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LEGALIZE MEDICAL MARIJUANA FOR OKLAHOMA
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Now seeking endorsements from Oklahomans for medical marijuana. Please go here for more info.

Oklahomans voice experiences with medical marijuana.

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WANT TO HELP?

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


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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


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red arrowOklahoma Medical Marijuana Activism Alert:

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:

red arrow"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.


red arrowPlease 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.

red arrow Please use this online form to tell your story, or phone (405)714-1236.
red arrow Mail to: DPRNOK, P O BOX 73140, Midwest City, OK 73140
red arrow 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