Last year, Vermont and Montana became the ninth and tenth states to make medical marijuana legal, following the Marijuana Policy Project's intensive lobbying and public education campaigns (and despite heavy opposition from White House Drug Czar John Walters).
Now, MPP has launched a landmark program to help low-income patients in both states to obtain government-issued registry cards that will allow the patients to use and grow marijuana legally under state law.
Please visit www.mpp.org/patients to sponsor a low-income
medical marijuana patient so that he or she will no longer have to
fear arrest and jail.
The first two patients to be helped by MPP's new financial assistance program actually campaigned to pass their states' new laws:
* Robin Prosser, who appeared in MPP's TV ads during our Montana initiative campaign and who faced up to two years in prison after being arrested for two marijuana pipes, was thrilled when voters passed the medical marijuana law. But once the law finally allowed her to send in an application for a medical marijuana registry ID card to protect her from arrest, she was unable to afford the $200 processing fee. MPP's new financial assistance program helped Robin obtain her card, generating news all across Montana. Please see mpp.org/MT/news_1087.html for the story.
* In Vermont, Mark Tucci, whose tireless work was instrumental in
passing MPP's medical marijuana bill into law, couldn't afford the
$100 fee for the ID card that would make him a legal participant in
the program. "One of the last things chronically ill people can afford is extra medical costs," said Tucci, who suffers from multiple
sclerosis. "I applaud MPP for sticking around after the bill became
law and helping many of us with this part of the process." Please
visit www.mpp.org/VT/news_1075.html to see the news coverage of MPP's new program.
Patients are eligible for assistance through MPP's new program if they qualify for their state's registry program and their household income is no more than 150% above the federal poverty level.
Early response to the program has been overwhelmingly positive.
Vermont's Department of Public Safety is even promoting the program on its Web site --www.dps.state.vt.us/cjs/marijuana.htm -- which directs people to MPP's Web site.
MPP seeded each state assistance program with $2,000, but this is only enough to register nine more patients in Vermont and 19 in Montana. Please visit www.mpp.org/patients to help ensure that no patient will risk arrest due to his or her inability to pay the registration fee. You can choose to help patients in Vermont or Montana, or you can direct us to allot your donation wherever it is most urgently needed.
Please visit www.mpp.org/patients to help a needy patient
today.
Sincerely,
Rob Kampia
Executive Director
Marijuana Policy Project
Washington, D.C.
Now, MPP has launched a landmark program to help low-income patients in both states to obtain government-issued registry cards that will allow the patients to use and grow marijuana legally under state law.
Please visit www.mpp.org/patients to sponsor a low-income
medical marijuana patient so that he or she will no longer have to
fear arrest and jail.
The first two patients to be helped by MPP's new financial assistance program actually campaigned to pass their states' new laws:
* Robin Prosser, who appeared in MPP's TV ads during our Montana initiative campaign and who faced up to two years in prison after being arrested for two marijuana pipes, was thrilled when voters passed the medical marijuana law. But once the law finally allowed her to send in an application for a medical marijuana registry ID card to protect her from arrest, she was unable to afford the $200 processing fee. MPP's new financial assistance program helped Robin obtain her card, generating news all across Montana. Please see mpp.org/MT/news_1087.html for the story.
* In Vermont, Mark Tucci, whose tireless work was instrumental in
passing MPP's medical marijuana bill into law, couldn't afford the
$100 fee for the ID card that would make him a legal participant in
the program. "One of the last things chronically ill people can afford is extra medical costs," said Tucci, who suffers from multiple
sclerosis. "I applaud MPP for sticking around after the bill became
law and helping many of us with this part of the process." Please
visit www.mpp.org/VT/news_1075.html to see the news coverage of MPP's new program.
Patients are eligible for assistance through MPP's new program if they qualify for their state's registry program and their household income is no more than 150% above the federal poverty level.
Early response to the program has been overwhelmingly positive.
Vermont's Department of Public Safety is even promoting the program on its Web site --www.dps.state.vt.us/cjs/marijuana.htm -- which directs people to MPP's Web site.
MPP seeded each state assistance program with $2,000, but this is only enough to register nine more patients in Vermont and 19 in Montana. Please visit www.mpp.org/patients to help ensure that no patient will risk arrest due to his or her inability to pay the registration fee. You can choose to help patients in Vermont or Montana, or you can direct us to allot your donation wherever it is most urgently needed.
Please visit www.mpp.org/patients to help a needy patient
today.
Sincerely,
Rob Kampia
Executive Director
Marijuana Policy Project
Washington, D.C.
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