This is the third of a series of posts on presidential candidates and their positions on hemp found on webeo (web video).
Here's a few pieces we found on Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich concerning hemp, i.e. medical marijuana.
Congressman Kucinich is a long time hemp advocate who has written extensively on the subject.
We recommend that Congressman Kucinich and others visit the USA Hemp Museum, and work together with the Museum's curator Richard M. Davis to implement hemp as the real change required to save our nation and the world. They can talk about how hemp is listed in the PDR Herbal edition as a herb that shrinks tumors and stops asthma attacks.
This information should be in the speaking of all pro hemp candidates on a daily basis. Richard's written one of those "Read this like your life depends on it, it does!" books called HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION which explains how to use hemp to solve the problem of global warming.
Here's a few of the webeos we found concerning Dennis Kucinich and hemp.
Rep. Dennis Kucinich will protect medical marijuana patients
Dennis Kucinich - medical marijuana -10 questions
Dennis Kucinich Talks about Drug Policy
Monday, January 7, 2008
Saturday, January 5, 2008
Presidential Candidate Ron Paul On Hemp
This is the second of a series of posts on presidential candidates and their positions on hemp found on webeo (web video).
Here's a few pieces we found on Congressman Dr. Ron Paul concerning hemp. Dr. Paul was the sponsor of the Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2007.
Dr. Paul should visit the USA Hemp Museum, and learn from the Museum's curator Richard M. Davis how hemp is the real change required to save our nation and the world. They can talk about how hemp is listed in the PDR Herbal edition as a herb that shrinks tumors and stops asthma attacks. This information should be in the speaking of all pro hemp candidates on a daily basis.
Richard's written one of those "Read this like your life depends on it, it does!" books called HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION which explains how to use hemp to solve the problem of global warming.
Here's a few of the webeos concerning Ron Paul and hemp.
Ron Paul interviewed on NORML (part 1 of 2)
Ron Paul interviewed on NORML (part 2 of 2)
Ron Paul on Medical Marijuana and Drug War
Ron Paul Blasts the War on Drugs
Ron Paul & Hemp for American Farmers
Ron Paul Talks About Hemp At Independence Mall In Philly
Hemp, the most powerful solution to our enviornmental, economic, medical and social problems we have. It's insane that hemp's illegal.
Here's a few pieces we found on Congressman Dr. Ron Paul concerning hemp. Dr. Paul was the sponsor of the Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2007.
Dr. Paul should visit the USA Hemp Museum, and learn from the Museum's curator Richard M. Davis how hemp is the real change required to save our nation and the world. They can talk about how hemp is listed in the PDR Herbal edition as a herb that shrinks tumors and stops asthma attacks. This information should be in the speaking of all pro hemp candidates on a daily basis.
Richard's written one of those "Read this like your life depends on it, it does!" books called HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION which explains how to use hemp to solve the problem of global warming.
Here's a few of the webeos concerning Ron Paul and hemp.
Ron Paul interviewed on NORML (part 1 of 2)
Ron Paul interviewed on NORML (part 2 of 2)
Ron Paul on Medical Marijuana and Drug War
Ron Paul Blasts the War on Drugs
Ron Paul & Hemp for American Farmers
Ron Paul Talks About Hemp At Independence Mall In Philly
Hemp, the most powerful solution to our enviornmental, economic, medical and social problems we have. It's insane that hemp's illegal.
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
How Can Hemp Save The Gulf of Mexico?
It's been reported that the corn boom could expand the ‘dead zone’ deeper into the Gulf.
According to the Associated Press on MSNBC-TV:
"The dead zone typically begins in the spring and persists into the summer. Its size and location vary each year because of currents, weather and other factors, but it is generally near the mouth of the Mississippi.
This year, it is the third-biggest on record. It was larger in 2002 and 2001, when it covered 8,500 and 8,006 square miles respectively.
Soil erosion, sewage and industrial pollution also contribute to the dead zone, but fertilizer is believed to be the chief factor.
