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Recreational marijuana OK a defining moment
For thousands of years cannabis has been used for food, fuel, fiber, medicine, spirituality/religion, health, and leisure. And now in Arizona we can appropriately call its use recreation. I, for one, believe that this expanded access to legal cannabis for responsible adult “recreational” use – by any definition – is healthy for our communities.
Ballot measure to legalize recreational marijuana goes to court
Foes of legalizing adult recreational use of marijuana in Arizona are trying to keep the issue from going to voters in November. Legal papers filed in Maricopa County Superior Court... […]
Court rules ballot measures can’t use online signature gathering
Arizona groups still trying to put a measure on the November ballot are going to have to try to get needed signatures the old fashioned face-to-face way despite the COVID-19... […]
Coronavirus puts brakes on signature gathering for ballot measures
Initiatives face a strong possibility of not collecting enough signatures to land on the November ballot with the COVID-19 becoming widespread, and the latest projections of cases could mean a shelter-in-place policy is coming.
Campaign launches to oppose recreational marijuana ballot measure
The ballot initiative to legalize recreational marijuana has an opposition campaign, but the advocates trying to legalize it say their opposition made a rookie mistake.
Stacy Pearson: A PR pro with no BS
Stacy Pearson used to ask the questions and now she prepares how to answer them.
Fate of most 2020 bills met at Legislature’s deadline
Silent death has come for about two-thirds of the 1,842 bills and resolutions introduced this year in the Legislature.
Borrelli again targets medical marijuana dispensary kitchens
A state GOP senator wants to allow the Arizona Department of Health Services to inspect medical marijuana kitchens without giving notice and blames the marijuana industry for killing the same effort last session.
2nd group launches bid to legalize recreational pot
A new cannabis group that formed to oppose a 2020 marijuana ballot initiative to legalize recreational use launched its own competing effort November 13 with plans to have legislators send it to the voters in lieu of collecting signatures.
Group to write alternative to recreational marijuana ballot proposal
A group of businesses has united to oppose the initiative being circulated to legalize marijuana for recreational use.
Recreational marijuana initiative written from lessons learned
Nearly three years after a narrow defeat at the polls, a new attempt to legalize recreational marijuana is underway.
