Cannabis Cancer Cure - Robert Melamede, PhD

Robert Melamede talks about the beneficial aspects of Cannabis, aka Marijuana, aka hemp in dealing with dis-ease.

OBAMA GETS CALLED OUT BEFORE HIS INAGURATION!

Thank you Cong. Dr. Ron Paul for your heroic stance on hemp.

TELL PRESIDENT OBAMA TO LET OUR HEMP GO!!!!

UNDERSTANDING MARIJUANA LEGALIZATION!

It is time to implement hemp wisdom into the process of solving our problems by ending hemp prohibition.

USA Hemp Museum Letter To The Governor

Below is a great letter from Richard M. Davis, founder and curator of the USA Hemp Museum, a private museum with over 1,700 hemp related items. Richard has dedicated his adult life to ending hemp prohibition while researching 50,000 plus uses for the dynamic hemp plant. He is the author of two hemp books, HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION and the soon to be released HEMP FOR VICTORY: THE WONDER HERB. In this letter Richard's TELLIN' OLD ARNOLD, LET OUR HEMP GO!!!

Tuesday, December 12, 2008

Dear California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger,

It is a waste of our tax money to enforce cannabis prohibition when we have so much violent crime and a budget deficit.

The U.S. Supreme Court this Monday upheld the California’s 4th District Court of Appeal’s ruling that patients enjoy a federally protected property right to their medical marijuana. The main point I would like to make here is that this federally protected property right also applies to hemp. One strategy here is to report this new ruling has changed your mind about hemp and the Feds, and for the cause of global warming you can now support industrial hemp.

What we find in the aftermath of the 1937 Tax Act, is that agricultural production of Cannabis hemp was the probable big target of the law. Hemp (same species as marijuana, different variety) was poised to become the first billion dollar agricultural crop in 1938. Hemp has multiple uses: clothing, textiles, paper, fiberboard, clean biomass fuels, seed protein and oil, and plastics. Hemp had 25,000 viable industrial applications in 1938. We now estimate 50,000 uses for hemp. Now with agricultural production necessary for medicine, what possible reason do we now have to prohibit farmers from growing hemp which may have a medical response, but can not even get you a little high?

Our NAFTA trading partner Canada is now in its tenth year of growing hemp. California would benefit greatly by being the first state to return hemp growing to the American farmer free of the drug war scare. To ignore the bigger picture is to languish in the mistaken belief that the federal government controls everything a state does through the interstate commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution. Our state has the sixth largest economy in the world. California would benefit greatly by forging ahead with hemp growing and research of industrial potential, which is allowed by Article 28, of the Single Convention Treaty on Narcotic Drugs (U.N.), 1961. This is the very treaty on which our federal Controlled Substances Act is based.

All over the world and the United States, the truth about hemp and marijuana is flooding our information highways. We must correct the industrial/political conspiracies, misinformation, and overall mistakes of the 1930’s and legalize hemp and marijuana. Especially considering that “marijuana is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man,” as ruled by DEA law judge Francis Young, in September of 1988.

To be ignorant of the history of Cannabis is to invite bad lawmaking. Cannabis sativa is a plant, not a synthetic compound. Any plan to provide for “safe and affordable distribution...” must take into account that it must be grown as an agricultural crop. Not all people have back yards or extra rooms in which to grow plants, or time to grow with a surprise illness. Given that agricultural production is necessary, history suggests we look deeper into the reasons for the morass of law we find ourselves in now.

The plant Cannabis sativa was illegally controlled by the government, through lies and deception, in passing the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937. Depicted as a fatal and dangerous drug marijuana in the hearings of this Act, Cannabis medicine had been used in western medicine since the 1840, and was known to have never been responsible for a single death in 1927 medical literature. Court review by the Drug Enforcement Administration in 1988, stated, “Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man.” (DEA Docket #86-22). Medical use in China started more than 5000 years ago.

Finally, we have to look at the legal due process questions of putting people in jail for using such a safe, natural herb for personal recreational purposes, while allowing the proven poisons of alcohol and nicotine to be legal. It is obvious to me from a public health standpoint that we would be better off by replacing both these death dealing drugs with a safer alternative. Competition not prohibition is the American way. Prohibition of alcohol produced a black market, prohibition of marijuana produced a black market, and prohibition of tobacco will also create a black market.

Regulation and freedom will reduce criminal activity, and return a valuable medicine called Cannabis to the California community. And of course even the legal drugs are illegal for children.

The barriers to industrial use of hemp for food, fuel, and fiber damage our environment, our farming industry, and our entire economy. They must be removed at once. I appreciate your taking whatever action is necessary to bring clarity and justice to this enviro-economical, constitutional travesty. I would also appreciate a written reply.

Sincerely,

Richard M. Davis, Curator
USA Hemp Museum
Los Angeles, CA 90046

From the movie a/k/a Tommy Chong

Vote For Hemp On www.Change.org

WE THE PEOPLE DEMAND REAL CHANGE. END HEMP PROHIBITION NOW.

Still stuck in the Industrial Age, www.change.gov has failed to have any entries on hemp, even though it was voted legal in 9 out of the ten states where it was on the ballot in 2008. Surely the days of the will of the government superceding the Will of the People are over, unless the new president fails to end hemp prohibition.

Change is rarely easy, but change is here. Like the Boston Tea Party, we may have to throw an American Hemp Party. President Obama already knows about hemp and his Secretary of Commerce, Gov. Bill Richardson, is very pro hemp.

Ww have to push for real change. No problem.

Here's a comment on change.org
http://www.change.org/ideas/view/legalize_the_medicinal_and_recreational_use_of_marijuana

"There is about 15-20 thousand really pissed people from these websites, because they just shrugged off our voice on Obama's transition team's website change.gov when a marijuana reform question took first by about 2000 votes (there was 300 marijuana reform Q's submitted and voted on) THEY TRIED DIIVIDING OUR VOTE AND WE STILL PREVAILED very strong!

Marijuana reform is leading 8 categories on the change.org site we need national attention and got a million man marijuana march to dc to protest if we get shafted again http://www.trm3-801.org/could u muster any attention to this ?

here is some of the links
http://change.gov/page/content/20081211_openforquestions
http://www.change.org/ideas/view/legalize_marijuana_for_medical_and_recreational_use http://www.change.org/ideas/browse/economy http://www.change.org/ideas/browse/environmental_conservation http://www.change.org/ideas/browse/other http://www.change.org/ideas/browse/government_reform http://www.change.org/ideas/browse/agricultural_policy http://www.change.org/ideas/browse/health_care
http://www.change.org/ideas/browse/criminal_justicePeace

and blessings of health and higher vibration thru burnt offerings of kind sacrament the holy healing motherplant", rev. baker of green faith ministry "

I urge you to go to www.change.org , www.youtube.com , send emails to elected and appointed officials, have hemp house parties ( like on 1 1 9 - New Year's Day) and post your thoughts on hemp. Help others do the same.

TELL OBAMA, LET OUR HEMP GO!!!

Marijuana and Driving

Hempcrete Contact Info from www.change.org

Thanks to the entire crew behind the Change.gov and Change.org . Here's a piece posted from a company that makes hempcrete, a hemp building material.

