Criminal retention of medical cannabis · as in force on May 31, 2026
* § 179.15 Criminal retention of medical cannabis.
A person is guilty of criminal retention of medical cannabis when, being a certified patient or designated caregiver, as those terms are defined in section three of the cannabis law, he or she knowingly obtains, possesses, stores or maintains an amount of cannabis in excess of the amount he or she is authorized to possess under the provisions of article three of the cannabis law.
Criminal retention of medical cannabis shall be punishable as provided in section 222.25 of this chapter.
* NB Repealed July 5, 2028
A certified patient or designated caregiver commits criminal retention of medical cannabis by knowingly obtaining, possessing, storing, or maintaining more cannabis than article 3 of the Cannabis Law authorizes that person to possess. ★ The offense is punished as provided in § 222.25. This section is repealed July 5, 2028.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.