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Who Supports Medical Access to Marijuana?
Summary of Support
Last update December 02, 1999
Legislative Actions:
 | Thirty-four states have legislatively recognized marijuana's
medical value. |
| Seven states have enacted voter initiatives |
| San Francisco County - 1991, Proposition P |
| San Francisco City Council (1992) |
| Santa Cruz County - 1992, Proposition A |
| Santa Cruz County Council (1993) |
| Marin County Council, CA (1993) |
| Oakland City Council, CA (1996) |
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Legal Cases:
| State courts in the District of Columbia, Idaho, Washington and Florida have recognized
marijuana can be a drug of "medical necessity." |
| In 1988, the Chief Administrative Law Judge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
(DEA) ruled current federal policies prohibiting marijuana's medical use are
"unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious." |
| The American Bar Association, the National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys,
the American Civil Liberties Union, and the National Association of Attorneys General have
called for a repeal of the medical prohibition of marijuana.
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Medical Support:
| American Academy of Family Physicians |
| American Medical Students Association |
| American Public Health Association |
| Burlington (VT) Board of Health |
| California Nurses Association |
| Colorado Nurses Association |
| Mississippi Nurses Association |
| National Nurses Society on Addictions |
| New Mexico Nurses Association |
| Northern New England Psychiatric Society |
| New York Nurses Association |
| Physicians Association for AIDS Care |
| Virginia Nurses Association |
| Virginia Nurses Society on Addictions |
| A 1991 Harvard survey of the nation's oncologists found that 44% of the cancer
specialists had recommended patients break the law to obtain the marijuana they medically
required. An astonishing 89% of those expressing an opinion felt marijuana should be
legally available, by prescription.
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More:
| The National Lymphoma Foundation |
| California-Pacific Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church |
| Conference of Episcopal Bishops |
| National Association of People with AIDS |
| Florida Governor's Red Ribbon Panel on AIDS |
| Mothers Against Misuse and Abuse |
| Iowa Democratic Party |
| Iowa Civil Liberties Union |
| Minnesota Democratic Farm-Labor Party |
| Cure AIDS Now |
| Polling data, available from a variety of sources over a period of more than a decade,
consistently indicates between 70% to 80% of the American people believe marijuana should
be legally available, by prescription, for the treatment of life- and sense-threatening
diseases. |
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