Criminal diversion of medical cannabis in the second degree · as in force on May 31, 2026
* § 179.11 Criminal diversion of medical cannabis in the second degree.
A person is guilty of criminal diversion of medical cannabis in the second degree when he or she sells, trades, delivers, or otherwise provides medical cannabis to another with knowledge or reasonable grounds to know that the recipient is not registered under article three of the cannabis law.
Criminal diversion of medical cannabis in the second degree is a class B misdemeanor.
* NB Repealed July 5, 2028
A person commits second-degree criminal diversion of medical cannabis by selling, trading, delivering, or otherwise providing medical cannabis to someone, while knowing or having reasonable grounds to know that the recipient is not registered under article 3 of the Cannabis Law. ★ It is a class B misdemeanor. This section is repealed July 5, 2028.
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 4 — The Court Clerk: Penal Law; Volume 1 — The Court Officer in Plain English; Volume 3 — The Court Officer: Penal Law; Volume 3 — Your Career: Penal Law in Plain English.