Medical marijuana: Pinal dispensary backing ballot proposal for 2018
by Howard Fischer | Capitol Media Services
Less than a month after voters rejected allowing marijuana for recreational use, there’s a new — and scaled back — proposal emerging for the 2018 ballot.
The initiative crafted by operators of a Pinal County medical marijuana dispensary would expand the list of conditions for which a doctor could recommend a patient be allowed to use the otherwise-illegal drug. And it also would make it easier and cheaper for patients to get their marijuana, including allowing a large percentage of them to grow their own plants.
Proponents, the operators of the Independent Wellness Center, a medical marijuana dispensary in Apache Junction, need 150,642 valid signatures on petitions by July 5, 2018, to put the measure to voters that year.
The major changes deal with who can get the drug legally and how often they need to be recertified.
