Medical marijuana to receive house vote tomorrow. Call your representative today!
Published: March 5, 2003
Tomorrow, March 6, at 10 a.m., the New Mexico House of Representatives will be voting on H.B. 242, the Lynn Pierson Compassionate Use Act.
Please call your representative and urge him or her to vote "yes" on H.B. 242 today!
To determine your legislator's phone number, visit http://legis.state.nm.us/house.asp and simply type in your zip code.
Please tell your representative, "My name is __. I understand that the House of Representatives is about to vote on H.B. 242, the Lynn Pierson Compassionate Use Act. Please vote 'yes.' As your constituent, I believe that medical marijuana patients must be protected from arrest."
If your legislator is not available to take your phone call, leave the above message either with the representative's assistant or on his or her answering service. Make sure you call today or early tomorrow morning before the representatives go to the house floor at 10 a.m.
Please also call House Speaker Ben Lujan (D-District 46) at 505-986-4782, and House Majority Leader Danice Picraux (D-District 25) at 505-986-4777, and urge them to support the bill.
The House Judiciary Committee passed the Lynn Pierson Compassionate Use Act on Monday, March 3 by an astonishing 9-1 vote. On February 20, H.B. 242 passed the House Business and Industry Committee successfully with a "no recommendation" by a 9-3 vote. On February 6, the bill passed the House Consumer and Public Affairs Committee "without recommendation" by an 8-0 vote.
The Lynn Pierson Compassionate Use Act would allow patients with cancer, AIDS, multiple sclerosis, and other serious medical conditions to possess limited quantities of marijuana for medical use under the advice of their physicians. It would also provide registry ID cards to patients who have their doctors' recommendations and to those patients' caregivers.
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