Thanks for posting this! It’s hard to find out there.

put the blunts down and send the email to your leaders.

As a college educated, u.s. citizen, and medical patient myself, as well as knowing soo many people that this would effect I urge our government to pass this bill.

R-TX 21st Congressman Lamar Smith, House Judiciary Committee Chair needs an education! Please contact:
Website: lamarsmith.house.gov
Washington, D.C. Office:
2409 Rayburn House Office Building,
District of Columbia 20515-4321
Phone: (202) 225-4236
Fax: (202) 225-8628
San Antonio Office: (more district offices)
1100 NE Loop 410, #640
San Antonio, Texas 78209
Phone: (210) 821-5024
Fax: (210) 821-5947
Austin Office:
3536 Bee Cave Road, Suite 212
Austin, Texas 78746
Phone: (512) 306-0439
Fax: (512) 306-0427
Kerrville Office:
301 Junction Highway, Suite 346C
Kerrville, Texas 78028
Phone: (830) 896-0154
Fax: (830) 896-0168

I can’t wait for it to pass and what happens to the people
in prison?

There are many who feel this will not get passed, but I feel that We the People can make it happen if we press our representatives to vote in favor of it and return the proper jurisdiction the the States.

where do i need to write to i live in ky in support of decrimilizing mj

Support this bill to begin the end of the black market that fuels murder and terrorism across the world

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People this is a great start, but it wont go anywhere unless you contact your congressman. email, call, write, do anything to let your local congressman know that you want them to vote yes!

I wrote a bill about a month ago to legalize Marijuana spelled Marihana to my states people and forwarded this newer bill today. Lets make this happen people Im really trying to get high and/ or stoned. Its not fair that I cant be a humble netizen and become a gardener at the same time. Must the government tax our creative freedom or are we going to let God inspire us the way life was meant to be. Plus Im all out of cigarettes and I think this is a healthier alternative!

im ganna somoke either way but it would help me out if u guys passed it

Hello Congressman Lamar Smith,
My name is Joe American, a political activist and advocate for ending the failed “war on drugs.” I am contacting you today regarding your falsified attack on Rep Ron Paul and Barney Frank’s bill to decriminalize cannabis at the federal level. Not only have our drug laws failed, but in most cases they are illegal! Now prepare yourself for the truth, and the proof that these laws are illegal.

1st off I’m going to begin with the severability clause in the controlled substances act of 1970: ”Any provision of this title (see Short Title of 2000 Amendments) held to be invalid or unenforceable by its terms, or as applied to any person or circumstance, shall be construed as to give the maximum effect permitted by law, unless such provision is held to be utterly invalid or unenforceable, in which event such provision shall be severed from this title and shall not affect the applicability of the remainder of this title, or of such provision, to other persons not similarly situated or to other, dissimilar circumstances.”
You will find this clause in Title 21 “Food and Drugs” Chapter 13 “Drug Abuse Prevention and Control” Subchapter I “Control and Enforcement” Many political officials have admitted that the “war on drugs is a failure”

2nd I’m going with the medical factor: As a schedule 1 controlled substance cannabis would be required to have NO accepted medicinal value. Well this is clearly not true that cannabis is not accepted medically. This one might just blow your mind congressman!
US Patent 663057 titled “Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants” which is assigned to The United States of America, as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services.
The patent claims that: “Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism. This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and HIV dementia.”

This patent was obtained in October of 2003.

There is also US Patent 7109245 that was issued September 19, 2006 titled “Vasoconstrictor cannabinoid analogs” The patent discloses that:

