Q&A on Medical Marijuana

Jacob Bell

New Member
Q: Where would the city of Flagstaff and Coconino County allow marijuana dispensaries?

A: Each is proposing to allow dispensaries in some commercial zones.

Q: Where would each allow it to be grown?

A: Flagstaff is proposing to allow it in all industrial zones. The county would also allow production in some commercial areas.

Q: Where would a dispensary or growing operation be banned?

A: The city is proposing to ban medical marijuana dispensaries within 500 feet of schools, churches and public parks.

Coconino County is proposing to prohibit dispensaries within 500 feet of Northern Arizona University, colleges, public libraries, child care centers and drug/alcohol rehabilitation facilities.

Q: Could a dispensary grow medical marijuana on-site?

A: The city and county propose to allow that.

Q: When would dispensaries be open?

A: City: 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. County: 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Q: Where is medical marijuana use prohibited altogether?

A: Use of medical marijuana would be banned on school grounds, in public places, and while operating a vehicle, for starters, according to state law. Whether employers and nursing homes allow or prohibit use on-site is up to each of those agencies.

Q: Who can recommend marijuana for patients?

A: Medical doctors, osteopaths, naturopaths or homeopaths can issue a written certification, after confirming the patient has a debilitating medical condition and conducting a physical exam. But the state has pledged to scrutinize physicians writing what it considers a high number of certifications.

Q: What patients can get a certification to receive it?

A: People with cancer, glaucoma, HIV, AIDS, hepatitis C, Crohn's disease, Alzheimer's disease and chronic conditions that cause: wasting syndrome, severe or chronic pain, severe nausea, muscle spasms or seizures (partial list)

Q: How much can a patient buy?

A: 2 1/2 ounces every two weeks, or more than four pounds a year. Or, patients living more than 25 miles from the nearest dispensary will be able to legally cultivate their own.

Q: What will a certification cost?

A: Patients hoping to purchase marijuana from a licensed dispensary will need a $160 card.

Businesses hoping to sell marijuana will need to pay the state $5,000 for an initial certification to dispense marijuana.

Q: Where will it come from?

A: Arizona dispensaries will be required to cultivate the marijuana as part of their operation, or obtain it from qualifying patients, designated caregivers, or other Arizona dispensaries.


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This brings up another part of this new law which needs to be re-addressed.

The new law states that a person who qualifies (doctor recommendation) can grow up to 12 plants. Calculating from a worse case scenario if it took 4 months to grow 12 plants each producing one ounce of medicine then you could only cultivate enough for 1.5 ounces every 2 weeks when another section says you could buy 2.5 ounces every 2 weeks. What if you needed MORE than 2.5 ounces every 2 weeks. What would you do then?

There are already sections dealing with accountability that address the issues of keeping the medicine in the hands only of the patient. You can not get in the middle between a doctor and his patient. An individual who qualifies need not sacrifice their constitutional right to privacy or subject his doctor to recommendation limits.

The State legislature needs to re-address certain sections of this new law preserving the constitutionality of the individual while protecting the general public from undue hardship. Let us keep the focus on the patient and their needs first. The individual and their rights always. Let us mold a new law reminiscent of the true compassion of the Arizona People.
 
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