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Organize! Introducing the Ohio Marijuana Party
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n804/a07.html
Newshawk: U.S. Marijuana Party http://www.usmjparty.com/
Pubdate: Tue, 01 Jun 2004
Source: Columbus Free Press (OH)
Copyright: 2004 The Columbus Free Press
Contact: truth@freepress.org
Website: http://www.freepress.org/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/3168
Author: Sandy Cote
Note: Series from a Special edition of the Free Press, published
in conjunction with Hempfest 2004. For 17 other articles in this series,
click this link http://www.mapinc.org/source/Columbus+Free+Press
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/people/Sandy+Cote
ORGANIZE! INTRODUCING THE OHIO MARIJUANA PARTY
Year after year, for decades, supporters of marijuana law reform have
been ignored by our government. It's time to change that.
There's an old saying 'If you can't beat 'em, join 'em', and that's just
what the Ohio Marijuana Party ( http://ohio.usmjparty.com
) intends to do.
Founded by Ohio residents, Sandy Cote of Toledo and Sterling Albury of
Martinsville, this chapter of the U.S. Marijuana Party ( www.usmjparty.com
) has formed a political action committee to support or oppose
candidates for office who support or oppose our mission of reforming
marijuana laws. But more importantly, we are petitioning to form a
political party to gain ballot access and run our own candidates for
office at every level of government. Ohio requires 33,563
signatures of registered voters to do this. Our laws don't make it
an easy process. However, given the history of Hempfest
attendance, if each person who attends this year downloaded the petition
from our website and obtained just ten signatures each, we would be way
over the top and could accomplish this very difficult task in record
time! Let's show our strength. This is OUR Party and we deserve
it.
The Democrats and Republicans may have all the money, but we've got
weed. I think that makes us even.
Let's make it happen, together, because we can. Please register to
vote and consider running for office on a marijuana legalization
platform. Thank you for joining in this effort.
Sandy Cote
Ohio Marijuana Party Political Action Committee, Co-founder
U.S. Marijuana Party, National Outreach Coordinator
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