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The California Senate recently approved S.B.
797, a bill that would more than double the fine for possession of less than an
ounce of marijuana, from $100 to $250. The bill, which has just arrived in the
California Assembly and will soon be assigned to a committee, would also allow
prosecutors to downgrade a first offense from a misdemeanor to a criminal
infraction.
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Dear Thomas
Imagine if the Marijuana Policy Project could run radio ads on major
stations across the country, multiple times each day, educating the
public on the need to change our nation's marijuana laws.
We have the opportunity to do exactly that, but we need your help.
MPP has just been offered a great deal to run radio ads nationwide.
For only $320 per day, we'll be able to run a 30-second radio ad on
61 commercial stations twice daily, plus a 10-second "underwriting
announcement" crediting the Marijuana Policy Project on an
additional 80 stations once daily.
All 141 stations are part of national radio personality Jim
Hightower's network; our ads and underwriting announcements would be
an adjunct to his two-minute commentary.
To get this bulk, nonprofit rate, we must commit to a one-year
contract. To run the ads twice a week for 52 weeks, it will cost
$33,280.
Can you please visit
http://www.kintera.org/site/lookup.asp?c=hjJZJgMOIoE&b=980423&msource=5041
to donate to this campaign today, so that we'll know whether we can
launch the ads at the end of this month? Your donation can be
tax-deductible.
This is an amazing deal, but MPP doesn't have a special budget for
paid advertising. Would you please consider visiting
http://www.kintera.org/site/lookup.asp?c=hjJZJgMOIoE&b=980423&msource=5041
and helping us put the ads on the air?
To take advantage of this offer, we need to raise $2,773 each month
for the next 12 months, starting now.
You can visit
http://www.mpp.org/media/psa.html to listen to examples of the
ads we want to run, which feature Montel Williams, author Tom
Robbins, and Supreme Court plaintiff Angel Raich.
Imagine being able to highlight the hypocrisies and tragedies of
marijuana prohibition on stations all over the country ... not only
by educating people who listen to the ads, but also by generating
"free" news coverage about the ads. By being provocative, our future
ads will hopefully educate many times more people than who listen to
the ads themselves.
Would you please visit
http://www.kintera.org/site/lookup.asp?c=hjJZJgMOIoE&b=980423&msource=5041
to help us make these ads a reality? Thanks so much for considering
this request.
Sincerely,
Rob Kampia
Executive Director
Marijuana Policy Project
Washington, D.C.
P.S. Radio personality Jim Hightower also just agreed to co-host
MPP's awards gala in New York City on June 12. If you reserve your
tickets at
http://www.mpp.org/NYgala by May 31, you'll receive a special
discounted price.
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subscribers on our national e-mail list will make at least one
financial donation to MPP's work in 2006. Please visit
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to donate now.
MPP will be able to tackle all of the projects in its 2006 strategic
plan --
http://www.mpp.org/2006plan -- if you and other allies are
generous enough to fund our work.
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Dear Thomas
You're invited to the Marijuana Policy Project's party in New York
City on June 12.
MPP Awards Gala
6:00 p.m., Monday, June 12
Capitale, 130 Bowery, New York City
Will you please visit
www.mpp.org/NYgala to join us for cocktails, dinner, and an
awards program to celebrate the remarkable progress we've made as a
movement toward ending marijuana prohibition?
Ticket prices increase after May 22, so please don't delay
purchasing your tickets.
Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) will be presented with MPP's
Legislative Leadership Award for introducing -- summer after summer
-- the only medical marijuana legislation to receive a vote each
year on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. MPP's
Activist of the Year will also accept an award.
The host committee for the gala includes:
Susan Sarandon
Tim Robbins
Mary-Louise Parker
Montel Williams
U.S. Reps. John Conyers, Sam Farr, Linda Sanchez, Barney Frank,
Barbara Lee, George Miller, and Pete Stark
Richard Brookhiser of the National Review
Steven Blush and Carlo McCormick of Paper magazine
and many others (Visit
www.mpp.org/NYgala to see a full list.)
National touring act Medeski Martin & Wood -- a recent addition to
MPP's VIP advisory board -- will provide the musical entertainment
for the night.
Please visit www.mpp.org/NYgala
to purchase your tickets today, so that you won't miss out on this
exclusive event! All proceeds will be used to support MPP's work to
end marijuana prohibition in the U.S.
