arnold layne
11-17-2005, 04:57 PM
this is as current as i could find.
Guidelines adopted by Cities
City of Arcata
Ordinance: ID card system maintained by Chief of Police. 10 plants + 2 # dried.
City of Berkeley
Ordinance: up to 10 plants and 2.5 lbs per patient; collectives up to 50 plants and 12.5 lbs total at any given time.
Caregiver amounts calculated on the above numbers per patient served.
City of Oakland
Ordinance: Up to 72 plants with up to 32 square feet of canopy and 2.5 # dried. Caregiver amounts calculated on the above numbers per patient served.
Effective June 1, 2004: Collectives not to exceed three patient members. Only four licensed dispensaries to be allowed by the City. Dispensaries limited to 8 ounces and 6 mature plus 12 immature plants per patient member at any given time. No on-site consumption allowed.
Original policy: Outdoors - 30 mature plants (60 if less than 30 are flowering); Indoors - 48 mature plants (+ 96 immature non-flowering) and/or 1.5 # or 6 # (if patient grew).
City of San Diego
Still in development: Current version 9/17/03: Adult marijuana patients with the approval of a San Diego County doctor may keep up to 1 pound of marijuana and grow up to 24 plants. Under the measure, caregivers can keep up to 2 pounds of marijuana and grow up to 48 plants for as many as four patients.The ordinance must come back for a final vote, as a procedural matter, to be enacted.
City of San Jose
No quantity limits are established. Officers will not cite or arrest physicians, primary caregivers, or patients possessing or using marijuana for legitimate medicinal purposes in accordance with 11362.5 H&S. Standards of reasonableness in deciding enforcement issues are similar to those in needle or drug possession cases where a prescription is claimed or in a gun possession case where a permit is claimed. It should be kept in mind that mere oral approval by the physician is all that is necessary to comply with the law. Standards of probable cause for a vehicle search, person search, arrest, or a search warrant request should take into account known facts regarding the permitted uses of marijuana under Proposition 215.
City of Santa Cruz
No quantity guidelines; city ordinance regulates cannabis clubs, allows physician's diagnosis for recommendation.
City of Santa Rosa
Ordinance: Safe Access Guidelines, same as the County of Sonoma. For more information, contact Sonoma Alliance for Medical Marijuana.
City of Sebastopol
Ordinance: Safe Access Guidelines, same as the County of Sonoma. For more information, contact Sonoma Alliance for Medical Marijuana; letter to DA asks to protect patients with 4.5# and 150 square feet of garden canopy.
Guidelines Adopted in Various Counties
Alameda: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Alpine: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Amador: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Butte Co. Sheriff and DA jointly stipulate: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants and one pound of processed. (Formerly 6 plants at any stage)
Calaveras Co. Board of Supervisors ordinance: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants and 2#.
Colusa Co. No firm policy; case by case review; 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud OR 1.5 # processed. (Formerly 2 plants outdoors or 4 plants indoors)
Contra Costa: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Del Norte Co. County Resolution 2002-029, adopted April 2002. Up to 100 square feet with no more than 99 plants and up to 1# dried bud.
El Dorado: Outdoors: 20 plants March 1 through July 31; 10 plants through October (end of season) and 2 # bud from 9/1 to 2/28; 1 # from 3/1 to 8/31. Indoors: 10 vegetative plants, 1 mother plant, 10 flowering plants and1 # bud per patient. Formerly 6 plants and / or 2 pounds processed. Caregivers can take care of household plus three outside patients. Visit police webpage that explains the full policy
Fresno: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Glenn: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Humboldt: County Board of Supervisors as a PDF file (220k) approved taskforce proposal of three pounds of bud or conversion plus 100 square feet of garden canopy, no limit on plant numbers or lamp wattage. Caregiver amounts calculated per patient served.
Original DA policy: Up to 99 plants with up to 100 square feet of canopy and up to 3# of bud. Indoor gardens limited to 1500 watts total illumination.
Imperial: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Inyo: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Kern: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud.
Lake: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Lassen: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Los Angeles: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Madera: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Marin: No limit on amounts, county ID cards honored by all law enforcement.
Formerly: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud (lowest in the state and apparent basis for HS11362.77).
Mariposa: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Mendocino: Sheriff and DA policy based on Voter Proposition G: 25 plants with up to 100 square feet of canopy and 2# bud. In August, 2004, the DA announced that the county will no longer enforce plant limits, only square footage.
Merced: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Modoc: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Mono: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Monterey: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Napa: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Nevada: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud OR10 plants OR 2# bud.
Orange: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Placer: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Plumas: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Riverside: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Sacramento: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
San Benito: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
San Bernardino: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
San Diego: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
San Francisco: the number of marijuana plants that clubs, patients or their caregivers could grow will be restricted to 24, down from 99.
Ordinance: ID cards issued by county Health Department; no patient guidelines. Case by case consideration, generally contingent on police claims of indicia of illegal sales or diversion to non-medical market.
San Joaquin: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
San Luis Obispo: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
San Mateo: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Santa Barbara: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Santa Clara: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Santa Cruz: Board of Supervisors PDF file (188k) approved physician's taskforce proposal of three pounds of bud or conversion plus 100 square feet of garden canopy, no limit on plant numbers or lamp wattage.
