Marijuana Policy Project

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The latest spot in an ongoing series of radio ads from the Washington, D.C.-based Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) blasts the federal government for taking anti-terrorism funds away from target cities like Washington, D.C. and New York City while using federal tax dollars to arrest and prosecute patients using medical marijuana legally under state law.

The ad is titled "Who Is the Real Threat?" and will begin airing Nov. 2 during Jim Hightower's "Common Sense Commentaries" and the "Downsize D.C." radio show, which air on a combined total of 141 stations nationwide. The complete script follows:

The government took over $100 million of anti-terrorism money away from terrorism targets like New York and Washington, but the government spends millions of dollars arresting medical marijuana patients.

Six weeks after 9-11, the DEA closed a medical marijuana center and the Justice Department said this proved, “we have not lost our priorities in other areas since September 11.”

A war on terrorists… or a war on medical patients?

Visit the Marijuana Policy Project Foundation at joinmpp.org or call 1-877-JOIN MPP.

"The federal government is still wasting our tax dollars persecuting the sick and denying the large and growing body of evidence in support of medical marijuana," said MPP Director of Communications Bruce Mirken. "To waste money on attacking suffering patients while taking money away from protecting terrorist targets like New York and Washington is simply irrational. The American people know that our government has better things to do."

To listen to the new spot, as well as MPP's previous radio ads and public service announcements, visit /psas.

With more than 20,000 members and 100,000 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.