Keep AZ Drug Free, former ballot opposition committee

AACOP STATEMENT IN OPPOSITION to PROPOSITION 203 It is well known that drug abuse and crime go hand in hand. Marijuana is currently the leading cause of substance dependence other than alcohol in the U.S. and legalization will increase the numbers of both users and abusers. The incidence of drug-impaired driving will also increase if [...]

Editor’s note: This story is the third in a series explaining the 10 propositions that will appear on the Nov. 2 general-election ballot. PROPOSITION 203: Arizona Medical Marijuana Act Proposition 203 would legalize marijuana for medicinal use. Licensed physicians would be able to recommend medical marijuana to patients with debilitating medical conditions, which include cancer, [...]

Viewpoints: Doug MacEachern Proposition 203: “Medical Marijuana.” I am very sympathetic to those who wish to reclaim the billions of dollars in profits back from the drug cartels by decriminalizing marijuana. I am not in favor of using the law in duplicitous ways, including pretending the main focus of this law is to help glaucoma [...]

PHOENIX — Sheriff Joe Arpaio spoke out against a new push to legalize medical marijuana in Arizona, while speaking to graduates of a drug rehabilitation program, on Tuesday. For the past 50 years in law enforcement, the sheriff has focused on crimes involving illegal drugs. Arpaio said, “I have spent the better part of my [...]

Pro-marijuana groups are playing on fears about government, hinting that the FDA is captive to special interests and doesn’t care about regular people. But it’s not just the FDA that says marijuana isn’t medicine. The American Cancer Society,  The American Glaucoma Society and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society all say there is little evidence of benefit [...]

I am not against the medical use of cannabis; I am against Proposition 203. It’s a back door route to legalization, which would do far more harm than good. Colorado is changing their law to put pot docs out of business, but Prop 203 will allow them here. And in Arizona, once a referendum is [...]

Prop 203 protects pot-smokers in ways we’d never tolerate for people who abused alcohol or prescription drugs. Prop 203 says marijuana cardholders can’t be prosecuted for DUI based solely on “the presence of metabolites or components of marijuana that appear in insufficient concentration to cause impairment.” An employer can’t discipline an employee or send him [...]

Prop 203 will increase crime, not decrease it as its supporters claim. Here’s why: Nearly all addictive drugs cause crime and violence, including alcohol, and almost all the crime in this country is drug- and alcohol-related.  Most of this crime, approximately 60 percent, is simply because people who are drunk or high do stupid, violent [...]

If Prop 203 passes, there will be more DUIs and more fatal auto accidents. The research on stoned driving and the reports from states with medical marijuana laws make it clear, when it comes to driving, marijuana poses all the same problems that alcohol does. Marijuana is the culprit in one-third of Montana’s DUI traffic [...]