Arizona passes new law requiring insurers to cover cancer biomarker tests

Arizona has enacted HB 2144 seen here which requires health care insurers, the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) and its contractors to provide coverage for biomarker testing. Prescribes processes and requirements for the usage and coverage of biomarker testing.

Bills like these are needed as they improve physicians’ abilities to target cancers more accurately which could lead to improved patient outcomes and less healthcare financial waste.

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November Election Yields Gains for Marijuana Legalization

The result of a few November 3, 2020 election ballot measures have yielded additional gains for marijuana. 

New Jersey: In New Jersey voters approved Question 1, which legalized recreational marijuana.

Arizona: Voters in Arizona approved Proposition 207 which legalizes possession and use of marijuana for adults, age 21 years or older, in Arizona and permits individuals to grow up to six marijuana plants in their residences.

South Dakota: The state has legalized marijuana possession and use for adults 21 and older. It also allows individuals to grow up to three plants if they live in a jurisdiction with no licensed marijuana retailers. It allows distribution and sales, with a 15 percent tax. Additionally, the state legislature would have to pass legislation legalizing medical marijuana and the sale of hemp by April 1, 2022.

Mississippi: Initiative 65A was passed, which restricts medical marijuana to terminally ill patients and would require pharmaceutical-grade marijuana products to have oversight by licensed physicians, nurses, and pharmacists.

Montana: Montana has passed two constitutional amendments regarding marijuana. CI-118 allows for the state legislature or a ballot initiative to set a legal age for marijuana use. Additionally, I-190 allows for marijuana possession use and growing for adults 21 or older. The measure allows for the creation of a regulatory scheme around growing and selling cannabis and imposes a sales tax on these goods.

Lanton Law’s Cannabis practice is more than prepared to assist cannabis stakeholders. Whether you are a public or private cultivator, processor, distributor, dispensary, or an ancillary service related to the medical and/or adult-use cannabis business, we can help. 

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• Offer strategic advice on the federal and state outlook

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