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Arizona Medical Marijuana Program Snapshot at 2

April 20th, 2013

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 as of April 16th we had about 38,000 qualified patients in AZ.

On the Dispensary side of the house…  16 dispensaries are approved to operate in AZ, and another 13 have turned in their paperwork asking for an opening inspection.  All 98 of the applicants that received Registration Certificates last Summer have until August 7th to complete all of our requirements and earn their operating license- because all of the certificates expire on that day.   Also, June 7 is the deadline for prospective dispensaries to turn in their Approval to Operate application.

By the way, the state computer system will be down for maintenance this Saturday 4/20 and there may be intermittent service, but things should be back on-line Sunday.

Dispensary Application Window Opens

May 14th, 2012

Today marks the start of the 2-week window for applying for a medical marijuana dispensary Registration Certificate in Arizona.  Prospective applicants can check out our Registration Certificate Application ChecklistInstructions, and the official Application on our Medical Marijuana Dispensary webpage.  In the first two hours, seven people had dropped off applications.

We’ll start reviewing applications as they come in- and we’ll stop taking applications at the close of business on May 25.  We’ll have 30 working days to review the applications- and folks will have 20 working days to submit any documents or information that were missing during our review of the application.  We expect to award all of the Medical Marijuana Dispensary Registration Certificates on August 7.  If there’s only 1 qualified applicant in a Community Health Analysis Area- that applicant will be awarded a Registration Certificate.  We’ll be holding a random drawing on August 7 to award Registration Certificates in the CHAAs with more than 1 qualified applicant.

We’ll refresh our dispensary application page every weekday around the close of business to show how many applications we’ve received by Community Health Analysis Area.