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Floridians Support HR 2835, The Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act (US House)
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      • The U.S. House of Representatives
      • Speaker of the House (Nancy Pelosi)
  2. Created By
    Joshua Giesegh
    Orlando, FL
About this Petition Petition Letter

Sign this petition to let your US House Representative and the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, know how Florida feels about the Federal Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act.
Feel free to add a personal story!!  Each email will be taken more seriously if you add a story of your own!  Tell them about a loved one or something!
Make sure you send this letter on to as many people as possible.  We need the laws to change and our representatives will listen to us if we can provide a uniformed voice.
Concerned and want to do more?
Follow up with a phone call.  This is extremely powerful.
Get a couple friends together and lobby your representative.  Go visit them and show them how concerned you are.  They will take the extra initiative into consideration.  If enough people show support, they will risk their jobs by not listening to their constituents.

If you representative is Stearns or Castor (Districts 6,11) you need to know that your representative is on the committee overseeing this bill.  We really need you to let your representative know how you feel about this issue.  Get as many locals as possible to join in sharing your views.

 

 

Make sure you help change Florida's laws at http://www.PUFMM.org/.

Recent Signatures

Support HR 2835, The Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act

Dear Representative

As one of your constituents in Florida I am well aware that the time for change is now.  
Currently in Florida our courts have shown compassion for our patients and refused to prosecute patients that use marijuana medically (Jenks vs State), and our citizens have initiated a petition to bring medical marijuana to the state of Florida Constitution.
As an AARP poll shows, nearly three of out every four members of our retired population supports a patients right to discuss marijuana as a medical option. Volunteer activists are working in every single county to change the laws regarding medical marijuana.  Our universities, the foundation of our future, are changing policies regarding marijuana and having student groups dedicated to changing the laws forming on many of our over 100 colleges and universities, including two universities considered in the top 10 for marijuana activism in the nation.
Recent polls from this year have shown a vast majority of support, Orlando Sentinel shows 92.5% support for medical marijuana and Naples News shows 90% support.  You have the support to make this happen from all of your supporters!
Cannabis research overseas is pushing new grounds.  It has even been shown to stop tumor growth in brain, breast, lung, and throat cancers.  The US Dept. of Health and Human Services has even patented marijuana as a nueroprotectant and anti-oxidant (#6630507).  Patients such as IrvinRosenfeld, out of South Florida, currently receive marijuana from the federal government through the Compassionate IND program, yet this program has closed it's doors to new applicants.
As your constituent, I urge you to do the right thing.  Take compassion for the sick in our state and this nation.  Don't make our people choose between their lives and the law.  What if it was one of your loved ones?
Push this bill through rapidly so our nation can have more compassionate laws for our sick and further the research on this plant.

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