And don't wait long to buy your tickets, since seating is limited.
I look forward to seeing you on June 12.
Sincerely,
Rob Kampia
Executive Director
Marijuana Policy Project
Washington, D.C.
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subscribers on our national e-mail list will make at least one
financial donation to MPP's work in 2006. Please visit
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to donate now.
MPP will be able to tackle all of the projects in its 2006 strategic
plan --
http://www.mpp.org/2006plan -- if you and other allies are
generous enough to fund our work.
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Dear Thomas Sutor:
Last Friday, 24 members of Congress demanded that the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) account for its disingenuous April 20 statement
claiming that "no sound scientific studies" support the medical use
of marijuana.
In a letter co-authored by U.S. Reps. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) and Ron
Paul (R-TX) and signed by 22 other members of Congress, the
legislators accuse the FDA of basing its statement on politics, not
science.
The FDA's claim, of course, is patently false. Numerous credible
scientific studies document marijuana's medical benefits, most
notably a 1999 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report commissioned by
the White House drug czar's office. The IOM concluded, "Nausea,
appetite loss, pain and anxiety are all afflictions of wasting, and
all can be mitigated by marijuana." But as Dr. John Benson, one of
the three authors of the IOM report, told The New York Times on
April 21, the federal government "loves to ignore our report. ...
They would rather it never happened."
The FDA's statement -- which was issued in response to pressure from
notorious prohibitionist U.S. Rep. Mark Souder (R-IN), who has
demanded that the FDA's acting commissioner denounce medical
marijuana -- contained no mention of new research or analysis that
led to the agency's pronouncement. Rather, the statement was simply
a rehash of the federal government's long-standing position.
But in a sign that MPP and our allies' work to educate the public
and the media is paying off, the nakedly political document has been
nearly universally derided in the media. Even Congressman Souder's
hometown paper printed an editorial criticizing Souder and the FDA,
calling the statement "just the latest disgraceful effort to
maintain an unconvincing position that has long been rejected by
most Americans." Please visit
http://mpp.org/IN/news/11878.mpp to read the article.
MPP staffers were quoted in stories in The New York Times, The
Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Los Angeles Times, as well as
in Associated Press, Reuters, and Scripps Howard News Service
stories that were reprinted in hundreds of local newspapers. In
addition, MPP staffers appeared on CNBC, NBC's "The Today Show," and
dozens of local TV news broadcasts ... and co-authored an op-ed in
The San Diego Union-Tribune. (Visit
http://www.mpp.org/USA/news/
to read news coverage of the FDA's bogus statement.)
If you'd like to help MPP continue our aggressive work to get the
truth about marijuana into the news, please make a financial
contribution to our work at
http://www.kintera.org/site/lookup.asp?c=hjJZJgMOIoE&b=980423&msource=5037
today.
Sincerely,
Rob Kampia
Executive Director
Marijuana Policy Project
Washington, D.C.
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subscribers on our national e-mail list will make at least one
financial donation to MPP's work in 2006. Please visit
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to donate now.
MPP will be able to tackle all of the projects in its 2006 strategic
plan --
http://www.mpp.org/2006plan -- if you and other allies are
generous enough to fund our work.
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or reply to this e-mail. Our mailing address is MPP, P.O. Box 77492,
Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. 20013.
Dear Thomas Sutor:
Want to eliminate the White House drug czar's office for good?
Last month, U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) introduced an amendment to the ONDCP
Reauthorization Act (H.R. 2829) that would have eliminated the White House's
Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) -- the drug czar's office -- in
five years.
While the amendment didn't pass, it received 85 "yes" votes, including 47 from
Republicans. This is a major development in MPP's ongoing campaign to eliminate
all funding for ONDCP's wasteful, misleading, and ineffective anti-marijuana ad
campaign.
Would you please visit http://action.mpp.org
ask Congress to eliminate the drug czar's office the next time it comes up for a
vote? It takes just one minute to take action.
The drug czar's office is the source of those outrageous TV ads featuring
teenagers under the influence of marijuana committing violent crimes -- such as
stoned teenagers driving over a little girl on a bicycle, one stoned teenager
shooting another in his parents' den, another stoned teenager date-raping
another, and a teenager who gets pregnant because she smoked marijuana.
Fortunately, MPP's lobbying efforts have helped reduce the budget for these ads
by $80 million since 2002 (from $180 million in 2002 to $100 million in 2006) --
a 44% reduction over five years.
