Marijuana

“It’s a shit show. It’s all fucked up.”

“We did not go into this lightly,” says Brian Ruisinger, president and CEO of Republic Bank of Arizona.

With Arizona’s limited number of dispensary licenses, each winner is nearly guaranteed a long-term fortune — but first they must invest a fortune.

What happens when women start finding their way to positions of power in the marijuana business?

“If you had told me 10 years prior [that I would be working for a cannabis company], I would have just laughed in your face.”

The draft rules by the DHS are “really insulting,” says one license seeker.

Two national trends — legal weed, and everybody in the world having a podcast — have collided of late in Arizona.

The three-dispensary chain offers express pickup for online orders, patient-only specials, and other MMJ-friendly services.

“Here we are talking about football players with inflammation, the onset of arthritis, with sleep issues, with anxiety, PTSD and all this crazy stuff, and here’s this natural plant that can help with all that.”

“When I recall those days, I try not to think about how grown women were giving me drugs and leaving me to look after their kids.”

The dispensary closed abruptly in early March.

For those with plant-based diets, most munchies have ingredients besides THC you don’t want to consume.

Chamberlin has directed his creative energies toward a question that’s been bugging him: Why cannabis edibles routinely taste so bad.

The lucky winners will become instant millionaires.

It may still be worth getting a med card.

Now serving the world’s safest speedball.

The jobs will end in July.

How to really light it up on the big day.

Peggy Noonan founded Cornucopia, later COPIA, in 2014.

Dispensaries plan to provide tents, misters, fans, and maybe even food trucks to help customers beat the heat in lines.

With the passage of recreational marijuana in Arizona, new cannabis brands are taking on increased importance in the industry.

Nathan Freddy fought the law … and the law lost.