Marijuana Policy Project

TO: Interested persons

FROM: Robert D. Kampia, MPP director of government relations

DATE: Friday, March 5, 1999

On March 2, 1999, U.S. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) introduced H.R. 912 which — if enacted — would allow states to determine their own medicinal marijuana policies without federal interference. This bill is nearly identical to the medicinal marijuana bill that Rep. Frank introduced in the 1997-98 Congress, which the Marijuana Policy Project helped draft.

MPP is encouraging its members and other allies to do the following:

1. Please write to your U.S. representative, asking him or her to co-sponsor H.R. 912. For help writing the letter, please click here.
2. Please submit a supportive letter-to-the-editor to your local newspapers.
3. Please distribute this message widely to your friends, family, and colleagues.
4. If you have extra time, please write a letter to each of your two U.S. senators asking them to "introduce legislation similar to H.R. 912, the medicinal marijuana bill."

H.R. 912 is currently pending in the House Subcommittee on Health and Environment. In the short run, MPP has two goals: (1) persuade the U.S. representatives who sit on this committee to voice their support for holding a hearing on medicinal marijuana; and (2) persuade as many U.S. representatives as possible — whether or not they sit on this committee — to co-sponsor H.R. 912.