We need your help with financial contributions, phone banking and
statewide flier distribution now! Email
Also please contact your legislators at the State Capitol to let
them be aware you support legalizing medical marijuana in Oklahoma.
Find and and E-mail your legislators here.
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"I am going to be an activist. It is up to us to
change these laws. And it is going to take money, because if we
don't put in the money we aren't going to win. That is the bottom
line." Former Oklahoman Will
Foster after his release from prison. He was convicted of
cultivating marijuana, used for his own medical
purposes.
"My medical use of marijuana never interfered with
my work; I ran a successful business. I told my conservative doctor
what I was doing; he did not really agree with it because of the
health risk of smoking, but he witnessed my positive results. I was
minding my own business taking care of my health and my family.
What was I doing to anybody that got me 93 years?" More from
Foster
Medical Marijuana Day Coming to the State Capitol in:
The Medical Marijuana Movement is on a roll in the United
States. New Jersey just passed medical marijuana and approximately
twenty states had medical marijuana legislation introduced this
session.
Now it's our turn. That's right; right here, right now,
OOOOklahoma!
On Wednesday, Feb. 17, medical marijuana patients and supporters
are meeting at the State Capitol. We will meet on the second floor
Rotunda at 1:00 p.m. and have a brief discussion before visiting
our senators and representatives. We will be presenting them with
written information about medical marijuana and a copy of our
proposed legislation.
Over seventy Oklahomans with medical conditions have endorsed
our medical marijuana campaign. It doesn't matter if you are a
potential medical marijuana patient or just someone who wants to
see medical marijuana available in Oklahoma; we need you to attend
this event.
Please attempt to arrange a meeting with your state senator and
representative by calling their office. Arrange the meeting between
1:00-3:00 p.m. To find out who your state senator and
representative are, call your local Board of Election/Election
Board, or the State Election Board (405) 521-2391. You can also
find this information online here.
It isn't a problem if you can't arrange a meeting with your
elected official. We are going to visit their office anyway. If we
can't speak directly to our elected officials, we will leave the
information with their staff.
No one will have to visit their legislators alone.
Our volunteers will gladly go along to support you. We will stick
together to demonstrate that many good people support medical
marijuana in Oklahoma.
If you can't make it to the Capitol that day, please contact
your legislators anyway. Please call, email, fax and/or write
letters today! Ask them to Please introduce and endorse The
Oklahoma Compassionate Care Medical Marijuana Legislation. Let
them know we are sending the legislation to their office and that
they can meet actual medical marijuana patients on Feb. 17.
Please direct questions here:
DPRNOK
P O BOX 10641
Midwest City OK, 73140
Phone:1-405-714-1236
Via E-mail
The Oklahoma Compassionate Care Campaign for medical marijuana is
making great progress. Our goal is to change state law, to allow
doctors to recommend medical marijuana. This would include
regulations for cultivation and distribution. In fact, the final
version of the proposed legislation for legalizing medical
marijuana for Oklahoma can be viewed here, following
detailing of plans for a "Day at the Capitol" to present this
proposed legislation.
We have received written endorsements from more than seventy
potential Oklahoma medical marijuana patients and three Oklahoma
medical professionals (one Medical Doctor (M.D.), one Registered
Nurse (R.N.). and a pain therapist.). Early in 2010 (date TBA), we
will have a medical marijuana lobbying day at the State Capitol. We
will visit our elected officials in person and ask them to support
medical marijuana.
Please
call, email, fax and/or write letters to your Oklahoma senator and
representative today! Ask them to - Please introduce and
endorse The Oklahoma Compassionate Care Medical Marijuana
Legislation. The campaign has a tiny budget. We need your
contributions to afford more publicity. We need volunteers to help
with a wide range of activities. With your help, we can build a
strong statewide coalition for medical marijuana. Your active
participation is the most important contribution of all. To endorse
this campaign or get more information contact: 405-714-1236 or
E-mail.
Endorsements may also be made here on this
web site. To make a donation online, please click for PayPal
below:
"Marijuana is Medicine" Forum Held in Edmond.
On April 19, we had an opportunity to learn about the medical
aspects of marijuana (cannabis) at a pubic meeting in Edmond
sponsored by the Drug Policy Forum of Oklahoma. Two health care
professionals gave informative talks and two potential candidates
for medical use (if it were legal) discussed their points of view.
