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Please make check payable to • Kalkaska County: Archie Kiel, 231.676.0123, and marketed by Laws Michigan NORML and mail with this form to: [email protected] MINORML, P.O. Box 2293, Kalamazoo, MI 49003 Michigan farmers. MINORML 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