Register Now for MPP's Two Training Forums in Phoenix and Tucson!
Are you interested in opening a medical marijuana dispensary in Arizona, or do you know someone who is? (Editor's note: This was a 2011 event)
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Then you should register for one of MPP's training forums in Phoenix and Tucson. Both events will sell out, as did MPP's previous training forum in Phoenix in December.
If your company wants to sponsor this pair of events for $5,000, please email MPP at RobKampia@mpp.org. (Your company will receive two free tickets to each event; table space immediately outside the front door of each event; and advertising in MPP's email alerts, Web page, and written materials for both events.)
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The Arizona Department of Health Services (DHS) will be issuing its regulations for the new medical-marijuana program on March 28, and DHS will be accepting dispensary applications during the month of June only.
MPP and our event cosponsor, the Arizona Medical Marijuana Association, have timed this pair of forums so that legal experts can provide an analysis of what DHS's regulations require and do not require, while giving potential dispensary applicants time to finalize their business plans before June 1st.
We'll be providing substantial written materials to all registrants at both forums. Both forums will cover the same material, so there's no need to attend both forums, unless you're a $5,000 sponsor.
Here are the six speakers at each forum:
- Will Humble, director of the Arizona Department of Health Services, the agency in charge of issuing and executing the state's medical-marijuana regulations.
- Lisa Hauser, Gammage & Burnham, PLC, the attorney who drafted the medical-marijuana initiative that Arizona voters passed on November 2, 2010.
- Cameron Artigue and Kate Bigelow, Gammage & Burnham, PLC attorneys who specializes in land use and zoning issues.
- Joe Yuhas, who co-ran the medical-marijuana initiative campaign this past fall and is now forming the Arizona Medical Marijuana Association, the trade association that will represent Arizona's 126 medical-marijuana dispensaries with the state government.
- Rob Kampia, co-founder and executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project, which funded the passage of the medical-marijuana initiative in Arizona and is lobbying Congress and the Obama administration to remove federal penalties for marijuana-related businesses that are legal under state law.
- Nick King, the founder and owner of Alpine Herbal Wellness, a medical-marijuana dispensary in Denver.
