As you may know, today is 4/20, the unofficial "marijuana holiday."
Many pro-legalization groups are using today to promote the use of today's highly potent marijuana products - which many public health experts have pointed out could exacerbate issues with COVID-19 and cause a more serious infection.
Here are some ways you can help push back on Big Marijuana today:
Click the link below to sign a petition to your member of Congress urging them to oppose any and all efforts to extend a bailout to the marijuana industry - that has been working day and night to strong-arm state and local leaders into keeping their pot shops open and bragging about record increases in profits.
For more information on how Big Pot has been working use the outbreak of COVID-19 to further its agenda, please take a minute to read and share the three opinion pieces we have published over the last two weeks:
- Dr. Kevin Sabet in the New York Post
-SAM Chief of Staff Luke Niforatos in
the Colorado Springs Gazette
-SAM VP of Government Affairs, Garth Van Meter, in the Daily Signal
Be sure to keep your eye out for two more opinion pieces coming out this week:
Tuesday: Colorado Politics
Wednesday: Inside Sources
You will learn:
- How to navigate local policies, municipal codes and governing structures
- How to recognize and analyze community factors that influence policy
- How to use zoning and land use tools to negotiate policies that reduce negative impact of marijuana commercialization
For too long, the lack of an objective, fact-based resource on state marijuana laws has been used by Big Marijuana to advance a narrative that allowing them to push their super potent marijuana products on our young people is inevitable.
Today we are dispensing of these myths by releasing the first-of-its-kind marijuana state laws map to show that the majority of America does not allow marijuana use.
Click the link below to check it out and let us know what you think:
Finally, one last way you can help take the fight to Big Pot today is by chipping in with a donation. Your support helps us continue to fight this industry in state houses, on Capitol Hill, and in news outlets nationwide each day.
We cannot do this without you.
