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

Mon Mar 6 13:40:13 EST 2017

I vote no.

The purpose of a resolution such as this should be to clarify an unclear
position. I doubt there is a single American who has heard the word
Libertarian in a political conversation that would be unclear regarding our
position on the legal status of cannabis.

For example, the Libertarian Party of Ohio articulated a strong position
with regard to their opposition to the recent voter referendum that would
have legalized marijuana in the state, due to the corporatism included in
the language of the referendum.

Brett C. Bittner

Region 3 Representative
Libertarian National Committee

brett.bittner at lp.org
317.537.8344

**This message sent from my phone. Please excuse any typos.

On Mar 6, 2017 13:23, "Arvin Vohra" <votevohra at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes
>
> On Feb 24, 2017 5:42 PM, "Starchild" <sfdreamer at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> I vote *yes*.
>>
>> Love & Liberty,
>>                                  ((( starchild )))
>> At-Large Representative, Libertarian National Committee
>>                                (415) 625-FREE
>>                                   @StarchildSF
>>
>>
>> On Feb 24, 2017, at 2:21 PM, David Demarest wrote:
>>
>> Yes
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> ~David
>>
>> *2017 Omaha Libertarian Strategy Un-Convention*
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>> *Celebrate Life, Set the Bar High and LIVE FREE*
>>
>> ~David Pratt Demarest
>> LNC Region 6 Representative
>> Secretary, LPNE State Central Committee
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>> *From:* Lnc-business [mailto: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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>> --
>> *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>
>> Communications Director, Libertarian Party of Colorado
>> <http://www.lpcolorado.org>
>> Colorado State Coordinator, Libertarian Party Radical Caucus
>> <http://www.lpradicalcaucus.org>
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