President Trump’s Press Secretary had ominous words for the country’s budding recreational-marijuana industry on Thursday. That could be good news for Arizona’s medical-marijuana program.
Safer Arizona has refiled its marijuana-legalization initiative for 2018 with the state, adding protections for children and making other fixes.
Organizers of campaign to legalize marijuana in 2018 acknowledged on Friday that the initiative they filed with the state this week has key flaws that need changing.
Build a 50-foot fence — and drug smugglers will attach a catapult to it. On Friday, border agents dismantled a drug-launching machine that had been affixed to the border fence just east of Douglas.
The first-ever clinical study of smoked cannabis for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder took place in Phoenix this week, making medical-marijuana history.
Officials say she had $180,000 worth of marijuana inside.
A Canadian company announced the acquisition of “highly profitable” medical-marijuana companies in Arizona, including the rights to operate two Mesa dispensaries for 20 years.
The total includes about 29 tons of buds and another couple of tons of edibles and concentrates like wax, shatter and hash oil. That’s a 53-percent increase over last year’s 19 tons of cannabis products sold.
Ignorance of the laws — and election news — wasn’t a valid excuse for an aging Arizona toker arrested this week in Golden Valley. After allegedly resisting arrest, Victor Post, 54, told deputies early Wednesday morning that he thought the state had legalized marijuana, according to the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office…
Dear Stoner: I think pot will help my grandfather’s arthritis. Is there a kind of pot product — flower, edible, whatever — you’d recommend? Scott Dear Scott: According to science, you’re probably right. A study by the University of Oxford showed that cannabis-based medicine administered orally helped reduce rheumatoid arthritis…
Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery vowed this week to continue trying to derail medical marijuana in Arizona in spite of another significant and expensive loss in court. On Wednesday, the same day the Arizona Court of Appeals released its ruling against Montgomery, the county, and the state of Arizona, Montgomery…
If you think there’s a certain strain that helps you keep it up or keep it going, then buy up as much as you can.
Debbie Moak, director of the Arizona Governor’s Office of Youth, Faith and Family, worked closely with the group that helped defeat Proposition 205 in November. That much is not in dispute. But did Moak use the resources of her office — including her work time — improperly to campaign against…
If a player gets legal medical marijuana and then fails an NFL drug test, who wins?
It hasn’t even been three weeks since Proposition 205 went down to defeat on election day, but advocates for cannabis-law reform in Arizona already have three new proposals to consider. Here is a roundup of the three proposals: 1. Last week, the Arizona Marijuana Patient Society — a creation of the operators…
Four states legalized recreational marijuana in the same election Trump won, and Arkansas, Florida, Montana, and North Dakota rolled back tight restrictions on medical marijuana.
Arizona’s Prop 205 campaign has finally conceded, ending the high hopes of hundreds of thousands of residents that the state would legalize marijuana. With the first few waves of voting results on November 8, the initiative looked like a goner. The Associated Press called it for the “no” side later…
Arizona didn’t wake up on Monday morning to a change in the vote-count — Prop 205’s still failing miserably. Its chances of passing as officials count the remaining votes this week are about the same as Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk dabbing a hit of shatter on the evening news…
Medical-marijuana doctors and certification centers report seeing an increase in appointments over the two days following the negative election results of Proposition 205. The measure to legalize marijuana in Arizona appears to have failed, though the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol in Arizona is waiting for all the votes…
As evidence mounts that Proposition 205 will go down to defeat, cannabis supporters are left with one burning question: How could this happen in Arizona, when voters in California and as many as five other states approved the legalization of recreational or medical marijuana?
A slim majority of Arizona voters appear to have defeated Proposition 205, leaving the state on the wrong side of history. The marijuana-legalization measure was failing 52.1 percent to 47.9 percent, according to results posted at Secretary of State Michele Reagan’s website this morning, with more than 97 percent of…
Before you vote, read our guide addressing key questions regarding Proposition 205, which would legalize marijuana for personal use in Arizona.
