IN AZ? HAVE VOTING RIGHTS? PRO-MARIJUANA? VOTE AZFMR NOT MPP IN 2016

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In Arizona there are 2 main groups working to change the marijuana laws in Arizona by collecting signatures for ballot initiatives for the 2016 election. The Marijuana Policy Project which is an out of state corporate non profit based out of Washington DC and Arizonans for Mindful Regulation which are citizens, businesses, and organizations of the State of Arizona. Safer Arizona is supporting Arizonans for Mindful regulation as it is actual legalization and regulation that will stop ordinary people from going to jail for cannabis as opposed to the Marijuana Policy Project. The MPPs initiative is an incremental form of regulation that only makes small amounts of cannabis legal while above that amount is still a felony and possibly mandatory prison time. Similar to bating and trapping pray for a hunt, with the felonies under the MPPs initiative police will still have incentive to actively hunt down cannabis users and put them in jail and could potentially increase arrests and expand the Arizona prison industrial complex. Below is a link to a comparison chart of the Arizonans For Mindful Regulation VS MPP and links to the language of both initiatives.

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MPP INITIATIVE TEXT

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What an Attorney-General Sessions would mean for marijuana

Published: Nov 19, 2016 7:13 p.m. ET

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general thinks ‘good people don’t smoke marijuana’

America’s growing acceptance of marijuana may be reversed if Sen. Jeff Sessions is confirmed as attorney general, industry experts said Friday.

President-elect Donald Trump on Friday said he intends to nominate Sessions, a former prosecutor, as the next U.S. Attorney General.

Sessions is not a fan of marijuana, to say the least. Aaron Herzberg, general counsel at real estate focused marijuana company CalCann Holdings, said Sessions “is the worst pick that Trump could have picked.” Sessions has been critical of President Barack Obama and his administration’s approach to enforcing federal drug laws.

“Good people don’t smoke marijuana,” Sessions said during an April Senate hearing. “We need grown ups in Washington to say marijuana is not the kind of thing that ought to be legalized, it ought not to be minimized, that it is in fact a very real danger.

“To make it socially acceptable creates increased demand and results in people being addicted and being impacted adversely.”

Further back, Sessions allegedly said he thought KKK members were okay until he learned they smoked marijuana. Sessions subsequently called that a joke.

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UPDATE: Jeff Sessions says if Americans don't want him to enforce marijuana laws, they should change them

Published: Jan 11, 2017 12:50 p.m. ET

If the American people are worrying about Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions’ approach to enforcing federal marijuana laws, he says they should get Congress to change them.

Sessions, who President-elect Donald Trump has tapped to become U.S. attorney general, answered questions on marijuana among other issues during his confirmation hearing on Tuesday. And Sessions did not offer a definitive stance on what marijuana enforcement would look like under his justice department.

“I won’t commit to never enforcing federal law, [Sen. Patrick Leahy], but absolutely it’s a problem of resources for the federal government,” Sessions said. “Good judgement on how to handle these cases will be a responsibility of mine, which won’t be an easy decision, but I will try to do my duty in a fair and just way.”

Though 28 states have legalized medical marijuana use, eight states have passed recreational laws and 21% of the U.S. population now lives in a state where smoking weed is legal, the federal law still states marijuana is an illegal substance. And the drug is classified as a Schedule I drug along with heroin, LSD and ecstasy.

Sessions, in the past, has made it clear he opposes marijuana legalization. “Good people don’t smoke marijuana,” he has said. But in a Trump presidency, he’d be asked to forward the Trump agenda and not his own, which is promising for the marijuana industry.

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