Maricopa County Attorney Allister Adel sent a letter to Gov. Doug Ducey on Friday urging him to veto a bill that would make sweeping reforms to Arizona’s civil forfeiture laws and, in many cases, make it more difficult for the government to keep seized property without a criminal conviction.
House Bill 2810 passed the Senate almost unanimously on a 29-1 vote last week and now sits on Ducey s desk where it will either be signed into law, vetoed or passed into law without the governor s signature after a couple more days.
In the letter, Adel alleges that HB 2810 would place Arizona at greater risk to drug cartels and human trafficking while allowing crime syndicates to run rampant, should it be passed into law.
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Michael Moss was a welder until degenerative disc disease forced him into an early retirement. In 2011, he moved to Arizona for the climate, landing in the small Navajo County city of Show Low.
What followed was a series of surgeries that sandwiched the broken vertebrae in the middle of his spine between 24 screws in his neck and six lag bolts in his lower back.
When the heavy, opioid-based painkillers doctors prescribed him left him emaciated and like a zombie, he turned to medical marijuana. But the high-potency medicine he needed cost as much as $400 a week. That was unaffordable on disability pay, so he started growing his own.