We'll continue pushing in Congress until the ads, and the drug czar's office,
are eradicated altogether. Would you please help by visiting
http://action.mpp.org and sending a letter
to your members of Congress today?
And, while you're at MPP's online action center, please also take a minute to
ask your U.S. House member to vote for the Hinchey-Rohrabacher amendment, which
would prohibit the U.S. Justice Department (which includes the DEA) from
spending any taxpayer money to arrest or prosecute medical marijuana patients in
the 11 states where medical marijuana is legal. It's easy -- just visit
http://action.mpp.org today.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Rob Kampia
Executive Director
Marijuana Policy Project
Washington, D.C.
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national e-mail list will make at least one financial donation to MPP's work in
2006. Please visit
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to donate now.
MPP will be able to tackle all of the projects in its 2006 strategic plan --
http://www.mpp.org/2006plan -- if you
and other allies are generous enough to fund our work.
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Dear Thomas Sutor:
Several Wyoming radio stations have pulled the Marijuana Policy Project's
medical marijuana public service announcements from the air -- after receiving
complaints from the local police chief.
Read the Associated Press coverage of the controversy at
http://www.mpp.org/WY/news/11403.mpp -- and visit
http://www.mpp.org/media/psa.html
to listen to the ads for yourself.
The ads feature America's two most well-known medical marijuana patients -- TV
host Montel Williams, who illegally uses marijuana to treat the symptoms of
multiple sclerosis ... and Supreme Court plaintiff Angel Raich, who illegally
uses marijuana to treat life-threatening wasting syndrome, seizures, an
inoperable brain tumor, and severe chronic pain. Another ad features novelist
Tom Robbins, who describes his mother's battle with glaucoma.
Outrageously, Rawlins Police Chief Mike Reed told one newspaper reporter, "It
was disturbing that the local radio station was running advertising that is
counter to what the public and our community stand for, including ads supporting
marijuana usage in spite of the numbers of health risks that are involved and
the fact that this is a gateway drug into harder drugs similar to and including
meth and cocaine."
That blatantly false statement is precisely the sort of misinformation that our
ads were designed to clear up. (In fact, the vast majority of Americans support
safe and legal access to medical marijuana, which often allows patients to
reduce or eliminate their use of narcotics that are far more toxic and
addictive. And numerous independent scientists -- including the prestigious
Institute of Medicine, in a report commissioned by the White House -- have
verified that there is no evidence that marijuana causes users to turn to hard
drugs.)
Fortunately, these misguided Wyoming radio stations are a minority in the world
of radio. MPP's ads have aired more than 11,000 times on radio stations all over
the country, from the District of Columbia and Honolulu to Lubbock, Texas, and
Durango, Colorado. If you'd like to hear them on your local airwaves, please
contact your local radio stations and ask them to play MPP's public service
announcements -- which can be downloaded at
http://www.mpp.org/media/psa.html
-- or the radio station representative can e-mail
mpp@mpp.org to contact MPP.
And if you'd like to help MPP continue our aggressive work to get the truth
about marijuana into the news media, please make a financial contribution to our
work by visiting
http://www.kintera.org/site/lookup.asp?c=hjJZJgMOIoE&b=980423&msource=5029
today.
Speaking of getting the truth out, one of the most truthful marijuana-related
Web sites out there is
http://www.medicalmarijuanaprocon.org ... It features credible, objective
pros and cons in answer to the question, "Should marijuana be a medical option
now?" Visit it today, and pass the link on to your friends.
As always, thank you for your continued support of MPP's work.
Sincerely,
Rob Kampia
Executive Director
Marijuana Policy Project
Washington, D.C.
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national e-mail list will make at least one financial donation to MPP's work in
2006. Please visit
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to donate now.
MPP will be able to tackle all of the projects in its 2006 strategic plan --
http://www.mpp.org/2006plan -- if you
and other allies are generous enough to fund our work.
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Dear Thomas Sutor:
For years, Congressman Mark Souder (R-IN) has consistently
criticized the Marijuana Policy Project and other drug policy
reformers, but he stooped to a new low on February 8 by attacking
MPP on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Why? Because I was invited to moderate a drug policy debate at the
Conservative Political Action Conference that's held annually in
Washington, D.C. Visit
http://www.mpp.org/homepagenews/20060208.html to read Souder's
full statement, in which he called me a "convicted drug dealer." (In
point of fact, I served three months in jail for growing my own
marijuana for personal, non-medical use when I was in college.)
