Marijuana

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.

A payment processor for marijuana dispensaries has been ordered by the Arizona Corporation Commission to pay back retirees hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Workers at a midtown marijuana dispensary say they’ve ratified a union contract with the company Curaleaf, which is publicly traded in Canada.

The Trump administration has reclassified medical marijuana — moving it from a Schedule I to a Schedule III drug.

The federal government has reclassified state-licensed medical marijuana as a less dangerous drug, and effects of the decision will be felt in Arizona.

The marijuana holiday 4/20 is on Monday. It falls about 10 weeks before the deadline to submit enough signatures so Arizona voters could decide in November whether to outlaw dispensaries.