Minnesota State Policy Alert

Sent: December 10, 2012
From: Robert Capecchi
Topic: Medical Marijuana

Title: 

Minn.: Urge Gov. Dayton to support patients

Message: 

Gov. Mark Dayton (DFL) recently told the Associated Press that he is hesitant to support a medical marijuana law in Minnesota. “As long as law enforcement believes whatever [law] is being proposed is going to make society more dangerous, I’m going to honor their concerns,” said Dayton. My question is, how does allowing sick and suffering individuals in Minnesota safe access to medicine that is safer than prescription drugs like Percocet make Minnesota more dangerous? Allowing regulated access to medical marijuana will remove the danger that patients currently face by having to obtain their medicine on the criminal market.

Please email the governor and ask him to reconsider his stance on medical marijuana. Marijuana has relieved the suffering of patients with AIDS, cancer, MS, severe pain, and other ailments. After you email, please call the governor to ask him to take the sick and dying off the battlefield of the war on marijuana.

Then, please ask your friends and family to do the same.

Gov. Dayton should listen to his constituents and stand up for the seriously ill. After all, the governor and the legislature make state law, and law enforcement enforces it, not the other way around. Email the governor, today!