MINNEAPOLIS — As the state House prepares to vote on a bill to protect seriously ill patients from arrest for using medical marijuana with a doctor's recommendation, advocates announced they would unveil a new TV ad campaign at a press conference Monday.
The ad, which will be screened at the press conference, features Lynn Rubenstein Nicholson of Minneapolis, who suffers intractable pain after enduring 10 surgeries following a back injury.
- WHEN: Monday, April 14, 11 a.m.
- WHERE: State Office Building, room 181, 100 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Saint Paul, MN 55155
SF 345, which is sponsored in the House by Rep. Thomas Huntley (DFL-Duluth), passed the House Ways and Means Committee 13-4, April 9. The bill passed in the Senate last year.
With more than 23,000 members and 180,000 e-mail subscribers nationwide, the Marijuana Policy Project is the largest marijuana policy reform organization in the United States. MPP believes that the best way to minimize the harm associated with marijuana is to regulate marijuana in a manner similar to alcohol. For more information, please visit www.MarijuanaPolicy.org.
