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Arizona Legislators Introduce HB 2557 to Overturn Voters Approval of Proposition 203 | Arizona Medical Marijuana Law

The voters of Arizona spoke when a majority approved Proposition 203. Now a group of elected elites who know what is best for the people of Arizona introduced House Bill 2557 (aka the â??Donâ??t Divert Money from the Drug Cartels Actâ?�) on January 26, 2011, for the sole purpose of killing Arizonaâ??s medical marijuana industry before it begins.

Yesterday Arizonaâ??s Attorney General Tom Horne issued a press release that said Arizona could impose a sales tax on medical marijuana and he estimated Arizona would collect $40 million in badly needed revenue. If HB 2557 passes, Arizona can kiss the medical marijuana industry good bye, which means no need for the 125 would be dispensaries to hire thousands of employees, security personnel, growers, transporters and the many other types of ancillary jobs that the industry would generate.

Here is the key language in HB 2557. It will amend Arizona Revised Statutes Section 42-5010 by adding the following as new subsection A.5 to read:

The tax imposed by this article is levied and shall be collected at the following rates:

THREE HUNDRED PER CENT OF THE TAX BASE AS COMPUTED FOR THE BUSINESS OF EVERY PERSON ENGAGING OR CONTINUING IN THIS STATE IN THE NONPROFIT MEDICAL MARIJUANA DISPENSARY CLASSIFICATION DESCRIBED IN SECTION 42-5077.

HB 2557 will add the following new section 42-5077 to Arizonaâ??s statutes:

42-5077. Nonprofit medical marijuana dispensary classification

A. THE NONPROFIT MEDICAL MARIJUANA DISPENSARY CLASSIFICATION IS COMPRISED OF THE BUSINESS OF SELLING OR DISPENSING MEDICAL MARIJUANA TO QUALIFYING PATIENTS PURSUANT TO TITLE 36, CHAPTER 28.1.

B. THE TAX BASE FOR THE NONPROFIT MEDICAL MARIJUANA DISPENSARY CLASSIFICATION IS THE GROSS PROCEEDS OR GROSS INCOME DERIVED FROM THE BUSINESS.

C. IF A PERSON WHO IS ENGAGED IN BUSINESS AS A NONPROFIT MEDICAL MARIJUANA DISPENSARY ALSO SELLS OTHER TANGIBLE PERSONAL PROPERTY AT RETAIL, THE PERSONâ??S BOOKS MUST SEPARATELY ACCOUNT FOR SALES OF THE OTHER TANGIBLE PERSONAL PROPERTY, AND IF NOT SO KEPT THE TAX UNDER THIS SECTION APPLIES TO THE TOTAL OF THE PERSONâ??S ENTIRE GROSS PROCEEDS OR GROSS INCOME FROM THE BUSINESS.

If you want Arizona to have legalized medical marijuana, you must tell your legislators to impose a reasonable tax on medical marijuana of 5% â?? 7%. Hereâ??s the contact information for the Arizona legislators who introduced this bill and who want to overturn the vote of a majority of Arizonans. Send these people emails, letters and faxes and let them know you oppose outrageous sales tax on medical marijuana.

Senator Kyrsten Sinema D
Phone: (602) 926-5058
Email: [email protected]
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Sentator Olivia Cajero Bedford, D
Phone: (602) 926-5835
Fax: (602) 417-3027
Email: [email protected]

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Senator David Schapira, D
Phone: (602) 926-3028
Email: [email protected]
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Steve Farley, D
Phone Number: (602) 926-3022
Email Address: [email protected]
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Bummer, 4 more years before you can throw him out of office. Sad for Arizona, my second home. Guess he wants the work of prosecuting all the patients that can only afford to buy from the street. Big boost for the Mexican Cartels, wonder how much they contributed to his campaign?

Im sure he gets a lil bump from them. This is crazy...I was watching The Union:business behind getting high and It was talking about the health risks and crap associated with alcohol and tobacco... I think its funny that the politicians and higher ups are soo ignorant to the fact that mmj is a medicine, not a DRUG. but I can down a bottle of cough syrup and drive mrs daisy around all I want.

well FTW, actually f(*# republicans,

Montana republicans are trying to shut things down.
House panel endorses repeal of medical marijuana law
new mexico were on the chopping block too.

Representative James E. Smith (R-Bernalillo, Sandoval, Santa Fe) introduced House Bill 593 last night - The Repeal of New Mexico Medical Marijuana Laws.

http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/11%2...se/HB0593.html

Here comes the push across america to repeal the people' law..

I always grew up being told by grown folk that if I didn't like the law to change it... we did, they lied.:mad:

Now we have to do it again?:wtf: TiT for TaT here or they thinking they is grown folks?:cursing::S4::postexcuseme: