United States: Proposed Amendment to the Constitution

Drafted by Jon Marsh of The Hemp Consultants

While Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin were drafting the U.S. Constitution (on hemp paper), each was farming cannabis hemp. Said Jefferson, who would later become the 3rd President of the United States:

"Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country."

The U.S. President before Jefferson was John Adams. Adams too had something to say about hemp:

"We shall, by and by, want a world of hemp more for our own consumption."

And the very first President of the United States, General George Washington, is infamous for writing:

"Make the most you can of the Indian Hemp seed and sow it everywhere."

The Hemp Consultants represents over 100 million citizens who wish to farm, medicate with, and consume cannabis hemp. We are collectively embracing these words from our Founding Fathers, the very men who fought to establish what was once considered the freest nation on Earth. We are also embracing the actions of the Founding Mothers, women who stood by these men during this tumultuous time in our nations history, feeding, clothing and tending to soldiers during our country's citizen-based Declaration of Independence.

It is with great hope and faith in all that is good that we return to the ways and means of how this great nation was founded, and adopt those core beliefs and ideals that our Founders instilled in us through both their actions and words.

Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution

Based on the historical and potential uses of cannabis hemp as a cash crop in the United States, this Amendment ensures that cannabis hemp shall no longer be Prohibited from agricultural, medicinal or personal use by adults over 18 years of age, or as determined by the individual States in the Union.

Furthermore, all citizens incarcerated for marijuana offenses shall have their cases reviewed to allow for due process of new law. Reducing or pardoning minor offenses will not only free up jail space, it will alleviate the current overburden of drug courts and provide funds which were being directed at marijuana 'crimes.' Reviewing these cases will be handled swiftly and efficiently, using resources newly freed up due to the reduction of law enforcement agents and legal professionals directing their efforts at current marijuana laws and their enforcement.

Individual states will be responsible for implementing their own cannabis consumption laws, but in no State will the farming of agricultural hemp be Prohibited. A committee will be formed at the federal level to provide States with known research data, and recommendations using historical data from the U.S. Archives as well as global resources from hemp-producing nations. Once the hemp industry has been established, the committee will no longer be necessary and will be phased out, leaving all laws and regulations to be addressed at the State level.


Submitted for consideration this day in the year 2011 by The Hemp Consultants and signed by the following members of the 112th U.S. Congress:

(Sponsor signatures here)

Suggestions or comments? Please contact, jmarsh at thehempconsultants.com


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