If you’re looking for family-friendly entertainment, watching ACT Up!’s musical productions is probably not on your weekend schedule. ACT Up!, a new division of Ahwatukee Children’s Theatre, is a program geared toward high school, college and adult audiences. Aware of the growing presence of teenagers, ACT has created ACT Up! to encourage students to continue pursuing their interests in the fine arts. By staying relevant in students’ changing lives and exploring more mature themes such as sexuality and drugs, ACT Up! provides an opportunity for aspiring performers.

If you’re looking for family-friendly entertainment, watching ACT Up!’s musical productions is probably not on your weekend schedule. ACT Up!, a new division of Ahwatukee Children’s Theatre, is a program geared toward high school, college and adult audiences. Aware of the growing presence of teenagers, ACT has created ACT Up! to encourage students to continue pursuing their interests in the fine arts. By staying relevant in students’ changing lives and exploring more mature themes such as sexuality and drugs, ACT Up! provides an opportunity for aspiring performers.

The Arizona Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to decide whether there is a religious right to possess marijuana.

Republicans should get out front for once and lead the movement to legalize marijuana. It makes sense any way you look at it.

Saying that freedom of religion is not the same as freedom of action, the Arizona Court of Appeals on Thursday said there is no religious right in this state to possess marijuana.

Speed kills! And so do a lot of other drugs. But speed, now known as meth, continues to be the emotional rallying cry for politicians who have jumped on the anti-drug headline-grabbing bandwagon. And Tuesday night’s statewide showing of “Crystal Darkness” brought them out in droves.

Marijuana legislation is not a simple issue. In fact, it is a muddled quagmire of complex concerns. Most people have seen the 1938 propaganda film Reefer Madness depicting the tragic events and eventual insanity of high school students lured into using marijuana. In the 72 years since the film was produced, much research has been done to bring valid awareness to the dangers as well as medicinal qualities encompassed in this herb. Laws, however, haven't changed much since a movement in the '70s and passionate arguments are being fired from both sides.

Marijuana legislation is not a simple issue. In fact, it is a muddled quagmire of complex concerns. Most people have seen the 1938 propaganda film Reefer Madness depicting the tragic events and eventual insanity of high school students lured into using marijuana. In the 72 years since the film was produced, much research has been done to bring valid awareness to the dangers as well as medicinal qualities encompassed in this herb. Laws, however, haven't changed much since a movement in the '70s and passionate arguments are being fired from both sides.

Marijuana legislation is not a simple issue. In fact, it is a muddled quagmire of complex concerns. Most people have seen the 1938 propaganda film Reefer Madness depicting the tragic events and eventual insanity of high school students lured into using marijuana. In the 72 years since the film was produced, much research has been done to bring valid awareness to the dangers as well as medicinal qualities encompassed in this herb. Laws, however, haven't changed much since a movement in the '70s and passionate arguments are being fired from both sides.

One in six Arizonans age 18 to 24 has tried methamphetamine according to a new statewide survey. But it might have more to do with curiosity than lifestyle or habit: The telephone poll found that only 4 percent in that age group admitted to using meth in the last year.

Speed kills! And so do a lot of other drugs. But speed, now known as meth, continues to be the emotional rallying cry for politicians who have jumped on the anti-drug headline-grabbing bandwagon. And Tuesday night’s statewide showing of “Crystal Darkness” brought them out in droves.

MIAMI — In her 88 years, Florence Siegel has learned how to relax: A glass of red wine. A crisp copy of The New York Times, if she can wrest it from her husband. Some classical music, preferably Bach. And every night like clockwork, she lifts a pipe to her lips and smokes marijuana.