The Drug Policy Alliance Network (DPAN) organized actions and bought airtime in New Mexico to tell voters Rep. Heather Wilson (R-N.M.) has failed to stand up for medical marijuana patients. Yesterday, Wilson defeated State Sen. Richard Romero by ten points in the race to retain her congressional seat.

A pair of DPAN ads, one in English and one in Spanish, aired in New Mexico's First Congressional District. The ads criticized Congresswoman Wilson for her vote against seriously ill Americans and their caregivers.

Earlier this year, Congresswoman Wilson voted against an amendment to the Commerce-Justice-State spending bill that would have prohibited the Justice Department from spending any money on arresting or prosecuting medical marijuana patients in states where medical marijuana is legal.  The Hinchey-Rohrabacher medical marijuana amendment would not even have prevented the Justice Department from arresting people using, growing, or selling marijuana for recreational use, or from arresting medical marijuana patients in the states that have not approved the drug for this use. It simply would have prevented the federal government from arresting cancer, AIDS and MS patients who use marijuana for medical reasons in states that have adopted medical marijuana laws.