MPP Insider Newsletter Volume 1, Issue 3
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ACLU sues Wal-Mart for firing medical marijuana patient!
Veterans seek marijuana for PTSD treatment
Why do police target marijuana? Money.
Report reveals systematic racism in marijuana arrests
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Wal-Mart continues to find itself under pressure from medical marijuana advocates as the American Civil Liberties Union has stepped forward to file a lawsuit against the corporation for its firing of medical marijuana patient Joseph Casias. 
Colorado, long an important front for battling marijuana prohibition, is under pressure from veterans and medical marijuana advocates pressing the state to allow medical marijuana for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder. 
The Wall Street Journal recently ran a piece titled "Strapped Police Run on Fumes, and Federal Pot-Fighting Cash" detailing the ways in which federal dollars keep police forces afloat while forcing them to pursue ineffective eradication efforts. 
Our allies at the Drug Policy Alliance recently released a study finding, among other things, that although blacks use marijuana at roughly the same rate as whites, they are being arrested at up to four times the rate as whites. This absolute lack of racial justice is just one more reason we need to end marijuana prohibition today. 
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Robin Prosser, suffering from excruciating pain, took her own life when she was unable to get the medicine she desperately needed.