This Medical Cannabis Patients Bill of Rights was designed to outline the
basic rights of critically and chronically ill medical cannabis users, and
to urge the federal government to protect these individuals from stigma,
arrest and prosecution.
* I am not a criminal; I am a person living with a medical condition and
use cannabis to alleviate my suffering; I am capable of making fundamental
decisions about my health.
* I have the right to live free of unnecessary suffering, social stigma
and interference from the state, and should not have to chose between my
personal liberty and my health.
* I have the right to produce my own medicine if I am willing and able
to do so, or to access it from a safe source without fear of arrest and
persecution.
* It is the federal government's moral, legal and constitutional
obligation to defend these basic and inalienable human rights, and to ensure
that no organization or individual unduly interferes with them.