Hemp is one of the most diverse plants on the planet, and could literally supply most of humankinds needs for fuel, food, clothing, building products, and medicine. Despite its usefulness, hemp is illegal to grow in the United States. This site is intended to be an avenue for the community to empower themselves with information. There is a truth that must be heard!
The Hemp & Cannabis Foundation is working to truthfully educate the public concerning hemp and cannabis, as well as helping medical marijuana patients. We have clinics across the country where our doctors help patients obtain a permit for medical marijuana.
We have helped over 150,000 patients in nine states obtain a permit to legally possess, use and grow medical marijuana. We would be happy to help you. We are now scheduling appointments in 40 cities across the United States.
We see patients at our clinics in Oregon at Portland, Eugene, Bend, Grants Pass and Umatilla, in Washington state at Seattle/Bellevue, Olympia, Port Angeles, Spokane, Bellingham, Kennewick and Vancouver/Portland, in Michigan at Detroit/Southfield, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Flint, Saginaw, Marquette, Traverse City and Lansing, in Hawaii at Honolulu, Hilo and Kapaa, in Colorado at Denver, Durango and Glenwood Springs, in Nevada at Las Vegas and Reno, in Montana at Missoula, Helena, Bozeman and Billings, in New Mexico at Albuquerque and in California at Riverside. We are excited to announce the opening of our new medical clinic located in Phoenix, Arizona.
We are now scheduling appointments for all of our clinics across the United States. Contact us at (800)723-0188 for locations and details.
THCF Medical Clinics: Helping the Cannabis Community Since 1999
Oregon Cannabis Tax Act 2012 - Initiative Petition #9 for the Oregon General Election of November 6, 2012
The Office of the Secretary of State received a certified ballot title from the Attorney General on February 24, 2011, for initiative petition #9, proposing a statutory amendment, for the General Election of November 6, 2012. In order to qualify for the ballot, we will need 90,000 valid signatures by July, 2, 2012.
When it is passed, this groundbreaking legislation will: regulate the legal sale of marijuana to adults through state-licensed stores, allow adults to grow their own, license Oregon farmers to grow marijuana for state-licensed stores and allow unlicensed Oregon farmers to grow cannabis hemp for fuel, fiber and food. OCTA2012 will raise an estimated $140 million a year by taxing commercial cannabis sales to adults 21 years of age and older, and save an estimated $61.5 million as law enforcement, corrections and judicial attention can focus on violent crimes and theft. We estimate this will amount to $200 million a year more funding for state government. Ninety percent of the proceeds will go into the state general fund, 7% for drug treatment programs, one percent each for drug education in public schools, and two new state commissions to promote hemp biofuel, hemp fiber and food. Legalizing hemp and cannabis will create tens of thousands of new jobs, revitalize our farming communities and boost tourism.
The certified ballot title is as follows:
Allows personal marijuana, hemp cultivation/use without license; commission to regulate commercial marijuana cultivation/sale
Result of a "Yes" Vote : "Yes" vote allows commercial marijuana (cannabis) cultivation/sale to adults through state-licensed stores; allows unlicensed adult personal cultivation/use; prohibits restrictions on hemp (defined).
Result of a "No" Vote: "No" vote retains existing civil and criminal laws prohibiting cultivation, possession and delivery of marijuana; retains current statutes that permit regulated medical use of marijuana.
Summary: Currently, marijuana cultivation, possession and delivery are prohibited; regulated medical marijuana use is permitted. Measure replaces state, local marijuana laws except medical marijuana and driving under the influence laws; distinguishes "hemp" from "marijuana"; prohibits regulation of hemp. Creates commission to license marijuana cultivation by qualified persons and to purchase entire crop. Commission sells marijuana at cost to pharmacies, medical research facilities, and to qualified adults for profit through state-licensed stores. Ninety percent of net goes to state general fund, remainder to drug education, treatment, hemp promotion. Bans sales to, possession by minors. Bans public consumption except where signs permit, minors barred. Commission regulates use, sets prices, other duties; Attorney General to defend against federal challenges/prosecutions. Provides penalties. Effective January 1, 2013; other provisions.
The petition linked here is ONLY a single sheet petition. Following these instructions carefully will ensure that you meet the state of Oregon's requirements, so your signatures count. If you wish to circulate a ten signature sheet petition, please fill out our volunteer form.
• Use only white paper 8 1/2 x 11 in size. Must use blue or black pen.
• Do not put anything on the petition, like a sticker or stamp of any kind or write any slogans on there, this will disqualify the entire sheet.
