Call Your Senator to Support Defunding the DEA's raids on legal MMJ

[RainDog]

The Commerce, Justice & Science (CJS) appropriations bill was approved in the House.

Now with Amendment 25! (to defund DEA raids for mmj facilities.)

Please call your Senator to express support for defunding the DEA regarding medical marijuana in the many states where this is now law, and in the many states that will vote for medical marijuana laws in the near future.

Thanks!

Here's a list to find your Senator: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

[Uncle Joe]

1. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, RainDog.

[RainDog]

2. 22 states and the District of Columbia have passed comprehensive medical marijuana laws

South Carolina, Alabama, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee, Utah, and Wisconsin have enacted limited, CBD-only medical marijuana bills this year. The Missouri legislature also passed a similar bill, and all that's left is Governor Jay Nixon's signature, expected later this month.

Thanks for the kind words!

[RainDog]

3. kickipoo n/t

[Luminous Animal]

4. Done and kick

[RainDog]

8. Great! n/t

[TheKentuckian]

5. Sure, I'm going to go further and request the entire agency be defunded.

[RainDog]

9. LOL

Congress just needs to remove cannabis from the oversight of the DEA.

Essentially, that will be defunding quite a bit of their budget for LEOs around the nation. Let law enforcement focus on actual crimes, not possession on an herb.

Did you know that hemp is still subject to DEA raids, too, because Title 21 includes any species of marijuana and any of its plant parts.

So, when Kentucky and other Ag. Commission Depts are doing their studies - they could be raided by the DEA. Of course, the DEA already stopped importation of Italian hemp seeds, until someone made a call to someone...

This issue has to be dealt with by Congress - and the easiest way is to remove it from the Controlled Substances Act, just as alcohol is not a controlled substance. Let hemp be regulated as agriculture and medical marijuana by the FDA and recreational marijuana through the ATF.

Why isn't Rand Paul on board for this?

He wants to only reduce penalties, not deal with the real problem. Real libertarians (ones in CA) led the way to make cannabis legal as medicine with Prop. 251, back in the 1990s. Why is Rand Paul acting like a religious right "conservative" on this issue?

[TheKentuckian]

10. Because Rand Paul is a regular TeaPubliKlan playing a Libertarian on TV and a fool.

It is my desire that law enforcement take a big haircut. Vice laws are a failure.

[Comrade Grumpy]

6. This is a way you can use a political discussion board to actually do something. Do it!

[RainDog]

7. Get Up Offa that Thang

And call and you'll feel better...