MPP to Offer Giuliani, Romney, McCain $10,000 to Prove Statements on Medical Marijuana
November 30, 2007
(West Babylon, N.Y.) On Monday, Dec. 3, the Marijuana Policy Project and two New Hampshire patients will challenge presidential candidates Rudy Giuliani, John McCain and Mitt Romney to back up their statements regarding medical marijuana with scientific evidence. The challenge will be announced at a Manchester press conference featuring a mobile billboard with images of the three candidates bearing Pinocchio noses. The exact time and location of the news conference will be announced Monday morning.
In response to questions asked by medical marijuana patients and supporters, Giuliani, McCain and Romney have all claimed that medical marijuana is either not needed or “too dangerous” for medical use. The MPP Medical Marijuana PAC will offer the maximum $10,000 contribution ($5,000 for the primary campaign, $5,000 for the general election) to any of the candidates who can prove that their claims are true.
WHAT: Press conference to announce MPP’s $10,000 presidential challenge.
WHO: Medical marijuana patients Clayton Holton and Linda Macia; Stuart Cooper, campaign manager, Granite Staters for Medical Marijuana.
WHEN/WHERE: Manchester. Exact time and location to be announced Monday morning, at least 2 hours before the event.
VISUALS: Mobile billboard featuring Giuliani, Romney and McCain with Pinocchio noses.
With more than 23,000 members and 100,000 e-mail subscribers nationwide, the Marijuana Policy Project is the largest marijuana policy reform organization in the United States. MPP believes that the best way to minimize the harm associated with marijuana is to regulate marijuana in a manner similar to alcohol. For more information, please visit http://MarijuanaPolicy.org.
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MEDIA CONTACT:
Bruce Mirken,
MPP director of communications
415-668-6403 or 202-215-4205
Added 12/02 ——- Because of the blizzard predicted for Manchester and the surrounding region, the Marijuana Policy Project has had to postpone its press conference planned for Monday to announce a challenge to presidential candidates Giuliani, McCain, and Romney to prove their statements regarding medical marijuana. The press conference, complete with mobile billboard, will be rescheduled as soon as weather and other logistical factors permit.
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3 Responses to “MPP to Offer Giuliani, Romney, McCain $10,000 to Prove Statements on Medical Marijuana”
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i love it!!! my heart felt thanks to Clayton, Linda and Stuart and the Granite Staters for Medical Marijuana. Thank you for putting up the money and the challenge. One question, will the Granite Staters be able to examine the evidence, if there is any, to verify its validity? For I do not trust what ever they might present. I have spent many a summer in central & northern New Hampshire in my youth climbing the White Mountains of the Appalachain Trail then diving into the clean fresh cold water’s of Squam Lake and recording the chambor orchestra of the “New Hampshire Music Festival” for the privilge to do so. I got to know the people of New Hampshire very well, and they are true, honest, kind, hard working, patriotic citizens very protective of their rights. After all thier state slogan is “Live Free Or Die.” Pretty much sums it up right there. Since the Granite Staters have overwhelming evidence as to the incredible positive medical efficacy of Cannabis they are gaining momentum, validity and support from other people throughout America who also benefit from the true and amazing theraputic effects of the Cannabis plant. I, for one, support you and pray for you and your success. I to can relate to being denied legal, affordable medical marijuana. Cannabis is the most effective & safest forms of nausea & vomiting control known to man with over 2,000 years of documented legal medical use for a wide variety of ailments. The psychoactive effect that frightens so many people is temporary and harmless. It is not acid it is THC. A god given theraputic plant whose medical value was known and used by man since 6000 B.C. Our duty is clear, we must remove those from political office who would interfere with the legalization and decriminalzation of marijuana and replace them with educated, compassionate people who are not under the spell of the 1930’s “Fear and Smear” “Reefer Madness” frame of mind. In other words people who know the truth and make or break the laws according to truth. So get out and vote Ron Paul. Remember to register for the primaries to support your candidate. Peace to everyone…
- Posted by: JEFF
Why limit the challange to one corporate party? As you can see, many who support cannabis legaization, ALL cannabis legalization, are backing REPUBLICAN RON PAUL. Why aren’t you? The CA Cannabis Health and Hemp Inniative 2008 is just sitting there…no propositions, no other inniatives, no assembly bills, nothing. You have a challange to GOP top tier. wow.
At your rate cannabis will NEVER be legal.
- Posted by: Jeanette Doney
I love the noses. Great image.
Clever campaign.
Nail these pathological-lying, corporate sluts to the wall.
Politicians who advocate the incarceration of medical marijuana patients — to strengthen their ties with the pharmaceutical company — are MONSTERS.
Thank you Granite Staters for helping to expose these three pathological LIARS.
As a political moderate, I used to have a lot of respect for John McCain (McBought), though I often disagreed with him. But McBought’s lies about medical marijuana, and his complicity in a very real war on our sick and dying are unconscionable.
While I am concerned about some of Ron Paul’s views (namely abortion), he is one of the few politicians today who is not getting laid by the pharmaceutical industry; and he speaks the truth about medical marijuana.
Dr Paul also speaks the truth about a very important piece of paper - that most politicians prefer to ignore — known as The Constitution.
- Posted by: adam stern