[mofeta]

Today is the day that the the AZ DHS lottery for MMJ Dispensaries goes down.

Once the addresses of the potential dispensaries are released, you can find out what locations are within the infamous "25 mile rule" area in which patients are prohibited from growing their own medicine.

Here is useful tool that can be used to generate a map of the 25 mile radius from any given point on the map:

Radius Around Point

Just follow the instructions on the page.

Here is a screen shot of an example. I chose 25mi radius, heavy line, red in color with red infill shading. Then I just clicked on an address on North 4th Avenue in Tucson that might be the location of a dispensary.



You can zoom in and out of the map, of course.

A person could put all 100 of the dispensaries on the map, revealing all the areas in which patients would be able to grow if the dispensaries were up and operating.

When your map is done, you can download the info as a KML, which can then be used to make a publicly viewable Google Earth Map that anyone could look at. If I had the time I would do it, but I don't. Maybe someone here will do it.

[g0dzilla]

nice info thanks mofeta

[billycw]

Is it 25 mile radius? I thought it was 25 mile straight line. If you put in 25 as a radius it makes it 15.53 straight line. Any one have any insight on this?

Thanks for the find Mofeta.

[crisscross]

Originally Posted by billycw

Is it 25 mile radius? I thought it was 25 mile straight line. If you put in 25 as a radius it makes it 15.53 straight line. Any one have any insight on this?

Thanks for the find Mofeta.

great question. any answers?

[mofeta]

Originally Posted by billycw

Is it 25 mile radius? I thought it was 25 mile straight line. If you put in 25 as a radius it makes it 15.53 straight line. Any one have any insight on this?

Thanks for the find Mofeta.

I don't understand your question.

The rule is that you cannot cultivate if you are less than 25 miles in a straight line from a dispensary.

If you extend a line from the location of the dispensary out 25 miles in all directions, you get a circle with a radius of 25 miles, a diameter of 50 miles centered on the dispensary, and a circumference of approximately 157 miles.



Here is a refresher on the terms used when talking about circles:

The distance across a circle through the center is called the diameter.

The distance around a circle is called the circumference.




The radius of a circle is the distance from the center of a circle to any point on the circle. If you place two radii end-to-end in a circle, you would have the same length as one diameter. Thus, the diameter of a circle is twice as long as the radius.




So, if you make a circle with a 25 mile radius centered on the dispensary location, cultivation is banned for anyone living inside the circle.

[Hydro-Soil]

Just wanted to say to Arizona lawmakers.... You're F'ng retarded to be making laws and regs about something you don't know anything about. *sigh*

This has got to be one of the silliest and most disgusting things I've seen so far. Dispensary cannabis is generally disgusting in all but the most informed areas of the country.

This is like not being able to give your kid a bromide because there's a doctor in town, within 25 miles. Wow.

Stay Safe!

Edit: If I lived in AZ I'd move.

[billycw]

Mofeta- thanks for the answer I was all turned around lol. I was thrown off by inputing 25 in the km spot. Those are some big circles. Not much left open in the cities no matter how you place them.

[Arthritis_sucks]

Strategic if ya ask me.

[dank.frank]

Before it even gets started - they plot to hunt you down. Viscious dirty rotten politicians...

https://thinkprogress.org/justice/201...-by-state-law/

States have no rights - freedom and the will of the people an illusion.


dank.Frank

[mofeta]

Originally Posted by billycw

Mofeta- thanks for the answer I was all turned around lol. I was thrown off by inputing 25 in the km spot.

No problem! Glad to help.

Originally Posted by billycw

Those are some big circles. Not much left open in the cities no matter how you place them.

Not much left anywhere. Remember, each CHAA in AZ (except maybe the ones on the reservations, apparently) could have a dispensary. If you put a 25 mile radius circle on each CHAA, there isn't much left. Some of the rural CHAAs are large enough that where the dispensary is in the CHAA makes a big difference. Most of them you can assume will have the dispensary in the largest town in the CHAA.

All qualifying patients will have access to a list of the operating dispensaries and their addresses, and then a accurate map can be made. If any dispensaries actually open, that is.