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What it’s going to take is a steady stream of letters to each Congressperson, each Senator, and the President. Here’s how to get them on board: 1) Go to https://forms.house.gov/wyr/welcome.shtml to get the name and address of your Congressperson. This will take less than a minute. Do...

Thanks for the feedback, Swanny! I've posted this thought on a half-dozen forums; you wouldn't believe the positive response! You're right about turning this into action, so get some stamps and envelopes and write that first letter! One of my Senators has already written me back the expected...

What encouraging comments! It seems like the National Cultivation and Consumption Permit gets at a lot of the concerns of people have on both sides of the issue: reduces the profit motive for criminals, provides a safe source for consumers, and puts money into the public coffers. Right now, HR...

The law will change when a majority of the Congress, the Senate, and the President vote in favor of legalization. Any Federal law can be changed by a majority of Congresspersons (218, Senators (51), and the President (1). What if each interested person spent five minutes making sure his or her...

There’s some thought that if the government could find a way to make money off of it, legalization would happen sooner rather than later. How many people would be willing to get behind a proposal for a $100 per year Small Scale Cultivation and Consumption card that would permit the holder to pay...

It will either die in committee or get debated and voted on. If enough citizens contact their congressperson, it will get debated and move forward. It's up to each person to contact his or her congressperson. The more contact, the more likely there will be progress.

Granny Toker is putting the challenge on everybody. Changing a law is going to take is a steady stream of contact to each Congressperson, each Senator, and the President. I'm cross posting the info below to a number of forums; political reality changes when people contact their elected...

Granny Toker makes a great point: writing our Congressperson does identify the writer as supporting the issue being written about, but it doesn't necessarily identify the writer as a pot smoker. I don't use marijuana; I support HR 5842 and 5843 from the perspective of a concerned parent (prison...

According to Sun Tzu, the best general wins without a fight, by convincing his opponent that the battle is already lost. I suspect 90% of the people who see the "write your elected officials" posts will decide not to write. They are already beaten, having surrendered their right to...

Sounds like you have a reasonable approach; do you have some similarly minded friends who would be willing to get together for a letter-writing session? If each of you wrote a letter to your congressperson and your two senators, and followed it up about every two weeks, that starts to make an...

Yes, I wrote my congressman and both senators about three weeks ago. I've received back only one mail, and it was as you predicted a "Thanks, but I disagree" kind of response. That's a big reason I'm cross-posting this how-to message in several places: It's going to take a handful of polite...

You've hit the nail right on the head: A few letters a week. How about if you write one today, and get a couple of your friends to each write one at your next get together? Next time your at the store, just buy a pack of paper, some envelopes, and some stamps, and keep it all handy for whenever...

The President can veto, but the veto can be over ridden, so it's a balancing act. On the other hand, it's too easy to just sit around and cry about the law; how many people are actually contacting their elected officials, regularly, frequently, and politely? The bottom line is that Federal law...

If anybody is serious about changing the law, here's how to get it done. Federal law in the U.S. is made by 435 Congressmen and Congresswomen, 100 Senators, and 1 President. Any law of the land can be changed by a majority of Congresspersons (218), Senators (51), and the President (1). Are you...

It sometimes gets lost in all of the discussion, but the Federal law can be changed with a simple majority vote among our 435 Congressmen and Congresswomen, our 100 Senators, and the President. If 218 Congresspersons, 51 Senators, and the President agree, that's a majority. Are you willing to...