Ask Congress to Support Medical Marijuana

[Marshall Johnston]

From NORML.ORG:

Take Action Now! Ask Congress to Support Medical Marijuana

Take Action NOW!

Dear Friend:

This is a reminder that the U.S. House of Representatives may vote as early
as next week on the 2006 Hinchey-Rohrabacher medical marijuana amendment,
and we need your help to send a clear and overwhelming message to Congress
to stop prosecuting medicinal cannabis patients! If you have not already
done so, please contact your Representative today and tell them to support
this amendment.
http://capwiz.com/norml2/issues/alert/?alertid=8836426&type=CO

If passed, the 2006 Hinchey-Rohrabacher amendment would prevent the Justice
Department and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) from federally
prosecuting state-authorized medical cannabis patients and their
care-givers. NORML is asking you to take two actions to help shelter these
seriously ill patients from the government's war on cannabis consumers.

ACTIONS TO TAKE

1) E-mail your Representative

2) Forward this alert to your friends and family.

Responding to growing conflict between states and the federal government
over the issue of medical marijuana, Reps. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) and Dana
Rohrabacher (R-CA) will offer an amendment later this month to the Science,
State, and Justice spending bill to forbid the U.S. Justice Department and
the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) from spending any federal tax
dollars to target and prosecute patients who possess or use medicinal
cannabis in compliance with their state laws. Eighty percent of the American
public supports the physician-supervised use of cannabis as a medicine, and
they do not wish to see their tax dollars wasted by those in Congress who
would target the sick and dying in their overzealous war on drugs. Last
year, 161 members of Congress voted in favor of Hinchey-Rohrabacher, but we
need 57 more members to join with them to stop Washington's war on patients.

Sincerely,

Allen St. Pierre
Executive Director
Member, Board of Directors
NORML/NORML Foundation
dire...@norml.org