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<td><p style="font: 12px/16px Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000; outline: 0pt none; border: 0pt none; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; padding: 0pt; margin: 20px 20px 20px 0px;">Dear Agnes,</p>
<p style="font: 12px/16px Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000; outline: 0pt none; border: 0pt none; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; padding: 0pt; margin: 20px 20px 20px 0px;">Thank you for urging Congress to protect state marijuana reform laws from federal interference. Now we need to reach out to as many people as we can to grow this movement and win.</p>
<p style="font: 12px/16px Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000; outline: 0pt none; border: 0pt none; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; padding: 0pt; margin: 20px 20px 20px 0px;">Want to do even more? Encourage your friends and family to join you by forwarding them the message below.</p>
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<p style="font: 12px/16px Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000; outline: 0pt none; border: 0pt none; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; padding: 0pt; margin: 20px 20px 20px 0px;">Bill Piper<br />Director, Office of National Affairs<br />Drug Policy Alliance</p>
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<p style="font: 12px/16px Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000; outline: 0pt none; border: 0pt none; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; padding: 0pt; margin: 20px 20px 20px 0px;">Hey,</p>
<p style="font: 12px/16px Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000; outline: 0pt none; border: 0pt none; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; padding: 0pt; margin: 20px 20px 20px 0px;">Members of Congress just introduced a new bill that would protect state marijuana reform laws from federal interference. </p>
<p style="font: 12px/16px Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000; outline: 0pt none; border: 0pt none; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; padding: 0pt; margin: 20px 20px 20px 0px;">The bill would ensure that the federal government won’t arrest law-abiding citizens in states that have decided to reform their marijuana laws.</p>
<p style="font: 12px/16px Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000; outline: 0pt none; border: 0pt none; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; padding: 0pt; margin: 20px 20px 20px 0px;">We still don’t know how the federal government will respond to the states’ marijuana legalization laws. But we do know that federal prosecutors and police agents have waged an unprecedented war in medical marijuana states. That’s why this bill is so important -- it would protect law-abiding people following their state’s marijuana law from harassment by the federal government!</p>
<p style="font: 12px/16px Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000; outline: 0pt none; border: 0pt none; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; padding: 0pt; margin: 20px 20px 20px 0px;">More than half of all Americans support legalizing marijuana. And even those who don’t support legalization still believe that police should not focus on marijuana and that the federal government should allow states to set their own marijuana policies. </p>
<p style="font: 12px/16px Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000; outline: 0pt none; border: 0pt none; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; padding: 0pt; margin: 20px 20px 20px 0px;">We’ve made so much progress in winning majority support for marijuana law reform. But members of Congress need pressure from us to do the right thing. </p>
<p style="font: 12px/16px Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000; outline: 0pt none; border: 0pt none; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; padding: 0pt; margin: 20px 20px 20px 0px;">We’ve reached a watershed moment and I need your help to take the next step. <a href="http://dpa.convio.net/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=951"><span style="font: bold 12px/16px Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; outline: 0pt none; color: #c60c30; border: 0pt none; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; text-decoration: underline; padding: 0pt; margin: 0pt;">Write your representative and urge him or her to protect state marijuana reform laws from federal interference now! </span></a></p>
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