Hi Friends, You can use your phone to directly help legalize marijuana! Our Just Say Now Phonebank is a virtual system that provides you with a free, quick & easy way to reach individual voters in states voting on marijuana initiatives. There are thousands of voters in Arizons, California, Oregon and South Dakota who need to hear from you, and we need your help. Help us end the war on marijuana - start calling voters in support of marijuana reform today. Click here to start calling: http://go.firedoglake.com/ Ourgoal is to call 100,000 voters in California in the next 30 days. If 5,000 people call 20 voters each, about 5 calls per week, we can reach that goal. You don't have to do it all yourself, though - pass this email to your friends and ask them to call. Each call just takes a few minutes, and you can start calling voters with just your email address or Facebook account. There's evena video that explains how to call, step by step. If you're in an SSDP chapter, you can earn points and compete with other chapters everytime you call or rectruit people to your chapter's team. Points are updated in real time on our leaderboard! Voicing your support for this issue has never been easier or more urgently important, so start calling voters today. Let's make history, let's make marijuana legal. Aaron Houston Exectutive Director Connect with SSDP Please help us grow our grassroots movement to end the failed War on Drugs by inviting family and friends to join. http://www.ssdp.org/invite |
Bishop Ron Allen is seriously one of the best things to ever happen to the marijuana legalization debate. In all my years of marijuana reform advocacy, I've never seen an opponent so unhinged, so incoherent and intoxicated by his own idiocy. Just watch this FOX News debate with MPP's Steve Fox and see if you can figure out what the hell Bishop Allen is trying to say:
You can help make this nationwide effort a huge success by attending the event nearest you. Scroll down to see the complete list of WMM Day Of Action event locations and times. This effort is being coordinated by the Women's Marijuana Movement, a project of SAFER intended to increase support for marijuana legalization among women. If you have not already signed on to be a part of the movement you can do so today by visiting http://www.WomensMarijuanaMovement.org today. Please note that locations have been added or changed in California, Florida, and Texas. Event Times, Locations, and Contacts CALIFORNIA Saratoga Springs? |
Dear friends: I hope you'll join us for this special private fundraiser at a breathtaking and peculiar Sonoma wine country estate. While the cause, the people assembled, and the location itself are enough to make for a memorable time, we are not stopping there... Your senses will be delighted by unique cuisine delivered in dramatic ways, two gravity-defying aerial performances from the cathedral ceiling in the living room, and the chance to mingle amongst the cannabis glitterati at the sponsor-provided lounge and bar. NOTE: Tickets are limited and will likely sell out. Feel free to forward this to friends that you'd like to introduce to MPP, but please do not post this to any public lists. This fall, our movement is at a pivotal moment in history. Legal medical marijuana and marijuana-related products continue to be growth industries, the media can’t get enough of us, and California will set the pace for rest of the nation on its course toward the re-legalization of cannabis. No matter what happens at the polls on November 2nd, we have a tremendous opportunity – and responsibility – to unite, share our vision for what lies ahead, charge forth stronger than ever. By purchasing a ticket(s) to The Mission: Winter Ball, you are taking part in the fight for freedom, justice, and compassion. We look forward to celebrating with you on December 11th. Lindsay RobinsonDevelopment OfficerSan Francisco415-515-0450[email protected]Sarah LoveringDevelopment OfficerLos Angeles310-351-2639[email protected] Kelley CrossonDevelopment OfficerNew York City917-699-2915[email protected] P.S. If you have a company or collective that would like to be part of this one-of-a-kind event, ask us about sponsorship opportunities.
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Prop 19 polls on the rise
Ending prohibition makes cents (and dollars)
From the Director's Desk
MPP's Steve Fox featured in debate on Fox News
Ban on Fake Marijuana
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To contact MPP, please click here or reply to this e-mail. Our mailing address is Marijuana Policy Project, 236 Massachusetts Ave. NE, Suite 400, Washington, D.C. 20002. Any donations you make to MPP may be used for political purposes, such as supporting or opposing candidates for federal office. | |||||||
Come hear Jim Gray, former Superior Court Judge of Orange County, CA, talk about why the "war on drugs" has failed, and what you can do about it.
James P. Gray was a trial judge in Orange County, California beginning in 1983. Before becoming a judge, he served as a Volunteer in the Peace Corps in Costa Rica, a staff judge advocate and criminal defense attorney in the Navy JAG Corps, a federal prosecutor in Los Angeles, and a civil litigation attorney in a private law firm, in addition to being a Republican candidate for US Congress in 1998, and a Libertarian candidate for US Senate in 2004. Judge Gray has discussed issues of drug policy on more than two hundred television and radio shows and public forums all across the country. Using his experience on the bench and elsewhere, he has also authored a book on the failed War on Drugs, another Wearing The Robe, about practical and ethical issues in being a judge.
For more information, see http://www.judgejimgray.com/
In just the last week two new polls have come out showing California's Prop 19 has strengthened its position among that state's voters. In one instance, the highly respected Field Poll showed Prop 19 leading 49 to 42 percent, a marked increase from June when that same poll showed the initiative down 48 to 44 percent. Let's hope these polls hold true come November and California voters decide to make their state the first in the nation to end marijuana prohibition! 
A new study funded by the Cato Institute and conducted by former MPP grant recipient Jeffrey A. Miron shows that between savings and tax revenue the regulation of marijuana could bring $17.4 billion to government coffers annually. Although Miron's report notes that much of the savings would come from reducing the number of people in the criminal justice system it is nonetheless an affirmation of what MPP has been saying for years: ending marijuana prohibition saves lives AND dollars. 
MPP executive director Rob Kampia shares his latest Huffington Post piece on the pivotal role this year's gubernatorial election in Vermont will play in attempts to decriminalize marijuana in that state. Peter Shumlin (D), who pulled ahead in a very close primary race, has been supportive of marijuana policy reform since Rob's first encounter with him eight years ago and may now be the key to making great policy strides in Vermont. 
Steve Fox, MPP's director of government relations and co-author of 'Marijuana is Safer,' recently went on the morning show "Fox and Friends" to debate Bishop Ron Allen, an opponent of California's Prop 19. As always, Steve remained calm, cool, and collected in the face of far-fetched prohibitionist rhetoric while managing to explain why our marijuana laws need to change. 
MPP director of communications Mike Meno posted a great piece on the MPP Blog detailing the movement by states to ban artificial marijuana substitutes such as K2. Currently, 13 states have banned the substance and Michigan is expected to join that list as early as next week. Is this a sensible move to protect public safety, or a futile effort that misses the real issue? 
In January 2003, 19-year-old Webster Alexander of Alabama received a 26-year prison sentence for selling $350 of marijuana within three miles of a school.