On a traditional day of celebration for the cannabis community, this April 20 there will be a CALL TO ACTION to contact the Obama administration by phone, email and fax as well as visits to re-election headquarters in protest of misguided marijuana policies.
Submit Your Comments and Questions Online – The White House
Here’s Obama’s re-election site Headquarters
Got a beef with the Obama Administration’s stepped up efforts to criminalize medical marijuana patients and the dispensaries that serve them? Let the First Flip-Flopper (who did not keep his campaign promise to stop harassing states that allow for medical marijuana) know about it. Go ahead… Submit Your Questions or Comments Here
The medical cannabis community is demanding that we utilize our resources for safer communities by keeping cannabis away from our children by controlling and regulating it. Contact the president to call a stop to failed and outdated policy of marijuana prohibition, which further drives control of the marijuana trade into the hands of violent drug cartels and other illegal operators, endangering both patients in medical marijuana states and citizens everywhere. A few ideas:
1. Cannabis should be de-scheduled to allow for research and education.
2. An immediate cessation of all federal intervention in the legal medical cannabis system in California.
3. An immediate halt to any action that threatens the community, homeowners and jobs in California.
4. A response from the White House on the reasoning behind this latest assault and how it squares with Obama’s plan to expand the economy and a decent respect for democracy. “We the patients” are “We the People”.
To find out about what you can do, visit - www.OaksterdamUniversity.com.”
Oaksterdam’s employees are members of UFCW Local 5, an affiliate of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, the largest retail workers organization in the country. Dan Rush, Director of UFCW’s Medical Cannabis and Hemp Division said, “We are very disappointed in this misguided enforcement action by the federal government. Almost 100 of our members, my sisters and brothers, lost their jobs and benefits as a consequence of this raid.”
Medical cannabis pioneer and founder of Oaksterdam University, Richard Lee, is officially retiring to pursue drug policy reform full-time. Dale Sky Jones, Oaksterdam’s executive chancellor, is licensing the Oaksterdam University curriculum to continue its stated mission of quality training for the cannabis industry. Richard Lee promises he will still teach at OU, but he feels that continuing as president could draw further harassment to the school from the federal government. He is formally stepping away to allow the school to fully separate itself from Lee and his other previously affiliated cannabis businesses, considered illegal under federal law.
The Chair of the Mendocino County (CA) Board of Supervisors, John McCowen, stated after US attorneys shut down his successful zip-tie program stated, “It's almost as if there was a conscious effort to drive [medical marijuana cultivation and distribution] back underground. My opinion is that's going to further endanger public safety and the environment – the federal government doesn't seem to care about that.”
Are you sick of Obama’s lack of concern for medical marijuana patients and the dispensaries that serve them?
I suggest you let Obama know he’s not getting your vote this November…for starters.
Contacts:
Dale Sky Jones, Executive Chancellor Oaksterdam University, www.oaksterdamuniversity.com phone: (949) 680-5452 or (510) 251-1544 - e-mail: daleskyjones@gmail.com twitter: daleskyones
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Tom Angell, Media Relations Director
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
http://www.CopsSayLegalizeDrugs.com -phone: (202) 557-4979 - e-mail: tom@leap.cc
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Dale Geiringer, Director, CA NORML - www.canorml.org (415) 563-5858 dale@canorml.org
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John Vasconcellos, California State Senator (retired) (408) 298-1993 senjohnv@aol.com
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