“The present disclosure concerns pharmaceutical compounds and compositions that are useful as vasoconstrictors, and the use of these compounds, for example in the treatment of shock. Septic shock is a type of vasodilatory shock that is often accompanied by a clinical presentation that suggests infection, such as fever, chills, warm, flushed skin, and hemodynamic instability (characterized by a falling and rising blood pressure). Septic shock is an often fatal condition that accompanies severe microbial infections, frequently with gram-negative bacteria such as Escherichia coli (esh-uh-rik-ee-uh koh-lahy), Pseudomonas aeruginosa (soo-doh-moh-nass ah-ridge-in-oh-sa) and Klebsiella or Bacteroides species. Gram-positive bacterial infections can also lead to septic shock, particularly those infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus (staff-ill-oh-kok-us ore-ee-us) and the Pneumococcus (noo-muh-kok-uhs). The bacterial infections can be acquired by routes such as ingestion, personal contact, or trauma, but infections are often nosocomial consequences of therapeutic procedures, including implantation of indwelling catheters or prosthetic devices. Septic shock often occurs in immunocompromised subjects, and therefore has been an increasing problem in recent years because of the increasing number of individuals who are immunocompromised. For example, subjects with HIV disease or who are taking immunosuppressive drugs for the treatment of cancer or organ transplantation rejection are at increased risk of developing septic shock. In view of the above, there exists a need for agents that counteract the vasodilation associated with shock.
Summary:

The present inventors (George Kunos and Raj K. Razdan) have demonstrated that abnormal cannabidiol (Abn-cbd) is a selective agonist and cannabidiol is a selective antagonist of an as yet unidentified cannabinoid-like or non-classical receptor distinct from the known cannabinoidreceptors CB1 and CB2. Agonists of these receptors, such as Abn-cbd, are believed to cause vasodilation. Even cannabidiol itself, which is generally an antagonist of the putative receptor, has been found to cause some vasodilation, and it therefore acts as a partial agonist, or mixed agonist/antagonist. It would therefore be desirable to have an agent that acts as a pure, or substantially pure, antagonist at the CB1-like receptor. Such an agent would be particularly useful in the treatment of diseases in which hypotension is the result of the action of endogenous cannabinoids and drug-induced vasoconstriction is desirable, for example in hypotensive states, such as shock. The antagonist would have particular application in vasodilatory shock states, such as septic shock, but it could also be used to achieve selective hemostasis to stop bleeding induced by trauma or surgery.”

3rd I will inform you about property rights violations, and by the way congressman, you will find this to be in the law books as well. As well by advocating the war on drugs you are in violation of this law, as is anyone else who continues to enforce these laws:

Officials have no right to take life, freedom, or property (life/murder, freedom/enslave, property/theft). Drug laws are invalid as they prohibit ownership of property & violate a right to contract. They’ve slowly increased power of the police to violate other rights of privacy, further property rights infringement procedures where the state keeps the property even if there are no charges pressed against the person the property was stolen from. As the constitution protects our liberty, making it illegal to own property is in conflict to the constitution making these laws invalid. Any enforcement of these laws is punishable under US Code Title 18-Crimes and Criminal Procedures – - Part I-Crimes – - Chapter 13-Civil Rights – - Sections 241&242

Since you own your life, you are responsible for your own life. You do not rent your life from others who demand your obedience. You are also free from the chains of enslavement and cannot be forced to do anything against your will. Any laws that deprive someone of their unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness by limiting their choices is in direct violation of the concepts of liberty, and as liberty is a protected right under the constitution these laws are invalid.

Last but not least where is the constitutional amendment that makes it legal to criminalize a plant? Alcohol required a constitutional amendment to become criminalized…

I hope this bill passes, it’s long over due the federal gov should not be telling the states what is right and wrong.

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go to http://www.nomoredrugwar.org, to help legalize marijuana at the fedral level!

Just about all the comments are in favor of this bill and it makes perfect sense. But just wait until the alcohol and pharmaceutical industries mobilize their paid political chronies and begin their caimpaign of fear. This will not be as easy a fight as it sounds.

End the war against non violent Americans, end the War on Drugs! It is time for the corrupt greed to end, take your gold and be happy with what you have, its more than the majority will ever attain… end the greed, end the war, and allow us to choose our medicines. Many may love their poison-rich pharmaceuticals, and they will continue to use them. Many prefer the benefits of natural healing, and cannabis is NATURAL, SAFE and non toxic. Safer than baby aspirin!

Can you at least spell marijuana right!

So what does this mean in lamence terms?

