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HEMP, CANNABIS SATIVA, MARIJUANA. No matter what you call it . . .

             HEMP is the MOST beneficial plant known!

                             PAPER
                   MEDICINE          HOUSING

                  FUEL                   FOOD

                    CLOTHING       PLASTICS


                            W.H.E.N.
                         will it happen?

                Your Network Membership will help!

                       What is W.H.E.N.?

The Washington Hemp Education Network (W.H.E.N.) is a non-profit
educational organization whose mission is to empower the people of
Washington State, through educational activities, to make informed
choices about the issues surrounding re-legalization of Hemp in
Washington State.

To achieve the stated mission, W.H.E.N. plans and implements legal,
non-violent projects that:

*  Raise public awareness of the history and beneficial uses
   of the Hemp plant.

*  Educate the public to recognize and reject mininformation about
   Hemp.

*  Facilitate changes in current laws to allow the people of this
   state to grow Hemp openly and engage in normal market activities
   with Hemp products.

*  Through education and coalition, help people who have been disen-
   franchised by misguided government policies concerning Hemp.

*  Promote research and development of sustainable, environmentally,
   responsible Hemp cultivation, and of beneficial products derived
   from Hemp.

Through presentations media events, public forums, and the
distribution of factual information about the history of hemp
prohibition and the potential uses of this extraordinary plant,
W.H.E.N. is working to educate business leaders, politicians, and
the general public about the positive aspects of hemp re-legalization
in Washington State.

                        What can you do
                           to help

W.H.E.N. is seeking Network Members to participate in voluntary
educational actions such as letter-writing and telephone
campaigns when called upon to do so.

                        Please join us today!

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|     $15 (an additional donation of _______________ is included) which |
|     will be used to further the goals of W.H.E.N.  I will receive     |
|     copies of the W.H.E.N. newsletter as they are issued and will be  |
|     kept informed of W.H.E.N. activities. (Mail to W.H.E.N., P.O.     |
|     Box 1217, Olympia, WA 98507)                                      |
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|     to help end Hemp prohibition.                                     |
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                         Announcing the

                        WASHINGTON HEMP
                       EDUCATION NETWORK
                            H.E.M.P

                       "W.H.E.N. educated
                          people know."

                   The Washington Hemp Education
                Network recognizes as benefical all
                 responsible commercial, medicinal,
                personal, and spiritual uses of Hemp
                    conducted for peaceful ends.

                  W.H.E.N. can make a presentation to
                your organization about the benefits of
                  the re-legalization of Hemp, and is
                 always seeking to expand the network
                 of volunteers who support alternatives
                 to the current policy of crininalizing
                persons who possess this plant.  To find
                     out more, call or write us at:

                               W.H.E.N
                            P.O. BOX 1217
                          Olympia, WA 98507
                           (206) 589-8981
                  Internet: 72643.3237@compuserve.com
                 Marijuana info Hotline: (206) 548-8043

                 The Washington Hemp Education Network
           (W.H.E.N.) is a non-profit educational corporation
                   registered in Washington State.
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The situation in Washington State...

In 1992, drug enforcement agents made nearly 700 arrests for
marijuana, up 68% from a total of 416 in 1991, and confiscated
over $9 million in assets.  Nearly 50,000 marijuana plants were
seized in 1992.  MORE THAN ANY OTHER STATE IN THE COUNTRY.
                        Report of Recent Drug Abuse Trends.
                        Washington Dept. of Social and Health
                        Services, June 1994
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                        Pieces of their Minds...

It becomes bracingly difficult to hear from anti-drug
fundamentalists that they would rather see a patient, suffering
from cancer, vomit in pain, than permit him to smoke a
marijuana cigarette.
                William F. Buckley


Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more
damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself.
                President Jimmy Carter
                Message to Congress, August 7, 1977

The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered
considerably by the Prohibition law.  For nothing is more
destructive of respect for government and the law of the land
than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
                Albert Einstein

In a world of scarce prison resources, sending a drug offender
to prison for one year is equivalent to freeing a violent
criminal to commit 40 robberies, 7 assaults, 110 burglaries,
and 25 auto thefts.
                James Ostrowski, CATO Institute

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                What's the DEA's Position?

Many times people talk about the non-violent drug offender.
That is a rare species.  There is not some sterile drug type
not involved in violence who is contributing some good to the
community.  They are contributing to nothing but evil.
                DEA Administrator Thomas Constantine
                Washington Times, April 1994

Marijuana is . . . one of the safest therapeutically active
substances known to man . . . it would be unreasonable, arbitrary,
and capricious for DEA to continue to stand between these
sufferers (medical marijuana users) and the benefits of this
substance in the light of the evidence. . .
                DEA Admin. Law Judge Francis Young
                while recommending legalization, 1988
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