Our goal is to introduce the following Initiatives
O 24 State Voter Ballot Initiatives O 26 State Ballot Referendumsthe Cannabis Hemp and Health Initiative
fashioned exactly after the California Hemp and Health Initiative
Written by: Jack HererThe Natural Law, No Patent on Life Initiative
Written by an Anonymous FriendFollowing you will find a copy of the Initiatives and the list of 50 States.
Along with the 50 state initiatives we are also introducing the same type of initiative for DC/MD and VA/WV ... email for more info...
We are gathering a reserve list to sign for these initiatives...for updated information on the initiatives and their progress.
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California Cannabis Hemp & Health Initiative
AN ACT TO AMEND THE HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE OF CALIFORNIA:
I. Add Section 11362.6 to the Health and Safety Code of California, any laws or policies to the contrary notwithstanding:
1. No person, individual, or corporate entity shall be arrested or
prosecuted, be denied any right or privilege, nor be subject to any
criminal or civil penalties for the possession, cultivation,
transportation, distribution, or consumption of cannabis hemp
marijuana, including:
(a) Cannabis hemp industrial products.(b) Cannabis hemp medicinal preparations.(c) Cannabis hemp nutritional products.(d) Cannabis hemp religious and spiritual products.(e) Cannabis hemp recreational and euphoric use and products.2. Definition of terms:
(a) The terms "cannabis hemp" and “cannabis hemp marijuana” mean the natural, non-genetically modified plant hemp, cannabis, marihuana, marijuana, cannabis sativa L, cannabis Americana, cannabis chinensis, cannabis indica, cannabis ruderalis, cannabis sativa, or any variety of cannabis, including any derivative, concentrate, extract, flower, leaf, particle, preparation, resin, root, salt, seed, stalk, stem, or any product thereof.(b) The term "cannabis hemp industrial products" means all products made from cannabis hemp that are not designed or intended for human consumption, including, but not limited to: clothing, building materials, paper, fiber, fuel, lubricants, plastics, paint, seed for cultivation, animal feed, veterinary medicine, oil, or any other product that is not designed for internal human consumption; as well as cannabis hemp plants used for crop rotation, erosion control, pest control, weed control, or any other horticultural or environmental purposes, for example, the reversal of the Greenhouse Effect and toxic soil reclamation.(c) The term "cannabis hemp medicinal preparations" means all products made from cannabis hemp that are designed, intended, or used for human consumption for the treatment of any human disease or condition, for pain relief, or for any healing purpose, including but not limited to the treatment or relief of: Alzheimer's and pre-Alzheimer's disease, stroke, arthritis, asthma, cramps, epilepsy, glaucoma, migraine, multiple sclerosis, nausea, premenstrual syndrome, side effects of cancer chemotherapy, fibromyalgia, sickle cell anemia, spasticity, spinal injury, stress, easement of post-traumatic stress disorder, Tourette syndrome, attention deficit disorder, immunodeficiency, wasting syndrome from AIDS or anorexia; use as an antibiotic, antibacterial, anti-viral, or anti-emetic; as a healing agent, or as an adjunct to any medical or herbal treatment. Mental conditions not limited to bipolar, depression, attention deficit disorder, or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, shall be conditions considered for medical use.(d) The term "cannabis hemp nutritional products" means cannabis hemp for consumption by humans and animals as food, including but not limited to: seed, seed protein, seed oil, essential fatty acids, seed cake, dietary fiber, or any preparation or extract thereof.(e) The term "cannabis hemp euphoric products" means cannabis hemp intended for personal recreational or religious use, other than cannabis hemp industrial products, cannabis hemp medicinal 'preparations, or cannabis hemp nutritional products.(f) The term "personal use" means the internal consumption of cannabis hemp by people 21 years of age or older for any relaxational, meditative, religious, spiritual, recreational, or other purpose other than sale.(g) The term "commercial production" means the production of cannabis hemp products for sale or profit under the conditions of these provisions.3. Industrial cannabis hemp farmers, manufacturers, processors, and
distributors shall not be subject to any special zoning requirement,
licensing fee, or tax that is excessive, discriminatory, or prohibitive.
4. Cannabis hemp medicinal preparations are hereby restored to the list
of available medicines in California. Licensed physicians shall not be
penalized for, nor restricted from, prescribing or recommending
cannabis hemp for medical purposes to any patient, regardless of
age. No tax shall be applied to prescribed cannabis hemp medicinal
preparations. Medical research shall be encouraged. No
recommending physician shall be subject to any professional
licensing review or hearing as a result of recommending or approving
medical use of cannabis hemp marijuana.
