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RE: For California Residents: Take Action for Affordable Access! ----------------- Bulletin Message ----------------- From: Marijuana Policy Project Date: Feb 14, 2007 12:57 PM Urge Governor Schwarzenegger to stop the medical marijuana ID card fee increase! As you may have already heard, California's Department of Health Services (CDHS) is proposing an enormous increase in its annual application fee for the statewide medical marijuana ID card. The proposed increase of more than 1,000% will make the program too expensive for the majority of California's patients, who already incur excessive health care costs. Please take a few minutes today to contact Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) and CDHS Director Sandra Shewry to express your outrage over the proposed fee hike for California's sick and dying patients. Without your help, the state’s portion of the medical marijuana ID card fee would skyrocket on March 1, from $6.50 to $71 for Medi-Cal patients and from $13 to $142 for other patients. The annual state fee is in addition to a county-imposed fee for the county’s processing of ID cards applications. After you’ve written Schwarzenegger and Shewry, would you please take a moment to compose a letter-to-the-editor to up to five local papers? Our automated system will make it easy to send a letter, and you can use our talking points as a starting point. Although participation in the program is entirely voluntary, many patients choose to become cardholders because it reduces the risk of arrest or seizure of their medicine. In addition, some cities require patients to have ID cards to obtain their medicine from a medical marijuana cooperative. Please, act now so that no patient will face unnecessary hardship — or possibly arrest — because he or she cannot afford the annual fee. California's leaders need to know that their obligation is to protect the state's most vulnerable citizens, not to burden them with prohibitive costs for merely filing paperwork. Please personalize the message and send it to the governor and the CDHS today! Thank you for supporting affordable access to California's medical marijuana program. Please pass this on to other compassionate Californians.