ELECTION 2011 Editor's Note - I know. Too early to talk about Election Year 2011. Let's get through November first. But this one was too hard to resist.
From Eric Dondero:
Kentucky will hold it race for Governor in the odd year of 2011. Among the three Republican candidates for Governor is Phil Moffett. Recently he met with Kentucky libertarians.
From Stopthedrugwar.org:
Kentucky Republican gubernatorial candidate Phil Moffett has come out in support of legalizing industrial hemp production.
Moffett, who along with US Senate candidate Rand Paul is part of the tea party insurgency in the Bluegrass State's Republican Party, came out on the issue in response to a question during a meeting with libertarian voters last Thursday and reaffirmed his support in an interview with the Associated Press last Friday.
He is ready to "go to the carpet" to legalize hemp production, he told the AP. "We're going to have to challenge the federal authority to keep us from growing a legitimate crop," he said. "Industrial hemp is not a drug, so it shouldn't be regulated by the DEA or any other federal authority."
Moffett said he supported hemp production both for economic reasons and as a means of reducing the power of the federal government. "It's a farm product that can be used in a number of different ways to create jobs, but it's also a way to get the federal government farther off our back," Moffett said Friday. "Right now, the Drug Enforcement Agency does not allow hemp to be grown, and it would be a great test case for us to fight against the federal government to be able grow a completely legitimate crop that the federal government has decided they don't believe is worthy of planting."
3 comments:
$113 billion is spent on marijuana every year in the U.S., and because of the federal prohibition *every* dollar of it goes straight into the hands of criminals. Far from preventing people from using marijuana, the prohibition instead creates zero legal supply amid massive and unrelenting demand.
According to the ONDCP, at least sixty percent of Mexican drug cartel money comes from selling marijuana in the U.S., they protect this revenue by brutally torturing, murdering and dismembering countless innocent people.
If we can STOP people using marijuana then we need to do so NOW, but if we can't then we need to legalize the production and sale of marijuana to adults with after-tax prices set too low for the cartels to match. One way or the other, we have to force the cartels out of the marijuana market and eliminate their highly lucrative marijuana incomes - no business can withstand the loss of sixty percent of its revenue!
To date, the cartels have amassed more than 100,000 "foot soldiers" and operate in 230 U.S. cities, and Arizona police are now conceding that parts of their state are under cartel control. The longer the cartels are allowed to exploit the prohibition the more powerful they're going to get and the more our own personal security will be put in jeopardy.
113 billion? Bullshit.
Anonymous there is a huge difference between industrial hemp and marijuana. The stance by Phil Moffett to date has been to legalize industrial hemp NOT marijuana.
Of course Gatewood has been saying the same thing a lot longer.
Industrial hemp is a cash crop Kentucky farmers need now that will vurtually wipe out the shortage in funding we have every year.
Someone shuold grow a crop of it and fight the fedssin court when they confiscate it.
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