Homeless in Arizona

I suspect that marijuana criminal defense attorney or lawyer Tom Dean got on the Safer Arizona board of directors so that he could write a marijuana initiative that didn’t completely legalize marijuana and thus didn’t put his marijuana criminal defense law firm put out of business. And if my suspicions are correct, Tom Dean did a rather good job at that. When me (Mickey Jones), Alex Gentry and Sergeant David Stephen Wisniewski wrote the initial version of the Safer Arizona initiative we based it mostly on the 2016 version of the RAD initiative which is 100% complete and total legalization of marijuana. http://relegalize.100webspace.net/legalize_marijuana.php The RAD initiative starts off with telling the government of Arizona it can't regulate marijuana PERIOD Government entities in the state of Arizona shall not tax, regulate, control, or pass any laws governing the use, smoking, consumption, drinking, injecting, sale, transfer, growth, cultivating, manufacture, production, storage, possession, transportation, or importation of marijuana or any of the chemicals in any marijuana plant. and then sets even more restriticions on what the government can't do, just in case they don't get it. We added three exceptions to the Safer Arizona initiative for political reasons. While the RAD initiative doesn’t set an age limit, our Safer Arizona initiative initially set an age limit of 18, which David Stephen Wisniewski raised to 21 because of his mom. While the RAD initiative forbids the government from taxing marijuana at all, in the initial version of the Safer Arizona initiative we let the government tax marijuana at a rate no higher than the current sales tax on food in Arizona. And last we added some verbiage that required marijuana to be labeled for THC content and tested for pesticides, mold and other bad stuff. Other than those 3 items, the initial version of the Safer Arizona initiative was 100% complete and total legalization of marijuana. The public and Tom Dean were invited to attend the sessions when we wrote the initial version of the Safer Arizona initiative. A few people did attend the sessions. But Tom Dean didn’t attend any of them if I remember correctly. Our next step was to have Tom Dean review the initiative for it being legal and constitutional. Sadly at that point in time our meetings became closed to the public and secret. I think that was at Tom Dean’s request. Well with the exception of medical marijuana cartel bigwig Demitri Downing. In fact I think Tom Dean invited him. And Demitri Downing did ask us to give his legal medical marijuana cartel special perks at those meetings. Those meetings were at Tom Dean’s home and office, and closed to the public. Well, except for medical marijuana cartel bigwig Demitri Downing. Demitri Downing is a big wig in the medical marijuana industry and is heavily involved in the AMMA or Arizona Medical Marijuana Association. Instead of checking the Safer Arizona initiative which me, Alex and David wrote for Constitutional problems, Tom Dean immediately begin to water it down and add stuff which would create jobs for criminal defense lawyers like himself. The initial Safer Arizona initiative did not require a license to grow or sell marijuana. Nothing, nada, zippo. You could grow a million marijuana plants and not need a license the way me, Alex and Dave wrote it. Same for sales of marijuana! No licenses were needed. You could sell a 100 tons of marijuana without needing a license the way me, Alex and Dave wrote the it. Tom Dean added a requirement to get a sales tax license, to grow more than 99 plants. That was later reduced to 48 plants. Tom Dean is a smart criminal defense lawyer and knows full well that even if we legalize marijuana in Arizona it is still a felony at the Federal level. Tom Dean knows that the DEA will probably get subpoenas of Arizona Department of Revenue licenses to grow marijuana so they can bust them for the Federal crime of growing marijuana. So I suspect Tom Dean added those marijuana growing license requirements to create business for his law firm. Tom Dean added a requirement to get a sales tax license for anybody that sells marijuana. Not just commercial businesses, but even if you sell a lousy half ounce of marijuana you don't want to a friend, under the Tom Dean plan, you needed to get a sales tax license from the Arizona Department of Revenue. Something the police at the DEA could use to find out you committed the Federal crime of selling marijuana. Again I'm sure Tom Dean knows that the DEA will probably get subpoenas of Arizona Department of Revenue licenses to sell marijuana so they can bust them for the Federal crime of selling marijuana. So I suspect Tom Dean added those sales tax license requirements to create business for his law firm. Tom Dean also created a bunch of petty crimes the local cops could arrest you for. Such as growing or selling marijuana within 1,000 feet of a school. Or growing marijuana that is visible from the "public". Or possessing marijuana in a government building. While if you get busted