Survey on legalizing marijuana in Arizona

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Purpose of survey

A survey to determine if:

1) people will vote to legalize marijuana and remove criminal and civil penalties
2) people will vote to allow marijuana to be grown for personal use
3) people will vote to allow people to possess unlimited amounts of marijuana for personal use
4) people will vote to allow minors to use marijuana and if they don't what the penalties should be
5) people will vote to allow marijuana to be smoked in public like tobacco
6) how people feel about taxing marijuana

Why I want to do the survey

If we are going to legalize marijuana personally I think we should have unlimited grow rights and unlimited possession right.

But Andrew Myers, MPP or Marijuana Policy Project and NORML seem to say the people won't vote for that.

Of course I am skeptical and think that Andrew Myers, MPP and NORML want to create a government monopoly for the dispensaries so they can get rich selling the rest of us marijuana at $300+ an ounce prices. And that they have a financial interest in making it illegal for people to grow marijuana or possess more then a small amount of marijuana. That's so they can use the police to arrest anybody they think is cutting into to their government monopoly on growing and selling marijuana.

The purpose of this survey it to answer those questions.

Things that need to be done in my view

I view this survey as a three step process.

Step 1 - I run the survey by you guys and we use your input to tweek it into something that makes us all happy about the questions that need to be answered and how to ask those questions.

Step 2 - I would like to run the survey in environments that might not give a statistically valid sample just to get a gut feel of how how well the questions are written and about how people are answering them. And then tweek the survey based on that.

I would say in this step we give the survey to people at public places like ASU, the community colleges, Tempe Transit Center, a mall or shopping center and other public places. Perhaps even Billy's Purple Haze House, all that wouldn't be statistically valid because everybody would want to legalize it there.

Step 3 - This would be the final step. We would take the survey created in steps 1 and 2 and attempt to run it on a statistically valid sample size in the real world.

I took statics in college and it seems the most difficult part is getting a statistically valid sample size that accurately reflects the voting population.

We could either do this on our own.

Or perhaps see if we could get some grad students at ASU, U of A, University of Phoenix, Grand Canyon College or some other university to help us do a survey. Preferably students who have a background in surveys and statics. And get them to help us.

Last Eric mentioned paying a $1,000 or $2,000 to a firm to do the survey for us.

Definitions of terms I am using

Here are some of my definitions for the wording in the survey.

Marijuana - that includes good old fashioned marijuana as well as hashish, wax all all the other things that contain THC that will get you high.
Marijuana use - the use, sale, possession, smoking, eating, refining and consumption of marijuana. That does not include growing marijuana. I have several questions that address the growing issue so I did not include growing as part of marijuana use.
Legalize marijuana - I mean letting people legally use marijuana as defined on the previous line. Again this does not include growing marijuana.
Minor - That is to be determined by the person answering the questions. Some people may mean it to be under 18, some people may mean it to be under 21. We can get a feeling on what they think a minor is by how they answer questions 2 and 3.
Personal use - I used personal use in the questions about growing marijuana and it means growing marijuana for the person use of a person, his friends family buddies. It does not mean growing it for commercial use to resell it. I am not going to give a highly technical definition because I really don't know what it should be.

Survey Questions

The first three questions are just generic questions on if they think marijuana should be legalized and for what age groups

1 Would you vote to remove all criminal and civil penalties for marijuana use for people of ALL ages

Yes | No | Undecided

2 Would you vote to remove all criminal and civil penalties for marijuana use for ONLY people 18 or older.

Yes | No | Undecided

3 Would you vote to remove all criminal and civil penalties for marijuana use for ONLY people 21 or older.

Yes | No | Undecided

The next three questions relate to growing marijuana

4 Would you vote to legalize marijuana use and allow people to grow as much marijuana as they need for personal use.

Yes | No | Undecided

5 Would you vote to legalize marijuana use but NOT allow people to grow marijuana for personal use.

Yes | No | Undecided

6 Would you vote to legalize marijuana use but set a limit on how much marijuana a person can grow for personal use.

Yes | No | Undecided

6a If you answered yes, what is the number of marijuana plants you would allow a person to grow, size of their garden, weight or other limit to their personal growing of marijuana.

xxxx - plants
xxxx - acres
xxxx - pounds

The next two questions relate to how much marijuana a person should be able to possess

7 Would you vote to legalize marijuana use and allow a person to possess as much marijuana as they need for their personal use. Which is exactly how the current laws are on liquor.

Yes | No | Undecided

8 Would you vote to legalize marijuana use but set a limit on how much marijuana a person can possess at any given time for personal use. This would be like limiting a beer drinker to a 6 pack of beer or a case of beer.

Yes | No | Undecided

8a If you answered yes, what is the amount of marijuana you would allow a person to possess for personal use

xxxx - grams
xxxx - ounces
xxxx - pounds
xxxx - kilos

9 Would you vote to legalize marijuana, but make it illegal for minors to use marijuana. For most people a minor is under 18 or under 21.

Yes | No | Undecided

9a If you answered yes to that question how would you want the ban on the use of marijuana enforced?

a. By parents and guardians of the minors with no criminal or civil penalties for violators
b. By the police, schools, and other government entities with no criminal or civil penalties for violators
c. By the police with criminal or civil penalties such as fines for violators.

The next question tries to see if marijuana smoking should be allowed in public like tobacco smoking currently is.

10 Would you vote to legalize marijuana and allow marijuana to be smoked in public like cigarettes are currently?

Marijuana should NOT be legalized
Marijuana should be legalized and should be allowed to be smoked in public
Marijuana should be legalized, but people should NOT be allowed to smoke marijuana in public

This question tries to gauge how people feel about taxing marijuana

11 How do you feel about legalizing marijuana and taxing it?

Marijuana should NOT be legalized
The government should not tax marijuana at all other then currently existing taxes such as sales taxes
The government should have moderate "sin taxes" on the sale of marijuana to raise money for the government
The government should have heavy "sin taxes" on marijuana to discourage the use of marijuana

Last some of these questions might be asked to give us feed back

Age or date of birth - We are only concerned about people who can vote.
Sex
Education
Income
Job type - clerk, engineer, burger flipper, ...
government job vs private sector job - people in government jobs frequently have a vested financial interest in the war on drugs.

I am going to put a copy of this on to this web page.

http://bureaucrats.100webspace.net/survey.php