The amendment that was before the House of Representatives that would stop taxpayer funding for federal raids on medical marijuana patients failed.

What this means is that in the states where medical marijuana has been approved, the federal government is still able to use your money to put sick people into prisons.

You read that right! You can be in a wheelchair with your prescription in your right hand and your doctor by your side, and the Feds still want to put you into prison. Sick people in prison. That's ludicrous!

Did you know that while the United States has less than 5% of the world's population, we have 25% of the world's prison population? The War on Drugs is a war on our own people.

The War on Cannabis is a war on sick people, a war on healthy people, a war on freedom and what it means to be an American.

The US Constitution does not allow the government to stop ANYONE from putting substances into their bodies of their own free will.

Irv Rosenthal, one of the remaining federal medical marijuana patients testified in Michigan for the Michigan state initiative. 

Ask yourself "Why is our government, the same government that has let us down before, actively trying to cause pain to sick people?"

That's why we here at Green Earth Ministries are trying our hardest to change the drug laws that are ruining families, sending sick people to prison, and costing taxpayers millions of dollars. We have found ourselves in the unique position to do just that and we are standing our ground!

Some facts you may not know......

     Twelve states passed laws allowing terminally ill patients to use marijuana with a doctor’s recommendation.
Alaska
California
Colorado
Hawaii
Maine
Montana
New Mexico
Nevada
Oregon
Rhode Island
Vermont
Washington.

     More than 70 percent of voters support the right of patients to use marijuana with a doctor’s recommendation – including substantial majorities of Democrats, Republicans, and Independents (Gallup, Time/CNN, Pew Research Center, other polls).

     In 1997, the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) commissioned the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to assess marijuana’s medical value. After two years of reviewing the scientific data available “the study team found substantial consensus among experts in the relevant disciplines on the scientific evidence about potential medical uses of marijuana.” The study team concluded, “nausea, appetite loss, pain and anxiety…all can be mitigated by marijuana.” The esteemed medical journal, The Lancet Neurology, reported that marijuana’s active components “inhibit pain in virtually every experimental pain paradigm.”

     Health organizations supporting legal access to medical marijuana include: American Academy of HIV Medicine
American Academy of Family Physicians
American Nurses Association
American Preventive Medical Association
American Public Health Association
California Academy of Family Physicians
California Medical Association
Florida Medical Association
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
Lymphoma Foundation of America
New England Journal of Medicine
New York State Association of County Health Officials
New York State Hospice and Palliative Care Association
New York State Medical Society
The Whitman-Walker Clinic

     Faith-based organizations supporting legal access to medical marijuana or state discretion on the issue include:
Episcopal Church
Evangelical Lutheran Church
National Council of Churches
Progressive National Baptist Convention
Presbyterian Church (USA)
Religious Society of Friends (Philadelphia Yearly Meeting)
Union for Reform Judaism
United Church of Christ
Unitarian Universalist Association
United Methodist Church
No religious denomination opposes medical marijuana

So, quoting one of my father's favorite sayings, "Put that in your pipe and smoke it!"

Peace and Love,
Brenda

On Day That Feds Raid and Shut down Ten Medical Marijuana Dispensaries in California, Congress Rejects Proposal to Protect Seriously Ill Patients and Their Caregivers from Federal Arrest