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Proposal 1 passes with 63% of the vote

and

in every single county across the state.

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/ballot.measures/

Thank you to each and every one of you who contributed to this historic victory,

 making Michigan the 13th state to protect the most vulnerable among us.

In 1979 Michigan passed a wildly popular Medical Marijuana bill.  It protected patients and provided  controlled, regulated access to medical cannabis through clinics & family physicians. Over the next 2 years Federal intransigence & interference doomed Michigan's medical cannabis program.  After patients and doctors pronounced the program unworkable and began to drop out, the law  allowed to lapse in 1981.  We can not let our victory be stolen from us a second time.

In 1986 DEA Chief Administrative Law Judge Francis Young held hearings on a Petition to Reschedule Marijuana.   Among the affidavits submitted was that of former MI NORML Executive Director R.D. Winthrop detailing how the 1979 Michigan Medical Marijuana program came to be and then how it was stolen away again.   Affidavits filed by Mae Nutt & Brett Johnson were also submitted and are included in this file.

R.D. Affidavit

(please note, this is a lengthy pdf file, approx 138 print pages.

Depending on the speed of your connection it may take some time to download.)