The piece is posted for you to visit and vote:

"I'm trying to promote the use of Hempcrete in these Public Works Projects President Obama wants started Nationwide. Chicago, IL: American Lime Technology is pleased to announce its inaugural project, which represents the first use of the highly sustainable hemp and lime-based Hemcrete® building system in the United States. "

We went to their site and found just in time for a housing secretary who wants to solve housing problems:

"ABOUT AMERICAN LIME TECHNOLOGY

American Lime Technology (ALT) is a joint venture of UK-based Lime Technology Limited and U.S. Heritage Group, Inc, which is located in Chicago, Illinois. We are the North American distributor of Tradical® Hemcrete® construction materials, a highly sustainable hemp-lime product that can be used to create insulating walls in new structures or to retrofit existing floors, roofs, and walls with thermally efficient, breathable insulating layers.

Hemcrete® is a blend of a special lime based binder (Tradical® HB) and specially prepared hemp shiv (Tradical® HF). Together these form a sustainable bio-composite construction material that combats climate change by capturing carbon and delivering high performance airtight, insulating walls. The carbon capture environmental benefits of Tradical® Hemcrete offer an immediate way to combat climate change.

Hemcrete® is being used in several high profile projects in the United Kingdom, including the award-winning Adnams Brewery Distribution Center in Southwold, Suffolk, UK. "

http://www.americanlimetec.com/

Back to the Change.org posting.

"Imagine how much better our roads, bridges and buildings would be, built with this product over the traditional methods. This is a huge opportunity, not only to drive down costs but, put family farms back to profitability. If President Obama makes Industrial Hemp available in January, we could be using our own Domestically-grown Hemp within only 14 weeks after the growing season begins.

Let's take this opportunity to correct an injustice as well as take advantage of this new technology and improve our society for future generations.

I'm a Johnny Appleseed kind of guy.

I wander hither and yon, spreading notions, hoping one will take root."

If you like the article please vote for it (and read other postings that come up when you search for "hemp"). If you have anything to do with creating housing, please do more research on Hempcrete and share the information. Imagine, create the resources, then build.

Please go to Change.gov and Change.org and post your thoughts on ending hemp prohibition. It's the best way to TELL PRESIDENT OBAMA, LET OUR HEMP GO!!!

For more on hemp and how it can help us visit the USA Hemp Museum, a private museum with a virtual wing. Learn, speak up & vote.

Tell Obama To Let Our Hemp Plant Go At www.change.gov!!!

Things that make me hmmmmmmm! Today I went to www.change.gov and did a search for "hemp" and one for "marijuana".

"We found 0 results for “marijuana” - "We found 0 results for “hemp”

At the www.change.gov site I did a search for hemp and got 3 pages of listings in ideas. That's not enough.

PLEASE GO TO EITHER WWW.CHANGE.GOV OR WWW.CHANGE.ORG AND SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON HEMP.

We have an opportunity to take our power back and let We the People control our destiny. Yes the new president will help, but he and his team can't do it for us. That's up to us and we are well equipped to accomplish the task at hand.

Hemp was voted legal in 9 out of the last 10 states where it was on the ballot in 2008. Hemp is the nation's #1 cash crop and capable of helping us solve our problems from health care, to the environment to food shortages.

Yet, hemp is still not part of the conversation because folks are scared. With almost a million people a year having their freedom revoked and their lives endangered for hemp, it's easy to understand the source of fear. What's not understandable is our failure to throw off that fear by now.

The president elect inhaled frequently. So did the governor of California. Yet the government is committed to destroying our lives for interacting with a plant whose only known fatal interaction is DEATH BY BEING ILLEGAL. We've made the peace pipe illegal and wonder why we have a problem with violence. We made effective natural hemp medicine illegal and wonder why we have a problem with too much stress on the health care system. We use toxic building materials while it's illegal to grow hemp for low cost locally produced materials. We while there is no money to bail out the car companies or balance the budget, the hemp trade remains untaxed. Imagine a $20 tax income on every ounce of recreational hemp sold plus prison population reduction savings.

As Richard M. Davis explains so well in his book HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION, hemp scrubs the air of excess CO2 as it grows. Hemp biofuel and biomass burn clean and can do anything toxic energy can do, only without polluting or hurting the planet.

If President Elect Barack Obama is as wise as presented, then he will end this nightmare called making nature illegal and jailing people for interacting with a plant.

I urge you before inauguration day to write, post, webeo, talk about, dance for and on 1/1/09 at 4:20 hook up with like minded folks you love and discuss the issue of hemp legalization. Help the not yet computerized to upload their thoughts onto Youtube and other webeo sites. Get their messages to www.change.gov and www.change.org .

Keeping hemp illegal is not change. Keeping hemp illegal is just more of the same. I remain confident that President Elect Obama stands for real change, the kind we can not only believe in, but experience.

For more information on hemp and how we can use it to help us solve our problems, please visit the USA Hemp Museum.

NORML Pro-Cannabis Law Reform Ad Contest

There is a lot we can do between now and inaguration day to restore the hemp plant to its rightful role in our planet's health.

1. Make a webeo (web video) from your heart about why hemp should be legalized. If so inclined, make one for this NORML contest.
2. Go to www.change.gov and/or www.change.org . Post your thoughts there. Work with your uncomputerized friends and help them get their thoughts up too (i.e. live web cam).
3. Contact your elected and appointed officials and tell them to LET OUR HEMP PLANT GO!!!
Hemp is an empowerment plant. Let the Will of the People supercede the will of the government.
Visit NORML.org and the USA Hemp Museum, www.hempmuseum.org .

Environmental Defense Fund - Global Warming Climate Change Law

An email to the curator of the USA Hemp Museum's Richard M. Davis, author of HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION, and the soon to be released medical marijuana book HEMP FOR VICTORY: THE WONDER HERB.

Dear Richard,

I just received an email from our California global warming team and wanted to share some really exciting news.

Moments ago, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) officially and unanimously approved the AB32 Scoping Plan, a blueprint which charts the course for reaching 1990 global warming emissions levels by 2020.

Below is a press statement fresh off the wires with more details.

This is a huge victory. As a Californian and an online EDF supporter, you are helping lead the world in our collective fight against the catastrophic environmental impacts of run-away global warming.

We have a very narrow window of time for the federal government to follow California's lead and pass a hard cap on America's global warming pollution. We need to apply maximum pressure over the next few months to force Congress to seize this critical opportunity to act.

Today, California. Tomorrow, the rest of the country.

Many thanks to all our California supporters for helping make today's victory possible.

Sincerely, Sam Parry, Director, Online Membership and Activism

Please Donate To The Heroic Work Of The Environmental Defense Fund

Our Press Statement:

California Approves Plan to Implement Climate Change Law, Sets Precedent for National, International Action

Historic Vote Occurs as World Leaders Negotiate International Climate Deal

(Sacramento, CA - December 11, 2008) California regulators today unanimously approved a plan to implement a law requiring the state to dramatically cut its global warming pollution, setting a precedent for national and international action, according to a law cosponsor. The law cosponsor, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), praised the California Air Resources Board for its historic vote to approve its Scoping Plan to implement The Global Warming Solutions Act.

The Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32) is the first statewide effort to cap greenhouse gas emissions. It sets a firm cap requiring the state to cut its emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2020 (about 30 percent below business as usual).

"As world leaders meet in Poland to negotiate an international climate deal, California regulators today set an international and national standard for how to meet aggressive targets to cut global warming pollution that will create a high-wage, clean high-tech economy," said Derek Walker, director of EDF's California Climate Initiative, who just returned from attending the United Nations' climate negotiations in Poznan, Poland that ends tomorrow.

Seven Western states (Arizona, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington and Utah) and four Canadian provinces (British Columbia, Manitoba, Quebec and Ontario) have followed California's lead by pledging to cut greenhouse gas emissions as part of a Western Climate Initiative.

