A little backstory first. I live in Tucson where there is a ballot initiative called the *Arizona Medical Marijuana Act (AMMA). If the ballot initiative set for November 2010 passes, it will make Arizona the 14th Medical Marijuana State (yippee ki yah muthafuckers) and allow for non-profit dispensaries as well as cultivation of cannabis for medical purposes.
Arizona Medical Marijuana Act
So being a creative sort I thought why not start on the advocacy part of the initiative ahead of time. Under Arizona ballot initiative laws, the first initiative that gets submitted and verified by the Secretary of State will be numbered Prop 200. If the medical marijuana ballot initiative gets on the ballot it would be pretty catchy way to promote the ballot and educate people on the positive attributes of cannabis.
I'm pretty sure if I was thrown in a room with a few of my friends we could come up with 100 reasons to say yes to marijuana but I wanted to open it up to the floor first and see if the Kostonian World thinks are some good reasons.
I'll start the ball rolling and put one of my reasons to Say Yes to Medical Marijuana.
Our Founding Fathers Were Hempsters
Yup, yup, yup from Washington to Jefferson to Madison, these fine men of liberty were all hemp farmers and sometimes inbibers of the Indian hemp as it was called back then. Jefferson suffered from migraine headaches and was known to smoke hemp in a pipe for pain relief from his headaches.
That's one of two-hundred so please help me out here.