<div>With the recent Trump appointee I respectfully disagree.  Continuing to loudly declare right now is needed more than ever.</div><div><br></div><div>And respectfully an affiliate (from</div><div>Region 1) - whom we do exist to serve - asked for this and I hope we give it our respectful - non sarcastic - consideration. </div><div><br></div><div>-Caryn Ann </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 4:13 PM Alicia Mattson <<a href="mailto:agmattson@gmail.com">agmattson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg">I vote no.<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div>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:<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div>WHEREAS the Libertarian Party platform has always taken a firm stance on ending the War on Drugs; and<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div>WHEREAS the one thing that much of the general public does know about the Libertarian Party is our stance on decriminalizing drugs; and<br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div>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<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">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<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">WHEREAS voting yes on such resolutions tends to encourage the production of more of them; and<br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div>WHEREAS activity is not the same thing as productivity;<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div>THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, I vote no.<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div></div><div class="gmail_msg">-Alicia<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg">On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 2:57 PM, Daniel Hayes <span class="gmail_msg"><<a href="mailto:danielehayes@icloud.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">danielehayes@icloud.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg"><blockquote class="gmail_quote gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg">I abstain.</div><div id="m_4695310224453347798m_-7291263791127196356AppleMailSignature" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div id="m_4695310224453347798m_-7291263791127196356AppleMailSignature" class="gmail_msg">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. </div><div id="m_4695310224453347798m_-7291263791127196356AppleMailSignature" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div id="m_4695310224453347798m_-7291263791127196356AppleMailSignature" class="gmail_msg"> </div><div id="m_4695310224453347798m_-7291263791127196356AppleMailSignature" class="gmail_msg">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."</div><div id="m_4695310224453347798m_-7291263791127196356AppleMailSignature" class="gmail_msg">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."</div><div id="m_4695310224453347798m_-7291263791127196356AppleMailSignature" class="gmail_msg">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?"</div><div id="m_4695310224453347798m_-7291263791127196356AppleMailSignature" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div id="m_4695310224453347798m_-7291263791127196356AppleMailSignature" class="gmail_msg">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.</div><div id="m_4695310224453347798m_-7291263791127196356AppleMailSignature" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div id="m_4695310224453347798m_-7291263791127196356AppleMailSignature" class="gmail_msg">The point of this story is everybody knows where we stand on cannabis. I was already thinking that before this incident last night.</div><div id="m_4695310224453347798m_-7291263791127196356AppleMailSignature" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div id="m_4695310224453347798m_-7291263791127196356AppleMailSignature" class="gmail_msg">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.</div><div id="m_4695310224453347798m_-7291263791127196356AppleMailSignature" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div id="m_4695310224453347798m_-7291263791127196356AppleMailSignature" class="gmail_msg">Hence my abstention.</div><div id="m_4695310224453347798m_-7291263791127196356AppleMailSignature" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div id="m_4695310224453347798m_-7291263791127196356AppleMailSignature" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div id="m_4695310224453347798m_-7291263791127196356AppleMailSignature" class="gmail_msg">Daniel Hayes</div><div id="m_4695310224453347798m_-7291263791127196356AppleMailSignature" class="gmail_msg">LNC At Large Member</div><div id="m_4695310224453347798m_-7291263791127196356AppleMailSignature" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">Sent from my iPhone</div><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="m_4695310224453347798h5 gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">On Feb 24, 2017, at 4:21 PM, David Demarest <<a href="mailto:dpdemarest@centurylink.net" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">dpdemarest@centurylink.net</a>> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="m_4695310224453347798m_-7291263791127196356WordSection1 gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class="gmail_msg">Yes<u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg"></u> <u class="gmail_msg"></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg">Thoughts?<u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg"></u> <u class="gmail_msg"></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg">~David</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black" class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><b class="gmail_msg"><i class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg">  </span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><b class="gmail_msg"><i class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg">2017 Omaha Libertarian Strategy Un-Convention</span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><b class="gmail_msg"><i class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg">Celebrate Life, Set the Bar High and LIVE FREE</span></i></b><b class="gmail_msg"><i class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><b class="gmail_msg"><i class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class="gmail_msg"> <u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class="gmail_msg">~David Pratt Demarest<u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class="gmail_msg">LNC Region 6 Representative<u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class="gmail_msg">Secretary, LPNE State Central Committee<u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class="gmail_msg">Cell:      <a href="tel:(402)%20981-6469" value="+14029816469" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">402-981-6469</a><u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class="gmail_msg">Home: <a href="tel:(402)%20493-0873" value="+14024930873" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">402-493-0873</a><u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg"></u> <u class="gmail_msg"></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><b class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class="gmail_msg">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class="gmail_msg"> Lnc-business [<a href="mailto:lnc-business-bounces@hq.lp.org" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">mailto:lnc-business-bounces@hq.lp.org</a>] <b class="gmail_msg">On Behalf Of </b>Caryn Ann Harlos<br class="gmail_msg"><b class="gmail_msg">Sent:</b> Friday, February 24, 2017 4:18 PM<br class="gmail_msg"><b class="gmail_msg">To:</b> Libertarian National Committee list <<a href="mailto:lnc-business@hq.lp.org" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">lnc-business@hq.lp.org</a>><br class="gmail_msg"><b class="gmail_msg">Subject:</b> Re: [Lnc-business] Email Ballot 2017-04: Cannabis Resolution<u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg"></u> <u class="gmail_msg"></u></p><div class="gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg">Yes<u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p></div><div class="gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg"></u> <u class="gmail_msg"></u></p><div class="gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg">On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 3:10 PM, Alicia Mattson <<a href="mailto:agmattson@gmail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">agmattson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></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" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg">We have an electronic mail <span class="m_4695310224453347798m_-7291263791127196356m-7607151489824289735gmail-m-7417594590945562825m-3106942960241565296gmail-m2797144110872258469gmail-m7277579120155508541gmail-m9149391285218628846gmail-il gmail_msg">ballot</span>.<u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><br class="gmail_msg"><b class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg">Votes are due to the LNC-Business list by March 6, <span class="m_4695310224453347798m_-7291263791127196356m-7607151489824289735gmail-m-7417594590945562825m-3106942960241565296gmail-m2797144110872258469gmail-m7277579120155508541gmail-m9149391285218628846gmail-il gmail_msg">2017</span> at 11:59:59pm Pacific time.<br class="gmail_msg"></u></b> <br class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg">Co-Sponsors:</u>  Harlos, Demarest, Starchild, Redpath<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg">Motion:</u> <br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">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<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">WHEREAS this dishonest classification is an impediment both to useful academic research, and to realizing the economic benefits that legalization offers; and<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">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<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">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<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">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<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">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<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">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<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">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<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">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<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">WHEREAS polls now show that most Americans support legalizing cannabis for both medical and recreational use, and voters in multiple states have voted accordingly;<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">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.<u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="color:#888888" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><span class="m_4695310224453347798m_-7291263791127196356hoenzb gmail_msg">-Alicia<u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></span></span></p><div class="gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg"></u> <u class="gmail_msg"></u></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><br class="gmail_msg">_______________________________________________<br class="gmail_msg">Lnc-business mailing list<br class="gmail_msg"><a href="mailto:Lnc-business@hq.lp.org" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">Lnc-business@hq.lp.org</a><br class="gmail_msg"><a href="http://hq.lp.org/mailman/listinfo/lnc-business_hq.lp.org" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">http://hq.lp.org/mailman/listinfo/lnc-business_hq.lp.org</a><u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p></blockquote></div><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><br clear="all" class="gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p><div class="gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><u class="gmail_msg"></u> <u class="gmail_msg"></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg">-- <u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><b class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666" class="gmail_msg">In Liberty,</span></b><u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p></div><div class="gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><b class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666" class="gmail_msg">Caryn Ann Harlos</span></b><u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p></div><div class="gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:7.5pt" class="gmail_msg">Region 1 Representative, Libertarian National Committee </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt" class="gmail_msg">(Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) - <a href="mailto:Caryn.Ann.Harlos@LP.org" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">Caryn.Ann. Harlos@LP.org</a></span><u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p></div><div class="gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:10.0pt" class="gmail_msg">Communications Director, <a href="http://www.lpcolorado.org" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">Libertarian Party of Colorado</a></span><u class="gmail_msg"></u><u class="gmail_msg"></u></p></div><div class="gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:10.0pt" class="gmail_msg">Colorado State Coordinator, <a href="http://www.lpradicalcaucu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