2075 E. Benson Highway, 78 W. River Road While both Grassp Delivery and Desert Bloom Re-Leaf Center provide solid delivery of fresh bud and locally crafted edibles, it s Earth s Healing s delivery that wins the top spot in this category, which has been more important than ever in the last year. While delivery services in Arizona are only available for medical patients at the moment thanks to state law, cardholders can order anytime between 8:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. daily (9:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Sundays) and later that day, a friendly courier will turn up at your place with your meds. You ll have to pay through Alt Thirty Six, which is kind of a PayPal for the cannabis community, so be ready to set up an account. Earth s Healing covers most of the metro area with a simple fee: If your order is between $40-$100, it ll cost you 10 bucks; if it s between $101-$200, it ll cost you five bucks; and if you re splurging on more than $200, it s free.
Ana Brotons helps George Roop, Prime Leaf’s first adult use customer. As the rules surrounding adult-use recreational pot work their way through processes from the Arizona Department of Health Services to the municipal level, the City of Tucson is zeroing in on updates to its zoning ordinances to help adjust to the new reality of legal weed. A series of meetings and study sessions considering updates to the dispensary zoning code began in August 2020 with an emergency resolution to address the need for physical distancing in the lobbies of Tucson dispensaries. Current zoning limits dispensaries to 4,000 square feet, with a maximum one-quarter of that devoted to lobby space. The Tucson City Council agreed to loosen those rules to more space for those waiting for service at dispensaries as well as to allow curbside pickup, home delivery and the use of drive-thrus where they exist in buildings that have been converted to dispensary use.
COVID-19: Marion school cases hit 53 for past week
The number of weekly COVID-19 cases in Marion County schools ticked up by one this week, with 53 people (41 students and 12 staff members) testing positive for COVID-19 from Feb. 19-25, according to a school district report issued on Friday.
There were 52 cases reported for Feb. 12-18. There were 72 cases reported for Feb. 5-11; 70 cases reported from Jan. 29-Feb. 4; and 91 cases from Jan. 22-28. About 87% of the district s 41,000-plus students are now attending in-person school.
The report also showed that 550 other people (512 students and 38 staff) had to be put into quarantine during the week of Feb. 19-25. That number was 536 for Feb. 12-18, 711 for Feb. 5-11, 448 for Jan. 29-Feb. 4, and 772 for Jan. 22-28.
In the wake of the passage of Prop 207 legalizing adult-use recreational cannabis, lawmakers are struggling to define what constitutes driving under the influence of the drug. One recent bill, HB 2084 introduced by John Kavanagh (R-Fountain Hills), seeks to set a blood level limit of 2 nanograms per milliliter to prove impairment, but the arbitrary setting of THC blood-level limits is not an accurate measure of intoxication, according to cannabis experts. There is also a dearth of field tests that would give law enforcement officers an effective way of measuring those limits. Per se limits are also antithetical to the language and intent of Prop 207.
Outside midtown s Harvest cannabis dispensary, Sammy Magro said she had no problem standing in line to get legal THC cartridges instead of purchasing them off the black market as she had done for years. It was a sunny day in the low 70s and the line was moving quickly, so Magro didn t mind the wait, she said. I m excited about this. It s my first time buying legally, Magro said. I m looking for cartridges today because it s better than getting them off the street because they re pure. Bryce Hill said he has bought recreational marijuana in other legal states and he was glad adult-use sales had finally come to Pima County because of the tax benefits.