Today is 4/20 so let's have an honest conversation about weed. Here's how I see it:

April 20 is a beloved occasion to celebrate the plant, its culture, and its many benefits. But as people enjoy, we must also seriously commit ourselves to marijuana legalization and ending the racist War on Drugs.

In honor of 4/20, I'm putting a major part of our platform for progress to the test. And I need your help!

Will you sign my new petition calling for federal marijuana legalization and an end to the War on Drugs? Let's use our collective power to show how urgent and necessary these baseline demands are.

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Since the 1970s, the War on Drugs has really been a war on Black people. And you can't separate marijuana legalization from the injustices of the War on Drugs.

The facts speak for themselves. Black Americans are far more likely to be convicted and sentenced for marijuana possession than white Americans. In fact, Black people are arrested for violating marijuana possession laws at nearly four times the rates of white people.

That's why, along with legalizing weed for recreational and medicinal use, it is urgent that we expunge all marijuana records and release all nonviolent marijuana drug offenders immediately.

So will you please add your name alongside mine to call for federal marijuana legalization and an end to the War on Drugs? There's no better day than 4/20 to project our demands for legal weed and racial justice!

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Thank you from the bottom of my heart,

Erica

P.S. Did you know that nearly 70 percent of Americans favor marijuana legalization? Just last week, a bipartisan medical marijuana bill was introduced in the North Carolina State Senate. Help me prove that marijuana legalization is a popular progressive policy by adding your name to my petition today.