| Congress cuts drug czar's ad budget
Dear Noah Wallach:
Good news! Thanks in part to
letters from you and other subscribers, Congress has cut $20 million from the
White House drug czar's ad
campaign.
These ads have
featured stoned teenagers driving over a little girl on a bicycle, one stoned
teenager shooting another in his parents' den, another stoned teenager
date-raping another, and a teenager who gets pregnant because she smoked
marijuana. Another ad claimed that people who buy marijuana are funding
terrorism.
The Marijuana Policy Project has
lobbied for years to eliminate all funding for these outrageous and deceptive
ads. And, thanks to MPP's and allied organizations' steady pressure, Congress
has cut the ad budget every year since 2002, from $180 million in 2002 to $100
million in 2006 an overall cut of 44% over the span of five fiscal
years.
Our work is paying off.
Will you please click
here
to help fund our full-time, steady, successful lobbying on Capitol
Hill?
After MPP asked you and other
subscribers to write to Congress about this, you came through
generating 9,317 letters to Congress through MPP's online action center. Capitol
Hill newspaper Congressional Quarterly (CQ) even reported on our
efforts.
Meanwhile, MPP's lobbyist was
working to forge alliances with congressional staffers connected to the House's
influential Republican Study Committee, which includes nearly half of all House
Republicans and has recommended eliminating the ad campaign
entirely.
We will continue lobbying Congress
to do exactly that in the next annual budget. Will you please help MPP to
continue chipping away at the drug czar's budget by making a financial contribution to
our work
today?
We'd like to continue spending
a few thousand dollars on full-time lobbying in order to strip another
$20 million from the drug czar's ad budget a pretty good deal, if you
ask
me.
I want to thank you in advance for
your
support.
Sincerely,
Rob
Kampia
Executive
Director
Marijuana Policy
Project
Washington,
D.C.
P.S. Your donation can even be
tax-deductible. Please visit www.mpp.org/donate5013 by December
31.
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