Business owners and nearly 200,000 patients continued to sell, buy, and use the extracted-resin products, but they feared the worst. In theory, that ruling made illegal some of the most popular products sold in dispensaries, like vape-pen cartridges, shatter and hashish, and infused edibles. The agonizing wait began after the state Court of Appeals ruled in June 2018 that the state's medical marijuana program didn't cover products containing resin extracted from marijuana, and that it had been just fine for medical marijuana patient Rodney Christopher Jones to serve two years in prison for something he bought at a state-licensed dispensary. The stakes hardly could have been higher: If the state's highest court had ruled against concentrates, nothing less than the crumbling of the dispensary industry and suffering of the program's most ill patients would have been the result.
State of Arizona by the Arizona Supreme Court probably brought in business for local therapists. The anxiety before this year's ruling on marijuana concentrates in Rodney Christopher Jones v.
