MICHIGAN VOTE PUTS LEGAL MEDICAL MARIJUANA ON WISCONSIN'S DOORSTEP

On Nov. 4, voters in the state of Michigan overwhelmingly approved
Proposition 1, making Michigan the 13th U.S. state to protect patients
using medical marijuana from arrest and jail. In the process, Michigan
voters saw through the lies and fear mongering of the opposition,
including federal, state and local officials, and instead chose
compassion and scientific fact.

IMMLY salutes Michigan voters for their compassionate decision. We
believe that if the Wisconsin Constitution allowed citizens to place
initiatives on the ballot, like Michigan and some other states,
medical marijuana would easily pass in Wisconsin. Polling has
established strong popular support for medical cannabis in Wisconsin,
and without an initiative process, state residents must depend on
state lawmakers to reflect that public support.

The American Nurses Association, Wisconsin Nurses Association, the
American and Wisconsin Public Health Associations, American College of
Physicians, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, the American Academy of
HIV Medicine and many other professional health care organizations
have endorsed therapeutic cannabis.

Despite popular support, state medical cannabis legislation has failed
to progress out of committee because of purely political reasons.
Residents of the 13 states where medical cannabis is now legal are not
unlike those of Wisconsin, and we call on the new Wisconsin
Legislature to act quickly to protect patients with compassionate
legislation like that passed by Michigan, when lawmakers convene the
new session in January 2009.

Is My Medicine Legal YET? is a Mondovi and Madison Wisconsin based
grass roots patient and caregiver organization dedicated to advancing
public education about the medicinal benefits of cannabis. For further
information contact Jacki Rickert at 715.926.4950 or Gary Storck at
608.241.8922 or visit the IMMLY website at www.immly.org.