If you’d like to discuss medical marijuana, contact Ryan Hurley, director of the Rose Law Group Medical Marijuana Dept., rhurley@roselawgroup.com
By Angela Gonzales
Arizona’s medical marijuana law might be heading back to the voters.
Rep. John Kavanagh, R-Fountain Hills, is introducing a bill to repeal the medical marijuana law Arizona voters passed in November 2010. If House Concurrent Resolution 2003 makes it through the Legislature this spring, it will be placed on the 2014 ballot to give voters a second chance to either support it or kill it.
Carolyn Short, chairwoman of Keep AZ Drug Free, said she believes it would be in the state’s best interests to repeal the law.
“Voters were told that we would have just 135 dispensaries, but nobody mentioned we’re going to have collectives, coalitions and home growers all over the state,” she said. “There are a whole bunch of problems we now see that were predicted. Now we have the evidence we have a recreational marijuana law in our state.”
Short said she doesn’t believe voters would have passed the initiative had they known some of the conditions contained within it.
“That’s why it’s going to go back on the ballot,” she said, “to give voters a chance with evidence in front of them to decide whether they want to have this.”
Ryan Hurley, co-chair of the Rose Law Group’s medical marijuana department, said voters already have spoken.
