Restoration and Regulation of Hemp

Biodiesel | Fashion | Fiber | Food | Hempcrete | Medicinal | Paper Prohibition | Recreational | Sustainability The Campaign for the Restoration and Regulation of Hemp (CRRH) goal is to educate people about the medicinal and industrial uses for cannabis in our global society in order to restore hemp cultivation and end adult cannabis prohibition. The Oregon Cannabis Tax Act, would set aside two percent of the profits from the sale of cannabis in cannabis-only stores for two state commissions that promote industrial hemp biodiesel, fiber, protein and oil. It will also legalize the sale, possession and personal private cultivation of marijuana. People who want to cultivate and sell marijuana, or process commercial psychoactive cannabis, would be required to obtain a license from the state. Adults could grow their own marijuana and the sale of all cannabis strains' seeds and starter plants would be legalized with no license, fee nor registration. The profits from the sale of cannabis to adults will add hundreds of millions into the state general fund as well as drug treatment and education. In order to be sucessful, we will need help from volunteers across Oregon. Please tell ten friends about OCTA 2010 and get involved! We are now circulating the petition across Oregon. We will need 83,000 valid signatures by July, 2, 2010 to qualify for the November ballot. The OCTA 2010 Petition is Available - Print it, Sign it & Return it! Print the Petition! | OCTA Text | OCTA Talking Points Petition Instructions: This petition is ONLY a single sheet petition. Following these instructions carefully will ensure that you meet the state of Oregon's requirements, so your signatures count. If you wish to circulate a ten signature sheet petition, please fill out our volunteer form. • Do not put anything on the petition, like a sticker or stamp of any kind or write any slogans on there, this will disqualify the entire sheet. • DO NOT cross anything off or write over anything on the petition. • Do not number the petition. • Along with your signature please print your name address and date. Please use a pen. • A person can only sign a petition once, and CANNOT sign for anyone else. For example, husbands cannot sign for their wives. • The date you sign at the bottom must be in MM/DD/YY format, no exceptions. • You MUST be a registered Oregon voter. Register Now. Sign your full name, as you did when you registered to vote. • You may print off sheets for your friends and family to sign, if they too are registered Oregon voters. • You may also forward the link to friends who wish to sign the petition.  Mail petitions to: Oregon Cannabis Tax Act Headquarters 5220 North East Sandy Blvd. Portland, Oregon 97213 The certified ballot title is as follows: Permits personal marijuana, hemp cultivation/use without license; commission to regulate commercial marijuana cultivation/sale Result of "Yes" Vote: "Yes" vote permits state-licensed marijuana (cannabis) cultivation/sale to adults through state stores; permits unlicensed adult personal cultivation/use; prohibits restrictions on hemp (defined). Result of a "No" Vote: "No" vote retains existing civil and criminal laws prohibiting cultivation, possession and delivery of marijuana; retains current statues that permit regulated use of medical marijuana. Summary: Currently, marijuana cultivation, possession and delivery are prohibited; regulated medical marijuana use permitted. Measure replaces state, local marijuana laws except medical marijuana and driving under the influence laws; distinguishes "hemp" from "marijuana"; prohibits regulation of hemp. Creates agency to license marijuana cultivation by qualified persons and to purchase entire crop. Agency sells marijuana at cost to pharmacies, medical research facilities, and to qualified adults for profit through state stores. Ninety percent of net proceeds goes to state general fund, remainder to drug education, treatment, hemp promotion. Bans sales to, possession by minors. Bans public consumption except where signs permit, minors barred. Agency to regulate use, set prices, other duties; Attorney General to defend against federal challenges/prosecution. Provides penalties. Effective January 1, 2011; other provisions. CRRH's Cannabis Tax Acts (CTA) would comprehensively reform marijuana laws by regulating and taxing adult sales; licensing the cultivation of the drug for sale in adult-only businesses; allowing adults to grow their own and farmers to grow industrial hemp without license; and letting doctors prescribe untaxed cannabis to patients suffering from a variety of illnesses and injuries. OCTA was carefully crafted over a period of years, with the input of dozens of people. The first third of the text, or Preamble, is a finding by the people, giving the reasons we are breaking from federal drug scheduling. When it is passed, this groundbreaking legislation will: Protect children! This is the real Protect Our Children initiative. The Cannabis Tax Act (CTA) will take the lucrative marijuana market out of the blackmarket where children and substance abusers often control it today, and place it in stores, where the age limit of 21 and older is strictly enforced. Help farmers! We will license farmers to cultivate cannabis for both medicinal and adult private use. Farmers will be able to grow industrial hemp without a license, for paper, fabric, protein and oil. Allow doctors to prescribe untaxed cannabis through pharmacies, so patients won't have to grow their own or buy medicine illegally. Raise millions of dollars in new public revenue, lowering the tax burden on all and saving you money. Take the profit out of crime. Restore industrial hemp, the most productive agricultural source of fiber protein and oil. Hemp seed oil is diesel fuel. The first cordage, cloth and paper were invented from hemp fiber. Wipe out the black-market. The CTA allows police and the courts to concentrate on real criminals that hurt others, not arrest, prosecute and jail harmless, productive adult cannabis users. Stop our government from tearing families apart. Let's show real family values and end cannabis prohibition. Restore Newsletter - Spring 2010 (PDF) Restore Newsletter - Spring 2010 (Flip Book) The Restore Newsletter is an information service designed to end marijuana prohibition and promote industrial hemp. If you'd like to be involved in the Campaign for the Restoration and Regulation of Hemp, or just want to keep informed of important new developments, you are invited to subscribe to the CRRH Restore Newsletter.

