Arizona Cannabis News

Adult-use cannabis dispensaries can legally provide home delivery services under new state regulations that took effect on Friday.

Curaleaf dispensaries in Arizona are selling election-themed cannabis flower strains — Donald OG, Kamala Kush, and Space Jill — named after the Republican, Democratic, and Green Party candidates for U.S. president.

Voters in the presidential battleground states of Arizona and Nevada strongly favored the legalization of medical and adult-use cannabis in two recent polls. Respondents also supported giving banking access to the industry.

Dispensary workers at two Arizona cannabis stores, Zen Leaf Local Joint in Phoenix and the Zen Leaf in Chandler, voted on Tuesday to ratify union contracts with the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) Local 99.

Arizona cannabis retailers sold $1.43 billion worth of product last year including $1.1 billion in adult-use sales and $348 million under the state’s medical cannabis program.

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes ruled that hemp-derived delta-8 THC cannabis products cannot be sold by companies that do not hold an adult-use cannabis license.

In the latest development from an ongoing legal battle involving the Navajo Nation, two tribal members have been formally charged with illegal marijuana cultivation. A lawyer for one of the defendants said that the facility was growing hemp, not marijuana.

The embattled multi-state cannabis operator MedMen announced this week it is selling off its Arizona- and Nevada-based assets as part of its strategic restructuring toward an “asset-light growth strategy” in the company’s core markets.

Workers at a Phoenix, Arizona dispensary went on strike last week after the company, Curaleaf Midtown, failed to negotiate a contract despite workers having voted to join the UFCW Local 99 union last summer.

Phoenix-based cannabis company TILT Holdings Inc. last week abruptly cut ties with three cannabis brands including a social equity entity and paused its partnership with the New York Shinnecock Nation.

Medical cannabis sales in Arizona have fallen to their lowest point yet since the January 2021 launch of the state’s adult-use marketplace.

The Arizona Court of Appeals ruled that some cannabis distribution convictions are eligible for expungement under the state’s adult-use legalization law.

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) last week signed into law the state’s budget bill which includes $5 million to investigate the medicinal efficacy of whole-mushroom psilocybin.

Lawmakers in the Arizona House Health and Human Services Committee advanced a measure this week that would allow patients with autism and PTSD to participate in the state’s medical cannabis program.

Arizona cannabis sales surpassed $1.4 billion last year, largely driven by the state’s adult-use market.

Arizona dispensaries sold $84.5 million worth of adult-use cannabis products in October 2022, a new monthly record for the state.

The Arizona Court of Appeals has ruled that using medical cannabis under the care of a physician while pregnant is not considered child neglect.

Arizona sold $1.6 billion worth of cannabis in 2021 to become the second-largest cannabis market in the U.S. behind California.

Nidhi Lucky Handa is the Co-Founder and CEO of LEUNE, a lifestyle cannabis brand available in California, Arizona, and Maine.

Arizona’s adult-use cannabis sales reached $76.5 million in May while medical cannabis sales fell to their lowest total since January 2021 at less than $45 million.