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Proposal 1 wins 63% - 37%!


We'd like to express our enormous gratitude to all of our supporters across the state. Thanks to your commitment, seriously ill Michiganders who use medical marijuana with their doctors' recommendation will no longer face the threat of arrest and jail.

The new law will go into effect on December 4, 2008, and the Department of Community Health will have an additional 120 days to issue regulations for a medical marijuana registry.

The Detroit Free Press, Detroit News, Lansing State Journal, Battle Creek Enquirer, Jackson City Patriot, Michigan Chronicle, and Detroit Metro Times Endorsed Proposal 1.

 

Patients

Caprice Wagner

Caprice Wagner, a recent college graduate, was diagnosed with T cell lymphoma this past March and passed away in July. During her short, tragic ordeal, she used medical marijuana to cope with the side effects of chemotherapy and the symptoms of cancer itself. Please read her mother’s powerful account of her struggle here.

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Michiganders Support Proposal 1

67% of Michigan voters support removing criminal penalties for the medical use of marijuana, according to a March 2008 poll. And in each of five citywide medical marijuana votes, medical marijuana won in a landslide (with 62% in Flint in February 2007; with 63% in Traverse City and 61% in Ferndale in November 2005; with 74% in Ann Arbor in November 2004; and with 60% in Detroit in August 2004). It's time for the state to follow their lead and protect seriously ill patients from the threat of arrest and jail.