Cannabis reform is right around the corner, and clearly, it can’t come soon enough. It could be in 2011 and 2012 that the tides change, if we as voters decide to pass sensible laws to stop cannabis prohibition. In the coming months, and in the next few years, we have a choice to make: we can stand by watching an economic boost in tax revenue for our schools and farmers go to waste by allowing cannabis and hemp production to remain illegal, and we can let medical marijuana patients face prosecution: or, we can stand up to this injustice and stop penalizing patients and their families by putting them in jail and taking away their rights. Medical marijuana patients are just folk like anyone else. Cannabis is a medicine that is a much healthier alternative to using pharmaceuticals. We can reduce the harmful toxins of pharmaceuticals being put into our bodies and waterways by cultivating the use of cannabis as a medicine, and cultivating hemp into many fine products which can be taxed for state revenue; We are opening the doors to new economies which can spur economic development in America. Hemp products are durable, and can help us to withstand problems facing our planet such as global warming, by producing large quantities of hemp oil for fuel and reducing the need to cut whole forests down by using hemp paper. Houses can be made from mostly hemp products (hemp housing) and are extremely durable. America can become the world’s leading legal hemp and cannabis exporter. This means jobs and money for the state and privatized businesses.
But now, in the wake of medical marijuana being essentially shut down in many areas by our Federal Government and their refusal to legitimize the hemp industry, full-legalization for those over the age of 18 is the best way to protect ourselves from law enforcement, who have been called to attack medical marijuana patients and the dispensaries which have grown into ever expanding markets. Cannabis legalization would mean much lower costs for the patients who greatly benefit from using the herb. Hemp would be more accessible in large amounts through a legalized cannabis market just as our nation has prospered with it since our founding fathers incorporated hemp into our society. Last year we witnessed the communities in Washington state (through Initiative 1068) and California (Prop 19) come very close to legalizing marijuana. We can make the change and reform, but we must use our resources as a people to stand up and make it happen.
Last year, our voices (the movement) were heard by the world; cannabis legalization is part of the solution to our economic problems. We are carrying the global torch for legalizing cannabis, and we cannot let the momentum that has built up pass us by. We should set an example for the world as an ideal community that prospers from the benefits of marijuana reform.
- Terren Dubuque, King County Volunteer Director – Sensible Washington.
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