Hemp Hero Dr. Jeri Rose - Setting The Record Straight

There is so much mis-information in the modern marijuana movement it's scary some days.  Some folks are profiting handsomely while many of the folks who have been working on this issue for decades are thrown out like old dishwater, called greedy and frauds.  This post is to help set the record straight about hemp hero Dr. Jeri Rose, whose contributed money, skills, ideas, organizational talents, etc. for decades and now lied on terribly by someone who obviously does not know her.  

I was reading an article called Narc vs. Narc about the players in the modern medical marijuana game.  I tried posting in the comments section but they refuse to put up my comments in response to the slanderous remarks posted there which can be summarized in one sentence.

“Therefore, Dr. Rose you are a fraud and greedy like the rest of the greedy tribe you are with. You were not even born when we started this movement.” Madeleine Johnson

Here's Madeleine's full post - by the way the man's name,who pioneered Dr. Rose's support in many ways during the last century too, is Jack Herer:

"Shame on you to use Jack Here name. You are not honoring him. If you honored him then his wife, Jeanne Here would not be suffering today. Not one dime of your so called Jack Here Honore money is going toward helping her. The Pioneers should not be the only one to keep her out of poverty. Therefore, Dr. Rose you are a fraud and greedy like the rest of the greedy tribe you are with. You were not even born when we started this movement. In addition you need to take classes from Dr. Abrams at US Berkley to learn the truth about Medical Marihuana.[Historical Note - Dr. Lester Grinspoon has been a marijuana doctor since the 1960's and Dr. Abrams did not graduate from med school until 1977] Dr. Abrams is the real Pioneer doctor of Medical Marihuana and we’ll recognized by the Federal Goverment. You on the other hand is a Quack."

Below is the response (a couple of grammatical corrections from the original) that has not yet been approved by the folks who published the article at The Green Pulpit Narc vs. Narc on July 16, 2014. 

'You must not know about Dr. Jeri Rose.  What “we” are you referring to who started this movement since it began with the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937? Since Dr. Rose has been consulted with frequently by many movers and shakers in the medical and industrial marijuana movements, how is she a fraud?  Dr. Rose has not charged anyone I know of in the movement for her constant, accurate advice, so how is she greedy?

I thank God for haters because it’s usually the step before they become appreciators.  The work and other contributions of Dr. Jeri Rose is legendary among many hemp researchers.

Dr. Rose is a hemp activist since 1989 where she worked to get the hemp message onto national television three years in a row by marching in the Doo Dah Parade in 1989, 1990 and 1991.  I’ve known Dr. Rose since 1999 when we met working with Sister Somayah Kambui producing the first Los Angeles Million (now Global) Marijuana March.  Dr. Rose was instrumental in helping Sister Somayah research and organize Somayah’s work with medical marijuana and sickle cell.  Somayah was able to double her life expectancy using marijuana to help manage her sickle cell.  Their work got sickle cell listed on Prop. 215’s list of approved medical conditions for medical marijuana with Somayah’s life standing as proof of the “theory”. Dr. Rose remained an adviser to Somayah way beyond the point of Somayah being the first acquittal of marijuana charges under Prop. 215.
 http://www.420magazine.com/forums/international-cannabis-news/5520-la-prop-215-defendant-somayah-aquitted.html

Over the years, I've witnessed since 1999 Dr. Rose has helped many independent activists.  Her generosity in various research communities is priceless.  She is NOT a fraud nor greedy.  My experience of her is she has not taken any money for the work she has done for Jack Herer, Richard M. Davis and countless others in the marijuana movement, Dr. Rose is not greedy and she knows her shit.

Dr. Rose has shared insights with me over the years that expanded the research exponentially.  Her brilliance is instrumental in the works;

How To Fix Fukushima 
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3g4TzvH0vlAc01wa1BhUmZ5SE0/edit?usp=sharing

Use Hemp Foods To Solve The UN Declared World Food Crisis 
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3g4TzvH0vlAYzhjM2Y4MmQtYzVkMy00YjA4LTg3MjEtZTViMzVhOGM4NGMw/edit?usp=sharing

Hemp as a filament for 4D / 3D Printing
http://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3g4TzvH0vlASFljSnRyYTRVckU/edit?usp=sharing

Even throughout the years of 2005-9 she helped translate formal scientific concepts for the books by the late USA Hemp Museum’s founder and curator, Richard M. Davis

Hemp For Victory:  A Global Warming Solution 
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0979376513?tag=cureworks-20

Hemp For Victory:  The Wonder Herb 
http://www.amazon.com/dp/097937653X?tag=cureworks-20

Hemp For Victory: The Trillion Dollar Crop 
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0979376564?tag=cureworks-20

There are links to the above books as free .pdfs and more that Dr. Rose has been contributing to on the blog page

http://www.hempnayer.blogspot.com/2013/10/how-to-fix-fukushima.html 

Keep in mind that’s just the little bit I know about, can testify to from direct experience concerning the impact of her contributions. There are many, many more I’ve only heard of.

