<div dir="ltr">Chair Watts submitted the following revised resolution- with the following note to the LNC after seeing the comments- "<span style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px">I’ve adjusted and distilled based on everyone’s inputs. I really appreciate your having taken the time to look at it. I believe we really have an opportunity to increase individual freedom here. I forward this new draft for your consideration feeling that it’s close, but can be sharpened more. I’m glad to hear your thoughts and apologize in advance if I missed any of your inputs or their spirit."</span><div>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><b>WHEREAS</b><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">, </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">cannabis</span><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> is currently classified as a Schedule I drug under the
United</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">States Controlled Substances Act, which is an
inappropriate classification because it impedes</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">legal research by industries and universities.
Further, </span>the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine
concluded cannabis’ medical benefits after reviewing relevant scientific
literature, including dozens of works documenting its therapeutic value<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">;</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><b>WHEREAS</b><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">, </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">cannabis is a mild drug with few harmful
effects and zero documented fatalities. Labeled, quality-controlled cannabis
products are far safer than unlabeled, untested black-market drugs;<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;vertical-align:baseline"><b>WHEREAS</b><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">, </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">the demand for drugs remains unabated under
prohibition -- a policy that has never succeeded. One-third of Americans have used cannabis, and
despite strict penalties against narcotics, heroin use is an epidemic that now
kills more Americans every year than do automobiles and homicide. Further, drug warfare drives up crime which
endangers Americans and terrorizes the people of supplier countries, such as
Mexico;<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"> <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b>WHEREAS</b><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">,</span> millions of peaceful Americans
have been arrested, imprisoned, fined, or otherwise needlessly criminalized and
stigmatized, potentially for life, because of their use of cannabis; <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">2 million American citizens have
been imprisoned, representing the highest incarceration rate of any nation on
Earth and 25% the world’s prisoners; <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b>WHEREAS</b><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">,</span><span style="color:black"> over $1 trillion have been spent nationally enforcing
drug laws, including those pertaining to cannabis, with the Drug War’s “asset
seizure” program has raising over $13 billion for law enforcement across the
country, incentivizing the arrest of otherwise peaceful citizens which is often
applied in an arbitrary and discriminatory manner;<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b>WHEREAS</b>,
existing cannabis laws represent vast government over<span style="font-family:"cambria math"">‐</span>reach into the
personal lives of our fellow citizens, violating founding American principles
of personal liberty and choice; <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b>WHEREAS</b><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">,</span> the citizens of seven states,
including Colorado, Washington, Alaska, California, Nevada, Maine, and
Massachusetts have voted to fully legalize cannabis, with more states likely to
follow, and over 20 states with medical cannabis laws in effect; <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:rgb(47,84,150)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b>WHEREAS</b><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">,</span><span style="color:black"> the economic benefit of legal cannabis products is
significant, generating $6.7 billion in 2016 for the United States;<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"> <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b>NOW, THEREFORE</b>, be it resolved that the Libertarian Party National
Committee supports the full legalization and federal descheduling of
cannabis, medical cannabis, and industrial hemp products.<span></span></p>
</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 7:58 PM, Jon Watts <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jon.watts@alaskan.com" target="_blank">jon.watts@alaskan.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_8039328048681144556WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Colleagues,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I’ve adjusted and distilled based on everyone’s inputs. I really appreciate your having taken the time to look at it. I believe we really have an opportunity to increase individual freedom here. I forward this new draft for your consideration feeling that it’s close, but can be sharpened more. I’m glad to hear your thoughts and apologize in advance if I missed any of your inputs or their spirit.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">In peaceful freedom,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><img width="105" height="105" style="width:1.0937in;height:1.0937in" id="m_8039328048681144556Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D26F59.03403E00" alt="ALP Logo"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Jon Watts<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Chairman<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Alaska Libertarian Party<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="tel:(907)%20687-4884" value="+19076874884" target="_blank">(907) 687-4884</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:jon.watts@alaskan.com" target="_blank">jon.watts@alaskan.com</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #e1e1e1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Starchild [mailto:<a href="mailto:sfdreamer@earthlink.net" target="_blank">sfdreamer@earthlink.