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High ho, high ho, it’s off to vote we go! With recreational marijuana now on the shelves of many local dispensaries, Tucson Weekly is launching...

In the wake of the passage of Prop 207 legalizing adult-use recreational cannabis, lawmakers are struggling to define what constitutes driving under the influence of the drug. One recent bill, HB 2084 introduced by John Kavanagh (R-Fountain Hills), seeks to set a blood level limit of 2 nanograms per milliliter to prove impairment, but the arbitrary setting of THC blood-level limits is not an accurate measure of intoxication, according to cannabis experts. There is also a dearth of field tests that would give law enforcement officers an effective way of measuring those limits. "Per se" l...

A lawsuit working its way through the Arizona court system is challenging Arizona Department of Health Services' denial of four dispensary licenses in rural Arizona counties, as a Phoenix-based company attempts to fill empty spaces in the cannabis landscape and increase patient access where there currently is none. The lawsuit pits four LLCs—Joshua Tree, Cactus Wren, Saguaro and Desert Tortoise health centers—against AZDHS, challenging the denial of applications for dispensary licenses in Apache, Greenlee, La Paz and Santa Cruz counties. The initial complaint was filed in July 2020 and al...

As scores of Arizona voters rejoiced after hearing Proposition 207 passed last November, just as many questioned whether they still needed to renew their medical marijuana card— at a cost around $250—when their favorite dispensary would soon be selling a consumer-grade product. On the other hand, employers across the great Grand Canyon State heard this news and immediately had visions of their employees showing up to work as if they were attending a Snoop Dogg concert. While there are some legal questions about workplace weed that remain to be answered, Chris Mason, labor and employ...