An alternative Arizona marijuana-legalization campaign made up of passionate cannabis users is aiming sky-high with its permissive proposal, but would voters really go for it?
Arizonans for Mindful Regulation, a grassroots organization that has a small army of volunteers but little money, is making a final push to make the ballot this November with its initiative that would allow up to 1,500 retail-shop licenses statewide to be issued by the end of next year. It would ban limits on cultivation or distribution licenses. Colorado, by comparison, now has about 950 medical-marijuana and recreational marijuana retail outlets.
"AZFMR regulates marijuana a lot closer to alcohol than MPP but does not claim to do so." — Dave Wisniewski AZFMR's leaders claim to have collected more than 100,000 signatures.
A much-better-funded effort backed by Arizona dispensaries and the national Marijuana Policy Project — the group that put the state's medical-marijuana law on the ballot in 2010 — uses the more tried-and-true method of paying petition gatherers.
