Welcome to the website for the Illinois Compassion Action Network (ICAN)

      The Illinois Compassion Action Network is a coalition of organizations, medical professionals, patients, and concerned citizens working to protect people with cancer, multiple sclerosis, HIV/AIDS, glaucoma, and other serious illnesses from arrest and prison for using medical marijuana on their physicians' advice. ICAN recently launched this new Web site in order to educate fellow Illinoisians about the need for the state legislature to pass an effective medical marijuana law.

      Seriously ill patients who use medical marijuana under their doctors' supervision are currently in danger as a result of Illinois' failure to protect them from criminal penalties. ICAN 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.