Courtesy of our friends at LEAP:
As soon as this Thursday, November 5, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee could vote on an amendment that will legally prevent some of the government’s top advisers from even discussing the idea of legalizing or decriminalizing drugs as a solution to the failed “war on drugs.”
Yes, you read that right. The Senate just might censor its own policy advisers from giving science-based advice.
The censorship amendment’s author, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA), is trying to attach the speech prohibition onto an otherwise positive bill that will create a blue ribbon commission to study our nation’s failed criminal justice and drug policies. The commission is supposed to make recommendations for ways to improve the system, but how can they do that with the blindfold that Sen. Grassley wants to put on them? Please take action below and tell your senators to oppose the censorship amendment!
Visit the LEAP site today to send your letter of protest against this amendment to your own Senator. Read past collections of Sen. Grassley’s dementia sativa here and here.
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you have got to be freakin’ kidding me.
every day when i read these articles i keep thinking “how much further will we go before we realize the extent of how ridiculous this is?”
then i find an article like this….
it’s not going to stop for a while it seems.
no way Sen. Webb let’s this stain his bill.
I sent one to my senator.