The Drug Policy Alliance is the nation’s leading organization of people who believe the war on drugs is doing more harm than good.
In our vision of tomorrow, people are not punished simply for what they put into their bodies but only for harm done to others. We fight for drug policies based on science, compassion, health and human rights. Our work spans issues from medical marijuana to youth drug education. We work to ensure that our nation’s drug policies no longer arrest, incarcerate, disenfranchise and otherwise harm millions of nonviolent people, especially people of color.
The mission of The Drug Policy Alliance is to advance those policies and attitudes that best reduce the harms of both drug misuse and drug prohibition, and to promote the sovereignty of individuals over their minds and bodies.
DPA delivered this one trillion dollar bill to every member of congress on the 40th anniversary of the war on drugs.
This March, Senators Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Rand Paul introduced the CARERS Act — the most comprehensive piece of marijuana legislation the U.S. Senate has ever seen.
We’ve made a lot of progress since then, and I want to fill you in on where we stand. We are now up to 15 cosponsors. In fact, even Chuck Schumer, the possible future head of the Senate Democrats, just signed on.
As the Senate heads into recess, it’s important we get even more cosponsors to sign on. With more cosponsors we’ll have the political pressure we need to force a hearing and subsequently a vote in the Judiciary Committee.
Send a message to your Senators now — urge them to cosponsor the CARERS Act if they haven’t already!
Over the past couple of months, the Senate Appropriations Committee has passed individual pieces of the CARERS Act – allowing Veterans Affairs doctors to recommend medical marijuana, protecting medical marijuana laws from federal interference, and allowing the banking industry to provide services to marijuana businesses – but all of those votes were only temporary one year fixes.
The passage of the CARERS Act would be a watershed moment in the fight to end the war on drugs. This pivotal piece of legislation would permanently change federal law. The CARERS Act would do the following things:
Let states legalize medical marijuana without federal interference.
Expand research into the health benefits of marijuana.
Allow Veterans Affairs doctors to recommend marijuana to ailing veterans.
Completely legalize CBD strains of marijuana for medical treatment nationwide.
Re-classify marijuana as Schedule 2, admitting to the world that marijuana does in fact have medical benefits.
Allow banks to legally provide financial services to marijuana businesses.
The times are changing, and the CARERS Act has a real shot at passing. But we need your help.
Please urge your Senators to cosponsor the CARERS Act now. With your help, we can protect state medical marijuana laws and end the criminalization of patients and their families.
Sincerely,
Bill Piper
Director, National Affairs
Drug Policy Alliance
Some people celebrate this religious holiday by the wearing of the green.
Some people celebrate this religious holiday by the drinking of the green.
Some people celebrate this religious holiday by the smoking of the green.
So why on St. Patrick’s Day is all this done and whatever does it mean?
See Patrick was enslaved as a teenager in Ireland and this was no funny joke
and GOD spoke to him in a dream to flee his chains and head out for the coast,
a ship awaited and thus he boarded to Britain which completed his questly flee
there he studied his religious FAITH then one Day he was ordained a holy priest.
Patrick returned again to Ireland the land that once held him as a common slave
to speak GODS WORD through Christianity helping lost souls to find their way,
he used a green shamrock to explain the Trinity which is a shared part of his FAITH
interesting how a little green plant helped others understand living life a better way.
Another green plant called Cannabis is also part of a dynamic teaching criteria
NORML and others use this leaf representing its many uses down throughout the millenia’s,
medicinal, environmental, textiles, fuel, clothing, food and jobs just to name a few
are the many industrious wondrous things this little green plant can safely sustainably do.
Just as St. Patrick worked at changing the practices of Ireland’s practicing pagan minds
NORML and others do the same by working to change the worlds political governing minds,
by raising awareness of unjust laws that affect the lives of those that are stricken gravely ill
and those choosing Cannabis over the liquid drug alcohol of which bellies get daily filled.
St. Patrick’s Day is a Day for prayer offering and spiritual renewal for all believers worldwide
let’s embrace our spirit of compassion offering petitions and phone calls to legislators worldwide,
raising awareness to all political systems that oppose Medical Marijuana for those hurting now still
teaching others through a medicinal green plant shouting its benefits high upon all the lighted hills.
St. Patrick drove proverbial snakes out of Ireland saving everyone giving them a safe path in life
so let’s drive out the real snakes in politics opposing Medical Cannabis for sick lives struggling in strife,
whether you wear the green or drink it down or smoke it to remember on this religious St. Patrick’s holiday
let’s not forget those who’ve died never partaking in the green for their time on Earth ran out along the way.
National NORML released a memo for use with state lawmakers, cannabis regulators, prosecutors, and other interested parties to provide an easy and simple list of recommendations of how to quickly evolve marijuana policies around the country in the ongoing effort to mitigate the spread and destruction of COVID-19.
In light of the ongoing effort to promote public and health safety, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) strongly encourages state and local policymakers to implement the following guidelines to reduce person-to-person interactions, reduce unnecessary public servant-to-person interactions and to better protect the health of cannabis patients and consumers, as well as the general public.
NORML recommends:
• An immediate deprioritization of marijuana criminal and civil penalty enforcement • An immediate withdrawal of all charges for those currently facing prosecution for a nonviolent marijuana-related offense • Immediate review and release of currently incarcerated individuals who are either in jail or in prison solely for the commission of a nonviolent marijuana-related offense • Immediate review and waiver of all pending probation requirements for individuals who have solely been convicted of a nonviolent marijuana-related crime
It is our hope that this serves as a resource. We need your help to put it in the hands of your policymakers and have them clearly connect the dots on how to do so. Sign the petition today and share on social media. Join us as a member for 2020 as we celebrate our 10th year as a NORML Affiliate.
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