Despite Souder's hostility toward marijuana policy reformers, the
current session of Congress has seen notable changes -- many good,
some bad -- in the tools and rules the government has to fight its
war on marijuana users. Would you please help us win this war by
visiting
http://www.kintera.org/site/lookup.asp?c=hjJZJgMOIoE&b=980423&msource=5025
and making your most generous financial contribution today?
The biggest and best news is that Congress recently cut $20 million
from the White House drug czar's ad campaign. These ads have
featured stoned teenagers driving over a little girl on a pink
bicycle, one stoned teenager shooting another in his parents' den,
another stoned teenager date-raping another, and a teenager who gets
pregnant because she smoked marijuana. Another ad claimed that
people who buy marijuana are funding terrorism. MPP has lobbied for
years to eliminate all funding for these outrageous and deceptive
ads -- and we're making progress.
And Congress also cut:
* more than $210 million from the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice
Assistance Grant Program (which provides block grants to some of the
local multi-jurisdictional task forces that target medical marijuana
patients and caregivers); and
* $100 million from the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities
Program, which includes the Bush administration's use of taxpayer
money to bribe high schools to impose coercive drug-testing on high
school students.
Will you please help MPP to continue chipping away at the drug
warriors' budget by visiting
http://www.kintera.org/site/lookup.asp?c=hjJZJgMOIoE&b=980423&msource=5025
and making a financial contribution to our lobbying work today?
These cuts came during a session of Congress where the climate
seemed to be shifting. For the first time in recent memory, Congress
substantially improved a drug statute when it reformed a portion of
the Higher Education Act that had made students ineligible for
federal financial aid based on past drug convictions. (By removing
the retroactivity of the law, Congress is applying the provision so
that it will now only affect applicants for financial aid who are
convicted of drug offenses while in school and receiving financial
aid.) Students for Sensible Drug Policy, the Drug Reform
Coordination Network, and other organizations lobbied for years to
make this reform a reality.
We also scored a major success when the transportation
infrastructure bill was enacted with a requirement that the federal
government study the varying levels of impairment caused by the use
of marijuana and other illicit drugs. This is a change from the
zero-tolerance approach used by the drug warriors (where the
presence of THC in the body is taken to be proof of impairment, even
if the THC is from days or weeks earlier). MPP played a major role
in drafting this language.
Of course, some bad news came out of Congress this session, too. The
bill that funds the U.S. Justice Department gave $5 million to a
marijuana eradication program and $1.7 billion to the Drug
Enforcement Administration.
Just a few days ago, White House Drug Czar John Walters unveiled the
2006 National Drug Control Strategy at a news conference in Denver,
where voters in November passed an initiative that made adult
possession and use of marijuana legal under city ordinance. As
usual, the drug czar's strategy proposes to waste approximately $20
billion on drug war spending in the next year.
MPP's work is clearly paying off, and our influence in Congress is
stronger than ever. Will you please visit
http://www.kintera.org/site/lookup.asp?c=hjJZJgMOIoE&b=980423&msource=5025
and help fund our full-time, successful lobbying on Capitol Hill?
Sincerely,
Rob Kampia
Executive Director
Marijuana Policy Project
Washington, D.C.
P.S. Please visit
http://www.sciam.com/podcast/ to check out Scientific American's
latest Podcast, featuring a discussion of marijuana policy by MPP
Director of Communications Bruce Mirken.
P.P.S. Want to work to reform drug policy? Students for Sensible
Drug Policy and DanceSafe are currently seeking a publications
coordinator. Please visit
http://www.ssdp.org/jobs/ for details.
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subscribers on our national e-mail list will make at least one
financial donation to MPP's work in 2006. Please visit
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to donate now.
MPP will be able to tackle all of the projects in its 2006 strategic
plan --
http://www.mpp.org/2006plan -- if you and other allies are
generous enough to fund our work.
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Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. 20013.
Dear Thomas Sutor:
The Marijuana Policy Project's ballot action group -- the Committee to Regulate
and Control Marijuana (CRCM) -- just held the grand opening of our Las Vegas
office, which is the hub of our campaign to pass the initiative that has already
been certified for the Nevada ballot this November.
