The House will vote this week on the Hinchey-Rohrabacher amendment to the Justice Department appropriations bill. THE AMENDMENT WOULD BAR THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT FROM SPENDING FEDERAL MONEY TO RAID MEDICAL MARIJUANA PATIENTS AND PROVIDERS IN STATES WHERE IT IS LEGAL. As you probably know, the DEA continues to raid dispensaries in California...
The amendment got 161 votes last year--145 Dems, 15 Republicans, and Bernie Sanders. Everyone should call their congressmen to ensure that the Democrats stay on board and that the Democrats who voted wrong last time change their votes. It is even more important if you live in a Republican district. We need Republicans to pass this, and there are signs they are wavering.
Remember: No political down side to medical marijuana. It always get support above 75% in opinion polls and it always wins when put to the popular vote.
Here is an alert from the Drug Reform Coordination Network:
Sources have informed us that the Hinchey-Rohrabacher medical marijuana vote in the House of Representatives is going to happen NEXT WEEK. This amendment if passed will forbid the US Dept. of Justice from interfering with state medical marijuana laws. Your help is needed -- it is crucial that more members of Congress vote for medical marijuana this year than did last year. Please visit
http://stopthedrugwar.org/medicalmarijuana/ to e-mail your member of Congress today!
When you're done, please call him or her on the phone to make additional impact -- use the talking points appearing below and to the right in this e-mail to prepare for your phone call. You can find out how to reach your Rep. using the Congressional Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 or our lookup tool at
http://stopthedrugwar.org/lookup.html.Please also tell your friends about this important action alert -- we need for everyone who cares about this to take action, and sending them to our web site to do so will also help to grow our list for the next time.
Again, please visit
http://stopthedrugwar.org/medicalmarijuana/ to lobby Congress and help medical marijuana patients today! Thank you for your support.
Sincerely,
David Borden, Executive Director
Stop the Drug War (DRCNet)
P.O. Box 18402, Washington, DC 20036
http://stopthedrugwar.org Send a letter to the following decision maker(s):
Your Congressperson
Below is the sample letter:
Subject: Vote YES on Hinchey-Rohrabacher Medical Marijuana Amendment
Dear
,
On June 6, 2005, the US Supreme Court made a ruling upholding the power of the federal government to ban medical use of marijuana. While this ruling does not change law in the states that have passed medical marijuana protections, it does mean that the federal government -- unfortunately -- will still have the power to use its resources to undermine the will of the voters or legislatures of those states.
I think that is wrong, and I urge you to take an important opportunity coming up to set things right. The Hinchey-Rohrabacher amendment, to be considered this month in the debate over the Science-State-Justice-Commerce Appropriations bill, would prohibit the federal government from arresting, raiding or prosecuting patients who are abiding by state medical marijuana laws.
Please vote YES when the Hinchey-Rohrabacher amendment comes to the floor. Medical marijuana patients and their providers should not have to live in fear that police will break down their doors and take them to jail because of their choice of medicine, certainly not in states whose voters or legislators have voted to protect them. That is a horrendous state of affairs, and it is irrational to divert federal resources to attacking patients that could otherwise be used to protect the nation from terrorists who want to attack us.
Voting YES on Hinchey-Rohrabacher is the only rational or responsible choice that you can make on this amendment.
Sincerely,
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