<div dir="auto">I vote no. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Brett C. Bittner </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Region 3 Representative </div><div dir="auto">Libertarian National Committee </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="mailto:brett.bittner@lp.org">brett.bittner@lp.org</a> </div><div dir="auto">317.537.8344 <br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">**This message sent from my phone. Please excuse any typos.</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 6, 2017 13:23, "Arvin Vohra" <<a href="mailto:votevohra@gmail.com">votevohra@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Yes</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 24, 2017 5:42 PM, "Starchild" <<a href="mailto:sfdreamer@earthlink.net" target="_blank">sfdreamer@earthlink.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><br></div><div><span class="m_5000441257579595184m_-4009354377284408922Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>I vote <b>yes</b>.</div><div><br></div><div>Love & Liberty,</div><div> ((( starchild )))</div><div>At-Large Representative, Libertarian National Committee</div><div> (415) 625-FREE</div><div> @StarchildSF </div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Feb 24, 2017, at 2:21 PM, David Demarest wrote:</div><br class="m_5000441257579595184m_-4009354377284408922Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="m_5000441257579595184m_-4009354377284408922Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_5000441257579595184m_-4009354377284408922WordSection1"><div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Yes<u></u><u></u></span></div><div 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style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Home: <a href="tel:(402)%20493-0873" value="+14024930873" target="_blank">402-493-0873</a><u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></div><div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span class="m_5000441257579595184m_-4009354377284408922Apple-converted-space"> </span>Lnc-business [mailto:<a href="mailto:lnc-business-bounces@hq.lp.org" target="_blank">lnc-business-bounces@h<wbr>q.lp.org</a>]<span class="m_5000441257579595184m_-4009354377284408922Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span class="m_5000441257579595184m_-4009354377284408922Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Caryn Ann Harlos<br><b>Sent:</b><span class="m_5000441257579595184m_-4009354377284408922Apple-converted-space"> </span>Friday, February 24, 2017 4:18 PM<br><b>To:</b><span class="m_5000441257579595184m_-4009354377284408922Apple-converted-space"> </span>Libertarian National Committee list <<a href="mailto:lnc-business@hq.lp.org" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">lnc-business@hq.lp.org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b><span class="m_5000441257579595184m_-4009354377284408922Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [Lnc-business] Email Ballot 2017-04: Cannabis Resolution<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div><div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Yes<u></u><u></u></div></div><div><div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><u></u> <u></u></div><div><div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 3:10 PM, Alicia Mattson <<a href="mailto:agmattson@gmail.com" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">agmattson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></div><blockquote style="border-top-style:none;border-right-style:none;border-bottom-style:none;border-width:initial;border-color:initial;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1pt;padding-top:0in;padding-right:0in;padding-bottom:0in;padding-left:6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><div><div><div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">We have an electronic mail<span class="m_5000441257579595184m_-4009354377284408922Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="m_5000441257579595184m_-4009354377284408922m-7607151489824289735gmail-m-7417594590945562825m-3106942960241565296gmail-m2797144110872258469gmail-m7277579120155508541gmail-m9149391285218628846gmail-il">ballot</span>.<u></u><u></u></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:12pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><br><b><u>Votes are due to the LNC-Business list by March 6,<span class="m_5000441257579595184m_-4009354377284408922Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="m_5000441257579595184m_-4009354377284408922m-7607151489824289735gmail-m-7417594590945562825m-3106942960241565296gmail-m2797144110872258469gmail-m7277579120155508541gmail-m9149391285218628846gmail-il">2017</span><span class="m_5000441257579595184m_-4009354377284408922Apple-converted-space"> </span>at 11:59:59pm Pacific time.<br></u></b> <br><u>Co-Sponsors:</u> Harlos, Demarest, Starchild, Redpath<br><br><u>Motion:</u><span class="m_5000441257579595184m_-4009354377284408922Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>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><br>WHEREAS this dishonest classification is an impediment both to useful academic research, and to realizing the economic benefits that legalization offers; and<br><br>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><br>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><br>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><br>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><br>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><br>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><br>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><br>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><br>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></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:12pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><br><span class="m_5000441257579595184m_-4009354377284408922hoenzb">-Alicia<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><div><div 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