• DO NOT cross anything off or write over anything on the petition.
• Do not number the petition.
• Along with your signature please print your name address and date. Please use a pen.
• A person can only sign a petition once, and CANNOT sign for anyone else. For example, husbands cannot sign for their wives.
• The date you sign at the bottom must be in MM/DD/YY format, no exceptions.
• You MUST be a registered Oregon voter. Register Now. Sign your full name, as you did when you registered to vote.
• You may print off sheets for your friends and family to sign, if they too are registered Oregon voters.
• You may also forward the link to friends who wish to sign the petition.
Mail Petitions to:
OCTA Campaign Headquarters
2712 NE Sandy Blvd
Portland, Oregon 97232
Cannabis Common Sense Friday's, 8-9PM PDT (Live Stream)
The show that tells truth about marijuana & the politics behind its prohibition, Cannabis Common Sense is intended to educate the public on the uses of cannabis in our society. Feel free to call the show (503-288-4448). We look forward to helping you.
We want to expand to more cable access channels across the country and get our message out! If you are interested in becoming a part of the CCS family, please contact us via email or phone to begin the process. We will send you weekly DVD's of the show that you can deliver to your local cable access channel.
If you are interested in sponsoring our show on your own local area's cable access network, please complete the following easy steps:
1. Look up your local cable access station.
2. Fill out necessary forms to submit a program, with you as the sponsor.
Our goal is to educate people about the medicinal and industrial uses for cannabis in our global society in order to restore hemp cultivation and end adult cannabis prohibition.
Hemp.org focuses on the industrial uses of cannabis sativa, including paper, fuel, foods, clothing, building materials and, potentially, over 50,000 different products. Over the past 15 years the hemp industry has grown from nothing to nearly a billion dollar a year industry. But this is only the beginning.
Hemp can produce more fuel, fiber and food than any other crop per land cultivated. Hemp will be the agent of transformation from today's current dependence on nonsustainable, toxic petrochemicals to nontoxic, sustainable agriculturally-based alternatives.
The Latin name for hemp is cannabis sativa. Sativa means "useful" in Latin, and was given to only the most resourceful staple crops. Paper was invented from hemp in China over 2,000 years ago and a US Department of Agriculture report, Bulletin No. 404, "Hemp Hurds as a Paper-Making Material," states that a waste product from producing rope, linen, lace and fine paper, this hitherto waste product, the hemp hurd, or the core of the hempstalk, produces more than 4 times more paper than trees per land area cultivated.
The hempseed is higher than any other plant source for protein (though soybeans have more protein, hempseed is more readily usable by people). Hempseed, with 30 percent oil by weight, has an oil that is high in the good cholesterol, GLA, or gamma lineolic acids, and raw hempseed oil can also be used without any modifications to power existing diesel engines. Thousands of new natural food products are being made with hempseed too, everything from chips and pretzels to cheese and milk.
Hemp seed oil can be used as fuel to drive cars and heat homes because Hemp produces biomass, which can be converted into charcoal for electricity, ethanol, methanol and other sources of fuel. Burning biomass for energy, instead of fossil fuels, helps keep the carbon dioxide cycle in balance, and thus helps to stop global warming, instead of contributing to it as the burning of fossil fuels does.
Hemp produces more biomass than any plant practical for farming, substantially more than corn, sugarcane, or kenaf. One acre of hemp can produce 10 tons of biomass every four months of growing season. Hemp fuel is the most cost effective and environmentally friendly reusable energy source on the planet, and could potentially make the U.S. less dependent on foreign petroleum.
Entry into the biodiesel market has very low capital entry requirements and is, therefore, not centralized.
Start an economic boom!
Use vegetable seed oil (biodiesel).
Run any diesel engine with no engine conversion at all.
Make biodiesel from hemp, soybean, rapeseed/canola and safflower seed oil.
Save family farms.
Return economic control to the people!
Naturally decentralize wealth.
Help stop global warming.
Stop a lot of toxic pollution.
Create a useful byproduct: food.
Why should farmers grow hemp?
Because hemp is the ultimate cash crop, producing more fiber, food and oil than any other plant on the planet.
According to the Notre Dame University publication, The Midland Naturalist, from a 1975 article called, "Feral Hemp in Southern Illinois," about the wild hemp fields that annual efforts from law enforcement eradication teams cannot wipe out, an acre of hemp produces:
1. 8,000 pounds of hemp seed per acre.
