It's ironic how DHS has completely ignored the patients, who this legislation was based on, and spent more time mucking around with Dispensary issues. So you now have a situation where MM cards are being approved and issued to the patients, but the only way they'll have any medication is if they grow it themselves.
Keep in mind that many of these patients are in serious pain and can barely stand up much less cultivate plants. Clearly there should have been some pro-active planning along the way where perhaps the powers that be would have permitted some reciprocity with dispensaries in CA for the time being as a source for medication.
Radioactive Reviewed by Radioactive on . 300% tax on mmj bill HB 2557 AZ state representatives Kyrsten Sinema, David Shapira, and Steve Farley are supporting a truly inhumane bill just introduced in the late afternoon of 1/26/2011: Arizona's H.B.2557, which has been correctly deemed The Drug Cartel Empowerment Act. This bill would set medical marijuana taxes at a shocking 300%, which would effectively and unconstitutionally kill Prop 203 (the AZ Medical Marijuana Act). PDF version of H.B.2557: < http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/50leg/1r/bills/hb2557p.pdf > We Rating: 5