Arizona Marijuana Legalization Campaign's Picking Up Signatures Fast

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A campaign to legalize marijuana for adults 21 and older in Arizona has picked up 75,000 signatures already, an achievement that makes the proposal ever more likely to appear on the state's 2016 ballot.

J.P. Holyoak, chair of the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol, says today that his group is about one-third of the way toward its goal to turn in 230,000 signatures before the July 2016 deadline. More than 150,000 signatures are needed to qualify for the ballot, but ballot-measure campaigns always shoot for a much higher number knowing that many will be thrown out for various reasons.

The campaign is sponsored partly by the Marijuana Policy Project, a national group that has run successful campaigns including Arizona's medical-marijuana law in 2010 and the Colorado adult-use legalization law in 2012.

“We’re finding that more than one out of every two registered voters we ask to sign...

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