Marijuana

Arizona State University is conducted a study of state-registered medical-marijuana patients that will pay consumers who use cannabis at home.

Harvest of Arizona has opted out of its license with Bhang, the California company that owns the recipe and provides the high-quality chocolate for the line of products.

Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen plans to start making medical-marijuana-related businesses report the worth of their personal property, including things like computers and grow lamps. The efforts are expected to result in at least $1 million for local schools this year, plus another $500,000 for other county tax districts, cities, and towns.

Incarcerating people whose most serious crime is a drug offense costs the state more than half a million dollars per day.

U.S. Senator John McCain should explore various cannabis-treatment options for glioblastoma, according to a cannabinoid researcher.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions missed major opportunities this week to rail against legal marijuana, giving marijuana-industry experts some much-craved hope that a crackdown is not imminent.

Harvest of Arizona, the Tempe-based medical-marijuana dispensary company with retail shops in Tempe and Scottsdale, announced a merger on Tuesday that would make it one of the largest players in the growing industry.

Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich asked the state Supreme Court on Thursday to review an appeals-court ruling that struck down a ban on medical marijuana on college campuses.

The governor may be ignoring a simple solution to what’s been deemed a statewide emergency.

U.S. border officers at northern ports of entry have been asking Canadians if they’ve ever used marijuana — and those who answer “yes” get banned from the United States for life. At the southern border, though, officers don’t seem to care about the drug histories of Mexicans.

Arizona’s only marijuana-legalization effort for 2018 saw its Facebook page, with 24,000 followers, go dark this week for unknown reasons.

A Phoenix New Times article about the Safer Arizona 2018 adult-use marijuana-legalization initiative sparked some serious debate online Wednesday and Thursday. Here are some choice posts to ponder.

One of the biggest challenges to Safer Arizona’s campaign to legalize marijuana in 2018 will be the division within the pro-cannabis community that its members helped to create.

Arizona is one of the few states with medical-marijuana programs that requires no testing of dispensary products for pesticides or active ingredients. Experts are divided on whether a testing mandate is needed.

The driver of a hearse filled with 68 pounds of marijuana told federal agents in Arizona on Saturday that he had taken up smuggling because his Tucson funeral-services business “had been slow.”

Blacks have been imprisoned at a high rate for using weed, but they don’t seem to be getting to share in the growing profits.

Phoenix New Times presents the top 20 videos about 420, the national holiday, not to mention time of day, for cannabis advocates worldwide. Watch Lil Wayne prepare for 4/20 with a giant joint, fly over Hippie Hill in San Francisco in a drone, and join 4/20 celebrations around the world.

Canada is preparing to pass historic legislation that would give it the most liberal marijuana laws of any country. Adults 18 and older would be allowed to possess up to 30 grams of cannabis, and grow up to four plants per household.

A spate of recent robberies and thefts at Phoenix-area dispensaries has medical-marijuana representatives talking about the need for improved security and better banking policies.