30 Facts About Arizona’s New Medical Marijuana Law
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November 15, 2010
The votes are counted and Arizona’s Prop 203 – the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act – has passed by a margin of 4,341 votes (841,346 YES, 837,005 NO). We’re receiving many calls and emails from people interested in the details of the new law. Here are the highlights of the measure:- The allowable amount of marijuana for patients and caregivers is 2.5 ounces.
- IF a patient or caregiver is allowed to cultivate, the limit is 12 plants that must be grown in an “enclosed, locked facility”, defined as “closet, room, greenhouse, or other enclosed area”.
- Qualifying conditions: cancer, glaucoma, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C, ALS (Lou Gehrig’s), Crohn’s, Alzheimer’s, cachexia or wasting syndrome, severe and chronic pain, severe nausea, seizures (like epilespy), and severe and persistent spasms (like multiple sclerosis).
- Caregivers must be 21 years old and pass criminal background check for certain felonies.
- Caregivers can serve no more than five patients, must keep a card for each one
- Caregivers may receive reimbursement for actual expenses – not labor – from their own patients only.
- Patients’ and Caregivers’ medical marijuana cards last for one year and will contain their photo, name, address, birthdate, and indication whether medical marijuana is allowed to be cultivated at home.
- If the state has not issued a card within 45 days, a copy of the application shall have the same force as the card.
- Patients and caregivers must submit fingerprints to law enforcement and sign a statement that they will not divert marijuana to non-patients.
- Patients and caregivers may share marijuana with other patients for free, as long as they don’t knowingly cause the patient to exceed 2.5 ounces.
- Non-profit medical marijuana dispensaries are allowed.
- A patient who lives within 25 miles of a dispensary may not cultivate their own medical marijuana.
- Patients and caregivers may not possess medical marijuana on a school bus, school, or correctional facility.
- Patients may not smoke marijuana on public transportation or in any public place.
- Patients may not drive under the influence of marijuana; however, marijuana metabolites shall not be proof of impairment.
- Fees for non-profit dispensaries shall not be greater than $5,000 or $1,000 for a renewal license.
- Dispensaries must cultivate their own medical marijuana, which they can do onsite or at one separate physical address
- Patients and Caregivers may give marijuana to dispensaries, but not for any compensation.
- Neither the dispensary nor the cultivation address may be within 500 feet of a school.
- There can be no more than one dispensary for every ten pharmacies, except that there can be at least one dispensary in every county.
- The cards or recommendations for visiting patients from other medical marijuana states will be recognized in Arizona, but they may not shop at the dispensaries.
- Patients in assisted care facilities can be limited to non-smoking methods of use and only in certain areas; however, such facilities are not required to enact these limitations.
- Dispensaries must have a single secure entrance, a strong security system, and no medicating is allowed on the premises.
- Dispensaries must track patients’ acquisitions to ensure they receive no more than 2.5 ounces from any dispensaries within a fourteen day period.
- There shall be a secure, web-based confirmation system accessible by law enforcement and dispensaries, that reveals patients’ and caregivers’ names but not addresses and how much marijuana the patient received from all dispensaries in the past sixty days.
- Non-patients cannot be punished for being the vicinity of lawful medical marijuana use by patients or providing paraphernalia to patients.
- Schools and landlords cannot discriminate against medical marijuana patients and caregivers, unless they are subject to federal penalty.
- Employers cannot discriminate against patients and caregivers and a positive test for marijuana metabolites is not cause for disciplining or terminating a patient.
- Medical facilities and treatments, including organ transplants, cannot be denied to patients for their medical marijuana use.
- Parental rights of patients cannot be denied solely for their medical marijuana use.
The full text of the measure can be found at http://stash.norml.org/azmedmj
148 Responses to “30 Facts About Arizona’s New Medical Marijuana Law”
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Has this site died off? Anyone out there?
A Rockwell: I don’t know about Stedman. But read the rules or contact AZ DHS.
These laws suck!
DO u think the law alows for someone with a SMI let’s say bi-polar to get a perscription on the basis that it helps them maintain healthy sleeping habbits vital to their sainity?
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MY WIFE HAS CANCER AND HAS HAD HER ONE BREAST REMOVED.
EVEN AFTER SIX MONTHS SHE STILL HAS SEVERE PAIN AND HER DOCTOR HAS CUT HER OFF THE VERY DANGEROUS AND ADDICTIVE PAIN MEDICATION FEARING THAT SHE WILL BECOME TOO DEPENDENT ON THEM.I AM SO GLAD THAT THIS LAW HAS PASSED AND WILL HELP HER AND MANY OTHERS.IT MIGHT EVEN SLOW DOWN ANY CANCER CELLS SHE MAY STILL HAVE AND I HOPE IT PUTS THOSE EVIL DRUG CARTELS IN MEXICO OUT OF BUSINESS.THANK YOU THANK YOU
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I got a question about the AZ law. they say a patient cannot cultivate if they live within 25 miles of a despensary. well where are the despensaries going to be located? This state has set this whole prop up to wax and tax it all. So you can getr a card here, but after you spend all the time and money for your grow settup, the state is going to open a despensary up by you.. FUCK AZ and the whole MF government fo real
It seems very restrictive and self-incriminating but it’s better then what AZ had before. I think.
how will the dispensaries get meds if no one can grow? In Michigan the rules are tight but nowhere near this tight.. FINGER PRINTS? THATS A little far. In all congrats. maybe it will relax in acouple months
#9 on your 30 facts is not true.I have been a card holder since 4/28/11,and not at the time I got my card or since,have I ever been asked for my fingerprints.
