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By E.J. Montini
The Arizona Republic
The issue of medical marijuana is like LSD for Arizona lawmakers. Mention “pot” or “weed” and our politicians have hallucinogenic flashbacks of lost elections.
It doesn’t matter that Arizona citizens have voted to approve the use of medical marijuana three times.
It doesn’t matter that the laws we approved have never been fully implemented, although what is happening now is the closest we’ve come.
What matters to some of our elected leaders is trying, somehow, some way, to get us to change our minds.
The latest effort is being led by Rep. John Kavanagh, R-Fountain Hills, who filed a bill that would refer the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act back to the ballot in November 2014.
Why is Kavanagh doing it?