Urge Your Representative to Support H.R. 5842 NOW!

[SouthernGuerilla]

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and I'm wondering why there isn't a sticky for this on here...

SouthernGuerilla Reviewed by SouthernGuerilla on 08-09-2008. Urge Your Representative to Support H.R. 5842 NOW! Contact Officials - NORML and I'm wondering why there isn't a sticky for this on here... Rating: 5

[epilepticme]

Way to many cannabis believers do not act on posts such as these.

If 1/2 half of the people that used cannabis wrote letters to their

representatives in congress this chit would have been decriminalized a

while ago.

[RobPA]

Yes, please people i urge you to do the whole Email thing as I did. I got a reply from my congressional rep the same day.

[epilepticme]

I think most folks are scared that they will end up on some secret list.

I am sure our Rep's are not sending a list to the DEA of names of voters.

I am sure the last thing they want is a constintuent tossed in the clink. Who will

be left to vote for them?


GET UP STAND UP... DON'T GIVE UP THE FIGHT.


DO IT OR ARE YOU A LAMEr?

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[SouthernGuerilla]

I think most folks are scared that they will end up on some secret list.

I am sure our Rep's are not sending a list to the DEA of names of voters.

I am sure the last thing they want is a constintuent tossed in the clink. Who will

be left to vote for them?


GET UP STAND UP... DON'T GIVE UP THE FIGHT.


DO IT OR ARE YOU A LAMEr?

Contact Officials - NORML

It's all atypical paranoia that most people have who are doing something that is "wrong" / deemed illegal by the government. It's a guilt thing to most or at the least a fear of going to jail.


I think we'll see cannabis legalized for medical use before it's legalized as a recreational drug like alcohol. Who knows, it could be legalized for medical use and possession of minor amounts decriminalized at the same time.

Everyone should get involved in politics and have more communications with their political leaders. :hippy:

[SouthernGuerilla]

Yes, please people i urge you to do the whole Email thing as I did. I got a reply from my congressional rep the same day.

Follow up with a good ole fashion letter and mail it!

[SouthernGuerilla]

How come this topic was never a sticky and who do I have to brown nose to get this thread stickied?

[rick3289]

thanks for posting this thread. I sent it too waco's finest chet edwards. Hope too here something other than his automated response and I called his office and left them a message. If we could only get all these other fools on here involved. Like u wanna learn too grow first thing u should do is help tha cause that way hopefully your rear wont winde up in da pen.

[veggii]

Might need to change the 5842 to 5843 before sending
Stand up and Fight I challenge you!

I'm writing to urge your support for H.R. 5842, also know as the â??Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act.â?�

If approved, H.R. 5842 would end the federal governmentâ??s conflict with the twelve states that have already approved medical cannabis legislation. At the same time, it will not alter or interfere with already existing federal laws discouraging the non-medical, recreational use of marijuana, nor would it force medical cannabis on states that have not approved it.

The use of marijuana as medicine is a public health issue; it should not be part of the war on drugs. According to a recent national survey of U.S. physicians conducted for the American Society of Addiction Medicine, nearly half of all doctors with opinions support legalizing cannabis as a medicine. Some 80 state and national health care organizations, including the American Nurses Association, American Public Health Association and The New England Journal of Medicine, support immediate, legal patient access to medical cannabis.

Most recently, the largest association of doctors of internal medicine and the second largest medical association in the country, the American College of Physicians, released a policy paper in support of medical cannabis, stating, "The ACP strongly urges protection from criminal or civil penalties for patients who use medical marijuana as permitted under state laws."

To deny an effective medication to the sick and dying in order to "send a strong message to kids" against drug abuse is cruel and unconscionable, and improperly interferes with the relationship between a patient and his or her physician. State and federal laws already allow the medical use of many drugs, such as cocaine and morphine, which can be abused in a non-medical setting. Basic compassion and common sense demand that we allow the seriously ill to use whatever medication provides safe and effective relief. That is why 8 out of 10 American voters now say they support the legalization of cannabis for medical purposes.

Presently, twelve states - Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Vermont and Washington - have enacted laws protecting medical marijuana patients from state prosecution. Itâ??s time that we allowed our unique federalist system to work the way it was intended, and permit these statesâ?? citizens and their representatives to enact laws permitting the medical use of cannabis, free from federal interference.

I believe it is unconscionable to deny this effective medicine to sick and dying patients. I urge you to support H.R. 5842.

[veggii]

I second that sticky Southern Geurilla
p4b can you sticky this, there are actually 2 bills in congrees
H.R 5843
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send to congress know!
H.R, 5842
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send too congress know
above are links too both bills in congress