Downtown & D2 Dispensaries Ready for Tucson Recreational Cannabis Sales
After 7+ years in business, both locally owned retail stores and the Downtown Production facility employ over 170 Tucsonans
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TUCSON, Ariz., March 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Downtown Dispensary, a Tucson cannabis dispensary located at the intersection of 6
th Avenue and 6
th Street, has completed its first week of recreational marijuana sales. The D2 Dispensary, an east Tucson cannabis store located at the intersection of 22
nd Street and Kolb road, now serves licensed patients and recreational customers in one of the fastest growing parts of the city. The retail & production facilities have added over 40 people since the end of December 2020.
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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.
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