Arizona State University reporter Allison Gatlin did a great write up of our medical marijuana ballot initiative for the student paper, The State Press, on October 1. Here’s a key excerpt:

The initiative would protect patients from prosecution and create clinics for patients to purchase the marijuana without having to resort to the criminal market, [AMMPP campaign manager Andrew Myers] said.

“Say you’re a cancer patient in Arizona who has nausea so bad you can’t continue with your chemotherapy,” Myers said. “Your oncologist says to you, ‘There’s something that can help you, but it’s illegal.’ You either have to A: Suffer with these debilitating side effects of the chemotherapy, or B: You have to go to the criminal market to try to obtain the medication that can help you.”

If you want to read the whole story – and you should, it’s a good piece – you can find it here.