FAILED: Hinchey/Rohrabacher medical marijuana amendment

**Torkel**

I just watched on cspan the solid defeat of this bill to protect mmj patients from being fucked with by the nazi-feds.

The vote was something like 265-against to 160-for. Sad

The vote on this bill disappointed me, but did not surprise me one bit.

Those motherfuckers don't give a shit about sick/dying people one bit.

It's obvious that the only damn thing they honor is their corporate sponsors and their own pockets.

The laws made by these fucks deserve NO respect.

Fuck them all...

Peace,
Torkel
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Rev.Holden Greene · Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 11:02 pm Post subject:

i got this email

U.S. House votes 161-264 to end DEA's war on medical marjuana
U.S. House votes 161-264 to end DEA's war on medical marjuana

Dear MPP supporter:

Today, June 15, the U.S. House of Representatives defeated by a vote of 161-264 an amendment that would have prevented the DEA and the U.S. Department of Justice from spending taxpayer money to raid and prosecute medical marijuana patients and providers.

Although we lost, we can be proud that today's vote was a much stronger showing than political observers had predicted, in large part because of the nearly 10,000 letters that MPP members and allies sent to their U.S. representatives in the last week. Fully 72% of House Democrats voted for our amendment, and 15 House Republicans bucked their hostile congressional leaders and the White House to vote "yes."

This is only the third time in history that the full House has voted on binding legislation to end the federal government's war on medical marijuana. (The U.S. Senate never has.) Today's vote highlights how far we've come since just last year — the legislation received 13 more votes than it did last July, and several previously opposed Congressmen flipped their votes to "yes" ... including David Wu (D-OR), whom MPP targeted in an aggressive local campaign after he voted "no" last year, and Denny Rehberg (R-MT), whose state passed MPP's medical marijuana initiative last November.

Eleven House members, including Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), spoke in support of the amendment. Four House members, including notorious prohibitionist Mark Souder (R-IN), spoke in opposition to it. Souder alleged that medical marijuana is a "ruse ... dreamed up at some college dorm."

Responding to Souder's claims that the amendment would encourage teen marijuana use, Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) held up MPP's giant poster showing a dramatic decline in teen use of marijuana in California since the state's medical marijuana law went into effect in 1996. Read more about the debate here.

Over the last year, MPP's lobbying staff has been targeting 120 congressional districts in order to pick up the votes needed to reach a 218-vote majority. Now that we have 161 votes, in the next year we'll be targeting a smaller number of districts to pick up the remaining 57 votes we need. We'll keep pushing every year until we get a majority.

Leading up to today's vote, the MPP staff generated thousands of constituent phone calls and letters to members of Congress, organized more than 100 meetings between swing House members and their constituents, helped several legislators send letters to their colleagues about medical marijuana, commissioned a public opinion poll to show Congress the public support for the amendment, led Montel Williams and dozens of activists from around the country in lobbying Congress, and was instrumental in ensuring that the legislation received prominent play in the voluminous news coverage of the Supreme Court's Raich decision last week. Read more about our efforts here.

If you support the work that MPP is doing — work that today forced each member of the U.S. House of Representatives to take a public stand on the arrest and imprisonment of seriously ill patients — please help us continue by making a financial contribution today. We need you standing with us as we keep up the fight.

Sincerely,

Rob Kampia
Executive Director
Marijuana Policy Project
Washington, D.C.
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**Mystic Power** · Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 12:21 am Post subject:

Find out how your member (no pun intended) voted:

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2005/roll255.xml
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**Torkel** · Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 12:32 am Post subject:

My House Rep voted NO on this bill...

I'll make a phone call to his office tomorrow.

Peace,
Torkel
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Miller vs U.S. (230 F 2nd 486,489): "The claim and exercise of a Constitutional right cannot be converted into a crime."

Miranda vs Arizona (384 U.S. 436, 125): "Where rights secured by the Constitution are involved, there can be no rule-making or legislation which would abrogate them."

HAGANS vs LAVINE (415 US 533 N-3,note 5): "Once JURISDICTION is challenged it must be proven by the Plaintiff."

Officer · Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 2:57 pm Post subject:

And yet the NON-medicinal, recreational use of BEER is undisurbed in this country.......
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Officer · Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 2:59 pm Post subject:

Asshole John McHugh voted to let my governement MURDER ME!
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Officer

"I was quite dismayed to find that you voted YES to federal COLD BLOODED MURDER of intensely sick patients. There is no excuse, beer is widely accepted, yet kills thousands...even aspirin kills roughly 5,000 people on a yearly basis...and yet the single safest and healthful plant known to man is deemed "to contain 60 times the nicotine as tobacco" and "the single greatest threat to the safety of our nation" not to mention, it's classified by the DEA as being LESS dangerous than crack cocaine. I'm disgusted and ashamed to live in a society with so little value placed on human life. Although you are my representative, you most certainly do not represent me."
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**Mystic Power** · Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 5:14 pm Post subject:

Well said.
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