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David Wisniewski is 100% right in his letter to the editor
The Marijuana Policy Project Is Lying To Arizona (Open Letter To AZ Central) This is an open letter to AZ Central in response to article “My Turn : Legal Marijuana Would Be Good For Kids“ My name is David Wisniewski. I am part of the actual Arizona Cannabis Legalization Movement. We are Arizonans For Mindful Regulation PAC / Safer Arizona Activist Media and our community is competing with The Marijuana Policy Project for a spot on the 2016 election ballot. MPP has over 135,000 Signatures, We have over 75,000 Signatures. Our numbers and momentum show that we will make the ballot with MPP. Im upset the media keeps reporting the MPP is regulating marijuana like alcohol which it does not. If you read their initiative they are actually regulating marijuana as if it is several times more dangerous than alcohol. Their campaign name (regulate like alcohol) is a lie and here is the explanation. Quote from “My Turn: Legal Marijuana In Arizona Will Be Good For Kids.” “In November, Arizona voters will likely have the opportunity to decide whether marijuana should be regulated like alcohol in the state.” Some examples of how claiming they are regulating marijuana like alcohol is a lie. 1- There are 1,600 alcohol retail outlets available in Arizona today, MPP gives you 160 marijuana retail outlets. That’s just 10% of alcohol availability. That is not a meaningful increase in availability . Most patients DO NOT get the majority of their marijuana at dispensaries. Our current dispensaries cannot accommodate even half of the patient base today with 80,000 patients. When they go from 80K legal users to 3 MILLION legal users over night the black market is going to EXPLODE. It will thrive on over drive. So the availability is not regulated like alcohol at all. 2 – Alcohol you can brew beer at home but the city cant prohibit its citizens in mass from brewing beer at home. MPP puts the power to prohibit their 6 plants of home cultivation into the hands of prohibitionists who we can count on exercising their powers to prohibit. Those 6 plants are temporary at best. The cities can and will ban home cultivation. Again not like alcohol. 3 – Selling alcohol with out a license is illegal but it is only a class 2 misdemeanor which is a only a fine. MPPs law leaves all unlicensed sales a felony. So under their law even selling a single joint will get you arrested. 4 – Our marijuana prohibition law in Arizona is ARS 13-3405 which makes everything a felony. MPP Claims to end prohibition however they are not removing or repealing ARS 13-3405. Instead they are placing their law on top of ARS 13-3405 just like they did with the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act. This means prohibition will remain an active law on the books. What ever is covered under the MPP initiative will be legal but what is not covered will default back to the still existing and active prohibition. This means under MPPs law – 1 oz of marijuana will be legal to cary, 1.1 to 2.5 oz will be a misdemeanor, 2.6 oz will be a felony arrest.Further more, with all these felonies in place well with in consumer level, and Sheriff Joes operation No Drug Bust Too Small, Police will still have a hefty financial incentive to continue hunting down cannabis users, harassing them, and locking them up in our For-Profit Prison System. They are only effectively making 1 oz of store bought marijuana and 5 grams of store bought concentrates legal for all practical purposes. This can be equated to the free cheese inside of a mouse trap. It is a jail bait initiative designed to bait and trap cannabis users into heavy prison time. We can expect to see a decrease in arrests of simple possession but as their initiative pours fuel on prohibition increasing black market activity we can expect to see an increase of arrests in sales and cultivation which carry heavier prison sentences. That type of regulation is worse than our current prohibition as it will result in more people doing harder time. The prisons will LOVE MPPs regulation. This is why the actual cannabis legalization movement has filed a competing initiative that provides more consumer protection, actual grow rights, and will provide 1,600 retail outlets with reasonable licensing. In conclusion the MPP is lying to you even in their campaign name and the AZFMR initiative regulates marijuana much more like alcohol.
David Wisniewski.
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