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The phoney baloney MPP initiative to legalize marijuana is 99% about making millionaires out of the owners of the 85 or so medical marijuana dispensaries by giving them a second monopoly on growing and selling recreational marijuana.

And of course it's a measly 1% about actually legalizing marijuana, which it doesn't really do.

While EJ Montini claims it's a "done deal" we are going to do the best we can to shoot down the phoney baloney MPP initiative, just like the voters of Ohio shot down their phoney baloney marijuana initiative which would have given a marijuana monopoly to 10 or so companies.

Sadly EJ Montini seems more excited about the tax revenue, rather then ending the draconian police state laws which jail millions for the victimless crime of using marijuana.

Source

Montini: Marijuana ballot initiative is a doobie, doobie, done deal

EJ Montini, The Republic | azcentral.com 1:33 p.m. MST April 12, 2016

Not long ago, Arizona was named by the real-estate website Estately blog as one of the top 10 best states for marijuana enthusiasts to live and buy a home.

And it's about to get even better.

The Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol announced Tuesday that it has collected more than 200,000 signatures for a November ballot initiative that would end marijuana prohibition in Arizona. The campaign needs to collect 150,642 valid signatures.

In a statement campaign Chairman J.P. Holyoak said, “Voters want to have their say on whether Arizona should end marijuana prohibition. It’s appearing more and more likely that they are going to have that opportunity. We’re finding that most Arizonans agree marijuana should be regulated and taxed similarly to alcohol.”

There will be a big money campaign to fight the initiative.

But it’s difficult to fight common sense. And legalizing marijuana makes sense.

The initiative would bring in a tremendous amount of tax revenue, save money with needless law enforcement, while permitting adults to purchase small amounts of marijuana.

To sweeten the deal the initiative’s authors funnel a lot of that tax money to education.

Something state lawmakers haven’t done lately.

Not long ago a reader told me he had a theory about why he believed a marijuana legalization initiative would pass in a state with such an arch-conservative, reactionary Legislature.

“Since we can’t get them to mellow out,” he told me, “we’ll have to.”

Duuuuuude.