Ms. Brewer's actions are consistent with her close ties to the private, for-profit prison industry (the people who want to lock up your kids so that they can keep on making a buck): Here's some info from Wikipedia, and a link to the underlying story:

“The Brewer administration has also been investigated by KPHO for hiring Chuck Coughlin and Paul Senseman, both lobbyists for Corrections Corporation of America, as a policy advisor and communications director.[39] Although Coughlin continues work as both a lobbyist and policy advisor, Senseman no longer does work for CCA. CCA operates six private, for-profit prisons in Arizona.[40] ”.
Here’s the KPHO story, including a description of tens of thousands of dollars in campaign money from Corrections Corporation. http://www.kpho.com/news/24834877/detail.html
So Ms. Brewer is working to keep marijuana illegal and is at the same time hiring staff from a very large, for-profit prison corporation and taking campaign money from them. The AZ campaign finance site is at http://www.azsos.gov/cfs/CampaignFinanceSearch.htm but it’s not working for me; can anybody go in and see how much Ms. Brewer has taken from the prison industry? Is that really the government that we want… run by the prison companies? Is there someone in AZ that could get this info into the public arena?

The above comment sheds a whole new light on the article above it.This is what happens when a society discovers that it can make money from human misery.These prisons hire out their captive labor force for cash and claim that it is to cover expenses.What it is is slavery,plain and simple.Then there's Joe Arpaio, and his inhumane tent city compound. It is so beyond the pale that I have no idea when they decided that this was any kind of law or order.When did it become OK to treat men and women like animals,no worse than lab rats?This turns the clock back to an age we thought we had evolved beyond but Arpaio, has proven that all it takes is one mad man in a position of power to turn history and progress on it's ear.There are,I'm sure,some decent people in Arizona.Where are they and how do they allow elected officials to return to office when they flaunt not only the laws of man but of plain human decency?

There is nothing but reams of evidence that this approach does nothing to reduce recidivism and only pleases a mind that thrills at the degradation of his fellow man.The Politicians here are just plain corrupt.Arpaio is a sadist.

Arizonans marginalize themselves when they allow a know-nothing politician to run roughshod over their new voter-approved state law mandating medical patient access to marijuana.  People need to understand that what their politicians do as representatives reflects upon them as the state’s citizens.  The embarrassment caused by the Governor’s anti-marijuana campaign means that the people of Arizona need to revolt.  They need to do it soon.  They can’t just stand by and let Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria and London get all the news coverage.  No one is taking crap from governments anymore.

As for Gov. Jan Brewer, she is no medical doctor, and she is most certainly no scientist; yet Gov. Brewer has the audacity to challenge thousands of research studies and personal case histories that demonstrate marijuana’s effectiveness at relieving the symptoms of a wide variety of illnesses.  

For some cancer patients, access to quality medical marijuana can be a matter of life or death.  But Jan Brewer doesn’t care about people’s suffering, their health, their quality of life, or even life itself; and neither does her little consigliore, Attorney General Tom Horne. 

There are historical precedents for the kind of hysteria being demonstrated by Ms. Brewer and Mr. Horne.

Around the turn of the 19th century, some religious wackos decided that smallpox vaccinations were an affront to God’s will.  For some believers, disease and plagues were still considered a punishment by God for one’s sins, whether one had any sins or not.  Thus the Anti-Vaccination Society was formed, both in London and Boston.  At the time, smallpox comprised an estimated 10% of the total mortality rate in Europe and North America (ref: A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom, 2 vols., A. D. White, c. 1898).   

Of course, the real threat posed by religious dogma touting vaccination prohibition was to its believers, some of whom died of smallpox.  Nature has its own way of disposing of idiots.

Nature may eventually deal harshly with Jan Brewer and Tom Horne in much the same way.  Years from now, as both politicians stubbornly reject the miracle of medical cannabis, as they reside in agony in some decrepit nursing home, all the while suffering from diabetes, incontinence, rheumatoid arthritis, chronic pain, pruritus, Parkinson’s disease, and a host of other age-related ailments that could have been helped by medical marijuana, justice will be served.

Giordano

Politicians like that have their fall back - RALIVIA Yes synthetic OPIUM why go with weed when they get the best. You are close to the money though IT IS A POOR MAN'S MEDICATION FOR THOSE THAT HAVE BELIEF IN IT. Produce it yourself and a steady stream of FREE MEDICATION - now there's the bad word - FREE

Where in the constitution does it prohibit cannabis? Waging war on the states (as in drug war) is treason. And since it's retarded to wage war on an inanimate object, this war must be against people, American people. It's become apparent lately that their is no benefit of having the government we do. It's become more harmful, costly, dangerous, and deadly than beneficial. When everything they tell us is a lie, why do we pay to be lied to?