Take Action & Support the Use of Medical Marijuana Use

[lush]

The Commerce, Justice, State, and Judiciary Appropriations (CJS) bill will reach the floor Wednesday. For the first time in five years, the full U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on the issue of medical marijuana. Representatives Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) and Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) are planning to propose an amendment to the CJS bill
that would prevent the federal government from spending funds to conduct Drug Enforcement Administration raids on state-approved medical marijuana patients and providers.

More than a dozen DEA raids have occurred since the first in October 2001. The DEA has targeted growers who supplied thousands of patients (like Ed Rosenthal who was deputized by the city of Oakland to supply marijuana for a large urban dispensary), but it has also stormed the homes of patients growing as few as six plants in their gardens (for
example, Leroy Stubblefield, a quadriplegic veteran who has an Oregon state license to grow marijuana). The importance of this vote cannot be exaggerated. It is literally the most important vote on medical marijuana in the House this year. CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE TODAY TO
TELL HER TO VOTE FOR THE HINCHEY/ROHRABACHER (pronounced roy-bocker)
AMENDMENT TO THE CJS APPROPRIATIONS BILL.

To call your Representative, you can call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121. You can also find your Representative's phone number at
www.house.gov. Enter your zip-code to find your Representative's name
and phone number.

THESE VOTES ARE SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT FOR DRUG POLICY REFORM THIS YEAR.

Please forward this alert to your friends, and encourage them yourself to urge their Representatives to vote for these amendments. TELL THEM
TO CALL TODAY.

4shizal

I called them up. It took less than a minute to help save a medical marijuana patient from legal persecution. Hope this goes through, but we'll never know unless we try.

[USAcommitteeX]

You people don't care about a so called medical use for marijuana, you just wanna get high, the federal law that restricts it will never be changed, you want a pain killer? eat a gram of herion.

[lush]

This is more about personal liberties and the government's infringement of them, because I could get high right now if I wanted to - so federal laws really aren't restricting shit.