After the groundbreaking announcement on Tuesday about the Pennsylvania HHS deciding that medical marijuana “has merit” we’re now given inside information about the opportunity present in PA and how best to capitalize on it. Tuesday’s announcement can be found here.

Thanks to Dev Meyers who announced the PA HHS decision on Examiner.com we’re now given these details:

Hi – It’s Dev Meyers -Cannabis Revolution Examiner.com – I am the one who telephoned Stanley Mitchel at Oliver’s office. I had telephoned Mark Cohen. who sponsored the bill. I have been speaking with him every couple weeks. You can look through the articles on my site. Cohen told me now that PA HB1393 has moved into the hearing phase it is an important step forward. Everyone needs to testify. Stanley wants to hear more from groups. So it is important to channel your testimony if you have one through a group. PAMMJ or Medical Movement and so forth.

I will try to get more details about the hearings but everyone should go and let them know there is support for this – the perception is that there is not enough support to pass the bill in Pennsylvania. The politicians think that Pennsylvanians are too conservative to vote for the bill. [sounds like a challenge to me! lol] Everyone of them has told me that. Also the doctors are afraid to go on record because of their employers – for example mine wouldn’t go on the record because he is employed by UPMC. So the problem is that everyone is afraid to speak up.

It is really important to support this hearing because these politicians – Cohen, Mitchel, all of them down the line have been absolutely flabbergasted to find their phones ringing off the hook on this issue. Cohen’s right hand advisor had tried to steer him away from sponsoring the bill. Now the two of them joke – “Why didn’t we do this 10 years ago.” Cohen told me he never expected this much interest or activity when he introduced the bill in April.

If you want to visit Cannabis Revolution Examiner you can see a list of my recent articles and the text of this weeks AMA ruling.

So everybody in PA, this is YOUR opportunity!!

And to clarify the names used in the article – Stanley Mitchel is Rep. Frank Oliver’s Chief Legal Counsel.  Rep. Oliver is the Chairman of Health and Human Services. And Rep. Mark Cohen introduced HB1393.

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