Medical marijuana bill needs your help immediately
Published: February 14, 2006
On Saturday, the House Agriculture Committee voted 4-3 to table the Lynn and Erin Compassionate Use Act—S.B. 258—which would protect medical marijuana patients from arrest. Seriously ill New Mexicans need you to act now to help save this legislation before the session ends on Thursday. We need your help to send the representatives as many e-mails as possible.
Please e-mail your state representatives immediately. For two years, New Mexico has been on the cusp of joining 11 other states in passing medical marijuana reform, and this is our last chance this year to help the chronically ill of New Mexico. State legislators truly do listen to their constituents, and by e-mailing them right now you can make a world of difference in moving this bill forward.
Please act now.
Getting the bill through this committee will put it one step closer to becoming law and ensure that medical marijuana patients in New Mexico do not have to fear arrest simply for taking their medicine. But it needs your help to pass.
Please contact your legislators. This courageous bill will protect patients who use medical marijuana from the state-level threat of arrest and prison. It is time for New Mexico to join the 11 sensible, compassionate states that have already enacted medical marijuana legislation. Polls consistently show massive public support for this issue. Clearly, supporting medical marijuana is not only an act of compassion; it is also a popular political move.
The Lynn and Erin Compassionate Use Act allows qualified patients suffering from certain serious illnesses such as cancer, HIV/AIDS, and epilepsy to use marijuana with recommendations from their doctors. New Mexicos medical marijuana patients need your help to ensure that this bill passes and medical marijuana becomes available to those in pain and suffering.
Thank you for supporting the Marijuana Policy Project. Please be sure to pass this message along to others, so that together we can give seriously ill New Mexicans the protection they deserve.
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