"California already leads the nation in clean tech investment," said Dr. James Fine, EDF economist and policy scientist. "The Air Resources Board's approval of its plan to implement The Global Warming Solutions Act will reinforce this trend. Our state is well-positioned to make enacting this law an opportunity, both economically and environmentally, rather than a burden, as some naysayers suggest. By approving the action plan, ARB is acknowledging definitively that the most expensive option for California is inaction in fighting global warming."

EDF released a report on Monday showing that implementing AB 32 is likely to increase employment in several sectors of the state's economy, as well as associated supply chains, including biomass-based fuels, building and transportation infrastructure construction, clean technologies, environmental engineering, consumer products, information technologies, transportation and logistics, waste management, and water purification and conservation.

"California's businesses and consumers can reap substantial economic benefits from implementing The Global Warming Solutions Act and lead the world in pioneering a green, low carbon economy that sustains our future," said David Festa, vice president of EDF's West Coast Region and a former director of Policy and Strategic Planning at the U.S. Department of Commerce.

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California Going Broke - Give Me A Break!!!

It was announced that California is in a budget crisis and going broke. The report is that the state will be out of funds by the spring.

The great and wonderful Tommy Chong said in a/k/a Tommy Chong: A Film By Josh Gilbert 'if the people elect Arnold, then we are truly a nation of retards.' Based on results, as usual Chong was right, unless another stolen election was in the mix.

The Terminator has almost terminated the state's budget while denying hemp, the will of the people as voiced in Prop 215, even though he inhaled.

It is continued insanity to pretend not to know we can solve our economic crisis with hemp.

California will run out of money by the spring UNLESS they immediately remove all restrictions from the hemp plant and generate a tax revenue from the state's #1 cash crop immediately.

Tax industrial and medical grades at standard business rates and recreational hemp at 20%. If any state gets up to 20% on all recreational hemp sold, there would be no budget crisis.

How? Legalization and large scale hemp growing would bring the price down to about $100 an ounce...plus a $20 tax. There are millions of high grade hemp consumers who would gladly pay the tax to remove the drama.

In this year's election hemp won in 9 out of 10 states where it was on the ballot. The will of the government got us into this mess. The Will of the People, hemp, can get us out.

For more information on hemp please visit the USA Hemp Museum, a private museum with a virtual wing.

Sister Somayah Performing At Her 10th (Final) Global Marijuana March

The above webeo is from Youtube's 420sage and it's of Sister Somayah Kambui performing at her 10th Annual Million Global Marijuana March in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, CA - May, 2008.

Sister Somayah is now a spirit not a ghost. Her voice, love and work live on. Thanks 420sage for recording and posting the piece. WOW!!! What a treasure.

Eulogy for Sister Somayah Kambui by Dr. Jeri Rose

This eulogy was written by Dr. Jeri Rose, who was Doctor of Chiropractic for Sister Somayah and for the Crescent Alliance Self Help for Sickle Cell before she moved to Hawaii. She asked me to read this for her here today.

On November 10, 2008 Miriam Makeba, Mother Africa died. On Dec. 3, 2008 Odetta Holmes died. Miriam was there to help Somayah home and they both welcomed Odetta. These great three singing women who sang for the African Nigretian people passed together. The other two were in their 70’s; Somayah was the baby twenty years early and not nearly adequately recognized and celebrated for her creative and beautiful songs.

She was Herowese Moore, Sister Somayah, Queen Negus; three names because this was one intense, complicated woman of whom we can say that she has died, passed over, will never visit Africa. Her death ends the possibility of her letting us see her do more. What she did not do, she did not get Cannabis legalized federally, but she did get to grow the plants in her yard for her own health. She did not go to Africa, but she did uplift those who were descendants of those who came here unwilling stolen from Africa.

She was not easy and she deserves a novel to illuminate her. I will try to avoid writing a novel here, but she was so much like all of us that she irritated us, and she was unique and fascinated us. Each person decides at some critical point in life how true to themselves they will be. Some give it all up to what society demands, some turn their back on that siren call of the herd and strike out on their own path. At every crucial turn, the decision is bartered and renegotiated. Every time Sister Somayah went to the VA hospital she went against her own path. She tried to create a community out of her own concern for her community. She was generous and yet she needed a similar generosity that she did not demand. Most of us learn a selfish survival skill to take care of ourselves and then if we also have heart and spirit, we look around to help those we can. This was not Sister Somayah’s way. She gave until she could give no more and then in her need she was invisible because she did not know how to ask for help.

She had acceded to society by joining the air force. That society owed her, so she felt no shame; she could go to the hospital it provides.

She had grown to support her people, joined the Black Panthers and served the children breakfast and survived the societal onslaught of the police attack on that group because of the wisdom of Geronimo Pratt. He had learned in the same war how to stop bullets with sandbags. They were prepared and that house was protected as no other Black Panther house. Geronimo Pratt went to jail on a false charge that was known to be false by the government that hid the evidence of his innocence.

That same government knows that the herb that could have saved Sister Somayah is innocent of harm, yet it continues to tell lies and cover up the truth about it because of power and greed. Every time Sister Somayah had to go to the VA hospital and get hooked again on morphine because she did not have enough herb to make her butter, she felt that she had failed her community and she felt a lack of love from that community that did not support her.

The truth is we loved her and could not love her enough. Perhaps only the mother she was calling upon in her last days could love her enough. However, we can leave here; leave this gathering knowing that we need to do more for each other to enable us to live our true path because it gets very lonely walking alone trying to live a personal truth. I know I am speaking a harsh truth, but it is one we need to all hear because the herd is stupid and the powerful are greedy stupid.

The planet is at risk because we use oil instead of making our fuel from hemp. A sick planet, the LA smog that poisoned Sister Somayah’s lungs, poisons all trying to breathe free in this place and we are all sick and need herbal medicine and clean air so we will not need so much herbal medicine and will be naturally healthier. The government sent me a pamphlet that said that 114 million tons of toxic pollution is put into the LA air basin each year. Only 9 million of those tons are smog, so even on a clear day, you are being poisoned and the government knows and allows it. Alcohol, commercial tobacco laced with 400 toxic poisons including uranium, are legal. The government knows and if it can keep you at your daily struggle for rent and food money, quietly getting sick and dying in its hospital temples of poison pandering to corporate greed, then it has won. Sister Somayah fought in the revolution that was not televised and there were no cameras there to tell the world of her death.

The corporations own the airwaves and pollute the air so they own the air. They own the water and food that supplies your bodies and alters your minds. Sister Somayah’s death might liberate you if you can learn to turn your back on the siren call of the herd concerned with fashion, cars, television, gadgets and goods. They are so busy that they can not find the meaning of their lives or have an inkling of being individuals. Until you examine the beliefs that you take for granted, thinking they must be true since they guide everyone you know, you are not a free person capable of knowing yourself.

Sister Somayah knew more than most that the society she was in was stacked against her. She lived in the light of that truth. She fell into despair and stopped eating and she was human and afraid of pain. She checked into the VA and allowed herself to be obliterated by morphine. That ending does not define her life.

Her songs, her art, her tenacity and love define her life. She was a glory to know, but she was like all of us mortal and frail. She needed us to help each other, and sometimes she was one of the others. She created the Crescent Alliance for Self-help for Sickle Cell. The Crescent of her cells and the Moslem crescent that engaged her loyalty did not prevent her from helping others outside of that narrow concern. She embraced everyone. She held hope for everyone until she lost that hope for herself. Her legacy is in her life. She calls us to find a way to keep ourselves loving and hoping together. She lived to see a president elected that signaled the end of the old racism.

