Anyone Planning on Becoming a Caregiver or Growing your Own Medical?

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Flawed

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Looks like the new draft laws will kill any chance of that. Here is a excerpt from a artical posted on azcentral today.

Changes to medical-marijuana rules would:
- Distribute one dispensary to each Community Health Analysis Area, a geographical breakdown of the state that the DHS previously used to track public-health statistics.
There are 126 of these health areas in the state, close to the number of dispensaries allowed.
Humble said that using the health areas to determine dispensary locations helps accomplish the department's two objectives for this draft: Ensure people in rural parts of the state can access marijuana, and minimize the number of people who can grow marijuana at home.


So basically, the law has ended up almost killing off all caregivers. Guess the dispensarys really are the ones writing the laws. 25 mile rule forcing patients to buy from them at whatever price they choose, very limited number of other dispensarys (competition), and now they changed the "must cultivate 70% of thier own stock" that they were upset about, they can just load up on all the Cali excess. I would of loved to have known this before I had placed my vote.
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weedman82

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wow so its only getting worse! I thought more people would be outraged over shit like this, I guess not enough people are speaking up?? I dunno?

oxycontin is expensive and ineffective. this is kinda the main reason to grow your own, sounds to me like they figure you already pay through the nose for your legal pain meds, and they don't wanna take that privilege of paying too much for something away from you, whether you chose synthetic or all natrual.

man don't feel bad about voting for prop 203, its a step! its better than nothing! It just needs drastic changing/amending.
 
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jrut

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This is in the new draft
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For purposes of this Article, "25 miles" includes the area contained within a circle that extends​

for 25 miles in all directions from a specific location.

I find it interesting Humble kept saying the 25-mile rule was not in his power to change, however he seems to have the say to define it.

In the new draft also

f. Whether the qualifying patient is requesting authorization for cultivating
marijuana plants for the qualifying patient's medical use because the qualifying
patient believes that the qualifying patient resides at least 25 miles from the​
nearest operating dispensary;
 
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jrut

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The way they define the 25-mile rule will kill just about everyone from growing.

We need to band together and boycott dispensaries out of business
 
Sr. Verde

Sr. Verde

Well-Known Member
Yeah the 25 mile forced to buy from supposedly non profit stuff is bullshit

personally id rather just NOT have dispensaries at this point. They fuck up everything else
 
samgreen420

samgreen420

Member
yea all interesting points. I know a couple people that have the F*$k it mentality. But most smokers are happy cause its being legalized and dont pay mind to the 25 mile rule because it will always be around. Hopefully in a few months people start realizing that the industry of them trying to sell it to us is overrated all itself. Imagine not being able to see your little babbies nymore
 
JealousGreen

JealousGreen

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The 25 mile rule will effect patients but not caregivers. As long as the patients are more than 25 miles from a Dispensary they can have a caregiver that lives anywhere. would be caregivers need only find patients in outlying areas. As long as you have legal patients you can grow your own 12 plants as well.
 
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PottnaJL

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JealousGreen said:
The 25 mile rule will effect patients but not caregivers. As long as the patients are more than 25 miles from a Dispensary they can have a caregiver that lives anywhere. would be caregivers need only find patients in outlying areas. As long as you have legal patients you can grow your own 12 plants as well.
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So does that mean that a family member of mine could be a registered patient in northern Arizona and I could be their caregiver and grow for them in Phoenix?
 
JealousGreen

JealousGreen

Well-Known Member
Yes..
Also, anyone who gets their card can legally grow until the dispensaries open. Which will likely be around thanksgiving or Christmas.
 
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PottnaJL

Member
Thanks for answering, and what this guy says is true. I checked out the adhs site and the FAQ over there answers a lot of repeated questions. This is great, I can now be a caregiver to my mother. She's got fibromyalgia, so it'll be nice to return the care she's giving me my entire life. Maybe this state will start sucking a little less now....maybe..
 
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