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In another legislative session that is dragging on to the monsoons of summer, one lone cannabis bill has settled over the statehouse like a dusty...

The 2022 legislative session kicked off on Jan. 10, so it is time once again to start the long slog through the sausage of lawmaking...

Tucson lights up on 4-20, sales tax helps public safety Tucson lights up on 4-20, sales tax helps public safety By Megan McNeil | April 20, 2021 at 6:35 PM MST - Updated April 20 at 6:35 PM TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) -It’s a day for those who partake in marijuana to celebrate it. 4-20 is a bit of an unofficial marijuana holiday, and it’s proving good for business at dispensaries. “Yesterday and today have been the biggest days we’ve ever had,” said Michael Crawford, CEO prime l...

Ana Brotons helps George Roop, Prime Leaf’s first adult use customer. As the rules surrounding adult-use recreational pot work their way through processes from the Arizona Department of Health Services to the municipal level, the City of Tucson is zeroing in on updates to its zoning ordinances to help adjust to the new reality of legal weed. A series of meetings and study sessions considering updates to the dispensary zoning code began in August 2020 with an emergency resolution to addres...

Outside midtowns Harvest cannabis dispensary, Sammy Magro said she had no problem standing in line to get legal THC cartridges instead of purchasing them off the black market as she had done for years. It was a sunny day in the low 70s and the line was moving quickly, so Magro didnt mind the wait, she said. "Im excited about this. Its my first time buying legally," Magro said. "Im looking for cartridges today because its better than getting them off the street because theyre p...

In a move that gave local cannabis watchers—and many dispensary owners—a serious case of whiplash, the Arizona Department of Health Services gave the green-light to recreational pot sales last week, catching a lot of people in the industry off guard. Harvest Enterprises, Inc., founded by CEO and Tempe native Steve White, had the first-ever Arizona adult-use sale in its Scottsdale location and Harvest became the first Tucson-area dispensary to sell recreational marijuana, w...