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Arizona Now Has Dueling Marijuana Legalization Campaigns

Submitted by Marijuana News on Thu, 05/28/2015 - 09:08

California isn’t the only state where cannabis supporters are sabotaging one another’s legalization efforts.

Arizona now has two competing initiatives to legalize cannabis in 2016. The Washington DC-based Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) is leading one effort while some newly minted medical cannabis dispensaries — which MPP helped legalize in 2010 — are running a competing initiative.

This week, medical dispensary operator Jason Medar of the “Campaign to Legalize and Regulate Marijuana” filed paperwork to begin gathering signatures for a legalization proposal that would go before voters in 2016, according to the Arizona Capitol Times. This effort comes a month after MPP’s “Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol” launched its own petition drive.

MPP and some medical dispensaries in Arizona bitterly parted ways in April over the issue of potential recreational competition.

There don't appear to be substantial differences between the MPP proposal and the dispensary proposal. Both give...

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