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PRESS RELEASE - RAD files initiatives to legalize marijuana and legalize ALL drugs.
PRESS RELEASE - PRESS RELEASE - PRESS RELEASE
RAD or Releaglize All Drugs filed two
initiatives with the Arizona Secretary of
State's office to legalize drugs in Arizona
on November 13, 2018.
One initiative is 100% complete and total
legalization of marijuana in Arizona in 2020.
The initiative allows anybody to possess,
grow or sell any amount of marijuana. All
criminal penalties for marijuana crimes
are removed.
RAD thinks we can get collect enough signatures
to get the marijuana initiative on the ballot
and that the public will pass the marijuana
initiative.
For the 2016 election cycle AZFRM got 120,000
signatures in their effort to legalize marijuana.
For the 2018 election cycle Safer Arizona got
70,000 signatures in their effort to legalize
marijuana.
RAD thinks in the 2020 election cycle we can
get the 325,000 or so signatures required.
The other initiative is 100% complete and total
legalization of all drugs including heroin and
cocaine in Arizona.
Since in the past only about a third of the
people that sign the RAD marijuana initiative
also sign the all drugs initiative, RAD doesn't
think this we will be able to get the initiative
that legalizes all drugs including heroin and
cocaine on the ballot. But RAD thinks it will be
a starting point to educate the people that the
"War on Drugs" needs to be ended for ALL drugs,
not just marijuana.
First RAD does not advocate recreational drug
use of marijuana or any other drug. That should
be an individual's choice.
Second does RAD advocate that people have a right
to drive around stoned or go to work stoned. If
people use drugs, they should use them in a way
they don't endanger other people.
RAD's position is the the "War on Drugs" has
been a dismal failure for the last 100 years and
needs to be ended.
RAD's position is that if drug abuse is a problem,
it should be a medical problem between a person
and their doctor. Not a criminal problem between
the person, the police and the courts.
Sadly the Prohibition which made liquor illegal
was a perfect example that making drug abuse, or
in that cause liquor abuse illegal is a dismal
failure.
The Prohibition of liquor created far more
problems than it solved.
The Prohibition created criminal gangs that
sold liquor, and caused numerous crimes
including routine murders. The "War on Drugs"
does the same thing.
The Prohibition created a black market for
liquor that caused crime because of outrageously
high prices for liquor. People would steal to
get their liquor because of outrageously high
liquor prices. The same is true with the "War
on Drugs".
The the black market liquor created by the
Prohibition also caused numerous people to
be, sickened, poisoned or killed by liquor
that didn't meet the quality controls of a
free market. The "War on Drugs" does the same
thing, and thousands of people routinely get
sick or die from drugs that didn't meet the
quality controls of a free market.
Sadly the "War on Drugs" has been a failure
identical to the nation's "War on Liquor"
called the Prohibition.
RAD is asking you to tell your readers,
listeners and viewers that they can help
RAD legalize marijuana in Arizona by
circulating our petitions to legalize
marijuana.
Tell them to call, email, or go to the
RAD web page to volunteer at either:
(480)779-8735
relegalize420@gmail.com
http://relegalize.100webspace.net/volunteer/
The RAD marijuana initiative is listed
at this URL:
http://relegalize.100webspace.net/legalize_marijuana_2020.php
If you would like to do an interview
with RAD or find out more about
RAD either call us or contact us at:
(480)779-8735
relegalize420@gmail.com
Last here is a copy of the RAD initiative
to legalize marijuana.
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Here is a link to it at the Arizona
Secretary of States office
https://apps.azsos.gov/election/2020/general/ballotmeasuretext/C-01-2020.pdf
Here is the link to it on the RAD
web page.
http://relegalize.100webspace.net/legalize_marijuana_2020.php
Here is the text of it.
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Initiative to re-legalize Marijuana & Hashish in Arizona in 2020 C-01-2020
OFFICIAL TITLE
100% Complete re-legalization of Marijuana & Hashish
FULL TEXT OF PROPOSITION
Be it enacted by the People of the State
of Arizona, the Constitution of the State
of Arizona is amended BY THE ADDITION OF
A NEW ARTICLE to read:
100% complete re-legalization of
marijuana & hashish
1. The government shall recognize that
marijuana abuse is NOT a criminal problem
but a medical problem.
2. The government shall NOT tax, regulate,
or pass any laws governing marijuana or
marijuana activities.
3. The government shall NOT assist any
other government entities, such as Federal,
foreign, world, Native American or state
governments in enforcing any laws against
marijuana.
4. The government shall NOT pass any guide
lines, rules, regulations or laws
discriminating against people or entities
that use marijuana. Such as laws that limit
a marijuana user's guns rights or parental
rights.
5. Any person convicted of any marijuana
offense in the past shall automatically
have their criminal record cleared of
those charges and automatically receive
a full pardon for those charges.
6. Any person arrested for any marijuana
offense in the past who accepted a plea
bargain for reduced charges shall
automatically have their criminal record
cleared of those reduced charges and
automatically receive a full pardon for
those reduced charges.
7. Any government employee, agent, elected
official, judge, law enforcement officer
or prosecutor that falsely arrests a person,
violates a person's rights, passes a law
or issues a ruling, guideline or edict that
that interferes with a person's marijuana
use rights defined here shall be personally
and civilly liable to each person for each
incident for a minimum of million in damages
or 10 times the actual amount of damages
whichever is greater. There shall be no
immunity to a person who claims to be "acting
in good faith" or for any other reason.
8 . All government courts shall accept cases
involving marijuana use, and decide the case
based on the oral, written, or other contracts
of the parties involved. Courts may not refuse
cases by saying that marijuana is illegal under
Federal law, international law, or other laws.
9. Definitions: For this initiative the word
"marijuana" refers to any form of marijuana,
cannabis, hashish or hemp and includes
concentrated forms such as THC, CBD, hash, hash
oil, wax, shatter and all other forms. This
includes all parts of any plant of the genus
cannabis, whether growing or not, the seeds
of such plant, the resin extracted from any
part of a plant of the genus cannabis; and
every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative,
mixture or preparation of such plant, its
seeds or its resin; and every compound,
manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture or
preparation of such resin or
tetrahydrocannabinol. This includes, but
will not be limited to; all paraphernalia
for marijuana use, such as pipes, bongs,
cigarette papers or dabbing tools.
10. "Marijuana activities" shall be defined
as; but shall not be limited to: using,
smoking, vaping, eating, consuming, drinking,
snorting, transdermal delivery, injecting,
sale, transfer, growth, cultivating,
manufacture, processing, cooking, production,
storage, possession, giving legal advice,
transportation, or importation of marijuana.
This includes any form of "marijuana use":
recreational, religious, medical, commercial,
industrial or any other use.
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