I take meds that give me restless leg syndrome, tha!t sometimes can be major annoying! in the past meds tha were prescibed didn’t help much maybe marijuana might! My husband was a vietnam war veteran who passed away from melanoma cancer and when he started to decline he did get some and it did help ananomous

Repeal all cannabis hemp laws immediately! There has never been, nor is there now a legitimate reason to regulate this beneficial plant / holy herb. It’s prohibition has caused unmeasured death and planetary distraction due to cannabis treatable diseases and the never ending global war for oil interests. “Marihuana” was not made illegal because it was a threat to society, it was outlawed as a means to erradicate the Hemp species as a whole. Remember that the compound THC was not isolated until the 60s. Learn the real history of the Cannabis Hemp plant, you will be amazed and you will be pissed off at what this government has attempted to do.

Light up in the name of this act <3

States NEED to create some nasty, nasty laws for selling to minors. Right now, Marihuana is easier to get than alcohol or tobacco for teens. It is everywhere in school.

It would be cool to use some of the tax money generated to provide parents with free at home drug kits

It takes only the smallest bit of common sense to see that removing the prohibitions on marijuana would immediately legitimize and bring above-board the multi-billion-dollar cannabis and paraphernalia businesses, AND make room in our prisons for DANGEROUS criminals whom we allow to walk our streets.

Think of how many cops and teachers we could hire across the country with all the money we’d save on legal and logistical costs. And think of all the extra billions circulating through the legitimate economy and the tax system.

The only possible reason our representatives have so far resisted passing a bill like this is because their big donors don’t get to slice a chunk off for themselves. So, we just gotta replace their asses in Washington come next November if they fail to come through on this bill.

And we’ve got to stop the corporations and the RepubliCons from jerking the rest of America off. What a ridiculous waste of our taxes! http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/news_releases/local/09302011_7.xml

I’d like to encourage everyone to actually take the time to contact their representation in the house, then later the senate, to support this. It’s the only way to actually make our voices heard.

as a former locked up pot head, i love it!

Free the cure for cancer.

EVEN IF IT WAS STILL “ILLEGAL FOR INGESTION”, it’s a CASH CROP!!! Its potential for demand and usage in almost every industry and service makes it a cash crop.
A LOT of farmer’s (both old and new) would be able to work for a decent living. They wouldn’t need the the FEDERAL SUBSIDIES like most of our agriculture industry needs today, just to stay afloat. It would cause a boost in NEW products (or a change for the better in how existing products are made) creating NEW PRODUCTION jobs, a GROWTH in GDP and a change from a service economy back to a manufacturing one.
IT’S SIMPLE MATH PEOPLE !! Unfortunately, there are BIG anti hemp lobbyists (re: Big oil, Chemical, Big pharma, the Koch’s..etc) that won’t let it happen. Don’t even get me started on the BENEFITS to our personal health or the environment.
YES!! Even if it was still illegal for person consumption, I’d still support it for all of the above reasons!

Could they possibly hurry this thing along? We have a tentative trial date set for mid April and it would be VERY nice if we could just skip right over the pretense of justice show trial they are going to present to the world as fair and move on with our dream of a free America.
Jerry and Dennis, owners and co- founders of Medical Herb Providers, Spokane Washington

I am a mother of three from Alabama. My children are six, one, and two months old. I have suffered from chronic pain for the past ten years as a result of an accident. I was also diagnosed with cancer in my third trimester of my most recent pregnancy. Upon starting chemo therapy and thus being prescribed a cocktail of prescription drugs, I found my self so drugged and weak from not being able to eat that I was forced to move my mother into my house just so I was able to ensure that my children were tended too. After losing a significant amount of weight and walking around in a near zombie state from the meds, my mother suggested that I try smoking some marijuana. Needless to say, it worked. Not only am I regaining the much needed strength to care for my children, but are actually getting the first releif from my pain in years. When I went for my scan results yesterday my oncologist was amazed at how I had bounced back from the last time we had met. I decided to confide in him what I had been doing and he was not surprised. Why is it that this is still illegal? I never once imagined that my mother would suggest that I try a “drug” but it is the best thing that she has ever done for me!

This is great Stuff.