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Activism See other Activism Articles Title: Sponsor a patient to use marijuana The Marijuana Policy Project's patient sponsorship program in Montana has been so successful that now we have a problem ... We cannot afford to help the rush of patients who are contacting our office because they want to use and grow medical marijuana legally in Montana - but cannot pay the $200 fee that would enable them to do so. Would you please keep a patient out of jail in Montana - or in Vermont - by making a tax-deductible donation at http://www.mpp.org/patients today? Last year, Vermont and Montana became the ninth and tenth states to make medical marijuana legal, thanks to MPP's intensive lobbying and public education campaigns (and despite heavy opposition from the White House). Four months ago, MPP launched a landmark program to help low-income patients in both states to obtain government-issued registry cards that allow patients to use and grow marijuana legally under state law. (Please visit http://mpp.org/MT/news_1087.html and http://mpp.org/VT/news_1075.html for some of the news coverage of this.) Since the launch of our program, we've provided financial assistance to 24 patients in Montana and seven patients and one caregiver in Vermont. Adding to these the patients who had enough money to pay their own fees, there are now a total of 114 legal patients in Montana and 11 in Vermont. The Montana number is rising so rapidly that there could be 300 legal patients there by the end of this year; in Vermont, the number is rising slowly because Vermont's law is more restrictive, and we haven't had the resources to publicize the program properly. We estimate there are more than 1,000 patients who need to use medical marijuana in each state. But, unfortunately, there is no money left in MPP's sponsorship fund, to which the subscribers on this e-mail list generously donated $2,915 a couple of months ago. If you haven't yet donated to MPP this year, would you please visit http://www.mpp.org/patients to sponsor a low-income medical marijuana patient, so that no patient will risk arrest because he or she cannot afford the fee? Patients are eligible for assistance through MPP's program if they qualify for their state's registry program and their household income is no more than 150% above the federal poverty level. Please visit http://www.mpp.org/patients to help ensure that no patient will risk arrest because of his or her income level. Thank you for any assistance you can lend! Sincerely, Rob Kampia Executive Director Marijuana Policy Project Washington, D.C. P.S. To apply for financial assistance, medical marijuana patients or their caregivers should visit http://www.vmpp.org/assistance.html in Vermont or http://www.montanacares.org/assistance.html in Montana. The Marijuana Policy Project hopes that each of the 121,000 subscribers on our national e-mail list will make at least one financial donation to MPP's work in 2005. Please visit http://www.mpp.org/donate2096 to donate now. MPP will be able to tackle all of the projects in its 2005 strategic plan -- http://www.mpp.org/2005plan -- if you and other allies are generous enough to fund our work. To remove yourself from this mailing, please go to http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?ID=M69077527853968215085365 To remove yourself from all mailings from Marijuana Policy Project, please go to http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?ID=M69077537853968215085365 --------- The fee is apparently a licensing/registration fee to the states.
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