YEARS AGO IN CENTRAL GEORGIA ,THERE WAS A SHERIFF WHO WAS IN THE DRUG TRADE, HE WAS FLYING DRUGS AND POT INTO THE COMMUNITY AND HE WAS ALSO KNEW WHO WAS USING DRUGS AND POT AND HE WAS PUTTING THESE USERS BEHIND BARS AND HE ALSO TOOK THERE DRUGS AND THERE POT AND HE ALSO PERFORMED ACT OF TERRORISM ON THE COMMUNITY, IF THE UNITED STATES WOULD LEGALIZE POT IT WOULD PUT AN END TO TAX PAYERS HAVING TO PAY TO KEEP THESE PEOPLE BEHIND BARS THAT THE SHERIFF PUT THERE IN THE FIRST, BUT HE AIN,T SAYING ANYTHING ABOUT BEING THE PERSON THAT WAS SUPPLYING THE DRUGS TO BEGAN WITH. GOOD DAY

I think this is the 9th or 10th state to start this battle against the petrochemical, agribiz and big pharma lobbies.North Dacota is voting on this soon too.
The most celluosic ethanol potential,high quality protein and the best source of EFAs 0mega3,6,9 in the vegtable kingdom.Ready to use vegidiesel fuel,high quality fiber.Two pesticide free crops a year,low fertiliser needs,low water requirements.What more could a farmer want?
And yes no fool is gonna be hiding his sensimeilla in a field full of Hemp pollen.You California folks should write the govenator and enlighten him! Peace,johnny hempseed

I wonder how many opium poppies are hiding among our beautiful fields of California poppies?  A poppy’s a poppy, isn’t it? Better call out the National Guard, if we still have one, to comb our gentle hills - one opium poppy - slash and burn time.

All hemp plants contain some level of THC, but you’d have to smoke about a barn full of hemp to get a slight buzz. By that time, of course, your lungs would be completely ruined.

Hemp is wonderful stuff. It grows easily, requires little in the way of fertilizer, and is drought and insect resistant. Its fibres make wonderful woven cloth and yarn for knitting. It takes dyes well, so forget the idea of dirt-coloured clothing, and becomes softer with each wash. It’s as cool in warm weather as linen.

If this plant isn’t allowed in California, it has nothing to do with the war against drugs and everything to do with the war against common sense.

Here’s one supplier, and not a bong in sight.

http://www.hempforknitting.com/

It’s good to see a bi-partisan effort on behalf of hemp in California. This is a free-market, states right issue that is as Republican as anything else. If we’re serious about energy independance, hemp is one of the pillars. It’s annual yield per acre more than ecclipses traditional wood yields. It’s sustainable, renewable, and grows almost anywhere. Hemp was never intended to be outlawed in the US, but cheap fossile-fuel based palstic etc. switched the focus away from agricultural straws. The focus is now switching back, and hemp is as good as any raw material, better in fact. The DEA is simply wrong to claim that clandestine pot will be hidden in hemp fields, any botanist will tell you that cross-pollination would destroy the pot’s THC content.

We can only hope that the bonehead fearmongers (crying “reefer madness!”) not win this battle, and that science can be loud enough to make the distinction between pot and hemp.  Maybe Dr. Bronner would lower the price of his wonderful soap if he could get hemp more cheaply.

“We want hemp without harassment.”

Lots of people want pot without harrasment too, just like lots of people who drink alcohol or smoke tobacco have come to expect.