Marijuana-Legalization Campaign Outraged by Arizona Republic's Erroneous Op-Ed on Tax ...

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The oversize check presented to the state on Wednesday by backers of a plan to legalize marijuana in Arizona.

Ray Stern

Backers of a marijuana-legalization plan in Arizona are outraged over an unsigned editorial in the Arizona Republic published August 21 that used an inaccurate tax-revenue figure to bolster its claim that campaign officials were lying.

New Times also noticed the error on Friday morning and left the Republic's editorial page editor, Phil Boas, a message about it. The Republic later issued a correction.  

The Republic's board was responding to a claim made by the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol's message at the state Capitol on August 19 that its planned November 2016 ballot measure, if successful, could bring in $40 million or more per year to public schools.

The measure would create a system of retail shops in which cannabis could be sold to...

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