The marijuana holiday 4/20 is on Monday. It falls about 10 weeks before the deadline to submit enough signatures so voters can decide in November whether to outlaw dispensaries.
If organizers calling themselves American Encore can gather about 260,000 signatures by July 3 — and if voters approve a subsequent ballot measure called Sensible Marijuana Policy for Arizona — then state law permitting dispensaries would be repealed in 2028.
The unofficial holiday, April 20, is used by dispensaries as a promotion and marketing tool.
Officials with the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety plan to hold a news conference at the Capitol on Monday morning to warn against impaired driving.
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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.
