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Problems with the Safer Arizona Initiative

Here is a link to the web page that compares the RAD initiative to the Safer Arizona initiative

Some of the problems with the Safer Arizona initiative are:

1) People under 21 can't possess or use marijuana. That's BS. 18 year olds should be allowed to use marijuana.

2) You are required to get a license to grow over 48 marijuana plants. And of course the Feds, like the DEA can get copies of those licenses and use them to make Federal marijuana arrests.

3) You are required to get a sales tax license to sell ANY amount of marijuana. And of course the Feds, like the DEA can get copies of those licenses and use them to make Federal marijuana arrests.

4) You can't grow marijuana that is visible from public places with the naked eye. If somebody can see that marijuana plant in your living room from your front window, you are breaking the law.

5) You can't grow marijuana for resale within 1,000 feet of a school. In most cities that makes it impossible in large sections of the metro area for most people to grow marijuana, because schools are just about every where.

While technically you can grow stuff for personal use within 1,000 feet of a school, the cops could make up a silly definition and assume that if you have over 5 plants it's for commercial use, and cause people problems.

Currently the police do stuff like that when they arrest people for possession of marijuana.

They assume that if you have a scale, the marijuana they arrested you for was marijuana for sale. They also do the same if you have the marijuana in several packages. I think being busted with marijuana for sale is a worse crime than simple illegal possession of marijuana.

6) City and county governments are allowed to pass zoning laws that apply to marijuana businesses. I suspect if the Safer Arizona initiative is passed, the current medical marijuana cartel, will get Tom Dean to help them pass zoning laws that severely limit the competition.

Such as the Chandler law that requires medical marijuana stores to be located at least one mile from each other.

And if that happens we will continue to have the outrageous prices of $300+ and ounce.

7) It is illegal to sell marijuana within 1,000 feet of a school.

While 1,000 feet doesn't sound that far, it's a fifth of a mile and will severely limit the number of stores that can sell marijuana in cities.

Again, I suspect Tom Dean put that in the law to help his buddies in the legal medical marijuana cartel limit the competition.

8) The Safer Arizona initiative doesn't give AUTOMATIC pardons for people convicted of victimless marijuana crimes. You have to apply for them.

I suspect Tom Dean put that in the Safer Arizona initiative to generate business for his law form.

When me, Alex and Dave wrote the initial Safer Arizona initiative we gave everybody automatic pardons.

9) The Safer Arizona initiative made it a crime to possess marijuana in a government building.

10) The Safer Arizona initiative doesn't allow children under 21 to use medical marijuana. They have to apply for a medical marijuana card.

11) The Safer Arizona initiative doesn't allow people in prisons to use medical marijuana. That is insane. People in prisons can use opiates for pain, but they can't use medical marijuana.

12) The Safer Arizona initiative doesn't allow recreational marijuana use in prisons.

While that may be politically correct. I suspect if marijuana use were allowed in prisons, it would make the prisons much safer by allowing the prisoners a relief valve.

13) For recreational marijuana there is not a limit on the amount of taxes the government can slap on them.

So the government could slap an outrageously high tax on marijuana, like when US Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema tried to slap a 300%, $900 an ounce tax on medical marijuana for her police buddies. That would effectively make marijuana illegal.

Or more likely the government will slap outrageously high taxes on marijuana like they have been doing in other states. I think that in California and Nevada they have taxes between 30% and 40% of the sales price. That is a rip off.

I suspect Tom Dean put a lot of this stuff in the Safer Arizona initiative to protect his buddies in the legal medical marijuana cartel.

When Tom Dean responded to my lawsuit, he admitted that he does legal work for the legal medical marijuana cartels. My lawsuit accuses Tom Dean of malpractice because he didn't disclose that conflict of interest.

I suspect if the Safer Arizona initiative passed, he would do legal work for them to help pass laws for them to limit the competition.

Don't laugh at that. Currently the medical marijuana business in Arizona is a multi-million dollar, if not billion dollar business operated by a little over 100 medical marijuana business.

I have heard those 100 or so medical marijuana dispensaries are controlled by 6 families.

So we have millions of dollars on the line. And it's not unreasonable for the current legal medical marijuana cartel to shovel money to Tom Dean to help them pass laws so they can keep their monopoly on selling marijuana.

Also remember if you get arrested for a petty marijuana crime, such as growing or selling pot without a license, that is on public records. And the Feds could use those public records to hunt you down and arrest you on Federal felony marijuana charges.