What happens when the Dispensaries are able to operate and a patient lives within 25 miles of said dispensary?
If a patient lives within 25 miles of a dispensary and has been cultivating their own medicine. How much time will a patient have to stop cultivating? What type of notice will the patient receive? How is a patient to know a dispensary is opening? Why is it the choice of the dispensary to STOP a patient from cultivating??
These questions need to be answered... I foresee MANY lawsuits against the Deptment of Health, The State, and dispensaries!!
Each qualified patient will be notified upon their annual renewal if a dispensary is open within 25 miles of where they live. If you renew with a request to grow and there is not a dispensary open within 25 miles you will be able to continue to grow. The final rules for the dispensaries are still being developed so you will want to check back to our agency website for new developments. At this time we do not have a date for the completion of the final rules and no dates for when the Department will be able to license dispensaries.
It is not the choice of the dispensaries – the 25-mile rule was part of the law passed by voters.
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D. Cassidy commented
Should this chose be to the patients? Not the State or AZDHS?
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D. Cassidy commented
I will be sure to List the Department of Health Services of Arizona in the Lawsuit.
It is UNCONSTITUTIONAL to force a patient to go to a dispensary..
Does the Department of Health Services of Arizona NOT see this???