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Urgent - Say No To Giving Drug Czar More Power
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*** BREAKING NEWS
*** URGENT ACTION NEEDED

In a last minute effort to keep money and power flowing through the
Drug Czar's office, House Republican leadership are playing political
games to push a bill that would re-authorize funding for failed 'drug war'
programs. Just scheduled for tomorrow (September 30th), the vote is
clearly designed to keep opponents from voicing alarm. They're also trying
to bring the bill up under a process known as "suspension of the rules"
which limits debate to less than an hour and prohibits Representatives
from offering amendments to improve the bill.

The drug war bill (HR 2086), known as the Office of National Drug
Control Policy Reauthorization Act, provides five more years of funding for
the Drug Czar's office and its campaign to arrest drugs users. Already,
the Drug Policy Alliance has worked with a number of groups to remove
as many of the extreme provisions from the bill as we could. But the
bill still authorizes the White House to spend over a billion dollars on
anti-drug television ads - the same ads ridiculed by the public and
shown to be ineffective by the government's own studies. It also contains
no protections to ensure that the drug czar cannot use taxpayer money to
campaign against state medical marijuana ballot measures he personally
doesn't like.

If only 146 (out of 435) Representatives vote against the bill the
House Republican leadership will be forced to bring the bill up under a
more democratic process that will allow amendments to improve it.

CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE, TUESDAY

1) Call before 6pm (EST) on Tuesday. Tell the receptionist, "I'm
calling to urge my Representative to vote against HR 2086 when it comes up
under suspension of the rules. Among other things, HR 2086 allows the
drug czar to spend taxpayer money to influence local and state
elections. By voting no, the Representative can ensure that the bill will be
brought up under a process that allows amendments to improve it." Please
tell us at ActionFeedback@drugpolicy.org when you complete the call.

Call the U.S. Capitol Switchboard for free at 1-800-839-5276. (They can
also tell you who your Representative is if you're not sure.You can
also find out who your Representative is at
http://actioncenter.drugpolicy.org/ctt.asp?u=693&l=5663)

***Please call before 6:00pm Eastern Standard Time on Tuesday,
September 30th****

2) Forward this alert to your friends and family.

We regret that some of our supporters may not get this e-mail in time
to act. This is precisely why drug war advocates scheduled the vote on
this bill at the last minute. This is urgent so please call on Tuesday
and tell others to do the same.


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"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."--Voltaire

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Re: Urgent - Say No To Giving Drug Czar More Power [Re: silversoul7]
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gee, thats not much time....HURRY!


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Re: Urgent - Say No To Giving Drug Czar More Power [Re: silversoul7]
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Has anybody else found it funny that the head cabinet member on drug policy is called a "Czar"?


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People think that if you just say the word "hallucinations" it explains everything you want it to explain and eventually whatever it is you can't explain will just go away.It's just a word,it doesn't explain anything...
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Re: Urgent - Say No To Giving Drug Czar More Power [Re: monoamine]
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monoamine said:
Has anybody else found it funny that the head cabinet member on drug policy is called a "Czar"?


No.


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You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for that my dear friend is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. ~ Adrian Rogers

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Re: Urgent - Say No To Giving Drug Czar More Power [Re: luvdemshrooms]
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Maybe ironic would have been a better word.


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People think that if you just say the word "hallucinations" it explains everything you want it to explain and eventually whatever it is you can't explain will just go away.It's just a word,it doesn't explain anything...
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Re: Urgent - Say No To Giving Drug Czar More Power [Re: monoamine]
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...or frighteningly fitting.


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Re: Urgent - Say No To Giving Drug Czar More Power [Re: silversoul7]
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I called and emailed...it felt good.


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All I know is The Growery is a place where losers who get banned here go.

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Re: Urgent - Say No To Giving Drug Czar More Power [Re: silversoul7]
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Your country is fucked.


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"I have no valid complaint against hustlers. No rational bitch. But the act of selling is repulsive to me. I harbor a secret urge to whack a salesman in the face, crack his teeth and put red bumps around his eyes." -Hunter S Thompson
http://phluck.is-after.us

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Re: Urgent - Say No To Giving Drug Czar More Power [Re: Phluck]
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Most of them are.


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Re: Urgent - Say No To Giving Drug Czar More Power [Re: silversoul7]
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Ok, I called my congressman. Is he the only person I should call, or...?





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