I thought a couple of you may be interested in what the marijuana policy project is up to now.
The Nevada Secretary of State (SOS) announced yesterday that he is giving Drug Czar John Walters two weeks to respond to the Marijuana Policy Project's December 4 complaint, which charged that he violated state law by failing to file any campaign finance reports for all of the campaigning he did against our Nevada ballot
initiative this past fall.
Please see http://www.mpp.org/WarOnDrugCzar.html for today's story in the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
In the meantime, we are launching the next prong of our "War on Drug Czar" campaign. Would you please vote on which of MPP's six TV ads you think we should run to challenge the drug czar's TV ads by visiting http://www.mpp.org/WarOnDrugCzar.html ? Every dollar you donate will count as one vote for your favorite ad. The more money you donate, the more votes you get.
The six ads are in production as I write this, and we will begin
airing the two or three most popular ads early next month in
Washington, D.C. -- if you are willing to fund this campaign.
Then, for the remainder of the year, we will track the drug czar's
travel schedule, running the ads for a few days in each city he
visits. Wherever he goes, local reporters will put him on the
defensive, asking him to comment on MPP's ads and to try defending marijuana prohibition. He will not be able to escape us.
If we don't defend ourselves and our movement from the drug czar's attacks, all the progress we have made since the first ballot
initiative victory in California in 1996 will come to a screeching
halt.
This past summer and fall, Drug Czar John Walters illegally used
taxpayer money to campaign personally against our landmark initiative in Nevada that would have ended the arrest of all marijuana users.
Then, in mid-September, he unleashed an avalanche of TV ads in Nevada and nationwide, the sole purpose of which is to scare the American people into thinking that marijuana is among the gravest threats toour national security.
(If you have a TV, you have seen the drug czar's marijuana scare ads. In one, a teenager accidentally shoots his friend while smoking marijuana. Another ad depicts a car full of marijuana users accidentally running over a little girl on a bicycle. And other ads claim that buying drugs funds terrorism. For all of the drug czar's ads, please see http://www.mediacampaign.org/mg/television.html .)
As you know, Nevadans voted down our ballot initiative by a 39% to 61% margin on November 5. It's true that we probably would have lost even if the drug czar hadn't run his deceptive TV ads during the last seven weeks of the campaign. But it's also true that if we continue to let his ads go unanswered, we will not be able to win any definitive legislative victories for many years to come.
Would you please visit http://www.mpp.org/WarOnDrugCzar.html to fund
MPP's new, aggressive TV ad campaign?
We cannot take on this battle without your help. Thank you in advance
for your financial support -- and your votes.
The Nevada Secretary of State (SOS) announced yesterday that he is giving Drug Czar John Walters two weeks to respond to the Marijuana Policy Project's December 4 complaint, which charged that he violated state law by failing to file any campaign finance reports for all of the campaigning he did against our Nevada ballot
initiative this past fall.
Please see http://www.mpp.org/WarOnDrugCzar.html for today's story in the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
In the meantime, we are launching the next prong of our "War on Drug Czar" campaign. Would you please vote on which of MPP's six TV ads you think we should run to challenge the drug czar's TV ads by visiting http://www.mpp.org/WarOnDrugCzar.html ? Every dollar you donate will count as one vote for your favorite ad. The more money you donate, the more votes you get.
The six ads are in production as I write this, and we will begin
airing the two or three most popular ads early next month in
Washington, D.C. -- if you are willing to fund this campaign.
Then, for the remainder of the year, we will track the drug czar's
travel schedule, running the ads for a few days in each city he
visits. Wherever he goes, local reporters will put him on the
defensive, asking him to comment on MPP's ads and to try defending marijuana prohibition. He will not be able to escape us.
If we don't defend ourselves and our movement from the drug czar's attacks, all the progress we have made since the first ballot
initiative victory in California in 1996 will come to a screeching
halt.
This past summer and fall, Drug Czar John Walters illegally used
taxpayer money to campaign personally against our landmark initiative in Nevada that would have ended the arrest of all marijuana users.
Then, in mid-September, he unleashed an avalanche of TV ads in Nevada and nationwide, the sole purpose of which is to scare the American people into thinking that marijuana is among the gravest threats toour national security.
(If you have a TV, you have seen the drug czar's marijuana scare ads. In one, a teenager accidentally shoots his friend while smoking marijuana. Another ad depicts a car full of marijuana users accidentally running over a little girl on a bicycle. And other ads claim that buying drugs funds terrorism. For all of the drug czar's ads, please see http://www.mediacampaign.org/mg/television.html .)
As you know, Nevadans voted down our ballot initiative by a 39% to 61% margin on November 5. It's true that we probably would have lost even if the drug czar hadn't run his deceptive TV ads during the last seven weeks of the campaign. But it's also true that if we continue to let his ads go unanswered, we will not be able to win any definitive legislative victories for many years to come.
Would you please visit http://www.mpp.org/WarOnDrugCzar.html to fund
MPP's new, aggressive TV ad campaign?
We cannot take on this battle without your help. Thank you in advance
for your financial support -- and your votes.
i guess that's the price of freedom...
:devil:
