Re: [DIYbio] Ending US Federal Cannabis Prohibition

I think you'd have more success with your representatives by simply
pointing out that the enforcement of prohibition has *assisted*
organised crime, in exactly the same way that Alcohol prohibition did,
than by referring to science.

If representatives cared a damn about science, well..

On 06/02/13 15:20, GeneralOya wrote:
> Yesterday..
>
> "On February 5, 2013 Representative Jared Polis (D-CO) introduced the
> "Ending Federal Prohibition of Marijuana Act of 2013."
>
> Rep. Polis' bill would end federal marijuana prohibition and let states
> decide their own marijuana policies without the threat of federal
> interference, and would set up a regulatory process – similar to the one
> for alcohol – for states that decide to legalize. Specifically, the bill
> removes marijuana in any form from Schedule I of the Controlled
> Substances Act, adds marijuana to the sections of the U.S. code
> governing "intoxicating liquors", and transfers Federal marijuana
> jurisdiction from the Drug Enforcement Administration and gives it to
> the newly-renamed Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Marijuana, Firearms and
> Explosives."
>
> Please speak up and have your opinion heard by your Congress
> Representative. Cannabis was shown to be have effective anti-tumor
> properties by the National
> Cancer Research Institute in March of 2010. Earlier this year reports
> from studies were released that were shown that the smoking of cannabis
> was beneficial to cigarette smokers that had developed lung cancer. Help
> empower researchers and the public to understand the mechanisms involved
> by ending Federal Prohibition and allowing individual states to craft
> their own policies in how they would like to deal with this beneficent
> plant.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ryan
>
>
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