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I plagiarized this from the NORML blog, I already have letters ready to go and I sent a "readers letter" to HT a couple months ago...
Having been involved in getting 215 passed in California, I can only hope that this administration and the 111th Congress have the cajones to do the right thing, for once. As I spent the winter in then woods in Florida I watched with incredulity the President ignore the people’s will and dismissed the idea of legalizing cannabis with a simple 12 word comment by his staff in answer to his own website‘s poll!
While it appears to be easy to dismiss figures in the thousands on a computer monitor, as they come across as abstract numbers and cold data, it wouldn’t be nearly as easy to dismiss a sack full of letter asking the subject to be addressed.
For that reason I composed the below letter and will be sending them on April 20th to the following recipients and urge you to do the same;
President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20500
Speaker Nancy Pelosi
Office of the Speaker
H-232, US Capitol
Washington, DC 20515
Senate Leader Harry Reid
522 Hart Senate Office Bldg
Washington, DC 20510
Gil Kerlikowske
O.N.D.C.P. Clearing House
PO Box 6000
Rockville, MD 20849-6000
Attorney General Holder
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001
The following links will get you the mailing addresses for both Congress and Senate
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
Find your (2) State Legislators and Governor of your home state and include them in your mail campaign. Remember to insert the proper name and title in your letters.
I urge you to do the same and please feel free to cut and paste the below letter or compose your own.
Print them now and mail them on Monday, April 20th
No other day please, to maximize the impact of the letters showing up on the same day they need to be mailed on April 20th.
Continue to do the same thing every year on April 20th until cannabis is discussed openly and fairly and the war on drugs gets overhauled as the current approach is a sorry and no longer affordable failure.
A one page, business sized letter weighs roughly one third of an ounce. That means that roughly for every 48 letters sent we’ll add one pound to their incoming correspondence. To increase the load by one hundred pounds requires about 4800 letters only. With the help of the internet we ought to be able to come up with a lot more than that! At 42 cents per letter and ten people to contact, this endeavor costs the modest sum of $4.20 in postage plus the paper and envelopes, which is a small price to pay for this cause. Think of it as our way of giving the US Postal Service their economic stimulus by supporting this letter writing campaign. (You may need to set the type size at 10 pt to fit the letter on one page. One page letters have a better chance of being read than multi page letters)
Please help out and contact your friends who support the end of cannabis prohibition with a link to this page and ask them to pass this along, add it to your website, just help and make this happen.
Lets make the mail bags heavy and start making some noise. As the letter states, the money spent on incarceration of those locked up for non-violent possession alone would go a long way in education by freeing up enough revenues nation wide to employ over 400,000 new teachers, to mention just one better way to spend the 25 billion plus dollars spent on locking up stoners! And don’t forget. Just because many people now are starting to support the idea of legalization does not mean that every supporter wishes to smoke. This is about truth about the subject, freedom of individuals in a free nation, fiscal responsibility, a new revenue source from cannabis and its associated jobs.
Cut and paste this letter or compose your own
Dear (legislator’s title, name here)
I am writing this letter to urge you to open the debate on whether to legalize, tax and control the adult use and medical use of cannabis. On both the President’s former website Change.gov as well as the non-governmental group Change.org the overwhelming support for the legalization of both medical and recreational pot use demand that an open and fact based dialogue be started on the viability of continuing to persecute those who use cannabis with no end in sight, or to finally allow cannabis to be used by those who do so responsibly. Cannabis is non addictive and not the gateway as it is often described, but in fact less harmful and never fatal when compared to the legal varieties of drugs, such as alcohol and tobacco.
Those who currently serve time for non violent possession charges cost the taxpayers around 25 billion tax dollars every year and that number is rising due to outdated laws and misleading propaganda to pacify special interests! The annual salary of teachers in this country runs around $60,000 (including employer matching taxes and other related costs) The 25 billion dollars saved from not incarcerating those who serve time for non violent possession alone could put the astounding number of over 417,000 new teachers into our schools. That is over 8300 new teachers per State! This may sound radical, but these are radical times with the welfare of our Nation at stake. Alcohol prohibition was overturned in December of 1933 after the country had decided that prohibition creates more crime than it solves and cost a struggling nation too much. After legalizing alcohol and putting a fair tax on it, the country benefited from the additional tax revenues and the world did not come to an end as predicted by certain segments of the population.
