Illinois medical marijuana card wait time

TrailblazerTony

TrailblazerTony

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CBDNerd said:
So, I just got this!

Thank you for contacting the Office of the Governor regarding your medical cannabis registry card application. Your email has been sent to me for a response. We show that your application was received on October 4, 2018. It has been processed and approved. You will receive your card in the mail in approximately 10 to 14 days. Please note, the postal holidays in December may result in a delay in receiving US mail.


Please let us know if you have additional questions.



**********************| Deputy Director

Office of Health Promotion & Medical Cannabis

Illinois Department of Public Health

Office: (217) 785-4093 | Fax: (217) 782-1321

******************************* | www.dph.illinois.gov
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Spatula

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TrailblazerTony said:
By the way, you are Very Bright for a New Person, I like what you said, But...This is Illinois, Where we put the Dysfunction and inefficiency into a way of Government. They would never give you the money to do those things, because they do not have it. The State has been operating in The Red for Decades.
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They have the money for it, they would just rather spend 1 million for an outhouse in the middle of nowhere because then they hide the 950,000 extra in a personal account. Our government, local and federal has no accountability. I thought the illinois law said they had 45 days to issue or deny, that lawsuit will be very interesting. Can you motion for a speedy trial within a week?
 
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Spatula

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CBDNerd said:
I figured, what the heck. It's only $110. Why not see what a judge has to say about it. The worst he can say is no, and dismiss it. Which that puts me in the same position, waiting on a card. But, from what I have read they're in clear violation of the state laws that govern this card, and medicine. I may be wrong, but I just highly doubt that.

This is a complete joke of a process.
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Can you motion for a speedy trial set for next week?
 
CBDNerd

CBDNerd

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Spatula said:
Can you motion for a speedy trial set for next week?
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I have no idea. I barely figured out how to motion for hearing, but I am researching.

"Patients can go to their new dispensary 24 hours after receiving confirmation the application has been processed."

So, why do we have to wait on a card again?
 
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Oak-Island

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More legal stuff.. I don’t fully understand. Apparently some portion on the new law was “suspended” from being put into action... Here is the text from the Flinn Report (google it). Anyone have a good feel what this means??

At its 12/11/18 meeting, the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules approved the following actions:

OBJECTION & SUSPENSION
With regard to the emergency rule of the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation titled Rules for Administration of the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program (68 IAC 1290; 42 Ill Reg 23202), JCAR objects to and suspends any provision of the rulemaking that does not directly implement any provision of the Opioid Alternative Pilot Program as established by PA 100- 1114. The PA explicitly authorized the use of emergency rulemaking for the creation of the Pilot Program, but not the other changes to the Medical Cannabis Pilot Program that the Department has included in the emergency rule. JCAR finds that this inappropriate use of emergency rulemaking poses a threat to the public interest by changing basic tenets of the Medical Cannabis Program without public review or input, and without any justification being offered by the agency for this use of emergency rulemaking.
 
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Myk63

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Oak-Island said:
More legal stuff.. I don’t fully understand. Apparently some portion on the new law was “suspended” from being put into action... Here is the text from the Flinn Report (google it). Anyone have a good feel what this means??

At its 12/11/18 meeting, the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules approved the following actions:

OBJECTION & SUSPENSION
With regard to the emergency rule of the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation titled Rules for Administration of the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program (68 IAC 1290; 42 Ill Reg 23202), JCAR objects to and suspends any provision of the rulemaking that does not directly implement any provision of the Opioid Alternative Pilot Program as established by PA 100- 1114. The PA explicitly authorized the use of emergency rulemaking for the creation of the Pilot Program, but not the other changes to the Medical Cannabis Pilot Program that the Department has included in the emergency rule. JCAR finds that this inappropriate use of emergency rulemaking poses a threat to the public interest by changing basic tenets of the Medical Cannabis Program without public review or input, and without any justification being offered by the agency for this use of emergency rulemaking.
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Sounds like IDPH used the emergency rule opportunity to make a bunch of amendments to their rules (they did) that should've been done long ago through normal rulemaking.

It also sounds like JCAR has screw provisional access over by not knowing that they were saying by limiting it to the OAPP unless that can be interpreted as PA 100-1114 is the important part and OAPP was just the name of the bill and not what IDPH was limited to changing.

You know how screwed up IDPH's MCPP websites are with old information? Their rules are just as screwed up. They used the Emergency Rule to clean a lot of those problems up.
 
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Myk63

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Also I think they did some lowering of prices for some people that they weren't told to do. They probably could've got away with cleaning up problems that have been changed by laws, but making new rules without going through the normal comments is " a threat to the public interest by changing basic tenets of the Medical Cannabis Program without public review or input, and without any justification being offered by the agency for this use of emergency rulemaking."
 
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Oak-Island

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Myk63 said:
Sounds like IDPH used the emergency rule opportunity to make a bunch of amendments to their rules (they did) that should've been done long ago through normal rulemaking.

It also sounds like JCAR has screw provisional access over by not knowing that they were saying by limiting it to the OAPP unless that can be interpreted as PA 100-1114 is the important part and OAPP was just the name of the bill and not what IDPH was limited to changing.

You know how screwed up IDPH's MCPP websites are with old information? Their rules are just as screwed up. They used the Emergency Rule to clean a lot of those problems up.
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I was kind of reading it as screwing the Provisional Access as well; that is what I was afraid of... looks like 51 more days for me to wait.
 
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Oak-Island

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Myk63 said:
Also I think they did some lowering of prices for some people that they weren't told to do. They probably could've got away with cleaning up problems that have been changed by laws, but making new rules without going through the normal comments is " a threat to the public interest by changing basic tenets of the Medical Cannabis Program without public review or input, and without any justification being offered by the agency for this use of emergency rulemaking."
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Illinois politics at it’s finest...
 
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Spellchek

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Oak-Island said:
At its 12/11/18 meeting, the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules approved the following actions:

OBJECTION & SUSPENSION
With regard to the emergency rule of the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation titled Rules for Administration of the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program (68 IAC 1290; 42 Ill Reg 23202), JCAR objects to and suspends any provision of the rulemaking that does not directly implement any provision of the Opioid Alternative Pilot Program as established by PA 100- 1114. The PA explicitly authorized the use of emergency rulemaking for the creation of the Pilot Program, but not the other changes to the Medical Cannabis Pilot Program that the Department has included in the emergency rule. JCAR finds that this inappropriate use of emergency rulemaking poses a threat to the public interest by changing basic tenets of the Medical Cannabis Program without public review or input, and without any justification being offered by the agency for this use of emergency rulemaking.
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Oof, this is potentially quite bad for provisional access. If the JCAR objects & suspends the IDPH's proposed rulemaking on the same legal grounds, it could undo everything not specifically related to the OAPP. Since provisional access is part of the MCPP, not the OAPP, the new provisional access rules could be stricken. IDPH would then be required to follow the normal rulemaking process to implement provisional access, a process which, according to JCAR, can take between "90 days to a year to complete."
 
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Oak-Island

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Spellchek said:
Oof, this is potentially quite bad for provisional access. If the JCAR objects & suspends the IDPH's proposed rulemaking on the same legal grounds, it could undo everything not specifically related to the OAPP. Since provisional access is part of the MCPP, not the OAPP, the new provisional access rules could be stricken. IDPH would then be required to follow the normal rulemaking process to implement provisional access, a process which, according to JCAR, can take between "90 days to a year to complete."
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Yep... ☹
 
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