If you’d like to see Virginia STOP putting people in jail for
marijuana, then you need to send an email or two, and you need to do
it TUESDAY!
Delegate Harvey Morgan, a Republican pharmaciust from Gloucester,
has introduced HB1134 and HB1136. HB1134 will decriminalize
possession, and reform penalties for other marijuana
offenses. HB1136 will improve Virginia’s medical-marijuana law,
The decrim bill, HB1134, will be heard about 1pm on Wednesday the
27th by the Criminal Laws subcommittee of the House Coiurts of
Justice Committee. After these nine people vote on it, it will be
heard again by the full Courts committee, which generally follows the
recommendations of the subcommittee. Boiled down, this means that
five people on the subcommittee can effectively KILL the bill, and
they’ll be voting on Wednesday afternoon.
If you’d like to see the bill pass, you need to go to
<http://leg1.
send a short email to each person listed under “Membership” (Click on
each name to see data and a mailto link). The email needs to arrive
before noon on. Wednesday!
The message doesn’t need to be long, or elegant . . . it just needs
to GET THERE. As a subjectline, I suggest “Support HB1134″. For
details on the bill, go to
<http://leg1.
Local peace activist Noah Scalin let me know about this:There’s going to be a special sneak preview of the documentary “World Peace…and other 4th-grade achievements” at Charlottesville’s historic Paramount Theater – Sunday, February 21, 2010, 6:00 pm“[The movie] interweaves the story of John Hunter, a teacher in Charlottesville, Virginia [and former teacher in the Richmond Public Schools and member of The Ululating Mummies], with his students’ participation in an exercise called the World Peace Game. The game triggers an eight-week transformation of the children from students of a neighborhood public school to citizens of the world. The film reveals how a wise, loving teacher can unleash students’ full potential.”
More details can be found on the Rosalia Films website here: http://www.rosaliafilms.com/