<wbr>net</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 09, 2017 11:54 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:lnc-business@hq.lp.org" target="_blank">lnc-business@hq.lp.org</a><br><b>Cc:</b> Jon Watts <<a href="mailto:jon.watts@alaskan.com" target="_blank">jon.watts@alaskan.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Lnc-business] FW: Marijuana Resolution - Request for Co-Sponsors<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><div><div class="h5"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_8039328048681144556apple-tab-span"> </span>I like David's proposed revision because I think the phrase "people of color" despite being widely used is itself racist and therefore best avoided, but I do think it would be worthwhile to address somewhere in the resolution the disparate impact of the "War on Drugs", perhaps by citing some of the statistics about how often members of various groups are arrested, or who is in jail.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_8039328048681144556apple-tab-span"> </span>Exactly what the current draft language is, isn't clear to me, but I am certainly supportive of the general idea, especially to the extent it goes beyond discussing only marijuana and references the fundamental right to put whatever we choose into our own bodies. <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_8039328048681144556apple-tab-span"> </span>Also potentially worth mentioning is the March 2016 poll that found 61 percent of Americans support legalizing cannabis – <a href="http://www.thecannabist.co/2016/10/14/legal-marijuana-laws-by-state-map-united-states/62772/" target="_blank">http://www.thecannabist.co/<wbr>2016/10/14/legal-marijuana-<wbr>laws-by-state-map-united-<wbr>states/62772/</a><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_8039328048681144556apple-tab-span"> </span>The above link also includes a map (updated 11/23/16) listing the current state-by-state status of marijuana laws (the reason I first looked up the page, per Ken's suggestion that we include such info).<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_8039328048681144556apple-tab-span"> </span>Thanks to Jon Watts for taking the initiative in pushing for a resolution on what continues to be a perennially important topic in the fight to defend freedom in the United States.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Love & Liberty,<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> ((( starchild )))<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">At-Large Representative, Libertarian National Committee<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> (415) 625-FREE<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> @StarchildSF<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Jan 9, 2017, at 11:00 PM, Caryn Ann Harlos wrote:<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><br><br><u></u><u></u></p><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal">Hello everyone I am bumping this for further comment before Chair Watts submits something revised to me.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 4:52 PM, Jon Watts <<a href="mailto:jon.watts@alaskan.com" target="_blank">jon.watts@alaskan.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks!<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Jon<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div id="m_8039328048681144556m_-5405550958047518132composer_signature"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#575757">Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S7 active, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">-------- Original message --------<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">From: Caryn Ann Harlos <<a href="mailto:carynannharlos@gmail.com" target="_blank">carynannharlos@gmail.com</a>> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Date: 12/22/16 2:25 PM (GMT-09:00) <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">To: Ken Moellman <<a href="mailto:ken.moellman@lpky.org" target="_blank">ken.moellman@lpky.org</a>>, Jon Watts <<a href="mailto:jon.watts@alaskan.com" target="_blank">jon.watts@alaskan.com</a>> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Cc: David Demarest <<a href="mailto:dpdemarest@centurylink.net" target="_blank">dpdemarest@centurylink.net</a>>, "Demarest, David P." <<a href="mailto:david.demarest@firstdata.com" target="_blank">david.demarest@firstdata.com</a>> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Subject: Re: FW: [Lnc-business] Marijuana Resolution - Request for Co-Sponsors <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">I am bumping this for further input before Chair Watts submits a revised proposal for me.<u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">-- <u></u><u></u></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666">In Liberty,</span></b><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666">Caryn Ann Harlos</span></b><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt">Region 1 Representative, Libertarian National Committee </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">(Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) - <a href="mailto:Caryn.Ann.Harlos@LP.org" target="_blank">Caryn.Ann. Harlos@LP.org</a></span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Communications Director, <a href="http://www.lpcolorado.org/" target="_blank">Libertarian Party of Colorado</a></span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Colorado State Coordinator, <a href="http://www.lpradicalcaucus.org/" target="_blank">Libertarian Party Radical Caucus</a></span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 4:12 PM, Ken Moellman <<a href="mailto:ken.moellman@lpky.org" target="_blank">ken.moellman@lpky.org</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">I will be happy to give input. I am currently a little bogged down with cracking the whip to get the website fixed and to get the IT committee filled out, but the CBD decision is absolutely ridiculous. There are tons of stories of kids who are getting help with CBD, when no other medicine from the pharma companies helped, and this new rule is sentencing kids to having seizures. I mean, seriously, WTF?