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With less than two weeks left for Gov. Schwarzenegger to decide whether or not to sign the California Industrial Hemp Farming Act (AB 1147), we're up against the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the tough lobbyist who represents California's most influential law enforcement organizations and claims, "no bills we have opposed have ever been enacted."

Please help and donate now! Our last alert went out to more than 9,000 hemp supporters, but generated only a handful of donations. If you are one of the few who donated money to bring hemp farming back to California, we thank you. If you haven't already helped, please give what you can today.

We're too close to victory to let a DEA misinformation campaign undermine the work we have all done to educate the governor. If you haven't already let the governor know what you think ...

Please take action now! So far, the governor has received a few thousand letters from hemp supporters. That's significant, but it is no match for the 7,000-member CA Narcotics Officers Association (CNOA) and the tens of thousands of allies they have in the seven other police groups opposing the bill.

Read on to learn more about the opposition that AB 1147 faces and what it's going to take to convince Governor Schwarzenegger to sign this bill into law.

With your help, we can do it!

Sincerely,

Eric Steenstra
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Narcotics Officers Attack CA Hemp Bill

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The Truth about Hemp and Marijuana


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The California Narcotics Officers Association (CNOA) is one of the largest providers of law enforcement training in the state, delivering over 100,000 hours of instruction to more than 6,000 students annually. This should worry all of us. They know nothing about industrial hemp!

CNOA lobbyist John Lovell wants to train the governor to think industrial hemp farming would confuse law enforcement, that industrial hemp could be used strategically in marijuana growing operations, and that hemp products, like candy cigarettes as the gateway to nicotine addiction, glorify marijuana use.

In response to Lovell's claim that legalizing hemp would be the foot in the door for legalizing marijuana, bill author Assemblyman Mark Leno says, "Yeah, and you let poppy seeds on your bagel and the next thing you know, we'll have legalized opium."

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The Truth about Hemp and Marijuana

Industrial hemp, a field crop growing tall like bamboo and planted in tight rows to crowd out weeds, is easily distinguished from marijuana plants that, as any narcotics officer should know, are spaced apart to grow bushy and wide.

Marijuana growers destroy male plants and cultivate female plants for their flowers. Male hemp plants would pollinate female marijuana plants, turning their valuable "buds" to seed. That's why CNOA's claim that hemp could be used to hide marijuana is so absurd. A well-trained narcotics officer would know better than to go hunting for marketable marijuana in a hemp field.

CNOA lobbyist John Lovell likes to point to "marijuana flavored" Chronic Candy as evidence that the main goal of the hemp industry is to promote marijuana use. Of course, he fails to mention that Chronic Candy, made with cannabis flower essential oil, could not be legally produced under AB 1147 which maintains the prohibition on cannabis leaves, flowers and resin.

Law enforcement officers in more than 30 countries that allow industrial hemp farming while prohibiting marijuana cultivation have had no trouble distinguishing between the two different plants. But the bill authors decided to take the CNOA at their word when they said that they don't know the difference. So, under AB 1147, any law enforcement officer who discovers something that they think is marijuana can make the arrest: leaves, flowers and resin will continue to be prohibited regardless of THC content. Furthermore, farmers will be required to provide field GPS coordinates and make tests ensuring a low-THC crop available to law enforcement and buyers.

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I'm so damn broke. I am so damn mad not being able to help the cause (especially this cause) but I hope he approves of it.

Yeah, for some reason I don't think he will... but I hate to give negative feedback. If I were you I would simply go to the sight and vote, no money donations are required.

There are more ways to be an activist than just giving money. Write a letter to Arnie and get your friends to do it too! Register to vote and put that you are a voter in your letter. I'm sure all of you can spare 39 cents and 10 minutes to write about this topic!

Also if you guy's can read jack herors opinion (www.jackherer.com)
it changes views but i say some hemp is better then none

Man all I know is I hope he signs it seriously.