If a majority of voters passes our initiative, Nevada will become the first
state to permit the legal cultivation, distribution, and sale of marijuana to
adults aged 21 and older ... and not just for medical use. If we succeed at
passing this initiative, it will be the biggest victory in the history of the
marijuana policy reform movement.
Would you please consider donating $10 or more to MPP this year? If so, please
visit
http://www.regulatemarijuana.org/home/donate?id=5024 to donate now and get
our campaign off to a strong start.
More than 30 volunteers crammed into our office for the grand opening, which was
covered by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the local FOX TV affiliate, and the Web
sites for the Las Vegas Sun and the local CBS and NBC TV affiliates. And here is
an excerpt from the Associated Press story that went out nationally:
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"Our marijuana laws don't work," said Neal Levine, executive director of the
Committee to Regulate and Control Marijuana. The group is largely funded by the
Washington D.C.-based Marijuana Policy Project.
[...]
The proposal allows people 21 and older to possess 1 ounce of marijuana in their
homes -- the same amount allowed under Nevada's medical marijuana law. It would
allow the state to license marijuana growers, distributors and retailers. The
maximum penalties for selling or giving pot to a minor and for vehicular
manslaughter while under the influence of drugs and alcohol would double.
Levine said the goal is to regulate a drug that is used widely, rather than
spend millions arresting and prosecuting users who rarely commit crimes.
Ben Graham, lobbyist for the Nevada District Attorney's Association, called
Levine's argument a "fraud upon the public."
"The facts simply do not bear that out," he said. "The law enforcement community
does not expend an inordinate amount of resources dealing with personal
marijuana use."
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(Mr. Graham is lying, of course. According to Nevada government statistics, the
Nevada police make more than 3,000 marijuana arrests per year.)
Things are starting to heat up in Nevada, and we need your help to build on the
strong support voters are already showing for the initiative. Please help by
visiting
http://www.regulatemarijuana.org/home/donate?id=5024 and donating $10 or
more today.
Thank you,
Rob Kampia
Executive Director
Marijuana Policy Project
Washington, D.C.
P.S. Our Nevada campaign still has one job opening. Please visit
http://www.mpp.org/jobs/2005Nevada/commdir.html to see the job description
for the communications director position.
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national e-mail list will make at least one financial donation to MPP's work in
2006. Please visit hhttp://www.regulatemarijuana.org/home/donate?id=5024 to
donate now.
MPP will be able to tackle all of the projects in its 2006 strategic plan --
http://www.mpp.org/2006plan -- if you
and other allies are generous enough to fund our work.
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Dear Thomas Sutor:
You're invited to be among the first to visit the Marijuana Policy
Project's new blog for the Nevada ballot initiative campaign at
http://www.RegulateMarijuana.org .
Since learning in March 2005 that our initiative to end marijuana
prohibition in Nevada would be appearing on the November 2006
ballot, we've been hiring the campaign team and laying other
groundwork to pass this initiative.
At
http://www.RegulateMarijuana.org -- the official blog of the
Committee to Regulate and Control Marijuana, which is MPP's Nevada
campaign committee -- you'll read all about how we're working to
pass this groundbreaking initiative.
If a majority of voters passes our initiative on November 7, Nevada
will become the first state to permit the legal cultivation,
distribution, and sale of marijuana to adults aged 21 and older --
and not just for medical use -- which would be the biggest victory
in the history of the marijuana policy reform movement.
Just a few weeks ago, we opened up our campaign office in Las Vegas.
(We didn't even publicize the campaign's kick-off, but the largest
newspaper in the state covered it anyway. Visit
http://mpp.org/NV/news/10682.mpp to read the article.)
Please consider visiting the debut of the campaign's blog and learn
more about what we're doing in Nevada. Visit daily for a regular
stream of entertaining, fresh content.
With our campaign office in Las Vegas up and running, we're now up
and running, and we won't stop until Election Day on November 7. A
win in Nevada will be heard all the way from the steps of the
capitol in Carson City to the halls of Congress and beyond.
Please visit the campaign's blog today ... and if you like what
we're doing, please consider visiting
http://www.regulatemarijuana.org/home/donate?id=5022 to make a
donation to the campaign. We could really use your support!
Thank you,
Rob Kampia
Executive Director
Marijuana Policy Project
Washington, D.C.
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subscribers on our national e-mail list will make at least one
financial donation to MPP's work in 2006. Please visit
http://www.regulatemarijuana.org/home/donate?id=5022 to donate
now.
