AM I GOING CRAZY?!?!? Decriminalization of Marijuana
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Tomogchi
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and the epic reply
Dear Mr. XXXXX,
Thank you for taking the time to contact me regarding the issue of marijuana. I appreciate your advocacy, but I oppose the legalization of marijuana.
The use of marijuana, based on recent medical studies, can have serious social and medical repercussions. The National Institute of Health not only recognizes that marijuana significantly increases the risk of heart attack, but also associates its use with depression, anxiety, personality disturbances and learning difficulties. Furthermore, there is a range of violence and crime associated with the use and sale of marijuana. As such, I do not support the legalization of marijuana for recreational use.
With regard to the medical prescription of medical marijuana, I would defer to the medical profession should it be proven to be vital to the treatment of certain disease-related pain.
I would like to thank you again for contacting me and I hope you keep in touch with my office regarding future legislation and concerns that you may have.
Sincerely,
Kirsten Gillibrand
Member of Congress
P.S. Please remember to sign up for my online newsletter.
Boo that sucks.
December 5, 2008
Dear Mr. XXXXX,
Thank you for taking the time to contact me regarding the issue of marijuana. I appreciate your advocacy, but I oppose the legalization of marijuana.
The use of marijuana, based on recent medical studies, can have serious social and medical repercussions. The National Institute of Health not only recognizes that marijuana significantly increases the risk of heart attack, but also associates its use with depression, anxiety, personality disturbances and learning difficulties. Furthermore, there is a range of violence and crime associated with the use and sale of marijuana. As such, I do not support the legalization of marijuana for recreational use.
With regard to the medical prescription of medical marijuana, I would defer to the medical profession should it be proven to be vital to the treatment of certain disease-related pain.
I would like to thank you again for contacting me and I hope you keep in touch with my office regarding future legislation and concerns that you may have.
Sincerely,
Kirsten Gillibrand
Member of Congress
P.S. Please remember to sign up for my online newsletter.
Boo that sucks.
SeaOfGreen
Active Member
lol yeah reply to that what positives they found for the use of tobacco? then why is it that you (the representative) support a drug that kill XX amount of people, but yet one with NO i repeat 0 recorded deaths, is still illegal wasting XX amount of gov. money... i wanna see the reply to that...
ImissATARI
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Response i got:
seems carbon copied doesnt it westmich?
ImissATARI
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you mean, the "range of violence" and "crime associated" because its ILLEGAL!
unforgiven1420
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ok so we have a 5 page thread and not one single member of congress that will support this bill of all the congresspeople we've written to. none. all the responses say the same thing: "thanks for writing but FUCK YOU!"
westmich
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Yes, yes it does. Not sure how big Hoekstra's district is, but I guess we're in the same neighborhood.
unforgiven1420
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call his office and try to set up a metting with Mr. Hoekstra. get as many people to come with you as possible and make him explain his position. What makes him think he has the right to just say "it is sound policy" without backing up his beliefs? call him out on it. get a local radio station involved.
SeaOfGreen
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^ good call i think if everyone does something like this in there local area we could make a dent at least...keep the good times rolling/
cannabiscrusader
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here is what we need to do. If anyone is selling their grow for a profit, we need to tax ourselves. Use that to buy the peice of shit banks that needed bailing out, then run them right. Use that profit to grow more weed and then pay off the national deficite... i can see the headlines now "mary j to the rescue"
monkeyboy22
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Hey everyone.. this is my first post so I thought I would make it a good one..
John D. Podesta just announced yesterday that they (Obama and his team) will actually be reading everything in their blog on change.gov about ALL issues. Also all docs and info in regards to organizations they meet with and what they are meeting about will be posted on their site. change.gov
it certainly looks like Obama may bring the change we all have been looking for we just need to step up to the plate and show him and his team that decriminalization and taxation is the only way to go when it comes to the war on drugs.
I am trying to do what I can and hope everyone else here does what they can to spread the word and let others know that their voices will be heard, they just need to speak up!
