Attorney General Eric Holder said the Department of Justice would not be raiding the medical hemp clubs. We're asking about the rest of us and urge you to do the same. Please contact President Obama and the Department of Justice for clarity.
Richard M. Davis, founder/curator of the USA Hemp Museum and author of HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION, sent this email to the Department of Justice (DOJ) asking if hemp is legal.
Dear DOJ:
Is hemp legal?
If not what is the signal that it is ok to plant hemp?
A hemp bill has passed the Legislature in CA. North Dakota wants to know.
When can we plant?
Please answer this letter with a statement of permission to plant.
Please relay this request to President Obama.
Thank you.
Richard Davis, Curator
USA Hemp Museum
www.hempmuseum.org"
Hemp can help us solve our problems now.
For more on how to use hemp visit the USA Hemp Museum, www.hempmuseum.org, a private museum with a virtual wing.
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Questions - Obama-Biden Health Care Discussion - Jack Herer
The people are talking about hemp, but not the government. That has got to change because the government is suppose to reflect the Will of the People, not the other way around.
Here's the list of questions from Jack Herer's piece Obama-Biden Health Care Discussion - Jack Herer TV . Jack is filling in the blanks with hempsters answering the questions, awesome folks who are using hemp to empower their lives. We're blessed with Jack Herer, who inspired Richard M. Davis, the founder and curator of the USA Hemp Museum and millions of others.
Here's the questions asked. It's amazing how many, as demonstrated, have hemp as the answer. Comments are in ( )
1. What does the group perceive as the biggest problem in the health care system?
(Effective hemp medicine is illegal and toxic medicine is legal. It is illegal to grow hemp foods, but genetically modified foods are legal).
2. How do attendees choose a doctor or hospital?
(Qualifications - know your grower - medical hemp helps manage disease at the level of cause, stress and effect, illness.)
3. Where do attendees get information in making that decision?
(Experience, common sense and research. Richard M. Davis is almost ready to release his ground breaking work HEMP FOR VICTORY: THE WONDER HERB which shatters the myth about medical hemp research. It's a great walk through the medical wing of the USA Hemp Museum, a private museum with a virtual wing.)
4. Should public policy promote quality health care providers?
(Public policy should promote quality health empowerment from the first to the last moments of life. Non toxic hemp foods, medical hemp, hemp's environmental healing abilities, and more are positive impacts we can experience by adding hemp to our health empowerment system.)
5. Have attendees or their family members experienced difficulty paying medical bills?
(no)
6. How can policy makers address this problem?
(End hemp prohibition now! Finance the restoration of the family farm to grow hemp. Help coordinate markets and set quality standards. Tax medical and lower grades at standard sales tax rates, and recreational grades of hemp at 20%. Use that money to solve problems like financing universal health care. Let there be departments of Hemp in Commerce, Agriculture and Health, Education & Welfare. Tap Cong. Dr. Ron Paul for medical hemp.)
7. In addition to employer based coverage, would the group like the option to purchase a private plan through an insurance-exchange or a public plan like Medicaid?
(Medical coverage needs to be financed by the recreational hemp tax while reducing the need for health care. In addition to hemp, the old "water cure" or hydrotherapy, meditation and other alternatives should be considered. Employers have enough to deal with and would prosper more if the job of health care went to the medical community, financed by tax revenue.)
8. Do attendees know how much they or their employer pays for health insurance?
(Yes. None.)
9. What should employers role be in a reformed health care system?
(Take a pro citizen stance for the government to provide health empowerment. Business needs to can focus on building their commerce. They can share what they save on health care as a health cash - vitamins, meditation classes, gym memberships, safe driving and anger management class - dividend to employees.)
10. Were attendees familiar with the types of preventative services Americans should receive?
(Yes - hemp.)
11. Had attendees gotten the recommended government services?
(No - not receiving government services - not applied.)
12. If not, how can public policy help?
(Public policy can end hemp prohibition immediately. Use the web to promote hemp, exercise, hydration, good nutrition and other healthy elements. )
13. How can public policy promote healthier lifestyles?
(Re-incorporate hemp into healing.)
So let's add this specific question to the list.
14. How can hemp help us turn our health care crisis into a health empowerment system?
For more information on hemp please visit Jack Herer's site and come by the USA Hemp Museum too.
