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DEA Targets Innocent Victims in Its War on Patients! Urge Your Member of
Congress to Vote for the Hinchey-Rohrabacher Amendment
Dear ASA Supporter,

In what seems to be a last ditch effort, the federal government has begun to
target landlords in its attempt to cut off safe access for medical cannabis
patients. Last week, the DEA sent out more than 100 letters to Los Angeles
property owners, threatening to seize their assets because they rent to
medical cannabis dispensing collectives. This is an incredulous attempt by
DEA to shut down dispensaries and further threaten patients and providers.

Now is the time to act! We must protect patients, providers, and now
ordinary citizens who are all falling victim to the DEA's attack on safe
access! This recent targeting of landlords shows that it is now more
important than ever for Congress to pass the Hinchey-Rohrabacher Amendment
<http://www.americansforsafeaccess.org/hincheyaction> .

You can help! In order to protect patients, providers, and property owners
from the DEA, we must make sure Congress passes the Hinchey-Rohrabacher
amendment. As the Los Angeles Times' editorial
<http://www.latimes.com/news/printedi...iture19jul19,1,
4779939.story?coll=la-news-comment&ctrack=2&cset=true"> published today
described it, this amendment to the Commerce-Justice-State appropriations
bill, "would kill funding for federal efforts to preempt state medical
marijuana initiatives" and would "halt the DEA's efforts to thwart the will
of voters and legislatures in 12 states." The Hinchey-Rohrabacher amendment
would have prevented DEA from harassing and threatening the Los Angeles
landlords, because there would have been no federal funding for these
efforts.

The amendment is coming up for a vote next week, so we must take action
today <http://www.americansforsafeaccess.org/hincheyaction> . Visit ASA's
online action center <http://www.AmericansforSafeAccess.org/hincheyaction>
and send an e-mail to your representative today!

Most importantly, we need you to call your Member of Congress and urge them
to support the amendment right now . Call your Congressional Representative
and tell them that, if adopted, this amendment will do two things:

(a) Conserve taxpayers' money by blocking funding for DEA raids in legal
medical cannabis states against state certified medical cannabis patients
and providers.

(b) Protect legal medical cannabis patients from having their homes and
workspaces unnecessarily raided by the DEA.
Be sure to ask your representative how s/he plans to vote and to also follow
up after the vote. For phone numbers of your representative, visit
www.house.gov <http://www.house.gov> or call the congressional switchboard
at (202) 224-3121. Give the operator your zip code and ask to be connected
to your U.S. Representative. Before you get off the phone with your
representative's office, ask for their local district number, so you can
contact that office as well.

Contact ASA <mailto:sonnet@americansforsafeaccess.org> and let us know
how it went!

After you make that important phone call, contact a friend or family member
in another state, and encourage them to take action too! Every call, every
e-mail <http://www.AmericansforSafeAccess.org/hincheyaction> makes a
difference.

Thank you for your support,

Sonnet Seeborg Gabbard Field Coordinator Americans for Safe Access