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CBS5AZ: “Data from the state Department of Health Services show nearly half of the recipients of medical marijuana cards in Arizona are younger than 40. . . . ‘About 90 percent of our qualifying patients have cards because of severe and chronic pain,’ said Will Humble, the director of the Arizona Department of Health [...]
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Longview Daily News: “Longview police busted a Kelso medical marijuana dispensary last week and arrested four people for allegedly selling pot on the side to non-patients. Agents from the Longview Police Street Crimes Unit served a search warrant Thursday at the ‘Grass Rootz’ dispensary”
ABC 10 News: “They dispense snacks and movies, but vending machines in San Diego may soon be kicking out a different product — marijuana. Those medical marijuana dispensaries shut down during a crackdown in 2011 could soon reappear in San Diego, along with some high-tech help. ‘It’s armor-coated. Second, it’s 800 pounds,’ said [...]
NBC 7 San Diego: “FBI agents in San Diego are shifting focus from closing down medical marijuana dispensaries to cracking down on marijuana delivery services. NBC 7′s Tony Shin has this exclusive report.”
azfamily.com: “Vince Borinski says he generally smokes about one joint every day. . . . He is a medical marijuana card holder, and is legally authorized to use and cultivate medical marijuana in the state of Arizona. . . . Borinski was smoking and growing marijuana in his apartment at the Country Park [...]
Phoenix New Times: “On the list of people we’d probably never expect to come out in support of the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act, we’d probably put an anti-drug crusader U.S. Attorney who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan somewhere near the top of the list. However, we’ve seen that man, A. Melvin McDonald, [...]
Arizona Republic: “Inside the suite of a nondescript industrial park in west Phoenix, an armed security guard in a bulletproof vest guards dozens of tents filled with lush plants that supply medical-marijuana patients throughout the state. . . . When they need pointers on yielding the best harvest, they go to Bruce Barnes, [...]
Arizona Republic: “Dispensary owners, patients and advocates of medical marijuana are asking state lawmakers to reconsider an attempt to repeal the 2010 law that legalized the drug to treat certain medical conditions. Instead of taking the medical marijuana issue back to voters, they urged the Legislature Thursday to clamp down on unregulated marijuana [...]
Arizona Republic: “Medical-marijuana patients and advocates are decrying state health officials’ interpretation of a rule that bans growth of the plant within 25miles of an operating dispensary. Authors of the state’s medical-marijuana law intended to limit home growers by forcing people to buy at dispensaries. But amid prolonged legal battles over the law, [...]
The Press-Enterprise: “Riverside will resume its efforts to shut down the medical marijuana dispensaries still operating within its boundaries now that a state appellate court order has upheld the city’s ban on such storefronts. About 10 to 12 medical marijuana outlets remain open, City Attorney Greg Priamos said Monday, Dec. 3, as he [...]
Phoenix New Times: “Arizona Organix at 5301 West Glendale Avenue has become the first medical-marijuana dispensary to be approve by the state. . . . The store can now begin selling marijuana to qualified patients legally, under Arizona law. Unfortunately for Arizona’s 30,000-plus qualified patients, though, the store has no plan to open [...]
AZCentral.com: “Police are searching for three men after a shooting left one injured at a Tempe medical-marijuana co-op [called AzGoGreen Co-op] Thursday evening, authorities said. . . . Tempe police on Friday said the co-op had been under investigation prior to the shooting. Police were investigating whether the dispensary was selling marijuana before it was authorized to [...]
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin: “G3 Holistic owner and Rancho Cucamonga resident Aaron Sandusky, 41, was convicted of two counts of violating federal marijuana laws Friday by a jury which could not reach a decision on four other counts. Conviction on the two counts could still net him a prison term of 10 years [...]
Los Angeles Times: “The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday voted 11-2 to repeal its recent ban on medical marijuana dispensaries, averting a March election on the explosive issue of storefront pot sales.”
