I collect signatures for Marijuana Policy Project while wearing Safer Arizona t-shirt.
For the record the MPP or Marijuana Policy Project's phoney baloney initiative to legalize marijuana in Arizona is 99% about creating a monopoly for the 85 or so medical marijuana dispensaries so they can screw us with $300+ an ounce rip off prices.
The MPP initiative leaves intact numerous felony charges in the Arizona law for victimless marijuana crime.
The MPP initiative claims to treat marijuana like alcohol, but that's a big lie.
We don't throw people in prison with felony charges for having 7 beers, like they will for having over 5 grams of marijuana concentrates, or for growing 7 plants.
The MPP initiative will allow a maximum of 160 recreational marijuana stores, and we suspect that if it passes it will only give the existing 85 or so medical marijuana stores, recreational marijuana licenses.
On the other hand the initiative which Safer Arizona backs, which is the AZfmr initiative will actually legalize marijuana.
It will allow up to 1,600 recreational marijuana stores.
Most of the crimes in the AZfmr initiative are be petty misdemeanors, with a $300 fine, as opposed to the numerous FELONY charges in the MPP initiative.
The AZfmr initiative isn't perfect, but it's thousands of times better then the horrible MPP initiative.
