By Edward Celaya | Arizona Daily Star According to the TSA, official federal policy toward marijuana and marijuana-derived products is that they remain illegal and prohibited from aircraft. But inspectors are not actively screening for the drug, the agency says. It’s the time of year when everyone is celebrating a holiday, and with all that cheer can come stress — from planning, …

By Ryan Randazzo | Arizona Republic A lawsuit filed Thursday seeks to stop Arizona’s social-equity marijuana shop program and prevent big dispensaries from snapping up the 26 lucrative licenses that are intended to help people harmed by old marijuana laws. The litigation could delay the state’s plans to issue the licenses early next year. The complaint filed in Maricopa County …

By Jacob Sullum | Reason When Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D–N.Y.) unveiled a “discussion draft” of a marijuana legalization bill last July, he said he wanted to start a conversation that would eventually produce legislation resolving the longstanding conflict between the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) and state laws that allow medical or recreational use of cannabis. But his 163-page …

By David Abbott | Tucson Weekly October was a big month for Prop 207’s Social Equity program, as the Arizona Department of Health Services released its final rules for the program that is intended to redress some of the damage done to disadvantaged communities throughout the decades-long war on drugs. ADHS dropped the rules in mid-October after an earlier release …

By Edward Celaya | Arizona Daily Star The Arizona health department released a list of 87 ZIP codes, eight of which fall wholly or partially in Pima County, that will help determine the eligibility of applicants to the state’s “social equity” program for two-dozen licenses to own marijuana dispensaries. “(The Arizona Department of Health Services) conducted an extensive analysis concerning …

By Edward Celaya | Arizona Daily Star When Arizona voters approved Proposition 207 last November, they did not just choose to join the more than 15 other states and the District of Columbia to legalize an adult-use marijuana program. They also choose to implement a new tax on the sales of the drug. With the news last week that Arizona’s …

By Edward Celaya | Arizona Daily Star Drive up Interstate 10 and you’re bound to notice them: Billboards for marijuana dispensaries, most of them with addresses somewhere in the greater Phoenix area. In fact, the number of active and open dispensaries in Maricopa County — 86, as of this month — outnumbers the amount of operating dispensaries in the rest of the …

By Katya Schwenk | Phoenix New Times Since July 12, hundreds of thousands of people convicted of low-level marijuana charges in Arizona are eligible to have their records scrubbed clean, thanks to a provision of Proposition 207, the marijuana legalization ballot measure that voters passed last November. But as courts begin to process these new expungement petitions, one new ruling in Pima County is …