Yesterday, after the close of business, the Delaware House passed MPP’s medical-marijuana bill, which will protect seriously ill patients from arrest and license three or more nonprofits in the state to sell marijuana to these patients.

Because the Delaware Senate passed a similar bill on March 31 and the governor has expressed his support, it’s highly likely that Delaware will become the 16th state to protect marijuana-using patients from arrest and jail.

State by state, we continue to move toward the goal of enacting medical-marijuana laws in a majority of states. Right now, we’re on track for legalizing medical marijuana in 27 states by November 2014.

But, to get to this number, we need to run ballot initiatives in a few tough states on Election Day in November 2012 — namely in Arkansas, Idaho, Missouri, North Dakota, and Ohio.

We need to start signature drives in these states right away. Because we’ll be incurring costs for these campaigns every month between now and November 2012, would you please consider starting a monthly credit card donation with MPP today?

Here’s what it will take to reach $100,000 in monthly credit card donations — which is a whopping $1,200,000 per year — to make this ballot-initiative juggernaut a reality.

Looking at the math above, you’ll see that if only 970 people in the entire country donate between $5/month and $2,000/month, we can generate the $100,000/month that’s needed for this plan.

Please donate $10 or more on your credit card today so that we can start this handful of signature drives and put the “27 states by 2014” plan into action. Thank you …

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