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The marijuana legalization effort will appear on the November ballot, despite a legal battle mounted by opponents to get it tossed. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Jo Lynn Gentry dismissed a lawsuit brought by 13 individuals and groups, including Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery...

You would be forgiven for not recognizing the nondescript brick warehouse in Phoenix's Grand Avenue industrial district as the site of a high-tech agricultural facility. But as soon as you step inside, the smell of hundreds of marijuana plants is overwhelming. As you make your way through the...

Opponents and proponents of letting Arizona voters decide whether to legalize recreational marijuana get their chances to convince a judge on Friday. A 3-hour hearing is scheduled before Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Jo Lynn Gentry that day. Backers of the initiative get to respond...

Arizonans may raise some eyebrows this fall by voting in favor of a ballot initiative legalizing recreational marijuana, according to the state's former health director. "It's a much more conservative state than Colorado, but we have a real libertarian streak and so we might surprise people...

The Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry has joined forces with leaders from across the state to stop a group that is trying to get a recreational marijuana initiative on the ballot this fall. In a complaint filed in the Superior Court of Arizona, the plaintiffs allege that the circulars...

At a board meeting held on Saturday, February 20th in Washington, DC, the NORML Board of Directors voted to endorse the Arizona Regulation and Taxation of Marijuana Act initiative to legalize marijuana in Arizona. That initiative has now officially qualified for the ballot in November. The...

A new poll indicates that unless younger and more liberal Arizona voters come out in droves in November, things aren't looking very good for the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana like Alcohol's ballot initiative. In a recent survey conducted by MBQF Consulting and OH Predictive Insights, 1,060...

To get a job at Woodworkers Source, potential employees must pass a drug test. There's a good reason for that, said Keith Stephens, owner of the Scottsdale-based lumber-supply business: "Many, many businesses, including mine, have a certain element of risk. In my case it's driving a forklift...

There are many myths about use and possession of marijuana and medical marijuana in Arizona, especially since the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act passed in 2010. Here's what you need to know about what is and isn't allowed, and the legal consequences. Can I be fired for using or possessing...

Who is funding the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol? It's not tourism, that's for sure. And the construction/contractor industry wants no part of it. When signatures were filed during the Regulation and Taxation of Marijuana Act last week, Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol...

We will know a lot more about Arizona after voters go to the polls on Nov. 8. Aside from which Republicans and Democrats will take office, we'll have a good idea whether this state is truly conservative or if it's leaning left. The question that will help define that: whether Arizona is...

Arizona Legalization Campaign Submits Signatures to State Welcome to the Fourth of July edition of Arizona's Week in Weed - an appropriate day to think about marijuana freedom. In this brash, last-of-the-Lower-48, gun-shop-on-every-corner state, it appears certain that voters will weigh in on...

Phoenix - Thousands of signatures to get an initiative legalizing marijuana in Arizona on the November ballot were submitted Thursday, likely making the state one of several seeking to relax laws surrounding pot. Representatives of the Arizona Secretary of State's Office began inspecting dozens...

U.S. SENATE COMMITTEE APPROVES MARIJUANA BANKING A new measure has been approved by the U.S. Senate Committee that would allow banking institutions to offer financial services to marijuana businesses. State-legalized marijuana businesses will soon be able to operate as a traditional business...

U.S. SENATE COMMITTEE APPROVES MARIJUANA BANKING A new measure has been approved by the U.S. Senate Committee that would allow banking institutions to offer financial services to marijuana businesses. State-legalized marijuana businesses will soon be able to operate as a traditional business...

Phoenix, Arizona - 06/27/16 - YiLoLife, Inc., the holding company and owner of the YiLo family of brands, today announces its recent support for the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol ("CRMLA"), the committee backing an initiative to end marijuana prohibition in Arizona. The Company on...

Learn from Colorado's folly. Unless Arizona does something about medical marijuana, legalization won't produce promised revenues. Here's how medical marijuana will hurt Under Arizona law, a person who obtains a medical-marijuana card can purchase 2.5 ounces of marijuana, which is taxed at...

Phoenix - A group of parents launched a Father's Day-themed billboard in support of the initiative to regulate marijuana like alcohol in Arizona. Parents for Responsible Regulation (PRR) held a news conference Thursday in downtown Phoenix, to put up a billboard that reads, "Please, card my...

Unable to qualify for the ballot this year, organizers of one of the initiatives to legalize recreational use of marijuana in Arizona are now trying to kill the remaining measure. Arizonans for Mindful Regulation has quietly shelved its plans to put its proposal on the November ballot...

Unable to qualify for the ballot this year, organizers of one of the initiatives to legalize recreational use of marijuana in Arizona are now trying to kill the remaining measure. Arizonans for Mindful Regulation has quietly shelved its plans to put its proposal on the November ballot...