Action Alert: NY Emergency Access bill Assembly health committee vote for emergency access to medicinal cannabis [4/28/15]

Action Alert for the NY Emergency Access bill

Assembly Member Richard N. Gottfried's NY Emergency Access bill to create an emergency access program for patients with the most urgent needs is getting voted on by Assembly Health Committee TODAY. let's get it passed and force the Senate and Gov. Cuomo to act!

How to help:

1. Call Speaker Carl Heastie at (518) 455-4800 and ask him to bring the NY Emergency Access bill to a floor vote as soon as possible.

2. Call your Assembly member (if you don't know who that is, go to http://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/search/) at his or her Albany office and ask him or her to support A. 7060, the emergency medical marihuana program bill;

Sample Script: Please note - You will get a live person when calling within normal business hours. " Hi, My name is _______ ______, I am a NYS Resident.

I would like to leave a message for Speaker Heastie and my support for A. 7060, a bill to provide Emergency Access to medical marijuana.

I want to urge the speaker to support the NY Emergency Access bill and bring it to the floor for a full vote. Thank you for your time, have a nice day!"

Remember: Be polite, care and share!

Medical Marijuana - Tell the Senate Health Committee To Vote Yes on the Compassionate Care Act

New York's Medical Marijuana bill, The Compassionate Care Act, WILL come to a vote by the end of next week.

Editors note: This action alert is from 2014 and no longer active

Now we need to apply the pressure to the WHOLE Senate Health Committee. The sick and dying patients of New York need YOU ! Call ALL of the comm. members and ask them to support medical marijuana. It's easy. All you do is call the number and leave a message with the staff member who answers the phone. This is your chance to participate in Democracy.

Below you will find a list and a simple script you can read off while calling. Share this far and wide! The time for action is now or never! We've never been closer to passing medical marijuana! We need every single call we can get! It will only take 20 minutes to call each of the 17 senators on this list. Call them daily, they need to know this issue matters.

---------------------------- "Hello. My name is (Your name) and I live at (Your Address). I'm calling to urge the senator to support medical marijuana and vote yes on the Compassionate Care Act when it comes to a vote in committee and on the floor. Not another day should pass that a patient has to suffer because of this. Thank you. Hope you have a nice day!"

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 Senate Health Comm. Members.

Senator	Party	Email	Phone	Region
Chair: Kemp Hannon	R	hannon@nysenate.gov	518-455-2200	Garden City
Greg Ball	R	gball@nysenate.gov	(518) 455-3111	Patterson
Hugh Farley	R	Farley@nysenate.gov	(518) 885-1829	Schenectady
Martin J. Golden	R	golden@nysenate.gov	(518) 455-2730	Brooklyn
William J. Larkin, Jr..	R	larkin@senate.state.ny.us	(518) 455-2770	Cornwall-on-Hudson
Jack Martins	R	martins@nysenate.gov	(518)-455-3265	Nassua County
James L. Seward	R	seward@nysenate.gov	(518) 455-3131	Oneonta
Cathy Young	R	cyoung@senate.state.ny.us	(518) 455-3563	Olena
Velmanette Montgomery	D	montgome@nysenate.gov	(518) 455-3451	Boerum Hill
Ted O'Brien	D	obrien@nysenate.gov	(585) 218-0034	Rochester
Jose R. Peralta	D	jperalta@nysenate.gov	(518) 455-2529	East Elmhurst
Gustavo Richa	D	grivera@nysenate.gov	(718)-933-2034	Bronx
Diane J. Savino	IDC	savino@senate.state.ny.us	(518) 455-2437	Brooklyn, Staten Island
Jose M. Serrano	D	serrano@senate.state.ny.us	(518) 455-2795	East Harlem
Simcha Felder	D	felder@nysenate.gov	(518) 455-2754	Brooklyn
Ruth Hassell-Thompson	D	hassellt@senate.state.ny.us	(518) 455-2061	Bronx
Brad Hoylman	D	hoylman@nysenate.gov	(518) 455-2451	Manhattan

For more information on how to get involved in supporting medical marijuana come to a NORML Meeting