URGENT: Call Congress today about Medical Marijuana

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From: Marijuana Policy Project < [e-mail]>
Date: Jul 24, 2007 10:45 AM
Subject: URGENT: Call Congress today about medical marijuana
To: Tami Halphen <[e-mail] >

Marijuana Policy Project Alert July 24, 2007

URGENT: Call Congress today about medical marijuana

Dear Tami Halphen:

The U.S. House of Representatives will be voting on medical marijuana as soon as tomorrow (Wednesday). We urgently need you to take one minute to call your congressperson and ask him or her to vote for the Hinchey-Rohrabacher medical marijuana amendment.

It's easy: Just call the Capitol switchboard at [phone]. Give the operator your zip code and ask to be connected to your U.S. House member; you don't even need to know your congressperson's name to do this.

When the receptionist for the congressperson — not the Capitol switchboard operator — answers, say something like: "Hi, this is . I live in , and I'm calling to ask Congressman/Congresswoman ________ to vote for Congressman Maurice Hinchey's medical marijuana amendment to the Justice Department's spending bill, which I understand will be considered on the House floor tomorrow. The amendment would prohibit the Justice Department from spending taxpayer money to arrest medical marijuana patients in the 12 states where medical marijuana is legal."

This call is especially important because of the DEA's recent attacks on medical marijuana. Last week, the DEA announced the indictments of four medical marijuana dispensary owners in California. And, a week before that, the DEA sent out letters notifying more than 150 Los Angeles landlords that they stand to lose their property and face 20 years in prison for renting to tenants who operate medical marijuana dispensaries legally under state law. An L.A. Times editorial condemned the outrage as "a deplorable new bullying tactic."

Please call Congress now: [phone]

If you agree that sick and suffering patients should not have to live in fear of armed federal agents breaking down their doors, this is the best chance to do something about it this year.

Momentum is on our side: Earlier this month, America's second largest cancer society, the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, passed a resolution in support of medical marijuana access. We're hopeful that House members will take this important endorsement into account when casting their votes tomorrow.

Please call your member of Congress now: [phone]

Thank you,

Rob Kampia
Executive Director
Marijuana Policy Project
Washington, D.C.

P.S. Are you an SEIU member? If so, MPP wants to hear from you! If you are a member of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and are willing to add your name to a petition or to float a medical marijuana resolution to your local chapter, please contact MPP's Joe Haptas at [e-mail] or [phone], ext. 114.

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If you are strapped for cash, you can use this toll free number to reach your congressman as well:

Toll Free # to US Congress: 1-800-985-8762
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[bullimiami]

1. medical? its moronic that its just not legal, period.

what a backward repressed bullshit government we are stuck with.

[Dragonbreathp9d]

2. yes, but medical is a stepping stone

[bamacrat]

3. My sentiments exactly.

I read an article outlining the reasons weed is illegal. It showed how useful the plant is and how early petro men made it evil.