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In my personal opinion he has sold out the marijuana community for cold hard cash. If I was a Christian I would call him a Judas, like the Judas that sold out Christ for 13 pieces of silver.

Sadly Prop 203 or Arizona's Medical Marijuana Act seems like nothing but a govenrment welfare program designed to make the medical marijuana dispensaries rich and screw the patients that need medical marijuana.

Prop 203 pretty much gives the medical marijuana dispensaries a government monopoly on growing and selling medical marijuana.

I had view Prop 203 or medical marijuana as a gateway to legalize marijuana.

I was 100% wrong on that. Prop 203 seems to be a gateway to make billionaires out of the owners of the 80 so owners of medical marijuana dispensaries by giving them then a government monopoly on growing and selling recreational marijuana in the current phoney baloney MPP or Marijuana Policy Project initiative to legalize recreational marijuana.

Source

Andrew Myers Confronted About Personal Grow Prohibition 2016

On Tuesday February 3rd Safer Arizona questioned Andrew Myers of Marijuana Policy Project Prop 203 about the gutting of Arizona Citizens human right to cultivate cannabis at home.

The following is not completely verbatim and is not the entirety of Myers justification for the oppression. But its pretty close.

Mikel Weisser notifies Andrew who was on speaker phone that Dave Wisniewski and Robert Clark were also in the room. Notes were taken.

Mikel asked why personal cultivation was removed from their initiative and is it irreversible?

Andrew replies

(Start)

Um, That choice is because its bad politics. The problem is not really if it was asked generically at the ballot box like the way it was in the poll, which by the way it hurt is in the poll pretty substantially too….It was an absolute red line deal breaker for us, a lot of people that we can get their support want to look at this their own way and they are not gonna look a different way, were completely screwed. A lot of those people are law enforcement types that we really need to be able to make this happen and the truth is we are not going in to the campaign with a great number, the issue is pretty mature in Arizona, there’s a lot of undecided voters……

I think its really unfortunate to be honest with you that earlier drafts got distributed so widely, I think it probably re calibrated peoples expectations and I think that is really too bad that happened. They should realize we gave it our absolute best effort to try to retain personal cultivation with in the language but when we started to distribute it even initially from a coalition building standpoint, we got intimidate fierce push back from all these people who are critical to us like Director (did not make out name) and other law enforcement types…..

Its just a non starter…..We cant win with out those people and the doners will get pushed away if we cant get that type of support because they feel like they are throwing in good money after bad early into the campaign and its just we cant win with it in. I mean as much as it really sucks.

Notice that we still decriminalized it even in the final version ($100 dollar fine for 6 plants on first offense but still criminalized after) If you really think about it, its like 90% of good for the average person. I mean the thing this is really going to restrict and the thing that people were really nervous about are these side businesses, I mean anyone who is interested and wanted to run like a mom and pop type side business operation with a little bit of cultivation, I mean that is exactly what they were trying to eliminate……

By prohibiting it on paper they just wanted to keep the secondary black market under control. I mean the idea is that nobody should go to prison for growing a couple of marijuana plants.. Let me be clear, this is not a dispensary owner trying to corner the market sort of thing, like nobody believes that there is any sort of business threat for personal cultivation, I want that to be 100% clear nobody could care if anybody was growing a few plants, that’s not the point, its the politics of it and its the fact that the oppositions biggest argument is teen access increasing under adult use, that’s their most effective argument on paper and this only strengthens it.

Their idea is that marijuana would be as plentiful as citrus in Arizona during harvest time. Everyone understands that analogy I mean think, nobody buys fruit, they are always stealing it from their neighbors and the thing is its not hard for people to conceive of a scenario where these small personal cultivation operations, if they are completely permitted, are going to turn into an opportunity for kids to be able to get access to product. Like teens being able to get some and get it to their friends. That’s the concern and I don’t think that’s a completely unrealistic concern. This is a pragmatic decision and it is what it is. I really feel for the people this issue is really terribly important to them. I think that once people are able to process this and realize decriminalization is really really good and a huge leap forward……… Its a good deal for everybody and its something we can pass.

Well it looks like the MPP has sold out and wants to sell us all out. They have forgotten why we are legalizing cannabis in the first place. Safer Arizona and the Arizona Cannabis Activist Community does not support the Marijuana Policy Projects initiative and with this text. We insist that the Marijuana Policy Project terminate their interest in Arizonas marijuana laws and leave our state. The MPP Initiative is detrimental to the welfare of Arizona citizens and we do not want it. We will run a peoples initiative written by actual citizens of Arizona. We will stand for the right of our people.

Stand with us.

Tonight Wednesday March 4th the Arizona Cannabis Activist Community is meeting at The Fire House Gallery on Roosvelt and 1st street in Phoenix at 7pm to discuss our plan of action.