Are there organizations fighting to legalize medical marijuana?
Well the marijuana policy project fights to protect medical marijuana patients and their caregivers who are taking marijuana for serious illnesses, who are providing to it to a loved one who needs it for some illness. And we also just want to keep people out of jail for marijuana. We just do not think that people should go to jail for marijuana. We think that from a public health standpoint jail, prison is much, much more harmful than the substances itself. At MPP we believe that the collateral consequences of the marijuana prohibition is the real problem. Jail prison, aids, assault all these things that come along with incarceration all these dangers that come along with incarceration – hepatitis c, these things are much, much more dangerous than marijuana itself – then the actual substance itself; and I would defy any physician or any expert on this to disprove that. It’s much more harmful to be thrown in prison and to be subjected to these diseases and the possibility of getting ass
