New campaigns for the Marijuana Policy Project
From an email MPP sent to me:
In Arizona, MPP’s campaign committee, the Arizona Medical Marijuana Policy Project (AMMPP), is working to pass a statewide medical marijuana initiative in November 2010.
The initiative would allow seriously ill patients who find relief from marijuana to use it with their doctors’ approval, much like the laws in the other 13 medical marijuana states do. The law would also permit qualifying patients or their caregivers to legally purchase marijuana from dispensaries, as they would any other medicine — so they need not obtain it from the criminal market. This cutting edge provision means that the state government is going to license a series of more than 120 dispensaries — ensuring safe access for Arizona patients.
In Nevada, MPP recently launched MPP of NV, a state chapter to educate the public on the effects of marijuana prohibition. We expect that this public education campaign will increase our chances of winning a statewide initiative campaign to tax and regulate marijuana like alcohol in November 2012.
And when that initiative passes, Nevada will have best marijuana law in the world — better even than the Netherlands, where marijuana is still technically illegal. But the Nevada law that MPP of NV will propose would formalize the legal status of marijuana by creating a system for the cultivation, distribution, and sale of marijuana to adults aged 21 and older.
Please visit AMMPP and MPP of NV for more information and to give directly to the campaigns, or www.mpp.org/donate to support these and other of MPP’s projects.
