California Governor Would Like To Support Hemp

Richard M. Davis, founder and curator of the USA Hemp Museum recently wrote a letter to the Governor of California regarding ending hemp prohibition. (Richard's book are available for a short time as free ebook downloads on www.hempmuseum.org )

The Governor's response is below.

"I recognize and am proud that California is a national and world leader in the production of high-quality agricultural commodities. Our state has a rich agricultural environment, and we must strive to protect and promote farming, ranching and agri-business in California, while preserving natural resources and protecting consumers.

Given these facts, I would like to support the expansion of a new agricultural commodity in this state. Unfortunately, I am very concerned about giving legitimate growers a false sense of security and a belief that production of “industrial hemp” is somehow a legal activity under federal law. "

Instead of fighting for the will of the people as stated in Prop. 215, the Terminator is afraid of the federal government. Oh well. At least we now have in writing that the governor is in favor of supporting "the expansion of a new agricultural commodity in this state."

Here's the letter that you can click on to read the original. I typed the text below in case you want to use a find move on the webpage or copy and paste the text.

Ain't no stoppin us now.

Office of the Governor

March 24, 2009

Mr. Richard Davis
Los Angeles, California 90046

Dear Mr. Davis,

Thank you for sharing your ideas with me about industrial hemp and how it could benefit our state.

I recognize and am proud that California is a national and world leader in the production of high-quality agricultural commodities. Our state has a rich agricultural environment, and we must strive to protect and promote farming, ranching and agri-business in California, while preserving natural resources and protecting consumers.

Given these facts, I would like to support the expansion of a new agricultural commodity in this state. Unfortunately, I am very concerned about giving legitimate growers a false sense of security and a belief that production of “industrial hemp” is somehow a legal activity under federal law. Any person in the United States that wishes to grow cannabis plants for any purpose – including industrial purposes – must first obtain permission and register with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Failure to do so would be a violation of federal law and could subject an individual to criminal penalties. If you’d like a new law to be created that addresses this issue, you may wish to contact your representatives in the Legislature to share your ideas, comments and concerns. To find your representatives or for more information on legislative bills, please visit the Official California Legislative Information website at http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/.

Again, thank you for writing. An informed and engaged public is important for effective government in our Golden State.

Sincerely

Arnold Schwarzenegger
Governor

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Among the many exhibits in the book that make the case are:

· Harvard’s Dr. Lester Grinspoon’s testimony before the Crime Subcommittee of Judiciary Committee to the US House of Representatives in 1997 (page 60) and Dr. Grinspoon’s paper Marijuana As Wonder Drug (page 17).

· Dr. Tod H. Mikuriya, MD’s list of hemp’s documented 250 medical uses (page 53).

· Physicians Desk Reference For Herbal Medicine Cannabis Sativa (page 238) on hemp as medicine and what they know it’s good for.

· Hemp patient, author and publisher Peter McWilliams “Medical Marijuana & Me.” (page 82) and Why Was Peter McWilliams Murdered? By Paul Krassner (page 87). The book is dedicated to McWilliams.·

J. Nayer Hardin’s research regarding hemp as a medical tool for World Trade Center illness (page 94)·

Many books for further research on medical hemp’s effectiveness. (page 218)

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Examples of material contained include:

· A Natural Energy Policy (page 76)

· Energy Farming In America by Lynn Osborne (page 96)

· Readings on hemp and global warming (page 120)

· Hemp legislation (page 125)

· How To Make Hemp Fuels (page 176)

· 1913 US Government Report On Hemp (page 180)

Go to the USA Hemp Museum and get your copies before May 31, 2009. They answer the call for a one stop publication on how hemp has already been studied and can help us solve global warming and health care. Stay tuned for the Hemp For Victory book on how hemp can help us heal the international economy, motivating currency to change hands.

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

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.