{"id":6840,"date":"2015-01-23T19:10:44","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T19:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-atra.pantheonsite.io\/?p=6840"},"modified":"2015-10-27T18:38:50","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T18:38:50","slug":"letter-to-atra-supporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amendtheraveact.org\/letter-to-atra-supporters\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to ATRA supporters"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Letter to ATRA Supporters<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>[easy-share buttons=&#8221;facebook,twitter,google,reddit,digg,mail&#8221; counters=0 native=&#8221;yes&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>January 23, 2015<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your support of the Amend the RAVE Act educational campaign that I have undertaken.\u00a0 It is because of your active involvement in this monumental, multifaceted effort that federal legislators have taken note of our work.\u00a0 My husband, Rob, and I have meet with one of Virginia\u2019s Democratic U.S. senators as well as a prominent Republican congressman in the House of Representatives.\u00a0 Both members of congress have been open to looking into the issue.\u00a0 This is promising and I am anxious for some action. Patience and endurance are the key words of this fight.\u00a0 Nothing moves quickly in the federal government but I am convinced that we are educating many people along the way as I pursue this issue.<\/p>\n<p>On a different front, at the executive level, I plan to meet with a member of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy in the near future.\u00a0 I have learned that the White House is in the process of formulating a position on this issue and I hope to be part of that offices analysis of the issue. As we make progress, I will be sure to let you know.\u00a0\u00a0 Again, thank you.<\/p>\n<p>Dede<\/p>\n<p>P.S.\u00a0 My husband and I are participating in a documentary produced by Viveka Films called \u201cMDMA The Movie.\u201d\u00a0 Here is a link to a short video from our first interview where we talk about the potentially life-save benefits of harm reduction:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1140\" height=\"642\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZzaqjLoYiUU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>And for more information about the film, please visit<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"yc8VZaIjoB\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/mdmathemovie.com\/\">MDMA The Movie<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;MDMA The Movie&#8221; &#8212; MDMA The Movie\" src=\"https:\/\/mdmathemovie.com\/embed\/#?secret=yc8VZaIjoB\" data-secret=\"yc8VZaIjoB\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 23, 2015 &#8211; Thank you for your support of the Amend the RAVE Act educational campaign that I have undertaken.  It is because of your active involvement in this monumental, multifaceted effort that federal legislators have taken note of our work.  My husband, Rob, and I have meet with one of Virginia\u2019s Democratic U.S. senators as well as a prominent Republican congressman in the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_src":{"landsacpe":false,"list":false,"medium":false,"full":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4PqlO-1Mk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amendtheraveact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amendtheraveact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amendtheraveact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amendtheraveact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amendtheraveact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6840"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/amendtheraveact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6862,"href":"https:\/\/amendtheraveact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6840\/revisions\/6862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amendtheraveact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amendtheraveact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amendtheraveact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}