Please support HR 2306, a bill introduced by Barney Frank and Ron Paul to 
end federal prohibition of marijuana.  Like alcohol prohibition in the 
1920s, marijuana prohibition fails in its intended effect, and only 
creates a black market that spurs violent crime.  Marijuana is not like 
other currently illegal or regulated drugs: it isn't strongly addictive 
and it doesn't cause aggressive behaviour.  Whereas other drugs can 
increase violent crime, marijuana simply increases visits to doughnut 
shops.

HR 2306 wouldn't force any state to legalise marijuana.  It will simply 
get the federal government out of the way and allow states to implement 
their own policies.  A number of states have majority public support for 
marijuana legalisation; marijuana is decriminalised in fourteen states, 
and available with a physician's prescription in sixteen states.  
Nationwide support for legalisation continues to rise each year and is 
nearing 50%.

HR 2306 is an important issue of states' rights and I hope that you will 
co-sponsor this important bill and give your utmost effort to see that it 
becomes law.