Title:
Ask Governor Snyder to support efforts to reclassify marijuana
Message:
As you may
have heard, Governors Christine Gregoire of Washington and Lincoln Chafee of
Rhode Island recently
submitted a petition asking the federal government to change its policy
with respect to medical marijuana. Marijuana is currently considered a “Schedule
I” drug, with a high potential for abuse and “no currently accepted medical use
in treatment in the United States.” As over 100,000 patients enrolled in Michigan’s
medical marijuana program can tell you, that is patently false.
Unfortunately,
the petition only asks that marijuana be moved to Schedule II, which would
still leave it very difficult for patients to obtain medicine. And
regrettably, Chafee and Gregoire have used the petition as cover for their
failure to implement laws passed by their state legislatures that would have
made medical marijuana available to patients through well-regulated channels. Nonetheless,
moving marijuana out of Schedule I is an important step in the right direction
that other governors should support.
Please ask Michigan Governor Rick Snyder to
join other governors in asking the federal government to reclassify marijuana.
Michigan needs a well-regulated
system through which patients can obtain medical marijuana, and this change to
federal law would help facilitate that process. Moreover, there are 34 states
with no medical marijuana laws at all. Governors from Vermont and Connecticut
have already announced that they will join the rescheduling effort, and you can
ask Governor Snyder to do the same by emailing
him now.
