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179.15 – Criminal retention of medical marihuana

* § 179.15 Criminal retention of medical marihuana.

A person is guilty of criminal retention of medical marihuana when,
being a certified patient or designated caregiver, as those terms are
defined in subdivisions three and five of section thirty-three hundred
sixty of the public health law, respectively, he or she knowingly
obtains, possesses, stores or maintains an amount of marihuana in excess
of the amount he or she is authorized to possess under the provisions of
title five-A of article thirty-three of the public health law.

Criminal retention of medical marihuana is a class A misdemeanor.
* NB Repealed July 5, 2021

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