Shasta: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud OR 1.33# processed. Formerly: Sheriff, DA and local police chiefs: 2 plants outdoors or 6 plants indoors (3 flowering/3 vegetative)
Sierra: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud OR quantity approved by physician Formerly: 3 plants outdoors OR 6 plants indoors .
Siskiyou: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Solano: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Sonoma: County policy: Up to 25 (formerly 99) plants with up to100 square feet of garden canopy and up to 3# of bud.
The guidelines were adopted by the Sonoma County Law Enforcement Chiefs Association, which includes the DA, Sheriff, and police chiefs from several towns and cities in the county. The guidelines were later ratified by the Santa Rosa and Sebastopol city councils. Protocol to review recommendations through Sonoma Medial Association. Caregiver amounts calculated per patient served. Physician's approval if more is needed. For more information contact Sonoma Alliance for Medical Marijuana.
Stanislaus: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Sutter: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Tehama: Sheriff policy (DA did not sign on): 18 immature plants OR 6 mature plants, and up to 3# processed.
Trinity: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Tulare: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Tuolumne: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud AND 8 ounces of bud. Formerly Up to three plants and 8 ounces. These are the guidelines that were rejected by the California Supreme Court in the Mower decision.
Ventura: Sheriff and DA policy: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud OR 1# dry bud or conversion. County Supervisors taking matter into review. Formerly 6 plants - 3 mature/ 3 immature
Yolo: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Yuba: Informal policy: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud OR 1.5# processed marijuana. Formerly 5 plants.
State Guidelines Under SB 420 (Health & Safety Code 11362.7)
H&SC 11362.77(a). A qualified patient or primary caregiver may possess no more than eight ounces of dried marijuana per qualified patient. In addition, a qualified patient or primary caregiver may also maintain no more than sisx mature or 12 immature marijuana plants per qualified patient.
H &SC 11362.77 (b) If a qualified patient or primary caregiver has a doctor's recommendation that this quantity does not meed the qualified patient's medical needs, the qualified patient or primary caregiver may possess an amount of marijuana consistent with the patient's needs.
H&SC 11362.77 (c) Counties and cities may retian or enact medical marijuana guidelines allowing qualifieid patients or primary caregivers to exceed the state liits set forth in subdivision (a).
H&SC 11362.77 (d) Only the dried mature processed flowers of female cannabis plant or the plant conversion shall be considered when determining allowable quantities of marijuana under this section.
Guidelines adopted by Cities
City of Arcata
Ordinance: ID card system maintained by Chief of Police. 10 plants + 2 # dried.
City of Berkeley
Ordinance: up to 10 plants and 2.5 lbs per patient; collectives up to 50 plants and 12.5 lbs total at any given time.
Caregiver amounts calculated on the above numbers per patient served.
City of Oakland
Ordinance: Up to 72 plants with up to 32 square feet of canopy and 2.5 # dried. Caregiver amounts calculated on the above numbers per patient served.
Effective June 1, 2004: Collectives not to exceed three patient members. Only four licensed dispensaries to be allowed by the City. Dispensaries limited to 8 ounces and 6 mature plus 12 immature plants per patient member at any given time. No on-site consumption allowed.
Original policy: Outdoors - 30 mature plants (60 if less than 30 are flowering); Indoors - 48 mature plants (+ 96 immature non-flowering) and/or 1.5 # or 6 # (if patient grew).
City of San Diego
Still in development: Current version 9/17/03: Adult marijuana patients with the approval of a San Diego County doctor may keep up to 1 pound of marijuana and grow up to 24 plants. Under the measure, caregivers can keep up to 2 pounds of marijuana and grow up to 48 plants for as many as four patients.The ordinance must come back for a final vote, as a procedural matter, to be enacted.
City of San Jose
No quantity limits are established. Officers will not cite or arrest physicians, primary caregivers, or patients possessing or using marijuana for legitimate medicinal purposes in accordance with 11362.5 H&S. Standards of reasonableness in deciding enforcement issues are similar to those in needle or drug possession cases where a prescription is claimed or in a gun possession case where a permit is claimed. It should be kept in mind that mere oral approval by the physician is all that is necessary to comply with the law. Standards of probable cause for a vehicle search, person search, arrest, or a search warrant request should take into account known facts regarding the permitted uses of marijuana under Proposition 215.
City of Santa Cruz
No quantity guidelines; city ordinance regulates cannabis clubs, allows physician's diagnosis for recommendation.
City of Santa Rosa
Ordinance: Safe Access Guidelines, same as the County of Sonoma. For more information, contact Sonoma Alliance for Medical Marijuana.
City of Sebastopol
Ordinance: Safe Access Guidelines, same as the County of Sonoma. For more information, contact Sonoma Alliance for Medical Marijuana; letter to DA asks to protect patients with 4.5# and 150 square feet of garden canopy.
