A little more than half of Arizonans are in favor of legalizing marijuana, according to the latest poll on the subject.The Behavior Research Center’s Rocky Mountain Poll asked more than 700 Arizona residents whether they believe the sale of marijuana should be made legal. Fifty-one percent were in favor, and…
Arizona veterans and people 65 and older would get a big break from the state on the cost of a medical-marijuana card in 2015 under proposed rule changes. Since 2010’s historic vote granting Arizonans the freedom to use medical marijuana legally, the fee for obtaining a registration card has been…
The fight for a medical-marijuana dispensary on unincorporated Maricopa County land won a key victory on Wednesday with the Board of Supervisors lifting its ban on the shops. But the five Supervisors — one Democrat and four Republicans — and the county attorney continue to see the case as their…
J.P. Holyoak cuts an intense presence as he prepares to guide news media members and a couple of local state representatives through his medical-marijuana cultivation facility. He appears even more stressed than the average late-30s man with three kids should be. Standing outside the nondescript brick-and-concrete industrial building in a…
Maps released by the state health department show the areas around the state that have the most medical-marijuana patients.All these hot spots are in the Phoenix area, and most are around North Phoenix, Scottsdale, and the East Valley…
On Wednesday, Colorado will make U.S. history when the country’s first retail marijuana stores open to all adults 21 and over. Colorado is connected to Arizona at the famed Four Corners Monument. If you already like its wonderful, camping, mountain fun, hiking, and hunting, you now have another good reason…
Arizona’s medical-marijuana dispensaries sold more than 2.5 tons of marijuana in the past 12 months, officials say. From December 6th, 2012 — opening day for the state’s first state-authorized dispensary, Arizona Organix — to December 9th of this year, 5,279 pounds of marijuana were sold, according to the Arizona Department…
Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery’s bad advice to County Supervisors on medical marijuana has resulted in less county control of dispensary locations. The county is now prohibited from imposing any of its own restrictions on a planned dispensary for Sun City because the county failed to comply with a previous…
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on Monday in Maricopa County Superior Court to resolve the issue of medical-marijuana extracts for a seizure-plagued boy. Saying an oil from a low-THC strain of marijuana has dramatically reduced the seizures suffered by 5-year-old Zander Welton, the ACLU and the Weltons…
Watch your step, medical-marijuana users: Phoenix police say they might bust you for holding the wrong kind of cookie. In researching this week’s cover story about marijuana food products and concentrates, “Half Baked,” New Times asked police to clarify their position on the preparations of marijuana not protected by the…
Senator John McCain appears to be down with marijuana legalization.Hey, instead of a legacy as the guy who was always trying to send the country’s military to some country you’ve never heard of, how about a legacy as the guy who spearheaded marijuana prohibition?…
In another victory for pro-legalization forces, a new Obama Administration policy announced today takes a mostly hand-off approach to state marijuana laws. The news by the U.S. Justice Department comes as a long-awaited response to last year’s elections in Colorado and Washington that legalized the use and sale of marijuana…
A 5-year-old Mesa boy will be Arizona’s 40th medical-marijuana patient under the age of 18.Zander Welton has cortical dysplasia, a brain abnormality, which causes him to have seizures, which several medications, two brain surgeries, and an implant haven’t solved, according to his parents…
The Marijuana Policy Project has named Arizona Republican Representative John Kavanagh the third-worst state legislator in the country.Obviously, the Marijuana Policy Project is taking into account only Kavanagh’s fanatical anti-marijuana crusade, which is just one freaky thing about the guy’s record…
Dozens of medical-pot dispensaries dot the state from nearly every corner since the first one, Arizona Organix of Glendale, opened in November. A recent newsletter to patients released by the state Department of Health and obtained by New Times shows the addresses of 48 of these pioneering businesses, which teeter…
Another favorable court ruling for the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act means that would-be dispensaries have much more time to set up operations. Maricopa Superior Court Judge Randall Warner’s July 29 ruling, released Wednesday, stops the state from denying dispensary approvals because of failure to meet a set deadline…
Phoenix police have busted marijuana activist Billy Hayes for the second time in two years in connection with running an unauthorized medical-marijuana dispensary.Hayes seems to have more lives than a cat, so we’re not betting yet on whether Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery will be able to secure a successful…
Despite New Times’ discovery last month that Phoenix police are routinely using Craigslist to bust people offering to sell “medical marijuana” for the price of a “donation,” the busts continue.Even though some people post lengthy disclaimers in their ads, claiming that there’s no pot sale going on, it’s just a…
Police in Glendale sniffed out a pot grower who had a kindergarten-level excuse for his growing operation — the dog ate his medical-marijuana card.According to court documents obtained by New Times, Charles Stephens III was growing outside of the limitations of the medical-marijuana program anyway…
An unspectacular bust of a low-level pot dealer in North Phoenix got pretty spectacular after police found a powerful bomb at the house.Phoenix police were serving a warrant at the home of the alleged weed salesman, 21-year-old Todd Robertson, when officers found the device that bomb technicians said “would ‘level’…
Despite the fact that Arizona has a medical-marijuana law, that law does not turn a neighborhood weed dealer into a bona fide medical-marijuana salesman.This apparently comes as news to several Phoenix residents, as a New Times review of superior court filings shows that police have busted several dealers over the…
Black people in Arizona are 2.4 times more likely to get arrested for marijuana possession than White people, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.That’s not even the worst part. This ACLU report shows that even though Black people are more than twice as likely than White people to get…
