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Arizona’s Marijuana Legalization Campaign Just Filed 420,000 Signatures With the State

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The grass could be greener on the other side of November after Smart & Safe Arizona, a citizens’ initiative to legalize cannabis for adult use in Arizona, said it filed 420,000 signatures with the Arizona Secretary of State on Wednesday.

The signatures must still be validated by the state. But with significantly more signatures than the 237,645 required to qualify for ballot access, the campaign, which began collecting signatures in September 2019 and has raised $3 million since, is optimistic about the future of cannabis in Arizona.

“Arizonans are ready to legalize cannabis and this is the right policy for our state,” said Arizona Dispensary Association President Steve White, CEO of Harvest Health and Recreation, in a press release. “New jobs and revenue are even more critical, today, than when we embarked on this campaign last year.”

The last adult-use cannabis legalization measure on the ballot in Arizona, Proposition 205, failed to pass by a margin of about 3 percent back in 2016. But things are looking up this time around, and backers believe that the measure will pass on November 3. An independent May 2020 poll from Arizona public affairs firm HighGround confirmed the measure’s popularity, though its sample size was small: 65 percent of the poll’s 400 respondents planned to vote “yes.”

Here are the key points of the measure, according to the ADA:

  • Arizonans 21 and over would be able to possess up to one ounce of marijuana, of which five grams could…

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Source: https://mmpconnect.com/arizonas-marijuana-legalization-campaign-just-filed-420000-signatures-with-the-state/

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