Here's the list of questions from Jack Herer's piece Obama-Biden Health Care Discussion - Jack Herer TV . Jack is filling in the blanks with hempsters answering the questions, awesome folks who are using hemp to empower their lives. We're blessed with Jack Herer, who inspired Richard M. Davis, the founder and curator of the USA Hemp Museum and millions of others.
Here's the questions asked. It's amazing how many, as demonstrated, have hemp as the answer. Comments are in ( )
1. What does the group perceive as the biggest problem in the health care system?
(Effective hemp medicine is illegal and toxic medicine is legal. It is illegal to grow hemp foods, but genetically modified foods are legal).
2. How do attendees choose a doctor or hospital?
(Qualifications - know your grower - medical hemp helps manage disease at the level of cause, stress and effect, illness.)
3. Where do attendees get information in making that decision?
(Experience, common sense and research. Richard M. Davis is almost ready to release his ground breaking work HEMP FOR VICTORY: THE WONDER HERB which shatters the myth about medical hemp research. It's a great walk through the medical wing of the USA Hemp Museum, a private museum with a virtual wing.)
4. Should public policy promote quality health care providers?
(Public policy should promote quality health empowerment from the first to the last moments of life. Non toxic hemp foods, medical hemp, hemp's environmental healing abilities, and more are positive impacts we can experience by adding hemp to our health empowerment system.)
5. Have attendees or their family members experienced difficulty paying medical bills?
(no)
6. How can policy makers address this problem?
(End hemp prohibition now! Finance the restoration of the family farm to grow hemp. Help coordinate markets and set quality standards. Tax medical and lower grades at standard sales tax rates, and recreational grades of hemp at 20%. Use that money to solve problems like financing universal health care. Let there be departments of Hemp in Commerce, Agriculture and Health, Education & Welfare. Tap Cong. Dr. Ron Paul for medical hemp.)
7. In addition to employer based coverage, would the group like the option to purchase a private plan through an insurance-exchange or a public plan like Medicaid?
(Medical coverage needs to be financed by the recreational hemp tax while reducing the need for health care. In addition to hemp, the old "water cure" or hydrotherapy, meditation and other alternatives should be considered. Employers have enough to deal with and would prosper more if the job of health care went to the medical community, financed by tax revenue.)
8. Do attendees know how much they or their employer pays for health insurance?
(Yes. None.)
9. What should employers role be in a reformed health care system?
(Take a pro citizen stance for the government to provide health empowerment. Business needs to can focus on building their commerce. They can share what they save on health care as a health cash - vitamins, meditation classes, gym memberships, safe driving and anger management class - dividend to employees.)
10. Were attendees familiar with the types of preventative services Americans should receive?
(Yes - hemp.)
11. Had attendees gotten the recommended government services?
(No - not receiving government services - not applied.)
12. If not, how can public policy help?
(Public policy can end hemp prohibition immediately. Use the web to promote hemp, exercise, hydration, good nutrition and other healthy elements. )
13. How can public policy promote healthier lifestyles?
(Re-incorporate hemp into healing.)
So let's add this specific question to the list.
14. How can hemp help us turn our health care crisis into a health empowerment system?
For more information on hemp please visit Jack Herer's site and come by the USA Hemp Museum too.
Jack Herer Expanding The Health Care Discussion
Thank you Jack Herer and his series Obama-Biden Health Care Discussion - Jack Herer TV on how hemp can help us solve our health care crisis. While President Obama is trying to solve the health care crisis, I have not heard the word hemp used as a solution, which makes me ask the question, what health care discussion?
We've made an effective, natural medicine illegal and wonder why we have problems with our health care system.
Any health care discussion that does not include an in depth element of affordable medical hemp, plus hemp foods, are illusions...seek but do not find. Though hemp is the number one topic on http://www.change.org/ there is still a deafening silence on the subject on ending hemp prohibition as a solution to our problems from many elected and appointed officials.
Stress kills and medical grades and higher of hemp reduces stress. The health problems that come from the resulting stress of almost a million people in jail for interacting with a plant I don't know how to calculate. The implementation of a 20% on recreational grades of hemp tax would provide a large revenue source to pay for universal health care, plus solve other problems.
Other aspects of hemp and health should include non-toxic hemp building materials and fabrics.
TELL PRESIDENT OBAMA, LET OUR HEMP GO!!! Health empowerment system, helping folks live their best lives, is the shift that's needed.
Here's the webeo below.
