[Lnc-business] [Lnc-votes] Marijuana Resolution - revision - request for co-sponsors

[Starchild]

	Me too, just to formalize my previous statement in case that didn't count.

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On Feb 23, 2017, at 4:35 AM, lnc-votes at hq.lp.org wrote:

> I will co-sponsor.
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> From: Lnc-business [mailto:lnc-business-bounces at hq.lp.org] On Behalf Of Caryn Ann Harlos
> Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2017 9:58 PM
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> Subject: [Lnc-business] Marijuana Resolution - revision - request for co-sponsors
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> Starchild re-worked this and said he would be willing to co-sponsor.  Chair Watts is satisfied with it:
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> WHEREAS the current federal classification of cannabis under the Controlled Substances Act as a Schedule 1 drug having no medicinal value is an inaccurate classification at odds with the findings of the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine and those of many other researchers; and
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> WHEREAS this dishonest classification  is an impediment both to useful academic research, and to realizing the economic benefits that legalization offers; and 
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> WHEREAS cannabis is a drug with few harmful effects and zero documented fatalities which is even safer when not forced into the black market, where labeling, testing, and quality control are less prevalent; and 
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> WHEREAS drug prohibition in the United States has been an unmitigated failure, with a third of Americans self-reporting having used cannabis despite strict penalties against its sale, manufacture and use, and   over $1 trillion of taxpayer money in a futile effort to enforce  drug laws, including those pertaining to cannabis; and 
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> WHEREAS the black markets created by these unconstitutional statutes have led to increased violence both in the United States and in other countries such as Mexico where cannabis and other drugs are produced for the U.S. market; and
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> WHEREAS millions and millions of peaceful Americans have been arrested, imprisoned, fined, or otherwise needlessly criminalized and stigmatized, potentially for life, because of their use of cannabis, and the 2 million Drug War prisoners currently behind bars in the United States  have given this country the highest documented incarceration rate of any nation on Earth, accounting for a reported 25% the world’s prisoners; and
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> WHEREAS drug prohibition has been the major driver of the practice of asset forfeiture, in which over $13 billion has been seized by law enforcement across the country, often from people who have not been convicted of, or sometimes even charged with, any crime; and 
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> WHEREAS this gross violation of legal  due process, has incentivized the arbitrary and often discriminatory arrest of U.S. residents in what has come to be known as "policing for profit" ; and
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> WHEREAS unconstitutional statutes attempting to control what people choose to put into their own bodies  constitute a vast and dangerous government intervention  into  people's personal lives violating the cherished American values of  individual freedom and choice; and
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> WHEREAS polls now show that most Americans support legalizing cannabis for both medical and recreational use, and voters in multiple states have voted accordingly; 
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> NOW THEREFORE be it resolved that the Libertarian National Committee supports the immediate full legalization and federal de-scheduling of cannabis and industrial hemp products, as a much-needed first step toward ending the destructive "War on Drugs" entirely, in accord with the Libertarian Party's platform.
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> I am seeking two additional co-sponsors.
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> Caryn Ann Harlos
> Region 1 Representative, Libertarian National Committee (Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) - Caryn.Ann. Harlos at LP.org
> Communications Director, Libertarian Party of Colorado
> Colorado State Coordinator, Libertarian Party Radical Caucus
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