by the local cops, it was something like a petty $300 fine. But if the local cops turned you into the DEA, then you would be facing some felony charges. Or if the DEA made public records requests to get the names of people busted for petty marijuana charges, you would also be facing felony Federal marijuana charges. And if you hired Tom Dean to handle your criminal charges, then Tom Dean could make a few thousand bucks off the arrest. So I suspect Tom Dean put that into the initiative to generate business for his law firm. Under the RAD initiative the state of Arizona was required to give automatic pardons to anyone convicted of a marijuana crime, and to anyone who accepted a plea bargain for a marijuana crime. When we wrote the initiative Safer Arizona initiative, me, Alex and Dave left it that way. Sadly one of the first things Tom Dean changed was requiring people to request that the government for a pardon. Tom Dean didn't like the idea of the government giving automatic pardons to anyone convicted of a victimless marijuana crime. I suspect because Tom Dean's law firm wouldn't make any money off of automatic pardons. So again I suspect Tom Dean put that into the initiative to generate business for his law firm. Tom Dean also seemed to modify the initial version of the Safer Arizona initiative which me, Dave and Alex wrote into a law which would help the current Arizona legal medical marijuana cartel, expand into a legal recreational marijuana cartel. I suspect that Tom Dean felt that his law firm could make money helping the legal medical cartel pass laws, that would also give them a legal recreational marijuana cartel in Arizona. I wonder if he was conspiring with medical marijuana cartel bigwig Demitri Downing? Who was invited to our closed meetings. Me, Alex, and Dave wrote the initial Safer Arizona initiative to allow the success and failure of firms involved in marijuana business to be based on their ability to compete in the free market. The firms that provide the best marijuana services and products win the game. We all thought that would mean most of the current players in the legal marijuana medical cartel would got out of business and could not compete with their rip off marijuana that sells at $300+ an ounce. Tom Dean put several items in the Safer Arizona initiative which seemed to be aimed at helping the current Arizona legal medical marijuana cartel expand into a legal recreational marijuana cartel. And help Tom Dean make money off of it. Tom Dean made it illegal to grow commercial marijuana within in 1,000 feet of schools. Sounds a lot like the evil 25 mile limit in Prop 203? I suspect he put that in there to keep small growers from competing with the current legal medical marijuana cartel. Tom Dean made it illegal to grow marijuana that is visible on private land from a public place. Sounds a lot like the evil 25 mile limit in Prop 203 and the evil MPP or Marijuana Policy Project Prop 205? Again I suspect he put that in there to keep small growers from competing with the current legal medical marijuana cartel. Tom Dean made it illegal to sell marijuana within in 1,000 feet of schools. I suspect he put that in their to limit the number of stores that sell recreational marijuana and thus limit the new competition for the current legal medical marijuana cartel. When we wrote the initiative version of the Safer Arizona initiative, we knew that government hate marijuana stores, and would use zoning laws to severely restrict the number of marijuana stores, or effectively ban them. And because of that we made it illegal for the government to pass zoning laws that applied ONLY to marijuana businesses. So city or county government could write zoning laws that apply to stores that sell stuff, and stores that sell marijuana would have to obey those zoning laws. But city or county governments could NOT write zoning laws that only applied to business involved in marijuana and use those zoning laws to drive them out of business or severely limit those businesses. Tom Dean destroyed all that work by adding this the Safer Arizona initiative: Cities, towns and counties may enact reasonable zoning regulations that limit the land use for commercial grows, home gardens, and businesses engaged in retail sale and wholesale of cannabis I suspect that Tom Dean added that blurb hoping that legal firms like his could help members of the current legal Arizona medical marijuana cartel write zoning laws that would severely restrict the competition, and then get cities and counties to pass them. For example Chandler has a zoning law that requires medical marijuana dispensaries to be at least one mile from each other. Tempe also has severe zoning laws which at the current time only allow something like 3 medical marijuana dispensaries in Tempe. Tom Dean and his law firm could make a lot of money helping members of the legal medical marijuana cartel write laws like those. And of course the members of the legal medical marijuana cartel could use those laws to drive out the competition and become a legal recreational marijuana cartel.