Arizona celebrated its first month of recreational marijuana sales yesterday, and there s much to cheer. More than 100 medical marijuana dispensaries have been cleared to sell recreational marijuana to customers 21 years and older, and business is booming. Drive past a Valley dispensary in the middle of the day, and there s a decent chance you ll still find a line outside the door.
For longtime marijuana shoppers in Arizona MMJ patients, that is there s been less to celebrate. Ironically, many of them feel that legalization has made marijuana
less accessible for them.
One gripe: those lines. I should not see young, able-bodied folks coming in and out of a dispensary while there are folks in wheelchairs and using walkers waiting in line, says James Carter, a medical marijuana patient in Mesa.