Marijuana News – Arizona

Another Medical Marijuana Lawsuit

May 31, 2013   ·   0 Comments

We got sued again this week regarding our Medical Marijuana Program.  This time we’re getting sued because the Plaintiffs think that our 1-year deadline for ...

Arizona Medical Marijuana Program Snapshot at 2

This month marked the 2nd anniversary of our Arizona Medical Marijuana Program.   We began issuing cards to qualifying patients 2 years ago this week, and ...

Our Most Popular ADHS Website

Guess which one of our ADHS Websites consistently has the most hits.  Our influenza pages during flu season?  Medical marijuana during our rulemaking?  Questions about WIC ...

New M2 Petitions on Horizon Again

Last January we accepted petitions from the public to add PTSD 1; PTSD 2; Depression; Migraines; and Generalized Anxiety Disorder to the list of conditions that qualify ...

Medical Marijuana Continuing Medical Education

We’ve been processing Medical Marijuana Registration Cards for about a year and a half now.  One of our primary goals from the start has been ...

Dispensary Zoning Case

Last week a Superior Court judge ordered Maricopa County to process the zoning paperwork that has been submitted by the applicant for the Sun City CHAA.  ...

Dispensary Court Ruling

   A Superior Court judge ruled today in the dispensary case concerning the applicant in the Sun City CHAA.  The judge ordered the county to begin ...

Glendale Dispensary Opening Postponed

Last Thursday I announced in a blog post that our team had just returned from a field inspection for a dispensary applicant in Glendale, that ...

First Dispensary

Our team just returned from a field inspection for a dispensary applicant in Glendale.  There were no major deficiencies, and we awarded the dispensary an ...

Medical Marijuana @ 1 Year

Our Vital Health Statistics team along with our partners at the UA College of Public Health completed the 1st Annual Report for the Arizona Medical Marijuana ...

Breastfeeding & Cannabis

Some AZ health care providers and parents have asked questions about whether medical marijuana is safe for use while breastfeeding.  The short answer is no, because the active ...

Dispensary Drawing Procedures Report Published

We carefully planned our processes for randomly selecting medical marijuana registration certificates in competitive districts to make sure the process was fair and transparent.  Part ...

New “Home-Grown” ITS Programs

Team ITS delivered and deployed 2 more new web modules for the Medical Marijuana application this week: the 1) dispensary agent processing module; and 2) a new version ...

Dispensary Selection Results

For about four hours this morning, balls were hopping in the bingo machine as we randomly chose one dispensary for each of the 68 competitive ...

One Day at a Time

The AZ Attorney General issued an Opinion and a media release this afternoon about the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act.  The Opinion states, in part, that ...

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