$1.3 Billion in New Revenue
10,000 Jobs
Arizona voters overwhelmingly approved legalizing adult-use marijuana through Proposition 207 in November 2020, allowing for possession and sales for adults 21 and older. Voters authorized a legalization framework that would ensure regulated sales, without seeing a dispensary on every corner. Retail sales began just two months later, in January 2021, making Arizona one of the fastest states to transition from voter approval to licensed recreational sales.
Today, the industry contributes 10,000 jobs and more than $20 Million per month to the state and cities in excise and sales taxes.
Read more about what Prop. 207 included.
This funding is dedicated to the following priorities:
Community Colleges
Public Safety
State Roads
Community Health
Justice Reinvestment
Community Benefits
Public Safety Funding
Improving public safety was a top priority of the Prop. 207 campaign in 2020. It’s why proponents worked with local first responders including the Arizona Police Association and the International Association of Fire Fighters to fund public safety. In fact, 31.4 percent of revenue goes directly to cities, towns and counties for public safety.
Community College Funding
Arizona’s community colleges are the largest recipient of Prop. 207 funding. They use their 33 percent share of the excise tax to fund new programs and invest in their campuses. Since legal sales began in 2021, more than $300 million has been generated for community colleges.
New Arizona Roads
The Highway User Revenue Fund is the third largest recipient of funding from the Smart & Safe Act. This fund supports highway and road projects across the state.
Arizona Adult-Use Revenue by Year
Legal adult-use marijuana sales began in early 2021. To date, more than $1.3 billion has been pumped directly into the state’s economy to support critical services and programs.
Industry News
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Despite Smart & Safe’s overwhelming success, anti-adult-use groups remain committed to rolling back legal sales, and returning Arizona to a medical-only sales environment. A measure was filed in December 2025 to repeal legal sales.
That campaign needs to gather 255,949 valid signatures by July 2. Although their PAC remains open, it’s unclear if signature gathering is underway.
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More than two-thirds of likely 2026 voters reject proposal to roll back Prop. 207
Support for Smart & Safe’s Taxed, Tested & Regulated Environment
Continues to Grow following 2020 PassagePHOENIX (Mar. 17, 2026) — A new statewide poll of likely November 2026 voters shows overwhelming opposition to a proposed ballot initiative to end legal, recreational sales of marijuana in Arizona and revoke the licenses of adult-use dispensaries in the state.
The Arizona Dispensaries Association (ADA) commissioned the survey after a ballot initiative was filed to dismantle the taxed, tested, limited and regulated marijuana program voters approved (60-40) in 2020. Prohibitionists began collecting signatures in February, according to Arizona Secretary of State records.
The ADA poll found their efforts will be futile. In fact, 68% of likely November voters oppose their proposition to end legal sales, while just 27% support it, indicating broad resistance across party lines, demographics, and regions of the state.
In fact, support has only grown for Prop. 207 since it passed with 60 percent of the vote. Today, 66 percent of the electorate supports the well-regulated and limited environment Smart & Safe created – one that has generated $1.3 billion in new tax revenue and 10,000 jobs since early 2021.
“This poll makes one thing very clear: Arizona voters overwhelmingly reject efforts to roll back Prop. 207,” said Drew Lieberman, Founder and President of LDI Strategy, which conducted the poll. “Support for repeal is not only low, but opposition is deeply entrenched, with nearly half of voters saying they are definitely against it.”
The results suggest that even some voters who may not personally support recreational marijuana use still oppose dismantling the regulated system created by Prop. 207 indicating that voters view a limited, regulated, taxed market as safer and preferable to an illegal one. It is worth noting that Lieberman was also the lead pollster in 2020 for the Prop. 207 Smart & Safe Arizona campaign.
Additional findings include:
A 3-to-1 margin of voters say the proposal would make their community less safe (43%) rather than safer (14%).
Opposition grew to 69% when voters learned possession would remain legal but sales would be banned.
After voters heard balanced campaign-style messages from both supporters and opponents, the measure remained deeply unpopular at 68% opposed and 26% in support.
48% of voters said they would definitely vote against the proposal, underscoring the depth of the opposition.
The poll also found that arguments in favor of the proposal struggled to persuade voters, while messages emphasizing public safety and the benefits of regulated marijuana markets resonated strongly.
“Our research shows that voters prioritize safety and stability when it comes to marijuana policy,” Lieberman said. “They prefer a system where marijuana sales are limited, regulated, taxed and sold through licensed businesses rather than pushing the market back into the shadows.”
The survey was conducted January 29 to February 3, 2026, among 600 likely November 2026 voters in Arizona. The margin of error is ±4.0 percentage points.