From the tons sold in state-legal medical-marijuana dispensaries to the tons imported each year from Mexico, Arizona is a place that knows its cannabis. Here’s a roundup of some of last week’s biggest news stories about marijuana that affect the Grand Canyon State… Legal Marijuana Would Be Tax Windfall for…
The height of hypocrisy for this Arizona campaign season may have been reached: The pot prohibitionists who want to keep cannabis a felony in Arizona have accepted a large donation from the alcohol industry, New Times has learned. A spokeswoman for Arizonans for Responsible Drug Policy, the anti-cannabis-legalization group led by…
A solar-powered airplane designed to bring attention to renewable energy departed from the Phoenix area early this morning to continue its attempt at an around-the-world flight. The Solar Impulse 2 spent 10 days in the Valley after pilot André Borschberg landed to the cheers of a small crowd on May…
A jury acquitted a former Phoenix police officer of criminal sexual assault charges last week, clearing the way for his accuser to seek damages via a civil lawsuit – which she’s already in the process of doing. Court records indicate that the 23-year-old woman, whose name New Times is withholding, filed a…
Most Arizona municipalities discontinued their photo-enforcement programs in March after Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich declared they were operating illegally. But now, one city is about to restart its program. Speed- and red-light-cameras are set to begin test-flashing drivers in Scottsdale this week, with full citation-churning activation planned for Friday,…
Arizona Department of Economic Security director Tim Jeffries has boosted security at the agency out of concern about a possible terrorist attack and has encouraged his nearly 8,000 employees to carry Mace or pepper-spray products on the job for self-defense. But wait: There’s more. In addition, under a new security plan, about a…
From the tons sold in state-legal medical-marijuana dispensaries, to the tons imported each year from Mexico, Arizona is a place that knows its cannabis. Here’s a roundup of some of last week’s biggest news stories about marijuana that affect the Grand Canyon State… State Supreme Court: No Immunity for Doctors…
Arizona’s main marijuana-legalization campaign was the butt of jokes and stereotypes on network TV on Wednesday — which is totally cool when the comedian is Jimmy Fallon. Fallon, host of The Tonight Show, gave a shout-out during his Wednesday-night monologue to the clever billboards rolled out in Phoenix and Tucson this…
The Phoenix Police Department is launching a series of anti-DUI memes to go along with a Cinco de Mayo enforcement effort this weekend. Using photographs well-known for their meme-making potential, the department’s “web ‘guru,'” Officer T. “Chad” Amos, created a series of 14 public-service announcements that will launch at 5 p.m. on the PPD’s…
Surveys of Arizona voters in recent months showed that a measure to legalize marijuana for all adults 21 and older — likely to materialize on this November’s ballot — could use some help. Donald Trump to the rescue? Possibly. Now that Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee, supporters of marijuana…
The Arizona Department of Public Safety should not have granted private-investigator licenses last month for two photo-enforcement companies, anti-photo-radar activists claim. Local attorney Shawn Dow says he and the Arizona Campaign for Liberty are calling on DPS director Frank Milstead “take action,” alleging that “multiple factors should have automatically disqualified…
National advertising and digital-marketing company AdCellerant and Voice Media Group, parent company of the Phoenix New Times and six other newsweeklies, have launched a programmatic advertising network for cannabis businesses. Programmatic advertising refers to a variety of methods by which display ads are purchased and published automatically, with the idea…
The solar-powered airplane Solar Impulse 2 landed at a Phoenix-area airport on Monday night, completing a leg of its around-the-world goal to cheers from an enthusiastic crowd of well-wishers. Slowly but surely, the electric airplane is making history: It is powered solely by the solar panels that cover its wings,…
From the tons sold in state-legal medical-marijuana dispensaries to the tons imported each year from Mexico, Arizona is a place that knows its cannabis. Here’s a roundup of some of last week’s biggest news stories about marijuana that affect the Grand Canyon State: Arizona Health Department Says It’ll Grant About…
The two photo-enforcement companies that operate in Arizona have obtained private-investigator licenses from the state in order to comply with last month’s opinion by the state Attorney General’s Office. On March 16, AG Mark Brnovich issued his opinion that photo-enforcement companies need P.I. licenses to handle “evidence to be used…
Plans for competing ballot measures on solar power were scrubbed this week as peace broke out in the battle between rooftop-solar companies, utilities, and Republican lawmakers. Both sides in the debate over rooftop-solar payments agreed to sit at the negotiating table over the next two weeks in a settlement deal…
Twelve Arizona college students were suckered out a total of $118,000 two years ago in an elaborate scam involving alleged con artists posing as potential employers. The real losers, though, seem to be the four men who were arrested this morning by special agents of the Arizona Attorney General’s Office…
The top Republican fundraising company that employed drug-bust suspect Emily Pitha also raised money for Arizonans for Responsible Drug Policy, an anti-marijuana-legalization group. Pitha and her boyfriend, Christopher Hustrulid, were arrested this week after a raid on their Phoenix home turned up large quantity of contraband and evidence of drug-dealing…
An 18-year-old Grand Canyon University student remains in a medically induced coma at a Phoenix hospital following a long fall from a Camelback Mountain cliff face last week. “It’s terrible,” said Allison Castro, mother of victim Makayla “Kayla” Castro, in a TV interview from a hospital waiting room. “You just…
A federal jury has awarded a total of $28 million to Phoenix businessman Marc Wichansky, who alleged that his ex-partner assaulted him, committed fraud, and stole his company. Arizona U.S. District Judge David Campbell remarked that the “business divorce” between former friends and partners Wichansky and David Zowine was the…
Federal authorities arrested an arson suspect last week in the same area where a string of suspicious fires worried residents of a neighborhood on Mount Elden in Flagstaff. Court records filed on Monday detail how Officer Charles Emerson of the U.S. Forest Service and another officer nabbed Shawn Patrick Farnham,…
Arizona has marijuana on the brain — and no wonder: The state has one of the country’s biggest medical-marijuana programs, its voters may approve an adult-use legalization initiative at the ballot in November, and it shares a border with one of the world’s biggest producers of cannabis. Here’s a roundup…