Obama knows the consequences of the old racism. He is not black enough to know about the new racism. The new racism will eradicate the human race unless we stand up against it. We vote with our dollars and our awareness. The powerful only respect the dollar. The awareness turns away from the power that does not create a caring society. Stop bowing to the money the powerful offer for your allegiance to them. That allegiance will kill you. Find a way to live healthy and get out of Hell A. I don’t like the way sister Somayah did it, but she finally did leave it.

I know she is not lost to us; her heart left a large wake of love.

Peter Gorman on Sister Somayah

Peter Gorman is a brilliant journalist and photographer who was instrumental in implementing the wisdom of the hemp fields into the mainstream. He wrote at least two articles on Sister Somayah Kambui.

High Times Magazine
Sister Somayah Kambui Burning the Bush For Sickle Cell
December 17, 2002
By Peter Gorman

Med Pot Activist Sister Somayah Kambui In Hot Water Again
Wed, Jun 12, 2002 12:00 am
By Peter Gorman

Here's an email from Peter Gorman learning about the passage of Los Angeles' hemp pioneer and hero Sister Somayah:

Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 5:13 AM

"I am so sorry to hear this. She was an extraordinarily courageous woman and the person who brought awareness of marijuana's help for sickle-cell to the world."

"You know, she first got in touch with me in the middle of the night nearly 20 years ago.

The phone rang, I answered, and someone was screaming at me. I hung up. Two weeks later or so it happened again. And again.

I kept trying to find out who the person was and what they wanted, but l I got were names hurled at me.

I had no idea what I'd done or to whom I'd done it. But someone was sure angry with me.

It probably took six months before I could get her to slow down and take a breath and tell me what as wrong, and why she had to keep waking me at 3 AM and 4 AM.

She said she called when the pain from her sickle-cell got unbearable. If she was going to suffer, others were too. As I wrote for High Times on medical-marijuana, she took my not writing about sickle-cell as a racist thing. Therefore I had to pay with her tirades.

I told her I knew nothing about sickle-cell--didn't even know what it was, and so surely didn't know marijuana could help. Then she schooled me. She had me look up articles, call hospitals to see how it was treated, that sort of thing.

And with that information, we were able to begin including sickle-cell in the disease categories that could be managed/treated with cannabis.

I'm guessing she's arguing with St. Pete right about now. And I'm going to bet she gets in as well.

Good for you Sister. Good for you Sister Somayah Kambui."

There is much courage to be found in the life of Sister Somayah Kambui, who is a USA Hemp Museum designated Hemp Hero because of her work in the fields of medical hemp and sickle cell, her agricultural skills, her roles in both the language and passage of Prop 215, America's first state to pass legislation legalizing the nation's #1 cash crop, and producing the first ten Million Global Marijuana Marches in Los Angeles. In one of the marches she is seen carrying a live hemp plant down the parade route with a full police escort.

We'll be posting today, her funeral, and as pieces come in, remembrances of how she (and others) helped change and empower the modern hemp movement.

75 Years Later Prohibition Still Doesn't Work (alcohol then, marijuana now)

December 5th, 2008 marked the 75th anniversary of the repeal of alcohol prohibition.

In the interim, however, we've replaced alcohol with marijuana.

Thanks Marijuana Policy Project for this wonderful webeo. http://www.youtube.com/user/MPPstaff

Rachael Maddow On The 75th Anniv. Of The End Of Beer Prohibition

HAPPY REPEAL WEEKEND

(CELEBRATING ALL WEEKEND)

MSNBC-TV's Rachael Maddow did her usual brilliant job combining historical lessons with modern problems. In this piece she looks at the history of prohibition and it's relevance to the modern drug war, the dumbest idea in the history of the American government.

We should learn the lessons of the past.

President Elect Barack Obama and his nominated Secretary of Commerce, Gov. Bill Richardson, should first end all hemp prohibition and immediately institute a fair tax income dedicated to solving our problems now. Issue micro loans for small businesses and post all public job opportunities that come out of the new works programs.

A hemp division should be instituted in the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Labor, etc. to help folks use hemp to empower their lives. From coordinating maximum crop growth to job opportunities to market delivery, the government stands to make a fortune supporting and taxing the nations number one cash crop.

Encourage President Elect Barack Obama and nominated Secretary of Commerce, Gov. Bill Richardson, to pull an FDR and end hemp prohibition now. Post your thoughts on hemp at www.change.gov . If so inclined, please have a 1/1/9 hemp liberation day party and upload yourself and friends voicing your support for hemp. Tell them to save money, end the war on drugs.

For more on hemp, please visit the USA Hemp Museum, a private museum with a virtual wing. The museum's founder and curator, Richard M. Davis, author of HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION and the soon to be released HEMP FOR VICTORY: THE WONDER HERB (about medical hemp) has a ton of ideas for how we can use hemp to help us solve our problems now.

Sister Somayah Kambui Funeral Arrangements

The Queen Negus
Somayah Kambui Harawese Rhanea Peaches Shurumi Moore-Khaliq

Sunrise: 5 April 1950 Sunset: 28 November 2008

She Met Marcus Garvey in the Whirlwind

58 Years of this life
38 Years in Service to her people

Black Panther Party for Self Defense
Crescent Alliance Self Help For Sickle Cell
Nigritian Kief Society
Community Activist
Successfully helped Free Geronimo Ji Jaga Pratt

Pioneer
ALWAYS In the Eye of the Struggle

Ile Sheshat was re-established on her watch.
She treated sick people all over the country
with her hands on assistance, advice,
and products.
Established the first Weusi Oil Press

Celebrating of Her Life
December 8, 2008 10:00 AM til 12:00 Noon
Harrison Ross Mortuary
4601 So. Crenshaw Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90008

Repast:
Celebration Continues
1:00 PM til 6:00 PM
Consolidated Realty Plaza
3725 Don Felipe
Los Angeles, CA 90008

Candle Light Gathering in Her Honor
8:00 10:00 PM
Leimert Park

In Lieu of Flowers Please make a contribution to
Kwanzaa People of Color
c/o Sis. Somayah Memorial Fund
3716 So. Arlington Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90018
kwanzaagwaride@gmail.com

Correction: Sister Somayah Passed 11/28/08

I have a correction to report. I said in earlier blog entries that it was Thanksgiving Day that Los Angeles' Sister Somayah Kambui pass.

The family has released the final details of her passing and she passed the day after Thanksgiving, 2008.

Forgive me. I still can't comprehend not being able to hug her again.

Akile is sending the arrangements.

Keep Somayah in the light. The divine syncronicity of pro hemp President Elect Barack Obama, Sister Somayah's passing, and the oldest hemp stash, 2,700 years old, being found in China.

