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Help NORML and SAFER in Colorado!

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SAFER and NORML need your support to end marijuana prohibition in Colorado. Please continue reading to see how you can help.

In one of the more exciting developments in recent marijuana policy reform history, NORML is partnering with Denver-based Safer Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation (SAFER) to make the possession of up to one ounce of marijuana legal in the state of Colorado. As part of this effort, we at NORML are asking our friends and allies to put their collective financial weight behind the initiative campaign. Our goal is to help SAFER raise enough money to ensure that this groundbreaking initiative qualifies for the ballot.

We are sending this alert to our entire subscriber list because this is not just a Colorado matter; rather, it is about fighting marijuana prohibition head-on and building momentum for full, nationwide repeal.

Please visit -- http://www.safercolorado.org -- today and make a contribution to the Colorado campaign. Funds that are raised from this alert will allow SAFER to employ the necessary staff to collect signatures on a full-time basis. These signatures will supplement those thousands of signatures being collected by volunteers from around the state.

Last November, SAFER sent a shockwave across the nation when it ran a successful campaign in Denver to make possession of up to one ounce of marijuana legal under that city's ordinances. Amazingly, SAFER spent less than $30,000 on this campaign. The victory was attributable to hard work and a relentless earned media strategy that kept the city buzzing about marijuana for two weeks leading up to the vote.

SAFER intends to carry out a similar strategy statewide. Colorado's governor and attorney general have already called for a "statewide marijuana showdown." SAFER's response: Bring it on! Debates such as these allow SAFER to promote its primary message: Marijuana is less harmful than alcohol. From this message comes SAFER's core argument: Adults should not be punished for making the rational choice to use marijuana instead of alcohol.

But this statewide marijuana showdown will not occur if the initiative does not qualify for the ballot. In order to qualify SAFER needs to collect approximately 100,000 signatures in Colorado. They have people on hand ready to work full-time for $0.50 per signature, but they need the funds to pay them.

So visit â?? http://www.safercolorado.org â?? today! A $10 contribution will pay for 20 signatures, $25 will pay for 50, $100 will pay for 200, and so on. If everyone on this list sponsors just 10 signatures (with a $5 contribution), the initiative will be on the ballot in November!

If this initiative passes, we will have yanked the federal government's thumb out of the dike of marijuana prohibition. So this is no time to sit on the sidelines. Please take two minutes to make a contribution today!

Note: These contributions will go to the SAFER Voter Education Fund, a social welfare and lobbying organization that is supporting the initiative. Contributions to the Fund are not subject to public disclosure.

Thank you so much for joining us in this historic effort to end marijuana prohibition.

Sincerely,

Allen St. Pierre
Executive Director
NORML