By Rose Law Group Reporter (Scottsdale, Ariz.) Rose Law Group has named Dan Gauthier as Co-Chair of its Cannabis Law Department. Rose Law Group has been advising clients on cannabis law for more than 13 years, prior to the introduction of Arizona’s medical marijuana act, Prop 203, in 2010. Gauthier has spent his career implementing complicated transactions, a significant portion …

  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, …