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Activism See other Activism Articles Title: Radio stations pull MPP's medical marijuana ads Several Wyoming radio stations have pulled the Marijuana Policy Project's medical marijuana public service announcements from the air -- after receiving complaints from the local police chief. Read the Associated Press coverage of the controversy at The ads feature America's two most well-known medical marijuana patients -- TV host Montel Williams, who illegally uses marijuana to treat the symptoms of multiple sclerosis ... and Supreme Court plaintiff Angel Raich, who illegally uses marijuana to treat life-threatening wasting syndrome, seizures, an inoperable brain tumor, and severe chronic pain. Another ad features novelist Tom Robbins, who describes his mother's battle with glaucoma. Outrageously, Rawlins Police Chief Mike Reed told one newspaper reporter, "It was disturbing that the local radio station was running advertising that is counter to what the public and our community stand for, including ads supporting marijuana usage in spite of the numbers of health risks that are involved and the fact that this is a gateway drug into harder drugs similar to and including meth and cocaine." That blatantly false statement is precisely the sort of misinformation that our ads were designed to clear up. (In fact, the vast majority of Americans support safe and legal access to medical marijuana, which often allows patients to reduce or eliminate their use of narcotics that are far more toxic and addictive. And numerous independent scientists -- including the prestigious Institute of Medicine, in a report commissioned by the White House -- have verified that there is no evidence that marijuana causes users to turn to hard drugs.) Fortunately, these misguided Wyoming radio stations are a minority in the world of radio. MPP's ads have aired more than 11,000 times on radio stations all over the country, from the District of Columbia and Honolulu to Lubbock, Texas, and Durango, Colorado. If you'd like to hear them on your local airwaves, please contact your local radio stations and ask them to play MPP's public service announcements -- which can be downloaded at http://www.mpp.org/media/psa.html -- or the radio station representative can e-mail mpp@mpp.org to contact MPP. And if you'd like to help MPP continue our aggressive work to get the truth about marijuana into the news media, please make a financial contribution to our work by visiting http://www.kintera.org/site/lookup.asp?c=hjJZJgMOIoE&b=980423&msource=5029 today. Speaking of getting the truth out, one of the most truthful marijuana-related Web sites out there is http://www.medicalmarijuanaprocon.org ... It features credible, objective pros and cons in answer to the question, "Should marijuana be a medical option now?" Visit it today, and pass the link on to your friends. As always, thank you for your continued support of MPP's work. Sincerely, Rob Kampia Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
#1. To: Neil McIver (#0)
i heard this ad on the radio recently, but i think it was on GCN. montel explains that nothing else helped his MS symptoms like medical mj. it's insane that doctors are prohibited from prescribing it for patients like montel.
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