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Urgent: Act Now to Save Public Health!

Friends, we need you.

News has broken that the Trump Administration is poised to move marijuana from Schedule I, where it belongs, into Schedule III.

We need you to act now and help win the fight for public health ([link removed]) . We need your voice in the mix to make sure the President does the right thing and keeps marijuana in Schedule I.

What You Can Do Right Now

Click here to get text for a letter ([link removed]) calling on the President not to reschedule marijuana.

Post on X and Truth Social:
.@realDonaldTrump Don’t reschedule marijuana and normalize Big Weed. Rescheduling will enrich foreign cartels and hurt families across the country. Help us stay healthy and safe, Mr. President!

Engage Your Network:
Forward this email to five friends or colleagues. Ask them to take the same actions and to let the President know that rescheduling is wrong on the science, wrong for communities, and wrong for America.

Here’s what’s at stake:

Marijuana belongs in Schedule I because raw marijuana has no accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse. Putting it in Schedule III would open the door to widespread normalization and let marijuana businesses deduct advertising, marketing, even high-THC R&D expenses at tax time. That would supercharge an industry already driving rising youth addiction, mental-health crises, and ER visits.

That tax relief will attract corporate giants and illegal operators (including those with ties to the Chinese government) hiding behind the booming legal market. Our neighborhoods will pay the price in crime and public health costs, while Big Weed and our biggest strategic competitor profit.

In other words, just as Big Weed is losing public support across the country, rescheduling would hand this addiction-for-profit industry a lifeline.

Rescheduling Resources

SAM Deep Dive: Marijuana and rescheduling ([link removed])

The Drug Report: Why marijuana should remain in Schedule I ([link removed])

Rescheduling videos from Kevin Sabet: Click below to watch!
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Thank you for standing with us at this crucial time.

In partnership,

The SAM Action Team

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Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM) ([link removed]) is an alliance of organizations and individuals dedicated to a health-first approach to marijuana policy. We are professionals working in mental health and public health. We are bipartisan. We are medical doctors, lawmakers, treatment providers, preventionists, teachers, law enforcement officers and others who seek a middle road between incarceration and legalization. Our commonsense, third-way approach to marijuana policy is based on reputable science and sound principles of public health and safety.

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