Title:
Medical marijuana bill urgently needs your help; please take 10 minutes to call your representatives
Message:
On Tuesday, February 7, the House Agriculture and Water Resources Committee will hear the Lynn and Erin Compassionate Use Act—S.B. 258—and seriously ill New Mexicans need you to act now to help pass this legislation. Getting the bill through this committee will put it one step closer to becoming law and ensuring 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 call the committee members now and politely urge them to support Senate Bill 258, the Lynn and Erin Compassionate Use Act. Each call takes only a moment, but it will make a world of difference.
Rep. Joe M. Stell
(Eddy and Otero counties)
(505) 986-4423
Rep. Ray Begaye
(San Juan County)
(505) 986-4436
Rep. Joseph Cervantes
(Dona Ana County)
(505) 986-4411
Rep. Richard P. Cheney
(San Juan County)
(505) 986-4227
Rep. Andy Nunez
(Dona Ana County)
(505) 986-4233
Rep. Sandra L. Townsend
(San Juan County)
(505) 986-4214
Rep. Don L. Tripp
(Catron, Socorro, and Valencia counties)
(505) 986-4220
Please contact them. 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.
Remember, you may be speaking with a staff member, but they log all of the messages and your call will make a difference. Be sure to identify yourself and let them know that you are a constituent. Express your support for S.B. 258 and the reasons you support it; always be courteous, positive, and brief.
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.