Akile sent the information about the arrangements and stats on her life

The Queen Negus
Somayah Kambui Harawese Rhanea Peaches Shurumi Moore-Khaliq

Sunrise: 5 April 1950 Sunset: 28 November 2008

She Met Marcus Garvey in the Whirlwind

58 Years of this life
38 Years in Service to her people

Black Panther Party for Self Defense
Crescent Alliance Self Help For Sickle Cell
Nigritian Kief Society
Community Activist
Successfully helped Free Geronimo Ji Jaga Pratt

Pioneer
ALWAYS In the Eye of the Struggle

Ile Sheshat was re-established on her watch.
She treated sick people all over the country
with her hands on assistance, advice,
and products.
Established the first Weusi Oil Press

Celebrating of Her Life
December 8, 2008 10:00 AM til 12:00 Noon
Harrison Ross Mortuary
4601 So. Crenshaw Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90008

Repast:
Celebration Continues
1:00 PM til 6:00 PM
Consolidated Realty Plaza
3725 Don Felipe
Los Angeles, CA 90008

Candle Light Gathering in Her Honor
8:00 10:00 PM
Leimert Park

In Lieu of Flowers Please make a contribution to
Kwanzaa People of Color
c/o Sis. Somayah Memorial Fund
3716 So. Arlington Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90018
kwanzaagwaride@gmail.com

Cops Say Legalizing Drugs Can Boost Economy by $76.8 Billion

Judge James Gray on C-SPAN Washington Journal

Law Enforcement members are saying stop the war on drugs to give the economy a $76.8 Billion boost. Thank you for common sense.

http://www.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/behold.pl?ascribeid=20081202.065937&time=07%2044%20PST&year=2008&public=1

Ascribe.org

Tue Dec 2 07:44:16 2008 Pacific Time

Cops Say Legalizing Drugs Can Boost Economy by $76.8 Billion; 75th Anniversary of Alcohol Prohibition's End Inspires Modern Effort

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Today, a group of law enforcers who fought on the front lines of the "war on drugs" and witnessed its failures commemorated the 75th anniversary of alcohol prohibition's repeal by calling for drug legalization. The cops, judges and prosecutors released a report detailing how ending today's expensive prohibition would provide a $76.8 billion-a-year boost to the ailing economy.

"America's leaders had the good sense to realize that we couldn't afford to keep enforcing the ineffective prohibition of alcohol during the Great Depression," said Terry Nelson, a 30-year veteran federal agent and member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP). "Now, cops fighting on the front lines of today's 'war on drugs' are working to make our streets safer and help solve our economic crisis by teaching lawmakers a lesson from history about the failure of prohibition. We can do it again."

In a paper released today, Harvard University economist Jeffrey A. Miron conservatively estimates that ending drug prohibition will result in annual savings of at least $44.1 in enforcement expenses and will generate additional tax revenue of at least $32.7 billion.

The economic paper is accompanied by a historical report, "We Can Do It Again: Repealing Today's Failed Prohibition," which highlights how the "war on drugs" - just like alcohol prohibition - has subsidized violent gangsters, endangered public health and diminished public respect for the rule of law. The report also details how the newer prohibition comes with the much graver threat of international cartels and terrorists who profit from illegal drug sales. Yet, it leaves readers on a hopeful note.

"We're starting to see an emerging consensus that drug prohibition just doesn't make sense," said Seattle's retired Police Chief Norm Stamper, a LEAP member. "Three out of four Americans now say the 'war on drugs' has failed, and so do the U.S. Conference of Mayors, the National Black Caucus of State Legislators and the National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators. Now, it's up to the new administration and Congress to follow through."

LEAP is encouraging citizens to help demonstrate the political will for repeal by sending letters to their legislators at http://www.WeCanDoItAgain.com .
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CONTACT: Tom Angell, LEAP, 202-557-4979, media@leap.cc

Coincidence Is The Lord Working Under Cover

Coincidence is the Lord working undercover.

Coincidentally a pro hemp president is elected and the oldest hemp stash reveals itself to the world. We could not post this fast enough. Thank you China.

In the weeks following the election of pro hemp "I inhaled frequently, that was the point" President Elect Barack Obama (and his now named Secretary of Commerce, even more pro hemp Gov. Bill Richardson), this was quietly released.

2,700-year-old marijuana stash found
By THE CANADIAN PRESS
Last Updated: 27th November 2008, 3:09pm

"OTTAWA – Researchers say they have located the world's oldest stash of marijuana, in a tomb in a remote part of China.The cache of cannabis is about 2,700 years old and was clearly "cultivated for psychoactive purposes," rather than as fibre for clothing or as food, says a research paper in the Journal of Experimental Botany.

The 789 grams of dried cannabis was buried alongside a light-haired, blue-eyed Caucasian man, likely a shaman of the Gushi culture, near Turpan in northwestern China.

The extremely dry conditions and alkaline soil acted as preservatives, allowing a team of scientists to carefully analyze the stash, which still looked green though it had lost its distinctive odour.

"To our knowledge, these investigations provide the oldest documentation of cannabis as a pharmacologically active agent," says the newly published paper, whose lead author was American neurologist Dr. Ethan B. Russo.Remnants of cannabis have been found in ancient Egypt and other sites, and the substance has been referred to by authors such as the Greek historian Herodotus. But the tomb stash is the oldest so far that could be thoroughly tested for its properties.

Read more: http://www.torontosun.com/news/weird/2008/11/27/7557641.html "


We now have a pro hemp president and secretary of commerce elect, poised to make great, positive changes. Shifting back to a hemp based economy can have a powerfully healing effect, but we have to use our balls and demand the unconditional removal of all restrictions regarding the hemp plant and let it assume it's rightful place in the marketplace.

1. Include tax revenue from the #1 cash crop in the nation. The governor of California is crying about not having enough money while he continues to veto hemp bills that could provide a subatantial revenue to city, state and federal governments.

2. Shift to clean, easily renewable hemp bio fuel and biomass. A great book on the subject is HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION by Richard M. Davis, founder and curator of the USA Hemp Museum.

3. Allow the use of hemp medicine in the process of good health, thereby reducing health care costs.

4. Encourage small business opportunities in hemp, including restoring the family farm structure for raw material growth. There is a strong place in the Information Age economy for the restoration of the family farm and other home based businesses.

TELL OBAMA, TIME TO LET OUR HEMP PLANT GO!!!!





What's next? Get hemped. For more information on hemp please visit the USA Hemp Museum, a private museum with a virtual wing.

State Medical Marijuana Laws Not Preempted by Federal Law says U.S. Supreme Court

From Drug Sense.org

PRESS RELEASE

Americans for Safe Access

For Immediate Release:

December 1, 2008

U.S. Supreme Court: State Medical Marijuana Laws Not Preempted by Federal Law

Medical marijuana case appealed by the City of Garden Grove was denied review today Washington, DC -- The U.S. Supreme Court refused to review a landmark decision today in which California state courts found that its medical marijuana law was not preempted by federal law. The state appellate court decision from November 28, 2007, ruled that "it is not the job of the local police to enforce the federal drug laws." The case, involving Felix Kha, a medical marijuana patient from Garden Grove, was the result of a wrongful seizure of medical marijuana by local police in June 2005. Medical marijuana advocates hailed today's decision as a huge victory in clarifying law enforcement's obligation to uphold state law. Advocates assert that better adherence to state medical marijuana laws by local police will result in fewer needless arrests and seizures. In turn, this will allow for better implementation of medical marijuana laws not only in California, but in all states that have adopted such laws."It's now settled that state law enforcement officers cannot arrest medical marijuana patients or seize their medicine simply because they prefer the contrary federal law," said Joe Elford, Chief Counsel with Americans for Safe Access (ASA), the medical marijuana advocacy organization that represented the defendant Felix Kha in a case that the City of Garden Grove appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. "Perhaps, in the future local government will think twice about expending significant time and resources to defy a law that is overwhelmingly supported by the people of our state."California medical marijuana patient Felix Kha was pulled over by the Garden Grove Police Department and cited for possession of marijuana, despite Kha showing the officers proper documentation. The charge against Kha was subsequently dismissed, with the Superior Court of Orange County issuing an order to return Kha's wrongfully seized 8 grams of medical marijuana. The police, backed by the City of Garden Grove, refused to return Kha's medicine and the city appealed. Before the 41-page decision was issued a year ago by California's Fourth District Court of Appeal, the California Attorney General filed a "friend of the court" brief on behalf of Kha's right to possess his medicine. The California Supreme Court then denied review in March."The source of local law enforcement's resistance to upholding state law is an outdated, harmful federal policy with regard to medical marijuana," said ASA spokesperson Kris Hermes. "This should send a message to the federal government that it's time to establish a compassionate policy more consistent with the 13 states that have adopted medical marijuana laws.

