Marijuana Dispensary Entrepreneurs Denied Corporate Status for Now; Wait for Election, Corporation Commission Says

  Eager entrepreneurs who want to get moving on their marijuana dispensary business have been denied corporate status by the Arizona Corporation Commission. Rebecca Wilder, spokeswoman for the commission, tells New Times that at least three would-be dispensary companies have recently been sent form letters informing them they’re just too early. Selling marijuana to qualified medical patients…

Why Medical Marijuana is Awful — Compliments of Keep AZ Drug Free

Prescription pot has become a hot topic in Arizona lately because of Proposition 203.Prop 203 would allow people suffering from various ailments to be prescribed marijuana by a doctor. It will appear on the ballot in November.A lot of people don’t like it, but it’s not just conservative party-poopers who…

Morning Poll: Is Medical Marijuana a “Danger to Our Communities?”

The Arizona Cardinals got political yesterday and gave $10,000 to an organization devoted to defeating Prop 203.Prop 203 will be on the November ballot and would allow chronically ill or severe-pain patients to buy marijuana from state-licensed clinics with a doctor’s approval.The group to which the Cards gave the money…

Cops Find 400 Pounds of Weed and 49 AK-47s at Phoenix Home

Score one for the good guys — Phoenix police, responding to a possible fight at a Phoenix home, stumbled upon 400 pounds of weed and enough guns to arm a small drug cartel. The Phoenix Police Department got a call on Wednesday morning about the fight that was going on…

Border Agents Bust 17-Year-Old Weed Smuggler Twice in Five Days

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.A 17-year-old Mexican kid seems to be heeding that advice — he was caught trying to smuggle weed into the United States twice in just five days.On Sunday night, border agents spotted the kid riding his bike by the Colorado River near…

Nearly 750 Pounds of Weed Found Abandoned in Arizona Desert

It’s been more than a week since we last got news from Border Patrol agents about some enormous amount of marijuana getting found in the Arizona desert. Frankly, we were beginning to think the drug cartels had called it quits — then Friday happened. Border agents from the Sonoita Station got a report then of a…

Rapper “The Hard Money Lender” Indicted on Drug-Trafficking Charges

www.automaticmusicgroup.net ​If you’ve never heard of rapper/producer “The Hard Money Lender,” don’t worry, neither have we.  But his days ballin’ as a Los Angeles rap mogul may have come to an end since federal authorities are ordering him to turn over about $25 million worth of assets they say were…

U.S. Border Patrol Nabs More Than 1,600 Pounds of Weed in One Weekend

U.S. Border Patrol agents in Arizona have been pretty busy in their war-against-weed, nabbing more than 1,600 pounds of the icky in three separate busts last weekend.The first of the weekend’s three big busts happened Friday afternoon when agents working at a checkpoint on Highway 90 near Wilcox found about…