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(con’t) Organization Reform of Marijuana Michigan National Chapter for the MINORMLLaws of the Recreational t’s time to stop arresting responsible marijuana and should not be treated like criminals. Responsible irresponsible use, including use by adolescents. The smokers. Millions of Americans use marijuana; marijuana use causes no harm to society and should be best way to prevent drug abuse is with honest, credible Use Ifew abuse it. Arresting these otherwise law- of no interest to state and federal governments. Today, and factual drug education. Only in a climate in which abiding citizens serves no legitimate purpose; extends far more harm is caused by marijuana prohibition than by marijuana is viewed from a public health perspective, government into inappropriate areas of our private lives; the use of marijuana itself. instead of a criminal justice perspective, can prevention and causes enormous harm to the lives, careers and DECRIMINALIZATION: Michigan NORML supports the efforts be effective. families of the more than 500,000 marijuana smokers removal of all penalties for the private possession of REASONABLE RESTRICTIONS: As with alcohol arrested each year in this country. Marijuana smokers are marijuana by adults, cultivation for personal use, and the consumption, marijuana smoking should be limited “Penalties against drug use should not be no different from their nonsmoking peers, except for their casual nonprofit transfers of small amounts. Michigan to adults. Driving or operating heavy machinery after more damaging to an individual than use marijuana use. Like most Americans, they are responsible NORML also supports the development of a legally smoking marijuana should be prohibited. NORML’s of the drug itself. Nowhere is this more citizens who work hard, raise families, contribute to their controlled market for marijuana. “Principles of Responsible Cannabis Use” defines clear than in the laws against possession of communities, and want a safe, crime-free neighborhood marijuana in private for personal use .” HARM REDUCTION: All drugs, including marijuana, can acceptable conduct (pdf available at www.minorml.org). in which to live. They are not part of the crime problem be abused. Our marijuana policies should discourage President Jimmy Carter, Aug. 2, 1977 Medical arijuana prohibition applies to everyone, 2012 elections, including Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo. know to man. . . .Marijuana has been accepted as capable including the sick and dying. Of all the negative In November 2008 sixty-three percent of voters in of relieving distress of great numbers of very ill people, Cannabis Mconsequences of prohibition, none is as tragic eighty-three counties said yes to medical marijuana, and doing so with safety under medical supervision. It as the denial of medical marijuana to seriously ill patients with the help of the Coalition for Compassionate Care would be unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious for who could benefit greatly from its use. This is why spearheading the campaign. Leaving no doubt that the DEA to continue to stand between those sufferers and Michigan NORML took on the task of changing this law people of Michigan believe in compassion for the sick and the benefits of this substance in light of the evidence in back in 2003. We decided then to work on local initiatives suffering. Patients suffering from cancer, glaucoma, HIV/ this record.” Judge Young further recommended that until we attracted enough attention to go for another AIDS, Hepatitis C, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Crohn’s marijuana be made available as a legal medicine. The “Marijuana should be available to all patients state drive. The plan worked. disease, agitation of Alzheimer’s disease, nail patella, and DEA Administrator overruled Judge Young, and the who need it to help them undergo treatment Prior to 2008, Michigan NORML assisted in debilitating conditions that produce wasting syndrome, Court of Appeals allowed that decision to stand, denying for life threatening illnesses. As long as decriminalizing medical marijuana in five cities. The severe nausea, severe and chronic pain, seizures, and medical marijuana to seriously ill patients. Young further therapy is safe and has not been proven citizens of Ann Arbor, Detroit, Ferndale, Flint, and spasms all qualify for Michigan State I.D. Cards under the recommended that marijuana be made available as a ineffective, seriously ill patients (and their Traverse City voted to change the law. That helped new law. legal medicine. The DEA Administrator overruled Judge physicians) should have access to whatever convince the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) to help After 16 years of legal battles and appeals, the Drug Young, and the Court of Appeals allowed that decision to they heed to fight for their lives.” finance a statewide campaign. We assisted again in Enforcement Administration’s Chief Administrative Law stand, denying medical marijuana to seriously ill patients. The New England Journal of Medicine, 2012 with getting decriminalization and lowest law Judge Francis Young found: “Marijuana, in its natural Much of Michigan NORML’s efforts focus on lobbying both Aug. 7, 1997 enforcement priority passed by five more cities in the form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances state legislators and Congress to correct this injustice.
Industrial emp refers to the non-psychoactive strain of grow hemp for industrial purposes. Presently, federal » At one time it was mandatory to grow hemp if you had marijuana grown by farmers throughout the and state laws prohibit American farmers from growing property in the U.S. Hemp Hworld for industrial purposes. Hemp is one of this profitable and environmentally friendly commodity. » At one time, every sail on every ship on the seas were nature’s strongest and most versatile agricultural crops MINORML lobbies state and federal legislators to made from hemp and has many commercial uses. Various parts of the plant recognize hemp as a legitimate economic crop. Some » The word “canvas” is derived from cannabis may be utilized for making paper, textiles, cosmetics, hemp facts: » In 1941, Henry Ford built a car mostly made of hemp paints, clothing, foodstuffs, insulation, and animal feed. » The Declaration of Independence and the United that ran on hemp fuel It produces a much higher yield per acre than substitutes States Constitution are written on hemp paper » Per acre, hemp can produce over twice the ethanol as “The marketplace, not myopic rules, should such as wood pulp or cotton and requires virtually no » One acre of hemp can produce as much paper pulp as corn determine hemp’s future in America.” pesticides. It is now legal to market hemp products in 4.1 acres of trees over a 20 year time period » Almost any product that can be made from wood, The New York Times, April 11, 1998 the U.S., however, federal and state laws still prohibit » Hemp cleans both toxic and nuclear waste from the cotton, or petroleum can be made from hemp American farmers from growing this profitable and soil by breaking it down at the atomic level » Plastic from hemp is biodegradable—synthetic plastic
Michigan NORML Policy environmentally friendly commodity. NORML lobbies » Hemp is one of the few plants that returns nitrogen to is not “Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & state and federal legislatures to recognize hemp as a » Anything that oil, trees, cotton, fossil fuels can make; protection of the country.” the soil, making it a perfect rotation crop legitimate crop. Farmers in 30 countries—including » George Washington grew hemp hemp can make better and eco-friendly Thomas Jefferson, U.S. President Canada, France, England, Germany, Japan, and Australia— » There are over 25,000 known uses for hemp!