First the bill is ridiculous. Trying to tax medical marijuana the same as cigarettes? Cigarettes KILL people and cause numerous health problems that cost society dearly.

Marijuana can be used to help people with multiple health problems from Cancer and AIDS, to mitigating pain. These are very important functions some of which can actually save people's lives! This tax is an outrage. This tax should be condemned by all.

Next one of the commentors before me thinks this will put out dipensaries out of business so that caregivers can now grow? (25 mile rule) Think again, these dispensaries are still going to open therefore drastically hindering home grows, now they would just be extremely expensive which would hurt the medical marijuana cause.

I urge all people who support the cause of Medical Marijuana to contact the representatives that support this embarrassing legislation. Email them your thoughts or call to say your do not support this legislation. Your email or call doesn't have to be long, just get across that you do not support this bill and you would not vote for someone who supports it.

If you believe in something, fight for it
jeramiah4 Reviewed by jeramiah4 on . 300% tax on mmj bill HB 2557 AZ state representatives Kyrsten Sinema, David Shapira, and Steve Farley are supporting a truly inhumane bill just introduced in the late afternoon of 1/26/2011: Arizona's H.B.2557, which has been correctly deemed The Drug Cartel Empowerment Act. This bill would set medical marijuana taxes at a shocking 300%, which would effectively and unconstitutionally kill Prop 203 (the AZ Medical Marijuana Act). PDF version of H.B.2557: < http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/50leg/1r/bills/hb2557p.pdf > We Rating: 5