and alcohol prohibited
§ 69.50.328 Cannabis producers, processors — No direct or indirect financial interest in licensed cannabis retailers
§ 69.50.331 Application for license — Renewal fee reimbursement, social equity plan
§ 69.50.334 Denial of application — Opportunity for hearing
§ 69.50.335 Cannabis retailer, processor, producer licenses — Issue, reissue of licenses — Social equity applicants — Rules — Definitions
§ 69.50.339 Transfer of license to produce, process, or sell cannabis — Reporting of proposed sales of outstanding or issued stock of a corporation
§ 69.50.342 State liquor and cannabis board — Rules
§ 69.50.345 State liquor and cannabis board — Rules — Procedures and criteria
§ 69.50.346 Labels on retail products
§ 69.50.348 Representative samples of cannabis, useable cannabis, or cannabis-infused products
§ 69.50.351 Board members and employees — Conflict of interest
§ 69.50.354 Retail outlet licenses
§ 69.50.357 Retail outlets — Rules
§ 69.50.360 Cannabis retailers, employees of retail outlets — Certain acts not criminal or civil offenses
§ 69.50.363 Cannabis processors, employees — Certain acts not criminal or civil offenses
§ 69.50.366 Cannabis producers, employees — Certain acts not criminal or civil offenses
§ 69.50.369 Cannabis producers, processors, researchers, retailers — Advertisements — Rules — Penalty
§ 69.50.372 Cannabis research license
§ 69.50.375 Cannabis retailers — Medical cannabis endorsement
§ 69.50.378 Cannabis retailer holding medical cannabis endorsement — THC concentration in products
§ 69.50.380 Cannabis producers, processors, retailers prohibited from making certain sales of cannabis, cannabis products
§ 69.50.382 Common carriers — Transportation or delivery of cannabis, useable cannabis, cannabis concentrates, immature plants or clones, cannabis seeds, and cannabis-infused products — Employees prohibited from carrying or using
§ 69.50.385 Common carriers — Licensing — State liquor and cannabis board to adopt rules
§ 69.50.390 Licensed retailers prohibited from operating vending machines, drive-through purchase facilities for the sale of cannabis products
§ 69.50.395 Licensed cannabis businesses, agreements — Disclosure to state liquor and cannabis board
§ 69.50.401 Prohibited acts: A — Penalties
§ 69.50.4011 Counterfeit substances — Penalties — Referral to assessment and services
§ 69.50.4012 Delivery of substance in lieu of controlled substance — Penalty
§ 69.50.4013 Possession, use of controlled substance — Penalty — Referral to assessment and services — Possession of useable cannabis, cannabis concentrates, or cannabis-infused products — Delivery
§ 69.50.4014 Possession of forty grams or less of cannabis — Penalty — Referral to assessment and services
§ 69.50.4015 Involving a person under eighteen in unlawful controlled substance transaction — Penalty
§ 69.50.4016 Provisions not applicable to offenses under RCW 69.50.410
§ 69.50.4017 Alternatives to prosecution — Pretrial diversion
§ 69.50.4018 Sentencing considerations
§ 69.50.402 Prohibited acts: B — Penalties
§ 69.50.403 Prohibited acts: C — Penalties
§ 69.50.404 Penalties under other laws
§ 69.50.405 Bar to prosecution
§ 69.50.406 Distribution to persons under age eighteen
§ 69.50.407 Conspiracy
§ 69.50.408 Second or subsequent offenses
§ 69.50.410 Prohibited acts: D — Penalties
§ 69.50.412 Prohibited acts: E — Penalties
§ 69.50.4121 Drug paraphernalia — Selling — Penalty
§ 69.50.413 Health care practitioners — Suspension of license for violation of chapter
§ 69.50.414 Sale or transfer of controlled substance to minor — Cause of action by parent — Damages
§ 69.50.415 Controlled substances homicide — Penalty
§ 69.50.416 Counterfeit substances prohibited — Penalties
§ 69.50.418 Tableting and encapsulating machines prohibited — Penalties
§ 69.50.420 Violations — Juvenile driving privileges
§ 69.50.430 Additional fine for certain felony violations
§ 69.50.435 Violations committed in or on certain public places or facilities — Additional penalty — Defenses — Construction — Definitions
§ 69.50.438 Cathinone or methcathinone — Additional fine
§ 69.50.440 Possession with intent to manufacture — Penalty
§ 69.50.445 Opening package of or consuming cannabis, useable cannabis, cannabis-infused products, or cannabis concentrates in view of general public or public place — Penalty
§ 69.50.450 Butane or other explosive gases
§ 69.50.455 Synthetic cannabinoids — Unfair or deceptive practice under RCW 19.86.020
§ 69.50.460 Cathinone or methcathinone — Unfair or deceptive practice under RCW 19.86.020
§ 69.50.465 Conducting or maintaining cannabis club — Penalty
§ 69.50.470 Medication disposal, no penalty for compliance
§ 69.50.475 Cannabis retail outlets — Sale to persons under the age of twenty-one — Penalty
§ 69.50.500 Powers of enforcement personnel
§ 69.50.501 Administrative inspections
§ 69.50.502 Warrants for administrative inspections