"Further information:Today's U.S. Supreme Court Order denying review: http://AmericansForSafeAccess.org/downloads/Kha_USSC.pdf

Decision by the California Fourth Appellate District Court: http://AmericansForSafeAccess.org/downloads/GardenGroveDecision.pdf

Felix Kha's return of property case: http://AmericansForSafeAccess.org/article.php?id=4412

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With over 30,000 active members in more than 40 states, Americans for Safe Access (ASA) is the largest national member-based organization of patients, medical professionals, scientists and concerned citizens promoting safe and legal access to cannabis for therapeutic use and research. ASA works to overcome political and legal barriers by creating policies that improve access to medical cannabis for patients and researchers through legislation, education, litigation, grassroots actions, advocacy and services for patients and the caregivers.-- Kris Hermes Media Specialist Americans for Safe Access http://www.safeaccessnow.org/ 1322 Webster Street, Suite 402 Oakland, CA 94612 Phone: 510-251-1856 x307 Fax: 510-251-2036 Email: kris@SafeAccessNow.org Americans for Safe Access (ASA) is the largest national member-based organization of patients, medical professionals, scientists and concerned citizens promoting safe and legal access to cannabis for therapeutic use and research.

For more information on how to use hemp to help us solve our problems, visit the USA Hemp Museum, http://www.hempmuseum.org/, a private museum with a virtual wing.

Watch Marijuana Nation On National Geographic

Thank you National Geographic for doing this special on hemp.

Hemp can help us save ourselves and like other truth, can set us free.

Sister Somayah Kambui Articles

Photo By Peter Gorman For High Times Magazine

My childhood favorite film is THE SONG OF BERNADETTE. It's a story about a girl who was jailed for praying and making the lives of those around her better. Sister Somayah was Los Angeles' Bernadette. Her use of hemp and prayer in healing set new standards as she fought the system for the right to grow and consume hemp...though, unlike Saint Bernadette, she did not go quietly, and we are all so grateful for that. Somayah was a champion and her spirit still is. She too is now a spirit and not a ghost.

Below are a few articles about the work of Sister Somayah Kambui, a hemp hero whose soul moved from life to beyond life on Thanksgiving Day, 2008. Somayah lived twice plus 8 years the average life expectancy of a person with sickle cell. Hemp, her strain was known as Nigritian Keif grown with sickle cell in mind, was her foundation healing medicine.

Sister Somayah was an evolutionary researcher in the field of hemp medicine. She worked on the language and passage of Prop 215 that for the first time voiced the will of the people to legalize hemp, and produced the first 10 Los Angeles Million Global Marijuana marches.

Somayah lived dedicated to the struggle to remove all restrictions from the hemp plant so it can grow its role in healing ourselves, our relationships and our environment.

High Times Magazine
Sister Somayah Kambui Burning the Bush For Sickle Cell
December 17, 2002
By Peter Gorman

Med Pot Activist Sister Somayah Kambui In Hot Water Again
Wed, Jun 12, 2002 12:00 am
By Peter Gorman

LA Jury Acquits Sister Somayah of Medical Marijuana Charges
CA NORML News

Sister Somayah hospitalized,
a Peter McWilliams sequel?
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 18:18:00 -0800
Drugwar.com From: "David Crockett Williams" "D. Paul Stanford"

Her site is still up, www.geocities.com/sistersomayah. Geocities has frozen her account for non use so updates on arrangements are being posted asap here at the USA Hemp Museum's blog HEMP FOR VICTORY NOW. Check back for lastest updates and pass on the good she did to those who need it.

TELL OBAMA, LET MY HEMP PLANT GO!!!

Our Sister Somayah Kambui Is Gone?

This is not the official family obituary but notes from some of the many people who were inspired by the life's work of Los Angeles' Hemp Hero Sister Somayah Kambui.

It is with profound gratitude for her decades of service that we report the physical death of Sister Somayah Kambui, founder of the Crescent Alliance Self Help for Sickle Cell, Hemp Is Hep, and the producer of the first 10 Los Angeles Million Global Marijuana Marches, who passed on Thanksgiving Day, 2008. Her brother R. W. Akile said she went in peace and he felt her say 'I am not in pain no more.' She looked like a Egyptian royalty.

Sister Somayah is a legendary hemp farmer and activist in Los Angeles, known for getting 4-5 high quality hemp, Nigritian Keif, crops a year out of her back yard.



Somayah used hemp to more than double her life expectancy with sickle cell and was instrumental in including sickle cell in the language of Prop 215, as well as getting out the vote. 13 years later, when even in 2008 hemp was voted legal in 9 out of the 10 states where it was on the ballot, it was still illegal to blow hemp smoke over her as she passed from life to beyond life. She is dancing in the smoke now.

Sister Somayah was the first to notice how the DEA always showed up at harvest time and took the best crops. It's what they used the helicopters for to fly frequently over her back yard. The DEA would come in, bust her like she was a dog, and then she would be acquitted in court. Her treatment in prison was inhumane. The prison system was not designed to assist people with sickle cell. She fought on to the end anyway, knowing her work was too important to quit.

At one trial she was found not guilty on all 15 counts they brought against her, but OMG the toll it took on her body and soul fighting the government without funds. She would then have to fight over getting her hemp plants back and though court ordered, the ones she received were not even hers and beyond consumption value.

The number of computers the LAPD seized that contained her decades of research she no longer had an accurate count of. They never gave those back. She had just purchased a new computer to try to reconstruct the material when it's reported the pain of sickle cell was too much. She also said she and Akile were having a rough time trying to get hemp seeds started earlier this fall.

Somayah was the founder of Crescent Alliance Self Help For Sickle Cell, an organization of sickle cell patients who used hemp to help manage their illness. Somayah recommended large doses of hemp seed oil which gave positive results. She pressed high quality hemp seed oil on her beloved machine donated by friends, Nigritia, and shared the oil with patients.

She would share her plants with sick people in the neighborhood who needed forbidden medicine to live and many lived longer than they would have. Folks would come to her home as late as 2 a.m. begging for medicine for a sick person they have home. Rest is important in healing and medical grade hemp helps people relax and rest. Stress kills and medical grade hemp reduces stress. Recently she was in conversations with colleges about her research in applying hemp to sickle cell. Dr. David Satcher consulted with Sister Somayah on the subject.

In 1999, fellow hemp activist Dana Beal approached Sister Somayah to produce the million marijuana marches he had started in New York in the 70's in Los Angeles.




Her 10th and most recent march was May Day, 2008.




Again, we offer profound gratitude for the life and sacrifice of Hemp Hero Sister Somayah Kambui, whose work will pay off a trillion fold should President Obama do the right thing and 'let our hemp plant go.'

