[trichrider]

An Arizona judge has told the state's government to get out of the way and let people have the medical marijuana dispensaries they voted for in 2010. The judge ordered Gov. Jan Brewer, a consistent opponent of medical marijuana, to fully implement the law and allow dispensaries to open, reports the Wall Street Journal. He also struck down restrictions requiring dispensary operators to be state residents with no history of bankruptcy or "government debts" like unpaid taxes or outstanding parking tickets.
The medical marijuana law had been stuck in legal limbo while Brewer sought assurances that state employees would not be prosecuted under federal law. "The court is not unmindful of the state's dilemma; it is caught between the proverbial rock and hard place," the judge wrote. But "the voters intended [the law] to be implemented within 120 days. This has not been done." The Arizona law allows up to 126 dispensaries in the state.

https://www.newser.com/story/137897/a...ana-sales.html

this is a nice change from the usual BS!

Nice post! & Good Read!

[castout]

Now, let's get the feds on board!!!!

[itisme]

Its good to know that the fake help can't be everywhere....Great job Judge, way to protect your citizens!

[Madjag]

Now if we can just get the "25 Mile" rule to change so that people have the option to grow if they do not want to buy from a dispensary.

[Maj.PotHead]

GJ AZ now Nevada needs the same judge or judges to slap our state's government to get out of the way and let people have the medical marijuana dispensaries We Voted For in 1998 and Ratified it into law in 2000. where supposed to have in a timely manner after ratifing MMJ into law in 2000 despensaries. some place safe taxed and controled but NOOOOOOOO any that do operate here are illegal under stae law because none where passed to allow them yet.

[DoobieDuck]

Trich thanks so for posting, news i like hearing for sure. DD

[RaNgEr RiCk]

Michigan could use a judge like this.

[Madjag]

The 25-Mile Rule favors the wealthy and is very biased at increasing Arizona's tax revenues over the needs of MM patients. If a person who truly needs Medical Marijuana is poor, they can grow their own medicine extremely reasonably. How could they possibly afford $250-$400 / ounce dispensary prices if they are using an ounce weekly for their pain protocol? By putting seeds into the ground and cultivating their own marijuana they can easily grow enough medical marijuana to last them all year with the 12 plants that they are allowed to grow.

This points out another huge grey area in Arizona's Medical Marijuana law: a qualifying patient is allowed to have 2 1/2 ounces every two weeks as a maximum amount to have in their possession. Approximately 16,000 qualified patients have been currently cleared to cultivate out of the nearly 20,000 qualified Medical Marijuana patients in Arizona. Unless they are all experts at indoor growing and have the ability to keep a constant harvest going, sooner or later, especially with outdoor and greenhouse growers, a large harvest is going to come in and they will be illegal. Even having 3 or 4 ounces on hand because your indoor harvest was a "bumper crop" makes the patient illegal.

Why not change the law to read that a patient who is a cultivator can grow and possess the same amount on an annual basis that the 2 1/2 ounces per 2 weeks equals? This would work out to be in the neighborhood of 4 pounds (60 ounces). I can't imagine even indoor cultivators tossing out extra marijuana from harvests just because they couldn't time their production with expert accuracy. Thus, most cultivators will be illegal in the face of the current law.

[Madjag]

Oh yeah!

In case you did not know, the 25 Mile Rule is at the heart of a lawsuit recently filed to get the whole rule dropped from Arziona's Medical Marijuana law:

https://arizonamarijuanadispensary.co...from-prop-203/