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

Thu Feb 23 23:27:18 EST 2017

Caryn Ann:  You got it.  I will co-sponsor.  Bill Redpath
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On Thu, 2/23/17, Caryn Ann Harlos <carynannharlos at gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [Lnc-business] [Lnc-votes] Marijuana Resolution - revision - request for co-sponsors
 To: "Libertarian National Committee list" <lnc-business at hq.lp.org>
 Date: Thursday, February 23, 2017, 10:50 PM

 Okay can
 we have one more co-sponsor?
 -Caryn Ann
 On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at
 5:52 AM, Starchild <sfdreamer at earthlink.net>
 wrote:

 	Me too, just to
 formalize my previous statement in case that didn't
 count.
 Love &
 Liberty,                           
       ((( starchild )))At-Large
 Representative, Libertarian National Committee 
                              (415)
 625-FREE                           
      @StarchildSF

 On
 Feb 23, 2017, at 4:35 AM, lnc-votes at hq.lp.org
 wrote:
 I
 will co-sponsor. ~David Celebrate Life, Set the
 Bar High and LIVE FREE ~David Pratt
 DemarestLNC
 Region 6 Representative (IA, IL, MN, MO, ND, NE,
 WI)Secretary, LPNE State Central
 CommitteeCell:      402-981-6469Home: 402-493-0873 From: Lnc-business
 [mailto:lnc-business-bounces@
 hq.lp.org] On
 Behalf Of Caryn
 Ann Harlos
 Sent: Wednesday,
 February 22, 2017 9:58 PM
 To: lnc-business
 <lnc-business at lp.org>
 Subject: [Lnc-business]
 Marijuana Resolution - revision - request for
 co-sponsors Starchild re-worked this and said he
 would be willing to co-sponsor.  Chair Watts is satisfied
 with it:  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 WHEREAS this
 dishonest classification  is an impediment both to
 useful academic research, and to realizing the economic
 benefits that legalization offers; and  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  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  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 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 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  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 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 WHEREAS polls now show that
 most Americans support legalizing cannabis for both medical
 and recreational use, and voters in multiple states have
 voted accordingly;  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.  ===== I am seeking two additional
 co-sponsors. --In
 Liberty,Caryn Ann
 HarlosRegion 1
 Representative, Libertarian National Committee (Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii,
 Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) - Caryn.Ann.
 Harlos at LP.orgCommunications Director, Libertarian
 Party of
 ColoradoColorado
 State Coordinator, Libertarian
 Party Radical
 Caucus    
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 HarlosRegion 1
 Representative, Libertarian National Committee (Alaska, Arizona, Colorado,
 Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) - Caryn.Ann.
 Harlos at LP.orgCommunications Director, Libertarian Party of
 ColoradoColorado State Coordinator, Libertarian Party
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