Medical Marijuana in Minnesota
Big Brother is lying to Minnesotans.
Some members of Minnesota’s law enforcement community are lying in order to kill MPP’s medical marijuana bill in the state - in other words, in order to keep patients in pain. This small but vocal contingent is claiming that marijuana has no medical value, that “every prosecutor in every medical marijuana state” opposes its use, that you can “overdose” on marijuana, and more than a dozen other outrageous lies.
The Marijuana Policy Project is fighting back. Yesterday, MPP held a news conference at the Minnesota statehouse to refute the outright false testimony that law enforcement officials have been providing the legislature and the news media. And they distributed to reporters and legislators an 18-page booklet cataloging the opposition’s litany of mistruths - along with facts and proof to the contrary - and they’re releasing to the public, legislators, and media one video clip each day showing law enforcement’s lies about medical marijuana.
MPP’s bill, which passed out of the Senate last year, is currently awaiting an historic vote on the House floor.
The campaign has generated an enormous amount of media coverage in Minnesota. And the two largest papers in the state have editorialized in favor of the bill, which also has the support of the Minnesota Nurses Association, the Minnesota Public Health Association, the Minnesota AIDS Project, the Minnesota Senior Federation, and 2-to-1 support among Minnesota voters.
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