VOTE YES ON PROPOSITION 215
November 5, 1996

Legalize Medical Marijuana

On November 5, you can help make life easier for tens of thousands of sick people in California. You can vote Yes on Proposition 215, and give doctors the right to prescribe marijuana as medicine.

Scientific studies have proven marijuana can:

• relieve nausea and pain associated with cancer
• arrest the advance of glaucoma
• control spasticity from multiple sclerosis & paralysis
• block epileptic seizures
• relieve pain from arthritis & rheumatism
• help migraine headaches
• relieve menstrual cramps

Marijuana can help people with AIDS because it can

• eliminate nausea
• stimulate the appetite
• reduce pain
• relieve stress & depression

Proposition 215 - The Compassionate Use Initiative - will allow doctors to prescribe marijuana for therapeutic purposes, and it will allow patients to use marijuana under a doctor's supervision.

Proposition 215 will allow patients to cultivate marijuana for personal medical use.

Proposition 215 will not legalize recreational use of marijuana, and it prohibits the diversion of medical marijuana for recreational use.

Dr. Dean Edell says "The medicine works. It is being kept from paitents for purely political reasons."

San Francisco Sheriff Mike Hennessey says

"For people who are suffering and in pain, the use of marijuana is strictly a medical issue to be decided between patient and physician and should not become a law enforcement issue."

The Orange County Register urges you to Vote Yes On 215

The Libertarian Party of California urges Yes On 215

Mean Street Urges you to vote Yes on 215

"On November 5, 1996, your vote can help somebody in pain get relief. A few minutes in a voting booth can mean a lot. Vote Yes on Proposition 215, the Compassionate Use Initiative."

Gene Berkman, Libertarian candidate for Congress, 43^rd CD