Part 1 - Obama-Biden Health Care Discussion - Jack Herer TV
Part 2 - Obama-Biden Health Care Discussion - Jack Herer TV
Part 3 - Obama-Biden Health Care Discussion - Jack Herer TV
Part 4 - Obama-Biden Health Care Discussion - Jack Herer TV
Part 5 - Obama-Biden Health Care Discussion - Jack Herer TV
Dr. James Ketchum - Author of "Chemical Warfare Secrets Almost Forgotten"
www.forgottensecrets.net
Jacqueline Patterson - California Medical Marijuana Patient
www.myspace.com/medicalmaryjane
President Obama www.change.gov
Jack Herer www.jackherer.com
USA Hemp Museum www.hempmuseum.org
We've made an effective, natural medicine illegal and wonder why we have problems with our health care system.
Any health care discussion that does not include an in depth element of affordable medical hemp, plus hemp foods, are illusions...seek but do not find. Though hemp is the number one topic on http://www.change.org/ there is still a deafening silence on the subject on ending hemp prohibition as a solution to our problems from many elected and appointed officials.
Stress kills and medical grades and higher of hemp reduces stress. The health problems that come from the resulting stress of almost a million people in jail for interacting with a plant I don't know how to calculate. The implementation of a 20% on recreational grades of hemp tax would provide a large revenue source to pay for universal health care, plus solve other problems.
Other aspects of hemp and health should include non-toxic hemp building materials and fabrics.
TELL PRESIDENT OBAMA, LET OUR HEMP GO!!! Health empowerment system, helping folks live their best lives, is the shift that's needed.
Here's the webeo below.
Part 1 - Obama-Biden Health Care Discussion - Jack Herer TV
Part 2 - Obama-Biden Health Care Discussion - Jack Herer TV
Part 3 - Obama-Biden Health Care Discussion - Jack Herer TV
Part 4 - Obama-Biden Health Care Discussion - Jack Herer TV
Part 5 - Obama-Biden Health Care Discussion - Jack Herer TV
Dr. James Ketchum - Author of "Chemical Warfare Secrets Almost Forgotten"
www.forgottensecrets.net
Jacqueline Patterson - California Medical Marijuana Patient
www.myspace.com/medicalmaryjane
President Obama www.change.gov
Jack Herer www.jackherer.com
USA Hemp Museum www.hempmuseum.org
Saturday, December 13, 2008
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.
"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.
Saturday, December 6, 2008
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.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
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.
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.
Saturday, November 8, 2008
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.
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.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Hemp, A Great Renewable Energy
The USA Hemp Museum gives thanks to Senator Barack Obama for this great speech on renewable energy. Senator Obama is in tune with modern times as demonstrated by his sponsorship of an Industrial Hemp bill when he was a state senator.
It's time for us to put hemp more into our conversation. Like the Hemp For Victory program, hemp can help us solve our problems now.
We need a new test for energy we use. Is it clean? Is is non-toxic, environmentally supportive? Is is economically empowering? Oil, nuclear and coal energies fail those tests. Hemp biofuel, solar, wind, hydro, magnetic and other free and non toxic energy sources pass the test. It's a simple shift to the same energy sources that power the universe.
Hemp is a biomass champion as a renewable energy. Anything toxic oil can do, hemp seed oil can do better. A flex-fuel conversion kit on a vehicle would allow a quick transfer off of toxic energy. The change could be done within a year if the product flow is coordinated. The same companies that are selling us products that are killing us, can enter into the more profitable renewable energy market and make money without the high energy transportation costs.
Hemp pellets can be used to produce electricity. California has many power plants ready to burn hemp, it's just illegal to grow in the United States.
Hemp is four times more efficient than corn as biofuel. Though hemp is also an excellent food source, using hemp as part of a coordinated energy policy for fuel would not impact on the cost of other products.
Hemp can grow up to 4 crops a year and grows indoors and out.
Hemp can help heal the damages of global warming caused by too much CO2 in the air, regardless of the source. Hemp breathes in excess CO2 as it grows and turns that material into a raw resource that can be made into over 50,000 products. We're proposing at least 10% of unused federal land be granted to family farmers financed out of the Department of Agriculture to engage in large scale coordinated government.
HEMP FOR VICTORY! A SMART WAY TO SOLVE OUR PROBLEMS
For more information on how hemp can help us solve our problems please visit the USA Hemp Museum, a private museum with a virtual wing, Richard M. Davis, founder, curator and author of the powerful, insightful book, HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION.