Fertilizer causes explosive growth of algae, which then dies and sinks to the bottom, where it sucks up oxygen as it decays. This creates a deep layer of oxygen-depleted ocean where creatures either escape or die."
The United States federal government is now, 50 years into the global warming drama, recommending we use a food source, corn, to make bio fuel for energy. The result, the Gulf has a record size dead zone, a place where nothing can live. Food prices are rocketing because we are using our main food source for energy. The green back is a pale shade of yellow in light of $100 a gallon toxic energy price.
That's just stupid.
Because toxic chemicals are not required for hemp's growth or processing, no toxic chemicals from corn growth, the cause of the dead zone, are released into the Gulf.
Hemp is a sturdy, wind pollinated weed that grows wild in nature. Despite the illusion of industrial, medical and leisure hemp use, simply, hemp is one plant in various grades. Hemp is relatively easy to grow, can grow up to 4 crops a year, and is four times more energy efficient than corn as bio fuel.
Hemp oil burns clean and can do anything toxic gasoline does (except kill us - zero deaths from hemp - ever). Hemp oil can also be used in plastics. If you have not yet checked out Zelfo, see what hemp plastics can do for you.
Hemp pellets burn clean in power plants. In California there are over 30 such energy plants ready to burn hemp bio fuel. Unlike nuclear, there is no danger of a hemp meltdown.
Hemp is the Lord's solar collector that transforms solar rays into 50,000+ useful products including strong building materials, paper, fabric, oil, food, etc. Hemp converts sunlight into clean energy to run our cars and heat/cool our homes, etc.
Hemp, solar, hydro, wind, magnetic and other 100% clean energy sources that don't pollute the land, water or air are the only energies that should be legal. That which is toxic should be immediately outlawed for energy use. Our lives depend on this radical, though simple change.
Hemp would help restore the family farm, especially if we deeded family farmers a portion of unused federal land for the purposes of growing hemp. The federal government could make available at least 10% of federal land (approximately 65 million acres) for the purposes of growing hemp. The ancillary resource material can empower a lot of small businesses and job opportunities, "Hemportunities," like the transformations from "drug dealer" to tax paying "Hemp Merchant."
P L E A S E!!! Do what you can to shift energy policy away from toxic practices and onto safe, clean energy sources, including with hemp.
Any energy policy that includes toxic energy should be vetoed at the citizens level.
For more information on how to use hemp to help solve the problem of Global Warming I urge you to read HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION by Richard M. Davis, Founder and Curator of the USA Hemp Museum, a private museum with a virtual wing. Read that book like your life depends on it. It does!
According to the Associated Press on MSNBC-TV:
"The dead zone typically begins in the spring and persists into the summer. Its size and location vary each year because of currents, weather and other factors, but it is generally near the mouth of the Mississippi.
This year, it is the third-biggest on record. It was larger in 2002 and 2001, when it covered 8,500 and 8,006 square miles respectively.
Soil erosion, sewage and industrial pollution also contribute to the dead zone, but fertilizer is believed to be the chief factor.
Fertilizer causes explosive growth of algae, which then dies and sinks to the bottom, where it sucks up oxygen as it decays. This creates a deep layer of oxygen-depleted ocean where creatures either escape or die."
Hemp bio fuel can help restore life to the Gulf of Mexico's dead zone.
How? Hemp, an effective, clean energy source does not need pesticides to grow. The removal of pesticides used in growing corn by growing hemp instead would remove the cause of the over 8,000 square miles of "dead zone" recorded in the Gulf.
We are killing the Gulf with our policy that's investing in corn energy, rather than safe, effective, clean low cost hemp bio fuel. The situation is too stupid for words.
The United States federal government is now, 50 years into the global warming drama, recommending we use a food source, corn, to make bio fuel for energy. The result, the Gulf has a record size dead zone, a place where nothing can live. Food prices are rocketing because we are using our main food source for energy. The green back is a pale shade of yellow in light of $100 a gallon toxic energy price.
That's just stupid.
