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Well except for Steven Marshall.

The bums on the Prescott Valley City Council that need to be thown out of office are:

• Mayor Harvey Skoog
• Lora Lee Nye
• Vice Mayor Richard Anderson
• Martin Grossman
• Mary Mallory
• Michael Whiting

Prescott City Council Votes to Oppose Recreational Marijuana

Prescott City Council Votes to Oppose Recreational Marijuana

By Ryan Heinsius • Mar 7, 2014

The Prescott City Council has approved a resolution opposing the legalization of recreational marijuana in the state. As Arizona Public Radio’s Ryan Heinsius reports, the move comes as national and local groups are attempting to place legalization on the ballot.

The Prescott City Council voted 6 to 1 earlier this week to pass the resolution. According to The Daily Courier, that vote follows the Yavapai County Board of Supervisors and the Prescott Valley Town Council in approving similar measures.

Prescott officials were advised by Colorado law enforcement staff to resist legalization before it goes on the ballot. In Colorado this year, recreational marijuana use became legal. Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk said one in four high school seniors in Yavapai County had used marijuana in the past 30 days. She also said use of the drug by young people would increase if it’s legalized.

But, those claims were countered by Prescott Valley Councilman Steven Marshall as well as the only council member who voted against the resolution, Jean Wilcox. Both also said marijuana prohibition should be the domain of state and federal governments.

The Washington, D.C., based Marijuana Policy Project³ is attempting to place a recreational initiative on the Arizona ballot in 2016. The group Safer Arizona¹ from Phoenix is also sponsoring a marijuana legalization initiative in the state. The group is currently attempting to collect more than 300,000² signatures.

There are several mistakes in this article

1) It's AZfmr, not Safer Arizona. AZfmr is Arizonans for Mindful Regulation

2) Both groups need a little over 150,000 signatures to get on the ballot, and are trying to collect 200,000 signatures, not 300,000

3) the MPP or Marijuana Policy Project initiate is 99% about creating a monopoly selling recreational marijuana for the current 85 or so medical marijuana dispensaries and a lousy 1% about actually legalizing marijuana.

While the creeps from MPP didn't add any NEW felony charges to the Arizona laws, they are leaving numerous marijuana felony charges on the Arizona law books which will be used to throw anybody that tries to cut into their lucrative recreational monopoly into prison.