Medical marijuana initiative officially qualifies for Michigan’s 2008 ballot!
When the Michigan Board of Canvassers officially certified the signatures MPP’s campaign committee, the Michigan Coalition for Compassionate Care (MCCC), submitted last month, the Michigan Legislature had 40 days to act - by either passing the initiative into law itself or sending the question to the voters to decide.

And those 40 days were officially up on Friday, April 11. With the legislature taking no action, the medical marijuana initiative will automatically go onto the November ballot!

The fact that voters will have the opportunity to make Michigan the 13th medical marijuana state is great news for Michigan’s patients. Support for a compassionate law is wide and deep across the state: The most recent polling shows 67% of voters favor medical marijuana access, and five Michigan cities - Ann Arbor, Detroit, Ferndale, Flint, and Traverse City - have already passed local medical marijuana initiatives.

And last year, MCCC activists collected nearly half a million signatures from Michiganders, verified by the Board of Canvassers at a whopping 80.2% validity rate, to get the initiative on the ballot - further evidence of this broad, statewide support.

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