MPP will be able to tackle all of the projects in its 2006 strategic
plan --
http://www.mpp.org/2006plan -- if you and other allies are
generous enough to fund our work.
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Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. 20013.
He's back. Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski (R) is once again trying to
pass legislation that would wipe out Alaska's good marijuana law --
the best state marijuana law in the nation.
Although his draconian marijuana crusade stalled and drew public
ridicule last year, Murkowski recently announced that he plans to
"hit the ground running" in his effort to pass harsh new marijuana
penalties in Alaska's 2006 legislative session, which starts today,
January 9.
Currently, Alaska is the only state where any aspect of recreational
marijuana use is legal, but Murkowski's legislation would undo this
and send Alaska back to the Dark Ages. His outrageous bill would:
* Send a 21-year-old to prison for up to 10 years for passing a
marijuana cigarette to a 20-year-old friend.
* Make the penalty for possession of four or more ounces of
marijuana the same as for incest, burglary, or possessing child
pornography -- up to five years in prison.
Please visit
http://www.mpp.org/donate5021 to help the Marijuana Policy
Project in our campaign to fight this appalling legislation.
When Murkowski first pushed this legislation at the beginning of
2005, the bill's passage looked like a sure thing: His party was
solidly in control of both chambers of the legislature, and
political observers said we didn't have a chance of stopping it.
But, last May, after months of round-the-clock lobbying and
grassroots organizing, MPP, the ACLU of Alaska, Alaskans for
Marijuana Regulation and Control, and other allies in Alaska
succeeded in blocking the bill for the year. In fact, the bill
didn't even get a floor vote in the House or the Senate, and
Murkowski's crusade unleashed public ridicule.
But because the Alaska Legislature has a two-year session, when it
reconvenes today, the bill will pick up where it left off last year
... and Murkowski has declared that re-criminalizing marijuana will
be one of his top legislative priorities this year.
We stopped this draconian bill last year, and we can do it again
this year. But we need your help. Would you please visit
http://www.mpp.org/donate5021 to make a donation of $10 or more
to our campaign to keep marijuana legal in Alaska?
Sincerely,
Rob Kampia
Executive Director
Marijuana Policy Project
Washington, D.C.
P.S. The bill is intended to subvert a September 2004 decision by
the Alaska Supreme Court, which affirmed that the possession and use
of up to four ounces of marijuana in the privacy of the home by
adults is protected by the Alaska Constitution. As a result of this
litigation -- to which MPP provided substantial staff time and
almost all of the funding -- Alaska's police cannot get search
warrants, kick in doors, or make arrests unless they have reasonable
cause to believe that more than four ounces of marijuana are
involved.
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subscribers on our national e-mail list will make at least one
financial donation to MPP's work in 2006. Please visit
http://www.mpp.org/donate5021 to donate now.
MPP will be able to tackle all of the projects in its 2006 strategic
plan --
http://www.mpp.org/2006plan -- if you and other allies are
generous enough to fund our work.
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Dear Thomas Sutor:
Yesterday, January 3, the Rhode Island Legislature overwhelmingly
overrode their governor's veto of the Marijuana Policy Project's
bill to protect medical marijuana patients from arrest.
As a result, Rhode Island is now the 11th state where medical
marijuana use, possession, and cultivation is legal -- and it's the
first state to enact a medical marijuana law since the U.S. Supreme
Court's June decision in Gonzales v. Raich.
Significantly, Rhode Island's new law is the first state medical
marijuana law to be enacted over the veto of a governor.
Please visit
http://www.mpp.org/RI/news to read some of the news coverage of
this historic victory, which has already been covered by the
Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Seattle Times,
Providence Journal, and many more outlets.
If you like what MPP is doing to roll back the government's war on
marijuana users, won't you please visit
http://www.mpp.org/donate5020 to make a financial donation to
our work?
A BATTLE TO THE END
Yesterday's victory was the culmination of a long and complicated
legislative battle that had us biting our nails until the last
minute.
MPP lobbied for the bill for two years and deployed a massive
grassroots mobilization that swamped state legislators' offices with
postcards, phone calls, and e-mails from constituents, not to
mention blanketing the airwaves with hard-hitting TV ads. The
medical marijuana bill also obtained endorsements from the Rhode
Island Medical Society, the Rhode Island Nurses Association, and
AIDS Project Rhode Island.