Let's go back to Hemp 101 and Save Ourselves
Written by Willie & Amy Nelson
Because toxic chemicals are not required for hemp's growth or processing, no toxic chemicals from corn growth, the cause of the dead zone, are released into the Gulf.
Hemp is a sturdy, wind pollinated weed that grows wild in nature. Despite the illusion of industrial, medical and leisure hemp use, simply, hemp is one plant in various grades. Hemp is relatively easy to grow, can grow up to 4 crops a year, and is four times more energy efficient than corn as bio fuel.
Hemp oil burns clean and can do anything toxic gasoline does (except kill us - zero deaths from hemp - ever). Hemp oil can also be used in plastics. If you have not yet checked out Zelfo, see what hemp plastics can do for you.
Hemp pellets burn clean in power plants. In California there are over 30 such energy plants ready to burn hemp bio fuel. Unlike nuclear, there is no danger of a hemp meltdown.
Hemp is the Lord's solar collector that transforms solar rays into 50,000+ useful products including strong building materials, paper, fabric, oil, food, etc. Hemp converts sunlight into clean energy to run our cars and heat/cool our homes, etc.
Hemp, solar, hydro, wind, magnetic and other 100% clean energy sources that don't pollute the land, water or air are the only energies that should be legal. That which is toxic should be immediately outlawed for energy use. Our lives depend on this radical, though simple change.
Hemp would help restore the family farm, especially if we deeded family farmers a portion of unused federal land for the purposes of growing hemp. The federal government could make available at least 10% of federal land (approximately 65 million acres) for the purposes of growing hemp. The ancillary resource material can empower a lot of small businesses and job opportunities, "Hemportunities," like the transformations from "drug dealer" to tax paying "Hemp Merchant."
P L E A S E!!! Do what you can to shift energy policy away from toxic practices and onto safe, clean energy sources, including with hemp.
Any energy policy that includes toxic energy should be vetoed at the citizens level.
For more information on how to use hemp to help solve the problem of Global Warming I urge you to read HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION by Richard M. Davis, Founder and Curator of the USA Hemp Museum, a private museum with a virtual wing. Read that book like your life depends on it. It does!
Monday, December 31, 2007
George Carlin - Who Really Controls America
George Carlin - Who Really Controls America
George Carlin tells the absolute truth in this ground breaking video about who really controls America. No wonder hemp is illegal. Greed.
The question is what to do about it.
Consider that it's time for a Hemp Tea Party in The Great 8, 2008 at 4:20 daily. For those who already participate in a 4:20, only a spirit of praise for hemp need be amplified.
If your day job gets in the way, set your own :20 time with the understanding that it's 4:20 somewhere in the world.
Hemp teas, foods, parties, writings, etc. also qualify as material for your 4:20.
Don't forget to wear your hemp clothes, body care and materials (i.e. hemp plastics) to carry the spirit throughout the day. It's truly time to overgrow our corrupt government with hemp, to restore balance to the soil of our society.
Like the original Boston Tea Party that set the course for the freedom of a nation, a Hemp Tea Party re-establishes the freedom of We The People, the American population. Freedom for all folks of good will all over the world can happen too with hemp as the foundation for solving problems of housing, food, transportation (hemp is four times more efficient than corn as biofuel) and medicine issues.
The government has no right to tell us how to interact with a plant. NONE. That subject is between The Lord and man.
In the majority of the states where hemp has been on the ballot hemp's been voted legal. It's as though the Will of the Government is more powerful than the Will of the People. That's backwards.
Let's fix this. Start with legalizing hemp.
One of the ways that the folks in control have kept hemp illegal is through a divide and conquer strategy (industrial, medical, leisure).
Get through one hemp bill in the Great 8 that removes government restriction off the hemp plant. Medical and leisure are industries too so all folks supporting hemp need to unite in the passage of one hemp bill in 2008.
We the People, in an effort to save ourselves, must take our power back. Hemp can help, but only if we use it.
Let's use hemp to save ourselves!
Happy New Year. Have a Great 8 and visit the USA Hemp Museum for more information on hemp and the re-building of the successful World War II program HEMP FOR VICTORY to solve our problems.
