Dear friends:
Hi there. My name is Teresa Skipper, and I use marijuana to stay alive. I wrote to you last week â but maybe my message slipped your attention â to ask you to support MPP with a contribution. For those of us who, for whatever reason, believe that bad marijuana laws need to be changed, MPP is our best hope. Here is why I support MPP.
When I found out in 1995 that I had HIV, my doctors gave me many different medications, and I'm grateful for them because they have kept me alive!
But the side effects are awful. One of my meds comes with a warning that it's sometimes fatal. My stomach feels like a raw egg most days, which is strange because I can't eat most foods. I have no appetite, and it's hard to keep my weight up.
But I've been lucky enough to find something that makes me feel better, restores my appetite, and is the reason I still have good days. That something is marijuana.
Unfortunately, my marijuana also makes me a criminal, because medical marijuana is illegal where I live. In fact, only 14 states allow medical marijuana. MPP is working hard to increase the number of medical marijuana states by changing laws all across the U.S.
MPP is successful because of its strategic approach and its top-notch lobbyists. MPP has a strong track record of actually changing laws, but that work is expensive and MPP is financed by donations from individuals like you and like me. That's why Iâm telling you my story and asking you, from the bottom of my heart, to help MPP fight marijuana prohibition, because marijuana use should not make criminals of sick people.
Like many other marijuana users, I have a husband, two children, and one beautiful grandson. I have a bachelor's degree in financial management. I just want to go to work and have a normal life.
But my marijuana use makes me a criminal, and who wants to hire a criminal? If I give up using marijuana, my health deteriorates to the point that I can't work anyway.
MPP is fighting to change marijuana laws so that sick people wonât become criminals when they use marijuana to get relief from pain and suffering. If you share my vision for the future, where medical marijuana will be available in every state, please help MPP today with a donation.
Thank you for letting me tell you my story.
Best wishes,
Teresa Skipper
P.S. $7.7 billion â that's how much the U.S. government spends on marijuana prohibition every year. If you'd rather have your tax money spent on something useful, like stopping violent crimes, please donate now to help MPP change marijuana laws.Permission to Reprint: This content is licensed under a modified Creative Commons Attribution license. Content of a purely educational nature in Drug War Chronicle appear courtesy of DRCNet Foundation, unless otherwise noted.