Santa Cruz Lowest Priority Initiative

DdC · 03-09-2006, 07:26 PM

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
Please visit*http://www.mpp.org/subscribe to sign up for MPP's free e-mail alerts.

You are receiving this e-mail because you requested information from MPP in the past or are otherwise listed in MPP's database as someone with an interest in marijuana policy reform. MPP follows a strict no-spam policy, so if you would like to ensure you don't receive further e-mails from us, simply reply with the word REMOVE in the subject line. To contact MPP, please visit http://www.mpp.org/contact or reply to this e-mail. Our mailing address is MPP, P.O. Box 77492, Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. 20013

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.
Read More... 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.
Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21549.shtml

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"Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise."
From Benito Mussolini contributing to the "London Sunday Express," December 8, 1935

Santa Cruz City Council Targets Bush
SC Industrial Hemp Expo
Pacific Hemp now Safari Seeds
Well Fed With Hemp in Santa Cruz

Don't Hemp Me In
Rep. Sam Farr (D-Santa Cruz) is crooning the same tune as pretzel prohibitor Hutchinson. Farr said he too is opposed to all hemp food, including pretzels and soda, "since they all contain a small amount of THC and since THC is an illegal drug."

The Ganjawar is a Product Sold by D.E.A.th to Profit Fascist

"Not only are we here to protect the public from vicious criminals in the street
but also to protect the public from harmful ideas."
- Robert Ingersoll, first director of the DEA

Conservative Addiction Good, Liberal Addiction Bad!

"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

DdC · 04-21-2006, 10:37 PM

Initiative To Relax Pot Rules Headed To Ballot By Shanna McCord
Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel April 21, 2006 Santa Cruz *

Supporters of an initiative to reduce police enforcement of recreational pot use turned in more than the required number of signatures to place the measure on the November ballot.

"This measure offers a sensible alternative to the failed federal war on drugs," organizer Andrea Tischler wrote in a statement. "Santa Cruz citizens don't want our police to waste their time and our tax dollars arresting, jailing and prosecuting nonviolent marijuana users."

The group, known as Santa Cruz Citizens for Sensible Marijuana Policy, needs to collect signatures of 3,423 registered voters to bring the issue to a vote. They turned in more than 6,000.

The number of signatures required to force a vote was different for the marijuana initiative than the minimum wage initiative, whose supporters also filed Thursday, because the number of registered voters fluctuates.

The signatures need to be counted and verified by county elections officials within the next 30 days before the measure can officially qualify for the ballot.
Marijuana is an illegal substance under federal law, but allowed for medical use in California.

The group's initiative includes cutting off federal drug-enforcement resources to ensure the proposed city policy is followed.

Marijuana enforcement in Santa Cruz would still apply to driving under the influence, sales to minors and use or sale in public.

City Attorney John Barisone and local police officials have questioned the legality of the proposal.

Contact: editorial@santa-cruz.com * Website

Marijuana Advocates Push Proposal
Advocates Push Proposal (Thread)

SC Citizens for Sensible Marijuana Policy

420 by Peter Koht
Exploring the cultural history of marijuana on the day (and time) it matters the most

The problem with writing about pot is that due diligence dictates that you get baked beforehand. So … Check. Is there any food around here?

Marijuana is a drug plant. If you smoke it, you get lit, and then everything is different for a bit. It’s an occasional habit for many, for some, it’s a lifestyle, and others rebuke it with mighty fervor.

Criminalized by a number of federal laws starting with the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act, weed used to be thought of as an industrial plant. Harvested and processed to make cheap paper, cloth and rope, Washington grew it, his buddy Jefferson wrote on it and nearly 200 years later, our brave boys used hemp parachutes to safely come down behind enemy lines.
continued... http://www.gtweekly.com/cover/story....-19.8470165083

Reefer Madness

It’s very versatile. Smoke it. Cook with it. Roll it up. And then get officially baked. Pot. Love it or hate it, marijuana keeps our lives smokin’. News Editor Peter Koht dives in and investigates the weed of all weeds.
Cover PDF* Read on. gtweekly.com/cover/story

“Don’t bogart that joint!”

Greening Santa Cruz
Forget the feds, new pot club opens

The Compassion Flower Inn

x263 · 04-25-2006, 05:18 PM

HELL YEAH

that's why i love living in Santa Cruz....

don't worry... I signed the petition. and so did probably 20,000 other people.

