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.

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

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

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

Eulogy for Sister Somayah Kambui by Dr. Jeri Rose

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Peter Gorman on Sister Somayah

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

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

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

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

Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 5:13 AM

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sister Somayah Kambui Funeral Arrangements

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

Sunrise: 5 April 1950 Sunset: 28 November 2008

She Met Marcus Garvey in the Whirlwind

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

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

Pioneer
ALWAYS In the Eye of the Struggle

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

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

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

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

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

Sister Somayah Kambui Articles

Photo By Peter Gorman For High Times Magazine

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TELL OBAMA, LET MY HEMP PLANT GO!!!

Our Sister Somayah Kambui Is Gone?

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

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

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



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

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

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

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

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

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

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




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




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

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

Now a few words soul to soul.



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Shifting From The Industrial To The Information Age With Hemp

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Calling All LA Hemp Angels For Sister Somayah Kambui

Sister Somayah's HEY MR. DA

Keep Sister Somayah close to the light.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jack Herer's California Cannabis Hemp & Health Initiative 2008

Initiative by Jack Herer

Information provided by David Crockett Williams

MySpace Volunteer Site: http://myspace.com/hemp2008

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/

Jack Herer: Initiative Training part 1

Jack Herer: Initiative Training part 2

Jack Herer: Initiative Training part 3

Jack Herer: Initiative Training part 4

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?

In addition to supporting the Initiative, let your thoughts on hemp legalization, medical, industrial and leisure

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