*BREAKING NEWS FOR ARIZONA*

[TheBig]

so, with a written recommendation from a Dr. you can grow now legally? How does that work? Don't we have to wait for the rules to be set?

I think it would be legal, until the first dispensary opens it's doors 25 miles from where you live.... right??? :wtf:

But I wouldn't risk it, what with the nazi sheriff vowing to check up on all the mmj patients. What if you were weeks from harvest when the first dispensary pops up?

Anywho I see no point in getting my doctors recommendation atm, there's just no way I'm going to pay anymore than $120 an ounce, and I'm pretty sure the dispensary's are going to be charging around $20 for an eighth... I think I'll stick the the mid grade $60 an ounce on the street.

I just can't justify paying so much at a dispensary.

[leadmagnet]

so, with a written recommendation from a Dr. you can grow now legally? How does that work? Don't we have to wait for the rules to be set?

From what I understand you have to wait until the system gets set up- Will Humble and his agency have until April to do so according to 203. You have to be "certified", so to speak, with your doctor's recommendation through the Arizona Department of Health Services as a medical marijuana patient.

That's why I suggest you go see your regular physician now and get your recommendation so hopefully you're ready to receive the State's final approval. On the other hand I understand DHS might nitpick on which doctors are allowed to issue the recommendations so you might be wasting your money at this time. Bring it up with your regular doctor when you go in for your next visit and get his input.

Of course if you are visiting Arizona with a rec from your own state you should be ok to possess up to 2.5 ounces. Then again don't be surprised if one of the local yahoos with a badge places you under arrest. Be prepared to provide your documentation at your initial appearance.

Things are still very sketchy over in AZ.

[TheBig]

The rule and the statement made by definition is extortion. It is illegal to give an entire industry to a few private business with rules insuring all sales belong to them. Monopoly and extortion = Lawsuits.

Here's hoping the lawsuits will be plenty. :thumbsup:
I also wish people would make a bigger hullabaloo about the 25 mile limit, but I think people like Allan Sobol (who is doing a great job) are more interested in helping prospective business owners, and insuring there rights aren't trampled on. But so far not much representation for the patients rights.

[jtruckit]

Thanks for the info.

[rollzone]

hello. i do not live anywhere nearby, so i did not know you are facing this bureaucratic nightmare. i had read it would be more difficult for recreational users to obtain medicinal cannabis in your state, but that ignored the dispensary monopolies you are predicting. lawsuits are not winnable. since the oil monopoly, can you name a successful new competitor in the past thirty years? look down the street and name a station with lower prices, and i mean forty cents a gallon, and tell me there is not price fixing. your state is an important source of illegal funding for discreet government projects, because of the drug cartel pipeline. the implanting of overlords to the revenue stream, under the cover of legal dispensaries: is black collar crime; and your battle with a group supposedly unable to write reasonable laws in a four month time frame, reads chillingly suspect to conspirator influences. perhaps only securing your border with Mexico will provide the sovereignty your state lacks to write fair free market rules. i am often wrong. i have no objection to qualifying recipients of medical cannabis, but the dispensary should be allowed free market capitalism.