(a) Except as provided in RERACA and chapter 420b or 420f, (1) no person, other than a retailer, hybrid retailer, micro-cultivator or delivery service, or an employee thereof in the course of his or her employment, may sell or offer cannabis to a consumer, and (2) no person, other than a hybrid retailer, dispensary facility or a delivery service, or an employee thereof in the course of his or her employment, may sell or offer cannabis to qualifying patients and caregivers.

(b) No person except a delivery service, or an employee thereof, subject to the restrictions set forth in § 21a-420z, in the course of his or her employment may deliver cannabis to consumers, patients or caregivers except that retailers, hybrid retailers, micro-cultivators and dispensary facilities may utilize their own employees to deliver cannabis to the same individuals they may sell to pursuant to subsection (a) of this section until thirty days after the date the first five delivery service licensees have commenced public operation, which date shall be published by the commissioner on the department’s Internet web site, and thereafter all delivery to consumers, patients or caregivers shall be done through a delivery service licensee.