The Anti-"Drug War" going along?

erislover · July 21, 2003, 5:56pm

I just read this from one of my pro-legalization mails:

Dear drug reformer:

In the last two weeks debates and votes in Congress have shown a level of opposition to the drug war never before seen (see link below). This week two votes of major importance will be taken in the House of Representatives, and your letters and phone calls are urgently needed and have a greater chance of making the difference than at any time in the recent past:

On Wednesday or Thursday (July 23 or 24), US Representatives Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) and Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) will introduce an amendment to prohibit the Dept. of Justice from spending any money to interfere with state medical marijuana laws (such as the raids on California’s medical marijuana cooperatives).

On Tuesday (July 22), or possibly Wednesday, the House is scheduled to debate the 2004 foreign aid bill, at which time Reps. Jim McGovern (D-MA) and Ike Skelton (D-MO) plan to introduce an amendment to reduce military aid to Colombia and transfer funds instead into global AIDS programs.

Please visit http://www.stopthedrugwar.org/medicalmarijuana/ and
please visit http://www.stopthedrugwar.org/stopthehelicopters/ to send a free e-mail or fax to your US Representative. In the wake of the 2001 anthrax attacks, e-mails and faxes get much more attention than they used to. You can send our prewritten sample letters, but if you personalize or rewrite it, it will increase your impact. Please also call your Rep. to make even greater impact – you can use the Congressional Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 to get through – or visit http://www.house.gov to find their direct phone or fax numbers yourself.

The time is now to call and write Congress on these two major issues. Please take action today to stop the war on drugs, and please forward this alert to any and all like-minded people. (Visit http://www.drcnet.org/wol/296.shtml#consensuseroding to read about the growing erosion of the drug war consensus in Congress.)