In case I failed to make my point, Dr. Jeri Rose is NOT a fraud nor greedy.  She is a good, generous, intelligent soul who has dedicated a large part of her adult life to not only ending the drug war but implementing the hemp solution to many modern problems.  She’s done better than the best she could to accomplish and implement the mission of hemp for victory. I’m learning to accept that for some people no matter what one does it will never be enough.

To understand the greed in the modern marijuana movement, as in has the money and is not sharing it with the folks who helped make it possible resulting in a reality that has some in mansions and others living out of their vans, I suggest a re-read of this excellent article NARC VS. NARC 2: THE CALIFORNIA CANNABIS COUP D’ETAT. 

Follow the money and please, please, please ask those with funds to support Jeannie Herer, Jeff Clark, Dana Beal… Consider re-directing the energy put into hating on a soul who gave everything she had in the last century plus, (and is still working the best she can with what she has) into positive steps to end the drug war now. Falsely accusing hemp heroes is a big waste of time and energy.  

BTW Madeleine Johnson, your link is not working, and I recommend folks do a search for your name, marijuana. Thank you for the good works you have done to stop the drug war too. Love and prayers to you and yours.'

The video below is of Dr. Rose at Jack Herer's funeral...runs 3:38.-6:58

I, J. Nayer Hardin, founder of and a conductor on the Computer Underground Railroad, stand in gratitude for the decades of hard and brilliant work that Dr. Jeri Rose has contributed to what seems today as a no brainer, stopping the drug war and implementing the hemp solution now. 

HEMP FOR VICTORY!

The Declaration of Independence: Hemp and 3D Printing

Why hemp, cannabis, marijuana, weed, pot, etc. should be legal all over the world.

Jack Herer use to say 'get your fuckin' education.' If you don't know about the next evolution, 3D printing, you need to check it out.  We are about to be able to make whatever we need, using a simple printer and, with a bit of wisdom, hemp printing materials.

Hemp is the perfect raw material to dominate the 3D printing evolution, though of course there is plenty of room for other materials too from sand to metal to gold and other foods, for openers.

To learn about hemp visit the USA Hemp Museum for more information on how hemp can help us build a better world, while empowering countless lives with health, prosperity, style and other really good times.  At the museum you'll find information on hemp foods, medicines, fabrics, building materials, environmental, economic impact, papers, plastics....so many of the 50,000+ known uses for the hemp plant.

Click here for the museum's research on the exciting combination of hemp and 3d printing.  Here at the museum we are working to make hemp the dominate raw material in the 3D Printing revolution because it is versatile, strong, non-toxic, economical, has up to 4 growing seasons annually, and easily adaptable to this next level of the Information Age.

With the people's advantage of hemp and 3D printing, the game has changed, again. Let's get back to the foundation of the game of life, which is responsible love and freedom, key to our pursuit of happiness. JOY!

Below is the text of the Declaration Of Independence, in case you need to copy and paste it somewhere it can do some good. It is time for people to be free.  [A great first step is to stop the drug war now!]

The Declaration of Independence: A Transcription IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies: For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor. The 56 signatures on the Declaration appear in the positions indicated: Column 1 Georgia:    Button Gwinnett    Lyman Hall    George Walton Column 2 North Carolina:    William Hooper    Joseph Hewes    John Penn South Carolina:    Edward Rutledge    Thomas Heyward, Jr.    Thomas Lynch, Jr.    Arthur Middleton Column 3 Massachusetts: John Hancock Maryland: Samuel Chase William Paca Thomas Stone Charles Carroll of Carrollton Virginia: George Wythe Richard Henry Lee Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Harrison Thomas Nelson, Jr. Francis Lightfoot Lee Carter Braxton Column 4 Pennsylvania:    Robert Morris    Benjamin Rush    Benjamin Franklin    John Morton    George Clymer    James Smith    George Taylor    James Wilson    George Ross Delaware:    Caesar Rodney    George Read    Thomas McKean Column 5 New York:    William Floyd    Philip Livingston    Francis Lewis    Lewis Morris New Jersey:    Richard Stockton    John Witherspoon    Francis Hopkinson    John Hart    Abraham Clark Column 6 New Hampshire:    Josiah Bartlett    William Whipple Massachusetts:    Samuel Adams    John Adams    Robert Treat Paine    Elbridge Gerry Rhode Island:    Stephen Hopkins    William Ellery Connecticut:    Roger Sherman    Samuel Huntington    William Williams    Oliver Wolcott New Hampshire:    Matthew Thornton

California Cannabis Hemp & Health Initiative 2012 Richard M. Davis

JACK HERER HEMP INITIATIVE FOR 2012

Youth Federation

CCHHI 2012

Dear Potential Supporter of California Cannabis Hemp and Health Initiative -  CCHHI:

I am Richard M. Davis, founder and curator of the U.S.A. Hemp Museum, soon to be opened in downtown Los Angeles, CA featuring my over 3,000 hemp items and artifacts I've collected over the last 40 plus years as a hemp activist, farmer, consumer and historian.


