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Medical Marijuana State MMJ industry plans 'Day of Action'
Posted by Bryce Crawford on Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 6:55 PM
- FLICKR / Roel Wijnants
In response to the letters issued by the U.S. Attorney's office to 23 Colorado medical marijuana dispensaries that are within 1,000 feet of a school, telling them to close or move within 45 days, almost every major MMJ advocacy organization is participating in a "day of action" Wednesday, Jan. 25.
Here's a release from the Colorado Springs Medical Cannabis Council.
On Wednesday January 25th the CSMCC is joining Sensible Colorado, C4CPR, Safer, MMAPA, NCIA, MMBA, MMIG, and CBA in standing up for business owner rights and safe access. This is a unified response from National and Colorado Organizations to send a strong message to the US Attorney General regarding recent Federal letters threatening medical marijuana businesses in Colorado. Please join thousands of patients by adding your voice and standing up to the Feds.As we speak, leaders from these organizations are working on legal, political, and grassroots efforts to protect our Colorado sovereignty from John Walsh and the DEA. Feel free to print this email to pass along to patients who will be impacted most by federal interference.
How can I HELP?
**COLORADO: MEDICAL MARIJUANA DAY OF ACTION (Wed. 1/25)**
This Wednesday join hundreds of medical marijuana patients, providers and supporters in making quick calls to your U.S. Congresspeople. Everyone should call both Colorado U.S. Senators and your specific U.S. Congressperson. Contact information is below the sample script."I am a constituent in your district who supports medical marijuana patients. I'm calling to say that our state's medical marijuana system is working and we need to Stop Federal Interference in our state laws. The Colorado state government is doing an excellent job of safely regulating medical marijuana distribution and I ask that the US Attorney cease his actions in shutting down state-legal medical marijuana dispensaries. Please ask the representative to contact Colorado's US Attorney John Walsh and tell him to cease interfering in Colorado's tightly-regulated medical marijuana law. Thank you"
(Optional:) "Additionally, I would respectfully ask that Representative _______________ co-sponsor H.R. 1983 — the States Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act — which would protect our state’s medical marijuana patients and providers from federal interference. Thank you!"
U.S. Representatives
District 1 (Denver) — D-Representative Diana DeGette - 202-225-4431
District 2 (Boulder/Longmont/Loveland/Ft. Collins) — D-Representative Jared Polis — 202-225-2161
District 3 (Western Slope, including Aspen, Grand Junction and Pueblo) R-Representative Scott Tipton — 202-225-4761
District 4 (Eastern Plains including Greeley and Castle Rock) R-Representative Cory Gardner — 202-225-4676
District 5 (Colorado Springs/Salida) R-Representative Doug Lamborn — 202-225-4422
District 6 (Aurora/Douglas/Adams) R-Representative Mike Coffman — 202-225-7882
District 7 (North Metro/Arvada/Golden/Jefferson County) D-Representative Ed Perlmutter — 202-225- 2645Senators
Entire State - Senator Mark E. Udall - 202-224-5941
Entire State - Senator Michael F. Bennet - 202-224-5852
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Some simple facts:
* A rather large majority of people will always feel the need to use drugs, such as heroin, opium, nicotine, amphetamines, alcohol, sugar, or caffeine.
* Just as it was impossible to prevent alcohol from being produced and used in the U.S. in the 1920s, so too, it is equally impossible to prevent any of the aforementioned drugs from being produced and widely used by those who desire to do so.
* Due to Prohibition (historically proven to be an utter failure at every level), the availability of most of these mood-altering drugs has become so universal and unfettered that in any city of the civilized world, any one of us would be able to procure practically any drug we wish within an hour.
* The massive majority of people who use drugs do so recreationally - getting high at the weekend then up for work on a Monday morning.
* A small minority of people will always experience drug use as problematic.
* Throughout history, the prohibition of any mind-altering substance has always exploded usage rates, overcrowded jails, fueled organized crime, created rampant corruption of law-enforcement - even whole governments, while inducing an incalculable amount of suffering and death.
* The involvement of the CIA in running Heroin from Vietnam, Southeast Asia and Afghanistan and Cocaine from Central America has been well documented by the 1989 Kerry Committee report, academic researchers Alfred McCoy and Peter Dale Scott, and the late journalist Gary Webb.
* It's not even possible to keep drugs out of prisons, but prohibitionists wish to waste hundreds of billions of our money in an utterly futile attempt to keep them off our streets.
* Prohibition kills more people and ruins more lives than the prohibited drugs have ever done.
* The United States jails a larger percentage of it's own citizens than any other country in the world, including those run by the worst totalitarian regimes, yet it has far higher use/addiction rates than most other countries.
* The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-face for the urge to rule it.
- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) American editor, essayist and philologist.
* 2010 Reported Corporate Revenues:
Johnson & Johnson = $61.90 billion
Pfizer= $50.01 billion
GlaxoSmithKline = $45.83 billion
Novartis = $44.27
Sanofi-Aventis = $41.99 billion
AstraZeneca = $32.81 billion
Merck & Co. = $27.43 billion
Eli Lilly = $21.84 billion
Anheuser-Busch InBev (2007) = $16.70 billion
MillerCoors = $3.03 billion
Pabst = $0.50 billion
* As with torture, prohibition is a grievous crime against humanity. If you support it, or even simply tolerate it by looking the other way while others commit it, you are an accessory to a very serious moral transgression against humanity.
* The United States re-legalized certain drug use in 1933. The drug was alcohol, and the 21st amendment re-legalized its production, distribution and sale. Both alcohol consumption and violent crime dropped immediately as a result, and very soon after, the American economy climbed out of that same prohibition engendered abyss into which it had foolishly fallen.
“You can always count on Americans to do the right thing, after they’ve tried everything else.”
- Winston Churchill
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Posted by
Malcolm Kyle
on 01/25/2012 at 8:39 AM
The obvious answer - legalization.
However, that will not solve the problem of the most abused, the most pervasive, the most damaging 'drug' addicting some 50% of the population of the US and higher percentages throughout the world. That drug is administered by our very own President and his misguided minions. It steals the souls of its recipients. It robs them of their self-worth, their initiative, their dignity, their sense of accomplishment, and their pride.
The drug? - the entitlement.
Posted by
smartestman
on 01/25/2012 at 10:03 AM
The Medical Marijuana Assistance Program of America (MMAPA) would like to thank everyone who participated in the 'Day of Action' held yesterday! The rally at the Department of Health resulted in raising awareness to health officials regarding patients who choose to use alternative methods in taking control of their health, and ensuring a sense of urgency is placed upon developing a solution for the 430 patients who have been denied access by the CDPHE.
It was an enormous success, and our industry has respectfully gained the attention of our representatives. Let's hear it for our community really coming together on this one!
Great work!
If you or someone you know has questions or needs assistance in gaining access to medical marijuana, please visit us at www.MMAPA.us or contact us at 855-662-7987.
Posted by
Leave Behind
on 01/26/2012 at 9:48 AM