Well done, grand and glorious Sister Somayah. Well Done. Thank you Richard M. Davis, R. W. Akile and other members who are her family and friends who stood at her side during her transition days.

Now a few words soul to soul.



LOVING YOU DEAD OR ALIVE (c)
(A thought to help understand another's passing onto afterlife)

On the other side of the trauma,
Of my body passing away,
Please understand that
Death is only a transformation.

Like a caterpillar becoming a butterfly,
Like a hurricane becoming a breeze,
Like water becoming steam,
Like an egg becoming a human being,
I've become one of your angels.

Know that the soul part of me,
That which you cannot physically see,
Is with you all ways,
Loving you, like you love me.

So cry until the tears are gone,
Love and bless me with your song,
And know that in time,
Your sorrow will be washed away.

Continue to pray for every soul every day,
I know the Lord is showing the way,
For us to meet and laugh at Heaven’s Gate.

I love you in the eternal now,
Dead or Alive.

{I'll have a pound of recreational grade for you when you get here.}

We'll post more information here as we get it. Sister Somayah leaves an empowered hemp community who is committed to getting the job done of restoring the hemp plant to it's rightful role in healing the planet, and ourselves. We have work to do.

Shifting From The Industrial To The Information Age With Hemp

There is a simple way to complete the shift from the Industrial Age to the Information Age. Legalize, utilize and tax hemp.

For the toxic Industrial Age to florish, keeping people on toxic energy, medicine and environmental practices, hemp had to be illegal. This emerald Information Age can thrive off of the power found in the hemp plant.

We've made nature illegal and wonder why we have problems with our environment, economy and health care systems. Hemp was voted legal in 9 out of 10 states where it was on the ballot in 2008.

Real change is found in supporting the Will of the People and hemp is that Will. We pray that President Obama is telling the truth about a green revolution. He needs to pull an FDR and end hemp prohibition. Just do it. Radical but it will work.

Hemp is a biomass champion that scrubs the air of excess CO2 as it grows and burns cleans as biofuel. This one two punch can have a positive impact on low cost self produced clean energy and help reverse global warming.

If we grow hemp on just 10% of unused federal land, we can have a powerful, positive impact while restoring the family farm. A great book on the subject is Richard M. Davis' HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION.

Hemp's ability to make 50,000 plus new, non-toxic products could give the international community, as well as America, a much needed shot in the financial arm. JOBS, JOBS and BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES. Tax recreational hemp at 20% and he'll be having meetings about what to do with the extra money.

Effective hemp medicine, which has been used successfully for thousands of years, attacks disease at its cause, stress. Stress kills and medical grade hemp reduces stress.

A great hemp warrior, Los Angeles' Sister Somayah Kambui is in hospice at the LA VA hospice. In May she sent her lung tumor into remission , but it's reported that her sickle cell came back stronger 5 months later. As her caregivers gather around her, even though she worked on both the language and campaign of Prop 215, produced 10 annual LA marijuana marches, and did ground breaking research in the field of sickle cell and hemp (more than doubling her life expectancy), she is denied by law the ability to smell relaxing, stress relieving hemp smoke before she, if she, passes. With hemp, she has pulled back from death's door many times over the last 20-30 years. Like Peter McWilliams , she is sentenced to death by DEA stress.

Sister Somayah at her 10th Annual Los Angeles Global Marijuana March
May, 2008

Somebody please tell President Obama to let our hemp plant go, let nature be nature.

For more on hemp check the works of hemp activists including Jack Herer, Chris Conrad, Atty. Bruce Margolin, and Richard M. Davis of the USA Hemp Museum.

Calling All LA Hemp Angels For Sister Somayah Kambui

Sister Somayah's HEY MR. DA

Keep Sister Somayah close to the light.

It is with profound gratitude for the work she has done, that we must report that the great Los Angeles Hemp Hero, Sister Somayah Kambui, is in hospice at the Los Angeles Veterans Administration's Medical Center. Somayah is a trail blazer in the field of hemp medicine. Her research on hemp and sickle cell is consulted by medical colleges and hemp activists including Jack Herer, Chris Conrad, Atty. Bruce Margolin, Dr. David Satcher, and others.

Sister Somayah's caregiver team, who is battling the VA system with requests for medical attention, needs support and volunteers to sit with her during this time. Richard M. Davis of the USA Hemp Museum, a caregiver and frequent hospital visitor, said he was able to get the nurse to give Somayah some hemp food.

Somebody please ask the governor to have mercy on Sister Somayah and let her care givers give her hemp smoke until she goes or heals. After all, Sister Somayah was instrumental in the passage of Prop 215 and the sponsor/producer of all 10 Los Angeles Million/Global Marijuana Marches. She deserves to know that her beloved hemp plant will be free. After all, even the governor smoked more than once.

Her loyal brother R. W. Akile reports that Sister Somayah, who has more than doubled her life expectancy with sickle cell, has decided no more pain, she's had enough at this point in her heroic struggle. She asked him to let her go, though like the rest of us who love her, he isn't ready either.

"Her arm is swollen beyond measure - we have to stay on the nurses at the Hospice.

Her number is 818 891-7711 - Moore-Khaliq she is in Bldg. 99 of the Sepulveda VA Medical Center the Nursing Home on the phone it will be number 4 for the after hour access.

To get there take the 405 to Roscoe, left turn to Woodley, right turn north to the VA Complex a huge Green Space make a right turn and go to the middle of the Block and turn in and go to the far end of the complex building 99. "

We'll keep you posted on her progress. Thanks for your prayers and actions. Please share the word for prayers and tell Obama to let our hemp plant go.

Ganja Smokers Remix (Fallen Soldiers Riddim)

Please pray for the great hemp warrior from Los Angeles, CA Sister Somayah Kambui.

Jack Herer TV

The great Jack Herer, author of The Emperor Wears No Clothes and Chuck Jacobs are talking hemp with the series on Jack Herer TV.

Here's today's entries of his show. Enjoy and support unconditional hemp legalization now to save ourselves, our environment and our economy.

Part One



Part Two



Part Three



People do what they think they can get away with. It is up to We The People, not President Obama, to change this nation.

DEMAND that Obama pull an FDR and end hemp prohibition as a way to heal the world.



He said he would do whatever it takes. Removing restrictions off of the nation's #1 cash crop and earning a fair tax from it is a small but powerful step.

MARIJUANA SONG

Plant The Seed - Aleta Kim

Enjoy!!!

Prohibition Ended!

We pray that president elect Barack Obama follows FDR's lead, and one of the first things he does in office is end hemp prohibition.

This process should include the immediate release of all non violent people in jail for hemp possession and/or sales.

Next, large scale hemp growing should begin as described in the book HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION by Richard M. Davis, founder and curator of the USA Hemp Museum, www.hempmuseum.org

HEMP FOR VICTORY

Americans Reject Bush Drug War Doctrine--Landslide At The Ballot Box

Now that we have President Elect Barack Obama, who inhaled frequently because that was the point, and hemp has won in 9 out of 10 states, demand the freedom to use hemp to solve our problems now. Like FDR before him, ending prohibition against the hemp plant should be job one.

We've made the peace pipe illegal and wonder why we have a problem with violence. We've made part of nature illegal and wonder why we have a problem with the environment. We've made effective medicine illegal and wonder why we have a health care crisis. We make it illegal to grow hemp food and wonder why we have a problem with hunger in America. We use our police force to raid farms and their ancillary businesses and wonder why we have a problem with our economy. Ending hemp prohibition would help fix the economy, heal the environment, take a lot of the demand off of the health care system, and solve many other problems we are dealing with.

