Supporting Medical Cannabis in Wyoming
Organizations that support People who have Disabilities Support Medical Cannabis
If you or a loved one is a patient who could benefit from medical cannabis, we recommend focusing on your personal story and the need for patients’ choice of medicine and therapies.
Wyoming’s Patient Coalition is made up of patient groups or organizations that support patients’ choices.
• Patients and their doctors should be trusted to decide if medical cannabis is an appropriate treatment.
• Studies show that many patients suffering from cancer, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, HIV/AIDS, Crohn’s disease, and intractable pain find relief from cannabis.
• Sixty-eight percent of Americans live in one of the 33 states that allow the doctor-advised, medical use of cannabis.
• There are several health organizations, medical, and religious organizations that support allowing medical cannabis, such as the American Nurses Association, the American Public Health Association, the American Academy of HIV Medicine, the Epilepsy Foundation, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, the Presbyterian Church (USA), and the United Methodist Church.
Alternative to Healthy Communities for All
Wyoming Patients Coalition is Advocating for legal Medical Cannabis Therapies for people who have chronic pain, people who are disabled, seniors, and veterans (and other conditions) pursuing medicinal cannabis as a safe, effective, and therapeutic treatment option.
To that end, we advocate for the state legalization of therapeutic cannabis medicine. We believe in our right to legally access all the various medicinal forms. We advocate for qualifying conditions for cannabis therapeutic medicine.
Medical Cannabis has a wide variety of therapeutic applications like these:
Relief of muscle spasms
Relief of chronic pain
Reduction in interlobular pressure inside the eye
Suppression of nausea
Weight loss – increase and restore metabolism
Other Uses Include:
AIDS – Cannabis can reduce nausea, loss of appetite, vomiting from the condition itself, and the medications as well.
Glaucoma -Cannabis relieves the internal eye pressure of glaucoma, and therefore relieving the pain and slowing or even stopping the condition.
Cancer- Many side effects of the medication to stop cancer can be relieved with Cannabis, some studies suggest that Marijuana tends to slow down the progress of some types of cancer.
Multiple Sclerosis – Muscle pain, spasticity, tremors, and unsteadiness are some of the effects caused by the disease that can be relieved by Cannabis.
Epilepsy – in some patients, epileptic seizures can be prevented with Cannabis use.
Chronic pain – Cannabis helps to alleviate the pain caused by many types of injuries and disorders.
Anxiety, Depression, or Obsession – Even though mild anxiety is a common side effect in some users, cannabis can elevate your mood and expand the mind. Including PTSD and helping our Veteran Community.
Access to Alternative Medicine and Therapies is a Wyoming Choice
Medical Alternative Therapies and Medicine Advocates have long extolled the benefits of cannabis. Most of us are aware cannabis can be beneficial for pain, PTSD, nausea, depression, and anxiety. These types of alternative medicines therapies can help people with chronic illnesses, people who have disabilities, seniors, and veterans.
Living our lives in Wyoming free from pain is difficult currently when it comes to alternative therapies and medicines. Our voices are essential to creating change to have a choice of medical therapies that will allow us to live in Wyoming and not travel. Wyomingites do not want to travel from state to state to get the needed therapies and medicine they need. They want to have that choice here at home and support our state and our people. Many advocates understand that most of their groups of people who have disabilities, seniors, and veterans cannot travel long distances. This is why the Wyoming Patients Coalition supports the Patient Choice of Medical therapies in their communities. So that equal access to medical therapies is for everyone and located in their community at home.
Being well should be enjoyed to live our lives the way we choose here in Wyoming, enjoying the outdoors and living without pain and suffering. That is the Wyoming Way.
Medical cannabis advocates and patient organizations agree to these points
- Patients and their doctors should be trusted to decide if medical cannabis is an appropriate treatment.
- Studies show that many patients suffering from cancer, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, HIV/AIDS, Crohn’s disease, and intractable pain find relief from cannabis.
- Sixty-eight percent of Americans live in one of the 33 states that allow the doctor-advised, medical use of cannabis
Many health, medical, and religious organizations support allowing medical cannabis therapies, such as the American Nurses Association, the American Public Health Association, the American Academy of HIV Medicine, the Epilepsy Foundation, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, the Presbyterian Church (USA), and the United Methodist Church.
The Wyoming Patients Coalition is working with Patients, Organizations, and Medical Professionals to bring awareness to these needed therapies in Wyoming.
Organizations Supporting Access to Therapeutic Cannabis
AIDS Action Council – 1996
*Alaska Nurses Association – 1998
Alaska Voters – 1998
Alliance for Cannabis Therapeutics – 1981
+American Academy of Family Physicians – 1989, 1995
American Academy of HIV Medicine – 2003
American Anthropological Association – 2003
American College of Physicians – 2008
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees – 2006
American Legion – 2017
American Medical Association’s Council on Scientific Affairs – 2001
American Medical Association’s Medical Student Section – 2008
Alaska Medical Association
Hawaii Medical Association
Guam Medical Association
American Medical Students Association – 1993
+*American Nurses Association – 2003
*American Preventive Medical Association – 1997
+*American Public Health Association (APHA) – 1995
Ann Arbor, MI – 2004
Arizona Voters – 1996 & 1998
Arkansas Legislature – 2017
+Association of Nurses in AIDS Care – 1999
Berkeley, CA – 1979
Breckenridge, CO – 1994
Burlington, VT – 1994 & 2004
California Academy of Family Physicians – 1996
California Democratic Party – 1993
California Legislative Council for Older Americans – 1993
+California Medical Association – 1994
California Nurses Association – 1995
California-Pacific Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church – 1996
California Pharmacists Association – 1997
California Voters – 1996
Cannabis Freedom Fund – 1996
Coalition for Rescheduling Cannabis – 2002
Colorado Voters – 2000
*Colorado Nurses Association – 1995
Columbia, MO – 2004
Connecticut Legislature – 2012
*+Connecticut Nurses Association – 2004
Contigo-Conmigo – 1997
Consumer Reports Magazine – 1997
Crescent Alliance Self Help for Sickle Cell – 1999
Cure AIDS now – 1991
Delaware Legislature – 2015
Detroit, MI – 2004
District of Columbia Voters – 1999
Doctors for Cannabis Regulation – 2016
+Episcopal Church of the U.S. – 1982
Farmacy – 1999
Federation of American Scientists – 1994
Ferndale, MI – 2004
Florida Governor’s Red Ribbon Panel on AIDS – 1993
Florida Medical Association – 1997
Frisco, CO – 1994
Green Party – 1998
Hailey, ID – 2007
Hawaii Kokua Council of Senior Citizens – 2000
*Hawaii Legislature – 2000
*Hawaii Nurses Association – 1999
+HIV Medicine Association – 2006
Idaho Disabled American Veterans – 2004
Illinois Legislature – 2013
*Illinois Nurses Association – 2004
Institute of Medicine – 1982 & 1999
International Cannabis Alliance of Researchers and Educators (I-CARE) – 1992
Iowa Civil Liberties Union
Iowa Democratic Party – 1994 & 2000 & 2004
Kaiser Permanente – 1997
Lancet – 1997
Life Extension Foundation – 1997
Libertarian Party – 1999
Los Angeles County AIDS Commission – 1996
Lymphoma Foundation of America – 1997
Madison, WI – 1993, 2004
Maine AIDS Alliance – 1997
Maine Voters – 1999
Marin County, CA – 1993
+Medical Society of the State of New York – 2004
Michigan Democratic Party – 2008
Michigan Voters – 2008
Minnesota Democratic Farm-Labor Party – 1992
Minnesota Legislature – 2014
*Mississippi Nurses Association – 1995
Molaki Advertiser-News Editorial Staff – 1999
Montana Voters – 2006
Mothers Against Misuse and Abuse (MAMA) -1992
Multiple Sclerosis California Action Network (MS-CAN) – 1996
National Association for Public Health Policy – 1998
National Association of Attorneys General – 1983
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL)
National Association of People with AIDS – 1992
*National Nurses Society on Addictions (NNSA) – 1995
Nevada Voters – 1998
New England Journal of Medicine – 1997
New Hampshire Legislature – 2013
New Hampshire Medical Association – 2003
New Jersey Legislature – 2009
New Jersey Nurses Association – 2002
New Mexico Legislature – 2007
New Mexico Medical Society – 2001
*New Mexico Nurses Association – 1997
New York Legislature – 2004
*New York State Nurses Association – 1995
