Momentum is building to stop the federal assault on medical marijuana and there's still time to urge your legislator to support patients by legalizing marijuana according to the Drug Policy Alliance.
The federal assault on medical marijuana patients and providers is escalating.
The best way to ensure that medical marijuana patients and providers no longer have to live in fear of federal authorities is to end federal marijuana prohibition altogether.
Right now, there is a bill sitting in Congress that would end federal marijuana prohibition and protect the ability of states to make their own marijuana laws without federal interference.
Urge your representative to support this bill to end federal marijuana prohibition today!
Multiple federal agencies are working in tandem to assault medical marijuana patients and providers. The DEA is raiding licensed and regulated dispensaries that are legal under state law. The ATF is discriminating against medical marijuana patients by prohibiting them from owning firearms. The IRS is rejecting standard business expense tax deductions from legitimate medical marijuana providers. And federal threats have intimidated banks and landlords into refusing to do business with the medical marijuana industry. Even free speech is under attack, and at least one federal prosecutor is threatening to target newspapers that accept medical marijuana advertising.
Last week, for the first time ever a Gallup Poll found that 50 percent of all Americans want marijuana legalized. We have reached the tipping point -- now let’s seize this opportunity!
Tell your legislators to get in line with public opinion by ending the federal war on marijuana and allowing states to decide their own marijuana laws -- free from federal interference.
With your help, we can protect medical marijuana patients and providers from these outrageous assaults by ending federal marijuana prohibition.
(The foregoing is reprinted with permission from Drug Policy Alliance, Derek Rosenfeld - Internet Communications Associate) www.drugpolicy.org
If you remember, the Obama Administration not long ago sent a memo to federal prosecutors telling them to back off prosecuting persons, dispensaries, and caregivers who are in compliance with state laws regarding medical marijuana. Unfortunately, that has not happened.
The justice department and DEA's wagons have been circling actively raiding, and disrupting medical marijuana dispensaries, shutting them down while leaving the patients to fend for themselves in obtaining marijuana. That usually means buying it on the streets.
It's absoutely ridiculous having state sanctioned laws permitting the use of medical marijuana and the fed's keeping marijuana locked down inside a schedule I drug classification. This classification places drugs in a category where there is no medical use for them in the U.S. effectively making them illegal.
It's time to let your legislators know that medical marijuana has a place in treating conditions that other drugs have failed to work for patients that need the substance.
The cat and mouse game is costing millions of dollars with people suffering because the fed's have their heads in a dark place that doesn't smell too good. At the same time they are also making criminals out of ordinary folk who have medical conditions as well as the caregivers that help them.
Peace...
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If you or a loved one needs help with any type of drug abuse/addiction problem, contact these sites depending on where you live. SEMCA (Wayne County residents), CARE (Macomb County residents), PACE (Oakland County residents), Drug Free Detroit (City of Detroit residents). For those residing outside the State of Michigan, contact SAMHSA for assistance. For assistance with medical marijuana issues contact The Michigan Medical Marijuana Association, Michigan Medical Marijuana Certification Center, or greentreesdetroit.com, phone number: (313) 967-9999, or (248) 677-2888.
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