[Lnc-business] Email Ballot 2017-04: Cannabis Resolution

Fri Feb 24 18:16:10 EST 2017

With the recent Trump appointee I respectfully disagree.  Continuing to
loudly declare right now is needed more than ever.

And respectfully an affiliate (from
Region 1) - whom we do exist to serve - asked for this and I hope we give
it our respectful - non sarcastic - consideration.

-Caryn Ann

On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 4:13 PM Alicia Mattson <agmattson at gmail.com> wrote:

> I vote no.
>
> Daniel Hayes has been reading my mind...Gotta check his wallet for any NSA
> identification...  Rather than just saying "ditto", I'll be more creative:
>
>
> WHEREAS the Libertarian Party platform has always taken a firm stance on
> ending the War on Drugs; and
>
> WHEREAS the one thing that much of the general public does know about the
> Libertarian Party is our stance on decriminalizing drugs; and
>
> WHEREAS it changes nothing in the universe for LNC members to spend their
> time writing resolution-style white papers about subjects in our platform
> which are already well known to the general public; and
>
> WHEREAS our bylaws set a high threshold for adoption of public policy
> resolutions precisely because our delegates wish us to focus on more
> productive matters; and
>
> WHEREAS voting yes on such resolutions tends to encourage the production
> of more of them; and
>
> WHEREAS activity is not the same thing as productivity;
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> THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, I vote no.
>
> -Alicia
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> On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 2:57 PM, Daniel Hayes <danielehayes at icloud.com>
> wrote:
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> I abstain.
>
> Just last night it was "driven" home to me just how little this is needed
> from the LNC.  I drive Lyft occasionally. Its Mardi Gras, and I was driving
> Lyft last night.
>
>
> This one passenger that made me wait a while and was kind of "triggering"
> me said to me while driving, "You look like a Trump man."
> I looked at him sideways and grabbed my phone and showed him the LP site.
> He saw LP and said "Oh! you are a LIbertarian, I voted for Gary Johnson."
> I then showed him the LNC, and he saw my picture and said, "Oh! you are on
> the National Committee. Can you sell me some weed?"
>
> Now I don't smoke, use, or sell weed so I couldn't help him though I fully
> support the reform of cannabis laws.  I didn't really like him so I
> probably wouldn't have sold him any even if I had some and even if it were
> not illegal to do so.
>
> The point of this story is everybody knows where we stand on cannabis. I
> was already thinking that before this incident last night.
>
> It's still kinda long and preachy and we have been proselytizing  this
> since 1971.  When a random dude in a Lyft automatically thinks it's ok to
> ask his driver to buy some weed BECAUSE he is on the Libertarian National
> Committee, I think this motion is redundant.
>
> Hence my abstention.
>
>
> Daniel Hayes
> LNC At Large Member
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Feb 24, 2017, at 4:21 PM, David Demarest <dpdemarest at centurylink.net>
> wrote:
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> Yes
>
>
>
> Thoughts?
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>
> ~David
>
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>
> *2017 Omaha Libertarian Strategy Un-Convention*
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> *Celebrate Life, Set the Bar High and LIVE FREE*
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> ~David Pratt Demarest
>
> LNC Region 6 Representative
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> Secretary, LPNE State Central Committee
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> *From:* Lnc-business [mailto:lnc-business-bounces at hq.lp.org
> <lnc-business-bounces at hq.lp.org>] *On Behalf Of *Caryn Ann Harlos
> *Sent:* Friday, February 24, 2017 4:18 PM
> *To:* Libertarian National Committee list <lnc-business at hq.lp.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [Lnc-business] Email Ballot 2017-04: Cannabis Resolution
>
>
>
> Yes
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 3:10 PM, Alicia Mattson <agmattson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> We have an electronic mail ballot.
>
>
>
> *Votes are due to the LNC-Business list by March 6, 2017 at 11:59:59pm
> Pacific time.*
> *Co-Sponsors:*  Harlos, Demarest, Starchild, Redpath
>
> *Motion:*
>
> 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.
>
>
> -Alicia
>
>
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> --
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> *In Liberty,*
>
> *Caryn Ann Harlos*
>
> Region 1 Representative, Libertarian National Committee (Alaska, Arizona,
> Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) - Caryn.Ann.
> Harlos at LP.org <Caryn.Ann.Harlos at LP.org>
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