Thank you for contacting me in regard to ending marijuana prohibition. I greatly appreciate knowing your thoughts on this important issue, but I must respectfully disagree with you. In 2005, Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) offered an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2006 Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State Appropriations Bill that would allow states to legalize medical marijuana use. I voted against this amendment for two reasons: I am strongly opposed to the legalization of drugs on both the

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