-Caveat Lector- Another whack at the Hearst mellon Dupont Conspiracy. Bob Newland wrote: > > News Release from NORML: Mount Rushmore State Chapter > Bob Newland, Chairman > HC 89 Box 184-A > Hermosa SD 57744 > > 605-255-4032 > <http://www.nakedgov.com/mtrushnorml.htm> > > ********** > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE > *************** > > Legislators will be better-educated about drugs during the 2000 session says Bob >Newland, Chairman of the newly-incorporated "Mt. Rushmore State Chapter of NORML". >NORML is the acronym for the 30-year-old Washington DC-based National Organization >for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. > > Newland said, "This morning, September 14, 1999, I mailed the first group of what >will be weekly postcards to each legislator, the governor, lieutenant-governor, and >attorney-general of South Dakota." > > Each card will carry a short message; "a bit of the truth about the so-called 'war >on drugs', and a bit of a refutation of the government's point of view," according to >Newland, who was the Libertarian nominee for > South Dakota governor last year. One of his campaign planks was to, "immediately >upon taking the oath of office, pardon everyone who has ever been convicted of >possession or sale of illicit drugs under South Dakota law." > > Newland says that the cards themselves are part of the message. He had the following >legend printed on the front of the cards; "This card printed on 100% hemp paper -- >imported from Hungary, fer cryin' out loud." > > "These cards are beautiful bright-white linen-finish paper, at half the price I >could get tree-pulp cardstock for. I can document that it's hemp and from Hungary, if >anyone needs proof." > > Newland prefers "hemp" to "marijuana" or any of the other common names for the >cannabis plant. "I think that most people referred to it as hemp for most of its >history. And its history is as old as the human race. Hemp was probably the first >cultivated crop, and was one of the first and best-known medicinal plants. Early on, >people learned that the hemp plant could, all by itself, feed, clothe and provide >medical benefits to them." > > What Newland hopes to accomplish with his postcard campaign is this. "I am convinced >that almost no one with accurate information about hemp would ever have voted to make >it illegal to cultivate, own or use. Therefore, I shall provide documented facts to >the South Dakota Legislature, after which they will be better-armed to take the right >position and hold it when drug bills arise in the 2000, and subsequent, > sessions." > > "I made an offer two years ago to pay anyone $1000 who could exemplify a single >benefit of the so-called war on drugs," Newland says. "No one has ever tried to >collect. The offer is still open. See our website, www.nakedgov.com. Try to collect >the money. Personally, I'd like there to be a benefit from a century of waging war on >certain vegetables, but I can't find any. The so-called war on drugs has had huge >consequences, but they're all bad." > > South Dakota's 2000 legislative session is the perfect place for "steps to be taken >in the right direction," Newland says, "steps which will decrease drug use, >drastically decrease crime, make our streets safer, lower the state's budget (and >lower taxes, too), and begin to restore harmony between law enforcement and those who >look to it for service and protection. Those steps do not include more restrictive >laws." > > The 2000 session will start about January 11. There are about 17 weeks until then. >Newland says he plans to send out about 20 cards, including some after the >legislature is in session. > > The text of the first card is reproduced here: > > ================================================ > September 13, 1999 > > Dear South Dakota Legislator: > > This is the first in what I hope will be a series of weekly messages about the >so-called drug war in general, and about hemp (marijuana) in particular. There might >come a time in the 2000 legislative session when some of what you will learn from >these mailings will be of value to you as you attempt to do the right thing by your >constituents. > > You might begin by noting that this card is printed on 100% hemp paper -- imported, >of course, since state (and federal) law precludes growing hemp for ANY purpose, >including any of the over 60,000 industrial uses which have been documented for it. > > Hemp can be used for any purpose to which trees, cotton, or petroleum have been put. >Usually, hemp products are better, more efficient and cheaper than products made from >other sources. > > Hemp is much more environmentally-friendly than, say, farming corn for bio-mass, or, >say, farming trees for paper pulp. If South Dakota farmers were allowed to grow hemp >for paper alone, not another tree would ever > have to be cut in the Black Hills for pulp. The inevitably-resultant processing >plant would provide new well-paying jobs. > > Until next week: I recommend "The Emperor Wears No Clothes" ($29.95: AH HA >Publishing; P.O. Box 13549; Austin, Texas 78711),<www.jackherer.com>; and "Drug >Crazy: How We Got into this Mess, and How We Can Get Out", by Mike Gray (Random >House, $23.95), <www.drugcrazy.com>. > > Very best regards; Bob Newland; Chair: Mt Rushmore State Chapter--NORML > =================================================== > > Newland says he will post each week's card message to legislators at > <http://www.nakedgov.com/postcard1.htm> on the world wide web, along with "a lot of >other information about the insanity of current drug policy." > > For a preview of upcoming information to be spooned out weekly in "legislator-sized >bites", Newland suggests > <http://www.nakedgov.com/accomplish.htm> > > --- > To subscribe to the Constitutional Cannabis Patriots > send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Posting:To post to the Constitutional Cannabis Patriots > send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Constitutional Cannabis Patriots > http://www.teleport.com/~nepal/canpat.htm DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. 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