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Stop the Senate From Banning Marijuana Rallies and Other Events
#7591885 - 11/03/07 05:35 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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http://stallman.org/extra/billS2633.html
PROPOSED LAW COULD SUBJECT YOU TO 20 YEARS IN PRISON Stop the Senate From Banning Marijuana Rallies and Other Events
Take Action at: http://ga1.org/campaign/rave The Senate is poised to pass legislation that would give federal prosecutors new powers to shut down hemp festivals, marijuana rallies and other events and punish business owners and activists for hosting or promoting them. The proposed law would also potentially subject people to enormous federal sentences if some of their guests smoked marijuana at their party or barbecue. It would also effectively make it a federal crime to rent property to medical marijuana patients and their caregivers.
The bill, known as the Reducing American's Vulnerability to Ecstasy Act (RAVE Act), was just introduced in the Senate on June 18th and has already passed the Senate Judiciary Committee. It is moving VERY rapidly and could be passed by the Senate as early as this week. While it purports to be aimed at ecstasy and other club drugs, it gives the federal government enormous power to fine and imprison supporters of marijuana legalization, even if they've never smoked marijuana.
It is urgent that you take action today!
ACTIONS TO TAKE
1. Fax your Senators today. Go to http://ga1.org/campaign/rave to find out more.
2. Forward this alert to your friends, family, and co-workers.
3. After you fax your Senators, please follow it up with phone calls. Tell them you just faxed them a letter in opposition to S. 2633, the Reducing American's Vulnerability to Ecstasy Act. Tell them that innocent business owners shouldn't be punished for the crimes of their customers. Tell them this bill has dangerous anti-civil liberties provisions that they need to be aware of, and this bill deserves serious debate.
You can contact your Senators through the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121. To find out who your Senators are go to: http://www.senate.gov/senators/senator_by_state.cfm
MORE INFORMATION
The Senate is considering legislation that would give federal prosecutors new powers to shut down raves, marijuana rallies and other events they don't like and punish businessmen and women for hosting or promoting them. The bill (S. 2633), also known as the Reducing American's Vulnerability to Ecstasy Act (RAVE Act), is moving very rapidly and could be considered by the full Senate as early as this week. (A similar bill is also pending in the House.)
S. 2633, sponsored by Senators Durbin (D-IL), Hatch (R-UT), Grassley (R-IA) and Leahy (D-VT), expands the so-called "crack house statute" to allow the federal government to fine or imprison businessmen and women if customers sell or use drugs on their premises or at their events. Property owners, promoters, and event coordinators could be fined hundreds of thousands of dollars or face up to twenty years in federal prison if they hold raves or other events on their property. If the bill becomes law, property owners may be too afraid to rent or lease their property to groups holding hemp festivals or putting on all-night dance parties, effectively stifling free speech and banning raves and other musical events.
The new law would also make it a federal crime to temporarily use a place for the purpose of using any illegal drug. Thus, anyone who used drugs in their own home or threw an event (such as a party or barbecue) in which one or more of their guests used drugs could potentially face a $250,000 fine and years in federal prison. The bill also effectively makes it a federal crime to rent property to medical marijuana patients and their caregivers, giving the federal government a new weapon in its war on AIDS and cancer patients who use marijuana to relieve their suffering.
Health advocates worry that the bill will endanger our nation's youth. If enacted, licensed and law-abiding business owners may stop hosting raves or other events that federal authorities don't like, out of fear of massive fines and prison sentences. Thus, the law would drive raves and other musical events further underground and away from public health and safety regulations. It would also discourage business owners from enacting smart harm-reduction measures to protect their customers. By insinuating that selling bottled water and offering "cool off" rooms is proof that owners and promoters know drug use is occurring at their events, this bill may make business owners too afraid to implement such harm-reduction measures, and the safety of our kids will suffer.
The RAVE Act punishes businessmen and women for the crimes of their customers and is unprecedented in U.S. history. The federal government can't even keep drugs out of prisons, yet it seeks to punish business owners for failing to keep people from carrying drugs onto their premises. If this bill passes, federal authorities will have the ability to scare business owners away from using or renting their property for marijuana festivals, as well as any other "politically incorrect" event.
For more information on this bill, go to http://thomas.loc.gov/ and under "bill number" search for S2633.
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PsychedelicPhish
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Re: Stop the Senate From Banning Marijuana Rallies and Other Events [Re: Visionary Tools]
#7591940 - 11/03/07 05:57 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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thats undermining democracy and capitalism in one bill..... only in America
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circularvortex
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Re: Stop the Senate From Banning Marijuana Rallies and Other Events [Re: Visionary Tools]
#7591959 - 11/03/07 06:06 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I wrote both my senators and posted a bulletin on myspace *shrug* what more can ya do?
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phi1618
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Re: Stop the Senate From Banning Marijuana Rallies and Other Events [Re: Visionary Tools]
#7591979 - 11/03/07 06:11 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Hate to tell you this, but you're a bit late on this one. The original RAVE act wasn't voted on soon enough to pass in 2002, but basically the same act (Illegal Drug Anti-Proliferation Act) was eventually passed in April 2003. You can read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAVE_Act
In any case, this ship sailed a long time ago.
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Clean
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Re: Stop the Senate From Banning Marijuana Rallies and Other Events [Re: Visionary Tools]
#7592003 - 11/03/07 06:20 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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At this point mailing your so called "representatives" about this shit is probably going to get you put on a list of people to be monitored, harassed and potentially arrested.
The time for pestering the criminals in Washington by email is over. The government game is up. People are catching on to the lies. Their tricks are too obvious. They are moving rapidly into police state mode in attempt to head of the tidal wave of truth that is demolishing people's old false programmed perceptions of government. It is nothing more than a group of men and women subjecting us to their so called services AT THE BARREL OF A GUN. That is not democracy. That is not freedom or liberty. It's violent coercion. If someone was holding a gun in your face threatening to shoot if you didn't do what they said, would you start frantically e-mailing them asking them to please stop?
I suggest we all stop pinning any hope whatsoever on the people prancing around claiming to be our representatives. They are liars whether they know it or not. They have never totally served us and they never will under the present system.
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Re: Stop the Senate From Banning Marijuana Rallies and Other Events [Re: Visionary Tools]
#7592009 - 11/03/07 06:23 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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some of the names that are chosen for these kinds of bills are totally absurd.
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Re: Stop the Senate From Banning Marijuana Rallies and Other Events [Re: AlteredAgain]
#7592085 - 11/03/07 06:53 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Umm, the RAVE Act was passed in April 2003...
You are about 4 1/2 years too late.
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