Please ask your U.S. representative to co-sponsor H.R. 912
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:
- 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.
- Please submit a supportive letter-to-the-editor to your local newspapers.
- Please distribute this message widely to your friends, family, and colleagues.
- 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.