The year 2012 is the year for relegalizing Cannabis hemp and marijuana in California.  To this end we are offering the California Cannabis Hemp and Health Initiative (CCHHI) to the people of our State.  In California we have the right to change the law or create law by initiative, bypassing the government as was done with medical marijuana in 1996.  The role of the government is to protect liberty not control and harass the people over the historical and productive cannabis sativa plant – common name hemp.

We believe the people of California are ready to end the prohibition of industrial and recreational hemp for adults.  Relegalizing Cannabis will provide jobs, save family farms, help reverse global warming, provide biomass fuels (even synthetic gasoline), provide high protein foods, provide paper to protect our forests, provide fiber to replace the polluting cotton crop, provide herbal safe medicine (known since 1974 to kill cancer cells), provide building materials, plastics, paints and varnishes, and stress reducing relaxation.  As a carbon source, hemp can do anything fossil fuels (oil, coal, natural gas) can do.  Hemp’s potential for California could be hundreds of billions of dollars (paper for example produces $850 billion, and hemp could and should do this job.)  The reward on this initiative investment is beyond belief.  Hemp can produce an estimated 50,000 viable products.

Inalienable rights are those given by the Creator to individual citizens as stated in the Declaration of Independence.  Cannabis was also given to the people by the Creator, not to the government.  Hemp hero Dr. David Bearman has states: “Do we really need the government to protect us from the plants that grow in our garden.” Hemp hero Dr. Lester Grinspoon has said that not until everyone can legally obtain cannabis will patients be guaranteed access to their medicine.  Dr. William Courtney, Cannabis expert, stated: “…the National Cancer Institute has acknowledged that there are direct antitumor (anticancer) effects (from Cannabis).” He feels the fresh leaves and flowers eaten in quantity do the most to promote health.  Food, medicine, liberty, seeds, privacy, happiness and safety belong to the people.

We need your help to get CCHHI on the ballot.  We need to gather 805,000 signatures in the next four months.  The quickest way to do this is to ay petitioners.  At one dollar per signature, we think that one million dollars will enable us to do this.  Any part or all of this million you can give will help the people of California to step ahead in Cannabis research in the U.S.  Many other developed countries are already growing hemp, including Canada, all of Europe, China, Russia, Australia, etc.

Many of you have proved you know how to develop an idea and to make it profitable.  We would love your direct involvement.  We want to use your name, and your activism, as well as your financial help.  Fifteen years ago, Cannabis production was broken by initiative Prop. 215. This proves we can do this without the federal government, which had to respect the right of the people to invoke medical marijuana as a right, out of thin air.  Specifically, CCHHI invokes the Ninth and Tenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution sot there is no mistake where the power of the people to act comes from.  Help us and your grandchildren will thank you.

Hemp hero Jack Herer, father of CCHHI passed away in 2010.  We like to call this initiative the Jack Herer Hemp Initiative.  His vision for a world in hemp has started a revolution around the world to develop hemp.  The U.S. farmer is being left behind in the development of hemp, a crop I call the Trillion Dollar Crop.  Jack Herer from the start knew that for justice to be served non-violent offenders needed to be released and records whipped clean for hemp offenses.  Recently, Jack’s assertion that farming six percent of the U.S. could fuel our country was confirmed by research of five Swedish scientists.  This initiative gives the farmer the right to grow hemp.  This is taking back the freedom and liberty enjoyed by our founders.

For my part, I plan to open to the public the U.S.A. Hemp Museum of which I am curator and owner, so we can clearly see the economic, medicinal, nutritional potential of hemp.  I have supported this initiative in the past and support it even more today.  We need the jobs and energy that hemp farming will bring to California.  Beyond getting on the ballot is the campaign to November, 2012, which will demand even more resources.  The reward on this initiative investment is beyond belief.  The hemp resource can span 50,000 viable products.

For those of you with money, challenge your friends to match your generosity.  For those with no money, spread the word.  One purpose of the Jack Herer Hemp Initiative is to end Cannabis hemp prohibition.  The legislative analyst has estimated that the savings from releasing non-violent offenders will be in the “tens of millions of dollars’ annually.  Sign the initiative petition, collect signatures from work or home, and donate to the liberation of a plant.  With you we can make history, again.

Thank you,

Richard. M. Davis

Founder, Curator

U.S.A. Hemp Museum

1358 S. Flower Street

Los Angeles, CA 90015

JACK HERER HEMP INITIATIVE FOR 2012

California Cannabis Hemp and Health Initiative 2012

Youth Federation

CCHHI 2012

From The Family of Jack Herer - Re: California's Prop. 19

Casper Leitch, the host of Time4Hemp, which airs week nights on American Freedom Radio, forwarded this note from Jack Herer's family about Prop. 19 that sheds light in the storm brewing because of the latest marijuana proposition to come before California voters.  Hemp For Victory!!!


