Florida info
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Status of Medical Marijuana (Cannabis) in Florida.
Info on Florida and Medical CannabisFlorida does NOT have a MEDICAL MARIJUANA (cannabis) LAW. Yet.
People United for Medical Marijuana (PUFMM), A Political Comittee | PUFMM.org is a policital committee based in the state of Florida dedicated to execute a ballot initiative allowing patients access to medical marijuana. We are collecting signatures to change Florida's constitution. We have collected 24,000 signatures and $7,000 in donations. Download and sign this petition to do your part. Register Now to get on our email list and receive automatic updates. Donate online with a credit card by clicking here. Become a member, find out about getting a t-shirt and stickers by visiting our membership page.
We are looking for 700 people around the state that can commit to 40 volunteer hours over the next 6 months. They are known as the PUFMM Elite and will get special privilages throughout the campaign. These people will collect 1,000 signatures each and $420 in donations before February 1, 2010. This will provide us with exactly what we need to get medical marijuana on the 2010 ballot. We do not have to wait until 2012 if YOU join this group today! We are the political action committee collecting signatures on a ballot initiative to get medical marijuana legal in Florida. Our main goal is to get it on the 2010 ballot. If that does not happen, we will certainly make the 2012 ballot. We need help from all over the country on this one! Thanks so much for everything you do! Contact info: People United for Medical Marijuana * www.pufmm.org * 407-405-0110
ChangeTheLaw.org | The first thing to understand is that when the PEOPLE (you and me), want to legalize medical marijuana in Florida, is that Tallahassee (those currently in charge) have enacted several rules that must be followed exactly. The current Florida State government system makes it difficult for the common folks like you and me to directly change our Florida State Constitution. However; legalized medical marijuana laws have now been changed and adopted in several states. Since 1996, thirteen states have now made marijuana legal by prescription: California, Alaska, Montana, Michigan, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington. If they could do it in those states surely we Floridians can make our great state of Florida number fourteen. visit - http://www.changethelaw.org/
ACTION; Get involved in the movement for safe and legal access to medical cannabis today. Our power comes from our collective action. Whether it's calling Congress, attending rallies, organizing a local activity or chapter, signing an online petition, or supporting federal defendants, take action today! There are a number of medical cannabis (marijuana) bills in play in states across the US. Here we network on Ways and Means anyone can help with the effort to make each a medical marijuana state. We need to get the word out and people contacting reps and officials and get this legislation into law. Also, lets not forget efforts at the Federal level.
NETWORK and Spread The Word, both On-Line and Off (!) ON-LINE, You can tell everybody in cyber-space by e-mailing a link to this website to them and/or (OFF-LINE> printing off the info and handing out where possible / necessary. Also phone call and read off and/or visit and hand deliver the info. You can take literature with you and approach businesses, organizations and even people on the street while you're out and about. Wear your pot-leaf shirt and register voters, as feasible. Gather signatures for any related petitions that are happening at the time as well.
This is a chain e-mail you can't refuse. Unlike most, this will actually help you - and a whole buncha others - just by passing it on. Cannabis consumer or not - from the folks just trying to take care of themselves or a loved one to those who simply see the expensive, immoral waste of making war on the sick and dying - everyone is affected by this issue.
To accomplish this you need to first click on the following links and send a message to all the reps and media you can on the issue. Then get everybody else to do the same. And follow up.
To do this you need to tell everybody you know. And can confide in. Then/or anonymously tell everybody you don't know - or can't confide in. Yet.
Tell everybody else by Letters-to-the-Editor, displaying signage at street corners and over-passes (wear trenchcoat, fedora and sunglasses if afraid of exposure), and/or anonymously leaving literature and posting on-line at places where people are likely to find it. Coffeeshops are good places to leave printed material and you can go to the websites of the local newspapers to post items as well. More ideas and supporting tools via the links below.
Inform, Educate, Activate
INFORM and EDUCATE. Distribute medical marijuana brochures and other literature to your friends, family, local leaders and elected officials in an effort to educate the public and garner support. Educate your community by Printing, posting and handing out Flyers and other Printables in a mall, coffee shop, laundromat, college campus, lamp post, telephone poll, business window (ask first), hospital, or anywhere people will see them. Contact these groups for some. If you or your Organization is doing the same, please Post It or give us Feed Back.
NORML / A Page Just For You / Medical Marijuana Patients | This section is to help you locate the information you need to become fully informed regarding medical marijuana -- as well as play an important role in changing America’s misguided marijuana laws. Printable materials and more ... visit: http://www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=4482
Flyers and Printables by ASA | Educate your community. Print and post these flyers anywhere people will see them. ... visit: http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=4128
You can also print and hand out MPP's medical marijuana brochures to your friends, family, local leaders and elected officials in an effort to educate the public and garner support.
OUTREACH and Gather TESTIMONY. Ask your doctor, clergy member, local leader, or organization you are a member of to sign a statement of principle. One way to get that done is to download MPPs medical marijuana statement of principle, print it out, and ask your doctor or other individual to sign it the next time you have the opportunity. Then send it to MPP at P.O. Box 77492, Washington, D.C. 20013.
