A political strategist has filed paperwork to ask voters to partially repeal the 2020 law legalizing recreational cannabis in Arizona.
The ballot initiative would still allow for possession and purchase of marijuana for personal and medical use, but it would repeal laws that allow for cannabis and dispensary advertising, among others.
Sean Noble with American Encore is behind the proposal.
The 2020 law was approved by a 3-2 margin. And if Noble manages to gain the quarter-million signatures to send the issue to voters, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Law will put up a fight.
Morgan Fox is the group’s political director.
“This is a part of a concerted effort on the part of prohibitionists to roll back voter-approved cannabis legalization, starting with regulated markets," Fox said.
Also this week President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at lowering the drug classification for marijuana.
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Arizona’s junior U.S. senator has introduced bipartisan legislation that would protect insurance companies that sell policies to marijuana businesses. Marijuana is federally illegal, making businesses that sell it more risky to insure. -
The Trump administration reclassified medical marijuana as a less dangerous drug in April. A weekslong hearing on whether to put recreational use in the same category starts Monday in Washington, D.C. -
Respondents to a survey in Colorado expressed interest in trying cannabis as an alternative to pharmaceutical medications and because they had exhausted other interventions. -
The company is a growing operation, and according to Aeriz’s website, it uses 95% less water than traditional soil farming, in a state that desperately needs it. -
The name Trulieve is on more than 20 marijuana dispensaries in Arizona.
