Legislation was just introduced to the House of Representatives decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana. The bills need more sponsors in the House. Here’s a letter I just sent to my representative asking her to help.
(by the way, both my my Senators and my Represenatative are all women. So cool!)
Dear Representative Davis,
This is the first time I am contacting you since I moved to San Diego two years ago. I am writing to encourage you to sponsor two bills which were recently introduced to the House:
H.R. 5842: Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act
and
H.R. 5843: Act to Remove Federal Penalties for the Personal Use of Marijuana by Responsible Adults
I believe that decriminalizing the cultivation, possession, and sale of marijuana would do six wonderful things:
1) free up the money currently spent on enforcement for more important things
2) increase public access to a drug which has more health benefits than alcohol and tobacco, and is no more harmful to society
3) decrease crime by removing a major source of revenue for criminals
4) stimulate the economy and create jobs by driving drug revenues to legitimate businesses
5) decrease the crowding crisis in our prisons
6) partially balance the drug incarceration rates, which are currently drastically and unfairly skewed towards people of color
Please consider supporting these bills, which will help our economy, improve our health, make our streets safer, and diminish racism.
Thank you for your time,
Erik Pukinskis
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