The number is 841,348; that’s 50.13 percent of the voters — a difference of 4,340 people. They said yes, they wanted medical marijuana. They followed the rules. The governor doesn’t, so, she doesn’t. Is that how government works now?
I hope the 50.13 percent are writing and telling their governor their expectations, again.
Mike Templeton
Mesa
Arizona Willie posted at 4:36 pm on Wed, Jan 4, 2012.
I have been wondering why none of the Marijuana users or Distributors ( would be ) have sued her personally.
She has no authority under the Constitution to delay implementing the law just because she claims something which has never happened so far might happen.
It's an obvious play to stop the law.
Of course the unintended consequence of her action ( aren't there always some? ) is that it is legal for anyone who gets a card to grow their own.
I suspect if you checked a few backyards a person could find quite a few plants quietly growing away in the Arizona sun :)
If she had not illegally tried to stop Medical Marijuana it would have been controlled through the clinics.
As it is, it is a wide open growing season and, if you have a card, there is nothing the law can do to you as long as you don't sell it or give it to someone else.
And too, why hasn't Sheriff Joe arrested her for exceeding her authority? Her actions in regard to Medical Marijuana have been illegal and swatted down by every court she has gone to.
Leon Ceniceros posted at 4:59 pm on Wed, Jan 4, 2012.
Sorry Charlie (Charlie Tuna from the Chicken of the Sea TV commercial...lol).
Governor Jan Brewer's "hands are tied". It doesn't matter what 50.13% of Arizona voters want. In the case of marijuana, the Federal Government considers marijuana as a Class 1 Controlled Substance. It's use is regulated by the so-called "Controlled Substances Acts" going back to 1970. Class 1 controlled substances are considered to have a high potential for abuse, have no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States and have a lack of accepted safety for use under medical supervision.
Now the current US Attorney for the State of Arizona can say things about not "deciding" to go after State of Arizona employees that aid and facilitate the distribution of marijuana but that's his "opinion". The Law is on the books, if the next US Attorney for Arizona "decides" that Arizona State employees are committing a crime as stipulated in the "Controlled Substances Act"...then maybe Governor Jan Brewer could be arrested under Federal Law no matter what Arizona State Law says. There is an 800lb gorilla in the room...the "Supremacy Clause of the US Constitution (Article 6, Clause 2) that mandates ..."FEDERAL STATUTES ARE THE SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND".
Now President Obama and his US Attorney General, Eric "Fast and Furious" Holder are trying to be "cute" on this issue....letting Governor Jan Brewer "swing in the breeze"...but............ANYTIME PRESIDENT OBAMA WANTS TO REMOVE MARIJUANA FROM BEING A CLASS 1 CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE.......HE CAN DO IT WITH THE STROKE OF HIS PEN. HE HAS THAT AUTHORITY UNDER THE LAW.
So all of the 50.13% of Arizona voters that want marijuana "legalized" shouldn't be taking ..pen and paper in hand and wasting a 42cent stamp on a letter to Gov. Jan Brewer...they should be writting to the......"SUBSTANCE CONTROLLER-IN-CHIEF"....... BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA...C/O WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON, D.C.
Accuracy posted at 6:04 pm on Thu, Jan 5, 2012.
The Arizona voter-approved medical-marijuana law (Proposition 203) conflicts with federal drug laws, which outlaws the cultivation, sale or use of marijuana.
But, U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton in Phoenix dismissed the lawsuit asking the court to decide whether Arizona could carry out its medical-marijuana law without subjecting state workers to federal charges.
Federal prosecutors, so far, have not threatened to prosecute state or municipal employees for following the law.