Battleground Arizona: Prop 203 Fact Sheet

BATTLEGROUND ARIZONA

Fighting drug legalization in Arizona

No on Prop 203 Fact Sheet

Prop 203 is a referendum supported by The People Have Spoken campaign. This campaign has promoted previous Arizona drug legalization initiatives.

Prop 203 is financed by billionaire New Yorker George Soros, University of Phoenix founder John Sperling and insurance executive Peter Lewis. Together they have funded numerous drug legalization ballot measures across the country, including Arizona.

Prop 203 is officially titled The Drug Medicalization, Prevention, and Control Act of 2002, but is actually about drug legalization.

Prop. 203 would:

Abolish the requirement of a doctor's prescription for medical marijuana.
Define "medical conditions" to include muscle spasm and patient-defined symptoms such as pain or nausea.
Require only the possibility that marijuana use might have an effect on the symptoms or condition
Make the Department of Public Safety (state police) responsible for giving away two ounces of marijuana to the holder of a state-issued "Registry Identification Card" (or a designated caregiver) every month.
Allow individuals with the Registry Identification Card, or their primary caregiver,to grow two marijuana plants for their personal use.

The Department of Public Safety will be required to distribute marijuana seized from drug dealers.

If additional marijuana is needed, even more taxpayer money will be used to buy the dope from an experimental farm at the University of Mississippi.

Taxpayer dollars would be used to cover the costs of the free marijuana program.

Anyone caught with two ounces or less (approximately 200 joints) of marijuana would be charged with a civil violation punishable by no more than a $250 fine. The fine would be waived through attendance of a drug education program.

Certain designated felons currently in prison, convicted of drug-related crimes, will be eligible for immediate release back in our communities.

Prop 203 is opposed by Governor Jane Dee Hull, Police and Fire Fighters Associations, The Arizona County Attorney and Sheriffs Association and thousands of Arizonans concerned with this drug legalization scheme disguised as a "medical marijuana" initiative.