"Jack Herer would ask — no, he would demand your yes vote on Prop 19, along with a pledge to continue fighting for the plant, the people and the planet."

From the Family of Jack Herer, author of The Emperor Wears No Clothes
Van Nuys, California

August, 2010

Dear Friends of Hemp and Cannabis,

Our father, Jack Herer, was a man of leadership, compassion and idealism. He worked relentlessly for decades to achieve his dream of legalizing Cannabis hemp in all its forms, personal, medical and industrial. He wanted Cannabis to be free and open, and to be given full respect for its enormous economic, environmental and cultural benefits.

As an idealist, Jack was adverse to half measures. He originally opposed Prop 215 because it stopped at medical use only. He initially opposed Senate Bill 420 because it set limited quantities as a safe harbor. Over time, however, he came to appreciate the freedoms they created, and took pride in the role he played in inspiring those changes. Jack’s great fear about Prop 215 and SB 420 was that people would accept those limits, become complacent and stop working for full legalization. He feared we would be stuck with medical use forever.

Likewise, Jack railed against Tax Cannabis 2010, now Proposition 19, and its plan for limited legalization and local authority to tax and regulate marijuana sales to adults 21 and above. It falls far short of what he wanted. Jack ‘wanted it all,’ and Prop 19 is just a part of that dream. Unfortunately, Jack passed away before Prop 19 made the 2010 ballot; so many people think he would still oppose it. We don’t believe that, and we ask that everyone stop saying he would cling to that position as we move toward the Nov. 2 vote.

As his family, we want the world to know that the last thing Jack Herer would want is for Californians to vote to keep Cannabis illegal. He was smart and had the political savvy to know that once a measure is on the ballot, the time for bickering has passed. That is why he campaigned for Prop 215 despite its shortcomings. That is why, were he able, he would now be telling voters to rally around and Vote Yes on Prop 19.

Does that mean he would want everyone to stop and be happy with the modest changes that Prop 19 affords? Absolutely not! What Jack would want us to do right now is to support Prop 19, and come Nov. 3 he would be right back again, telling you to renew your commitment to bring a comprehensive California Hemp and Health Initiative to the voters in 2012 or some future date. Jack Herer would ask — no, he would demand your yes vote on Prop 19, along with a pledge to continue fighting for the plant, the people and the planet.

It is true that Prop 19 does not fulfill our father's dream; but it takes us much closer to achieving it than we are now, and for that reason we, his family, endorse Prop 19 today. Please vote yes on Prop 19 Nov 2, but do it with the dedication to keep working toward complete legalization in Jack's honor.

Sincerely, Dan Herer et al.

N.A.A.C.P. Endorsing Prop. 19 Finally Does Something Right by R.W. Akile

Alice Huffman, President of the California Chapter of the NAACP must be commended for endorsing Proposition 19, the November ballot initiative that calls for the legalization of Marijuana for Adult Recreational Use.  Though the proposed law has some flaws such as the amount of tax to be imposed on an ounce of Marijuana it is a step in the right direction.  Many Blacks are in jail today due to the unfair application of drug prohibition laws.

Critics of the NAACP position display their lack of investigative fortitude and brings into question their knowledge on the subject of Marijuana.  Joe Hicks, VP of Community Advocates continues to display his lack of discernment when he says that "Marijuana is a Valley issue that really doesn't concern Blacks."

Such a posture is way off the mark.  The racist strategy used to make Marijuana illegal in the first place targeted Mexican Farm Laborers in the early 1900s in the Western states.  California was the first state in 1913 to pass a law making Marijuana Use a crime.  Montana and other Western states begin to follow suit.  Virtually all of these laws were targeting Mexican Farm Labor.  This posture was fueled by William Randolph Hearst's policy of racist "Yellow" journalism.  The Hearst publishing empire would print editorials stating such things as: "If your children smoke Marijuana they will hang out with "greasy Mexicans and dirty Niggers."

Most of us are unaware that W. R. Hearst had an axe to grind against Pancho Villa after Villa influenced the seizure of 800,000 acres of Hearst owned Timberland in Mexico.  Hearst had planned to feed his publishing empire with paper produced from his Mexican land holdings.  Hearst used a liberal amount of ink to criminalize Blacks and Mexicans as the source of Marijuana crime.

The NAACP is to be commended for standing up on this issue.  Those who wish to know more about this much maligned herb can find a surprising amount of positive information in "The Emperor Wears No Clothes" by the late Jack Herer or "Hemp, Lifeline to the Future" by Chris Conrad. 

