To: Governor Gavin Newsom
Save compassionate cannabis!
Eliminate taxes to compassionate cannabis, cannabis given away free to low income terminally ill patients, veterans and children. Tell California’s governor, Gavin Newsom to sign SB 34.
Why is this important?
THE SWEETLEAF COLLECTIVE NEEDS YOUR HELP
Since 1996 the cannabis compassion program, Sweetleaf Collective, has provided free medical marijuana to low-income terminally ill patients in the Bay Area.
With California’s new cannabis regulations, as of January 1st, 2018, The Sweetleaf Collective is no longer allowed to provide free medical cannabis to more than 150 terminally ill patients in the Bay Area.
These patients do not have any other access to this life saving medicine. We are concerned because with their sensitive conditions, HIV/AIDS and cancer, some of them have died because they no longer have access to free cannabis.
Sweetleaf is bringing together other compassion projects, cannabis farmers, dispensaries, and consumers to pass SB 34. This bill, when it becomes law, will eliminate all taxes on compassionate cannabis. A similar bill last year passed through California’s Assembly and Senate with a yes vote of nearly 90% only to be vetoed by the governor. We must pass it this year. Governor Newsom needs to sign this bill into law.
“I don't think Jerry Brown thought when he signed that veto, that he was signing peoples' death sentences,” said Joe Airone, founder of the Sweet Leaf Collective in San Francisco. “Some of our patients now have to make a horrible decision: Do I buy cannabis or do I buy food?”
Over 50 compassion programs that serve more than 10,000 Californians have been negatively affected by this change in the law.
We are asking that you do three simple things:
* first, please sign this petition to show your support for creating regulations for compassion programs,
* secondly, tell our Governor that California needs to allow cannabis compassion programs to operate:
California’s Governor Gavin Newsom
Phone number: (916) 445-2841
* finally, and most importantly, share it via your social networks.
California needs to create regulations for cannabis compassion programs so seriously ill patients can receive free cannabis.
Thanks for supporting compassion. Together we can save lives.
The Sweetleaf Collective
#CompassionSaves
More info: www.sweetleafcollective.org https://www.instagram.com/sweetleafbayarea
Since 1996 the cannabis compassion program, Sweetleaf Collective, has provided free medical marijuana to low-income terminally ill patients in the Bay Area.
With California’s new cannabis regulations, as of January 1st, 2018, The Sweetleaf Collective is no longer allowed to provide free medical cannabis to more than 150 terminally ill patients in the Bay Area.
These patients do not have any other access to this life saving medicine. We are concerned because with their sensitive conditions, HIV/AIDS and cancer, some of them have died because they no longer have access to free cannabis.
Sweetleaf is bringing together other compassion projects, cannabis farmers, dispensaries, and consumers to pass SB 34. This bill, when it becomes law, will eliminate all taxes on compassionate cannabis. A similar bill last year passed through California’s Assembly and Senate with a yes vote of nearly 90% only to be vetoed by the governor. We must pass it this year. Governor Newsom needs to sign this bill into law.
“I don't think Jerry Brown thought when he signed that veto, that he was signing peoples' death sentences,” said Joe Airone, founder of the Sweet Leaf Collective in San Francisco. “Some of our patients now have to make a horrible decision: Do I buy cannabis or do I buy food?”
Over 50 compassion programs that serve more than 10,000 Californians have been negatively affected by this change in the law.
We are asking that you do three simple things:
* first, please sign this petition to show your support for creating regulations for compassion programs,
* secondly, tell our Governor that California needs to allow cannabis compassion programs to operate:
California’s Governor Gavin Newsom
Phone number: (916) 445-2841
* finally, and most importantly, share it via your social networks.
California needs to create regulations for cannabis compassion programs so seriously ill patients can receive free cannabis.
Thanks for supporting compassion. Together we can save lives.
The Sweetleaf Collective
#CompassionSaves
More info: www.sweetleafcollective.org https://www.instagram.com/sweetleafbayarea