Arizona Cannabis News

Arizona selected recipients for the state’s 26 widely sought social equity cannabis licenses.

The Arizona Court of Appeals ruled that a mother enrolled in the state’s medical cannabis program per a doctor’s recommendation cannot be charged with neglect if their newborn baby tests positive for cannabis.

Arizona announced it will be holding its social equity drawing this April for the 26 adult-use cannabis licenses set aside for the program.

A cannabis testing lab in Arizona was fined $468,000 in civil penalties following repeated violations of state rules and regulations.

Arizona’s community colleges received more than $31 million from cannabis-derived taxes last year.

Arizona set a new record in November, topping $60 million in monthly adult-use cannabis sales for the first time.

The University of Arizona has partnered with cannabis education company Green Flower to offer three eight-week, online courses for certificates in the Business of Cannabis, Cannabis Law and Policy, and Cannabis Healthcare and Medicine.

Arizona has received more than 1,500 applications for the state’s 26 cannabis social equity licenses, each worth potentially near $10 million. The licenses will be awarded in a random lottery selection next spring.

In its first year of adult-use cannabis sales, Arizona has raised $106 million dollars in tax revenue. The money is earmarked for public safety initiatives.

Bank of America suddenly canceled the account of cannabis research firm Scottsdale Research Institute despite being fully compliant with federal laws and operating with public DEA approval.

Arizona has identified 87 zip codes where applicants for the state’s cannabis social equity licensed must have lived in recent years.

The Arizona Republic runs a fearmongering headline and presents a one-sided story in their coverage of accidental consumption of cannabis by children.

Critics of Arizona’s social equity cannabis rules say they don’t go far enough because the social equity licenses can be freely sold to anyone after they are awarded, whether or not the new holder would qualify for the program.

The Phoenix-based Clarendon Hotel and Spa announced it would dedicate a wing of its hotel for cannabis consuming guests, billing itself as the state’s first “cannabis-friendly hotel.”

Since cannabis was legalized in Arizona, the state has seen a rapid increase in hiring for cannabis jobs.

Arizona’s Supreme Court launched a new website to help people determine whether they are eligible to have their cannabis-related criminal records cleared.

Kathryn Blackwell & Chelsea Mulligan are co-founders of The Open Dør, an Arizona-based cannabis dispensary franchising firm.

Peggy Noonan, the entrepreneur behind Arizona’s first scratch-made cannabis kitchen, died at age 73 after a four-year battle with leukemia.

Hip-hop legend and Friday film franchise star Ice Cube personally developed and released a new cannabis line in four adult-use markets.

According to the Leaflink 2020 Wholesale Cannabis Pricing Guide, wholesale flower prices increased 18% nationwide last year while edibles/ingestibles saw an 11% price decrease.

Adult-use cannabis sales have started in Arizona, making it the quickest state so far to move from voter approval to a fully-fledged recreational marketplace.

Cannabis dispensaries in Arizona could start serving adult-use customers within a day or two, about two months after voters there embraced full legalization.