Dr. Morton Skorodin discussed for a lay audience the scientific
background regarding benefits, risks and side effects of Cannabis.
Bill Humphries, R. N., who specializes as a hospice nurse,
discussed the clinical condition for which it its indicated (in
those states in which it is legal[12+ states]). He also discussed
some of the legal intricacies involved.
Some of the scientific findings are amazing, and it seems likely
that cannabis and its derivatives will be used extensively as
medicine in the future. It has been used since Bible times for
symptoms such as nausea and pain. Many people are aware that cancer
patients use it to relieve nausea from chemotherapy. What was
really surprising was to learn that it actually can fight cancer
itself, as has been shown in lab animals with a wide variety of
cancer types. In Spain they put the major compound, THC, in the
actual brain tumors of people with the highly malignant
glioblastoma.
Another recent finding is that cannabis blocks the same enzyme
that standard Alzheimer's drugs do, but more efficiently. In the
next few years, we may find out that those aging hippies
unknowingly protected themselves from dementia by smoking pot.
There are many other illnesses for which cannabis may be helpful;
this subject can not be fully discussed in a brief letter. Although
remarkably safe as medications go, with no reported fatalities,
smoking it promotes chronic bronchitis and it is habit-forming. Not
to be forgotten, the drug war vastly increases the danger of
cannabis. It is illegal under federal law even where specifically
legal for medical use under state law.
A Federal Medical Marijuana Bill (HR-5842 has been introduced by
Rep. Ron. Paul. This Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act would
make federal authorities respect states' current laws on medical
cannabis and end DEA raids on facilities distributing medical
marijuana legally under state law. Please call you representative
to ask him to support this bill.
Please Help the Oklahoma Compassionate Care Campaign
Raise Funds! Go here.
FOR MEDICAL MARIJUANA
Federal law prohibits any use of marijuana, but Maine,
Vermont, Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Montana, Nevada,
Oregon, Washington, New Mexico, Michigan and Rhode Island allow it
to be grown and used for medicinal purposes.
Legal medical marijuana is NOT available in Oklahoma. Sick
Oklahomans need your help to allow them to seek medical marijuana
treatment. It has been found to aid those suffering from chronic
pain, glaucoma, neurologic disorders, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis,
AIDS-wasting syndrome, and nausea and vomiting associated with
cancer chemotherapy.
Doctors and patients in 12 states can freely decide if marijuana
is the best medicine. Unfortunately in Oklahoma, citizens who need
marijuana are treated like common criminals. They are locked up in
our very overcrowded prisons and then we have to pay for their
medical care. Our law provides no defense based on a medical
necessity, even when a person cannot afford drug store
medicines.
DPRNOK Needs Your
Support!
We are seeking endorsements from Oklahoma doctors, patients, and
prominent organizations.
We need Oklahomans who could benefit from medical
marijuana to tell their stories and/or even testify to
legislators about those who are either sick or in pain and who want
or need medical marijuana. All interviews will be kept
private unless we have your permission to tell your story.
Please use this online
form to tell your story, or phone (405)714-1236.
Mail to: DPRNOK, P O BOX 73140, Midwest City, OK 73140 Our
web site: Drug Policy Forum of
Oklahoma
Please call your OK senator and representative and tell them to
sponsor, or support, the Oklahoma Compassionate Care Medical
Marijuana bill. Find and e-mail your state legislators here,
or off the Internet at the Oklahoma Election Board (405)521-2391,
or contact your county election board.
ARE YOU A PATIENT WHO COULD BENEFIT FROM USING
MARIJUANA AS A MEDICINE? ARE YOU A HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL WHO IS
AWARE OF ITS THERAPEUTIC BENEFITS? PLEASE CONTACT US NOW!!
Medical marijuana is "...one of the safest
therapeutically active substances known to man." by
the Honorable Francis Young, Administrative Law Judge Drug
Enforcement Agency - 1989
Legal
Federal Medical Marijuana Patient Irvin Rosenfeld Testifies Before
a Michigan Legislative Committee More on Rosenfeld
here.
Eddie
of South Carolina Tells of His Experience With Medical
Marijuana
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