5. Personal use of cannabis hemp euphoric products.
(a) No permit, license, or tax shall be required for the non-commercial cultivation, transportation, distribution, or consumption of cannabis hemp.(b) Testing for inactive and/or inert residual cannabis metabolites shall not be required for employment or insurance, nor be considered in determining employment, other impairment, or intoxication.(c) When a person falls within the conditions of these exceptions, the offense laws do not apply and only the exception laws apply.6. Use of cannabis hemp products for religious or spiritual purposes
shall be considered an inalienable right; and shall be protected by the
full force of the State and Federal Constitutions.
7. Commerce in cannabis hemp euphoric products shall be limited to
adults, 21 years of age and older, and shall be regulated in a manner
analogous to California's wine industry model. For the purpose of
distinguishing personal from commercial production, 99 flowering
female plants and 12 pounds of dried, cured cannabis hemp flowers,
bud, not leaf, produced per adult, 21 years of age and older, per year
shall be considered as being for personal use.
8. The manufacture, marketing, distribution, or sales between adults of
equipment or accessories designed to assist in the planting,
cultivation, harvesting, curing, processing, packaging, storage,
analysis, consumption, or transportation of cannabis hemp plants,
industrial cannabis hemp products, cannabis hemp medicinal
preparations, cannabis hemp nutritional products, cannabis hemp
euphoric products, or any cannabis hemp product shall not be
prohibited.
9. No California law enforcement personnel or funds shall be used to
assist or aid and abet in the enforcement of Federal cannabis hemp
marijuana laws involving acts which are hereby no longer illegal in the
State of California.
10. Any person who threatens the enjoyment of these provisions is
guilty of a misdemeanor. The maximum penalties and fines of a
misdemeanor may be imposed.
II. Repeal, delete, and expunge any and all existing statutory laws that
conflict with the provisions of this initiative.
1. Enactment of this initiative shall include: amnesty, immediate release
from prison, jail, parole, and probation, and clearing, expungement,
and deletion of all criminal records for all persons currently charged
with, or convicted of any non-violent cannabis hemp marijuana
offenses included in this initiative which are hereby no longer illegal in
the State of California. People who fall within this category that
triggered an original sentence are included within this provision.
2. Within 60 days of the passage of this Act, the Attorney General shall
develop and distribute a one-page application, providing for the
destruction of all cannabis hemp marijuana criminal records in
California for any such offense covered by this Act. Such forms shall
be distributed to district and city attorneys and made available at all
police departments in the State to persons hereby affected. Upon
filing such form with any Superior Court and a payment of a fee of
$10.00, the Court shall liberally construe these provisions to benefit
the defendant in furtherance of the amnesty and dismissal provision
of this section. Upon the Court's ruling under this provision the arrest
record shall be set aside and be destroyed. Such persons may then
truthfully state that they have never been arrested or convicted of any
cannabis hemp marijuana related offense which is hereby no longer
illegal in the State of California. This shall be deemed to be a finding
of factual innocence under
California Penal Code Section 851.8 et seq.
III. The legislature is authorized upon thorough investigation, to enact
legislation using reasonable standards to:
1. License concessionary establishments to distribute cannabis hemp
euphoric products in a manner analogous to California's wine industry
model. Sufficient community outlets shall be licensed to provide
reasonable commercial access to persons of legal age, so as to
discourage and prevent the misuse of, and illicit traffic in, such
products. Any license or permit fee required by the State for
commercial production, distribution or use shall not exceed
$1,000.00.
2. Place an excise tax on commercial sale of cannabis hemp euphoric
products, analogous to California's wine industry model, so long as
no excise tax or combination of excise taxes shall exceed $10.00
per ounce.
3. Determine an acceptable and uniform standard of impairment based
on performance testing, to restrict persons impaired by cannabis
hemp euphoric products from operating a motor vehicle or heavy
machinery, or otherwise engaging in conduct that may affect public
safety.
4. Regulate the personal use of cannabis hemp euphoric products in
enclosed and/or restricted public places.
IV. Pursuant to the Ninth and Tenth Amendments to the Constitution of
the United States, the people of California hereby repudiate and
challenge Federal cannabis hemp marijuana prohibitions that conflict
with this Act.
V. Severability: If any provision of this Act, or the application of any
such provision to any person or circumstance, shall be held invalid by
any court, the remainder of this Act, to the extent it can be given
effect, or the application of such provisions to persons or
circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid, shall
not be affected thereby, and to this end the provisions of this Act are
severable.
VI. Construction: If any rival or conflicting initiative regulating any matter
addressed by this act receives the higher affirmative vote, then all
non-conflicting parts shall become operative.
