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IT'S TIME TO TAX HEMP!
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Look at The Denver Post--Oct. 18.1991
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*"$48 million, 366 jobs hit by state budget ax"
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*"As many as 7,000 more layoffs by 1998"
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*"Higher education funding shaved by 3%"
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*"Gov. Romer advocates tax increase for education"
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*Youthful offenders face more overcrowding,less help"
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*"$200 million education shortfall only months away"
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*"$4 million cut from State Department of Health"
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Colorado taxes alcohol, tobacco, lottery, and gambling, BUT ONLY
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DRUG KINGPINS MAKE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN PROFITS ON
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MARIJUANA SALES!
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The government's war on hemp has turned millions of law-abiding
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Americans into criminals with the stroke of a pen. As a result,
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America now has the HIGHEST number of prisoners per capita than any
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other nation on earth! Advocates of Omnibus Crime Bill pending in
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Congress promise to DOUBLE the number of prisoners in the next 20
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years! Will we continue to build prisons instead of schools,
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subsidize deadly tobacco while we criminalize harmless hemp, waste
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hundreds of millions of tax dollars on police arresting marijuana
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users while essential services are cut?
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Facts About Hemp:
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*Hemp is the oldest known cultivated plant on Earth, grown for over
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12,000 years.
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*George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew hemp for medicine,
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food and fiber.
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*The Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence were
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written on paper made from hemp.
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*Hemp is a medicinal herb effective in
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treating:glaucoma,epilepsy,migraines,AIDS wasting syndrome
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Chemotherapy side effects, MS, MD, Anorexia, etc
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*One acre of hemp produces 4.1 times the amount of paper as one
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acre of trees and with far less pollution.
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*Half the world's trees are cut down for paper.These trees are
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needed to replenish the ozone layer.
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*Hemp seed is second only to soy beans in percentage of protein.
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Diesel engines run on hemp seed oil.
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*Hemp prohibition is an attempt by petrochemical and pharmaceutical
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monopolies to eliminate the world's premier renewable resource for
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medicine,food,fuel,fiber,paper,and energy.
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*Read"The Emperor Wears No Clothes" By Jack Herer for the
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authoritative historical record on hemp.
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Get Involved. Join NORML! Call Our Free Hempline 303/470-1100. Hear
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more about the Colorado Hemp Initiative. Call 470-1100 then press
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512.To Volunteer to become a Petitioner for the Hemp Initiative
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Project press 511 and leave a message. We only need 50,000
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signatures to get hemp on the November '92 ballot! We can do it!
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55% of Coloradans favor re-legalization now! Wait until they learn
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the truth about hemp for paper-fiber-fuel-food-medicine!
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How Dangerous is Marijuana Compared to Other Substances?
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# of Deaths Per Year
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Tobacco................................340,000 to 425,000
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Alcohol................................150,000+
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Aspirin................................180 to 1,000
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'Legal'Drug Overdoses..................14,000 to 27,000
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MARIJUANA..............................0
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(Figures from 1988 federal Bureau of Mortality Statistics)
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"Prohibition...goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts
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to control a man's appetite by legislation and make a crime out of
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things that are not crimes...A prohibition law strikes a blow at
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the very principles upon which our government was founded."
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN, December 1840
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Please print this and make copies...pass it on to friends...Post
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copies on public bulletin boards in supermarkets, laundromats, etc.
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And upload it to every BBS you can! Let's spread the word about
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hemp!
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