{"id":101773,"date":"2023-02-11T13:41:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T19:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=101773"},"modified":"2023-10-27T09:07:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T14:07:49","slug":"curbside-pickup-extended-for-medical-marijuana-patients-despite-limited-availability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/curbside-pickup-extended-for-medical-marijuana-patients-despite-limited-availability\/","title":{"rendered":"Curbside pickup extended for Illinois medical marijuana patients despite limited availability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Dilpreet Raju<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Medill Reports<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For the second time in a month on Jan. 25, the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) extended the variance allowing curbside pickup for the state\u2019s medical marijuana patients.<\/p>\n<p>Yet curbside pickup \u2014 or any pickup \u2014 is unavailable in many areas of the state with nearly two-thirds of marijuana dispensaries located in Cook, DuPage, Lake, Will and McHenry counties.<\/p>\n<p>Illinois has seen the number of dispensaries licensed to sell to medical patients stall at 55 since 2018, with 33 of those located in the five Chicago-area counties.<\/p>\n<p>2020 brought about adult-use legalization, with it came a rush of sales, a massive stream of state tax funding and a growing disinterest in medical patients.<\/p>\n<p>Since recreational weed was ushered in, 61 adult-use-only dispensaries have opened, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbez.org\/stories\/illinois-marijuana-craft-growers-businesses-languish\/6cf84cfc-e6d9-4d9c-8473-2f8de5e502f7\">more potentially on the way<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Illinois Medical Cannabis Patient Program, there are 137,138 active medical patients.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccess inequity can leave medical patients without viable options within their communities,\u201d wrote Laura Saltzman, transportation analyst at Access Living, a Chicago-based civil rights group focused on supporting Chicagoans living with disability.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore (medical) dispensaries should include curbside options as it is a necessary accommodation for those with disabilities or immunodeficiencies,\u201d she wrote in a statement to Medill Reports.<\/p>\n<p>Medill Reports mapped out every dual-purpose dispensary \u2014 cannabis dispensers licensed for both medical and recreational sales \u2014 and checked if each offered curbside to their medical patients.<\/p>\n<div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-map\" data-src=\"visualisation\/12598712\"><script src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/resources\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>On Jan. 25, Cecilia Abundis, director of the division of professional regulation, issued the second variance extending the life of curbside pickup for another six months through June 30.<\/p>\n<p>The IDFPR had issued a notice on Dec. 29 to all the state\u2019s medical marijuana dispensers, alerting them the original variance allowing curbside was to expire Jan. 1.<\/p>\n<p>Then, on Jan. 3, Abundis extended curbside for one month through Jan. 31.<\/p>\n<p>The variance established by the IDFPR, the regulatory arm of Illinois\u2019 cannabis market, is centered around the security and recordkeeping subsection of the medical marijuana program law. The IDFPR did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Even with the extension through June 30, there are only 20 dual-purpose dispensaries \u2014 just over a third of all medical dispensaries \u2014 across the entire state that currently provide curbside pickup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore dispensaries should offer curbside pickup for accessibility reasons as not everyone can navigate transit, entry and pickup,\u201d Saltzman wrote.<\/p>\n<p>A few multistate operators, companies that own dispensaries in multiple states, have 10 total dispensaries \u2014 the maximum amount Illinois allows an operator to run. Yet only one corporation, Green Thumb Industries, offers curbside or drive-thru services at all their dual-purpose dispensaries.<\/p>\n<p>Some multistate operators such as PharmaCann and Cresco Labs, who own Verilife and Sunnyside, respectively, have no dispensaries offering curbside pickup.<\/p>\n<p>Cresco Labs and PharmaCann did not respond to requests for comment on this story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEntities that are providing a service need to be accessible for people with disabilities,\u201d said Barry Taylor, attorney and vice president of the Civil Rights Team at Equip for Equality, a legal and advocacy group for people living with disabilities in Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCurbside access is convenient, but sometimes it&#8217;s a substitution for actual accessibility of the particular facility,\u201d Taylor said. \u201cFor people living with disability who want to go into the facility, that should be the first option.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the increasing number of variances, as of Feb. 1, no legislation has been introduced in the Illinois General Assembly to codify curbside pickup for medical patients.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor said if curbside pickup makes sense for someone\u2019s disability, they \u201cwould be entitled to curbside as a reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act. So even if the state removes (the variance) as an option for the general public, we would argue that have that option.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many longtime Illinois medical patients, like Chad Carr, feel forgotten by the state and fed up with the industry.<\/p>\n<p>Carr got his medical card during the pilot program in 2014, back when Illinois mandated background checks and fingerprinting for all applicants.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2014, the Illinois Department of Public Health, which regulates the medical cannabis pilot program, relaxed the measures of not only who could get a medical card but also how someone gets one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou&#8217;re forced to pay a certain price,\u201d said Kevin Kovach, an Illinois medical marijuana patient of over three years.<\/p>\n<p>Kovach, who works at Hatch Dispensary in Addison, a dual-purpose facility, said a \u201cmajority of the customers\u201d for medical marijuana are \u201ctrying to find the best deal that they can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kovach said \u201ca lot of pricing for eighths (of marijuana)\u201d is common across the state. Without sales or discounts, patients are \u201cforced to pay $60 no matter what quality, no matter what cultivator.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carr shared multiple receipts from 2018 where 3.5 grams, or one-eighth of an ounce, of branded marijuana ranged from $30 to $40 standard pricing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe prices didn&#8217;t really start going up until legalization (for adult-) got close,\u201d Carr said. \u201cYou&#8217;re not supposed to be paying this much after being in the program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Medical patients can grow up to five plants in a private residence, but patients without a private residence, like those living in federally assisted housing, are out of luck.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI live in Section 8 housing, so I can&#8217;t grow pot. I&#8217;m on disability and I still have to pay f&#8212;&#8211; $500 a month for my medicine,\u201d Carr said.<\/p>\n<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-687b6fe7 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" data-id=\"687b6fe7\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-31f1dd25\" data-id=\"31f1dd25\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3d022bee elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-content\" data-id=\"3d022bee\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"theme-post-content.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-687b6fe7 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" data-id=\"687b6fe7\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-31f1dd25\" data-id=\"31f1dd25\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3d022bee elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-content\" data-id=\"3d022bee\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"theme-post-content.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<p><em>Dilpreet Raju is a health, environment and science graduate student at Medill. 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