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Every year in this country, more people are arrested for marijuana offenses than the populations of Las Vegas and Reno combined. Almost 90% of those arrested are arrested for simple possession. Yet, 35 years into the federal government's declaring "war" on otherwise law-abiding marijuana users, marijuana is still inexpensive, widely used, and available everywhere. You would be hard-pressed to find a bigger and more costly policy failure. And while we waste endless government resources prosecuting the war on marijuana, we create an illegal market that finances the activities of violent gangs and drug dealers at the same time. We're financing both sides of this idiotic war. Everyone loses.
Our laws do not work.
It's time to change the law.
And that's why we're here. We are the Committee to Regulate and Control Marijuana, a Nevada-based ballot action group dedicated to passing the marijuana initiative that will appear on the November 2006 ballot. Under our initiative, the possession and sale of small amounts of marijuana would be taken out of the unregulated, illegal market and put into a strictly regulated and taxed one.
Our laws do not work, and we're going to change the law.
But we need your help.
Please tool around our site and tell us what you think. And be kind, as this site is a work in progress. If you don't like something, feel free to tell us what you think we should be doing. PLEASE send us your ideas, designs, and grand visions for the campaign. Since we cannot afford to hire the twelve absolute smartest people in the world, any and all guidance we receive would be incredibly helpful. We promise to take the best ideas from our supporters and implement them throughout the campaign, always giving credit where credit is due. We cannot win this without you. This is your campaign; we just work here.
So, first and foremost, we are proud to debut this, our home-page blog. All the marijuana news that's fit to print. Please make sure you bookmark this page or subscribe to our RSS feed, as we promise an endless stream of entertaining, fresh content. And while you're on the site, drop us a little change, why don't you? In the near future, we're going to make it very easy for you to volunteer from the comfort of your own home. In fact, we have so much coming your way over the next few weeks and months, it's too much to mention. So make sure you check back regularly. We're going to continually roll out new features and gizmos that are so amazing, your knees might actually quake. Seriously.
It has been my honor to write the very first ever CRCM blog post. Now go back to work.
Sincerely,
Neal Levine
Campaign Manager