2024_04_26-wslcb-focus_group-sb_5367_implementation-00-complete
GGregory FosterApr 26, 2024 at 6:54 pm1h 41min
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00:00Cassidy West
Hello, welcome to those who are just joining us. I'm gonna go ahead and get started. My name is Cassidy West, and I'm the Policy and roles manager for the LCB. That's been working on this project since the legislation was passed last year. This is the fourth workshop in a series of workshops, where we're reviewing different sections of the rules to to implement the legislation. So, the workshop Oh, I'm just gonna pause for a second. Hi, welcome, everyone who's just joining us. I'm Cassidy West. I'm just walking through what we're going to do today.
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00:41Cassidy West
So the workshop, excuse me, the workshop objective for today is to review discuss and gather feedback from interested parties on the draft proposed rule changes to WAC 314 55 102. And that's the quality control and quality assurance testing. And then also changes to WAC 314 55 109 relates to cannabinoid additives. And before I move on, if you would like to get these documents, if you if you these are online, if you weren't able to access these online or haven't had a chance to please put your email in the chat and then to your name, we'll follow up with you in any email so that you have all the materials for the workshop. Okay. All right. So with regards to changes to those sections, these are to incorporate the new definitions or amended definitions of cannabis, cannabis products and THC concentration. That were the result of the legislation the THC bill, as well as amendments to RCW 69 50 326, which is related to the use of additives to enhance the CB- CBD concentration of authorized products. Again, I'll just go ahead and say welcome to those who just came in. I'm Cassidy West, and I'm going to be leading this workshop. Today, we're going to be focusing on the two sections provided below. If you don't have access to these materials, which are posted online, please put your email in the chat and tyranny will follow up with an email so that you have these for the workshop. All right, I won't say that again. So with regards to the scope of the rulemaking, I just want to be very clear that we only want to make the changes that are necessary and relevant to be able to implement the statutory provisions that resulted from the bill. There are going to be things that are connected to this, but we really want to just make sure we're staying narrow in scope. And then, as with all of these meetings, that we want to get stakeholder engagement on and get your feedback, nothing that we're providing today is final. We want to get your feedback so that we can finalize a set of rules to be able to bring those to the board to do a CR one or two filing. So what that means as soon as we get a finalized draft here, we will ask the board to adopt the draft. And then at that point, the rules will become officially proposed. At that point, you'll also have a formal comment period where people can submit written comments, so you'll have another chance to weigh in. And there will also be a public hearing scheduled. We will have a final workshop on May 2, to review all of the changes to all of the sections that we've discussed during this during these workshops. And then from there, that's that's when we'll file this year one or two. So we'll give people a couple of weeks, actually until May 15. After we have sorry, let me back up. We have the workshop on May 2. And you can provide written comments in formal comments as well. It's technically the informal comment period. But you can provide those up until May 15. And then we plan on filing the CR 102 in June. So it'll take us a little bit of time it will incorporate those changes or feedback and then they will present the CR one or two to the board. Any questions about the just the process generally, or scope of the rulemaking before we go ahead and get started? Oh, just raise your hand if you have a question or comment. tyranny will unmute you. And with that, I will let folks raise their hand if they have any questions before We jump into the material
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05:08Cassidy West
I'm not seeing any hands. Okay, and so actually, so we're going to review just draft proposed rule changes to both of those sections, I'm going to walk through all of them. And then we'll have a little bit of a break so that everybody can just take a look yourself digest and then stretch your legs. And then we'll resume at 1110 and have a 40 minute discussion where we could, where we'll answer questions about some of the details about the changes, and then any discussion or feedback suggestions that you have. We'll also talk about that during that time as well. With that, I'll go ahead and move on to the changes.
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05:53Cassidy West
We'll start with the changes to WAC 314 55 109 Just because those changes are the it's less changes, they're not as substantive as the ones in the testing section. And just very straightforward for basically reflecting exactly what the statute says. So this is the form without track changes so that it's clean and easy to read. We can get you know, definitely will have a version with a track changes, but I just want you all to walk through this. I'll read it out loud and then we give you a second to to take it in yourself and then move on to the 102 section because there are there is overlap and you'll see it just the fact that Okay, so I'm just gonna read as provided in RCW 69-50-326, licensed cannabis producers and licensed cannabis processors may use cannabidiol products CBD products obtained from a source not licensed under this chapter, provided that the CB D product is not cannabis or a cannabis product. So those are those new definitions that are amended definitions, does not contain the presence of a synthetic cannabinoid, and has been tested for contaminants and toxins by testing laboratory accredited under this chapter and accordance with the testing standards, a tap established in this section. Licensed cannabis producers and processors may use a CBD product if they came from the source not licensed under the chapter for the purpose of enhancing the CBD concentration of any product authorized for production processing and sell under this chapter. However usable cannabis except for cannabis, uh, you know what, I'm gonna stop there, because the this hasn't changed. And I'm gonna highlight here, just the changes. So just summarize again, what was amended. So for this section, the only thing that we've done here different than the existing rules, as instead of having that the CBD, the THC concentration has to be less than 0.3%, that's been replaced to state that it cannot be the CBD product cannot be a cannabis or cannabis product, as defined in this as defined in statute. And this was to reflect those new definitions, which means that now, any product with a detectable amount of THC can be considered a cannabis product. I hope that wasn't confusing, but I'll stop there just to see if there's any questions for for clarity, and then we'll get feedback when we go through everything in a minute.
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09:03Cassidy West
Yeah, Shawn, I see your hand. You can go ahead.
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09:07Shawn DeNae Wagenseller
I guess this morning is a clarity statement. But I think this would be the place to appropriately include that this imported CBD product cannot be utilized to convert to any other cannabinoid. I think that would fit nicely here.
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