we've touched based on the economical growth from marijuana. i dont know if anyone is reading the earliers posts.
Growing huge fields of hemp means also having a large crop of marijuana. In california medical marijuana is distributed at the rate of 300 dollars for an ounce of marijuana. take the fact that one plant, half sized, can produce more than a few ounces per harvest, and the fact that its harvest more than once a year, then multiply that by the number of crops you have growing on just 1 farm, then multiply that by the number of americans that would want to partake in marijuana and you got a large number.
What happens? You get multiple things from this....
Maximum product for minimum overhead.
Hemp and marijuana grows fast. Hemp is very pulpy but very strong. The number of industries that will experience growth for just hemp.
Farming
Textiles
Paper Mills
Rope
Bath and body products
Alternative Fuels
Not only saving money by not PERSUING, PROSECUTING AND JAILING non violent marijuana offenders. that money alone might be worth it.
how about taxes on marijuana itself? Impose some sanctions on it like alcohol.
21 to smoke
If carried in a car must be in the trunk or not accessible by cabin passengers
Smoking must not take place in public
No operating machinery
Pretty much just ammend the alcohol laws to include marijuana. and dont give me the ''there are no field tests to test for marijuana.'' thats bs. and they do. its a cotton swab that tells you if youve smoked marijuana in the last 3 hours.
America was built on the hemp industry. Why cant it be saved on it as well?
if you want more reading about marijuana/hemp and what it can do for our govt then please read this.
Hemp: The Trillian Dollar Crop
http://www.hempfarm.org/