03-09-2006, 07:26 PM	#1 (permalink)
DdC Decade Yahookan Join Date: Feb 1999 Location: Santa Cruz,CA,USA Posts: 2,088 Blog Entries: 5 Thanks: 47 Thanked 570 Times in 378 Posts	Santa Cruz Lowest Priority Initiative 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.comor 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 Please visithttp://www.mpp.org/subscribe to sign up for MPP's free e-mail alerts. You are receiving this e-mail because you requested information from MPP in the past or are otherwise listed in MPP's database as someone with an interest in marijuana policy reform. MPP follows a strict no-spam policy, so if you would like to ensure you don't receive further e-mails from us, simply reply with the word REMOVE in the subject line. To contact MPP, please visit http://www.mpp.org/contact or reply to this e-mail. Our mailing address is MPP, P.O. Box 77492, Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. 20013 Marijuana Advocates Push Proposal To Ease Drug Law* By Shanna McCord Source: Santa Cruz SentinelMarch 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. Read More... 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. Read More... http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21549.shtml Santa Cruz, ACLU Renew Fight for Medical Marijuana Cannabis News Search: Santa Cruz Santa Cruz Proposes Medical Marijuana Department Sanata Cruz: Pot or Potholes ? (op-ed) Sovereignty: The Right To Grow Hemp Legitimizing Ganja SC Legalizes Cannabis if its Organic! "Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise." From Benito Mussolini contributing to the "London Sunday Express," December 8, 1935 Santa Cruz City Council Targets Bush SC Industrial Hemp Expo Pacific Hemp now Safari Seeds Well Fed With Hemp in Santa Cruz Don't Hemp Me In Rep. Sam Farr (D-Santa Cruz) is crooning the same tune as pretzel prohibitor Hutchinson. Farr said he too is opposed to all hemp food, including pretzels and soda, "since they all contain a small amount of THC and since THC is an illegal drug." The Ganjawar is a Product Sold by D.E.A.th to Profit Fascist "Not only are we here to protect the public from vicious criminals in the street but also to protect the public from harmful ideas." - Robert Ingersoll, first director of the DEA Conservative Addiction Good, Liberal Addiction Bad! "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

04-21-2006, 10:37 PM	#2 (permalink)
DdC Decade Yahookan Join Date: Feb 1999 Location: Santa Cruz,CA,USA Posts: 2,088 Blog Entries: 5 Thanks: 47 Thanked 570 Times in 378 Posts	Initiative To Relax Pot Rules Headed To Ballot Initiative To Relax Pot Rules Headed To Ballot By Shanna McCord Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel April 21, 2006 Santa Cruz * Supporters of an initiative to reduce police enforcement of recreational pot use turned in more than the required number of signatures to place the measure on the November ballot. "This measure offers a sensible alternative to the failed federal war on drugs," organizer Andrea Tischler wrote in a statement. "Santa Cruz citizens don't want our police to waste their time and our tax dollars arresting, jailing and prosecuting nonviolent marijuana users." The group, known as Santa Cruz Citizens for Sensible Marijuana Policy, needs to collect signatures of 3,423 registered voters to bring the issue to a vote. They turned in more than 6,000. The number of signatures required to force a vote was different for the marijuana initiative than the minimum wage initiative, whose supporters also filed Thursday, because the number of registered voters fluctuates. The signatures need to be counted and verified by county elections officials within the next 30 days before the measure can officially qualify for the ballot. Marijuana is an illegal substance under federal law, but allowed for medical use in California. The group's initiative includes cutting off federal drug-enforcement resources to ensure the proposed city policy is followed. Marijuana enforcement in Santa Cruz would still apply to driving under the influence, sales to minors and use or sale in public. City Attorney John Barisone and local police officials have questioned the legality of the proposal. Contact: editorial@santa-cruz.com * Website Marijuana Advocates Push Proposal Advocates Push Proposal (Thread) SC Citizens for Sensible Marijuana Policy 420 by Peter Koht Exploring the cultural history of marijuana on the day (and time) it matters the most The problem with writing about pot is that due diligence dictates that you get baked beforehand. So … Check. Is there any food around here? Marijuana is a drug plant. If you smoke it, you get lit, and then everything is different for a bit. It’s an occasional habit for many, for some, it’s a lifestyle, and others rebuke it with mighty fervor. Criminalized by a number of federal laws starting with the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act, weed used to be thought of as an industrial plant. Harvested and processed to make cheap paper, cloth and rope, Washington grew it, his buddy Jefferson wrote on it and nearly 200 years later, our brave boys used hemp parachutes to safely come down behind enemy lines. continued... http://www.gtweekly.com/cover/story....-19.8470165083 Reefer Madness It’s very versatile. Smoke it. Cook with it. Roll it up. And then get officially baked. Pot. Love it or hate it, marijuana keeps our lives smokin’. News Editor Peter Koht dives in and investigates the weed of all weeds. Cover PDF* Read on. gtweekly.com/cover/story “Don’t bogart that joint!” Greening Santa Cruz Forget the feds, new pot club opens The Compassion Flower Inn

04-25-2006, 05:18 PM	#3 (permalink)
x263 LET JESUS FUCK YOU Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Santa Cruz, california. Come get me, bitch. Posts: 1,665 Thanks: 2 Thanked 15 Times in 8 Posts	HELL YEAH that's why i love living in Santa Cruz.... don't worry... I signed the petition. and so did probably 20,000 other people. __________________ nothing can fuck with the OG Cali

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