I'm cross posting this; thought readers on a couple of different threads might be interested in this link to an op-ed about the upcoming vote on the Hinchey-Rohrabacher amendment. This would be a great time for interested parties to get some letters to Congress, whichever way they (the writers) lean on this issue.


Focus Alert (The link is an op-ed on one a bill Congress will vote on this summer)

Here's how to get it passed into law:
1) Go to https://forms.house.gov/wyr/welcome.shtml to get the name and address of your Congressperson.
2) Write the letter. Friendly, just asking them to support the issue. Keep it short, i.e, not more than one page. Write it when you're in a sensible frame of mind, and be friendly. Politicians like all the friends they can get!
3) Find a friend to write a letter, too. Next time you're at the store, pick up some paper, pens, envelopes and stamps so you can write together whenever you have company. This will encourage each other!
4) Repeat the process once a week; just have a little get together and spend five minutes for everybody to write a letter. SERIOUS NOTE from the world of politics: It only takes a dozen letters to create the impression of significant public interest; an elected official getting a dozen letters a week will really feel the public presence.

The first letter will probably have minimal impact, but it's like a lot of things in life: After the first time or two, the effects become more noticeable. Keep the letters going, once a week... My congressperson, each of my two Senators, and then the President, or maybe my State representative if there's some legislation pending in my state.. That's one letter a week to somebody, times how many letter writers (i.e., VOTERS)?
Hey, write a letter and post back with the results. Let's encourage each other on this and let our elected officials know that this is important!

This is more immediately important:
Next president might be gentler on pot clubs

As long as the fed leaves the discretion to the states, the hell with Congress.

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