7News/Suffolk University poll confirms overwhelming support for medicinal marijuana 
in Massachusetts    

In what is no surprise to MassCann the Suffolk University 7News/ poll released
Wednesday evening found 81% of Bay State residents support medicinal cannabis.

In an OpEd published September 13 in the Metrowest Daily News, MassCann's Keith
Saunders and Steven  Epstein noted:

MassCann members placed public policy questions on district ballots beginning 
in 2000 to measure public support for allowing seriously ill patients with a
doctor's recommendation  to possess and grow small amounts of marijuana for
their personal medical use.  That support is well over 70 percent. Nine of our
 state's 10 representatives in Congress recognize this. They regularly vote
yes on amendments to the Justice Department budget prohibiting the DEA from 
raiding dispensaries, caregivers and patients in compliance with their state's
law. The lone holdout is Rep. Stephen Lynch. Prominent opponent of Question 2, 
Attorney General Martha Coakley, approved the concept during her monthly 
appearance on the Braude and Eagan Show on WTKK FM 96.9 in June.

So when will our legislature surprise us and do the right thing?

Video from the Committee on Public Health hearing on H 2160 held May 19, 2009:

Massachusetts Medical Marijuana Hearing Video Part 1
Massachusetts Medical Marijuana Hearing Video Part 2, MS Patient
Massachusetts Medical Marijuana Hearing Part 3
(Marci Duda, Grandmother & Medical User)
Massachusetts Medical Marijuana Hearing Part 4, MassCann/NORML President
Massachusetts Medical Marijuana Hearing Part 5: John Madfis, Son Has Crohns
Disease

Please be vocal!

Go to:
Medicinal Use in Massachusetts: The Chairpersons Need to Hear from Constituents