<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">When I used to do my radio show, I used to emphasize the three different categories: Recreational, Medicinal, and Industrial. I think we should engage MPP or some other outside group like them to give us some stats. # of states with full-legal. # of states with medical THC. # of states with medical CBD. # of states with Industrial Hemp. That's a very good place to start. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">We could tie in the DEA's latest action as to why full legalization is necessary; because we can't trust the DEA to discern what's "legitimate" and what's "illegitimate" if they're taking CBD away from kids.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Industrial Hemp is very good from a "green" perspective, too. Hemp paper is stronger and better. The Constitution is written on hemp, which is why it still exists (unlike tree paper, which is not environmentally friendly and not as long-lasting).<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">We can talk about the violence caused by prohibition. Racism. Incarceration. Making people felons and destroying lives.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">And all of this nonsense to keep some people from blowing off steam? Personally, I reject the entire notion that it's required to "keep people being productive". Who the hell is anyone to claim what I must produce, or not? I'm an individual, not a cog in a machine.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">And that's what offends me, as a non-user of marijuana. I am an individual. I am an adult. I make my own damn choices. <u></u><u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">---<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Ken C. Moellman, Jr.<br>LNC Region 3 Alternate Representative<br>LPKY Judicial Committee<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><div><p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">On 2016-12-18 17:44, Caryn Ann Harlos wrote:<u></u><u></u></span></p><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #1010ff 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 5.0pt;margin-left:0in;margin-right:0in"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Ken, I would really love to see your proposed amendments, and Chair Watts would as well. I agree with you, and would love to see a more solid policy statement. Will you assist in making this better? <u></u><u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">-- <u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666">In Liberty,</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666">Caryn Ann Harlos</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Region 1 Representative, Libertarian National Committee </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">(Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) - <a href="mailto:Caryn.Ann.Harlos@LP.org" target="_blank">Caryn.Ann. Harlos@LP.org</a><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Communications Director, <a href="http://www.lpcolorado.org/" target="_blank">Libertarian Party of Colorado</a><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Colorado State Coordinator, <a href="http://www.lpradicalcaucus.org/" target="_blank">Libertarian Party Radical Caucus</a><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Ken Moellman <<a href="mailto:ken.moellman@lpky.org" target="_blank">ken.moellman@lpky.org</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></span></p><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">I do want to reiterate that I'd love to see us bring out a solid policy statement in this regard. <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">The recent DEA action to reclassify CBD as Schedule I is completely inexcusable. CBD, beyond other potential health benefits, is medicine for kids with seizures. The DEA claims that this totally ridiculous action is to enforce some UN mandate. <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">This is an opportunity to once again tell the public that the consumption of marijuana, regardless of the THC content, is a peaceful, voluntary act. For some people, it's about material (industrial hemp). For other people, it's medicine (CBD, THC). And yes, for some, it's relaxation (recreational). None of these are violent. Violence is introduced by the state, when laws are written to prohibit these otherwise peaceful actions. <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">I don't consume marijuana, but I don't have to be personally affected to support the life and liberty of others. <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Despite popular opposition to full legalization, this latest action by the DEA matters to us here in Kentucky -- a state that continues to expand its industrial hemp production and passed a medical CBD bill in the past couple of years. I've already contacted congressmen in KY, two of which support Industrial Hemp and CBD (Massie-R, Comer-R). I'm hopeful that they'll be successful in overturning the FDA on the CBD classification. You have to be one special kind of sick jerk to deny kids medicine that stops them from having seizures. <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">---<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Ken C. Moellman, Jr.<br>LNC Region 3 Alternate Representative<br>LPKY Judicial Committee<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><div><p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">On 2016-12-18 14:28, Caryn Ann Harlos wrote:<u></u><u></u></span></p><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #1010ff 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 5.0pt;margin-left:0in;margin-right:0in"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Thank you David. I have sent this google link to the Alaska Chair to follow along, and he plans on tweaking the resolution. On behalf of the Alaska Affiliate, I thank my fellow committee members for their attention to this. It is important to the affiliate. <u></u><u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">- Caryn Ann<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 12:21 PM, David Demarest <<a href="mailto:dpdemarest@centurylink.net" target="_blank">dpdemarest@centurylink.net</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></span></p><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Ken: Points well taken and I agree with both.