Arizona Medical Marijuana Law

The following is the text of a press release by Americans for Safe Access on October 5, 2012.

For the first time in nearly 20 years, a United States Court of Appeals is set to hear oral arguments in a lawsuit challenging the federal government’s classification of marijuana as a dangerous drug with [...]

Las Vegas Sun:  “A ruling that Nevada’s medical marijuana law is unconstitutional has put the issue before the state Supreme Court and has lawmakers again pushing to clarify how patients can legally obtain the drug.  After several medical marijuana dispensaries set up shop around Las Vegas in recent years, a task force from [...]

Arizona Republic:  “Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery, like county attorneys across Arizona, is no fan of the state’s medical-marijuana program. . . . But that doesn’t excuse the saber rattling he engaged in last week.”

For more on Montgomery’s threats read “Maricopa County Attorney Warns Everybody in Maricopa County Not to [...]

Arizona Republic columnist E. J. Montini wrote a column in which he rips Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne and Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery because they are ” two men doing everything they can to keep the state from fully implementing the medical-marijuana law that — for a third time — was approved [...]

The Bugle: “Gov. Jan Brewer has signed a waiver that will allow Attorney General Tom Horne to try to close down the marijuana dispensaries that her state health department is in the process of licensing.  The move comes in the wake of Horne’s formal legal opinion that the state cannot legally permit anyone [...]

Since Arizona voters approved Proposition 203 in November of 2010 I have talked to many people who were interested in obtaining a license to grow marijuana and sell it in an Arizona medical marijuana dispensary.  In general these people fall into two categories: (1) people whose primary goal is to provide medicine to [...]

Denver Post:  “In what appears to be a first-of-its-kind event nationwide, a Denver lawyer has lost her liability insurance because part of her practice involves representing medical-marijuana businesses.  Ann Toney’s insurance company told her last month that it will not renew her malpractice coverage. In its terse notice, the Hanover Insurance Group explained [...]

The last day to file an application for a Dispensary Registration Certificate for an Arizona medical marijuana dispensary is May 25, 2012, at 5:00 p.m.  Today is what I am calling “Bank Day,” the last day on which the entity applying for the dispensary registration certificate or a principal officer of the entity [...]