When cold-pressed, the 8,000 pounds of hemp seed yield over 300 gallons of hemp seed oil and a byproduct of
6,000 pounds of high protein hemp flour.
These seed oils are both a food and a biodiesel fuel. Currently, the most productive seed oil crops are soybeans, sunflower seeds and rape seed or canola. Each of these three seed oil crops produce between 100 to 120 gallons of oil per acre. Hemp seed produces three times more oil per acre than the next most productive seed oil crops, or over 300 gallons per acre, with a byproduct of 3 tons of food per acre. Hemp seed oil is also far more nutritious and beneficial for our health than any other seed oil crop.
In addition to the food and oil produced, there are several other byproducts and benefits to the cultivation of hemp.
2. Six to ten tons per acre of hemp bast fiber. Bast fiber makes canvas, rope, lace, linen, and ultra-thin specialty papers like cigarette and bible papers.
3. Twenty-five tons of hemp hurd fiber. Hemp hurd fiber makes all grades of paper, composite building materials, animal bedding and a material for the absorption of liquids and oils.
4. The deep tap root draws up sub-soil nutrients and then, when the leaves fall from the plant to the ground, they return these nutrients to the top soil for the next crop rotation.
5. The residual flowers, after the seeds are extracted, produce valuable medicines.
Our farmers need this valuable crop to be returned as an option for commercial agriculture.
While marijuana is prohibited, industrial hemp will be economically prohibitive due to the artificial regulatory burdens imposed by the prohibition of marijuana. When marijuana and cannabis are legally regulated, industrial hemp will return to its rightful place in our agricultural economy.
Hemp may be the plant that started humans down the road toward civilization with the invention of agriculture itself. All archaeologists agree that cannabis was among the first crops purposely cultivated by human beings at least over 6,000 years ago, and perhaps more than 12,000 years ago.
Restoring industrial hemp to its rightful place in agriculture today will return much control to our farmers, and away from the multinational corporations that dominate our political process and destroy our environment. These capital-intensive, non-sustainable, and environmentally destructive industries have usurped our economic resources and clear-cut huge tracts of the world's forests, given us massive oil spills, wars, toxic waste, massive worldwide pollution, global warming and the destruction of entire ecosystems.
Prohibiting the cultivation of this ancient plant, the most productive source of fiber, oil and protein on our planet, is evil. In its place we have industries that give us processes and products that have led to unprecedented ecological crisis and worldwide destruction of the biological heritage that we should bequeath to our children, grandchildren and future generations.
Hemp TV is updated frequently, so please visit often and let us know about other hemp-related videos.
Hemp TV is one of the largest archives of hemp-related videos on the Web. Please make a donation to help this resource and to help change cannabis laws in Oregon, the United States, and the world.
Willie Nelson: Hemp and the Family Farm
Cannabis Common Sense #460 9-5-08
The longest, strongest, most elastic, and most durable fiber in nature, Hemp yields cloth, canvas, cordage, and other textiles. Hemp can be made into biodegradable plastics, more resistant to heavy blows than steel. Hemp has the most cellulose of any plant, and plastics are made from cellulose. Currently hemp cellulose is being used as a replacement for fiberglass car parts because hemp Biocomposites are lighter and safer than other alternatives.
Hemp can make virtually any building material including caulking, cement, fiberboard, flooring, insulation, paneling, particleboard, plaster, plywood, stucco, reinforced concrete, mortar, and biodegradable plastic. Hemp hurd can be compressed into foundations which are seven times stronger than concrete, half as heavy, and three times more elastic. Even under extreme pressure hemp-reinforced buildings will bend, but are less likely to break, and actually continue to get harder and stronger after they set.
Medical Use of Cannabis
This film explains the medical use and workings of the Cannabis Sativa plant, also known as marijuana or hemp. Educate yourself from those who have done the research and experienced the results: scientists, patients, doctors, pharmacists, and a medicinal Cannabis producer give their views on this versatile plant and its medicinal effects.
Doctors should be allowed to prescribe Cannabis as a form of 100% natural therapy and medication for their patients. Prescribing Cannabis as an option in their treatment arsenal gives doctors the ability to improve the quality of life for patients managing illness and pain.
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The Office of the Secretary of State received a certified ballot title from the Attorney General on February 24, 2011, for initiative petition #9, proposing a statutory amendment, for the General Election of November 6, 2012. In order to qualify for the ballot, we will need 90,000 valid signatures by July, 2, 2012. 
Single Signature Sheet Petition Instructions:
