Sam Harris-Brown

Sam Harris-Brown has lived in Arizona since 1985 and has covered issues related to marijuana laws and policies since 2010.

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Arizona Legalization—Apparently a No

This deeply red state’s attempt to legalize recreational marijuana has apparently failed. The secretary of state’s office shows votes against the measure outpace votes for it,

Nevada Legalizes!

Sin City will have a new attraction for tourists, now that the already tolerant Nevada has joined California and Massachusetts and has opted to count marijuana

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Arizona Legalization—Apparently a No

This deeply red state’s attempt to legalize recreational marijuana has apparently failed. The secretary of state’s office shows votes against the measure outpace votes for it, 52 percent to 48 percent with almost all the vote counted. It lost after various late-in-the-race donations in the six and even seven figures help to flood the state’s airwaves with misleading ads against legalization.

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Nevada Legalizes!

Sin City will have a new attraction for tourists, now that the already tolerant Nevada has joined California and Massachusetts and has opted to count marijuana use among the personal choices that government doesn’t get to dictate. The state’s libertarian streak shone through, with reports saying the measure would indeed pass. The proposition will let adults in Nevada have and use

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Legalization’s Dirtiest Campaign—Arizona—Comes Down to the Wire

Those hoping for a decisive victory Tuesday night for Arizona’s campaign to legalize marijuana may be in for an unexpected wait, with polls showing a split electorate, and the campaign even saying it could take days for the final result to be known. It took several days for the vote tally to slowly tip toward passing medical marijuana in the

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In Arizona, Top Prosecutor’s Office Profits from Marijuana Arrests

In Arizona the fight to maintain marijuana prohibition has been led in recent years by Bill Montgomery, the top prosecutor in the state’s largest county. He’s the face of the campaign opposing a ballot measure that Arizona voters will either approve or reject in two weeks. His repeated lawsuits aimed at derailing the medical-marijuana system approved in 2010, which have

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Election 2016: In Arizona, the Anti-Pot Forces Strike Back!

  Arizona voters are taking a good hard look at legalizing the adult use of marijuana this November. But the fight this fall has a history—one that goes back six years, when the state gave the OK to medical marijuana. In 2010 Arizona voters approved a medical marijuana initiative—but only by the whisker of a desert bobcat, 4,340 votes, which

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