Thursday, July 13, 2006
Letter to Congress - Medical Marijuana
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Steve Harris
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June 26, 2006
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Dear [recipient name was inserted here],
I am writing to urge you to vote in favor of the Hinchey-Rohrabacher Amendment to the Science, State, Justice, and Commerce Appropriations Act.
This is not a vote on whether or not you agree that marijuana should be legalized for medical use. This is a vote about whether at a time when we confront a $371 billion budget deficit, are waging a war on terrorism, and face a "meth epidemic," limited War on Drug funds should be used to go after the most dangerous criminal offenders, or to arrest and prosecute desperately ill and dying patients who use marijuana in compliance with state law.
While the taxpayer-financed War on Drugs has been predicated on arresting high-ranking "narco-traffickers," statistic after statistic shows the government has increasingly focused its efforts on low-level marijuana offenders including medical marijuana patients. From 1990 to 2002, the number of marijuana arrests increased by a whopping 113 percent, while non-marijuana drug arrests increased by just 10 percent. And the lion's share of those marijuana arrests - some 88 percent - was for the low-level offense of "possession" rather than trafficking.
This strategy of targeting marijuana users is clogging our courts and swelling the populations of our state prisons and local jails. Worst of all, it is siphoning off scarce law enforcement resources from policing the drug kingpins, traffickers and pushers who are destroying the lives of our children and endangering our communities.
The Hinchey-Rohrabacher Amendment would take a logical first step toward forcing the ONDCP and DEA to refocus their priorities by preventing the federal government from wasting any funds on raiding, arresting, prosecuting, and imprisoning medical marijuana patients in the 11 states that have enacted medical marijuana laws.
I urge you to vote in favor of this commonsense amendment today.
Sincerely,
Steve Harris
Message sent to the following recipients:
Representative Edwards
Message text follows:
Steve Harris
[address omitted]
June 26, 2006
[recipient address was inserted here]
Dear [recipient name was inserted here],
I am writing to urge you to vote in favor of the Hinchey-Rohrabacher Amendment to the Science, State, Justice, and Commerce Appropriations Act.
This is not a vote on whether or not you agree that marijuana should be legalized for medical use. This is a vote about whether at a time when we confront a $371 billion budget deficit, are waging a war on terrorism, and face a "meth epidemic," limited War on Drug funds should be used to go after the most dangerous criminal offenders, or to arrest and prosecute desperately ill and dying patients who use marijuana in compliance with state law.
While the taxpayer-financed War on Drugs has been predicated on arresting high-ranking "narco-traffickers," statistic after statistic shows the government has increasingly focused its efforts on low-level marijuana offenders including medical marijuana patients. From 1990 to 2002, the number of marijuana arrests increased by a whopping 113 percent, while non-marijuana drug arrests increased by just 10 percent. And the lion's share of those marijuana arrests - some 88 percent - was for the low-level offense of "possession" rather than trafficking.
This strategy of targeting marijuana users is clogging our courts and swelling the populations of our state prisons and local jails. Worst of all, it is siphoning off scarce law enforcement resources from policing the drug kingpins, traffickers and pushers who are destroying the lives of our children and endangering our communities.
The Hinchey-Rohrabacher Amendment would take a logical first step toward forcing the ONDCP and DEA to refocus their priorities by preventing the federal government from wasting any funds on raiding, arresting, prosecuting, and imprisoning medical marijuana patients in the 11 states that have enacted medical marijuana laws.
I urge you to vote in favor of this commonsense amendment today.
Sincerely,
Steve Harris
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