TUCSON, Ariz. — Another legal battle is heating up over the state’s medical marijuana law. Arizona attorneys have filed a lawsuit demanding the State Health Department accept applications from potential dispensary owners. That was supposed to start happening June 1, but health officials refused after the state filed a lawsuit against the federal government over [...]
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Arizona Medical Marijuana Doctors Coming to Kingman, AZ
June 29th, 2011 
GreenLeafMag Arizona Medical Marijuana Certifications is coming to Mohave County June 17-18th to see Lake Havasu, Bullhead City, and Kingman Medical Marijuana Qualified Patients Arizona Medical Marijuana Certifications (Arizona MMC), the state’s premier AZ Medical Marijuana center, will be seeing patients in Kingman, AZ June 17-18 at the Holiday Inn Express.
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Off-the-job medical marijuana use does not bar firing: Wash. high court
June 18th, 2011 Greenleafaz OLYMPIA, Wash.—The state’s Medical Use of Marijuana Act does not prohibit employers from firing workers for using pot off the job, Washington’s Supreme Court has ruled. The medical marijuana law, adopted by Washington state voters in 1998, does not “provide a private cause of action for discharge of an employee who uses medical marijuana,” nor [...]
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Dwight Holton, Medical Marijuana Foe or Activist for Big Pharma?
June 16th, 2011 Greenleafaz Don’t U.S. attorneys have real things to do with their time? And where did Holton’s orders to go after Oregon medical cannabis patients really evolve from? (SALEM, Ore.) – The top federal attorney in Oregon, Dwight Holton, has written an extensive article carried in the Oregonian complaining at length about Oregon’s medical marijuana laws. It [...]
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Marijuana dispensaries may hit pot holes thanks to AG’s legal challenge
June 11th, 2011 Greenleafaz COTTONWOOD — “It is mostly attorneys and realtors who are scouting Cottonwood area sites for medical marijuana dispensaries,” says Cottonwood long-range planner Charlie Scully, “rather than potential operators.” Until Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne filed a suit on behalf of the state to test the voter’s Medical Marijuana initiative, Scully’s office had received a small [...]
Arizona Sues USA for Right to Medical Marijuana
June 10th, 2011 Greenleafaz PHOENIX (CN) – Arizona sued the United States, asking a federal judge to tell it whether the state’s voter-approved Medical Marijuana Act is pre-empted by federal law. Voters approved the Proposition 203, Arizona Medical Marijuana Act, in November 2010. It decriminalizes “medical marijuana for use by people with certain chronic and debilitating medical conditions,” according [...]
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Franchising’s New Frontier, Medical Marijuana Megastores
June 9th, 2011 Greenleafaz PHOENIX — Franchising has now officially gone to dope. A marijuana hydroponics franchisor, weGrow, opened its first franchise Wednesday. It anticipates its new 21,000 square foot medical cannabis franchise to sell products to an estimated 100,000 medical marijuana growers who reside in the Phoenix area. “We’re not talking tomatoes,” whimsically says Arizona’s first weGrow franchisee Sunny [...]