We as a Nation can no longer afford the systematic incarceration of our people for lifestyle choices such as smoking cannabis. Here is one way to reduce the need for more mostly privately owned and taxpayer supported prisons. This has nothing to do with being soft on crime. It is no longer affordable or acceptable to incarcerate this many human beings for transgressions many if not most Americans believe shouldn‘t be a crime for which prison is the answer. Lets use our jails and prisons for those convicted of violent crimes and those leaving victims behind, not for those seeking pleasure or relief from pain.
The “War on Cannabis” can be traced back as far as 1914 when “marihuana’ was used to harass and persecute mostly Mexican migrant workers in the South West and “negro“ jazz musicians. The “war” got it’s start in earnest with the “Marihuana Tax Act” of 1937 and every effort to open the debate and let the truth dictate the direction we take has been sidelined ever since. This is no longer acceptable governance, as we the taxpayers demand that at least our wishes be heard and given an open and fair chance to be heard. Since the sad event of the “Marihuana Tax Act” lies and falsehoods have set the agenda for private prison operators to enrich themselves at our expense. The Nation is crumbling and our financial future is at stake. Do not burden generations not yet born with the debt of imprisoning those who opt to smoke cannabis. Allow us to pay a fair tax and the country to reap the benefits from both, Industrial hemp and smokable cannabis as well as the medical use and full scale research into how a natural plant can provide the same or better benefits than often unaffordable and sometimes toxic pharmaceuticals.
Last but not least: Just because many people now are starting to support the idea of legalization does not mean that every supporter wishes to smoke. This is about truth about the subject, freedom of individuals in a free nation, fiscal responsibility, a new revenue source from cannabis and its associated jobs in a failing economy.
Respectfully submitted,
Your name here
your address, city, state and zip here
Remember! Get your letters done now and mail them on
APRIL 20th
Having been involved in getting 215 passed in California, I can only hope that this administration and the 111th Congress have the cajones to do the right thing, for once. As I spent the winter in then woods in Florida I watched with incredulity the President ignore the people’s will and dismissed the idea of legalizing cannabis with a simple 12 word comment by his staff in answer to his own website‘s poll!
While it appears to be easy to dismiss figures in the thousands on a computer monitor, as they come across as abstract numbers and cold data, it wouldn’t be nearly as easy to dismiss a sack full of letter asking the subject to be addressed.
For that reason I composed the below letter and will be sending them on April 20th to the following recipients and urge you to do the same;
President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20500
Speaker Nancy Pelosi
Office of the Speaker
H-232, US Capitol
Washington, DC 20515
Senate Leader Harry Reid
522 Hart Senate Office Bldg
Washington, DC 20510
Gil Kerlikowske
O.N.D.C.P. Clearing House
PO Box 6000
Rockville, MD 20849-6000
Attorney General Holder
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001
The following links will get you the mailing addresses for both Congress and Senate
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
Find your (2) State Legislators and Governor of your home state and include them in your mail campaign. Remember to insert the proper name and title in your letters.
I urge you to do the same and please feel free to cut and paste the below letter or compose your own.
Print them now and mail them on Monday, April 20th
No other day please, to maximize the impact of the letters showing up on the same day they need to be mailed on April 20th.
Continue to do the same thing every year on April 20th until cannabis is discussed openly and fairly and the war on drugs gets overhauled as the current approach is a sorry and no longer affordable failure.
A one page, business sized letter weighs roughly one third of an ounce. That means that roughly for every 48 letters sent we’ll add one pound to their incoming correspondence. To increase the load by one hundred pounds requires about 4800 letters only. With the help of the internet we ought to be able to come up with a lot more than that! At 42 cents per letter and ten people to contact, this endeavor costs the modest sum of $4.20 in postage plus the paper and envelopes, which is a small price to pay for this cause. Think of it as our way of giving the US Postal Service their economic stimulus by supporting this letter writing campaign. (You may need to set the type size at 10 pt to fit the letter on one page. One page letters have a better chance of being read than multi page letters)
Please help out and contact your friends who support the end of cannabis prohibition with a link to this page and ask them to pass this along, add it to your website, just help and make this happen.
