MADISON: The Medical Marijuana Advisory Referendum Campaign Committee has put out a press release: Vote Yes for Compassion and Justice Nov. 2: Dane County Medical Marijuana Advisory Referendum

Read the full release below:

For immediate release: October 28, 2010

Medical Marijuana Advisory Referendum Campaign Committee

Vote Yes for Compassion and Justice Nov. 2: Dane County Medical Marijuana Advisory Referendum

MADISON: On Nov. 2, Dane County voters will be casting ballots in a historic first-ever Dane County Medical Marijuana Advisory Referendum. The question, which appears on the reverse side of county ballots, reads as follows: “Should the Wisconsin Legislature enact legislation allowing residents with debilitating medical conditions to acquire and possess marijuana for medical purposes if supported by their physician?”

The Medical Marijuana Advisory Referendum Campaign Committee strongly urges a Yes vote on this referendum. It’s time for Wisconsin patients to have access to medical cannabis alongside conventional medications and treatments. More than 20,000 studies and the experiences of hundreds of thousands of legal patients and their physicians in the 14 US states that currently allow this therapy document the safety and efficacy of cannabis as medicine.

Passage of the Dane county Medical Marijuana Referendum along with passage of it’s sister referendum in the City of River Falls will send a strong message to our incoming governor and state legislature that passage of the Jacki Rickert Medical Marijuana Act (JRMMA) must be a leading bipartisan priority when they take office in January, not a political football or an afterthought.

Jacki Rickert had this to say about the referendum, “Patients need their medicine! Everyone deserves a life with dignity. This is the right thing to do.”

Voting yes is the right thing to do and a good way to let state lawmakers know there is nothing to fear from passing legislation protecting Wisconsin veterans, seniors, our sick, disabled and dying from arrest and jail for using the medicine they, their families and their physicians find works best.

The Medical Marijuana Advisory Referendum Campaign Committee will be holding a Victory Party on Nov. 2 beginning at 7pm, with results expected beginning after 8:30pm at the Cardinal Bar, 418 E Wilson St. in downtown Madison, and will be available for comment at that time and location. For more information contact Gary Storck, Dane County Medical Marijuana Advisory Referendum Campaign Committee, 608-241-8922 or at gstorck@immly.org.

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