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highdroponics
Professional Deadhead



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I took action, now its YOUR turn [U.S.]
#7061533 - 06/18/07 01:23 PM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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Thanks in large part to NORML's effort, more than 30 percent of the U.S. population now lives under some form of marijuana decriminalization, and according to government and academic studies, these laws have not contributed to an increase in marijuana consumption or negatively impacted adolescent attitudes toward drug use. Nevertheless, Congress has refused for more than 35 years to have any serious legislative discussions on the topic of decriminalization. This attitude must change.<br><br>With the Democrat takeover in Congress, NORML believes that the federal government is primed, for the first time in over a decade, to hold legislative hearings on the subject of decriminalizing marijuana. NORML is working closely with Democratic leadership on this issue, and expects to see federal legislation introduced later this year to remove criminal penalties on the possession and use of cannabis by adults. However, in order to gather needed bi-partisan support for this effort, Congress needs to hear from you – articulately and often.<br><br>Please take a moment today to contact your federally elected representatives and tell them to amend federal law so that the adult possession and use of cannabis is no longer a criminal offense. <br><br>Consider this: In the past 35 years –<br><br>* Approximately 16.5 million Americans have been arrested for marijuana violations – more than eighty percent of them on minor possession charges;<br><br>* US taxpayers have spent well over $20 billion dollars enforcing criminal marijuana laws, yet marijuana availability and use among the public remains virtually unchanged;<br><br>* Nearly one-quarter of a million Americans have been denied federal financial aid for secondary education because of anti-drug provisions to the Higher Education Act. Most of these applicants were convicted of minor marijuana possession offenses.<br><br>Today, one in every eight inmates incarcerated for drug crimes is behind bars for pot, at a cost to taxpayers of more than $1 billion per year.<br><br>Now is the time to tell Congress to cease arresting minor marijuana offenders.
http://capwiz.com/norml2/issues/alert/?alertid=9532756 click here and write to representatives, now is the time people...the letters are already pre-composed if you cant think of your own to write, all it takes is your name, address, and email, and with the simple click of your mouse button the message will get out, don't pass this up, please, for the sake of all those in prison for simple possession charges, we must make an effort.
-------------------- Dr says to stop trying to treat the side-effects of big government and focus on the core issues. End the Federal Reserve/audit the gold reserves at Fort Knox, abolish the IRS, end all wars and occupancies, stop the building of an empire that will inevitably fail, and cut all unconstitutional federal programs. Put the power back in the peoples' hands by ending this nanny-state.
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OneMoreRobot3021



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Re: I took action, now its YOUR turn [U.S.] [Re: highdroponics]
#7061544 - 06/18/07 01:27 PM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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tak
geo's henchman




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Re: I took action, now its YOUR turn [U.S.] [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
#7114528 - 07/01/07 10:01 AM (16 years, 6 months ago) |
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do it
-------------------- The DJ's took pills to stay awake and play for seven days.
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leery11
I Tell You What!

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Re: I took action, now its YOUR turn [U.S.] [Re: tak]
#7241107 - 07/30/07 07:59 PM (16 years, 5 months ago) |
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some of those 15 million people need to click a few buttons.
-------------------- I am the MacDaddy of Heimlich County, I play it Straight Up Yo! ....I embrace my desire to feel the rhythm, to feel connected enough to step aside and weep like a widow, to feel inspired, to fathom the power, to witness the beauty, to bathe in the fountain, to swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human...... Om Namah Shivaya, I tell you What!
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