Lets make the mail bags heavy and start making some noise. As the letter states, the money spent on incarceration of those locked up for non-violent possession alone would go a long way in education by freeing up enough revenues nation wide to employ over 400,000 new teachers, to mention just one better way to spend the 25 billion plus dollars spent on locking up stoners! And don’t forget. Just because many people now are starting to support the idea of legalization does not mean that every supporter wishes to smoke. This is about truth about the subject, freedom of individuals in a free nation, fiscal responsibility, a new revenue source from cannabis and its associated jobs.
Cut and paste this letter or compose your own
Dear (legislator’s title, name here)
I am writing this letter to urge you to open the debate on whether to legalize, tax and control the adult use and medical use of cannabis. On both the President’s former website Change.gov as well as the non-governmental group Change.org the overwhelming support for the legalization of both medical and recreational pot use demand that an open and fact based dialogue be started on the viability of continuing to persecute those who use cannabis with no end in sight, or to finally allow cannabis to be used by those who do so responsibly. Cannabis is non addictive and not the gateway as it is often described, but in fact less harmful and never fatal when compared to the legal varieties of drugs, such as alcohol and tobacco.
Those who currently serve time for non violent possession charges cost the taxpayers around 25 billion tax dollars every year and that number is rising due to outdated laws and misleading propaganda to pacify special interests! The annual salary of teachers in this country runs around $60,000 (including employer matching taxes and other related costs) The 25 billion dollars saved from not incarcerating those who serve time for non violent possession alone could put the astounding number of over 417,000 new teachers into our schools. That is over 8300 new teachers per State! This may sound radical, but these are radical times with the welfare of our Nation at stake. Alcohol prohibition was overturned in December of 1933 after the country had decided that prohibition creates more crime than it solves and cost a struggling nation too much. After legalizing alcohol and putting a fair tax on it, the country benefited from the additional tax revenues and the world did not come to an end as predicted by certain segments of the population.
We as a Nation can no longer afford the systematic incarceration of our people for lifestyle choices such as smoking cannabis. Here is one way to reduce the need for more mostly privately owned and taxpayer supported prisons. This has nothing to do with being soft on crime. It is no longer affordable or acceptable to incarcerate this many human beings for transgressions many if not most Americans believe shouldn‘t be a crime for which prison is the answer. Lets use our jails and prisons for those convicted of violent crimes and those leaving victims behind, not for those seeking pleasure or relief from pain.
The “War on Cannabis” can be traced back as far as 1914 when “marihuana’ was used to harass and persecute mostly Mexican migrant workers in the South West and “negro“ jazz musicians. The “war” got it’s start in earnest with the “Marihuana Tax Act” of 1937 and every effort to open the debate and let the truth dictate the direction we take has been sidelined ever since. This is no longer acceptable governance, as we the taxpayers demand that at least our wishes be heard and given an open and fair chance to be heard. Since the sad event of the “Marihuana Tax Act” lies and falsehoods have set the agenda for private prison operators to enrich themselves at our expense. The Nation is crumbling and our financial future is at stake. Do not burden generations not yet born with the debt of imprisoning those who opt to smoke cannabis. Allow us to pay a fair tax and the country to reap the benefits from both, Industrial hemp and smokable cannabis as well as the medical use and full scale research into how a natural plant can provide the same or better benefits than often unaffordable and sometimes toxic pharmaceuticals.
Last but not least: Just because many people now are starting to support the idea of legalization does not mean that every supporter wishes to smoke. This is about truth about the subject, freedom of individuals in a free nation, fiscal responsibility, a new revenue source from cannabis and its associated jobs in a failing economy.
Respectfully submitted,
Your name here
your address, city, state and zip here
Remember! Get your letters done now and mail them on
APRIL 20th
