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Alert:
Minnesota
Medical
Marijuana
6/16/00
On the heels of this week's
breakthrough victory in Hawaii, Minnesota State Representative Alice Hausman
(DFL-St. Paul) has authored a letter on behalf of state legislators to
state Public Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm, asking her to:
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work cooperatively with state
legislators to develop a bill that would allow patients to possess and
grow their own medical marijuana in Minnesota; and
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open the state's medical marijuana
research program, a law that has been on the books, but inactive, since
1980.
Whether this letter creates
a significant impression on Commissioner Malcolm and spurs her to action
depends on the number of state legislators who sign on to Rep. Hausman's
letter.
If you live in Minnesota
or otherwise have legal residency there, please visit http://www.mpp.org/Minnesota/
to ask your legislators to sign on to Rep. Hausman's letter and join the
coalition of legislators recognizing the need to protect medical marijuana
users from arrest. If you're not from Minnesota but know people there,
please visit the site and use the tell-a-friend form to let them know about
this important effort -- or just forward this article to them directly.
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Issue #141, 6/16/00
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