IT'S TIME TO TAX HEMP!
Look at The Denver Post--Oct. 18.1991
*"$48 million, 366 jobs hit by state budget ax"
*"As many as 7,000 more layoffs by 1998"
*"Higher education funding shaved by 3%"
*"Gov. Romer advocates tax increase for education"
*Youthful offenders face more overcrowding,less help"
*"$200 million education shortfall only months away"
*"$4 million cut from State Department of Health"

Colorado taxes alcohol, tobacco, lottery, and gambling, BUT ONLY
DRUG KINGPINS MAKE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN PROFITS ON
MARIJUANA SALES!
The government's war on hemp has turned millions of law-abiding
Americans into criminals with the stroke of a pen. As a result,
America now has the HIGHEST number of prisoners per capita than any
other nation on earth! Advocates of Omnibus Crime Bill pending in
Congress promise to DOUBLE the number of prisoners in the next 20
years! Will we continue to build prisons instead of schools,
subsidize deadly tobacco while we criminalize harmless hemp, waste
hundreds of millions of tax dollars on police arresting marijuana
users while essential services are cut?

Facts About Hemp:
*Hemp is the oldest known cultivated plant on Earth, grown for over 
 12,000 years.
*George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew hemp for medicine,  
 food and fiber.
*The Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence were   
written on paper made from hemp.
*Hemp is a medicinal herb effective in           
 treating:glaucoma,epilepsy,migraines,AIDS wasting syndrome
 Chemotherapy side effects, MS, MD, Anorexia, etc
*One acre of hemp produces 4.1 times the amount of paper as one  
 acre of trees and with far less pollution.
*Half the world's trees are cut down for paper.These trees are    
 needed to replenish the ozone layer.
*Hemp seed is second only to soy beans in percentage of protein.  
 Diesel engines run on hemp seed oil.
*Hemp prohibition is an attempt by petrochemical and pharmaceutical 
 monopolies to eliminate the world's premier renewable resource for 
 medicine,food,fuel,fiber,paper,and energy.
*Read"The Emperor Wears No Clothes" By Jack Herer for the         
 authoritative historical record on hemp.

Get Involved. Join NORML! Call Our Free Hempline 303/470-1100. Hear
more about the Colorado Hemp Initiative. Call 470-1100 then press
512.To Volunteer to become a Petitioner for the Hemp Initiative
Project press 511 and leave a message. We only need 50,000
signatures to get hemp on the November '92 ballot! We can do it!
55% of Coloradans favor re-legalization now! Wait until they learn
the truth about hemp for paper-fiber-fuel-food-medicine!

How Dangerous is Marijuana Compared to Other Substances?
                                           # of Deaths Per Year
Tobacco................................340,000 to 425,000
Alcohol................................150,000+
Aspirin................................180 to 1,000
'Legal'Drug Overdoses..................14,000 to 27,000
MARIJUANA..............................0
  (Figures from 1988 federal Bureau of Mortality Statistics)

"Prohibition...goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts
to control a man's appetite by legislation and make a crime out of
things that are not crimes...A prohibition law strikes a blow at
the very principles upon which our government was founded."
                              ABRAHAM LINCOLN, December 1840
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Please print this and make copies...pass it on to friends...Post
copies on public bulletin boards in supermarkets, laundromats, etc.
And upload it to every BBS you can! Let's spread the word about
hemp!
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