> On Jun 29, 11:13 pm, Stan de SD gmail.com> wrote:
>

>> On Jun 27, 7:27 pm, tom...@hotmail.com (Tom Malcolm) wrote:
>>
>>

>>> http://capwiz.com/votehemp/mailapp/
>>>
>>> A super easy way to contact your local "Representative"
>>>
>>> I sent:
>>>
>>> Please visithttp://www.TheTruthAboutHemp.com
>>> Please consider cosponsoring HR 1009, the Industrial Hemp Farming Act of
>>> 2007. And Mr. Frank's HR 5843.
>>> This will save billions and free up police
>>> for real crime.
>>>

>> Let's see - we have $5/gallon gasoline, a collapsing dollar, war in
>> the Middle East, Iran building nukes, and problems on our border with
>> Mexico. Nice to see that you have your priorities straight... :O|
>>

>
> t seems few people outside of the county of Mendocino realize that
> the
> main economy of the county revolves around local residents deriving an
> income from pot cultivation. If it ends the economy of the county
> will do
> a rapid crash and burn. Local prices at all the retail stores will
> rise and
> so many local pot farmers will sell their homes and move to either
> Humbolt
> or Sonoma counties where the law as well as local people look the
> other way
> and even medical pot growers in both of those counties have a much
> higher number
> allowed to grow as with Mendocino had/has currently 25 plants and a
> voted measure
> B lowered it to 6 plants. The other two counties allow 99 and 100
> plants to be grown
> by legal medical pot growers. Mendocino county has For Sale signs all
> over the place
> even though measure B has been declared by the courts as being
> unconstitutional most
> of the local growers legal and/or otherwise are selling and moving to
> the two counties so
> as to have things function in an economy they can live with. I'm sure
> many will argue on
> all this so go for it until you are worn out on the pros and cons of
> it all.
>
> I say California should legalize it, grow it as a cash crop like
> grapes to wine are grown
> for commercial and medical use, tax it and the state makes its budget
> balanced ++++
> and the criminal elements and other complaints you make about growing
> it will vanish
> because the state will license growers and supervise the way it is
> produced.
>
>