Guidelines Adopted in Various Counties
Alameda: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Alpine: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Amador: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Butte Co. Sheriff and DA jointly stipulate: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants and one pound of processed. (Formerly 6 plants at any stage)
Calaveras Co. Board of Supervisors ordinance: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants and 2#.
Colusa Co. No firm policy; case by case review; 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud OR 1.5 # processed. (Formerly 2 plants outdoors or 4 plants indoors)
Contra Costa: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Del Norte Co. County Resolution 2002-029, adopted April 2002. Up to 100 square feet with no more than 99 plants and up to 1# dried bud.
El Dorado: Outdoors: 20 plants March 1 through July 31; 10 plants through October (end of season) and 2 # bud from 9/1 to 2/28; 1 # from 3/1 to 8/31. Indoors: 10 vegetative plants, 1 mother plant, 10 flowering plants and1 # bud per patient. Formerly 6 plants and / or 2 pounds processed. Caregivers can take care of household plus three outside patients. Visit police webpage that explains the full policy
Fresno: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Glenn: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Humboldt: County Board of Supervisors as a PDF file (220k) approved taskforce proposal of three pounds of bud or conversion plus 100 square feet of garden canopy, no limit on plant numbers or lamp wattage. Caregiver amounts calculated per patient served.
Original DA policy: Up to 99 plants with up to 100 square feet of canopy and up to 3# of bud. Indoor gardens limited to 1500 watts total illumination.
Imperial: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Inyo: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Kern: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud.
Lake: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Lassen: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Los Angeles: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Madera: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Marin: No limit on amounts, county ID cards honored by all law enforcement.
Formerly: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud (lowest in the state and apparent basis for HS11362.77).
Mariposa: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Mendocino: Sheriff and DA policy based on Voter Proposition G: 25 plants with up to 100 square feet of canopy and 2# bud. In August, 2004, the DA announced that the county will no longer enforce plant limits, only square footage.
Merced: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Modoc: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Mono: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Monterey: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Napa: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Nevada: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud OR10 plants OR 2# bud.
Orange: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Placer: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Plumas: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Riverside: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Sacramento: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
San Benito: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
San Bernardino: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
San Diego: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
San Francisco: the number of marijuana plants that clubs, patients or their caregivers could grow will be restricted to 24, down from 99.
Ordinance: ID cards issued by county Health Department; no patient guidelines. Case by case consideration, generally contingent on police claims of indicia of illegal sales or diversion to non-medical market.
San Joaquin: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
San Luis Obispo: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
San Mateo: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Santa Barbara: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Santa Clara: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Santa Cruz: Board of Supervisors PDF file (188k) approved physician's taskforce proposal of three pounds of bud or conversion plus 100 square feet of garden canopy, no limit on plant numbers or lamp wattage.
Shasta: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud OR 1.33# processed. Formerly: Sheriff, DA and local police chiefs: 2 plants outdoors or 6 plants indoors (3 flowering/3 vegetative)
Sierra: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud OR quantity approved by physician Formerly: 3 plants outdoors OR 6 plants indoors .
Siskiyou: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Solano: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Sonoma: County policy: Up to 25 (formerly 99) plants with up to100 square feet of garden canopy and up to 3# of bud.
The guidelines were adopted by the Sonoma County Law Enforcement Chiefs Association, which includes the DA, Sheriff, and police chiefs from several towns and cities in the county. The guidelines were later ratified by the Santa Rosa and Sebastopol city councils. Protocol to review recommendations through Sonoma Medial Association. Caregiver amounts calculated per patient served. Physician's approval if more is needed. For more information contact Sonoma Alliance for Medical Marijuana.
Stanislaus: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Sutter: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Tehama: Sheriff policy (DA did not sign on): 18 immature plants OR 6 mature plants, and up to 3# processed.
Trinity: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Tulare: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Tuolumne: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud AND 8 ounces of bud. Formerly Up to three plants and 8 ounces. These are the guidelines that were rejected by the California Supreme Court in the Mower decision.
Ventura: Sheriff and DA policy: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud OR 1# dry bud or conversion. County Supervisors taking matter into review. Formerly 6 plants - 3 mature/ 3 immature
Yolo: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud
Yuba: Informal policy: 6 mature plants OR 12 immature plants AND 8 ounces of bud OR 1.5# processed marijuana. Formerly 5 plants.
State Guidelines Under SB 420 (Health & Safety Code 11362.7)
H&SC 11362.77(a). A qualified patient or primary caregiver may possess no more than eight ounces of dried marijuana per qualified patient. In addition, a qualified patient or primary caregiver may also maintain no more than sisx mature or 12 immature marijuana plants per qualified patient.
H &SC 11362.77 (b) If a qualified patient or primary caregiver has a doctor's recommendation that this quantity does not meed the qualified patient's medical needs, the qualified patient or primary caregiver may possess an amount of marijuana consistent with the patient's needs.
H&SC 11362.77 (c) Counties and cities may retian or enact medical marijuana guidelines allowing qualifieid patients or primary caregivers to exceed the state liits set forth in subdivision (a).
H&SC 11362.77 (d) Only the dried mature processed flowers of female cannabis plant or the plant conversion shall be considered when determining allowable quantities of marijuana under this section.