A second Tucson medical marijuana dispensary is nearly ready to open, but yet again the state has not responded to its request for an inspection.
So far, two dispensaries here – one near Interstate 10 and Wilmot Road and one on the eastside (the address has not been made public) – have asked the state to inspect their storefronts. On Sept. 19, The Green Halo asked for approval to operate at the Wilmot Road location, and on Oct. 22 the other dispensary certificate holder asked. On Oct. 19, an operator in Glendale also asked for an inspection. As of Nov. 1, no inspections had been done.
WTF? It’s interesting that the Department of Health Services can’t complete the inspections, since the department has reportedly assigned six people full time to managing dispensary applications. According to the state rules, DHS has 45 days to complete the inspections after operators ask. For Green Halo – the first to ask statewide – that day was Nov. 3.
C’mon, Will Humble. Put a fire under someone’s ass. We’re waiting.
This article appears in Nov 1-7, 2012.
The dispensary owners should sue the state employee who runs the office that is supposed to inspect them for failure to do their duty. They should also sue Montgomery and Horne, in addition to the boss of the agency required to do the inspections, jointly and severally.
And they should be sued, personally, not as gov’t officials.
Horne and Montgomery have NO AUTHORITY under the State Constitution to tell employees to not do their job under the mmj law. NONE whatsoever.
They are guilty of abuse of authority also.
That’s what you get when you elect republican to office…..nothing Zip.
I thought the government was suppossed to work for the people.
oh Arizona……thats right when it comes to making innocent people into criminals, they’ll take it to the supreme court and fight for their laws, but when it comes to decriminalizing or allowing people to be compliant, there is no answer. http://420college.org
i am a mmj patient,you took my money for my cert. card,now i demand you do what i and hundreds of patients that have voted for mmj expect you to do,unless you want to be voted out of office!
There are at least 35 standing inspection requests by some reports. I know of several in NorAZ. The state is treading in compromising legal territory. I hope some of the activist legal teams are ready to challenge the state and feds in collusion. There are massive damages piling up by these licensees as they went about setting up these very expensive business plans. I can’t wait for the outcomes. Much of this mess lies squarely on the lap of reformers like MPP and those funded by Lewis and Soros. While intentions are good, the language of these reform initiatives is atrocious. They are written by younger political careerists completely removed from real world common cannabis usage. The 25 mile rule is a prime example of a mess ready to happen as soon as they try to suspend individual cultivation rights. Every state with reformed cannabis laws continue to prosecute on several levels including very small scale providers with the best intention. A sick man died in their custody denied medicine in Montana. The cannabis reform initiatives fail to actually remove any penalties associated with even the smallest cannabis possession. They only create exemptions that must be settled in court after potential arrest. This includes WA and CO. In all we have only taken baby steps to reform and little movement towards true legalization. The feds on any given day seem to be winning by shear force.