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Caryn: I have the following additional suggestion:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="m_8039328048681144556m-5405550958047518132gmail-m3259348999413323037m-4269701372413735934m8578103682212862821m5528402758018169288msolistparagraph"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">"</span><span class="m_8039328048681144556m-5405550958047518132gmail-m3259348999413323037m-4269701372413735934m8578103682212862821m5528402758018169288m-4750908691567866795gmailmsg"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Whereas, the enforcement of cannabis and other drugs laws has been racist and represents the new Jim Crow, disproportionately targeting and impacting people of color and minorities;</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="m_8039328048681144556m-5405550958047518132gmail-m3259348999413323037m-4269701372413735934m8578103682212862821m5528402758018169288msolistparagraph"><span class="m_8039328048681144556m-5405550958047518132gmail-m3259348999413323037m-4269701372413735934m8578103682212862821m5528402758018169288m-4750908691567866795gmailmsg"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Suggested revision: Whereas prohibition has never worked, is almost universally ignored, serves primarily as job security for public law enforcement and is often applied in an arbitrary </span></span><strong><u><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">discriminatory</span></u></strong><span class="m_8039328048681144556m-5405550958047518132gmail-m3259348999413323037m-4269701372413735934m8578103682212862821m5528402758018169288m-4750908691567866795gmailmsg"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> manner;</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <u>Justification</u>:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I would note that racism may well be a factor in prohibition being enforced "in an arbitrary discriminatory manner". However, racism is a separate but even more important issue that has no place in government and would be better handled privately by the application of the more powerful tools of economic and social ostracism (boycotts, free-speech editorials, shunning, et cetera).</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">In the long run, there is nothing that government can do that we cannot do better by using our rational-self-interest developed social contracts starting with the Golden Rule and axiomatic action prohibitions based on the Non-Aggression Principle. I trust the average person to handle these issues in a far more effective and moral manner than self-serving elected officials that all too often cave in to the election-driven cronyism inherent in <strong><u><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">non-competitive</span></u></strong> governance.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">~David Pratt Demarest</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Lnc-business [mailto:<a href="mailto:lnc-business-bounces@hq.lp.org" target="_blank">lnc-business-bounces@<wbr>hq.lp.org</a>] <strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">On Behalf Of </span></strong>Caryn Ann Harlos<br><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Sent:</span></strong> Sunday, December 18, 2016 12:14 PM<br><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">To:</span></strong> Ken Moellman <<a href="mailto:ken.moellman@lpky.org" target="_blank">ken.moellman@lpky.org</a>><br><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Cc:</span></strong> Libertarian National Committee list <<a href="mailto:lnc-business@hq.lp.org" target="_blank">lnc-business@hq.lp.org</a>><br><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Subject:</span></strong> Re: [Lnc-business] Marijuana Resolution - Request for Co-Sponsors</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Thank you Ken, I will do that. If you want to privately email me other things you would change the Alaska Chair is actively seeking feedback.<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">-Caryn Ann<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 11:11 AM, Ken Moellman <<a href="mailto:ken.moellman@lpky.org" target="_blank">ken.moellman@lpky.org</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></span></p><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">While you are providing AK feedback, I would like to suggest the removal of a couple of things....<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">"Whereas, cannabis is less harmful than alcohol and tobacco;" <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">I don't like the use of "comparatives". Saying that cannabis is less harmful than tobacco and alcohol only encourages the nanny-statists to ban tobacco and alcohol. IMO, we should be framing all arguments from a "people have the right to do what they want to do", not a "well those guys are allowed to do that and that's worse."<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">"Whereas, existing cannabis laws have not had a significant impact on cannabis availability;"<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">This should also be removed. There are many people who would use cannabis as a medicinal who are forbidden from doing so. For that matter, the DEA just reclassified/clarified CBD as Schedule I. It suggests that the laws don't work anyway so why is there a need to change them?<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">There are some other things I'd change, and re-arrange, but the two above should be removed IMO.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">---<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Ken C. Moellman, Jr.<br>LNC Region 3 Alternate Representative<br>LPKY Judicial Committee<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><div><p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">On 2016-12-18 09:08, Caryn Ann Harlos wrote:<u></u><u></u></span></p><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #1010ff 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 5.0pt;margin-left:0in;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">That is a fair point I will bring to Alaska's attention. Thanks!