HEMP TIES  IT ALL  TOGETHER  Compiled by the Business Alliance
for Commerce in Hemp (BACH).
 
International Business Bonanza:
"The Commodity of the Nineties"
� Renewable natural resource for manufacture of paper, fiber &
  pulp, oils, paints, sealants, fuel, food, medicine, etc.
� Hemp industries will save American jobs
� Underdeveloped potential for multi-billion dollar profits
� Income generated could save the Savings & Loan industry
� Hemp seed is among the most nutritious of food sources
� Replaces  trees  as  a  source  of  housing  &  construction
  material
� Biomass fuel will permanently cut dependence on fossil fuels
� Hemp  can  be  used  for  plastic  or  as  a  biodegradable
  replacement
� Hemp is a standard fiber for fabrics, cordage, etc.
� Generates a self sustaining, de-centralized economy
� Offers a wealth of untapped sources of tax revenues
 
A Healthy Environment
"Earth's Premier Renewable Resource"
� Saving millions of trees for paper & construction
� Reducing acid rain by using biomass energy
� Less chemical pollution in our rivers
� Generating free oxygen to reverse the Greenhouse Effect
� Conserving soil & preventing erosion
� Using less pesticides & fertilizers for cultivation
� Replacing whale oil with Hemp seed oil
� Providing food for people & animals
� Leaving fully biodegradable waste products
 
Sustainable Agriculture:
"Hemp: The Cash Crop of the Future"
� Best source of biomass for energy self sufficiency
� Versatile enough to financially rescue family farms
� A  viable, profitable  crop  that  uses  less  pesticides  &
  fertilizers for high yield
� Related economic gains in spin-off industries
� Marijuana is already America's biggest cash crop
� Commercial hemp strains have virtually no THC
 
Common Sense Crime Reduction:
"Liberty & Justice for All"
� Prohibition breeds crime & violence (remember all the gangs,
  guns & Al Capone of the "Roaring Twenties?")
� Smoking cannabis reduces tension & prevents violence
� Prohibition is itself unconstitutional
� Marijuana  reform will  unclog the  courts by  reducing case
  loads
� Re-legalization  frees-up police resources for serious crime
  & will increase respect for all law
� It  will remove  hard drugs  & the criminal element from the
  marijuana market to protect casual users
 
Effective Medicine:
"Nature's Remedies"
� Indicated  for: Asthma,  Emphysema, Glaucoma, Tumors, Nausea
  (Cancer &  AIDS therapy), Rheumatism, Arthritis, Stress, Sleep
  & Relaxation,  Multiple Sclerosis & Spasms, Epilepsy, Migraine
  Headaches, in Antibiotics, Antibacterial CBDs, Corn Plasters &
  Poultices, as Expectorant, Appetite Stimulant, Saliva Reducer,
  has hundreds of therapeutic uses
� Non toxic, self-administrable medication
� Remarkably few side effects
� Affordable health care & maintenance
 
Civil Liberties & Free Choice:
"Life, Liberty & Pursuit of Happiness"
     Inalienable American rights since 1776
� Freedom of choice & right to privacy
� Law has history of racist enforcement
� Freedom of religion is being violated
� Forfeiture laws deny us due process of law
  and violate our basic right to private property
� "War on Drugs" attacks our Constitutional rights as citizens
� Police  spying &  surveillance are  rampant; corrupt  secret
  police buy & sell drugs to lure people into breaking the law
� Low-intensity war of oppression waged on growers & users
� Marijuana offenders are political Prisoners of Conscience
 
A Proud Part of Our History:
"An Industry as Old as Pottery"
� Presidents  Washington, Jefferson,  etc., grew hemp on their
  farms when they formed the new Republic & Bill of Rights
� 10,000 year history of human cultivation
� The sails of Columbus' ships were hemp
� Turkish smoking parlors: centuries of tradition
� Declaration  of Independence  & U.S.  Constitution were both
  originally drafted on hemp paper
� Hemp outlawed in the anti-trust conspiracy of 1937
� 50 Years of prohibition are finally coming to an end
 
Promising A Brighter Future
"A Freer, Safer, More Prosperous America"
� 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 & painted with hemp. You
  change your  hemp clothes & fix a nice dinner of seasoned hemp
  tofu, turn  on some  music &  light up a pipeful of . whatever
  you want.
� Business opportunity, more competitive products & prices
� Private enterprise, not police bureaucrats & spies
� Personal freedom, the right to know & the right to grow