I got my card on 4/28/11,and have never been asked for my fingerprins.That applies to cairgivers.
You mean that if I grow extra and go over my 2.5 oz.per 14 days, I can GIVE it to a dispensery but they in turn can SELL it. Whats up with that?
I live in Tucson Az and I have my MM Physician Certification and Iam aplying for my card with the health dept.On July 1st. Is there a store to get it within 25 miles of 85705?
whatis a caregiver is that the doctor that I got my certification from and because most doctors don’t want anything to do with M.M. I had a hard time finding a Doctor to get my certification. but I got it and now Iam having troble trying to grow the pot so Iam woundering if it is all worth it because Ive been smoking for years and never had any problems. I do qualfy but like It has cost me more than i think its not worth it. It should be legal just like alcoeall
i definatly like the way we are protected from job and other discrimination but why cant i smoke a joint outside? i dont agree with that at all.i think we should have same rights as tobaco smokers but at least its a start.also im reading about fingerprints being needed but i just recieved card and never did that.do i need to go back and get that done?i just dont wanna get into any trouble for not doing it.
i almost forgot.in response to any of you that are having trouble finding a good doctor.i really like mine was very understanding.3816 East 5th Street
Tucson, AZ 85716
and to those of you wondering were dispensories are we have none and will not for at least a year but i think we will get there and in mean time us all being able to trade is very cool!anyone not aware of this it means you are ablee to trade marijuanna with someone else who cultivates as long as both parties have a card an neither will be exceding 2 and a half ounce limit
I was stopped for a mechanical violation and the cop smelled marijuana coming from my medicine, I was not smoking it, and was arrested and charged with intent to distribute because I had 2 different strains in different containers. The cop said those papers and cards meant nothing to him. I think the state is trying to use me as an example. I had under an ounce. Any suggestions? Will NORML help me?
what area were you in swgreen?ive heard in gilbert the cops do that but no were else yet.i think some cops are just plain soar loosers and dont wanna have to bust crack heads and other dangerous criminals.they would rather mess with us because we arent crazy.i suggest you get better sealed jars or something and of course its good you dont smoke in car.or use a good spray like ozium.i know we should be able to do what we want but still have to be cautious of these “renegade cops” as they have been called.even though i would think the chief at their pd would have to give the ok so how is that a renagade?anyhow dont get too discuraged.oh by the way did they take your card?ive heard they do and dont know why as can just get another one.just another way to make us pay $.keep the faith all those out there that are frustrated.i understand but i truly believe that they cant ignore us forever.
Andrew Meyers is a flaming douche bag because:
1. Growing patients and caregivers can’t be reimbursed fort heir time or expenses at all for producing medicine.
2. the dispensaries 50 mile wide monopoly wipes out the opportunity for any middle class Arizonans to participate in this, the only thriving industry in this terrible economy!
3. The ONLY ones who will benefit from this law passing are the uber rich out of state ass jockies who invested in getting this passed and were intended all along to get every last dispensary license! The struggling middle class that live HERE that is just barely hanging on by a thread have been intentionally thrown under the bus by design!!!
Why else would the monopolies AKA dispensaries have a blacked out commercial zone, that’s unethical and very likely racketeering! Why else would the handful of growing caregivers and patients who are willing to move off the known map to escape these “rings of death” not be reasonably and ethically allowed to receive even FAIR compensation for their time and expenses of producing natural medicine??? This law was designed first and foremost to profit the ones who constructed it, providing safe access to a remarkable and beneficial plant to sick and dying was just a smoke screen!
203 was a sham, and not the sham the dogmatic prohibitionists fools thought, but the scam designed by greedy and corrupt dirt bags that couldn’t care less whether cancer patients get relief! Their goal is to get every pot head legal and cash in on ever last one of them!
I’m educated and intelligent so I realize that cannabis is a safer and more responsible recreational drug than alcohol, pharmaceuticals, or black market products, but until every last legit patient who is genuinely suffering has safe access to this truly remarkable natural medicine so it can improve the quality of their lives, I can’t even think about making time to get passionate about making it legal for people to “enjoy”.
I’ve witnessed medical cannabis improve the quality of life for people that are dying and truly suffering beyond what most of us has ever had to endure. Anyone that says that cannabis is not medicine or that their are alternatives that can replace it is a fool and a liar! Anyone who truly understands 203 does not want one dispensary to ever open here, but instead wants safe access through the co-ops and compassion clubs! We Arizonans have voted FOR medical Marijuana 3 times now, sit down and shut up and let us have the plant that God created to help us!
“truthbetold” you sound bitter.if you were really consearned with being a “caregiver” you would not care about money.money is way less important than this!i have a card of my own and actually am going to get more than im allowed or need for that matter so im going to give to patients that are in need.im not trying to say you dont care but its only money man.and if you are a designated caregiver to someone im assuming its someone you must know and care about their health and comfort.It will get better, at least they finnaly let it pass because as you said this is 3rd time.and the dispensories rules will change many times before we get any and by then hopefully will be more like california
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Thank you all………greensmoke electronic cigarettes are the next best thing…….some nicotine yes…….not like a real cigarette.
to this TruthBeTold god did not create the budda,,he couldt have it is bad or human kind i love weed i smoke it every day but
again we are not suppose to consume the great budda it sucks i know get over it…..TruthBeTold….look to the stars my freind
its arizona people. what do u expect
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