State law allows a visiting qualifying patient with a registry identification card or its equivalent, issued by the qualifying patient’s home state, to possess or use marijuana. However, a visiting patient is not authorized to obtain marijuana from a dispensary because the dispensary is required in statute to access a verification system before dispensing marijuana.

If you legally establish residency in AZ and meet the requirements and qualifications for a MM qualifying patient card, and subsequently obtain a MM qualifying patient card, you may possess up to the legal limit of 2.5 ounces of medical marijuana. Since this is a State law, there is no provision for the legal transporting of the MM to other states (Oregon, for example). The possession limit is for within AZ only, with some exceptions for jurisdictions such as tribal jurisdictions which still consider possession a crime.