Posted October 31st, 2023 by hiwayhowie
Weekly Activities:
Happy to Help: A buddy of mine at the Grover meeting went out his way to introduce to me an Iraq War vet who has just started lobbying in Congress. He wants the Defense Dept to award a Purple Heart to all those soldiers who were injured by Agent Orange in Vietnam and the burning oil pits, etc. in Iraq…he is having great difficulty arranging meetings with Congressional staffers. I gave him some pointers and next week he will go with me on a few of my meetings to see how I do it; AKA I will mentor him…feels good
Florence Nightengale / Personal Time: A short week, as my fiancé Jean had medium serious foot surgery, needed a driver and serious care the first 24 hours.. it was my first time to be a health care provider/nurse. Not fun and was interesting.
This Week:
4089 Presentations to Congressional staffers… 04 this week…
Meetings: 01 Grover Norquist
COP stats since inception: August 2009
366 personal chats with a Member of Congress… 0 this week:
444 chats with other elected officials, state reps, senators, VIPs,
109 Appearances/Interviews on major TV/Radio/Print media. 0 This week.
215 interviews and reports in minor media …0 this week –
98 Radio Interviews: 0 this week
33 major conferences attended – CPAC 2023, (3 UN drug conferences in Vienna, Austria), LULAC, NRA, CBC, ASA, DPA, Dem & Repub. Presidential conventions., National Review, Republican Annual Retreat etc.) 0 this week
Media: Blaze TV {new, popular right-wing}, (Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC, Univision, BBC, CNN, NPR, OAN, German, Swiss, French, Spanish TV and radio) Detroit News, Detroit Free Press, Grand Rapids Press + 9 other MI papers. Chicago Tribune, Honolulu Star Advertiser {foto and caption}, Reason Magazine, Reuters
* Consider being a member of COP at $40 or more per year. All contributions are tax-deductible. 40 dollars buys all the copy paper COP uses in one year. Law Enforcement’s voice in opposition to current policy is vital on the Hill to achieve a repeal of federal drug prohibition. COP provides that voice. www.citizensopposingprohibition.org ( to donate by Internet)
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Buckeystown, MD 21717
Posted October 31st, 2023 by hiwayhowie
Weekly Activities:
No Sale: I had a long, 35 M chat with the legislative director for a Michigan Republican this week. Despite my sole request being to look into increased treatment access for fenti addicts, he launched into 1) marijuana had not been proven safe and more studies needed to be done. 2) perhaps a wall would stop the fenti coming from Mexico 3) more support/money for the police and other stuff, etc…It had been a long time since someone in Congress had used ideas from the last century to use in a chat…
PS…in case you did not know, there is essentially zero.zero heroin being sold in USA.
Spiritual Help: After lunch 2 gentlemen and their wives stopped by and thanked me for my service as an officer. We got into a 10-minute chat about how much the nation / Members of Congress needed God’s help to put us back on track. Turns out they were the Christian and Jewish chaplains for the House. Yes, a paid position.
This week: solid again.
4085 Presentations to Congressional staffers… 16 this week…
366 personal chats with a Member of Congress… 01 this week: R- TX Ronny Jackson
Meetings: 01 Grover Norquist
COP stats since inception: August 2009
444 chats with other elected officials, state reps, senators, VIPs,
109 Appearances/Interviews on major TV/Radio/Print media. 0 This week.
215 interviews and reports in minor media …0 this week –
98 Radio Interviews: 0 this week
33 major conferences attended – CPAC 2023, (3 UN drug conferences in Vienna, Austria), LULAC, NRA, CBC, ASA, DPA, Dem & Repub. Presidential conventions., National Review, Republican Annual Retreat etc.) 0 this week
Media: Blaze TV {new, popular right-wing}, (Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC, Univision, BBC, CNN, NPR, OAN, German, Swiss, French, Spanish TV and radio) Detroit News, Detroit Free Press, Grand Rapids Press + 9 other MI papers. Chicago Tribune, Honolulu Star Advertiser {foto and caption}, Reason Magazine, Reuters
* Consider being a member of COP at $40 or more per year. All contributions are tax-deductible. 40 dollars buys all the copy paper COP uses in one year. Law Enforcement’s voice in opposition to current policy is vital on the Hill to achieve a repeal of federal drug prohibition. COP provides that voice. www.citizensopposingprohibition.org ( to donate by Internet)
To send a check:
COP
POB 543
Buckeystown, MD 21717
Posted October 31st, 2023 by hiwayhowie
Weekly Activities:
Validation: Since the 2023 marijuana bills already have over-whelming House/Senate support, this year I have been focusing on treatment. 100s of meetings this year asking for a bill to expand treatment for victims of opioid addiction…my ship came in this week, as I learned about:
HR 1359 – S-644: Modernizing Opioid Treatment Access Act
It contains my main message of allowing all doctors in USA to prescribe methadone after a short seminar of how to dispense it safely to addicts.
Even the title made me smile. I have told every staffer that the USA is still using the same approach used the past 100 years. Even as 200 die daily from our current approach.
Wanted: Dead or Alive?: A long-running professional friend (8 years now) told me during after a presentation that a certain Western, Republican hates me; there is a target (metaphorical) of me on his office wall with my foto on it. Yikes!
I take this as a great accomplishment.
Old Times: Going thru security, I saw the Capitol Police officer pull 3 sets of steel, police handcuffs out of this woman’s backpack. Not something I had seen before. An hour later in Rayburn, I was intending to go into an office. The corridor was filled with about 40 people, 25 in wheelchairs, chanting loudly that Rep. Kay Granger (R-TX) should come out and talk to them.
I spoke to the Capitol officer for a few minutes (we have known each other for 10 years) and his buddy, a Capitol Police detective…Rest of the story…they eventually arrested 14 in wheelchairs, after they ignored multiple warnings to not block the hallway.
This week: solid again.
4069 Presentations to Congressional staffers… 12 this week…
365 personal chats with a Member of Congress… 03 this week: R-MT Zinke, R-WA Newhouse, D-CA Sherman
Meetings: 01 Grover Norquist
COP stats since inception: August 2009
444 chats with other elected officials, state reps, senators, VIPs,
109 Appearances/Interviews on major TV/Radio/Print media. 0 This week.
215 interviews and reports in minor media …0 this week –
98 Radio Interviews: 0 this week
33 major conferences attended – CPAC 2023, (3 UN drug conferences in Vienna, Austria), LULAC, NRA, CBC, ASA, DPA, Dem & Repub. Presidential conventions., National Review, Republican Annual Retreat etc.) 0 this week
in the past – Blaze TV {new, popular right-wing}, (Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC, Univision, BBC, CNN, NPR, OAN, German, Swiss, French, Spanish TV and radio) Detroit News, Detroit Free Press, Grand Rapids Press + 9 other MI papers. Chicago Tribune, Honolulu Star Advertiser {foto and caption}, Reason Magazine, Reuters
* Consider being a member of COP at $40 or more per year. All contributions are tax-deductible. 40 dollars buys all the copy paper COP uses in one year. Law Enforcement’s voice in opposition to current policy is vital on the Hill to achieve a repeal of federal drug prohibition. COP provides that voice. www.citizensopposingprohibition.org ( to donate by Internet)
To send a check:
COP
POB 543
Buckeystown, MD 21717
Posted October 31st, 2023 by hiwayhowie
Weekly Activities:
Finally; A robust week: 17 presentations to staffers, the majority of whom were asking questions about how better to treat someone addicted to heroin/fenti…note; every staffer knew someone who is now dead from an OD.
Politics: the MORE Act was introduced this week…it would de-schedule marijuana (making it a 10th Amendment controlled issue) and sadly, contains lots of paragraphs instructing all 50 states how to handle the legacy of MJ prohibition. This language despite the knowledge that those paragraphs guarantee minimal Republican support and any chance of it become law. Democrats know this and IMHO do not want the federal prohibition to end any time soon. So Sad!!
