Storm Crow
03-18-2009, 10:37 PM
Next week, the New Jersey House of Representatives will be voting on medical cannabis. Get BUSY and contact your reps ! Just flood those reps with your message! WE NEED MMJ! Click this link and write in! :thumbsup:
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/cg...e=ctc&state=nj
Here's an article about it!
http://www.unionleader.com/article.a...9-e64923846c7c
House to vote on medicinal marijuana
By TOM FAHEY
State House Bureau Chief
1 hour, 48 minutes ago
Concord ?? A bill allowing severely ill patients to grow and use marijuana for medicinal purposes has won a 13-7 vote in the House Health and Human Services committee.
HB 648 heads to the full House for a vote next week. Two Republicans joined the Democratic majority in voting for the bill.
The only legal way for patients to get marijuana under the bill is to be certified by a doctor, and then to grow it themselves. They are allowed to have a limit of six plants and two ounces of marijuana in their possession. Patients must be 18 or older and have no felony convictions in their past.
Thirteen other states have medical marijuana bills on the books.
Those in favor of the bill said it offers hope to those who are suffering a debilitating chronic or terminal illnesses. In many cases treatments for illnesses like cancer or HIV, create nausea that weakens patients at a time when they need strength to survive. Proponents say it eases pain and can increase appetite in ways that manufactured drugs cannot.
Opponents said the bill runs counter to federal law and represents the beginning of what will become the unwinding of state drug laws. It is opposed by law enforcement, including the New Hampshire Association of Chiefs of Police.
Rep. Roger Wells, R-Hampstead, who voted to recommend the bill, said: ??This is truly a matter of compassion. People who are suffering, at least in our state of New Hampshire, ought not to be called criminals."
Rep. Peter Batula, R-Merrimack, argued the committee acted against the best advice of national drug experts.
??There is no right way to do the wrong thing,? he said.
For full coverage, see tomorrow's New Hampshire Union Leader.
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Please feel free to use studies from my list to make your point! How can anything that can generate titles like "MARIJUANA SLOWS ALZHEIMER'S DECLINE" or "Cannabis Compound May Stop Metastatic Breast Cancer" or "Chemicals in Marijuana May Fight MRSA" remain illegal? (for the studies, click the link in my sig) And you might mention that recent polls show somewhere between 65 and 95% of the American public (VOTERS!) support medical cannabis.
Well, don't just sit there. Make NJ our next MMJ state! Your email or call may be the one that sways that last needed vote!
Granny :hippy: (legal Cali MMJ user)
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/cg...e=ctc&state=nj
Here's an article about it!
http://www.unionleader.com/article.a...9-e64923846c7c
House to vote on medicinal marijuana
By TOM FAHEY
State House Bureau Chief
1 hour, 48 minutes ago
Concord ?? A bill allowing severely ill patients to grow and use marijuana for medicinal purposes has won a 13-7 vote in the House Health and Human Services committee.
HB 648 heads to the full House for a vote next week. Two Republicans joined the Democratic majority in voting for the bill.
The only legal way for patients to get marijuana under the bill is to be certified by a doctor, and then to grow it themselves. They are allowed to have a limit of six plants and two ounces of marijuana in their possession. Patients must be 18 or older and have no felony convictions in their past.
Thirteen other states have medical marijuana bills on the books.
Those in favor of the bill said it offers hope to those who are suffering a debilitating chronic or terminal illnesses. In many cases treatments for illnesses like cancer or HIV, create nausea that weakens patients at a time when they need strength to survive. Proponents say it eases pain and can increase appetite in ways that manufactured drugs cannot.
Opponents said the bill runs counter to federal law and represents the beginning of what will become the unwinding of state drug laws. It is opposed by law enforcement, including the New Hampshire Association of Chiefs of Police.
Rep. Roger Wells, R-Hampstead, who voted to recommend the bill, said: ??This is truly a matter of compassion. People who are suffering, at least in our state of New Hampshire, ought not to be called criminals."
Rep. Peter Batula, R-Merrimack, argued the committee acted against the best advice of national drug experts.
??There is no right way to do the wrong thing,? he said.
For full coverage, see tomorrow's New Hampshire Union Leader.
******
Please feel free to use studies from my list to make your point! How can anything that can generate titles like "MARIJUANA SLOWS ALZHEIMER'S DECLINE" or "Cannabis Compound May Stop Metastatic Breast Cancer" or "Chemicals in Marijuana May Fight MRSA" remain illegal? (for the studies, click the link in my sig) And you might mention that recent polls show somewhere between 65 and 95% of the American public (VOTERS!) support medical cannabis.
Well, don't just sit there. Make NJ our next MMJ state! Your email or call may be the one that sways that last needed vote!
Granny :hippy: (legal Cali MMJ user)