<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">-Caryn Ann<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 6:29 AM Sam Goldstein <<a href="mailto:goldsteinatlarge@gmail.com" target="_blank">goldsteinatlarge@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Caryn Ann, <u></u><u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Other than being entirely too long, I cannot support any resolution that "calls on <span class="m_8039328048681144556m-5405550958047518132gmail-m3259348999413323037m-4269701372413735934m8578103682212862821m5528402758018169288m-4750908691567866795gmailmsg"> federal and state legislators to develop new programs". Our goal is to shrink government at all levels, not to increase it.</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_8039328048681144556m-5405550958047518132gmail-m3259348999413323037m-4269701372413735934m8578103682212862821m5528402758018169288m-4750908691567866795gmailmsg"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_8039328048681144556m-5405550958047518132gmail-m3259348999413323037m-4269701372413735934m8578103682212862821m5528402758018169288m-4750908691567866795gmailmsg"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Live free,</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_8039328048681144556m-5405550958047518132gmail-m3259348999413323037m-4269701372413735934m8578103682212862821m5528402758018169288m-4750908691567866795gmailmsg"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_8039328048681144556m-5405550958047518132gmail-m3259348999413323037m-4269701372413735934m8578103682212862821m5528402758018169288m-4750908691567866795gmailmsg"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><br clear="all"><u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Sam Goldstein <u></u><u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Libertarian National Committee<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Member at Large<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">8925 N Meridian St, Ste 101<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Indianapolis IN 46260<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="tel:(317)%20850-0726" target="_blank">317-850-0726</a> Phone<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="tel:(317)%20582-1773" target="_blank">317-582-1773</a> Fax<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div></div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 3:01 AM, Caryn Ann Harlos <span class="m_8039328048681144556m-5405550958047518132gmail-m3259348999413323037m-4269701372413735934m8578103682212862821m5528402758018169288m-4750908691567866795gmailmsg"><<a href="mailto:carynannharlos@gmail.com" target="_blank">carynannharlos@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div></div><div><div><div><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">I withdrew this from the agenda and deferred to ask by email vote. The Alaska affiliate requested me to bring this before the LNC - requesting co-sponsors <u></u><u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_8039328048681144556m-5405550958047518132gmail-m3259348999413323037m-4269701372413735934m8578103682212862821m5528402758018169288m-4750908691567866795gmailmsg"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Whereas, cannabis is less harmful than alcohol and tobacco;</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_8039328048681144556m-5405550958047518132gmail-m3259348999413323037m-4269701372413735934m8578103682212862821m5528402758018169288m-4750908691567866795gmailmsg"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_8039328048681144556m-5405550958047518132gmail-m3259348999413323037m-4269701372413735934m8578103682212862821m5528402758018169288m-4750908691567866795gmailmsg"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Whereas, existing cannabis laws represent vast government over</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><p class="MsoNormal"><br><br clear="all"><u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal">-- <u></u><u></u></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666">In Liberty,</span></b><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666">Caryn Ann Harlos</span></b><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt">Region 1 Representative, Libertarian National Committee </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">(Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) - <a href="mailto:Caryn.Ann.Harlos@LP.org" target="_blank">Caryn.Ann. Harlos@LP.org</a></span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Communications Director, <a href="http://www.lpcolorado.org/" target="_blank">Libertarian Party of Colorado</a></span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Colorado State Coordinator, <a href="http://www.lpradicalcaucus.org/" target="_blank">Libertarian Party Radical Caucus</a></span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal">______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>Lnc-business mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Lnc-business@hq.lp.org" target="_blank">Lnc-business@hq.lp.org</a><br><a href="http://hq.lp.org/mailman/listinfo/lnc-business_hq.lp.org" target="_blank">http://hq.lp.org/mailman/<wbr>listinfo/lnc-business_hq.lp.<wbr>org</a><u></u><u></u></p></blockquote></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#666666"><b>In Liberty,</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#666666"><b>Caryn Ann Harlos</b></font></div><div><font size="1">Region 1 Representative, Libertarian National Committee </font><span style="font-size:x-small">(Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) - <a href="mailto:Caryn.Ann.Harlos@LP.org" target="_blank">Caryn.Ann. Harlos@LP.org</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size:x-small">Communications Director, <a href="http://www.lpcolorado.org" target="_blank">Libertarian Party of Colorado</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size:x-small">Colorado State Coordinator, <a href="http://www.lpradicalcaucus.org" target="_blank">Libertarian Party Radical Caucus</a></span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:x-small"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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