Welcome to Minnesotans for Compassionate Care (MCC)

Minnesotans for Compassionate Care is a coalition of organizations, medical professionals, patients, and concerned citizens working to protect people with cancer, multiple sclerosis, HIV/AIDS, and other serious illnesses from arrest and prison for using medical marijuana on their physicians' advice.

Seriously ill patients who use medical marijuana under their doctors' supervision are currently in danger as a result of Minnesota's failure to protect them from criminal penalties. MCC is working to enact a medical marijuana law based on compassion and common sense, so that medical marijuana patients will not be forced to live in fear simply for using the medicine that eases their pain and, in many cases, allows them to live normal lives.

Medical marijuana advocates take on false law enforcement claims

Throughout our efforts this session to pass S.F. 345, the Minnesota medical marijuana bill, a small but vocal group within the Minnesota law enforcement community have repeatedly made either entirely false or intentionally misleading claims about the bill and about medical marijuana more generally. These consistent inaccuracies, exaggerations, and outright lies had a single objective: to further marginalize and dismiss the sick and dying patients of Minnesota by duping legislators and the governor – who has said multiple times that he stands with law enforcement – into opposing a compassionate law that would protect patients from arrest for using their doctor-recommended medicine.

In response, we have produced and distributed a video compilation of law enforcement’s “greatest hits.” You can view the latest installment here.

View more videos debunking Minnesota law enforcement's false claims.

For a detailed list of false and misleading statements made by Minnesota law enforcement officials, along with sourced refutations of each claim, download our PDF.

If you support our efforts to set the record straight on medical marijuana in Minnesota, please donate whatever you can today to the Marijuana Policy Project, the flagship member of MCC.

Please also take a minute to e-mail Gov. Pawlenty and encourage him to sign the medical marijuana bill. If you have already e-mailed the governor, please take a moment to call his office as well. He can be reached toll-free at (800) 657-3717. You can simply state that you support S.F. 345, the medical marijuana bill – and that, as a constituent, he should be standing with you.