COP on the  Hill – Stories from the week of: January 22, 2025

This Week:

Back in the Struggle:

This week I was back in the halls of Congress, meeting staffers and pushing the COP message of make drugs a medical issue.  Felt great!

I had a good chat with a staffer of David Joyce (R-OH).  Joyce is a friend of ours and co-chair of the House Cannabis Caucus.  Just down the hall, I had a solid chat with a staffer of Jim Jordan (R-OH) who chairs the House Judiciary Committee and would have jurisdiction on any drug bills.  

Allies: I had an excellent, hour-long meeting with the new, Exec. Dir of MPP (Marijuana Policy Project), Lauren Daly.  She was with philanthropist John Gilmore in her office.  I urged her to support a one-page, 10^th Amendment/De-schedule bill in the new Congress; versus the 38 page MORE act of de-schedule marijuana which has 0.0 Republican support and thus failed in the last Congress. Time will tell.

This Week:

02 meetings.. Grover Norquist center-right meeting; MPP meeting

6084 Presentations to Congressional staffers… 03 this week

478 chats with other elected officials, state reps, senators, VIPs,   … 01 this week..  conservative Member of the Australian Parliament.

COP stats since inception: August 2009

403 personal chats with a Member of Congress… 0 this week

117 Appearances/Interviews on major TV/Radio/Print media. 0 this week

245 interviews and reports in minor media … 0 this week –

102 Radio Interviews:  01 this week

34 major conferences attended – CPAC 2024, (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, Stern

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