Village Voice Media, the parent company of New Times, is the only news outlet in the country with its very own pot critic. His pen name is William Breathes — he’s based out of Denver, Colorado, and works for our sister paper, Westword. He’s written an open letter to the…
The buzz in Tempe high schools has officially been killed.The Tempe Union High School district governing board voted last night to ban “Spice,” and other brands of synthetic marijuana in schools. Because of the decision, students found in possession of any faux-weed will face real-weed consequences laid out by the…
High school students in Tempe may want to prepare for a buzz kill.The Tempe Union High School district governing board will vote tonight on whether the consequences imposed on students found in possession of synthetic marijuana should be the same as those for students busted with real marijuana…
Qualified patients probably will be buying legal marijuana in dispensaries by summer or fall of 2011, a state health official said today. Those who grow their own under Arizona’s voter-approved Proposition 203, however, could be getting high much sooner. In a long news conference this afternoon featuring Will Humble, director of the state’s…
A Glendale man was taken into custody yesterday after running two red lights and crashing into three cars. When asked about the wreck, the man told police “Spice” is to blame.As you may know, “Spice” is a brand of synthetic marijuana, and after (ahem) extensive research, was determined by New…
Do yourself a favor: if you own a white conversion van, don’t drive it near Nogales — especially if you’re carting around more than a ton of marijuana.According to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, last week, ICE agents saw a white conversion van sitting in a parking lot near a…
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…
When it comes to cool stuff hidden in the woods, cops always seem to find it before people who would put it to good use — as is the case with about 1,200 weed plants Yavapai County sheriff’s deputies found about five miles outside of Crown King.Rather than smoke it…
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…
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…
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…
The officer killed during an undercover drug investigation last night has been identified by the Chandler Police Department as 34-year-old Officer Carlos L. Ledesma.Ledesma, a father of two, was part of an operation in which undercover officers tried to buy bails of weed from suspects arrested at the scene, a…
If two pounds of weed were to just show up at your door, what would you do? Smoke it? Sell it? Dump it out on your bed and roll around in it?An elderly Michigan woman went a different route — she took what many would consider a gift from god…
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…
Legislative budget analysts announced yesterday that they expect 66,000 people would qualify to get prescription weed if medical marijuana is legalized in Arizona.That number is based on a similar program in Colorado, which is already in place.If 66,000 Arizonans are prescribed weed, the question still remains: how many people will…
If medical marijuana is legalized in Arizona, 66,000 people would register to be recipients of prescribed pot — says a legislative budget assessment of what the effect would be on the state. Analysts predict that 39,600 people would register and that another 26,400 designated caregivers would bring the number of medical…
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…
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…
Peddlin’ weed is a family affair for the Bowens, a Chandler family that’s tri-generational weed-trafficking biz has come to an end with the convictions of three of its members.Federal authorities announced today that Kingsley Lloyd Bowen, 66, of Brooklyn, New York, is the latest member of the Bowen family to…
Border agents from the Casa Grande Station found a truck containing about 3,300 pounds of marijuana Monday morning near the checkpoint on Federal Route 15.According to Border Agent Colleen Agle, the weed was found when agents responded to suspected illegal activity in the area south of the Federal Route 15…
While you may have been busy grilling burgers over Memorial Day weekend, Border Patrol agents in southern Arizona were on the prowl for weed coming across the border, which, of course, they found in huge quantities. Over the long weekend, agents seized more than 4,100 pounds of marijuana in four separate busts…
Border Patrol agents from the Ajo Station seized more weed in the last three days than Cheech & Chong could’ve smoked in their heyday times 10. In the last 72 hours, agents seized 3,000 pounds of weed, in three separate incidents, near the U.S./ Mexico border south of Tucson and, although…