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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?
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
One Hemp Bill In The Great 8
If you know Dennis Kucinich, Ron Paul, Chris Dodd, Barack Obama, Maurice Hinchey and any other pro hemp person in congress, consider asking them to please present one Hemp Act in 2008. This would have a better chance of passing than our past strategy of industrial, medical, etc.
Why? Because in 2007 we had the Industrial Hemp Farming Act and the Hinchey Medical Marijuana Amendment. One was lost in committee since 4/20/07 and the other was voted down. Another year wasted when we could be growing crops to support humanity and the environment.
It is time to stop acting like fools and legalize hemp now. Living by the rules of dead people are producing like results. The time to stop killing ourselves is now.
An illusion hemp advocates have been working under is that industrial hemp, medical hemp and hemp as a recreational drug are different things.
In truth, they are different grades of the same plant, hemp.
So is leisure an industry, as demonstrated by the town of Las Vegas.
This "separate the hemp plant" strategy creates 3 times as much scattered work to get the courts out of the fields. Divide and conquer.
The solution is to unify and propose one hemp bill in the Great 8. One hemp bill, or a nature re-legalization bill, would remove all unreasonable restrictions of human interaction with plants. It would also eliminate the expensive, duplicate work that has to be done to get a bill passed.
In unity is strength.
What do you think?
Why? Because in 2007 we had the Industrial Hemp Farming Act and the Hinchey Medical Marijuana Amendment. One was lost in committee since 4/20/07 and the other was voted down. Another year wasted when we could be growing crops to support humanity and the environment.
It is time to stop acting like fools and legalize hemp now. Living by the rules of dead people are producing like results. The time to stop killing ourselves is now.
An illusion hemp advocates have been working under is that industrial hemp, medical hemp and hemp as a recreational drug are different things.
In truth, they are different grades of the same plant, hemp.
- We've made part of nature, hemp, illegal and wonder why we have a problem with the environment.
- We've made the hemp peace pipe illegal and wonder why we have a problem violence and war.
- We've made an easily renewable plant resource material illegal to grow and wonder why we have a problem with our economy.
- We've made inexpensive, effective hemp medicine illegal and wonder why we have a health care crisis.
So is leisure an industry, as demonstrated by the town of Las Vegas.
This "separate the hemp plant" strategy creates 3 times as much scattered work to get the courts out of the fields. Divide and conquer.
The solution is to unify and propose one hemp bill in the Great 8. One hemp bill, or a nature re-legalization bill, would remove all unreasonable restrictions of human interaction with plants. It would also eliminate the expensive, duplicate work that has to be done to get a bill passed.
In unity is strength.
What do you think?
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Hemp Fashions
While researching Industrial Hemp updates here at the USA Hemp Museum, Richard M. Davis, founder, curator, author, we noticed the wonderful collection of hemp clothing on line. We found some beautiful pieces.
The dress in the Industrial Hemp Farming Act video (webeo) is available at The Back Porch Boutique .
Hemp fashions are made from 100% organic non-toxic, strong, beautiful fibers that can make dynamic, yet comfortable clothing in a wide range of grades. Unlike 20th Century style clothing that uses toxic chemicals in production and finishing, hemp's natural fibers lets a body breathe.
I'm considering emptying out my 20th Century closet and replacing everything with a new, modern, comfortable, non-toxic, eco-friendly hemp wardrobe. If you are a 21st Century fashion trend setter, then you too should consider stylish, non-toxic, comfortable, environmentally friendly hemp clothes.
Hemp fashions, or as one company is called Hemp Couture, are made from industrial hemp (hemp plants not worth smoking) which is legal in the United States.
Here's some links, in no special order, of some great hemp fashions and textile companies we found.
Enjoy the journey!!! We'll be posting more links and interviews here and on the USA Hemp Museum's site. While there, check out the page on Richard's book HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION and find out what you would do if you knew the solution to global warming is illegal.
Hemp For Victory, with style.
The Back Porch Boutique
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