(Join Together) The full Delaware Senate could soon vote on a measure that would legalize medical use of marijuana in the state, the Wilmington News Journal reported June 4.

With no opposition, the measure cleared a Senate committee and headed to the floor, where the lead sponsor plans to seek a vote after making some technical adjustments to the bill, SB-94. The legislation would allow Delaware residents with a state-issued medical-marijuana ID card to purchase up to 6 ounces of the drug for medical use or grow up to 12 plants for personal medical use.

The Medical Society of Delaware has remained neutral on the bill. The legislation was modeled on a measure recently approved in the state of Michigan.

This bill is on fire!  It was only introduced on May 27th and has already passed committee.  Contact your Delaware officials here to support this bill!

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(Sussex Countian) Delawareans afflicted with a variety of chronic and painful conditions would be able to legally use medical marijuana to ease their suffering under a bill now under consideration in the Delaware State Senate.

Sen. Margaret Rose Henry (D-Wilmington East), said her bill isn’t an outright decriminalization of marijuana and is aimed at balancing compassion for the sick with maintaining tight controls on access and the amount of marijuana a person can have.

“Modern science shows us that marijuana can have beneficial effects for people suffering from a number of conditions including cancer, multiple sclerosis, glaucoma and HIV-AIDS,” Henry said. “While we don’t want to encourage the use of marijuana as a recreational drug, it makes no sense at all to deny the comfort it can give to people suffering from truly debilitating and painful diseases.”

If passed, Henry’s bill would:

• Limit patients to six ounces of marijuana a month.

• Require patients, people designated as caregivers and personnel at the “Compassion Care Centers” where pot could be distributed to have state issued ID cards authorizing their ability to access marijuana. The non-profit centers could not be operated within 500 feet of an existing public or private school.

• Require that marijuana be cultivated in enclosed, locked facilities with security systems to prevent theft.

• Ban employers from firing an employee receiving medical marijuana if they fail a drug screening. However, employees could be fired for working under the influence of marijuana.

• Prohibit the use of marijuana in public places, on public transportation, in schools and in prison.

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I am now NORML’s National Chapter Outreach Coordinator.  In that capacity, I receive the emails from people all across the country looking to join NORML.  We currently have 64 chapters and 47 campus chapters in 38 states, and 8 international chapters.

I want a NORML chapter in all fifty states, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.  I want double the number of chapters.  So I really need your help.

Just this last two weeks, I have received emails from budding activists (pun intended) looking to start NORML Chapters in Colorado, North Carolina, Alaska, Alabama, Florida (Miami), Missouri, Virginia, Idaho, New Hampshire, Kentucky, Mississippi, Vermont, Texas, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Kansas, as well as four new college chapter inquiries and inquiries from Australia, Japan, Guam, and Mexico (Cuidad Juarez).

I work to put the people in the same state in touch with each other because the hardest thing about forming a NORML Chapter isn’t finding the guy or gal to lead, it’s finding the other four people to form your board.

So Stashers, if you’re in one of the above-named states or countries and you’d like to get on board with a new local chapter, send me an email to stash@norml.org with the subject “Join a Chapter” and I’ll hook you up.

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I believe you make a good argument for marijuana, as we are also filling up our prisons with mandatory sentencing. But, presently I don’t see any support in my District or around our State to legalize it.

Drugs in general are like a cancer in our society with billions of dollars changing hands and people’s lives ruined most of the time at a young age.

Frankford where I grew up as a boy is riddled with major drug trafficking and users. Neighbors become scared of the violence associated with the drug culture.

Thank you for contacting me with your ideas.

George Bunting

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I want to thank you for your email but in all honesty after the affects I have seen this drug have on families and how it can lead to more serious drug addictions, I can not support this. I see there are positive points to your request but feel that the negative far outweigh the positive in this case.

Gerald

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