Hemp Re-Legalization Ties It All Together!
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Environment
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- "Earth's Premier Renewable Natural Resource"
- Saving millions of acres of trees for paper and construction
- Biomass fuel to reverse the Greenhouse Effect
- Conserving soil and prevents erosion
- Less pesticides & fertilizers for cultivation
- Hemp oil can replace whale oil
- Biomass fuel to reduce acid rain
- Less chemical pollution in rivers
- Food for people & animals
- Fully biodegradable waste products

Medicine
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- Natural herbal remedy
- Remarkably few side effects
- Affordable health care
- Indicated for: Asthma, Glaucoma, Nausea (Cancer & AIDS therapy), Tumors,
  Epilepsy, Multiple Sclerosis & Spasms, Antibiotics, Antibacterial CBDs, Corn
  Plasters, Poltices, Rheumatism, Arthritis, Expectorant, Stress, Sleep &
  Relaxation, Emphysema, Migraine Headaches, Appetite Stimulant, Reduced
  Salivation, Hundreds of other therapeutic uses
- Self administrable

Civil Liberties
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- "Life, Liberty & Pursuit of Happiness" are inalienable rights
- Prohibition is unconstitutional and a failure
- Forfeiture laws deny suspects of due process
- Police spies, secret police & surveillance are rampant
- Racist enforcement & historical basis
- Freedom of religion violated
- Marijuana offenders are political Prisoners of Conscience
- "War on Drugs" harms Constitutional rights of citizens
- War of oppression against growers & users

Agriculture
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- Commercial strains have virtually no THC
- Already America's biggest cash crop
- A crop that uses less pesticides, fertilizers
- Capable of financially saving family farms
- Biomass for energy self sufficiency
- Local economic gains in related industries

Economics
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- "The Commodity of the Nineties"
- Raw material for the paper, pulp industries
- New source of construction material
- Biomass fuel to rreplace petroleum
- Fiber for fabrics, cordage, etc.
- Among the most nutritious food sources
- Medical applications
- Untapped source of tax revenues
- Oils, paints, sealants
- De-centralized, self sustaining economy
- Renewable natural resource for manufacture
- Biodegradable replacement for plastic
- New income could save the Savings & Loan industry

Crime
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- Prohibition breeds crime and violence (remember the "Roaring Twenties?")
- Unclog the court system by cutting case load
- Remove hard drugs and the criminal element from the marijuana market
- Free-up police resources for serious crime
- Smoking cannabis reduces tension & violence
- Ending prohibition will increase respect for law

History
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- Hemp industries as old as pottery; 10,000 years of human cultivation
- Sails of Columbus' ships were hemp
- Presidents Washington, Jefferson, etc., grew hemp on their farms
- Declaration of Independence & U.S. Constitution were originally drafted on
  hemp paper
- Turkish Smoking Parlors popular at the turn of the century throughout the
  U.S.
- Hemp banned in economic conspiracy
- 50 years of prohibition coming to an end

The Future
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- As the day ends, you put away your report written on hemp paper, drive home
  in your hemp fueled car down hemp-lined highways to your house built, plumbed
  and painted with hemp. You change your hemp clothes and fix a nice dinner of
  seasoned hemp tofu, turn on some music and light up a pipeful of whatever you
  want.
- Deregulated non-smoking hemp industries
- Pharmacies offering cannabis medicines
- Licensed bars and outlets for marijuana


Together we can make legal hemp in Canada a reality, we invite you to join us

Patriotic Canadians for Hemp
Box 293
Ucluelet, B.C.
Canada
V0R 3A0
(604)-726-7239