Is The End of Cannabis Coming in November 2010?

by Tyler Greene
http://rtgcel.blogspot.com/


Naomi Wolf said in her book The End of America: “These events may seem to have historical echoes because they actually are mirrored in history.” Don't get your hopes up this November because the Tax Cannabis 2010 act is not going to legalize cannabis use in any way, shape, or form. We have already a national tax cannabis act in place since 1937. It is also known as probation. The Tax Cannabis 1937 act allowed "Every person who imports, manufactures, produces, compounds, sells, deals in, dispenses, prescribes, administers, or gives away marihuana” to do so legally as long as they paid the taxes. The Tax Cannabis 2010 act proposed by Oaksterdam profiteer Richard Lee is nothing more than stale, regurgitated legislation along with more unnecessary regulations and taxes designed to imprison more cannabis users. Making new laws will do nothing to make cannabis use more free. We should repeal the bad laws that are harming people in the first place. People have freely cultivated and consumed cannabis throughout recorded history and we need it now more than ever.



Cannabis has not even been prohibited for that long. Cannabis was a primary crop of the indigenous people found on the land now known as the USA even before Columbus sailed the ocean blue. In 1610 the colonists of Jamestown were required by law to grow Cannabis. In 1850 it was reported that 8,327 plantations were growing cannabis in the new world. Then El Paso, Texas passed a raciest law in 1914 that said “All Mexicans are Crazy and this stuff (Marijuana) is what does it to them”. That is the actual text of the law that began cannabis prohibition as we know it! In 1937 Harry Anslinger’s Marijuana Tax act was passed effectively outlawing cannabis use. The law was modeled after the earlier Harrison Act of 1914 that taxed all narcotics but failed to control cannabis.




These laws pass because they don’t address the fundamental truths about the cannabis plant. You can’t allow people to grow hemp and outlaw cannabis because they are basically the same plant. It was only when Anslinger associated cannabis with racial phrases such as “marihuana” that any of these regulations passed. Marijuana is a racial slur not a scientific name. When asked if any of the legitimate uses of the hemp plant would be threatened by his new law controlling marijuana Anslinger replied “I would say that they are not only amply protected under this act, but they can go ahead and raise hemp just as they have always done it.” No one bothered to find out that the two are the same plant! Anslinger convinced the lawmakers that certain people (i.e. Mexicans and Africans) become dangerous (i.e. look at white people) to our society (i.e. white people) when they use a marijuana plant (cannabis, hemp, weed, hash, ganja, smoke, pot) You can’t regulate something that will fundamentally set you free and bring people together.

“To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.” Thomas Paine


Cannabis is our most valuable resource but it is difficult to control because it is grows everywhere and can be used for almost anything. Henry Ford built the body panels on his first Model T out of hemp and it was to run on hemp gasoline the car was said to have “grown from the soil”. Hemp was called “a billion dollar crop” by Popular Mechanics and Pharmacopoeia listed cannabis as the primary treatment for over 100 diseases. Anslinger him self testified they needed they law because “fifteen dealers were arrested here (D.C.) for peddling marijuana and they had to be prosecuted for practicing pharmacy without a license." This is the same fake problem we are facing in California today. You don’t need a license to grow or use cannabis. The real problem is that Lee and Anslinger were not getting their cut. Cannabis replaces drugs, fuel, textile, food, alcohol, nicotine and you can grow it at home. This takes money directly out of many private corporations’ bank accounts.



There are many benefits to know about cultivating the cannabis plant such as safer medicine and renewable fuel. Sales tax is already paid on the end products and other manufacturing processes right now. We need total decriminalization for any amount of possesion to see a decrease in crime. If it was free to grow any amount or consume any amount people would stop smoking cigarettes and smoke more joints instead. People would drink less and use cannabis more. With less laws to enforce our jails would get smaller and our justice system would unclog. We would finally begin to rely less on foreign oil by growing our cannabis at home therefore driving less. Our overloaded health care system could be relieved by treating less serious conditions with less serious and more effective medicine. Everyone should make up their own mind based on the truth. The truth about TC2010 is that it has some striking similarities to current prohibition laws that were subtly passed due to the public lack of information effectively snuffing out cannabis use for much of America replacing it with big oil and big pharmacy.


Richard Lee is a self proclaimed conservative business owner from Texas who used over one million dollars of his own money (so far) to write and support TC2010! He would stand to gain personal wealth with the passing of this law selling you pot one ounce at a time.


If TC2010 is passed it would be a crime to have cannabis around anyone under the age of 21. TC2010 would also criminalize public use which is currently not even against the law. Lee claims it will generate revenue and we must ask at who’s cost. Another hard fact is you will only be able to possess one ounce at a time and grow in a 25sqft area. This leaves a lot of grey area because one plant can easily fill 25sqft and be over one ounce. People would still go to jail for possession and there are stiff penalties for distributing with out a license. The proposed taxes are very high and there is no provision for medical cannabis use. This should be the biggest reason for anyone to vote against the act. There is no provision for medical cannabis so arrest would be left up to law enforcemt’s discretion. Is this what you want? I recommend starting your own garden now, before its too late.


Tyler Greene

http://rtgcel.blogspot.com/