Marijuana Industry Trade Association’s podcast ‘Unshackled’ presents a wrap-up discussion about the 2022 election results  and what they mean cannabis industry at the state and federal level. Featuring… Jonathan Udell (Rose Law Group cannabis department co-chair & acting co-director of AZ NORML), Maxime Kot, (President of Cannabis Business Advisors), and Sam Richard (CEO of OnPoint Laboratories), with Demitri Downing (founder of Marijuana Industry Trade Association Arizona) moderating …

By Chelsea Curtis | Arizona Republic Arizona could be among the states that benefit most from President Joe Biden’s pardons of more than 6,500 people who were convicted in federal court of simple marijuana possession charges, according to federal sentencing data. A little more than 1,450 people in Arizona were federally convicted of at least one count of simple possession …

(Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Life Changers Investments.) By David Abbott | AZ Mirror Alicia Deals is the poster child for Arizona’s social equity program, and she is willing to pass up an immediate payday — risking no payday at all — in order to try to forge her own path in a complex and heavily regulated industry. Deals is one of 26 …

By David Abott | Tucson Weekly His monthly board meetings were entertaining and sometimes epic, but now Arizona NORML will have to find a new public face, as Executive Director Mike Robinette has stepped down from his leadership position to ride off into the sunset and enjoy retirement. In the interim, the state chapter of the National Organization for the …

By David Abbott | Tucson Weekly 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 haboob, as strike-everything House Bill 2050 provides an olio of legislative fixes that have drawn mixed reactions from across the marijuana firmament. While the bill attempts to address several …

By Eddie Celaya | AZ Daily Star How’s it growing folks? Welcome back to Here Weed Go!, The weekly podcast dedicated to cannabis! Your host Eddie Celaya, the cannabis writer for the Arizona Daily Star and TucsonMarijuanaGuide.com, is coming to you from the Arizona Daily Star Studio. He’s joined in studio by his apprentice, Vic Verbalaitis, who is helping out with episode production. In …

By Kiera Riley | Phoenix New Times Two new amendments to a strike-everything bill moving through the Arizona Legislature could tighten marijuana testing standards and ease access to medical marijuana licenses across the state. Though proponents see the legislative shift as steps in the right direction, especially in light of reports of contaminated cannabis and lags in medical license allocations, …

By Ryan Randazzo | Arizona Republic A high-end marijuana company sold contaminated cannabis to Arizona medical card holders last year, a mistake that highlightsglaring weaknesses in the state’s testing rules designed to protect consumers. Arizona requires marijuana to be tested before it’s sold. A law that took effect more than a year ago is supposed to ensure cannabis is screened for pesticides, heavy …

By Megan Myscofski | Arizona Public Media The Arizona Department of Health Services will hold a drawing next week for social equity marijuana establishment licenses. 1,500 people applied for 26 licenses. The social equity licenses are required by the same ballot measure that legalized marijuana in 2020. Jonathan Udell the political director Arizona NORML, an organization that helps people navigate the …

By Cyrus Guccione | Phoenix New Times A new bill sponsored by Arizona Speaker of the House Russell “Rusty” Bowers that aims to put in place a new department of marijuana regulation has stalled without a hearing. That has raised questions about why it was even introduced. The Mesa Republican lawmaker introduced House Bill 2828 on January 10, stating the …