Illinois medical marijuana card wait time
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I need to quit following all this , I just get confused with all the dates flying around. I submitted online and card was charged back Sept 9 and did call a week ago and was only told sec. of state was verifying my address but nothing else so I suppose that I might be getting close. I honestly don't believe that there is any rhyme or reason how the state processes anything including any of our applications but they do have all of our money so I'm just sitting and waiting.
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I don't want to start an argument, but the law absolutely does not state that. The verbatim text of the statute reads, "The Department of Financial and Professional Regulation and the Department of Public Health shall submit emergency rulemaking to implement the changes made by this amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly by December 1, 2018." The requirement is that the rules be submitted by December 1. I understand that some people might read the sentence in a different way, but from a legal perspective the word "submit" is the operative term in the law, not "implement."
Has IDPH met this deadline? We don't know as of the time of this post. December 1 was a weekend, so by law they'd have until today (12/3) to submit the rules. But submitting the rules means filing them with the Secretary of State, which isn't the same as publishing them, posting them, or otherwise making them public. Indeed, they're not technically required to be made public until their publication by the SoS in the Illinois Register, which will happen on Friday at the earliest and possibly not until the 14th due to publication deadlines. We're hoping that we'll see them before that, but we don't know.
I know it's not what any of us wants, but a 1/1 or later roll-out of provisional access would be perfectly compliant with Illinois law. Just FYI.
You should be getting your card any day now! It’s usualyl 10-14 days after approval, so if you approved a week ago, you should get your card this or next week.
Perfect explanation. But I’m at 80 days today. Can’t think about provisional. I just want my card.
natureboy!
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I don't believe he is telling you the truth ! not for a minute ! if that IS true , then what else IS going on ???? mailing out temp registration cards/letters....only thing it could be ?? we know from the information we get on here that's just not true !! he just didn't get to go eat Mexican and have Margaritas with the rest of the crew ! don't worry !
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She never said the word approved all she said was the the sec of state office had to verify my address. So I hoping you're right that i might see something soon. This old fart's patience left a long time ago.
The earliest? Not sure what you mean, but I haven’t ever seen mine last 11 am. Usually it’s right around 9-10 am.
Thanks!!! Helping talking me off the ledge haha
natureboy!
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Hang in there !
My main beef is BY December 1st for everyone else in the world means on or before. Try that 2 days later stuff with your license sticker. One law for us, another law for them.
JCAR gets to decide whether whatever is submitted is compliant. Judging the tone of what I heard from one of the politicians it sounds like they don't necessarily expect it to be compliant. Which considering the way IDPH has been the whole time is a reasonable assumption. But IDPH doesn't care because it causes delay either way with no punishment.
If 1/1 is OK why not 6/1? Why not 1/1/2030? I think the question would be do they need the time to enact the changes. Is 4 months reasonable to be able to send out form letters? Everything else for provisional is already in place.
I mean when does the next day show up. Like 12:01am 2am 5am. I think I checked @~7 and it was there
Mine is usually about 9am. Sometimes never and I have to go to the website.
natureboy!
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no need to be on a ledge ! he was full of it ! Soon , We will hear about more Sept apps being finished / with cards received or sent OR some Registration letters will start showing up by the crap load !Thanks!!! Helping talking me off the ledge haha
natureboy!
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mine shows up after they sort that days mail for delivery. usually 8:45 - 9:00 am
natureboy!
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Day 60 for me , December 24th will put me at 81 days . the way they were getting threw the apps in early November , I thought I had a real shot at before Christmas. Something Sure slowed them down !
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Also not trying to engage in an argument, but....
That's a different law, which as you point out, is irrelevant to the issue I was addressing.
The actual relevant language I was referring to is this directive for what went into law on 12/1 (the bold emphasis is mine):
Public Act 100-1114
SB0336 Enrolled LRB100 05118 RJF 15128 b
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(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, a
person provided a written certification for a debilitating
medical condition who has submitted a completed online
application to the Department of Public Health shall receive a
provisional registration and be entitled to purchase medical
cannabis from a specified licensed dispensing organization for
a period of 90 days or until his or her application has been
denied or he or she receives a registry identification card,
whichever is earlier.
……. "
There's no wiggle room there as far as I can tell.
To be fair, there is a law in Illinois that governs the counting of days, and it does give an extension due to the weekend in this case. Leave it to the lawyers to think of everything. (5 ILCS 70/1.11 in case you were curious.)
No friend, it's the exact same law. Feel free to search the full text of Public Act 100-1114 and you'll the text I quoted right in there. Bottom line: there's no provisional access without the rulemaking, and the rulemaking hasn't happened yet. It's just that simple and I can't explain it further without using a bunch of legalese.
They only needed to have HOW they are going to do that in by 12/1. So it can start on that day. But now they start implementing their how. It should be easy. And they probably should of talked about the how before implementation. But they didn’t. No one wants more work. They aren’t going to do anything until they have to. It did go into law 12/1. And they are technically implementing now.