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Contact the Presidential Candidates Who Support Medical Marijuana

Urge Them to Take Their Support Further and Pledge to Issue an Executive Order

Challenge the presidential candidates who have publicly supported medical marijuana to take their commitment to safe access one step further by pledging to end federal raids if elected. We are calling on these candidates to commit to issue an Executive Order that would end federal interference in medical marijuana states. Scroll down to send a fax and an e-mail to the candidates right away!

We are calling on the candidates who have publicly denounced the DEA raids and have supported medical marijuana, Senator Clinton, Senator Obama, and Senator Edwards , to pledge to issue an Executive Order if elected President that says:

“No funds made available to the Department of Justice shall be used to prevent States from implementing adopted laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana. In particular, no funds shall be used to investigate, seize, arrest or prosecute in association with the distribution of medical marijuana, unless such distribution has been found by adjudication to violate state or local law.”

Please take action right now! Due to activists taking action below, ASA has been contacted by Congressman Paul's campaign and is now working with his campaign to develop an Executive Order pledge. It's working, so please take action today! Fill out the form below to challenge the candidates to stand up for medical marijuana patients and to protect taxpayers’ dollars. It is time for the candidates to show that their campaigns are not about rhetoric, but about protecting the rights of Americans.

December 05, 2008

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Thank you to you and your campaign team for the courageous and sensible public statements you have made concerning federal medical marijuana policy. As a voter, this is an issue I care deeply about. The federal government is currently spending millions of dollars to undermine state-sanctioned medical marijuana laws. The consequences of this wasteful spending have caused untold harm to thousands of seriously ill medical marijuana patients and their providers. You are in a unique position right now to take a stand against the harmful tactics of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) by pledging to end federal interference in states that have adopted medical marijuana laws. Without even taking into account the public cost of funding this effort, or how many lives have been ruined, the federal government has no place interfering in the implementation of state and local medical marijuana laws. As such, I urge you to consider making a pledge today to introduce an Executive Order to stop such tactics by the Department of Justice. Specifically, I encourage you to pledge to issue an Executive Order that states: "No funds made available to the Department of Justice shall be used to prevent States from implementing adopted laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana. In particular, no funds shall be used to investigate, seize, arrest or prosecute in association with the distribution of medical marijuana, unless such distribution has been found by adjudication to violate state or local law." As a medical marijuana supporter and a U.S. citizen, I strongly encourage you to pledge to introduce this Executive Order. Please take a stand for the victims of the federal government’s senseless attacks on medical marijuana, the chronic and seriously ill Americans. Please let me know what you are planning to do, as it will have an impact on my vote.
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