[Mtnorml-list] Help revive SB-326 today

[Montana NORML]

We're down to the wire. The party-line tie vote last week on SB-326 
means it will take a critical mass of representatives to breath new life 
into the bill.  Medical marijuana needs your help, today, now.

As you may recall, SB-326 improves Montana's medical marijuana system by 
adding qualifying conditions, increasing the # of plants, and allowing 
patients to obtain medicine from any caregiver: 
http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/2009/billhtml/SB0326.htm


This may be your last chance to help in this way for the next couple years.


Please contact YOUR representative, let them know they are representing 
you ("I'm a constituent from your district."), and ask them to support 
SB-326.

Here's how:

1) Find your House District rep: http://nris.mt.gov/gis/legislat/2009/

2) Send them email here: 
http://leg.mt.gov/css/sessions/61st/legwebmessage.asp

3) and/or call to leave a message: 406-444-4800


Here are some bullet items to consider mentioning, prepared by our 
friends at Patients and Families United (http://mtpfu.org):


     * With 62% of Montana voters supporting the right of legal patients 
to have access to the medical marijuana their doctors recommend, SB 326 
– developed by patients – deserves consideration by the full House of 
Representatives.

     * SB 326 would make it easier for patients to have the medicine 
they need, when they need it, without having to endure periods of time 
without medical marijuana.

      * SB 326 would allow a patient and caregiver combined to possess 
less than a one-month amount (75%) of what the federal government 
delivers in its medical marijuana supply program.  (The federal 
government sends 8 ounces/per month to its patients; SB 326 would allow 
a patient and caregiver each to possess no more than 3 ounces.) This is 
a reasonable amount of medicine that will meet the needs of most patients.

      * SB 326 would allow the state health department to audit 
caregivers (growers of medical marijuana) – new oversight that could 
help improve Montana’s medical marijuana program.


Please carve 4 minutes out of your busy day today to take action on 
this.  If not you, who? If not now, when?


Onwards,


John Masterson
Montana NORML
http://montananorml.org