California Senate Bill 420 - Other Provisions of SB 420

Other Provisions of SB 420

In other provisions, SB 420:

• Recognizes the right of patients and caregivers to associate collectively or cooperatively to cultivate medical marijuana.
• Disallows marijuana smoking in no smoking zones, within 1,000 feet (300 m) of a school or youth center (except in private residences), on school buses, in a motor vehicle that is being operated, or while operating a boat.
• Protects patients and caregivers from arrest for transportation and other miscellaneous charges not covered in 215.
• Allows probationers, parolees, and prisoners to apply for permission to use medical marijuana; however, such permission may be refused at the discretion of the authorities.
• Makes it a crime to fraudulently provide misinformation to obtain a card, to steal or misuse the card of another, to counterfeit a card, or to breach the confidentiality of patient records in the card program.