The late Somayah Kambui, demonstrated that Hemp was actually a very beneficial nutritional herb.  Indeed, of the 20 elements for good nutrition the Hemp seed contains 16 of those elements.  Cold pressed Hemp oil is a perfectly balanced source of "Essiential Fatty Acids." 

Hemp has been found in the tombs of Kmt (ancient Egypt).  Hemp fabric can be traced to the 18th Dynasty of Kmt.  Seshat, the Ntr of the Library, a keeper of knowledge has as her symbol a seven fingered Marijuana leaf.  In the sacred text known as the "Emerald Tablet" the author alludes to the periodic "bathing in the glow of the flower" as a source of immortality.  Like it or not the flower spoken of is none other then "Yamba" or "Matokwani" or Marijuana.

Hemped Memorial Day

The Hemp Movement has lost many veterans over the decades and this Memorial Day we'd like to say thanks to three of them. Their dynamic contributions are too great to fit on one blog post so google their names and learn about the power of one.

Sister Somayah Kambui

Jack Herer

B.E. Smith

Thank you. Rest in hemped joy. We miss you.

For more on the many folks contributing to the end of hemp prohibition please visit the USA Hemp Museum, www.hempmuseum.org.

The Funeral of Jack Herer, American Cannabis Warrior PART 2

"Save The Planet, Change The Law. We haven't got much time." Dr. Jeri Rose, one of the great women in the hemp movement. She is the second speaker in this webeo, right after Jack Herer's son Dan.

USA Hemp Museum at the THC Expose April 23-25 LA Convention Center

The USA Hemp Museum is exhibiting at the THC Expose this weekend, April 23-25 held at the Los Angeles Convention Center.  This evolutionary event calls together some of the biggest movers and shakers in the newly developing international hemp industry.

Below are photos from the USA Hemp Museum's new home located at 1358 S. Flower Street, LA, CA.  The grand opening is concurrent with the opening of the THC Expose.

 

Richard M. Davis, founder and curator & artist Sherwood Akuna

at the USA Hemp Museum, 1358 S. Flower Street, Los Angeles, CA

Jack Herer cover on High Times magazine on display at the USA Hemp Museum 

 Happy Hemp.

Jack Herer Is In The Hospital

It is difficult to find a hempster whose life has not been touched by Jack Herer.  His book, THE EMPEROR WEARS NO CLOTHES is legendary. The USA Hemp Museum's founder and curator Richard M. Davis credits Jack Herer and Willie Nelson as his museum's inspiration, showcasing the work of both men in his HEMP FOR VICTORY book series.

Without a peep in mainstream media, social media like Twitter, Facebook and Youtube this weekend was the best source for news about 'what's up with Jack?'.

420 Magazine reports:

"Emperor of Hemp' Jack Herer Fighting For His Life After Heart Attack At Hempstalk

Noted activist and author Jack Herer, "The Emperor of Hemp," is fighting for his life after giving an impassioned speech at the Portland (OR) HempStalk festival Saturday, Sept 12. Herer left the stage and collapsed with an apparently serious heart attack, according to fellow activist Chris Conrad, who was one the scene."

From salem-news.com.

"Ironically, Jack told our Doctor Phil Leveque, an old friend of his in the fight to legitimize and legalize marijuana, that he was feeling better Saturday than he had, "In...ten years."

Event staff came together quickly and called in the paramedic crew that treated Jack in the area backstage where he fell ill. Madeline Martinez, Executive Director of Oregon NORML, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, says Jack didn't look like he felt well after the well received speech, and she told him he should get some water. Shortly after that he apparently collapsed where he was sitting, and the emergency crews were called in."

The blog Reality Checker reminds us that Jack Herer has come back from another health crisis.

"In July 2000, Herer suffered a minor heart attack and a major stroke, resulting in difficulties speaking and moving the right side of his body. He mostly recovered, and said in May 2004 that treatment with the psychoactive mushroom amanita muscaria was the secret."

Below is a piece from the USA Hemp Museum of Herer after his July, 2000 stroke speaking with passion at the late Sister Somayah's Los Angeles Million Marijuana March.

If anybody can come back from a massive heart attack, it's Jack Herer.  Please, come back Jack.

For more on hemp please visit Jack Herer's site  and the USA Hemp Museum .

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.

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.

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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

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.

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.

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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.

Hemp Not Corn Biofuel Is The Way To Go

Like Willie Nelson has taught since the 1950's, hemp is a peaceful solution to many of our problems.

Hemp (not corn) biofuel is an effective tool that we must start using now to solve the problem of global warming. Hemp is four times more efficient than corn as biofuel. The policy of food for energy is stupid and possibly evil, one of those designed to fail moves to keep toxic energy in power.

Hemp is one of the "cellulosic technologies" that those in power are pretending not to know about as we get more talk of safe nuclear, clean coal and evermore expensive oil (use less - spend more) as solutions to our energy problems. They are not. Hemp is an effective solution tool for our energy crisis as an excess CO2 remover, clean burning biofuel, and aerates soil up to six feet deep.