And TESTIFY. If you are a patient or caregiver that could benefit from such a law and would like to help advance legislation by sharing your story with others. Call in to radio, TV and other media; write LTEs and contact you legislators. These groups are helping with this activity:
The Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) | contact them at P.O. Box 77492, Washington, DC 20013, or visit http://www.mpp.org/states/florida/take-action.html
NORML | Contact Your Elected Representatives And Urge Them to 'Stop Arresting Marijuana Smokers', visit - http://www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=3449
ASA Online Action Center | Take action online to make your voice heard! Identify your representative and send a free message using our online action center. When your elected officials hear from you – and often – they are more likely to support our calls for safe and legal access to medical cannabis! http://www.safeaccessnow.org/section.php?id=69
Meet with Your Elected Official | Meeting with our elected officials is very simple and very important. As citizens, they are here to serve us. Start building a relationship with your elected officials using this brief overview to help you get started. http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=5681
Petition Your Senators to Support Research | ASA has created a petition that you can print out and circulate at your work, school, home, church, and in your larger community. Download and print out this petition calling on your U.S. Senators to support access to materials for FDA-approved medical cannabis research. http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=5448
If you or your Organization is doing anything similar, please Post It or give us Feed Back.
Just GOTV (Get Out The Vote). Register Voters, Publicize current legislation (and what folks can do in support!) -or- how "they" voted in the last effort. Gather signatures for any and all cannabis law reform initiatives while Informing and Educating the public. Not one going in your state? Start one yourself!
More Legislative Tips and Tools > here < and we're sure you'll come up with more.
LETTER The EDITOR (LTE). Write a letter to the editor in support of medical marijuana. Writing a letter to the editor of your local newspaper can be a great way to foster discussion about marijuana policy reform.
MAPinc Tips, Tools and Tricks ... for Old Dogs and New! | Letter to the Editor Writing Resources, Media Contact Resources; How To Get Drug Policy On the Air in Your Community, How to write a Press Release, Media Contact On Demand!, Drug Policy Writers Group. plus, Additional Resources; Activist Tools, Community Audits and Initiatives Project, MAP Virtual Conference Center (Our Voice/Text Chat Server) and more! ... visit - http://www.mapinc.org/resource/
How To LTE by ASA | Write a Letter to the Editor of your local newspaper calling for safe access to medical cannabis. You never know who might be reading – a judge, policeman, or elected official! Use ASA's LTE action site to find information for your local paper and submit your LTE online, using talking points we've developed. Visit - http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/182/t/571/letter/?letter_KEY=658
The Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) also has provided a list of talking points and encourages you to write a letter and get others to do so also. Feel free to contact them if you'd like help with your letter, and let them know if it gets published.
BROADCAST and PUBLICIZE. Help get the word out by downloading and sharing MPP's public service announcements with radio stations in your area. If you're a talk radio listener, call in and express support for medical marijuana laws. Even if the subject being discussed isn't explicitly about marijuana, many related issues can be a springboard for urging reform. For example, if the issue is health care, you can point out that treatment decisions are better off being left to patients and physicians than police and prosecutors.
Contact Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) for more.
Also - Circulate NORML's Public Service Announcements; Visit - http://www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=3426
ACTIVATE. Facilitate Meetings and Meet-Ups in order to accomplish all the above as well as Gather Contact Info and Get people involved. These groups have sign-up sheets for e-mail addresses:
Meetings and Meet-Ups > Medical Cannabis Meetup Groups - Medical Cannabis Meetups around the world | Find a Medical Cannabis Meetup Group near you ... grouped by City and Country ... find the ones with the most people interested in Medical Cannabis Meetups in Florida ... international, national, provincial, municipal levels ... Visit - http://www.meetup.com/cities/us/fl/.
Join ASA Email Lists | Communication is the key to organizing. Use ASA's listserves to keep up with breaking news on medical marijuana, to plug into your local community activism, and to effectively communicate with your peers. Visit - http://www.safeaccessnow.org/modinput4.php?modin=53
Download NORML's eZine Signup Form | Visit - http://www.norml.org/pdf_files/E_Zine_Sign_Up.pdf and send to - NORML: 1600 K Street NW, Suite 501, Washington DC, 20006-2832 -or- Visit - http://www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=3448 to sign-up on-line
Also, using MPP's sign-up sheets, collect as many valid e-mail addresses as you can and send them to MPP. You can scan and e-mail the information you collect to or mail it to MPP legislative analyst Nathan Miller at P.O. Box 77492, Washington, DC 20013.
ORGANIZE -and- EVENT. Organize an event or action item to attract people in order to further Inform, Educate and Activate. Don't forget to alert the media!
Form / Join an independent group like a Patients Union | Patients across the country are forming Medical Cannabis Patients' Unions based on their shared diagnosis, needs or region. The Unions are a support network for patients and caregivers to fight for safe access to cannabis as medicine! ASA has info here > Visit - http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?list=type&type=321
So you want to have a marijuana rally? by NORML | For a rally to be truly successful, organizers and participants have the responsibility to ensure that more is achieved than mass euphoria. Find out all you need to know. here > Visit - http://www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=3469
Resources for Organizers by ASA | Everything you need to be an effective activist: handbooks, outreach materials, graphics and more. Visit - http://www.safeaccessnow.org/section.php?id=116
FILMFEST. Set up a free screening of the award-winning medical marijuana documentary "Waiting to Inhale" or other film. If you are interested in hosting a screening of "Waiting to Inhale", please contact Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) letting them know.
HEMPFEST. Set up a music, art or other -oriented event. Contact the folks at the Seattle Hempfest, they'll be happy to share how they do theirs.
VOLUNTEER and AFFILIATE. For example, ASA chapters and affiliates represent the core of ASA's grassroots activism. If there is no chapter or affiliate in your region, please consider starting one today. It's easy, and ASA staff will guide you through the process. Visit - http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=4133