By Howard Fischer | AZ Capitol Times
Key Points:
- Arizona Senator J.D. Mesnard proposes legislation to expand nuisance laws to include excessive marijuana smoke and odor
- The bill aims to address the impact of marijuana smoke on families, including restricting its use on residential properties
- The legislation would allow judges to issue orders to abate marijuana nuisances
Someone in J.D. Mesnard’s Chandler neighborhood smokes marijuana.
The Republican senator doesn’t know who, though he’s pretty sure it’s not the folks next door.
But wherever it’s coming from, Mesnard said it’s strong enough to keep families from being able to use their own yards.
So the senator is proposing legislation to expand the state’s laws which make it a crime to use residential property in a way that creates a public nuisance. And he would do that by expanding the definition of “crime” to include “the creation of excessive marijuana smoke and odor,” — something that even could land people in county jail, though it does not define what is “excessive.”
