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Arizona’s Medical Marijuana Program Surpasses 143,000 Patients

Sarah Parfitt

Arizona Marijuana News

Arizona Marijuana Dispensaries

The Arizona Department of Health Services’ (ADHS) latest data report for the state’s medical marijuana program was recently released.

The report, which covers the month of September 2017, reveals that there are just over 143,200 active medical marijuana patients in Arizona. Maricopa County has the largest number of patients with 90,564. Pima County was second with 19,835 patients, then Pinal County with 7,864 and Coconino County with 3,157.

Arizona has a wide age range of patients:

Ages under 18 – 202

Ages 18 to 30 – 35,064

Ages 31 to 40 – 29,506

Ages 41 to 50 – 22,348

Ages 51 to 60 – 24,324

Ages 61 to 70 – 23,593

Ages 71 to 80 – 6,708

Age 81 and older – 1,494

The most common qualifying condition is chronic pain with 120,793 patients claiming it as their medical condition for medical marijuana use. Those with two or more qualifying conditions make up 10,584 patients. The next most common qualifying conditions in Arizona: 3,626 patients with cancer, 1,914 patients with PTSD and 1,163 patients with muscle spasms.

The other medical marijuana qualifying conditions:

Seizures – 1,132 patients

Glaucoma – 967 patients

Hepatitis C – 900 patients

Nausea – 790 patients

HIV/AIDS – 613 patients

Crohn’s disease – 518 patients

Cachexia – 127 patients

Alzheimer’s disease – 68 patients

Sclerosis – 44 patients