New York State Association of County Health Officials – 2003
*North Carolina Nurses Association – 1996
North Dakota Voters – 2016
Oak Creek, CO – 2005
Oakland, California – 1998
Ohio Legislature – 2016
Ohio Patient Network – 2001
Oregon Voters – 1998
Oregon Green Party – 2001
Oregon Democratic Party – 1998
Patients Out of Time – 1995
Pennsylvania Legislature – 2016
Pennsylvania State Nurses Association – 2014
Physicians Association for AIDS Care
Physicians for Social Responsibility (Oregon) – 1998
Presbyterian Church (USA), General Assembly – 2006
Progressive National Baptist Convention – 2004
Republican Liberty Caucus National Committee – 1999
Rhode Island Legislature – 2006
Rhode Island Medical Society – 2004
Rhode Island Nurses Association – 2004
Rhode Island Patient Advocacy coalition – 2003
San Diego, CA – 1994
San Francisco, CA – 1992
San Francisco Medical Society – 1996
Santa Cruz County, CA – 1993
+Texas Democratic Convention – 2004
Texas Nurses Association -2005
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) – 2006
Traverse City, MI – 2004
Unitarian Universalist Association – 2004
United Methodist Church – 2004
+Union for Reform Judaism – 2003
Vermont Legislature – 2007
Veterans for Medical Marijuana Access – 2007
Veterans for Peace – 2014
*Virginia Nurses Association – 1994, 2004
*Virginia Nurses Society on Addictions – 1993
*Washington Hemp Education Network – 1999
Washington Democratic Party – 1998 & 2000
Washington Medical Association – 2008
Washington Voters – 1998
Wisconsin Democratic Party – 1997& 2002
Wisconsin Public Health Association – 1999
Wisconsin Nurses Association – 1999
Supporting Research
American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry – 2000
+American Academy of Family Physicians – 1977
American Cancer Society – 1997
+*American Nurses Association – 2003
*American Nurses Association, Congress of Nursing Practice – 1996
American Society of Addiction Medicine – 2000
+Association of Nurses in AIDS Care – 1999
+California Medical Association – 1997 & 2006
California Society of Addiction Medicine – 1997
+*Connecticut Nurses Association – 2004
+Council of Health Organizations – 1971
Federation of American Scientists – 1995
+HIV Medicine Association – 2006
+Medical Society of the State of New York – 2004
National Institute of Health Workshop on the Medical Utility of Marijuana – 1997
+Northern New England Psychiatric Society
+Texas Democratic Convention – 2004
Texas Medical Association – 2003
+Union for Reform Judaism – 2003
Wisconsin State Medical Society – 1998
Women of Reform Judaism – 2000
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Amherst, MA – 2000
Alaska Medical Association – 1972
+American Academy of Family Physicians – 1977
American Bar Association – 1977
American Medical Association – 1977
+*American Nurses Association – 2003
+American Public Health Association – 1971
American Social Health Association – 1974
+Association of Nurses in AIDS Care – 1999
+Berkeley, CA – 1972
Billy Graham Ministries – 1998
B’nai B’rith Women – 1974
+California Medical Association – 2006
Central Conference of American Rabbis – 1973
+*Connecticut Nurses Association – 2004
+Council of Health Organizations – 1971
District of Columbia Medical Society – 1973
+Episcopal Church of the US – 1973
Episcopal Diocese of New York – 1975
Gray Panthers – 1975
Illinois Bar Association – 1974
Illinois Legislature – 2013
Lutheran Student Movement – 1975
Maryland Legislature – 2014
Massachusetts Bar Association – 1974
Massachusetts Voters – 2012
National Association for Mental Health – 1972
National Association of Social Workers – 1975
National Council of Churches – 1973
National Education Association – 1978
New York Bar Association – 1974
+Northern New England Psychiatric Society
Progressive National Baptist Convention – 2004
Southern California Psychiatric Society – 1979
+Texas Democratic Convention – 2004
United Church of Christ – 2002
United Methodists – 1976
+Unitarian Universalist Association – 1970, 2002, 2004
Vermont Bar Association – 1974