June 24, 2010 The internet's longest running compilation of international news stories about hemp and cannabis. Donate CRRH Hemp News, a compilation of international news stories about hemp and cannabis, is a public service ofCampaign for the Restoration and Regulation of Hemp (CRRH) and The Hemp & Cannabis Foundation (THCF). This is intended for political and educational use on the subject of cannabis and the wide-ranging effects of drug prohibition. Our goal is to educate people about the medicinal and industrial uses for cannabis in our global society in order to restore hemp cultivation and end adult cannabis prohibition. Activism | Alternative Energy | Blog | Community | Industrial | Medicinal | NORML | Nutritional | Political |Recreational Why should farmers grow hemp? Because hemp is the ultimate cash crop, producing more fiber, food and oil than any other plant on the planet. According to the Notre Dame University publication, The Midlands Naturalist, from a 1975 article called, "Feral Hemp in Southern Illinois," about the wild hemp fields that annual efforts from law enforcement eradication teams cannot wipe out, an acre of hemp produces: 1. 8,000 pounds of hemp seed per acre. When cold-pressed, the 8,000 pounds of hemp seed yield over 300 gallons of hemp seed oil and a byproduct of 6,000 pounds of high protein hemp flour. These seed oils are both a food and a biodiesel fuel. Currently, the most productive seed oil crops are soybeans, sunflower seeds and rape seed or canola. Each of these three seed oil crops produce between 100 to 120 gallons of oil per acre. Hemp seed produces three times more oil per acre than the next most productive seed oil crops, or over 300 gallons per acre, with a byproduct of 3 tons of food per acre. Hemp seed oil is also far more nutritious and beneficial for our health than any other seed oil crop. In addition to the food and oil produced, there are several other byproducts and benefits to the cultivation of hemp. 2. Six to ten tons per acre of hemp bast fiber. Bast fiber makes canvas, rope, lace, linen, and ultra-thin specialty papers like cigarette and bible papers. 3. Twenty-five tons of hemp hurd fiber. Hemp hurd fiber makes all grades of paper, composite building materials, animal bedding and a material for the absorption of liquids and oils. 4. The deep tap root draws up sub-soil nutrients and then, when the leaves fall from the plant to the ground, they return these nutrients to the top soil for the next crop rotation. 5. The residual flowers, after the seeds are extracted, produce valuable medicines. Our farmers need this valuable crop to be returned as an option for commercial agriculture. While marijuana is prohibited, industrial hemp will be economically prohibitive due to the artificial regulatory burdens imposed by the prohibition of marijuana. When marijuana and cannabis are legally regulated, industrial hemp will return to its rightful place in our agricultural economy. Hemp may be the plant that started humans down the road toward civilization with the invention of agriculture itself. All archaeologists agree that cannabis was among the first crops purposely cultivated by human beings at least over 6,000 years ago, and perhaps more than 12,000 years ago. Restoring industrial hemp to its rightful place in agriculture today will return much control to our farmers, and away from the multinational corporations that dominate our political process and destroy our environment. These capital-intensive, non-sustainable, and environmentally destructive industries have usurped our economic resources and clear-cut huge tracts of the world's forests, given us massive oil spills, wars, toxic waste, massive worldwide pollution, global warming and the destruction of entire ecosystems. Prohibiting the cultivation of this ancient plant, the most productive source of fiber oil and protein on our planet, is evil. In its place we have industries that give us processes and products that have led to unprecedented ecological crisis and worldwide destruction of the biological heritage that we should bequeath to our children, grandchildren and future generations. Restore hemp! Hemp and Cannabis Videos CNN - Allen St. Pierre and Kevin Sabet Debate Feral Hemp Patch with Dr. Dave West Lotus Eco Elise Cr Made with Hemp Hemp Lotus Elise from Fifth Gear C5 Hemp Farmers Industrial Hemp: What it Can Do for America Jack Herer - Hemp for Victory Discovered Marijuana: It's Time for a Conversation The Market For Hemp Products NORML Founder Keith Stroup-2008 Hemp: The Environmentally Sustainable Alternative Hemp Oil Canada: Processing Hemp Pine Ridge Hemp Project The Color Green Nutritional Profile of Hemp Seed Oil New Study: Marijuana Stops the Spread of Cancer The California Chronicles Of Medical Marijuana Hempseed Biodiesel Car at Ohio County Fair The History of Marijuana - Magic Weed The History of Marijuana - Grass The History of Marijuana - Grass 2 Willie Nelson: Hemp and the Family Farm Hemp Hemp Hooray! D. Paul Stanford - Hempstalk 2007 NOW Willie Nelson on Biodiesel | PBS Biodiesel from Hemp - General Biodiesel Info Hemp 4 Victory - 1943 Reefer Madness Manitoba Harvest on National News Medical Marijuana in Texas Mikuriya MD, Bayer MD and Glick RN Discuss Cannabis Portland, Oregon Discusses Legalization Santana: Mr President, Please Legalize US Should Get Into the Hemp Business Willie Nelson On Legalization Winter Harvest of Hemp Montel Williams Uses Marijuana Drew Carrey - Reason.TV Manitoba Harvest Hemp Foods & Oils - Harvest Video Medical Marijuana in Texas Hemp Building Materials Hemp: The New Soy Hemp Powered Car debuts in Washington, DC Hot Hemp Foods on Today Show Hemp: A solution for our world Hemp Foods on The Roseanne Show Hanfernstemaschine Bllcher US should get into the hemp business The Hemp Movement meets Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap The Hemp Movement with Living Harvest Hemp Break / KY Hemp Museum The Hemp Movement and Dash Hemp The Hemp Movement and French Meadow Bakery Cannabis hemp dot info episode #1 Harvest of hemp as a biogas substrate North Dakota's agriculture commissioner backs hemp

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