By Jim Algar, Tech Times
April 20, 6:51 AM
Illinois officials have reworked the state’s medical marijuana rules, lowering an annual patient registration fee to $100 and removing a previous ban on gun ownership by pot users.
The regulations will control how the state’s latest medical marijuana laws — which will allow qualifying registered patients to buy a 2.5-ounce supply every two weeks — will be applied.
However, while lowering the cost of a patient card from $150 to 100, regulators said fees required to open a dispensary or grow house would remain at an intentionally high level, to guarantee entrepreneurs would possess sufficient capital for successful operation.
“We want to make sure they have a viable operation,” health department spokeswoman Melaney Arnold said. “We want to make sure patients have an adequate supply of quality product.”