Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 9 > Chapter 8 > Article 4 - Alternate Pension and Benefit Plan

• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Department: means the department of health services or its successor agency. See Arizona Laws 36-2801
• Designated caregiver: means a person who:

  (a) Is at least twenty-one years of age. See Arizona Laws 36-2801

• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Independent third-party laboratory: means an entity that has a national or international accreditation and that is certified by the department to analyze marijuana cultivated for medical use. See Arizona Laws 36-2801
• Marijuana: means all parts of any plant of the genus cannabis whether growing or not, and the seeds of such plant. See Arizona Laws 36-2801
• Medical use: means the acquisition, possession, cultivation, manufacture, use, administration, delivery, transfer or transportation of marijuana or paraphernalia relating to the administration of marijuana to treat or alleviate a registered qualifying patient's debilitating medical condition or symptoms associated with the patient's debilitating medical condition. See Arizona Laws 36-2801
• Nonprofit medical marijuana dispensary: means a not-for-profit entity that acquires, possesses, cultivates, manufactures, delivers, transfers, transports, supplies, sells or dispenses marijuana or related supplies and educational materials to cardholders. See Arizona Laws 36-2801
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Physician: means a doctor of medicine who holds a valid and existing license to practice medicine pursuant to Title 32, Chapter 13 or its successor, a doctor of osteopathic medicine who holds a valid and existing license to practice osteopathic medicine pursuant to Title 32, Chapter 17 or its successor, a naturopathic physician who holds a valid and existing license to practice naturopathic medicine pursuant to Title 32, Chapter 14 or its successor or a homeopathic physician who holds a valid and existing license to practice homeopathic medicine pursuant to Title 32, Chapter 29 or its successor. See Arizona Laws 36-2801
• Process: means a citation, writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Qualifying patient: means a person who has been diagnosed by a physician as having a debilitating medical condition. See Arizona Laws 36-2801
• Registry identification card: means a document issued by the department that identifies a person as a registered qualifying patient, a registered designated caregiver, a registered nonprofit medical marijuana dispensary agent or a registered independent third-party laboratory agent. See Arizona Laws 36-2801
• Verification system: means a secure, password-protected, web-based system that is established and maintained by the department and that is available to law enforcement personnel and nonprofit medical marijuana dispensary agents on a twenty-four-hour basis for verifying registry identification cards. See Arizona Laws 36-2801
• Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215