Tucson’s East Side leads the metro area in medical marijuana patient applications, but if you’re looking for a caregiver, head to midtown.
The most recent Arizona Department of Health Services reefer report shows that the Tanque Verde analysis area, which stretches from Tucson’s East Side down through Vail to the Cochise County line, has 186 patients. The northeast analysis area, which covers the near North Side and stretches to the northeast corner of Pima County, shows 165 patients, and the east central area has 131.
The central area alone, which covers midtown, has 14 caregivers, whereas the three aforementioned East Side areas have a combined 11. Under the law, each caregiver can give care (read “pot”) to five patients. Statewide there are 487 caregivers, which covers 2,435 people.
The other 8,698 patients are presumably among the 9,056 people who have requested to grow their own. The state approved 11,133 of 11,186 patients who had applied through Aug. 29. Seven applications have been denied, 42 are awaiting additional information and four are in review, the report shows.
The statistics are tracked by Community Health Analysis Areas, which are based on population and have long been used to track the state’s health numbers.
See the latest medical marijuana report online here – http://www.azdhs.gov/medicalmarijuana/documents/reports/110829_Patient-Application-Report.pdf.
This article appears in Sep 8-14, 2011.
Wow! Sure are a whole lot of suffering cancer patients! Yeah, right!
I hope you need it some day. Your full of it…..
Also note that CHAA# 109 (TUS E Central) has/had 81,076 residents in 2010 (per AZDHS stats, sorry, don’t have the URL to hand), and with 131 qualified patients has the highest concentration of QPs (~= 1:619) … CHAA# 105 (TUS NE) and 106 (Tanque Verde) do turn in respectable rates though (1:799 and 1:840 respectively), with CHAA# 112 (TUS SE) nipping their heels at 1:843. Any ideas why this is?
yay yay yaaay yay schmoke weed everyday
There are less than 500 registered users of medical marijuana? People in the same neighborhoods will probably spill the same number of prescription painkillers on any given day. Seems like a huge waste of money and time to do such thorough tracking of these people, and isn’t this information protected under some sort of patient-privacy act?
The state has no intention of honoring voter wishes. This course was just held in Mesa in September although its practically impossible to find online as it was quickly put up, and then scrubbed off every website once the course was over
http://www.counterdrugtraining.com/default…
Midwest Counterdrug Training Center
Indoor Marijuana Grow Investigation Course
Tuesday, September 6 – Wednesday, September 07, 2011
8:00 AM – 4:30 PM
LOCATION
Mesa Police Department
Directions: 3260 N. 40th St Mesa, AZ 85215
No lodging or meals will be provided for this course.
This two day (16 hour) Indoor Cannabis Cultivation Investigator’s Course is designed to equip investigating officers and support personnel with the tools necessary to detect, prosecute and testify in indoor marijuana grow cases. Topics covered in this course will be cannabis horticulture, cloning and germinating plants, and cultivation equipment. How to locate and investigate indoor grows will be discussed in depth. Numerous case studies and investigations will be examined and critiqued.
Tucson Counter Counterdrug Training Center is providing a class to help those using a substance that has not killed a single person in recorded history hide their safe plant growing operation from those investigating officers and support personnel that seek to kick down their door, shove an AR-15 in their face and destroy their medicine or recreational substance. Coming soon…..I hope. Get the point!