Homeless in Arizona

Let's analyze the situation.

1) First marijuana criminal defense lawyer Tom Dean runs a law firm that specializes in marijuana and marijuana arrests.

Thomas W Dean Esq. Plc.

14040 N Cave Creek Rd #307
Phoenix, AZ
85022

(602)635-4990
attorneyforcannabis.com

If marijuana is legalized, that means Tom Dean's law firm will go out of business.

No marijuana arrests, means no customers and that means Tom Dean is out of business.

2) Second Tom Dean also seems to make money helping the Arizona legal medical marijuana cartel.

The Arizona legal medical marijuana cartel is the 150 or so medical marijuana dispensaries that are in Arizona. I have heard they are owned by about six different groups of people. These folks currently have a government monopoly on growing and selling medical marijuana in Arizona.

And because of that monopoly these firms are able to sell medical marijuana at the rip off price of $300 an ounce.

If marijuana is legalized and marijuana becomes a generic commodity like tomatoes or potatoes that price is going to drop like a rock.

Legalization of marijuana will almost certainly mean most, if not all of the members of the Arizona legal medical marijuana cartel will go out of business, or their profits will drop substantially.

And of course that means they won't be able to pay Tom Dean big bucks to help them go from being the legal medical marijuana cartel, to the legal recreational marijuana cartel.

So based on items 1) and 2) it looks like Tom Dean has a big time financial interest in keeping marijuana illegal. Legalize cannabis or marijuana and almost all of Tom Dean's business goes away.

Tom Dean's track record also seems to say he wants to keep marijuana illegal.

When Mickey Jones, Alex Gentry and Dave (Sergeant David Stephen Wisniewski) wrote the initial Safer Arizona initiative we made it 100% legalization, with two minor exceptions. First we added an age limit of 21, and second we allowed a small sales tax on the sale of marijuana.

Tom Dean was supposed to review the initiative for CONSTITUTIONALITY questions. But instead of just reviewing it for Constitutional problems, Tom Dean gutted the initiative and added numerous marijuana crimes.

Here is a link to the 5 versions of the Safer Arizona initiative, which Tom Dean wrote.

Tom Dean made it illegal to grow marijuana that was visible from the public. So growing marijuana in an unfenced backyard was illegal. Same for growing marijuana in a backyard with a knot hole in the fence that let the the cops see the marijuana.

Tom Dean made it illegal to grow marijuana within 1,000 feet of a school.

Tom Dean made it illegal to grow something like more than 48 marijuana plants without a sales tax license.

Tom Dean made it illegal for ANYBODY, to sell marijuana without a sales tax license.

And of course with marijuana still being illegal at the Federal level, the DEA, FBI or other Federal cops could use public records to hunt down and arrest a person who got a sales tax license to grow or sell marijuana.

So based on my experience of working with Tom Dean at Safer Arizona, I think Tom Dean is a prohibitionist who wants to keep marijuana illegal.

I suspect it's all about the $$$ MONEY $$$. I'm sure Tom Dean doesn't think marijuana is a dangerous drug.

Yes, I seem Tom Dean at PCC meeting smoking marijuana. And yes, Tom Dean does seem to have a medical marijuana card.

But just because Tom Dean seems to use marijuana, doesn't mean he wants to legalize it.

Sadly as Frank Zappa said, I think Tom Dean is "only in it for the money".

Here are a the links to the horrible Safer Arizona initiative to legalize marijuana that Tom Dean gutted when he rewrote it.

Tom Dean wrote 5 different versions of it, and each version seems to have gotten more restrictions than the previous.

I suspect that was done to intentionally trick people into thinking the final version had less restrictions then it really did.