Please ask Congress to end the War on Drugs
I got this email from the Drug Policy Alliance:
The U.S. government has said many things about the drug war, including that it’s over. But as we’ve seen in recent months, it continues to rage on.
We’re tired of all the empty rhetoric about the drug war, and now that public opinion and state legislatures are moving in our favor, we need to show that there is broad public support for legalization and ending the war on drugs.
Tell Congress: I stand with Americans across the country in demanding an end to the war on drugs.
http://www.democrats.com/end-the-war-on-drugs
The war on drugs has destroyed lives in our country and sapped our nation’s resources for nearly 40 years. It’s widely agreed to be a failure, but has continued unabated.
Public opinion is increasingly against the war on drugs, and many states facing tight budgets have finally changed their policies to de-emphasize criminalization in favor of strategies that work.
The coalition of people who want to see the drug war end is one of the most diverse, broad-based alliances in America today: we come from every state in the nation and every spot on the political spectrum. I stand with this coalition in demanding public accountability for the war on drugs, and serious consideration for legalization.
Tell Congress: I stand with Americans across the country in demanding an end to the war on drugs.
http://www.democrats.com/end-the-war-on-drugs
When you go to the link, you fill in your address and a click sends it to your Representative. Mine is Sam Pharr, so I added this note:
Sam, For the love of God let’s end this thing now. It’s getting to the point where the Feds are going after state officials because the Federal law has lagged so far behind social change. When the Federal government finds itself arresting people who are terribly ill and using an easily grown plant to treat their pain or nausea of whatever—surely then the government should recognize that it’s in the wrong?
Do what you can.
Thanks.
Mike Ham
I’m hoping that some staffer will assume I’m one of Sam’s personal friends. Only those probably call him by some nickname—”Steamer” or something.
