In stark contrast to the massive document filed by a national PAC, Tulsan Paul Tay submitted a very simple and clean constitutional amendment which would shrink govt. while restoring individual liberties as they pertain to cannabis consumption, possession, cultivating, processing, and distribution.
SQ808 was file just minutes after the ACLU's state director refiled the reworked SQ806, as SQ807. A hallmark of Kiesel's SQ807 is the huge tax that it mandates into Oklahoma's constitution. But Paul Tay's SQ808 grants the legislature very limited ability to set a tax which "only covers the cost of implementing this oversight, and nothing else". Paul Tay has been a colorful and erratic perennial candidate for elective office. This document is likely to surprise several who follow Sooner State politics. We'll be researching this development and especially seeking to identify the legal minds who put together this vision of drug policy reform. This sets up a contrast of visions for liberty and the size of government. While neither of the proposals have been subjected to broad legal reviews, if they both maintain legal integrity in court challenges, it will likely divide the cannabis consumers into two separate camps and result in neither proposals succeeding at the ballot box. And then there's the wildcard of Paul Tay's affiliation with SQ808, & the suspicious out of state shadowy figures affiliation with SQ807 |
Below is a textual reconstruction of the scans published by the Secretary of State's office
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