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Regulating marijuana, social justice, drug policy reform, civil liberties, protecting your right to privacy, compassion, protecting patients from arrest, ensuring that the government is not wasting taxpayers' money…
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The New England Journal of Medicine; Saying Yes; Drugs & Drug Policy in America; MPP's State-by-State report; Cannabis and Cannabanoids; Prescription Pot: A Leading Advocate's Heroic Battle to Legalize Medical Marijuana; Montel Williams, Climbing Higher.
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About MPP
The Marijuana Policy Project lobbies for a more sensible approach to marijuana policy and works to remove criminal penalties for marijuana use, with a particular emphasis on making marijuana medically available to seriously ill people who have the approval of their doctors.
We are America's largest marijuana policy reform organization!
The government is arresting more than 700,000 marijuana users a year and is spending $12 billion annually on the war on marijuana.
With 20,000 dues-paying members and 100,000 e-mail subscribers, MPP is the largest organization in the United States that is solely dedicated to taking marijuana out of the criminal market and regulating it.
MPP works to minimize the harm associated with marijuana — both the consumption of marijuana and the laws that are intended to prohibit its use. MPP believes that the greatest harm associated with marijuana is prison.
Marijuana Prohibition Facts:
"According to estimates by Harvard University economist Jeffrey Miron, replacing marijuana prohibition with a system of taxation and regulation would save between $10 billion and $14 billion per year in reduced government spending and and increased tax revenue."
Miron, Jeffrey L., The Budgetary Implications of Marijuana. June 2005
"Every comprehensive, objective government commission that has examined the marijuana phenomenon throughout the last 100 years has recommended that adults should not be criminalized for using marijuana."
See: Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1894; The Panama Canal Zone Military Investigations, 1925; The Marihuana Problem in the City of New York, 1944; An Analysis of Marijuana Policy (National Academy of Sciences), 1982.
"Fifty-five percent of Americans believe possession of small amounts of marijuana should not be treated as a criminal offense. Seventy-eight percent support making marijuana legally available for doctors to prescribe in order to reduce pain and suffering."
National Gallup Poll, Nov. 1 2005.
"There have been over seven million marijuana arrests in the United States since 1995, including 771,984 arrests in 2004 — more than for all violent crimes combined, and an all-time record. One person is arrested for marijuana every 41 seconds. About 89% of all marijuana arrests are for possession — not manufacture or distribution."
Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Reports.
Who I'd like to meet:
Compassionate people who feel that a doctor should be able to prescribe marijuana to seriously ill patients enduring the symptoms of AIDS, cancer, multiple sclerosis, etc. If there has to be a war on drugs, could we at least remove the injured and wounded from the battlefield?
Civil libertarians who feel that responsible, non-violent, adult users of marijuana should not be subject to criminal prosecution…
Parents who feel that their child faces greater risk with marijuana in the criminal market…
Taxpayers who feel that the government is squandering hundreds of billions of dollars to fight the "war on drugs…"
Concerned citizens who understand that marijuana prohibition continues to generate revenue for extremist/terrorist groups to support armed conflict. Illegal drugs have enormous profit margins, making them ideal revenue sources for gangsters, guerrillas, or terrorists…
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Subject What you do in the privacy of your own home is up to YOU!!!
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This Wednesday the New Hampshire House of Representative’s committee on Criminal Justice will hold the first public hearing for a bill decriminalizing marijuana in the Granite State. This bill can only be brought before the legislature for approval once every two years, so this is it folks, our shot to be heard and effect change in our state!
Event: Wednesday, January 17, 2006 at 10:30am, in the Legislative Office Building (directly behind the NH State House) Room #204, Concord, NH—This event is open to the public, and anyone can provide either spoken or written testimony.
Click here for directions to the hearing: http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/misc/directions/
If passed, possession of small amounts of marijuana, such as an ounce and under, will be treated not as a misdemeanor but as a violation; this means no arrest, no imprisonment, no criminal record, just a small fine like a speeding ticket.
Click here to read the bill: http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2007/HB0092.html
Police arrest more Americans per year on marijuana charges than the total number of arrestees for all violent crimes combined. Decriminalizing marijuana will free up police resources to deal with these more serious crimes such as murder, rape, and child molestation.
Decriminalization will also make NH’s laws more humane, considering that the prestigious Lancet British medical journal found that “the smoking of cannabis, even long-term, is not harmful to health…It would be reasonable to judge cannabis as less of a threat than alcohol or tobacco,” and yet you are not arrested, fined, or imprisoned for the responsible use of either legal substance. As former President Jimmy Carter said: “Penalties against drug use should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself. Nowhere is this clearer than in the laws against the possession of marijuana in private for personal use.”
Please show NH’s legislators that there is support for reasonable marijuana reform in NH. Testimony can be provided by anyone, either written or spoken at the public hearing. If you cannot make it to the hearing, write a letter to the editor of your local paper this weekend or give a committee member a phone call simply letting them know that NH citizens support this reform. Now is the time to act. If you do nothing than you should expect little or no change, and more of the same inhumane treatment in NH for marijuana possession.
Click here to contact House committee members: http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/ie/billstatus/commdetails.asp
Sincerely,
Stuart E. Cooper
Executive Director
New Hampshire Marijuana Policy Initiative
P.O. Box 121, Manchester, NH 03105
T.603.703.1411 F.603.224.9413
Email: info@livefreeonline.org
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