By Jason Rose, president and founder of Rose+Moser+Allyn Public & Online Relations. The company provides public relations services to the Regulated Dispensaries Association of Arizona.
Arizona Capitol Times
As the father of two young boys, I have great respect for the good work of Keep Arizona Drug Free, even as I may disagree with their political punditry, as expressed in the Feb. 22 commentary “Marijuana legalization is far from inevitable.”
The point of the piece was seemingly to give political safe harbor to elected officials seeking to re-vote and repeal Arizona’s thrice- approved medical marijuana law.
It did so with red herrings, mixing observations about full marijuana legalization and medical marijuana programs.
But the current discussion isn’t about full legalization. It is about whether Arizona voters will be respected and whether a well-regulated medical marijuana program will have a chance to prove itself here.
I do not wish to re-litigate the 2010 campaign that enabled the current program. There are good people and arguments on both sides.
But when an advocacy organization goes astray to mistakenly play political consultant, it justifies a response.
