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An official statement of position — OK Cannabis Directory
This page sets out, plainly and on the record, the legal basis on which OK Cannabis Directory operates. It is written for any attorney, regulator, official, or organization reviewing this site — and for the patients, dispensaries, and physicians who trust us. We operate lawfully, we know our rights, and we assert them.
What OK Cannabis Directory is
OK Cannabis Directory is an independent B2B online business directory and information platform for Oklahoma's medical marijuana community. We publish business listings — some compiled from public OMMA license records, some provided by the businesses themselves — along with the menus, deals, and reviews that OMMA-licensed dispensaries and licensed physicians choose to add. We let patients browse those listings and send a pickup order or reservation to the shop of their choice. That is the entire function of this service.
Just as importantly, here is what we are not, and what we do not do:
- We do not sell, stock, grow, process, possess, handle, transport, or ship cannabis or any cannabis product.
- We do not collect or process payment for cannabis. When a patient places a pickup order, the OMMA-licensed dispensary collects the payment and fulfills the order on its own premises, under its own license. Money for product never touches us.
- We are not a dispensary, grower, processor, or transporter, and we hold no such inventory — so no dispensary, cultivation, or processing license applies to what we do.
- We are an information and directory service. A pickup order placed through this site is a request routed to the shop; the licensed dispensary decides whether and how to fulfill it.
Participation is voluntary
No one is required to create an account on OK Cannabis Directory. Patients, dispensaries, and physicians who sign up all do so by their own choice. A dispensary's free basic listing may be compiled from public OMMA license records so patients can find it, but managing that listing — claiming it, adding a menu, posting deals — is a voluntary choice, and a business that prefers not to be listed can contact us. A patient who wants to browse dispensaries or place a pickup order chooses to do so; a physician who wants a profile chooses to build one. Beyond information drawn from public licensing records, nobody is compelled to upload anything or to use the service.
We protect our users’ privacy
We treat the privacy of everyone who uses this site — patients, dispensary owners, and physicians — as a top priority, and we intend to protect it at all costs, within the bounds of the law. We collect only what is needed to operate the directory, we do not sell user data, and we do not hand a user's personal information to any agency, organization, or third party absent a valid, legally binding demand — a lawful subpoena, warrant, or court order.
Where the law genuinely compels disclosure, we comply, as any lawful operator must. Short of that, we protect our users' information to the fullest extent the law allows, and we do not volunteer it. Privacy questions can be sent through our contact page.
The law on our side
Our right to operate this directory rests on established Oklahoma statute, federal statute, binding case law, and the United States Constitution. These are not interpretations we invented — each authority is cited and linked below so anyone can read it directly.
Medical marijuana is legal in Oklahoma.
State Question 788 (2018) · Oklahoma Medical Marijuana and Patient Protection Act, 63 O.S. §§ 427.1–427.23 · OMMA rules, OAC Title 442
Oklahoma voters legalized medical marijuana in 2018, and the Legislature built the regulatory framework around it. Every shop in this directory is licensed by the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority (OMMA). The commerce we publish information about is fully lawful under Oklahoma law.
We are a platform — not the publisher of our users’ content.
Communications Decency Act, 47 U.S.C. § 230
Federal law protects interactive computer services from being treated as the publisher or speaker of content provided by their users. The menus, deals, descriptions, and patient reviews on this site are third-party content, provided by the dispensaries, physicians, and patients themselves — not statements authored by OK Cannabis Directory. Baseline business listings reflect public OMMA license records.
Truthful information about lawful activity is protected speech.
U.S. Const. amend. I · Central Hudson Gas & Elec. Corp. v. Pub. Serv. Comm’n, 447 U.S. 557 (1980)
Truthful, non-misleading commercial speech about lawful activity is protected by the First Amendment. Publishing accurate information about state-licensed Oklahoma businesses — who they are, where they are, and what they offer — is constitutionally protected expression.
Federal prosecutors cannot spend funds to attack state medical marijuana.
Rohrabacher–Farr / Joyce Amendment (annual federal appropriations rider) · United States v. McIntosh, 833 F.3d 1163 (9th Cir. 2016)
Every year since 2014, Congress has barred the U.S. Department of Justice from using appropriated funds to prevent states from implementing their medical marijuana laws. Federal courts enforce this protection for conduct that complies with state medical marijuana law.
An honest note on federal law
We will not overstate our position, because we don't need to. Cannabis remains a Schedule I controlled substance under the federal Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. §§ 801, 812). That fact does not change what we do: we do not manufacture, distribute, dispense, or possess cannabis, and we do not process payments for it. We provide directory and information services about businesses that are licensed and lawful under Oklahoma law — activity protected by Section 230, the First Amendment, and the federal appropriations protections cited above. The distinction between handling a controlled substance and publishing truthful information about a state-licensed business is exactly the distinction the law draws, and it is the side of the line we operate on.
Our position on intimidation
We respect the law and we follow it. OK Cannabis Directory will respond to valid, properly served legal process — a lawful subpoena, warrant, or court order — exactly as any responsible business does.
What we will not do is yield to intimidation, pressure, or threats that have no legal foundation. Lawful operators are sometimes leaned on with informal demands in the hope they will simply fold. We will not. We know precisely what this service is, the law that protects it, and the line we do not cross — and we will continue to operate, fully and openly, within our rights. Any party with a genuine legal concern is invited to put it in writing through the proper channel below; we take legitimate legal matters seriously and will engage with them on the law.
For agencies, attorneys, and officials
If you represent an agency, law firm, or organization with a legitimate legal matter regarding this site, contact us at okcannabisdirectory@gmail.com or through our contact page. We respond to valid legal process and to good-faith correspondence. For background on who we are and how the directory works, see About OK Cannabis Directory and our overview of how the directory works.
Sources & citations
- 47 U.S.C. § 230 — Communications Decency Act (interactive computer services), Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School.
- Central Hudson Gas & Elec. Corp. v. Public Service Commission, 447 U.S. 557 (1980) — U.S. Supreme Court, commercial-speech test.
- Oklahoma Medical Marijuana and Patient Protection Act, 63 O.S. § 427.1 et seq. — Oklahoma Statutes, Title 63 (the 2019 "Unity Bill" implementing State Question 788).
- Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority (OMMA) — state licensing agency; rules at OAC Title 442.
- United States v. McIntosh, 833 F.3d 1163 (9th Cir. 2016) — applying the Rohrabacher–Farr / Joyce appropriations rider against DOJ interference with state medical marijuana.
- Controlled Substances Act, 21 U.S.C. §§ 801, 812 — federal scheduling, cited for completeness.
This page is OK Cannabis Directory's statement of its operating position and a summary of the legal authorities on which it relies. It is general information, not legal advice, and it does not create an attorney–client relationship. The cited statutes, rules, and decisions speak for themselves.