4057 Presentations to Congressional staffers… 17 this week…
365 personal chats with a Member of Congress… 02 this week : Dan Bishop (R-NC) & Pramila Jayapal (D-WA)
Meetings: 02 Grover Norquist & Tele-Conference for Conservatives regarding the Dobbs Decision
COP stats since inception: August 2009
444 chats with other elected officials, state reps, senators, VIPs,
109 Appearances/Interviews on major TV/Radio/Print media. 0 This week.
215 interviews and reports in minor media …0 this week –
98 Radio Interviews: 0 this week
33 major conferences attended – CPAC 2023, (3 UN drug conferences in Vienna, Austria), LULAC, NRA, CBC, ASA, DPA, Dem & Repub. Presidential conventions., National Review, Republican Annual Retreat etc.) 0 this week
in the past – Blaze TV {new, popular right-wing}, (Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC, Univision, BBC, CNN, NPR, OAN, German, Swiss, French, Spanish TV and radio) Detroit News, Detroit Free Press, Grand Rapids Press + 9 other MI papers. Chicago Tribune, Honolulu Star Advertiser {foto and caption}, Reason Magazine, Reuters
* Consider being a member of COP at $40 or more per year. All contributions are tax-deductible. 40 dollars buys all the copy paper COP uses in one year. Law Enforcement’s voice in opposition to current policy is vital on the Hill to achieve a repeal of federal drug prohibition. COP provides that voice. www.citizensopposingprohibition.org ( to donate by Internet)
To send a check:
COP
POB 543
Buckeystown, MD 21717
Posted September 19th, 2023 by hiwayhowie
Thin Blue Line: On Thursday I ran into a Capitol police officer I had not seen since Covid…We caught up on Life. As always, I asked how he was in the aftermath of the Jan 6 attack. He is doing fine, even as he said some guys are still hurting upstairs. I told him how proud I was that he and Blue Line performed with courage and fortitude on that day with some paying the ultimate price. Nobody cried but it was a Moment.
Go to Guy: Grover Norquist had several questions about how the Oregon decrim was going (he is very Libertarian on the drug issue). I gave him the answers and then he asked me to make a group presentation next Wednesday which I will.
On the right Track: Part of my presentation on how to improve our approaches to opioid addiction, I have been mentioning (in regards to relapse) both hydromorphone and a strain of marijuana known in California as “herojuana.” This is today’s Marijuana Moment news brief.
The chairman of the Hawaii House Committee on Human Services cited medical cannabis as an opioid alternative
Weekly Activities:
4040 Presentations to Congressional staffers… 09 this week…
363 personal chats with a Member of Congress… 01 this week : Harold Rogers (D-KY)
444 chats with other elected officials, state reps, senators, VIPs, etc 02 this week > Republican candidate running for the VA Senate… AG of Virginia
Meetings: 02 Grover Norquist & Northern Virginia Spanish Coalition Fiesta.
COP stats since inception: August 2009
109 Appearances/Interviews on major TV/Radio/Print media. 0 This week.
215 interviews and reports in minor media …0 this week –
98 Radio Interviews: 0 this week
33 major conferences attended – CPAC 2023, (3 UN drug conferences in Vienna, Austria), LULAC, NRA, CBC, ASA, DPA, Dem & Repub. Presidential conventions., National Review, Republican Annual Retreat etc.) 0 this week
in the past – Blaze TV {new, popular right-wing}, (Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC, Univision, BBC, CNN, NPR, OAN, German, Swiss, French, Spanish TV and radio) Detroit News, Detroit Free Press, Grand Rapids Press + 9 other MI papers. Chicago Tribune, Honolulu Star Advertiser {foto and caption}, Reason Magazine, Reuters
* Consider being a member of COP at $40 or more per year. All contributions are tax-deductible. 40 dollars buys all the copy paper COP uses in one year. Law Enforcement’s voice in opposition to current policy is vital on the Hill to achieve a repeal of federal drug prohibition. COP provides that voice. www.citizensopposingprohibition.org ( to donate by Internet)
To send a check:
COP
POB 543
Buckeystown, MD 21717