From: Worldwatch Perspective

"OPINION Biofuels 2.0: It's Time for Congress to Act

Can Biofuels Make or Break Iowa's Future?

Efforts to replace oil with biofuels in the United States are at a critical juncture. Double-digit growth in the production of corn-based ethanol has contributed to a sharp increase in grain and soybean prices while failing to deliver the environmental gains that had been hoped for.

It's time to reduce the incentives for food-based biofuels and accelerate the transition to more sustainable alternatives - the so-called "next-generation" cellulosic technologies, which are expected to become viable in the coming years. "

Earlier this week Congress held hearings on corn based ethanol energy.

What an oxymoron. They made it illegal to grow hemp to be used to remove the cause of global warming, excess CO2, or as clean burning energy. Then they spend money trying to understand why using food for fuel is not a good idea.

"May 13, 2008, 10:48PM

Sow blindness

Farm bill would do little to reduce world hunger and much to aggravate it.
Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle – [short quote]

President Bush promises to veto the five-year, $300 billion farm bill before Congress this week. The House and Senate have given him plenty of reasons to do so. The bill is so wrongheaded it's the equivalent of beating swords into plowshares at the outbreak of a war that closely follows a bumper crop.

Even before one gazes upon the merits and demerits of the bill, its cost alone should be seen as prohibitive. With farmers enjoying record high crop prices and income, it is irresponsible to enlarge the federal budget deficit and national debt to pay for crop subsidies."

Congress didn't have to set this up in the first place. Last year's Industrial Hemp Farming Act was lost in committee since 4/20/07. If it had passed, we'd be solving global warming now with large scale hemp growing, like what happened in the old Hemp For Victory program.

Toxic fertilizers are used to grow corn. The Gulf of Mexico has a huge dead zone where the Mississippi dumps in with the toxic run off of the corn fields.

Richard M. Davis of the USA Hemp Museum has a book with an idea of using the old WWII HEMP FOR VICTORY program to solve the problem of global warming. His site is .

In his book HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION he shows how, if we would shift to hemp biofuel, grown by family farmers on unused federal land and large scale burnt areas, we'd be utilizing a biomass champion. Hemp can help solve the problems of global warming and other environmental issues, like water pollution from paper making. The crops available after growth and oil can help heal the housing market with the inexpensive building material Hempstone.

Jack Herer, in his book THE EMPEROR WEARS NO CLOTHES has a chapter on Energy, Environment and Commerce posted.

Since hemp is a weed it's easy to grow and modern times have given us good harvest and processing equipment.

Hemp is a wind pollinated plant that can grow up to 4 crops a year. Hemp’s large root system aerates soil up to six feet deep, cleaning toxins.

Large amounts of hemp foods can be available on short notice in case the bees don't return, helping avoid starvation dramas.

Hemp is a natural resource material that we can use to boost the economy with small and large business opportunities, restore family farms, and provide many job opportunities.

Given the speed that the ice caps are melting, weather changing, food prices rising, etc., I don't think Mother Earth wants to wait for another election to get started. We need to get hemped now. Please share your ideas on how.

For more information on hemp's possibilities visit the USA Hemp Museum.

Jack Herer's book is posted as web pages, THE EMPEROR WEARS NO CLOTHES is posted.

A book that focuses on hemp and global warming, also posted as a review copy ebook is Richard M. Davis' HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION.

We must legalize a solution tool to global warming, hemp. As the great writer Peter McWilliams said DO IT! His book DO IT! is also posted.

FUNDRAISING FOR CALIFORNIA HEMP

MEDICAL MARIJUANA IN CALIFORNIA ON 60 MINUTES

PART 1



This is an all-out emergency appeal for $1 million dollars to get legalization of marijuana and hemp on the ballot in California. I am a hemp expert that can supply you with lots of reasons why this would be money well spent both for the economy and the environment. Jack Herer, hemp activist and author of HEMP & THE MARIJUANA CONSPIRACY: The Emperor Wears No Clothes, is circulating the California Cannabis Hemp & Health Initiative 2008 or CCHHI 2008.

I believe that this initiative presents a unique opportunity for the state to come to grips with the question of hemp and marijuana legalization and put the federal government on notice that this is the wave of the future. $1 million will save California AT MINIMUM 30 to 80 million dollars. The “Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal impact on state and local government: Savings in the several tens of millions of dollars annually to state and local governments, which would no longer incur the costs of incarcerating and supervising certain marijuana offenders” (As printed on the initiative). Hemp activist the late B.E. Smith in his run for CA Governor in 2004 estimated this savings to be $1 billion dollars.

