Arizona is fumbling a chance to be a leader in medical marijuana science — for reasons that aren’t clear — and should follow through on funding the would-be researchers that the state’s elected officials aimed to support.

That’s the takeaway from a letter to top Arizona officials signed by a variety of marijuana-related parties who, per their own admission, rarely agree on much of anything .

On medical research funding, however, they’re aligned. Leaders of the Arizona Dispensaries Association (ADA), the Hemp Industry Trade Association (HITA) and Arizona’s chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) co-signed the letter with Dr. Sue Sisley , the president and principal researcher of the Scottsdale Research Institute. Addressed to Shelia Sjolander, the

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