[Lnc-business] Email Ballot 2017-04: Cannabis Resolution
Patrick McKnight
patrick.joseph.mcknight at gmail.com
Mon Mar 6 00:53:40 EST 2017
I vote yes, however I think these symbolic resolutions are not a good use
of our time. Everyone knows the LP position on marijuana.
Lets put this level of thought into growing membership and fundraising.
Thanks,
Patrick McKnight
Region 8 Rep
On Mar 5, 2017 11:52 PM, "James Lark" <jwl3s at eservices.virginia.edu> wrote:
Dear colleagues:
I hope all is well with you. I am writing in my capacity as Region 5
representative to vote "aye" on the motion.
As always, thanks for your work for liberty.
Take care,
Jim
James W. Lark, III
Dept. of Systems and Information Engineering
Applied Mathematics Program, Dept. of Engineering and Society
Affiliated Faculty, Dept. of Statistics
University of Virginia
Advisor, The Liberty Coalition
University of Virginia
Region 5 Representative, Libertarian National Committee
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On 2/24/2017 5:10 PM, Alicia Mattson 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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