{"id":45717,"date":"2019-05-29T16:30:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T16:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/arizona-supreme-court-rules-that-weed-extracts-are-legal\/"},"modified":"2019-05-29T16:30:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T16:30:16","slug":"arizona-supreme-court-rules-that-weed-extracts-are-legal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/news\/arizona-supreme-court-rules-that-weed-extracts-are-legal\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Supreme Court Rules That Weed Extracts Are Legal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, Arizona\u2019s highest court unanimously ruled 7-0 that cannabis extracts and concentrates are legally classified as medical marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hold that [Arizona Medical Marijuana Act&#8217;s] definition of marijuana includes both its dried-leaf\/flower form and extracted resin, including hashish,\u201d the court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoenixnewtimes.com\/news\/cannabis-extracts-legal-for-medical-pot-patients-high-court-rules-11303930\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u>ruled<\/u><\/a> in a written statement.<\/p>\n<p>The landmark ruling concerned the case of <em>State of Arizona v. Rodney Christopher Jones<\/em>. In 2013, Yavapai County police <a href=\"https:\/\/azdailysun.com\/news\/local\/court-pot-patients-in-arizona-protected-from-arrest-on-hash\/article_7b9bb12a-dcbb-526a-89cb-6d0d89b9b3ca.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u>arrested Jones<\/u><\/a> for possessing 1.4 grams of <a href=\"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/culture\/is-old-school-hashish-going-extinct-in-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>hashish<\/u><\/a>, a form of marijuana concentrate. Although he showed the police his medical marijuana card at the time of his arrest, he was charged with possessing narcotics.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, Jones was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison over the narcotics charge. While serving his time, he appealed his conviction. In 2018, after he had already been released, the Arizona Court of Appeals upheld his conviction in a 2-1 ruling.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: Dab Art for the 710 Society<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"430\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/embed\/gallery\/dab-art-for-the-710-society\/1\" ><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The law currently defines medical marijuana as \u201cthe dried flowers of the marijuana plant, and any mixture or preparation thereof.\u201d While most Arizona jurisdictions interpreted the law to include concentrates and extracts as \u201cmixtures or preparations thereof,\u201d Maricopa and Yavapai County officials didn\u2019t see it that way. Instead, authorities in those two counties treated cannabis concentrates <a href=\"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/news\/arizona-cannabis-patient-busted-for-driving-with-vape-pen-and-a-gun\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>as illicit narcotics<\/u><\/a>, and charged marijuana patients in possession of concentrates, like Jones, as criminals.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Supreme Court smacked down the state\u2019s prohibitionist authorities by declaring that the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act \u201cdefines \u2018marijuana\u2019 as \u2018all parts of [the] plant. The word \u2018all,\u2019 one of the most comprehensive words in the English language, means exactly that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Demitri Downing, the founder and director of the Arizona Marijuana Industry Trade Association, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafly.com\/news\/politics\/cannabis-extracts-are-legal-arizona-high-court-rules\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u>Leafly<\/u><\/a> that patients, fearing the court may ban extracts statewide, lined up at dispensaries to stock up on ultra-potent concentrates over the Memorial Day weekend.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some patients with high-tolerances for cannabis prefer extracts or concentrates for their potencies, which can reach over 90 percent THC by weight. (In comparison, dried flowers usually contain 15 to 20 percent THC.). Other patients \u2014&nbsp;specifically those who cannot smoke due to medical reasons \u2014 rely on extracts for dabbing or vaping.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe court got it right,\u201d read a statement from the ACLU. \u201cToday&#8217;s ruling means that qualifying patients no longer have to fear being prosecuted for using their medicine in the form most helpful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Randy Robinson on <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/randieseljay?lang=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><u><em>Twitter<\/em><\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although Arizona approved MMJ in 2010, some local authorities treated cannabis extracts and concentrates as illegal narcotics, leading to arrests and prison sentences for law-abiding patients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3036],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - 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