I can't give out his phone number, as the only one I have is a personal one, but here is his email address: [email protected]
He always responds quickly.
This came from hydrogregg and I believe is the first step to resolving this:
"Under Arizona constitution, its equal privileges and immunities clause similarly mandates that: "No law shall be enacted granting...PRIVILAGES or immunities which, upon the same terms, shall not equally belong to all citizens or corporations." Arizona constitution, Article 2-13."
Well, there are steps that have to happen before that "first" one. For one thing, you have to be party to a lawsuit with standing, and this question has to be entertained in your trial well enough to be able to bring it up.
More likely, it will be a criminal case against a grower. Good luck asserting your right to cultivate if you don't have a card, and best of luck doing so on equal protection grounds. I truly hope this approach works to get the rules changed, but I don't really believe it can work as well as it would appear to a lay person at first blush. There are plenty of legal ways to grant a license to a business that doesn't have to be granted to everybody in the state.
How ironic that marijuana growers have a reason to embrace a corporate personhood statute, which Article 2-13 is