CA SB988

Permits terminally ill patients in specified health care facilities to use medicinal cannabis, excluding chemical dependency recovery hospitals, state hospitals, and emergency departments.

Prohibits smoking or vaping as methods to use medicinal cannabis and requires patients to provide valid medical marijuana identification or written physician documentation.

Requires patients or their primary caregivers to be responsible for acquiring, retrieving, administering, and removing medicinal cannabis; prohibits health care staff from administering or retrieving the product.

Mandates secure storage of medicinal cannabis in locked containers and requires removal of all remaining product upon patient discharge, with facility responsibility for disposal if patient cannot remove it.

Repealed requirement that facilities comply with other drug and medication requirements; makes compliance with this chapter voluntary and not a condition for obtaining or retaining facility licenses.