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Bill Richardson On Hemp
Based on his ample support of hemp legalization, we recommend Bill Richardson as Vice President on the Senator Barack Obama presidential ticket.
Here's a few pieces we found on Democratic Governor and presidential candidate Bill Richardson concerning hemp, i.e. medical marijuana.
Governor Richardson has taken heroic steps in his state, New Mexico to stop arresting sick people for using hemp.
We recommend that Governor Richardson and others visit the USA Hemp Museum, and work together with the Museum's curator Richard M. Davis to implement hemp as the real change required to save our nation and the world.
They can talk about how hemp is listed in the PDR Herbal edition as a herb that shrinks tumors and stops asthma attacks.
This information should be in the speaking of all pro hemp candidates on a daily basis.
Richard's written one of those "Read this like your life depends on it, it does!" books called HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION which explains how to use hemp to solve the problem of global warming.
Here's a few of the webeos we found concerning Governor Bill Richardson and hemp.
Gov. Richardson urges Gov. Lynch to protect patients
Bill Richardson on Medical Marijuana Raids
Bill Richardson says 'The War on Drugs Is not Working'
Here's a few pieces we found on Democratic Governor and presidential candidate Bill Richardson concerning hemp, i.e. medical marijuana.
Governor Richardson has taken heroic steps in his state, New Mexico to stop arresting sick people for using hemp.
We recommend that Governor Richardson and others visit the USA Hemp Museum, and work together with the Museum's curator Richard M. Davis to implement hemp as the real change required to save our nation and the world.
They can talk about how hemp is listed in the PDR Herbal edition as a herb that shrinks tumors and stops asthma attacks.
This information should be in the speaking of all pro hemp candidates on a daily basis.
Richard's written one of those "Read this like your life depends on it, it does!" books called HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION which explains how to use hemp to solve the problem of global warming.
Here's a few of the webeos we found concerning Governor Bill Richardson and hemp.
Gov. Richardson urges Gov. Lynch to protect patients
Bill Richardson on Medical Marijuana Raids
Bill Richardson says 'The War on Drugs Is not Working'
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Barack Obama on Hemp / Marijuana
This is the first of a series of posts on presidential candidates and their positions on hemp found on webeo (web video).
Here's a few pieces we found on Senator Barack Obama concerning hemp.
Senator Obama should visit the USA Hemp Museum, and learn from the Museum's curator Richard M. Davis how hemp is the real change required to save our nation and the world.
Richard's written one of those "Read this like your life depends on it, it does!" books called HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION which explains how to use hemp to solve the problem of global warming.
Barack Obama On Medical Marijuana
Since learning is change, we are confident he will learn about hemp as medicine, the peace pipe as a solution to violence, hemp as an environmental champion that removes excess CO2 from the air and aerates soil up to six feet deep as it draws toxins as strong as nuclear waste (check Chernobyl and hemp). At least Senator Obama has an open mind on the subject and is committed to solving problems.
Presidential Candidate Senator Barack Obama on Medical Marijuana--Aug. 21, 2007
Barack Obama "I inhaled frequently" "That was the point"
Sen. Barack Obama on drug policy--Sept. 29, 2007
Romney and Obama on Medical Marijuana
Unconditional hemp legalization would create more positive change than any campaign promise made so far in any area.
Here's a few pieces we found on Senator Barack Obama concerning hemp.
Senator Obama should visit the USA Hemp Museum, and learn from the Museum's curator Richard M. Davis how hemp is the real change required to save our nation and the world.
Richard's written one of those "Read this like your life depends on it, it does!" books called HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION which explains how to use hemp to solve the problem of global warming.
Barack Obama On Medical Marijuana
Since learning is change, we are confident he will learn about hemp as medicine, the peace pipe as a solution to violence, hemp as an environmental champion that removes excess CO2 from the air and aerates soil up to six feet deep as it draws toxins as strong as nuclear waste (check Chernobyl and hemp). At least Senator Obama has an open mind on the subject and is committed to solving problems.
Presidential Candidate Senator Barack Obama on Medical Marijuana--Aug. 21, 2007
Barack Obama "I inhaled frequently" "That was the point"
Sen. Barack Obama on drug policy--Sept. 29, 2007
Romney and Obama on Medical Marijuana
Unconditional hemp legalization would create more positive change than any campaign promise made so far in any area.
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