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Keep your legislators engaged; make a call today!
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What if I were to tell you that there was a naturally occurring substance that has a high safety profile and can help alleviate the pain and suffering associated with many of our most feared ailments? This substance can relieve the painful side effects of chemotherapy. It can combat the wasting disease that is all too common with individuals suffering from HIV/AIDS because of its appetite-stimulating effects. Multiple sclerosis patients have found that it relives their muscle spasms and pain. And then what if I tell you that Massachusetts still finds it necessary to arrest and prosecute individuals who use this substance with their doctors’ recommendations? Does this make you mad? Please call your representative and senator; let them know you support politicians who protect the seriously ill.
HB 2160, a bill introduced by Rep. Frank Smizik (D-Norfolk), recognizes the medical value of marijuana and seeks to protect those residents of Massachusetts who suffer from debilitating conditions from arrest and prosecution for using medical marijuana under their doctors’ recommendations. Please call your representative and ask that they support Rep. Smizik’s compassionate legislation this year and beyond. Then please take the additional minute to call your senator with the same message.
Fourteen states and the District of Columbia recognize the medical value of marijuana and the need to protect those who use it with a doctor’s recommendation from criminal penalties. Additionally, many other states have recently moved on medical marijuana legislation. While Massachusetts’s leadership continues to block a vote on medical marijuana, states like Alabama and Tennessee have passed medical marijuana legislation out of committees. Why should Massachusetts be left behind? Call your representative and senator today! It only takes a minute of your time, but that can inspire and mobilize your legislators to support medical marijuana legislation. Once this legislation is enacted, that minute of your time will have resulted in a lifetime of relief for so many of your fellow Bay Staters!
As always, thank you so much for your continued support of the Marijuana Policy Project and our grantee the Massachusetts Patient Advocacy Alliance, and for selflessly giving of your time to help your fellow residents.
