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<p style="font: 12px/16px Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><a href="http://dpa.convio.net/site/R?i=nQkC878Jx-TXN8wm1XwKfg"><span style="outline: 0pt none; text-decoration: underline; color: #0057a3;">Urge your Congressional representative to vote in favor of an amendment that would protect medical marijuana from federal interference!</span></a></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;">As soon as this Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives will vote on a groundbreaking amendment that would <strong>ban the Drug Enforcement Administration and Department of Justice from using our taxpayer money to interfere with state medical marijuana laws</strong>. </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;"> <a href="http://dpa.convio.net/site/R?i=iKYF4wOiRpSsTcyNvdcOhQ"><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;">Time is running out to make your voice heard: tell your member of Congress to end the federal attack on medical marijuana now!</span></a></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;">Drug war bureaucrats are determined to undermine our progress. <strong>The Department of Justice and Drug Enforcement Administration still have free reign to take action against medical marijuana dispensaries operating legally under state law</strong>. If we don’t pass reform in Congress, the progress we’ve made could crumble. Even worse: a new administration in 2017 could stop medical marijuana dead in its tracks. </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;">Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia now allow marijuana to be used for medical purposes. And five other states recently approved the use of CBD oils, a component of medical marijuana which some parents are utilizing to treat their children’s seizures. Federal interference has resulted in patients losing access to their medicine when legal dispensaries are threatened, raided and shut down. </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;"><a href="http://dpa.convio.net/site/R?i=c6Q1cilowlJzlh3SXmr5ZA"><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;">Tell your U.S. House Representative to support the amendment that will ban the DEA and DOJ from using taxpayer money to interfere in states with voter-approved medical marijuana laws! </span></a> </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;">Right now we have a huge opportunity to protect medical marijuana. <strong>And with more support in Congress than ever before, we have a real chance to win this! But we need your help to persuade Congress</strong>. </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;">You’ve proven before that fierce advocacy can lead us to victory. And we need your help now more than ever. <a href="http://dpa.convio.net/site/R?i=xXfNye2RHWT-SuAX5ucG1g"><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;">With the vote as early as this Thursday, please take action and demand that your member of Congress vote in favor of ending the federal assault on medical marijuana now. </span></a> </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;">Sincerely,</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;">Bill Piper<br />Director, Office of National Affairs<br />Drug Policy Alliance </p>
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