Excessive Cost of Entry for Medical Marijuana?

(Winter 2017) Phoenix lawyer Sean Berberian has requested that the state’s Court of Appeals require health officials to lower the $150 permit fee required for Arizona residents to access medical marijuana. Berberian argues that the charge is much higher than needed to underwrite the administrative costs of Arizona’s medicinal marijuana statutes. He also says that former governor Jan Brewer and current Governor Doug Ducey have instructed Arizona’s Department of Health Services to maintain high registration costs as a means of dissuading residents from registering for the program.

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