Weed Jobs-Medical Dispensary

As of Oct 9, 2021, the average annual pay for the Medical Dispensary jobs category in Tucson is $35,714 an year. Just in case you need a simple salary calculator, that works out to be approximately $17.17 an hour. This is the equivalent of $687/week or $2,976/month. 

While ZipRecruiter is seeing salaries as high as $86,070 and as low as $19,179, the majority of salaries within the Medical Dispensary jobs category currently range between $24,324 (25th percentile) to $41,164 (75th percentile) with top earners (90th percentile) making $62,213 annually in Tucson. 

The average pay range for a Medical Dispensary job varies greatly (as much as $16,840), which suggests there may be many opportunities for advancement and increased pay based on skill level, location and years of experience.

COVID-19 statistics released

 MOBILE, AL. (WPMI) — Alabama has surpassed 15,000 COVID-19 deaths.

These latest numbers prove the pandemic is far from over.

Recent data from the Alabama Department of Public Health shows that COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in 2020 in Alabama behind heart disease and all cancers. ( So heart disease and cancer are 1 and 2) 

Rendi Murphree, with the Mobile County Health Department says although there's a steady reduction in hospitalizations and deaths there’s still a lot of people who need to be vaccinated.

Vaccinated people make up 75% of recent COVID-19 cases in Singapore, but few fall ill.

 SINGAPORE, July 23 (Reuters) - Vaccinated individuals accounted for three-quarters of Singapore's COVID-19 infections in the last four weeks, but they were not falling seriously ill, government data showed, as a rapid ramp-up in inoculations leaves fewer people unvaccinated.

While the data shows that vaccines are highly effective in preventing severe cases, it also underscores the risk that even those inoculated could be contagious, so that inoculation alone may not suffice to halt transmission

Haitian refugees begin arriving in Tucson Az

 TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - Because so many Haitians who have arrived on the US and Mexican border in Texas, some are being sent to Tucson for processing by the Border Patrol.

It’s estimated nearly 15,000 Haitian refugees are living under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas, more than the Border Patrol can process.

Some are arriving in Tucson by bus while other’s are arriving by air. The groups receiving them say that it’s fairly intermittent and the numbers are unpredictable.

Officials declined to say just how many have arrived in Tucson in the past few days, because there’s some concern about how well received they may be.

They are being processed at the border patrol detention facility which was opened in April near the airport.

Once they are processed, they are then sent to Casa Alitas, a shelter run by Catholic Community Services, which told us this afternoon this is not going to be a long term operation.

They say it will short term until the pressure is relieved along the border in Texas.

The Haitians, once they arrive, will be in Tucson for only a short time.

Mexico drug bust- Ensenada

IN two different actions, Mexican Army soldiers secured the drugs in the rural area of ​​the municipality.

ENSENADA.- More than 250 kilograms of the synthetic drug known as crystal and marijuana were insured by elements of the Secretariat of National Defense in the rural area of ​​Ensenada.

Arizona sues President Biden over Vaccine requirements.

 Washington — Arizona's attorney general filed a lawsuit Tuesday that seeks to invalidate President Biden's latest COVID-19 vaccine requirements for federal workers and large companies, becoming the first state to mount a legal challenge to the administration's newest rules.

In a 14-page complaint filed with a federal district court in Arizona, Attorney General Mark Brnovich argued Mr. Biden's new vaccine requirements unconstitutionally discriminate against U.S. citizens because undocumented immigrants apprehended by federal law enforcement are not subject to a federal vaccination requirement. 

While the details of the policies are still being worked out and yet to be made public, the attorney general said they are an "egregious" violation of the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause.

Phoenix Man ," granted a religious accommodation" for COVID SHOT sent HOME (No unemployment)

 PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) — Employer vaccine mandates are popping up more and more daily. Arizona's Family spoke to many Phoenix-area employment attorneys who have plenty of clients facing this predicament. Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson all have vaccines protecting you from getting a severe case of COVID-19. Some employers are forcing workers to get them if they want to continue working there.

More businesses are implementing vaccine mandates.

(Source: 3TV/CBS 5)

One of those workers, who wants to remain anonymous, has worked for his company for over 30 years. He chooses not to get the vaccine due to various reasons. "I've been granted a religious accommodation and I have a medical accommodation pending for the antibodies and I'm waiting for them to respond to that. Currently, they've sent me home," he said.

He'll be home until the company says the threat of COVID-19 is no longer high. "I couldn't believe that they would force somebody to do something like that," he said. 

For now, that employee remains with his company. But if you're fired for refusing to comply with the mandate, a local attorney says you can't get unemployment benefits. "Generally, unemployment compensation is available for employees who have found themselves unemployed through no fault of their own. So, it was not their decision," said Labor and Employment Attorney Alejandro Perez.