Arizona

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They have what most would want - affluent upwardly mobile parents, living in comfortable homes in the suburbs, going to an elite high school and being groomed for the nation's best colleges.

The Southwest corner of the United States has become an indubitable hotbed for the cannabis movement. Both California and Nevada are preparing their own recreational systems, and although Arizona rejected full-scale legalization last November, they’ve still got a relatively robust medical system in place. The wild west truly is the cannabis capital of the world - that is of course, until you reach the ultra-conservative state of Utah.

Over the weekend, representatives in the Beehive State continued to suppress access to medical marijuana, striking down a resolution that would support treatment for a variety of medical conditions.

It’s petition season.

As states like Arizona and Michigan gear up for a push to legalize recreational cannabis in 2018, a new report from Oregon shows that things aren’t all peachy in the years directly following legalization.

According to an investigative report from Portland’s local NBC station KGW8, the over $75 million in tax revenue collected by the Oregon Department of Revenue has sat in a state-run account since recreational sales started in 2015.

Oregon’s recreational legalization law specified exactly where the cannabis tax money is supposed to go, with 40% heading to the state’s school fund, 20% going to fund drug and

In November 2016, eight states voted to legalize medical or recreational cannabis, marking bittersweet victories on a day that also led to a Donald Trump presidency. Legislatively speaking, it was a day worth celebrating for marijuana activists, but there was still one outlier that prevented the plant from claiming a clean sweep across the country.

By a narrow vote of 52.2 to 47.8 percent, the state of Arizona voted to deny recreational legalization. In a battle that pitted special business interests against pro-cannabis organizations, the latter was unable to find enough support to put Prop 205 over the top.

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A bipartisan group of House Democrats and Republicans recently hashed out a $1 trillion budget for government spending, but none of which will be used to crack down on legal pot.
A new government funding bill will block the Department of Justice from using federal funds to prosecute law-abiding medical marijuana companies operating in legal states, reports the Orange County Register.
The budget’s full text of the marijuana provision is as follows:
None of the funds made available in this Act to the Department of Justice may be used, with respect to any of the States