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Stop
"Smoke
a
Joint,
Lose
Your
License"
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Action
Update
5/12/00
Last week, DRCNet alerted
our California supporters that the State Assembly Public Safety Committee,
under pressure from Gov. Gray Davis, had approved AB 2295, a bill to mandate
an automatic six month driver's license suspension for any drug offense.
The Assembly Appropriations Committee vote on the bill, originally scheduled
for this week, has been delayed -- leaving more time to write and call
the legislature but no time to lose!
Please call or fax Gov. Davis
to express your opposition to his support for Smoke a Joint, Lose Your
License, and please visit http://www.drcnet.org/states/california/
to tell your legislators to "just say no" to this expensive, thoughtless
law. Call the governor at (916) 445-2841, (213) 897-0322 or (415)
703-2218, or fax (916)445-4633 or (213)897-0319. And please use our
"tell a friend" form at http://www.drcnet.org/states/california/
to spread the word at this crucial time for California's drug policy.
EXTRA CREDIT: Call
or fax the members of the Appropriations Committee -- see http://www.drcnet.org/wol/136.html#license
for a complete listing.
(Special thanks to those
of you who helped spread the word and forward the first alert to your friends.
New people have responded to your appeals, in a terrific way, so please
keep it going!)
AB 2295 is opposed by California
NORML, who provided the information for this alert, and by the ACLU, California
AFL-CIO, the Teamsters, the California School Employees Association, the
Service Employees International Union and other labor groups. 32
states, including every state west of Texas, have passed "opt-out" legislation,
and a California poll by David Binder found that voters oppose "Smoke a
Joint, Lose Your License" by 2-1.
Visit California NORML at
http://home.igc.org/~canorml/.
Visit http://www.assembly.ca.gov/
and http://www.senate.ca.gov/ for
ongoing legislative information.
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Issue #137, 5/12/00
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