Arizona’s voter-approved ballot initiative to legalize marijuana took effect on November 30, 2020, while most of the state’s elected county attorneys confirmed they’ve now dropped all cannabis possession cases. Prior to legalization, Arizona was one of a handful of states that allowed felony charges to be brought against a person [...]
After narrowly rejecting a similar measure in 2016, Arizona voters this time round comprehensively approved a ballot proposal to legalize recreational marijuana in the Grand Canyon State. The measure, Proposition 207, passed with 60 percent of the vote. Starting November 30, 2020, when the voter-approved initiative is officially certified, it [...]
The presidential election may be a close call, but residents of Arizona, Montana, New Jersey and South Dakota overwhelmingly voted to legalize recreational cannabis. Mississippi voters said yes to medical marijuana, and voted three to one for Initiative 65 – a citizen-led proposal for the state’s medical marijuana program – [...]
Arizona’s Secretary of State confirmed that a bill to legalize marijuana sales in the state will appear on November’s ballot. The Smart and Safe Arizona Act, drafted by a coalition of marijuana reform advocates, would allow adults 21 and older to possess up to an ounce of cannabis and grow [...]
It looks increasingly likely that Arizona voters will have their say on cannabis legalization in the state after marijuana reform activists submitted almost double the required number of signatures to qualify for the November ballot. Smart and Safe Arizona handed in more than 420,000 signatures to the secretary of state’s [...]
Voters in Arizona may get the chance once again to decide on whether the state should legalize recreational marijuana, after legalization advocates submitted a ballot measure for the 2020 elections with the Secretary of State last month. The previous attempt, back in 2016, failed to pass by only 3 percent [...]
On May 14, Governor Doug Ducey of Arizona signed a bill that, according to his press release, allows the state’s Department of Agriculture to begin a pilot program that will allow universities and those with a license to begin cultivating industrial hemp. A Republican state senator, Sonny Borrelli, sponsored the bill, saying it [...]
According to a research report published by the Royal Economic Society, crime has gone down in U.S. southern border areas that have legalized medical marijuana. The study made use of significant amounts of crime data gathered by local agencies and the FBI over many years to show that the violent [...]
The push to legalize marijuana across the United States gained speed with new wins in California and elsewhere Nov. 8. But those victories won't be enough to stop opponents from trying to stop legal pot. So who are the people that want to kill legalization? How are they using their [...]
Nov. 8 is shaping up to be a very big day for marijuana in America. That may be hard to see amid the chaos that is the 2016 presidential race, but five states will decide next month whether they want to legalize the drug. They include Arizona, California, Maine, Massachusetts, [...]
