Our state would experience a renaissance of business, culture and arts if our citizens could be lifted from the tyranny of the marijuana laws.

Our young people would no longer be preyed on and arrested to be branded as felons for the rest of their lives. There would be 18,000 fewer arrests each year. The seizing of property and children from us would be lessened.

In Arizona each night, 81,000 people are behind bars in 13 prisons and 15 county jails, yet our state has only 235 beds for the mentally ill in the state hospital. Roughly two out of 100 adults in Arizona sleep behind bars.

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