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and COMPASSION
on November 2nd
PART 3 IN A SERIES
M y name is Stan Schmidt and I
live on Big Stone Lake. In the
past several weeks I ran some ads
better explaining cancer and its
treatment. It makes me feel very
good for all the comments such as
thank you, good article, great facts,
highly educational, etc., that I
received. I think it was money well
spent and you can bet it made my
wife proud.
YES
47924 Rocky Ledge Road, Corona, SD 57227
Vote 13
for Legal Medical Marijuana in South Dakota
Tuesday, November 2
Prepared and paid for by
Stan Schmidt, Big Stone Lake, SD
PART 3 IN A SERIES
South Dakota
Tuesday, Nov. 2nd
VOTE YES
for Courage and Com
Measure 13
will be the nation's
p assion 13
and tried, let’s have some common sense about what
we’re talking about here, a natural plant on God’s
green earth.
13
D a k o t a
Sout h
VO T E Y E S n
Tuesday,
November
2nd
ge Compassio
for Coura and
American Medical
"A ll of the responsibility for regulating medical
marijuana growers would fall on law enforce-
Association Urges
Medical Cannabis ment, and that is something we currently don't have
Expected to Pass
the resources for," he said.
Federal Government
by Will Erstad, The Volante, (Source:Volante) M abry said he has talked to law enforcement offi-
cials in states that have passed medical marijua-
na laws and some of the responses he's heard have
to Support Medicinal
M edical marijuana is once again on the ballot for
South Dakota voters after a narrow defeat in
been fairly negative in regard to the difficulties that
arise in trying to make sure medical marijuana is not
Marijuana
by: Ethan Huff, citizen journalist
2006; but this time community members think it's being abused.
going to pass.
V ermillion Police Chief Art Mabry, who also serves T he group urged the federal government on
Tuesday to reassess its Schedule I controlled sub-
as the head of the South Dakota Police Chiefs'
Association and is an R ather than deal with the
difficulties associated
with regulating medical mar-
stance categorization of marijuana that wrongly vili-
fies it with some of the most dangerous narcotics in
opponent of the measure, existence like heroin and LSD.
said it is only a matter of ijuana, Mabry said he'd pre-
time before medical mari- fer that a group would just
juana becomes legal in
South Dakota.
propose a measure that
would legalize marijuana
D r. Edward Langston, an AMA board member,
points out that only a minimal number of ran-
domized, controlled trials have ever been conducted
outright and then subse- on smoked marijuana despite clinical research that
quently tax it.
"I honestly think
it's going to
spans more than 30 years. The group is now encourag-
ing further research into marijuana's efficacy despite
pass this time,"
Mabry said. "The
“I hate to say it, but
if the goal in the
long run is to legalize
its support since 1997 for Schedule I classification of
the plant.
wouldn't be surprised by
it. R eistroffer said complete
legalization of marijuana T he AMA is interested in research
that considers alternative delivery
methods for marijuana aside from
is not the group's motive.
ersonally, I'd like to Jane (Frink) Schmidt was the wife of Stan Schmidt, smoking it therapeutically.
"P see the initiative Big Stone Lake resident. She passed away from
colon cancer in 2008. For 3 1/ 2 years she was a "O ur goal is to legalize
pass," Donat said. "If it
doesn't it is because the
constant user of Marijuana for medical purposes.
medical marijuana
for use in legitimate cases,"
he said. "One of the found-
A dvocates for medicinal marijuana cite other useful
ways of utilizing the plant medicinally, including
the extraction of tetrahydrocannabinol(THC)-rich
people who would vote
for it aren't coming out to vote." ing members of Coalition for Compassion, Patrick hemp oil that some claim is capable of curing cancer.
Lynch, has multiple sclerosis and was chairman of the