Because you are a Santa Cruz resident who is in the Marijuana Policy Project’s (MPP’s) database, I am passing on the following important message from an MPP grant recipient who is working to make adult marijuana offenses your city's lowest police priority.
Calling all volunteers! We need your help to officially de-prioritize marijuana offenses in Santa Cruz!*Come learn about Santa Cruz Citizens for Sensible Marijuana Policy's ballot initiative and how you can be a part of a growing movement to implement an alternative to the drug war.
What: Petition Drive Kick-Off Event
When: Saturday, March 11, 2006 • 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Where: Louden Nelson Community Center, 301 Center St., Room 6, Santa Cruz
For more information, to get involved, or arrange for a volunteer petitioner training session, please contact Andrea at
reservations@compass ionflowerinn.com*or 831-466-0420.
What does the Adult Marijuana Criminal Offenses —
Lowest Law Enforcement Priority Initiative do?
(1) Makes investigations, citations, arrests, property seizures, and prosecutions for adult marijuana offenses the city of Santa Cruz’s lowest law enforcement priority
(2) Enables the city to save tax dollars and police resources to be spent fighting violent and serious crime
(3) Establishes a city policy supporting changes in state and federal laws that call for taxation and regulation for adult use of marijuana
We need your help to get this issue on the ballot! According to a recent Santa Cruz poll, over 80% of city voters believe that the drug war is a failure and adults who use marijuana should not be criminalized.
Liz Best, State Policies Intern
Marijuana Policy Project
P.O. Box 77492, Capitol Hill Washington, D.C. 20013
P: 202-462-5747, ext. 120F: 202-232-0442l
best@mpp.org http://www.mpp.org
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Marijuana Advocates Push Proposal To Ease Drug Law By Shanna McCord
Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel*March 09, 2006
Marijuana proponents are pushing for a new city law that would essentially make recreational pot use legal on private property. A petition drive is under way by the advocacy group Santa Cruz Citizens for Sensible Marijuana Policy to get an initiative on the November ballot that would make marijuana offenses the lowest priority for police and cut off federal drug-enforcement resources to ensure this.
Read More...
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21651.shtml
Marijuana-rama By Leyna Krow
Metro Santa Cruz February 01, 2006 Santa Cruz, Calif. *
Will locals vote to put pot-related enforcement at the bottom of the cops' to-do list? The city of Santa Cruz sure does love its dope. At least that's the assumption Santa Cruz Citizens for Sensible Marijuana Policy are banking on as they work to get an initiative on November's ballot that would make marijuana-related crimes the lowest enforcement priority for Santa Cruz police.
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http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21552.shtml
WAMM
Groups Restate Case on Medical Pot By Brian Seals *
Santa Cruz Sentinel February 01, 2006 Santa Cruz, CA*
An area medical marijuana cooperative should be free from harassment by federal agents as should the city's recently enacted ordinance that would establish a compassionate use office for the drug, an amended federal court complaint filed this week contends. Attorneys for the city and county of Santa Cruz and the Wo/men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana filed the amended complaint in U.S. District Court in San Jose.
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http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21549.shtml
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"Not only are we here to protect the public from vicious criminals in the street
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"I wouldn't answer the marijuana questions.
You know why?
Because I don't want some little kid doing what I tried."
- George W. Bush, US President