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Home 🌿 Recreational Marijuana News 🌿 Recreational marijuana petition drive started in Arizona 🌿Recreational marijuana petition drive started in Arizona
PHOENIX — Arizonans could get to decide next year if they want to follow the lead of Colorado and Washington and let any adult buy and use marijuana.
An initiative drive launched Friday would treat marijuana like alcohol, which includes creating a state regulatory agency with its own police powers and a 15 percent tax.
The money would pay for the oversight and, according to backers, potentially raise between $60 million and $100 million, mostly for education, but with some for health care.
But they first have to get the issue on the 2016 ballot. That means gathering 150,642 valid signatures by July 7, 2016.
If they get that far, they face stiff, and perhaps well-funded, opposition likely to be led by Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk. She already has formed a political action committee to start raising money.
The move comes just five years after voters agreed to let...
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