Support Texas HB 715!

Want drug policy reformed in Texas? Now is the time to let your State representatives know!

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To: All Texas NORML members & interested persons

Fr: Howard J. Wooldridge, Exec. Director of Texas NORML

Re: Bill in the legislature



Please write immediately to your state rep, state senator and Gov. Perry and ask them to support Rep. Dutton’s bill HB 715.

This bill would create a new category for possession of one ounce or less and give it a C misdemeanor classification = traffic ticket. Be sure to mention how the police need to go after drunk drivers, instead of someone possessing personal amounts of pot…It is all about public safety.



Now is the time to spend $1.11 on 3 stamps. The hearings on the bill will come up probably in the next two weeks.. The time is now!


Thanks for your support.

Howard J. Wooldridge

Exec. Director, Texas NORML

Austin, Texas

817-975-1110

howard@normltexas.org

Here's the url to the site where you can find out your rep., create the letter and send it.

http://capwiz.com/norml2/issues/aler...409626&type=ST

however like Mr. Wooldridge indicates, postal mail, a fax or a phone call to your reps are sometimes more effective than email. The solution for me is simple.. do all of the above.

Progress is on the horizon but the establishment is counting on young people to be lazy, uninformed, and not get involved. With proper support this reform can become a reality. Let's not allow the old farts who run our country be right about us, again.

Originally posted by reazon1
however like Mr. Wooldridge indicates, postal mail, a fax or a phone call to your reps are sometimes more effective than email. The solution for me is simple.. do all of the above.

Progress is on the horizon but the establishment is counting on young people to be lazy, uninformed, and not get involved. With proper support this reform can become a reality. Let's not allow the old farts who run our country be right about us, again.

I agree mail, fax and phone calls are the best way but if it's something easy and quick to do it might gain some support from people that are still on the fence about the situation. There's alot of great information at that site and it has more to offer then just form e-mails.

Originally posted by WarLord
There are two principal reasons this will probably fail:

1) This is Texas
2) It makes too much sense.

But, it's worth a shot as the worst thing that can happen is nothing.

Too true bro... WAY TO TRUE!

but... I'm sending my rep an email nonetheless.

[Big Andy]

Originally posted by WarLord
There are two principal reasons this will probably fail:

1) This is Texas
2) It makes too much sense.

But, it's worth a shot as the worst thing that can happen is nothing.

Yeah, I doubt this will go through, too. Like you said, this is texas. There's no way in hell a bill like this can pass in such a staunchly conservative state.

Praise Jebus, we gotta save people from this devilish plant!

Originally posted by Big Andy
[B]Yeah, I doubt this will go through, too. Like you said, this is texas. There's no way in hell a bill like this can pass in such a staunchly conservative state.
[B]

We all know it's not gonna pass this time around but it's always good to send the message that we want the laws changed and hopefully one day soon they'll listen. You're not losing anything but a few moments of your busy day to help out the cause.

[Big Andy]

Originally posted by Jon-[Stamina]
We all know it's not gonna pass this time around but it's always good to send the message that we want the laws changed and hopefully one day soon they'll listen. You're not losing anything but a few moments of your busy day to help out the cause.

It's already in the mail!

well, the fact that this bill was introduced to state congress means it has at least a small basis of support already. Why don't other reps support it? because the voters they represent don't support it. They know that a majority of young people would choose to change drug policy but it doesn't matter because young people have been trained so well not to vote or care.

Every official in this country knows, that the day will come when he must support marijuana reform or lose his job. It's only a matter of when. Even many hard-core drug warriors will reluctantly admit that they are losing to marijuana and that they'd best concentrate their efforts on more dangerous drugs. Legislators are reading their mail and faxes and all that b.s., or at least they pay someone to read it for them, and they pay some degree of attention to what the majority of the public seems to want.

It's obvious that in our fundamentalist, media-influenced State, drug war supporters are the vocal majority. However as more Eminem wannabes get older, more immigrants learn to speak and write English, and more squares kick the bucket, that will inevitably change. But it wont happen if no one says anything.

Does anyone agree that being socially ignorant is finally starting to go out of style? That's the bright side of all the bullshit Bush has initiated. Anti-war and anti-Bush comments are coming from all corners of the US, some which have previously been silent. Example- Monday's Dallas Morning News, sports page, read by thousands and thousands of spineless chumps (football/baseball fans) as well as a large amount of basketball fans. Kevin Blackistone's respected basketball column this week was nothing but praise for Steve Nash wearing an anti-war T-shirt on all-star weekend. Later in the sports section another Maverick being interviewed tells the reporter he thinks Bush is a "Stupid White Man" and hasn't done a good job running the US.

