Homeless in Arizona

Five No Compromise Issues On Legalizing Marijuana

1. We should be able to possess ANY amount of marijuana

2. We should be able to grown ANY number of marijuana plants

3. The government should NOT be allowed to create special taxes on marijuana

4. A pardon and clean record should be given to all people arrested for or convicted of marijuana crimes

5. The police should not be allowed to participate with any other government entity arresting people for marijuana crimes

1. If we are going to legalize marijuana people should be able to possess any amount of marijuana.

It is insane to partially legalize marijuana, but continue to throw people in prison for possessing more then some set amount of marijuana.

Why on earth should people be arrested and sent to prison if they have more then 1.00 ounces, 2.50 ounces or some other silly arbitrary amount of marijuana?

Is somebody going to be considered a law abiding honest citizen if they have 1.00 ounces or less of marijuana, while they will be considered an insane, homicidal maniac criminal if they have 1.01 ounces or more of marijuana?

That's silly!!! It's like saying it should be legal to have 6 cans of beer, but possession of a 7th can of beer will send you to prison for a year.

I suspect that MPP, Andrew Myers and his Arizona Dispensary Association want these silly possession limits so they can use them to jail anybody that they think is cutting into their government monopoly on growing and selling marijuana.

From the point of MPP, Andrew Myers and his Arizona Dispensary Association if you have over 1.00 ounces of marijuana they will use that to automatically assume you are a criminal that is competing with their government monopoly on growing and selling marijuana and they will then have the police arrest and jail you to stop you from competing with them.

To me that is the only reason MPP and Andrew Myers came up with these silly limits on the amount of marijuana a person is allowed to possess. So that MPP and the marijuana dispsenaries can use these limits to have anybody that competes with THEIR marijuana monopoly jailed and put out of business.

2. If we are going to legalize marijuana people should be allowed to grow any number of marijuana plants they want.

Again it's insane to partially legalize marijuana, but continue to throw people in prison for growing marijuana.

Is somebody going to be considered a law abiding honest citizen if they smoke marijuana, but they will be considered an insane, homicidal maniac criminal if they grow a few marijuana plants?

Again that's silly!!!!

Are marijuana plants a danger to society?

Marijuana plants are no more of a danger to society then oleanders, caster beans, morning glory plants and other plants that will kill you if you eat them, but which are legal to grow.

If we don't let people grow their own marijuana plants the insane war on drugs will continue with police sending people to prison for the victimless crime of growing marijuana plants.

I suspect that MPP, Andrew Myers and his Arizona Dispensary Association want to make it illegal for people to grow marijuana so they can use the police to enforce their govenrment monopoly on growing and selling marijuana.

If it is illegal to grow ANY amount of marijuana then MPP, Andrew Myers and his Arizona Dispensary Association members can use the police to arrest and shut down anybody that they think is competing with them who is growing marijuana.

Again this ban on growing marijuana isn't because marijuana plants are dangerous, it's because it's an easy way for the marijuana dispensaries to use the police to enforce their monopoly on growing and selling marijuana.

Again if we don't legalize the growing of marijuana the insane war on drugs will continue and people will rot in prison for the victimless crime of growing marijuana.

3. Governments routinely use oppressive tax laws to stop activities which would be unconstitutional for them to ban.

That is why we need to make it illegal for the government to slap any special taxes on marijuana or marijuana related activities.

I won't complain if the govenrment is allowed to slap a sales tax on marijuana as long as it applies to ALL other products sold and not just to marijuana.

A prefect example of this is when U.S. Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema who at the time was a member of the Arizona legislator tried to flush the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act or Prop 203 down the toilet by slapping a 300 percent tax on medical marijuana.

That tax would have increased the cost of medical marijuana from $300 an ounce to $1,200 an ounce bankrupting many people who need to use medical marijuana.

For all practical purposes the outrageously high tax would have made medical marijuana illegal by making the price too high for most people.

A second example is when marijuana was made illegal at the Federal level they didn't pass a law banning marijuana. They knew that would be unconstitutional.

Instead they made marijuana illegal with a tax law called the "1937 Marihuana Tax Act".

I think that law required tax licenses for people to sell marijuana. Next they stopped issuing the tax licenses which effectively made marijuana illegal.

The first law which Congress passed to make drugs like heroin and cocaine illegal was also a tax law. That was the "1914 Harrison Narcotic Tax Act".

In the 1930's Congress also used tax laws to do an end run around the Second Amendment and make machine guns illegal.

I believe that law slapped a $200 tax on machine guns, which at the time you could buy mail order from a Sears catalog for $10 to $50.

The $200 tax on machine guns was 4 to 20 times what a machine gun cost at the time. And of course that outrageously high tax effectively made machine guns illegal for most people.

If we are going to prevent government tyrants from making marijuana illegal by taxing the krap out of it we must forbid them from slapping special taxes on marijuana.

4. If we are going to legalize marijuana we must also demand that all people in prison for marijuana crimes be released.

We also need to demand that all people convicted or arrested of victimless marijuana crimes also be given full pardons for the crimes and have their records cleared so they are not labeled as a criminal for the rest of their life.

I doubt if MPP, Andrew Myers and his Arizona Dispensary Association will have any arguments against this issue.

5. We must also forbid the police, prosecutors and other govenrment employees and entities from partnering with the Federal government, Indian governments or foreign governments in any wars on marijuana.

Sadly the "war on drugs" is nothing but a "jobs program" for police officers and a "government welfare program" for police departments. The "war on drugs" is all about money.

I suspect if we end the "war on marijuana" for government police entities, they will immediately turn around and start working with Uncle Sam arresting people for Federal marijuana crimes.

Of course they won't do that because marijuana is a dangerous drug that causes crime. They will do that to get a share of the money Uncle Sam doles out for cops who arrest people for victimless "drug war crimes".

To prevent this we must forbid our state government entities from partnering with any other government entity that arrests people for marijuana related crimes.