John D. Podesta just announced yesterday that they (Obama and his team) will actually be reading everything in their blog on change.gov about ALL issues. Also all docs and info in regards to organizations they meet with and what they are meeting about will be posted on their site. change.gov
it certainly looks like Obama may bring the change we all have been looking for we just need to step up to the plate and show him and his team that decriminalization and taxation is the only way to go when it comes to the war on drugs.
I am trying to do what I can and hope everyone else here does what they can to spread the word and let others know that their voices will be heard, they just need to speak up!
ImissATARI
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http://news.aol.com/article/amsterdam-to-shut-some-sex-pot-shops/269838
check the poll-
when i looked at it- it said 63 percent have smoked, and that same amount thinks it should be legal.
check the poll-
when i looked at it- it said 63 percent have smoked, and that same amount thinks it should be legal.
unforgiven1420
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yeah it would be nice if the peoples opinion mattered....unfortunately it doesn't.
monkeyboy22
Active Member
actually it does matter when expressed to people who can make a difference and actually care... ie any politician who wants to keep their job.
if all the politicians out there were forced to see the truth and told that they arent getting reelected unless they do as they are told anyone who wanted to keep their job would certainly have no other choice but to bend to the will of the people. sad thing is so many of us just think that 1 person cant make a difference so in the end not enough people speak out and effectively ensure that the changes they want wont happen. I know that if we all do like was done in Michigan this past election there wont be much the feds can do even if they wanted to. Obama says he is going to bring about "smart gov" well I hope they are smart enough to see that this foolish war on marijuana needs to end.... if only enough people would speak up.
unforgiven1420
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ok#1 - I worked very hard in massachusetts this past election helping to pass a new decrim law and i'm still working hard to make sure the law that was passed will go into effect rather than being altered or eliminated by the state legislature (as they've done before with previous ballot measures passed by the peoples vote). #2 - I did not say that one person cannot make a difference. I said politians do not care about the will of the people, as evidenced by the numerous return emails written by politians and posted on this very thread. Until 50% or more of their constituants are writing to them about this issue they DO NOT and WILL NOT see it as their jobs being on the line. #3 - My personal belief is that 50% of the constituants in a given district will not send these letters to their representatives. Not because they think their view doersn't matter but because a letter to a congressman or senator that has no name on it doesn't mean anything to them and the vast majority are afraid to associate themselves publicly with decriminalizing or legalizing marijuana for fear of reprocusions. Its sad but it true. #4 - The media has played a huge roll in this. Constantly reiterating the government propoganda rather than reporting real news. the way to turn it around is to get t.v. and radio stations involved when a congressman or senator has made it clear that they do not believe there is anything wrong with the system of laws currently in place. Start petitions, get signatures, send the results to that elected official and if their views do not change it should become public knowledge that they "do not want to keep their jobs". #5- Please, please tell me when Obama has ever said anything about bringing about smaller government????? Every plan the man has laid out involves growing the size of government. If your refering to his pledge of going "line by line" through the budget and eliminating or shrinking programs that "aren't working for the people" please be aware that he only pledges to do this so he can enlarge other departments or areas of government. At this point we don't know what his plans are in regards to marijuana or any other drug but to say he has pledged to bring "small government" is just not accurate. i'd like to see your source on that in case i missed something.
robotninja
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I think we are closer now than ever to the decriminalization of pot simply because of our budget and economy is shot. So if you think about how much money goes into the prison/judicial system every year (not to mention prison over-crowding) it makes since to decriminalize pot. That would free up alot of prison space and do away with small time court hearings because so and so had some plants growing.
Not to mention we got a Democrat in office facing the biggest economic disaster our country has seen in a long time. It's possible! So Write to those bastards!
Not to mention we got a Democrat in office facing the biggest economic disaster our country has seen in a long time. It's possible! So Write to those bastards!
robotninja
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lol, that made my day!