Consider New Year's Day, 2009. 1 1 9. On the first day of the new year, Emancipation Proclamation Day, 911 in reverse day, enjoy hemp. Hemp clothes, foods, medicines, etc. anything and everything hemp. Get yourself a copy of a/k/a Tommy Chong, A Film By Josh Gilbert, and throw off the stupidity behind government. Stop using the police to raid fields and their crops. Legalizing nature will help restore balance in the face of global warming. Re-instituting hemp is the courageous thing to do.

For a clue about how much public support there is here's an expert report on 2008 election results from NORML.

"Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Americans Reject Bush Drug War Doctrine--Landslide At The Ballot Box Category: News and Politics

Washington, DC: Millions of Americans nationwide cast votes Tuesday in favor of marijuana law reform, approving nine out of ten ballot measures seeking to liberalize penalties on cannabis use and possession.

In Massachusetts, 65 percent of voters approved Question 2, which replaces criminal penalties for the possession of up to one ounce of marijuana (punishable by up to six-months in jail and a $500 fine) with a civil fine of no more than $100. More than 1.9 million Massachusetts voters (and all but three cities) backed the measure - a greater total than the number of voters who endorsed President Elect Barack Obama (1.88 million). Question 2 is expected to become law within 30 days - making Massachusetts the thirteenth state to decriminalize the personal use and possession of cannabis. However, opponents of the measure - which include the state's governor, attorney general, and all twelve state district attorneys - note that lawmakers still have the legal option to amend or repeal the new law.

In Michigan, 63 percent of voters approved Proposal 1, which legalizes the physician-supervised use and cultivation of medicinal cannabis by state-authorized patients. More than 3 million voters endorsed the measure, which received approximately 150,000 more votes in Michigan than did Obama. Proposal 1 goes into effect on December 4th, at which time nearly one-quarter of the US population will live in a state that authorizes the legal use of medical cannabis.

Thousands of voters in various municipalities also backed local ballot initiatives supportive of marijuana law reform. In Arkansas, 66 percent of Fayetteville (population: 67,000) voters approved Question 16, which directs law enforcement to make activities related to the investigation and prosecution of adults who possess up to one ounce of marijuana their lowest priority. The measure also requires the city clerk to submit letters to state and federal legislators urging them to "take immediate steps to enact similar ['deprioritization'] laws."

In Hawaii, Big Island (population: 172,000) voters approved a similar initiative (Ballot Question 1), which directs law enforcement to make activities related to the investigation and arrest of adults who possess up to 24 ounces of cannabis and/or 24 plants their lowest priority. The measure, which voters backed by nearly a 3 to 2 margin, also forbids the County Council from accepting government funding to promote federal marijuana eradication efforts on the Big Island.

In Massachusetts, voters in four state House districts (encompassing 15 towns) passed nonbinding public policy questions directing each district's state representative to vote in favor of legislation to legalize the medical use of cannabis. More than 70 percent of voters in each district backed the measures.

Finally, voters in Berkeley, California endorsed Measure JJ, which eliminates local limits on the quantity of medicinal cannabis that may be possessed by patients, and liberalizes municipal zoning guidelines for patient dispensaries.

By contrast, California voters rejected a statewide sentencing reform measure (Proposition 5), which sought expand the diversion of non-violent offenders to drug treatment and would have decreased minor marijuana penalties to a non-criminal infraction. Numerous politicians, including Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Democrat US Senator Dianne Feinstein, joined forces with law enforcement and the California Beer and Beverage Distributors to lobby against the measure, which gained just 40 percent of the vote.

"Voters on Election Day demonstrated overwhelmingly that they favor political reform in this country, and that reform includes new directions in marijuana policy," NORML Executive Director Allen St. Pierre said. "These election results emphasize that the voters are well ahead of the politicians when it comes to the decriminalization and legalization of cannabis for adults.

"Let us hope that President Elect Obama and the Democrat majority in Congress recognize that marijuana law reform is a populist issue. Voters should not have to take to the ballot box to enact sensible marijuana law reforms; these reforms should be championed by their elected officials."

For more information, please contact Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director, at (202) 483-5500, or Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director."

At the USA Hemp Museum, Richard M. Davis, founder, curator, we're adding more information and ideas concerning hemp. Come visit and enjoy.

President-Elect Barack Obama in Chicago

Annual Arctic Report Card Shows Stronger Effects of Warming

I urge you to read Richard M. Davis's book HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION about how to use hemp to solve the problem of global warming regardless of its cause. Hemp burns clean as biofuel and scrubs the air of excess CO2 as it grows.

Annual Arctic Report Card Shows Stronger Effects of Warming
October 16, 2008
Temperature increases, a near-record loss of summer sea ice, and a melting of surface ice in Greenland are among some of the evidence of continued warming in the Arctic, according to an annual review of conditions in the Arctic issued today by NOAA and its university, agency, and international partners.
“Changes in the Arctic show a domino effect from multiple causes more clearly than in other regions,” said James Overland, an oceanographer at NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle and a lead author of the report. “It’s a sensitive system and often reflects changes in relatively fast and dramatic ways.”
One example of these changes in arctic climate is the autumn air temperatures which are at a record 5 degrees C (9 degrees F) above normal, because of the major loss of sea ice in recent years. The loss of sea ice allows more solar heating of the ocean. That warming of the air and ocean affects land and marine life, and reduces the amount of winter sea ice that lasts into the following summer. The year 2007 was the warmest on record for the Arctic, continuing a general Arctic-wide warming trend that began in the mid-1960s.
The Arctic Report Card, a product introduced by NOAA’s Climate Program Office in 2006, establishes a baseline of conditions in that region in the 21st century and provides a way of monitoring the often quickly changing conditions. It is updated annually in October and tracks the Arctic atmosphere, sea ice, biology, ocean, land and Greenland.
In this year’s report card, three of the six areas (atmosphere, sea ice, and Greenland) are coded red on the Report Card, indicating that the changes are strongly attributed to warming. The three remaining areas (biology, ocean, land) are coded yellow, indicating mixed signals. The 2007 Report Card had two red areas (atmosphere and sea ice) and four coded yellow.
“The Arctic Report Card is one of the few opportunities for a team of researchers to work together to provide a very broad look at the state of the Arctic system,” said the report’s chief editor Jackie Richter-Menge from the USACE Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Hanover, N.H. “The information combines to tell a story of widespread and, in some cases, dramatic effects of an overall warming of the Arctic system.”
The report’s other contributing lead authors are from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Woods Hole, Mass.; the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska-Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska; Byrd Polar Research Center, Columbus, Ohio; and Environment Canada, Whitehorse, Yukon. NOAA understands and predicts changes in the Earth's environment, from the depths of the ocean to the surface of the sun, and conserves and manages our coastal and marine resources.

The Grow Show with Marijuana Man

Grow Medical Marijuana

California Cannabis Hemp Health Initiative 08 (pt 8)

It's voting season. Early voting has begun in many states and it's time to Vote Hemp.

Senator Barack Obama is pro hemp.

Please vote Obama-Biden '08.

Hemp for Ethanol in Kentucky, with Craig Lee

Now is the time for all good people to come to the aid of our planet.
Key to solving the problem of global warming is a shift back to natural, safe energies including hemp.
Hemp burns clean and scrubs the air of excess CO2 as it grows.
For more on how we can use hemp to help us solve our problems now, please visit the USA Hemp Museum, www.hempmuseum.org