More surprising than the Mavericks doing such things was that the Dallas Morning News actually printed this. The impact these sports icons have on fans and especially children is considerable. We can only hope that it's the beginning of a trend for athletes to start thinking of other things besides contracts, muscles, and getting high and driving 200 mph down 635.

But the point that I've tried to make in a haphazard, roundabout way is that all of a sudden in this country, it's cool to be aware and get involved, and to have your own views that consist of more than just regurgitating some Rush Limbaugh reasoning or memorizing Wall Street Journal statistics. Shit, a couple years and draves screen names ago when I posted links to Mike Ruppert or Zmag articles, cats made fun of that shit. Something has changed for the better and everyone who's taken the time to read this awareness board and especially a long rambling post like this plays a part in it, so keep it up. We might just be able to smoke a couple doobies legally before our hair goes grey. but more importantly than that, we might live that long in peace instead of getting killed by drinking poisoned water or fighting world wars over stolen oil or over whose God is better than whose.

Everyone knows Tupac was the son of God anyways and now he has raised from the dead to deliver us from evil and into the hands of the king bling-bling ding a ling drug ring.

[Big Andy]

Originally posted by reazon1
well, the fact that this bill was introduced to state congress means it has at least a small basis of support already. Why don't other reps support it? because the voters they represent don't support it. They know that a majority of young people would choose to change drug policy but it doesn't matter because young people have been trained so well not to vote or care.

Every official in this country knows, that the day will come when he must support marijuana reform or lose his job. It's only a matter of when. Even many hard-core drug warriors will reluctantly admit that they are losing to marijuana and that they'd best concentrate their efforts on more dangerous drugs. Legislators are reading their mail and faxes and all that b.s., or at least they pay someone to read it for them, and they pay some degree of attention to what the majority of the public seems to want.

It's obvious that in our fundamentalist, media-influenced State, drug war supporters are the vocal majority. However as more Eminem wannabes get older, more immigrants learn to speak and write English, and more squares kick the bucket, that will inevitably change. But it wont happen if no one says anything.

Does anyone agree that being socially ignorant is finally starting to go out of style? That's the bright side of all the bullshit Bush has initiated. Anti-war and anti-Bush comments are coming from all corners of the US, some which have previously been silent. Example- Monday's Dallas Morning News, sports page, read by thousands and thousands of spineless chumps (football/baseball fans) as well as a large amount of basketball fans. Kevin Blackistone's respected basketball column this week was nothing but praise for Steve Nash wearing an anti-war T-shirt on all-star weekend. Later in the sports section another Maverick being interviewed tells the reporter he thinks Bush is a "Stupid White Man" and hasn't done a good job running the US.

More surprising than the Mavericks doing such things was that the Dallas Morning News actually printed this. The impact these sports icons have on fans and especially children is considerable. We can only hope that it's the beginning of a trend for athletes to start thinking of other things besides contracts, muscles, and getting high and driving 200 mph down 635.

But the point that I've tried to make in a haphazard, roundabout way is that all of a sudden in this country, it's cool to be aware and get involved, and to have your own views that consist of more than just regurgitating some Rush Limbaugh reasoning or memorizing Wall Street Journal statistics. Shit, a couple years and draves screen names ago when I posted links to Mike Ruppert or Zmag articles, cats made fun of that shit. Something has changed for the better and everyone who's taken the time to read this awareness board and especially a long rambling post like this plays a part in it, so keep it up. We might just be able to smoke a couple doobies legally before our hair goes grey. but more importantly than that, we might live that long in peace instead of getting killed by drinking poisoned water or fighting world wars over stolen oil or over whose God is better than whose.

Everyone knows Tupac was the son of God anyways and now he has raised from the dead to deliver us from evil and into the hands of the king bling-bling ding a ling drug ring.

Well said. Except the part about Tupac...

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this will be done tomorrow. and i think that this might be worthy of going to a kinkos or other print shop and making flyers, and posting them where people our age frequent. collin county community college comes to mind.

If you're low on cash, NORML or another nonprofit group would likely send you literature free of charge, they do it for Clearparty.

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Wow, Mark Stepnoski smokes out !