§ 69.50.503 Injunctions
§ 69.50.504 Cooperative arrangements
§ 69.50.505 Seizure and forfeiture
§ 69.50.506 Burden of proof; liabilities
§ 69.50.507 Judicial review
§ 69.50.508 Education and research
§ 69.50.509 Search and seizure of controlled substances
§ 69.50.510 Search and seizure at rental premises — Notification of landlord
§ 69.50.511 Cleanup of hazardous substances at illegal drug manufacturing facility — Rules
§ 69.50.515 Pharmacies — Cannabis — Notification and disposal
§ 69.50.525 Diversion prevention and control — Report
§ 69.50.530 Dedicated cannabis account
§ 69.50.535 Cannabis excise tax — State liquor and cannabis board to review tax level — Reports — State and federal antitrust laws
§ 69.50.540 Appropriations
§ 69.50.550 Cost-benefit evaluations
§ 69.50.555 Taxes, fees, assessments, charges — Commercial activities covered by cannabis agreement between state and tribe
§ 69.50.560 Controlled purchase programs — Persons under age twenty-one — Violation — Criminal penalty — Exceptions
§ 69.50.561 Advice and consultation services — Licensed cannabis businesses
§ 69.50.562 Licensed cannabis businesses — Written warnings — Waiver of sanctions with no relationship to public safety — Compliance program — Penalties — Rules
§ 69.50.563 Licensed cannabis businesses — Civil penalty — Rules
§ 69.50.564 Licensed cannabis businesses — Settlement agreement
§ 69.50.565 Unpaid trust fund taxes — Limited liability business entities — Liability of responsible individuals — Administrative hearing
§ 69.50.570 Bundled transactions — Retail sales — Subject to tax — Exception
§ 69.50.575 Cannabis health and beauty aids
§ 69.50.580 Applicants for cannabis producer’s, processor’s, researcher’s, or retailer’s licenses — Signage — Public notice requirements
§ 69.50.585 Branded promotional items — Nominal value — Personal services
§ 69.50.587 Cannabis science task force reports — Board rules
§ 69.50.601 Pending proceedings
§ 69.50.602 Continuation of rules
§ 69.50.603 Uniformity of interpretation
§ 69.50.604 Short title
§ 69.50.611 State preemption
§ 69.50.612 State preemption — Drug paraphernalia
§ 69.50.700 Expedited rule making
§ 69.50.710 Federal law — “Marijuana” to refer to “cannabis.”
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Terms Used In Washington Code > Chapter 69.50 - Uniform controlled substances act

  • Acquittal:
    1. Judgement that a criminal defendant has not been proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
    2. A verdict of "not guilty."
     
  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Allegation: something that someone says happened.
  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • 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.
  • Appraisal: A determination of property value.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Circumstantial evidence: All evidence except eyewitness testimony.
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • 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.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source:
  • drug paraphernalia: means all equipment, products, and materials of any kind which are used, intended for use, or designed for use in planting, propagating, cultivating, growing, harvesting, manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing, preparing, testing, analyzing, packaging, repackaging, storing, containing, concealing, injecting, ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing into the human body a controlled substance. See Washington Code 69.50.102
  • 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.
  • Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
  • Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. Source: OCC
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • 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.
  • Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Intangible property: Property that has no intrinsic value, but is merely the evidence of value such as stock certificates, bonds, and promissory notes.
  • 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.
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • 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: may be construed to include the United States, this state, or any state or territory, or any public or private corporation or limited liability company, as well as an individual. See Washington Code 1.16.080
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
  • Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
  • Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Testify: Answer questions in court.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  • Trust account: A general term that covers all types of accounts in a trust department, such as estates, guardianships, and agencies. Source: OCC
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.