Cultivator: Cultivator licensees may grow cannabis plants, either outdoors, indoors, or a mix of indoors and outdoors.
Cultivators may also dry cannabis, package it, create pre-rolls out of flower and/or trim, and sell it to other cannabis establishments. They may produce clones for sale to other licensees, including licensed retail establishments.
Cultivators may not conduct any extraction, including mechanical extraction. Mechanical extraction means extraction by means of mechanical or manual sifting and pressing as approved by the Board.
Cultivators may transfer cannabis to licensed product manufacturers for processing into cannabis products and re-possess their manufactured cannabis product to sell to other licensees.
Manufacturer: Manufacturer licensees may create products from cannabis plants; including edibles, oils, tinctures, and other such products.
There are tiers of manufacturing licenses depending on the types of extraction methods used and amount sold.
Tier 3 manufacturers may use any lawful method of extraction, including supercritical CO2 extraction, flammable solvent chemical extraction, and flammable solvent chemical synthesis.
Tier 1 and 2 manufacturers may use the following extraction methods:
- Mechanical Extraction: extraction by means of mechanical of manual sifting and pressing as approved by the Board.
- Water-Based Extraction: extraction using only water, ice, or other freezing substrate or process as approved by the Board
- Food-Based Extraction: extraction using propylene glycol, glycerin, butter, coconut or olive oil, other typical cooking fats, or alcohol as approved by the Board.
- Heat/Pressure-Based Extraction: extraction using heat and/or pressure as approved by the Board.
Manufacturers can package their products and sell them to other cannabis establishments. They may not sell to the general public.
Retailer: Retailer licensees may purchase cannabis and cannabis products from other licensees, and they may package and sell cannabis and cannabis products to the general public.
Only retailer licensees and the retail portion of integrated licensees may sell to the general public.
Wholesaler: Wholesaler licensees may purchase cannabis and cannabis products from other licensees and sell them to licensees.
They may package cannabis and cannabis products and may create pre-rolls out of flower and/or trim.
They may not sell to the general public.
Testing Lab: Testing Laboratory licensees test cannabis and cannabis products obtained from a licensed cannabis establishment, dispensary, or a member of the public.
All cannabis and cannabis products sold must be tested in accordance with Board Rules.
Testing laboratories test for product potency and purity across a variety of metrics. They may not sell cannabis to the general public or to other licensees.
Integrated Licenses: Integrated Licensees may engage in the activities of each of the license types: cultivation, manufacturing, wholesale, testing, and retail.
These licenses are only available to an applicant and its affiliates that hold a medical cannabis program dispensary registration on April 1, 2022.