Dear Stoner: The holidays are coming up, and I’m thinking about getting a seasonal job for extra income. Something with low responsibility, like retail or working with Christmas trees. I enjoy cannabis recreationally. Do you have any advice on how to surreptitiously find places of employment that do not conduct…
With less than a week until election day, Hillary Clinton will campaign in Arizona.
The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office could see a substantial drop in revenue if Proposition 205 passes, owing to the sudden disappearance of thousands of marijuana-possession cases. Prop 205, which Arizona voters will decide on November 8, would give adults 21 and older the freedom to possess personal amounts of marijuana…
Tony Ryan and Jack Wilborn are voting “yes” on Proposition 205, the initiative to legalize marijuana in Arizona, and they’re encouraging others to do so, as well. Especially law-enforcement officers like them. “If law enforcement wants to improve community relations, they need to vote yes on 205,” says Wilborn, a…
Approving Proposition 205 in Arizona would mean a new level of freedom for adults and help lead a national reform of marijuana laws, Oregon Congressman Earl Blumenauer said in a speech in Tempe on Wednesday. The Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol brought Blumenauer to Arizona State University to speak…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio has hired a D.C. firm to ask Judge G. Murray Snow to recuse himself based on a curious legal argument. Arpaio’s critics cry foul.
The Nuclear Question, Part One: Walking Around Chernobyl After a cold and drizzly morning this past May, the sun is finally out in the Exclusion Zone, the heavily guarded area around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine. The circular-shaped zone — which has a radius of 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) — is located about 60 miles north of Kiev, the capital city of Ukraine, and about nine miles south of the border with Belarus…
Arizona Democratic lawmaker Cecilia Velasquez pleaded guilty on Tuesday to one misdemeanor count of misusing food stamps, despite previous denials and accusations of a “political witch hunt.” Velasquez, one of two State Representatives for Legislative District 29 in Litchfield Park, originally pleaded not guilty back in June, when she was…
“Hidden in Plain Sight” is the title of a new substance-abuse-prevention effort by the office of Arizona Governor Doug Ducey that purports to teach people how drug-using teens hide their stash. The way the leader of the campaign to pass Proposition 205 sees it, the name could also describe what appears to…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s latest campaign commercial offers the best evidence yet that his re-election effort may be foundering like that doomed fishing vessel in The Perfect Storm. Recent polls have shown Arpaio trailing his Democratic challenger Paul Penzone, sometimes by difficult-to-believe margins — as much as 15 points according to an Arizona…
Dear Stoner: Some people say vaporizers will make your weed last longer, but others swear that the old “one-hitter” or “dugout” is the best way to stretch your stash. What are your thoughts on this? Eric Dear Eric: Size, quality, and temperature are the most important variables for vaporizers. I…
Did Jan Brewer put her foot in her mouth this past Friday? A lot of Arizona Latinos think so. In an interview with the Boston Globe this past Friday, the former Arizona governor was asked whether she thinks Latinos will play a significant role in helping Hillary Clinton win Arizona, a…
New campaign-finance records show that billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson forked over $500,000 last week to the group fighting Arizona’s marijuana-legalization measure, Prop 205. Adelson — CEO and founder of the Las Vegas Sands Corporation — has been using his money to challenge marijuana legalization across the country, and his gift…
Authorities are asking for the public’s help to locate a suspect who shot three wild Salt River horses on Friday evening, October 21.
When Governor Doug Ducey announced his appointment of David Farca to lead the Arizona-Mexico Commission last year, he attributed his choice to Farca’s “exceptional entrepreneurial experience.” But records in an ongoing lawsuit in Maricopa County Superior Court against Farca and ToH Design Studio, his Scottsdale interior-design and furnishings company, put a negative…
“Warn the young and the innocent: I’m about to get obscene.” That’s the untraditional opening line in a new campaign video from the guy who might just be Arizona’s most untraditional candidate, Democrat Mikel Weisser. Often seen wearing a baseball cap and peace sign or Bernie Sanders’ buttons while stumping for…
Senate Minority Leader Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, worked with victims of sexual violence as a social worker and knew there were rape kits that were going untested. “I knew it was an issue, but I didn’t know the extent of it,” she tells New Times in an interview this week. Hobbs learned…
If recent polls are to be believed, Sheriff Joe Arpaio trails Democratic challenger Paul Penzone by double digits, signalling the end may be near for the 84 year-old GOP icon, who recently was charged with criminal contempt of court by the U.S. Department of Justice for his obstreperous behavior in…
The 2016 edition of New Times’ Best of Phoenix is out now, making an argument for our status as a border town. Here’s our list of the best our town has to offer when the subject is weed. Best Cannabis Festival: The Errl Cup The Errl Cup was created by Jim…
In a new study of health benchmarks for children, Arizona ranks nearly last. America’s Health Rankings, released last month, provides a comprehensive overview of how all 50 states and the District of Columbia compare with one another on a broad range of health measures, ranging from adequate health insurance to immunizations…
Wolfskin Ink, a popular West Phoenix tattoo parlor whose late proprietor is the subject of this week’s New Times cover story, was firebombed early Wednesday morning by unknown persons wielding a Molotov cocktail. According to Wolfskin’s current owner Rayney Perkins, most of the damage done to the shop was due…
The owner of five Phoenix-area Mexican restaurants was sentenced to a year and a day in prison on Monday for tax fraud related to her hiring of undocumented workers. Isamary Diaz, 56, began Armando’s Mexican Food restaurants with her husband in 1986, later running the businesses herself after their divorce. She began…
