Gilbert could have up to five medical-marijuana dispensaries. Mesa expects as many as 10. Officials in both east Valley cities expect to vote on zoning guidelines next month that prepare for the marijuana stores authorized by the passage of Proposition 203, according to an article published today in the East Valley Tribune. Bureaucrats want…
Qualified patients probably will be buying legal marijuana in dispensaries by summer or fall of 2011, a state health official said today. Those who grow their own under Arizona’s voter-approved Proposition 203, however, could be getting high much sooner. In a long news conference this afternoon featuring Will Humble, director of the state’s…
The passage of Proposition 203 will go down as one of the most memorable elections in state history.The final numbers are in, and Arizona’s medical marijuana has won by 4, 341 votes. There’s no turning back. The Maricopa County elections department, in a bulletin sent moments ago, reports that Monday’s…
Andrew Myers of the Marijuana Policy Project has been on edge since Election Day. Then came the 5:35 p.m. update of vote results. Observing the results from a small office in downtown Phoenix with his girlfriend and a couple of others, his demeanor suddenly changes. Instead of looking worried, he…
Proposition 203 is now winning. Arizona’s medical marijuana bill leads by 4,200 votes following counts of provisional votes today. Thousands of votes remain uncounted, but the new trend looks like it will be hard to beat. …
Andrew Myers, the campaign manager for Proposition 203, tells New Times tonight that he’s very hopeful the medical marijuana initiative will come out on top when all the votes are in. It seems like wishful thinking, but official figures show he might be right. Myers points out that provisional ballots…
About two years ago, the Arizona Department of Public Safety investigated whether one of its officers had a photo on his computer that depicted a sexual assault in his house — by a bulldog. The alleged incident, much talked about among DPS employees and investigators, is said to have occurred…
Proposition 203’s chances of passing rose a bit today, then fell some.With 89,000 early ballots and provisional ballots left to be counted, the game isn’t over yet.But the “yes” votes just can’t seem to get a solid break.Just before 4 p.m., the gap between “yes” and “no” votes closed further…
The Washington D.C.-based Campaign for Community Change apologized today for mailing an ad in Arizona that likened the opponent of Congressman Raul Grijalva to “white bread.”Grijalva, a Democrat who’s now infamous for urging a boycott of Arizona, barely won his election against Ruth McClung, a 28-year-old political newcomer and Republican…
No matter which way this thing goes, it’s been a hell of a race. The fight for Proposition 203, Arizona’s medical marijuana measure, is still on as of Monday evening. Another positive blip for 203 in the late vote counts put the measure at only 3,800 votes behind, according to the latest figures…
A liberal organization funded a pro-Raul Grijalva mailer this election season that likens the Congressman’s opponent to “white bread.” Gila Courier, a conservative blog, pointed out the mailer on November 1, the day before the election, along with a failed prediction that the Democrat incumbent would lose to Ruth McClung,…
Arizona’s medical marijuana proposition fared poorly in vote counts over the weekend, reversing the temporary positive trend we wrote about on Thursday. The numbers now stand at 773,555 against, and 766, 923 for Proposition 203, for a difference of 6,632. Election officials must have encountered a random pocket support on…
Proposition 203 seems to be gaining an edge as officials continue to count votes.The ballot measure that would legalize medical marijuana in Arizona was about 6,500 votes behind as of last night.It’s closing the gap: The difference now is only 3,870 votes…
Lester Pearce, the Justice of the Peace for the North Mesa precinct (and brother of State Senator Russell Pearce), has a lot of interesting ideas about the U.S. Constitution. And the former lawmaker, who’s poised to become the next presiding judge of the justice courts, has been taking those ideas on tour. He taught…
We’ve crunched the latest numbers, analyzed the trend and spoken to campaign experts about the incredibly close race of Proposition 203. Our take: Arizona’s medical marijuana measure will fail without a minor miracle. But we won’t burst anyone’s bubble yet, ’cause the race isn’t finished. As you’ll see below, the Prop…
Don’t exhale just yet, because Proposition 203 could still win. The medical marijuana measure is behind by only 6,732 votes out of 1.3 million cast, as of 9:47 a.m., the most recent update on the Arizona Secretary of State’s Web site. All but two of 2,239 voting precincts in the state…
Terry Goddard won’t follow in his father’s footsteps as Arizona Governor, at least not this time.The high-profile Democrat was just one more body thrown on the pyre following Arizona’s Election Day slaughter by Republicans. Goddard conceded to Governor Janice Brewer at about 10 p.m., admitting, “This is not a great…
Arizona voters sent a strong message to labor unions in today’s election, appear to have banned affirmative action in state and local government programs, and rejected the idea of getting forced to buy government health insurance.The ballot measures supporting the above (mostly symbolic) ideas won by large margins with 96…
The medical marijuana initiative, Proposition 203, is just one of several statewide races that look like they might end in a photo finish. At 10 p.m. approaches, here are some of the closest ones according to the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office: * Prop 203 — With 70 percent of…
We feel confident enough at 9:30 p.m. to call a few of the bigger races tonight, even with lots of precincts still counting ballots. Jan Brewer over Terry Goddard, Governor John McCain over Rodney Glassman, U.S. Senate Trent Franks over John Thrasher, Congressional District 2 Ed Pastor over Janet Contreras, CD4…
Proposition 203 is failing to live up to expectations of a landslide victory as very early ballots come in, with the medical-marijuana measure trailing 52 percent to 48 percent. These are the results of about 430,000 early ballots in Maricopa County. The early votes show Democratic Congressman Harry Mitchell trailing Republican David Schweikert by a hefty 10…
By now, the sale of the Tempe’s Centerpoint Towers was supposed to be a done deal. Workers should be buzzing all over the 22- and 30-story towers, which have sat unfinished and vacant (except for the occasional trespassers) since 2008. Zaremba Group, the Ohio-based company that wants to buy the towers, expected construction…