I have just written a book HEMP FOR VICTORY: A Global Warming Solution. We are in an atmospheric emergency and this initiative could address global warming directly by allowing the growing of hemp – lots of hemp. CCHHI could give California a leg up on other states in developing hemp as a carbon resource. I look at the climate crisis as an opportunity to recycle the main greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) using hemp. All that oil, coal and natural gas we burn daily and have for decades went into the atmosphere. Plants breathe in CO2 and give off O2 (oxygen) which animals (including humans) breathe in. Plants use this CO2 to build structure and root and seed. The hemp plant is the best in the world at this recycling, producing 10-18 green tons to the acre of hemp fiber and hemp wood.

The world is waiting for the United States to join them in developing a solution to the climate emergency. CCHHI 2008 would send a message around the world that California has a workable solution to global warming. You will ask; how we do this with hemp?

Easy, hemp makes fuel. Anybody interested? Here is how that works. The farmer grows 100 acres of hemp wood that produces 500 dry tons and makes 100,000 gallons of methanol or ethanol which is burned in a car or power plant and ends up in the atmosphere. But if the farmer grows 100 acres of hemp wood the next year that 100,000 gallons worth of CO2 is recycled into hemp wood, and a cycle is set up with a fuel that does not contribute to global warming. Even synthetic gasoline can be made from hemp.

If those 500 tons of hemp are used for paper, building materials, plastics, etc., that carbon stays out of the atmosphere and global warming is reduced. Something that could happen this year or next.

Fossil fuels are a one way street to disaster. To really do all we can we need CCHHI now. We could plant next year. Get the seed from Canada, Europe, Russia, China or dozens of other countries where hemp is legal to grow.

Let’s get back to the $1 million dollars.

This is an emergency and an emergency that affects the entire planet and we can put California in the spotlight with hemp. Maybe some astute professional fundraiser, or a save the world concert, or a million one dollar contributions, but these things take time and the clock is ticking.

There is one alternative that given the importance of our argument must be tried. That is to have the legislature or the governor put the CCHHI on the ballot as is. The legislature needs a two thirds vote to place an initiative on the ballot, and the governor can do this without the legislature. And there is a good reason for doing this. The Attorney General has produced a summary for CCHHI as required by law, which totally misrepresents the hemp part of the initiative and makes no mention of the billions of dollars in revenue from a revved up economy based on hemp.

The people of California have already OK’d Cannabis for medicine which is an industrial use, by 57%. There is no more important task everyday than being vigilant about freedom. We need to put hemp back in the free market where it belongs. And farmers are more apt to accept hemp now that medical marijuana is legal in California. The people need to do this; we hold more power than our State Government and are less likely to be overturned by the Feds. Remember Prop. 215!

Sure you say, OK it’s on the ballot now how do we get the people to pass it. Easy, show them the money. And make the presidential contenders talk about the initiative when they come to California. In California the people hold all the power, and that power is best expressed through the initiative process. This is called direct democracy and it is powerful. Do you realize that after 10 years of legal medical marijuana in California the federal government has not challenged our law directly in the courts?

The CCHHI gets to the nitty-gritty of the matter, the Ninth and Tenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution are invoked in the initiative to assume to California citizens the right to challenge the federal hemp prohibition. These two amendments say the people can take away from the federal government anything not enumerated in the Federal Constitution. Nothing in the federal Constitution gives the federal government control over agriculture, and this could easily be won back to the people of California. Control over agriculture was only given to the feds through the taxing power - not as an enumerated or constitutional power.

I’m not a lawyer, but after 10 years, I’ve got to believe if they could have overturned our medical marijuana law, they would have. And after ten years can’t we now celebrate the demise of the prohibition which lasted 70 years before the people of California voted to crack it wide open. The feds are holding on to their lies and acting like thugs. They walk into Cannabis clubs steal the money and medicine and leave. They deprive the people of California of billions of dollars of economic power with hemp.

The people of California would call that terrorism. Section IV of CCHHI: “Pursuant to the Ninth and Tenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, the people of California hereby repudiate and challenge Federal cannabis hemp marijuana prohibitions that conflict with this Act.”

Hemp was called the new billion dollar crop in 1938. For $1million dollars we can bring that $1 trillion dollar crop to California. We need to grow as much as possible to trap carbon out of the atmosphere in hemp paper, hemp building materials, hemp textiles, hemp fuel, food, medicine, and legal recreational marijuana for adults.

It is time to ask everyone. I understand a few billionaires did this for medical marijuana. They paid professional signature collectors and they did the job. I was a part of the 1994 Hemp Initiative and we did not get the job done with volunteers. And it’s too important to leave to chance.

California needs that check soon. I have asked Presidential Candidate Ron Paul who understands the hemp emergency to spend his campaign funds here in California to the tune of $1 million dollars for CCHHI. No reply yet, but his ability to raise $6 million in a day puts him in the running.

Ron Paul & Hemp for American Farmers



The clock is ticking. Let’s get marijuana and hemp out of the war on drugs.

