Urge your legislators to support medical marijuana legislation
Please send an e-mail to your legislators, urging them to protect medical marijuana patients. Be sure to forward any responses you receive to state@mpp.org, so that your legislators may be lobbied more effectively.
You can edit any of the letters to your liking, as legislators prefer personally-crafted letters to form letters.
After you have sent your legislators an e-mail, give them a few days to respond and then follow up with a call asking them if they are supportive, and, if so, if they would consider signing on as a co-sponsor.
Write a letter to the editor in support of medical marijuana
Writing a letter to the editor of your local newspaper can be a great way to foster discussion about marijuana policy reform. While we have provided a list of talking points, we encourage you to write your own letter.
Feel free to contact us if you'd like help with your letter, and let us know if it gets published.
Set up a free screening of the award-winning medical marijuana documentary "Waiting to Inhale." If you are interested in hosting a screening, please send an e-mail to DRiffle@mpp.org letting us know.
Ask your doctor, clergy member, local leader, or organization you are a member of to sign our statement of principle. Simply download our medical marijuana statement of principle, print it out, and ask your doctor or other individual to sign it the next time you have the opportunity. Then send it to us at P.O. Box 77492, Washington, D.C. 20013.
Help get the word out by downloading and sharing MPP's public service announcements with radio stations in your area. If you're a talk radio listener, call in and express support for medical marijuana laws. Even if the subject being discussed isn't explicitly about marijuana, many related issues can be a springboard for urging reform. For example, if the issue is health care, you can point out that treatment decisions are better off being left to patients and physicians than police and prosecutors.
Using MPP's sign-up sheets, collect as many valid e-mail addresses as you can and send them to us. You can scan and e-mail the information you collect to DRiffle@mpp.org or mail it to MPP, attn: Dan Riffile, at 236 Massachusetts Ave, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20002.
Print and hand out MPP's medical marijuana brochures to your fiends, family, local leaders and elected officials in an effort to educate the public and garner support.
