Hey guys if you have a sec go to these websites and find out what people you should contact about the use of medical marijauna and marijuana for personal use. We need to voice our opinion about the matters to the people in our government. it only takes a sec and you can copy and past the text below if you don't want to type anything. Later guys

NORML -- Elected Officials


I’m writing you today to urge you to introduce and support legislation regarding the decriminalization of marijuana for adults.

Thirty-five years ago, the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse – chaired by former Pennsylvania Governor Raymond P. Shafer – recommended Congress amend federal law so that the use and possession of pot would no longer be a criminal offense.

The Commission concluded: “[T]he criminal law is too harsh a tool to apply to personal possession even in the effort to discourage use. … It implies an overwhelming indictment of the behavior which we believe is not appropriate. The actual and potential harm of use of the drug is not great enough to justify intrusion by the criminal law into private behavior, a step which our society takes only with the greatest reluctance.”

The Commission recommended, for the first time, that Congress enact a national policy of marijuana ‘decriminalization,’ whereby the possession of cannabis for personal use as well as the casual distribution of small amounts of marijuana for little-or-no remuneration would no longer be a criminal offense. marijuana isn’t harmless and the proponents of decriminalization do not claim that it is. However, pot’s relative risks to the user and society are less than those of alcohol, and do not warrant the continued arrest of more than 785,000 Americans on marijuana charges every year.

Otherwise law-abiding citizens who smoke marijuana responsibly are not part of the crime problem, and we must stop treating them like criminals. In 2005, the last year for which we have data, law enforcement arrested over 785,000 persons for marijuana violations. This total far exceeds the total number of arrests for all violent crime combined, including murder, manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Surely, our limited law enforcement resources would be better served targeting more serious and violent crimes.

marijuana decriminalization currently enjoys support from the majority of Americans. According to the latest CNN/Time Magazine poll on the subject, 72% of Americans favor a fine over criminal penalties for the possession of marijuana. According to government statistics, approximately 80 million Americans self-identify as having used cannabis at some point in their lives, and relatively few acknowledge having suffered significant deleterious health effects due to their use. America's public policies should reflect this reality, not deny it.

In these times of fiscal belt-tightening and tight state budgets, marijuana decriminalization makes good economic sense. For example, a 2002 study conducted by Boston University professor and economist Jeffrey Miron found that decriminalizing marijuana would save Massachusetts law enforcement an estimated $24.3 million. Also, today one in every eight inmates incarcerated for drug crimes is behind bars for pot, at a cost to taxpayers of more than $1 billion per year.
As such, I urge you to support marijuana decriminalization. It is a common sense approach that will refocus law enforcement resources on fighting violent crime. Please support marijuana decriminalization and stop arresting responsible marijuana smokers.

And if you dont live in the states then please write to TN Representatives. Cause it would help me out.