i got this in my Email,
I wanted you to be the first to know -- we just confirmed in the last hour that President Obama selected Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske to be his drug czar.
While we’re disappointed that President Obama has selected another law enforcement official instead of a major public health advocate, we’re cautiously optimistic that this nominee will support the president’s drug policy reform agenda.
What gives us hope is that Seattle has been at the cutting edge of harm reduction and other drug policy reform developments including:
Being among the first cities to implement syringe exchange programs;
Legalizing medical marijuana ten years ago (statewide);
Categorizing marijuana arrests as the lowest law enforcement priority; and
Implementing innovative overdose prevention strategies.
Kerlikowske is clearly familiar with drug policy reforms, and has not been a forceful opponent. Although a police chief may not be an ideal pick, given President Obama's call for "shifting the paradigm, shifting the model, so that we focus more on a public health approach," we remain hopeful that he has the potential to provide much needed national leadership in implementing the president's campaign commitments.
We look forward to working with you to ensure that he fulfills President Obama's promises to treat drug abuse as a public health issue, lift the federal ban on funding syringe access, eliminate the disparity between sentencing for crack and powder cocaine, and stop the raids on medical marijuana dispensaries in California.
It's a potentially transformative moment. Together, we’ll make sure Kerlikowske follows through.
Sincerely,
Ethan Nadelmann
Executive Director
Drug Policy Alliance Network
and sadly the raids on LEGAL dispensaries continues.
And they have a way to call the presidents office to ask him to do something about the DEA raids that the Bush cronies are still running in decriminalized states where it is LEGAL. this is a blatant disredard for the states power, and by extension the peoples power. this is police state action and it must be STOPPED. Our tax dollars are being used to harrass AIDS and cancer patients about medicines that were prescribed by licenced doctors. Where's the change we were promised huh? not that i believed it was coming, sure obama is eloquent and gives people "inspiration" well, so did hitler. A confident, eloquent politician is still a politician.
check out this link to get the number or travel the site to find the way they have to Email him...
https://secure2.convio.net/dpa/site...006=jt2od2ns02.app8a&alertId=279&pg=makeACall
ALWAYS QUESTION AUTHORITY, NO MATTER WHAT. even if he seems like your savior, all evil leaders were considered saviors at first. hitler, and castro, were both promising "change" and "revolution." be carefull who you trust, ESPECIALLY HIGH RANKING ELITIST POLITICIANS.