Repeal Cannabis Prohibition Act Will Seek Ballot Status in 2014

Repeal Cannabis Prohibition Act Will Seek Ballot Status in 2014: Call for Unity & Collaboration Seeks to Overcome Historical Divisions

SENSIBLE CALIFORNIA
360 Grand Avenue #361
Oakland CA 94610
www.repealcannabisprohibition.org


Press Release -- For immediate release
Contacts: Atty Joe Rogoway 707-526-0420
Bill Panzer 510-834-1892

Repeal Cannabis Prohibition Act Will Seek Ballot Status in 2014
Call for Unity & Collaboration Seeks to Overcome Historical Divisions

2012 will be remembered as the election year with three competing
marijuana initiatives to end prohibition and none of them making the ballot.

The Repeal Cannabis Prohibition Act -- widely considered to be the most popular and legally viable of the three --
announces its intent to go forward to seek ballot status in 2014 with the same team of proponents,
along with a much expanded professional campaign outreach and infra-structure.

The Repeal Cannabis Prohibition Act represents a paradigm shift in initiative language from Legalization to Repeal.
The focus on repealing state marijuana laws is designed to withstand a federal pre-emption challenge.

According to co-author Joe Rogoway, "By simply removing each of the laws that penalize adult cannabis-related conduct,
the Federal government will be alone in attempting to enforce their own perverse version of prohibition
against millions of people over hundreds of thousands of square miles across the state.

"Repeal is now widely viewed as the reasonable route to success. It makes common sense as well as legal sense.
Our hope is that, moving forward, we can come together to finally make the Golden State green."

According to co-author Bill Panzer, "I am committed to repeal. I don't ever want to have to represent another
marijuana defendant, even though it would mean the end of the majority of my legal practice."

RCPA proponents hereby announce the next steps:
We are calling for unity and collaboration amongst all those who believe in putting differences aside
to focus on points of agreement -- ending the "war on marijuana" by repealing prohibition.
Those behind the Repeal Cannabis Prohibition Act will continue to relentlessly pursue this mandate.

We are a movement of not just cannabis consumers, but also doctors, business professionals, retired members
of law enforcement, medical patients, teachers, students, academics, artists, farmers and, yes, soccer moms.

Together we have the ability to repeal a set of laws that are not only ineffective and unenforceable,
but also morally unjustifiable.

Refocusing campaign energy on 2014, the most pressing question posed by supportive donors and seasoned veterans is:
"What does your polling show?"

We view polling data as a research tool to help formulate the language of the 2014 Initiative.

We now have time to put polling at the top of our budget considerations
and will commission a poll early in the next phase of the campaign.

We will need $40,000 for a credible research poll to prove to major donors that we can win.
Please join us!

Signed by proponents

Joe Rogoway, Esq.
William Panzer, Esq.
Pebbles Trippet
Frank Lucido, MD
Omar Figueroa, Esq.

Donations to: Sensible California 360 Grand Avenue #361 Oakland CA 94610

Volunteer sign-up and online donations at: www.repealcannabisprohibition.org