FAQ #3: How much marijuana will someone be able to get?

QUESTION: Will the amounts of marijuana allowed to marijuana users under Prop 203 be small?

ANSWER: No.  In fact, the amount of marijuana allowed to each marijuana user will be HUGE!

Marijuana users will be allowed to buy 2.5 ounces (approximately 200 marijuana cigarettes) from a dispensary every two weeks.  And, if a marijuana user doesn’t live within 25 miles of a dispensary, he can grow his own!  Up to 12 plants per marijuana user!   Marijuana grows fast.  A cardholder can get three crops per year of 12 plants and can get up to a pound of usable marijuana per plant, which could yield up to 36 pounds per year! These amounts of marijuana suggest drug trafficking – not medicine!

Don’t be fooled into thinking even the large amounts specifically mentioned in Prop 203 are the limit.  Only the amounts purchased from a dispensary will be recorded, making it possible for a marijuana user also to get marijuana on the black market, so long as he holds no more than 2.5 ounces at a time.  The Drug Enforcement Administration warns that large-scale drug trafficking “hides behind” laws like Prop 203 in other states.  Arizona has enough of a drug problem already!  The national pro-drug lobby (the Marijuana Policy Project) pushing this bad law on Arizona doesn’t care about Arizona or its drug problem!