If I read the CA hemp bill correctly, it restricts cannabis production in such a way as to doom the hemp market to failure. It does not give cannabis the freedom it needs to thrive as the world's number one industry again.
It seems the plan is to restrict cannabis production so that the hemp market has no real chance of flourishing. This way, politicians and their corporate masters can come out on the news and say something like, "See, people? Even if we legalize it, it just doesn't have a place in our modern free market. So it should just stay illegal."

Remember that this is a government of, for, and by the rich people, so they're not exactly going to go down without a fight. And they have a lot more money than us to pimp out whatever message they want us all to hear on the nightly news.

I still see our best chance as getting through personally to either Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert. About a year ago, I wrote a two-page introduction to this plan on The Daily Show message board. I received a very promising e-mail reply from The Daily Shows' Director of Public Relations saying they wanted to meet me. When I tried to write back, their messageboard was taken down and I haven't been able to get through to anyone there since. I don't know what happened, but had I made it to New York, this would have already been taken care of.

On the ColbertNation website, we have a second chance. I have started this thread over at ColbertNation and I require your assistance in making more and more people aware of this decades-old hypocrisy regarding legalized cannabis production in the US.

Over and over again, the truth must be drilled into the minds of the voting public. The US Federal government legalized and taxed "Marihuana" to support our troops during World War II.

I have said before, if this successful plan is reinstated, hemp will end our dependence on foreign oil, thus ending our need to play God with the Middle East to power our yuppie bullshit SUVs.

If any of you would, please join me in educating the visitors at the ColbertNation website until the 1942 USDA film, "HEMP FOR VICTORY," is featured on Mr. Colbert's program for the whole world to see.

We're shown the World Trade Centre collapsing over and over again, and we are told that it was our new "Pearl Harbour." After the first Pearl Harbour, "Marihuana" was legalized to support our troops.
If the attacks of 9-11-01 were our new "Pearl Harbour," then "Marihuana" should be legalized to support our troops again, because we did this last time and defeated the first Axis of Evil in only three years.

This plan will work again. Please join me in making the general non-smoking population aware of what they have to gain from the legalization of "Marihuana."
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