California Going Broke - Give Me A Break!!!

It was announced that California is in a budget crisis and going broke. The report is that the state will be out of funds by the spring.

The great and wonderful Tommy Chong said in a/k/a Tommy Chong: A Film By Josh Gilbert 'if the people elect Arnold, then we are truly a nation of retards.' Based on results, as usual Chong was right, unless another stolen election was in the mix.

The Terminator has almost terminated the state's budget while denying hemp, the will of the people as voiced in Prop 215, even though he inhaled.

It is continued insanity to pretend not to know we can solve our economic crisis with hemp.

California will run out of money by the spring UNLESS they immediately remove all restrictions from the hemp plant and generate a tax revenue from the state's #1 cash crop immediately.

Tax industrial and medical grades at standard business rates and recreational hemp at 20%. If any state gets up to 20% on all recreational hemp sold, there would be no budget crisis.

How? Legalization and large scale hemp growing would bring the price down to about $100 an ounce...plus a $20 tax. There are millions of high grade hemp consumers who would gladly pay the tax to remove the drama.

In this year's election hemp won in 9 out of 10 states where it was on the ballot. The will of the government got us into this mess. The Will of the People, hemp, can get us out.

For more information on hemp please visit the USA Hemp Museum, a private museum with a virtual wing.

Fuel prices and the Budget

LETTER SUBMITTED TO THE LOS ANGELES TIMES
MARCH 21, 2008

Letter to the Editor:

RE: Fuel prices and the Budget

Has anyone out there figured out how much fuel, and therefore money, could be saved by a 60 mile per hour speed limit for cars and 55 mile per hour for trucks--enforced? This is like biting the bullet people. We are at war, inflation is upon us. Better mileage cars are on the horizon, but we can act now. Hire 1,000 more Highway Patrol Officers, use camera technology and education to enforce the new law. Make cars more fuel efficient and not faster. Accidents will go down, again less drain on the economy. This is an equal opportunity law, everyone must slow down on the highway.

This next part is for Governor Schartzenegger. Put the people’s initiative law on the ballot so the people of California have a chance to vote on the idea of legalizing hemp and marijuana in California . Here is what we get: Tens of millions of dollars saved in incarceration costs says the Legislative Analyst and the Attorney General in the initiative summary. What these Analysts didn’t tell the people is that the hemp crop is worth billions of dollars to California ’s economy. Hemp makes fuel alcohol we can run in cars and power plants, hemp fiber can replace much cotton and save enough water to expand hemp growing and food production. That’s billions and it might be much more when we factor in the research and development money that will flow to the first state to legalize the entire Cannabis plant.

This part is for the California Legislature. You have passed hemp bill twice, just as happened with medical marijuana, a reluctant governor stands in the way of an entirely new and exciting resource. You can also put the people’s initiative on the ballot for the people to vote into law, and just as the medical marijuana law has been federal government proof (unchallenged in 12 years), the hemp law can go into effect immediately. Give the people the opportunity to bypass a reluctant governor. Let me remind you, our representatives, that we possess the strongest inalienable rights in the world. Our inalienable rights to life, liberty, property, privacy, happiness and safety should override all your fears about what is the right thing to do.


Richard M. Davis, Curator
USA Hemp Museum