September 22, 2008
Enough is enough. This truly is an emergency and we must move ahead with doing the possible to effect climate change. This plan has been brewing for sometime and was put together in the book I sent you on using hemp for an agricultural solution to global warming- HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION.
Twice now hemp farming bills have come to your desk and twice you vetoed them. I believe that there are not many people in California that know what hemp farming would mean to California. Finally the legislature gets it. The USA Hemp Museum spent 25 eight hour days on the steps of the State Capitol in the early 1990’s promoting hemp.
This is my plan. There was circulating this year an initiative petition that would legalize both hemp and marijuana in California. Enclosed is a copy of that initiative.
The Attorney General’s summary on this petition says that tens of millions of dollars could be saved on incarceration and supervision costs alone. What the AG did not do was give the people the facts about the billions of dollars in new farm hemp production in California. This could have been a fatal mistake on his part, but the AG should take heart.
The California Cannabis Hemp and Health Initiative needs to live on and both the Governor and the Legislature have it in their power to put what is literally a survival issue on the ballot. Make no mistake about it; in California the people have all the power. This is a momentous decision but is the right one, to let the people have the facts and decide. And there are reasons why we should decide and not the government.
I believe that the way to get the job done is to let the people do it. As was said before, in California the words of the Constitution are plain: “All political power is inherent in the people.”
To prove my point look at the Compassionate Use Act of 1996, passed by the people as Proposition 215. Twelve years after the people gave themselves the right to grow and use marijuana as medicine; the federal has not taken the people to court to overturn those rights.
How can that be? Here is what happened. What the people of California did was legal in every sense of the word. We followed the law. The people have the power to make law - to give ourselves rights and powers. What is true is that the Federal Constitution is the Supreme Law of the land and limits the Federal Government. Those rights to medical marijuana are not enumerated in the federal constitution and therefore through the Ninth and Tenth Amendments of the Federal Constitution those rights are up for grabs. For twelve years medical marijuana has been bringing relief to tens of thousands of California citizens despite the thug tactics of the federal drug lords. Twelve years. Isn’t this a done deal? Didn’t we win?
What this means is that we hold the power to legalize the growing of both hemp and marijuana. The California Cannabis Hemp and Health Initiative has worded a Ninth and Tenth Amendment challenge based on the above arguments. One U.S. Supreme Court has already ruled agriculture is a state right (U.S. v. Butler, 1936). Medical marijuana is both an agricultural crop and a state right already, why not hemp.
The marijuana laws are in disarray. I have been to court twice challenging marijuana laws and ran for congress as a marijuana grower. I am Curator of the USA Hemp Museum and a court stipulated expert on hemp and marijuana. Seventy years have gone by since an illegal prohibition started in 1937. Too many growing seasons lost. Enough is enough. Let’s get back to hemp. With marijuana legal there will be no need for restraints on breeding varieties for various agricultural needs such as food, fuel, paper, wood, medicine, plastics, weed suppression, burn recovery, etc. Research money will flow to California with such a commitment from the people. Hemp can save water, to plant more hemp. Hemp is a renewable and sustainable crop that must be given a priority. Both the Governor and the Legislature can recognize and act on this priority. This initiative is well thought out by those who care about hemp and its future. We cannot let that future be slowed or plowed under by some marijuana scare. There is not one reported death from marijuana consumption in 5000 years of recorded use. We must stop the lies, but understand my fellow citizens that I have inalienable rights to “enjoying and defending life and liberty; acquiring, possessing, and protecting property; and pursuing and obtaining privacy, safety, and happiness” as do you. You cannot give up these rights.
Another reason the people’s hemp and marijuana initiative should be put on the ballot is that the Legislature owes the people for passing an obviously unconstitutional medical marijuana system, S.B. 420. The words of the CA Constitution are mandatory and prohibitory. The words have to be followed; the States medical marijuana system had to be approved by the voters and was not. It is no law. The Appeals Court of California told me that S.B. 420 did not apply to me as did the Attorney General. The fact that it is being represented as law is an injustice that will be corrected by the people’s initiative.
You owe us this chance to bring new commerce and savings to California. If we can do medical marijuana, we can do hemp and recreational marijuana use. Recreational use will bring tourism, look at Amsterdam. Hemp can start to do its wonders with total freedom. Every hemp plant grown is a non-fossil fuel carbon source superior to fossil oil, coal, and natural gas. Hemp for paper, building materials, plastics can reverse global warming. Carbon offsets and credits can go to the farmer. The world needs hemp. For hemp we don’t have to start from scratch, as some 30 countries are using hemp and developing techniques and equipment for planting, harvesting and processing for the 50,000 viable uses of hemp.
Thirty-three biomass plants now operate in California that could immediately use any excess hemp production. Any farm subsidies controlled by California should be applied to further this plan to develop a hemp economy.
Thank you,
Richard M. Davis, Curator
USA Hemp Museum www.hempmuseum.org
E-mail: rmdavisx@yahoo.com
Cc: Mark Leno
PRINTED ON HEMP PAPER
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Thursday, January 24, 2008
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
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
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
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
and if you are somewhere other than California, support hemp legalization on all levels.
In the United States:
Saturday, December 29, 2007
Hemp Initiative 2008 - by Richard M. Davis
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
INITIATIVE MEASURE TO BE SUBMITTED DIRECTLY TO THE VOTERS
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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