This is the first in a series of ads being released in Minnesota, featuring patients urging Governor Pawlenty not to veto the medical marijuana bill. The first ad features medical marijuana patient Lynn Rubenstein Nicholson of Minneapolis, who suffers intractable pain after enduring 10 surgeries following a severe back injury.
VIDEO:
http://urlet.com/lebanon.baker
Please take a minute to e-mail Gov. Pawlenty and urge him not to veto the medical marijuana bill.
Welcome to Minnesotans for Compassionate Care (MCC)
http://www.minnesotacares.org/index.htm
Minnesotans for Compassionate Care is a coalition of organizations, medical professionals, patients, and concerned citizens working to protect people with cancer, multiple sclerosis, HIV/AIDS, and other serious illnesses from arrest and prison for using medical marijuana on their physicians’ advice.
Seriously ill patients who use medical marijuana under their doctors’ supervision are currently in danger as a result of Minnesota’s failure to protect them from criminal penalties. MCC is working to enact a medical marijuana law based on compassion and common sense, so that medical marijuana patients will not be forced to live in fear simply for using the medicine that eases their pain and, in many cases, allows them to live normal lives.
Minnesota medical marijuana bill passes out of final House committee; headed to the House floor for historic vote!
By a 13-4 vote, S.F. 345 – the Minnesota medical marijuana bill – passed out of the Ways and Means Committee on April 9. Having already passed the full Senate last year, House ways and means was the final committee the bill needed to clear in the Minnesota Legislature. S.F. 345 is now headed to the floor of the Minnesota House for its historic, first-ever hearing by the full legislative body.
And if the House joins the Senate in advancing this compassionate legislation, the medical marijuana bill will go to Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) for his signature – and Minnesota will be poised to become the 13th medical marijuana state, and the first in the Midwest.
But the head count in the House is still too close to call, and we urgently need you to contact your representative today to urge his or her support. There is no way to overstate the importance of taking this one action today – Minnesotan medical marijuana patients have never been so close to effective protection under the law.
State representatives put a great deal of stock in the views of their constituents, and it is relatively rare that they receive personal notes regarding bills under consideration. Please take a minute to e-mail your representative and urge his or her support for S.F. 345 using our automated system.
If you have already e-mailed your representative, please take a moment to call his or her office as well.
When you call your representative, you can simply state that this compassionate legislation will protect some of the most vulnerable Minnesotans – those grappling with debilitating and horrible diseases like cancer, AIDS, and multiple sclerosis – from the threat of arrest and jail for simply following their doctors’ recommendations.
We are furiously lobbying the legislature in these closing days and urgently need the funds to keep up the pressure. If you support the passage of this bill into law, please donate $10 or more to the Marijuana Policy Project, the flagship member of Minnesotans for Compassionate Care! MPP provides most of our funding and relies completely on the generosity of individual donors like you.
Lastly, if you are also interested in volunteering at this critical moment to help pass the bill through the House and into law, there is plenty of work to go around! Please contact Matt Witemyre at (612) 424-7004 or info@minnesotacares.org.
We are approaching a historic moment — making Minnesota the 13th medical marijuana state and the first in the Midwest — so please get involved today!
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