Detroit Voters Will Have A Chance To Decriminalize Marijuana

[bobandtorey]

The Michigan Supreme Court has ruled that Detroit voters will have a chance to decriminalize marijuana on August 7th.

This is a stunning victory for marijuana advocates in Detroit and Michigan as a whole, but it's only a first step - now it's time to work to build enough support to pass this initiative.

That's why we're running Facebook ads telling Detroit voters to support marijuana decriminalization at the ballot box this August.

Can you please donate $10 or more to help Just Say Now run Facebook ads asking Detroit residents to vote in favor of decriminalizing marijuana August 7?

Click here to see the ads and donate: https://secure.firedoglake.com/page/contribute/detroit-ads

Just Say Now activists in Michigan came together to spotlight this suppression at the ballot box, and ultimately we prevailed. But the fight's not over until this becomes law, which is why we need to start mobilizing support for this initiative right now.

Opponents in city council are already speaking out against the initiative, and the city police commissioner is trying to intimidate voters by threatening to use state and federal law to continue to prosecute marijuana possession.

But these threats are nothing more than a testament to the reality that this initiative has a real chance of passing, bringing small relief to the unbelievable amount of blacks and latinos arrested each year for small marijuana possession in the city.

Please help us raise money to run these Facebook ads and build support for decriminalizing marijuana in Detroit this summer.

Thanks for your support,

Brian Sonenstein

Director of Online Activism,

JustSayNow.com

[pic book]

I will vote for the proposal to decrim in Detroit. Any one who believes it will fail in Detroit just does not know the political climate here. It's about jobs. I live just west of Del Ray where the New International Bridge will be built. The neighborhood seess that as creating new jobs, just like the proposal to decrim. Create a new industry in this town. Draw young degreed workers. Auto manfrg cannot alone create the supply of new jobs wew need. We need to follow the decrim with a $50 per ounce tax within the city limits. To create jobs that furnish revenue to the city coffers. And we neeed to follow that with citizenship to any foreigner with a science or technology or medical background or advanced degree. Grant full citizenship after 5 years felony-free residence residence inside Detroit. Quicken Loans and Dan Gilbert can do a lot, but can't supply all the demand and people we need to repopulate Detroit, make use of the housing stock and raise the neighborhoods economicallly. State or federal loans are not the answer. We doon't have a waay to pay back what we owee now. We need professsionals who will cause the greeat sucking sound you hear from Detroit to be the souhnd of venture capitala sweeping in to finance the new venturess foreign professionals who wish to be U.S. citizens come to create.

[Kevin]

I hope it's successful, but first they have to get the good people of Detroit to the polls. Tall order it would seem, as recent stats show that only about 11% of Detroiters even bother to show up and vote. Maybe they'll show for this. Can only hope.

[pic book]

Right on! It is likely voters will turn out for this election as they're upset over the consent agreement that puts the state (finally)supervising the errant city.

[Ms Chocolate]

Recent stats show that only about 11% of Detroiters even bother to show up and vote.

Way less than 11% for primaries

[Hydraulic Jack]

As long as we have more yes than no we're golden....HJ