The state legislature passed our bill and sent it to Gov. Donald
Carcieri (R) on June 28, 2005. Foolishly, he vetoed the bill on June
29 -- despite overwhelming support from the public and the state's
leading medical organizations ... and despite the landslide votes of
30-1 in the Senate and 52-10 in the House. One day later, the Senate
voted 28-6 to override the veto, but in order for the bill to become
law, the House also needed to override the veto.
MPP spent the last six months lobbying the House to override the
governor's veto, and we breathed a sigh of relief when the vote was
finally scheduled for January 3, 2006. Unfortunately, a few days
before January 3, out-of-state prohibitionists purchased thousands
of dollars' worth of airtime to run mean-spirited, deceptive radio
ads on major radio stations across Rhode Island ... and the governor
launched a high-pressure campaign to push House members to vote
against our bill. House members who had voted for the bill in June
seemed poised to switch their votes.
Refusing to let the prohibitionists win, MPP paid for a last-minute
barrage of phone calls to Rhode Islanders in key House districts to
ask them to urge their House members to vote for the override. Even
the office of TV talk-show host Montel Williams -- himself a medical
marijuana user -- made a plea to one of the lead Republicans who was
threatening to vote "no."
With the vote count uncertain and the governor's pressure mounting,
we continued our grassroots lobbying campaign until literally just
minutes before the vote, which took place at 3:00 p.m. yesterday.
And it worked! The House overrode the governor's veto by a 59-13
vote and, as a result, the bill became law immediately.
The new law allows patients suffering from AIDS, cancer, multiple
sclerosis, and other serious illnesses -- as well as their
caregivers -- to possess and grow marijuana for medical purposes.
As you can see, MPP is making real progress. Would you please visit
http://www.mpp.org/donate5020 to make a financial donation to
our hard-hitting, aggressive lobbying campaigns?
VICTORY IS RETORT TO CONGRESS AND DRUG CZAR
Yesterday's sweeping victory is a strong retort to White House Drug
Czar John Walters, who crowed that medical marijuana was "dead" as a
political issue after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 6 that
it's constitutional for the federal government to continue arresting
medical marijuana patients. And the Rhode Island victory sends a
powerful message to Congress that more and more states will continue
challenging federal law ... until Congress changes federal law.
Rhode Island is the third state to enact a medical marijuana law via
the legislative process, and the first to do so after a governor's
veto. Of the 10 other states that have enacted similar laws --
Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, Nevada,
Oregon, Vermont, and Washington -- all but Hawaii's and Vermont's
laws were enacted via ballot initiatives.
MPP THANKS YOU AND OUR OTHER ALLIES
I want to personally thank the Rhode Island patients, medical
experts, health advocates, and allied organizations who worked with
MPP to build support for the bill, including the Rhode Island
Medical Society, the Rhode Island Nurses Association, AIDS Project
Rhode Island, the Rhode Island Patient Advocacy Coalition, and the
Interfaith Drug Policy Initiative, as well as Connecticut state Rep.
Penny Bacchiochi (R) and former Maryland legislator Don Murphy (R),
both of whom pressed vigorously for Rhode Island's new law.
In addition, I especially want to thank patients Rhonda O'Donnell,
Warren Dolbashian, Debra Nievera, and Polly Reynolds; Rep. Thomas
Slater (D) and Sen. Rhonda Perry (D), who served as the lead
legislative sponsors in Rhode Island; and the hundreds of MPP
supporters in Rhode Island who e-mailed and called their state
legislators.
With the help of MPP's 19,000 dues-paying members, we will continue
to roll back the government's war on the sick and dying. Please make
just one financial donation to MPP this year by visiting
http://www.mpp.org/donate5020 today.
Thank you,
Rob Kampia
Executive Director
Marijuana Policy Project
Washington, D.C.
P.S. More battles are around the corner: Medical marijuana bills
were introduced recently in Michigan and Wisconsin, and MPP has
retained lobbyists to pass medical marijuana bills in Illinois,
Minnesota, and New York. And similar legislation is poised to pass
in New Mexico.
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The Marijuana Policy Project hopes that each of the 100,000
subscribers on our national e-mail list will make at least one
financial donation to MPP's work in 2006. Please visit
http://www.mpp.org/donate5020 to donate now.
MPP will be able to tackle all of the projects in its 2006 strategic
plan --
http://www.mpp.org/2006plan -- if you and other allies are
generous enough to fund our work.
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