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Phoenix NORML Has it right! It’s ‘The Drug Cartel Empowerment Act’

Phoenix NORML has once again brought pertinent information to the public eye. On Wednesday Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne spoke on the John C. Scott Show in South Tucson. Horne stated that although drug prescriptions are not subject to sales tax in Arizona; The Arizona Medical Marijuana Act does not label medical marijuana specifically as a “prescription”. So, by that loop hole in Prop 203, it would be legal to apply sales tax to Arizona’s medical marijuana… And apply they will.

Tom Horne is on record suggesting the standard 6.6 tax that is applied to many items. However, many greedy politicians including- Sinema, Schapira, and Farley are backing House Bill-2557. This Bill would impose a 300% Tax on Medical Marijuana distributed by a dispensary.

Link to the bill:
http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/50leg/1r/bills/hb2557p.pdf

Steve Farley, District 28 Democratic Representative is one of the predominant faces of HB-2557. Farley said he does believe that some people probably could benefit from medical marijuana, but that it only has the amount of support it does because those behind it are just trying to fully legalize it. He stated “If that’s the direction they want to go in, then we might as well tax the heck out of it and benefit from it.”

Andrew Myers, prop 203 campaign manager, Arizona Medical Marijuana Association-AZMMA leader, and avid medical marijuana Community leader, spoke about these issues saying he and his organizations are not excited about the excess cost to seriously ill people. Myers stated what Farley wants to impose would be challenged as illegal.

Everyone in the Arizona Medical Marijuana community needs to speak out against this outrageous House Bill. Below is a list of HB-2557 supporters, call, email, Facebook, anything to get the message across that this tax would disable patients from attaining medicine, dispensaries from opening, and most importantly; this 300% tax would assure that marijuana stays an illegal underground operation. This bill really is ‘The Drug Cartel Empowerment Act’… We need to act against it!

HB-2557 Supporters

Representative Steve Farley, Democrat
Phone Number: (602) 926-3022
Email Address: sfarley@azleg.gov
http://www.azleg.gov/MembersPage.asp?Member_ID=49&Legislature=50&Session_ID=102
http://www.facebook.com/SteveFarleyAZ