Reason TV produced a six minute video about the recent arrest of California medical marijuana dispensary owner Aaron Sandusky. “This is a Constitutional battle, and we’re going to defend our rights,” says Aaron Sandusky who faces federal drug trafficking charges despite operating his dispensary within California’s medical marijuana laws. Sandusky was interviewed after his [...]
The video below should be watched in its entirety by the types of people listed below who personally or in connection with any type of entity grow, sell or distribute marijuana (medical or otherwise) in Maricopa County, Arizona:
People who have a medical marijuana patient or caregiver card. Owners of medical marijuana dispensaries and collectives. [...]
Fox Business News: “Feds Crack Down on California Medical Marijuana Clinics, but Harborside Health Center executive director Steve DeAngelo argues his marijuana clinics obey the law.
Washington Post: “If someone wanted to do business in the small Southern California city of Cudahy, federal prosecutors say one-time city manager Angel Perales had some advice. “Money makes the monkey dance,” Perales told an FBI informant, according to court documents. Perales, Mayor David Silva and Councilman Osvaldo Conde were arrested Friday and [...]
Sally Guarino’s June 20, 2012, video interview of the director of the Arizona Department of Health Services Will Humble on the topic of Arizona’s medical marijuana laws.
Reason.com: “Medical marijuana dispensary owner Aaron Sandusky might be going to jail for a long, long time. . . . Thom Mrozek, the press representative for the Department of Justice’s Central California district, responded to questions about G3 Holistic with this emailed statement: ‘Those associated with the G3 marijuana store ignored a series [...]
The Press-Enterprise: “Federal authorities indicted and arrested six men connected with the operation of G3 Holistic, a chain of Inland medical marijuana dispensaries which federal authorities say were actually for-profit marijuana sales storefronts. G3 tried in 2011 to hide more than $3.3 million it took in ‘to maintain the façade of G3 Holistic [...]
Check out the pictures of the high school and college age Barrack Obama on Buzzfeed Politics: “Barry was quite the accomplished marijuana enthusiast back in high school and college. Excerpts from David Maraniss’ Barack Obama: The Story dealing with the elaborate drug culture surrounding the president when he attended Punahou School in Honolulu [...]
Will Humble, the Director of the Arizona Department of Health Services, wrote the following on his blog on May 18, 2012:
“We’ll wrap up our first week of accepting medical marijuana dispensary Registration Certificate applications today. We’ve received about 40 applications so far this week- and our team has been doing an [...]
Reason.tv: “Should Charlie Lynch spend the rest of his life in jail, or even a single day, for operating a legal medical marijuana dispensary? The sentencing of Morro Bay, California medical marijuana dispensary owner Charles Lynch has been delayed yet again, this time until June 11. According to Reason.tv producer Ted Balaker, who [...]
MyFoxPhoenix.com: “The Compassion First Caregiver Circle Cultivation Facility is located at 11th Ave and Deer Valley. There are 45 caregivers and each caregiver is assigned 5 patients and one tent of marijuana plants. They grow the marijuana, and once the mature plant is harvested, they distribute the correct dosage to their patients.”
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ABC 15.com: “what does a ‘grow house’ look like? ABC15 toured what is believed to be the largest growing operation in Arizona. . . . The home they grow their medical marijuana in looks perfectly normal from the outside, but inside there is an extremely sophisticated green house.”
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The White House and Google teamed up and asked viewers to ask video questions on Youtube. The promoters mislead the public by announcing that President Obama would personally answer the questions that got the most votes from the Youtube viewers. The following video question submitted by a retired Deputy Sheriff had the most [...]
KSAZ Fox 10: “A new one-stop medical marijuana shop is getting ready to open in the valley. But with so many questions about Arizona’s medical marijuana law, many of these facilities have already opened up, only to be shut down. It’s called Elements Caregiver Collective, and the name says it all. This company [...]
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