Richard M. Davis, Curator USA Hemp Museum www.hempmuseum.org

Jack Herer's California Cannabis Hemp & Health Initiative 2008

Initiative by Jack Herer

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California Cannabis Hemp & Health Initiative 2008

Please Sign & Circulate Ballot Access Petition Now until April for November 4 Ballot

California Hemp 2008 Tour: Santa Barbara to Laytonville, Feb.15 to April 20

Santa Barbara Area Petitioning Locations:

• Dementia Head Shop - 2003 State Street – SB - 805-682-7475
• Hemp Wise - 971 Embarcadero del Mar, Unit B – IV - 685-9383
• Marcel Hemp - 531 State Street – Downtown SB - 805-963-8387

Details, training on petitioning at: http://www.calhemp08.org/

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Article on Jack Herer's California Cannabis Hemp & Health Initiative 2008 by USA Hemp Museum Curator Richard M. Davis.

The USA Hemp Museum, Sister Somayah Kambui of Crescent Alliance Self Help For Sickle Cell and other hemp activists and citizens urge you to please support the California Cannabis Hemp & Health Initiative 2008.

There is a new marijuana initiative circulating in the state which would put on the ballot for voter's approval the California Cannabis Hemp & Health Initiative 2008. Right now I want to talk about the title and summary that is prepared by Attorney General Jerry Brown. This summary is what is read by those signing onto the initiative on the street:

INITIATIVE MEASURE TO BE SUBMITTED DIRECTLY TO THE VOTERS

The Attorney General of California has prepared the following title and summary of the chief purposes and points of the proposed measure:

MARIJUANA. REPEAL OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL PENALTIES. RELEASE FROM JAIL. STATUTE.

Decriminalizes possession, cultivation, transportation, distribution, and use of marijuana or hemp. Provides persons convicted or serving time for non-violent offenses involving marijuana be immediately released from prison, jail, parole, or probation, and be eligible to have their convictions erased. Provides no permit, license, or tax be required for non-commercial cultivation, transportation, distribution, or consumption of marijuana.


Allows doctors to prescribe or recommend marijuana to patients, regardless of age. Prohibits testing fro marijuana for employment or insurance purposes.


Bars state from aiding enforcement of certain federal marijuana laws.

Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal impact on state and local government:

Savings in the several tens of millions of dollars annually to state and local government, which would no longer incur the costs of incarcerating and supervising certain marijuana offenders.

A potential increase of a few million dollars annually in the cost of the state's Drug Medi-Cal substance abuse treatment program. (Initiative 07-0064.)

I went through this before in 1994 with the hemp initiative then. This summary totally misrepresents the initiative.

In 1994 we sued the AG to have the age limit put back in the summary.

The words of the summary are limited when something is added, something must be deleted, etc.

What is important to the AG went into the title and summary, not what is important to the people.

The people's title is CA CANNABIS HEMP & HEALTH INITIATIVE 2008. The AG's is MARIJUANA. REPEAL OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL PENALTIES. RELEASE FROM JAIL. STATUTE.

I recommend an immediate suit be filed against the AG for misrepresenting the chief purposes and points of the proposed initiative.

In 1994, Chris Conrad and myself filed suit in Sacramento, to change the wording. The summary was changed, but it cost the signature drive two weeks to reprint the new summary and initiative.

Still what was I learned in 1994 was that volunteers didn't collect enough signatures and paid collection pro's get the job done fast.

Just off the top of my stoned head I would like to propose a more friendly title and summary: CANNABIS HEMP AND MARIJUANA LEGALIZATION STATUTE OF 2008.

Decriminalizes use of marijuana and hemp. Ends marijuana prohibition. Legal Cannabis hemp products for paper, medicine, fuel, food, textiles, recreation, and thousands more uses have a potential of tens of billions of dollars for the California economy.

Legal hemp can help with Global Warming.

Releases non-violent marijuana offenders from incarceration and erases convictions.

Bars state from aiding enforcement of certain federal marijuana laws.

Prohibits testing for marijuana for employment or insurance purposes.

Allows reasonable state license and taxing standards.

Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal impact on state and local government:

Savings in the several tens of millions of dollars annually to state and local governments in incarceration and supervision costs.

Act is pursuant to the Ninth and Tenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

Use of Cannabis hemp products for religious or spiritual purposes is made an inalienable right.

"All provisions of this Act shall be liberally construed for the accomplishment of these purposes: to respect human rights, to promote tolerance, and to end cannabis hemp prohibition."

I don't doubt that a better summary could be drawn.

The CCHHI offers California a way to take the lead in hemp research in the U.S. There is a saying, "as California goes, so goes the nation."

We need the U.S. to grow hemp for global warming. This shows the country and the world that we can end the prohibition and free the plant resource.

This initiative does the job. No halfway measures here.

Legal Cannabis hemp for California. Can North Dakota or Hawaii be far behind?

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