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Written by WiG
Jan 16, 2012
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer says she will implement the medical marijuana measure approved by the state’s voters.
Brewer had filed a legal challenge to the law, arguing that Arizona officials feared federal prosecution. Earlier this month, a court, at the urging of the ACLU, dismissed Brewer’s challenge.
Arizona voters in 2010 passed Proposition 203, which allows seriously ill patients in Arizona to use marijuana as medicine with a doctor’s recommendation.
The ACLU’s Ezekiel Edwards said Brewer’s announcement brought “a great and long-overdue day for sick Arizonans who now have legal avenues available to them through which to obtain their vital medicine. Sick patients in Arizona should never have to needlessly suffer while being blocked from accessing the medicine their doctors believe is most effective for them.”
A medical marijuana bill is pending in the Wisconsin General Assembly and Senate.