VII. Purpose of Act: This Act is an exercise of the police powers of the
State for the protection of the safety, welfare, health, and peace of
the people and the environment of the State, to protect the industrial
and medicinal uses of cannabis hemp, to eliminate the unlicensed
and unlawful cultivation, selling, and dispensing of cannabis hemp;
and to encourage temperance in the consumption of cannabis hemp
euphoric products. It is hereby declared that the subject matter of
this Act involves, in the highest degree, the ecological, economic,
social, and moral well-being and safety of the State and of all its
people. All provisions of this Act shall be liberally construed for the
accomplishment of these purposes: to respect human rights, to
promote tolerance, and to end cannabis hemp prohibition..
CANNABIS/HEMP
Alaska
7/
24,000
Arizona
65/
230,500
Arkansas
58/
77,500
California
324/
694,500
Colorado
203/
76,500
Florida
95/
611,500
Idaho
38/
46,000
Illinois
84/
280,000
Maine
112/
55,500
Mass.
76/
78,000
Michigan
61/
380,500
Mississippi
38/
92,000
Missouri
49/
95,000
Montana
48/
45,000
Nebraska
53/
114,000
Nevada
55/
59,000
N. Dakota
71/
26,000
Ohio
12/
402,500
Oklahoma
57/
139,000
Oregon
62/
110,500
S. Dakota
14/
34,000
Utah
10/
92,000
Washington
15/
225,000
Wyoming
28/
29,5000
#'s represent signatures
the former # represents the reserve amount
the later # represents the amount needed
(#'s are rounded up)
NO PATENTS ON LIFE INITIATIVE
Where as we the people of the State of California,
Understand that the Earth is a biosphere that exists and depends on the natural laws that brought it to be in existence in the first place and long before and beyond the reach of human opinion and or 'jurisdiction' In as far as our ability to change or live outside of that law. "We are the earth, through the plants and animals that nourish us.We are the rains and the oceans that flow through our veins.We are the breath of the forests of the land, and the plants of the sea.We are human animals, related to all other life as descendants of the firstborn cell.We share with these kin a common history, written in our genes.We share a common present, filled with uncertainty.And we share a common future, as yet untold.We humans are but one of thirty million species weaving the thin layer of life enveloping the world.The stability of communities of living things depends upon this diversity.Linked in that web, we are interconnected -- using, cleansing, sharing and replenishing the fundamental elements of life.Our home, planet Earth, is finite; all life shares its resources and the energy from the sun, and therefore has limits to growth.For the first time, we have touched those limits.When we compromise the air, the water, the soil and the variety of life, we steal from the endless future to serve the fleeting present.And so, we the people of the State of California do hereby direct the Attorney General of the State of California
To prepare and file suit to Stop the Federal Patent office from granting any and all patents on life regardless of what form it appears in.The Attorney General is hereby directed:
To file for temporary and permanent Federal Restraining orders to immediately Stop the granting of these patents on life.The California State Attorney General is hereby directed:
To show the Federal courts in the afore mentioned suit that Issuing patents on life itself is a direct violation of the laws of nature that results in everybody's natural rights being Egregiously and irreparably violated.The California State Attorney General is hereby directed:
To gather and present to the Federal courts all available science that now exists Around the world that goes to prove human existence not only depends on the laws of nature being acknowledged and adhered to, but Those humans are also a part of the nature that provides for our existence and not separate from it.The California State Attorney General is hereby directed:
To further utilize these self evident facts of life to show that to issue patents on Any life is no different from issuing patents on human life and that 'Nature'/the living world is 'owned' by no one individual or Corporation and is in fact 'owned' by all people and by the living world itself.The California State Attorney General is hereby directed:
To begin preparing the no patents on life suit immediately upon passage of this initiative by the voters and is further directed to file said suite within in no less than 90 days from the passage of this initiative by the people of the State of California..NATURAL LAW
Alaska
7/
24,000
Arizona
65 /
230,500
Arkansas
58/
77,500
California
324/
694,500
Colorado
203/
76,500
Florida
95/
611,500
Idaho
38/
46,000
Illinois
84/
280,000
Maine
112/
55,500
Mass.
76/
78,000
Michigan
61/
380,500
Mississippi
38/
92,000
Missouri
49/
95,000
Montana
48/
45,000
Nebraska
53/
114,000
#'s represent signatures
the former # represents the reserve amount
the later # represents the amount needed
(#'s are rounded up)
Oklahoma
57/
139,000
Oregon
62/
110,500
S. Dakota
14/
34,000
Utah
10/
92,000
Washington
15/
225,000
Wyoming
28/
29,5000
DID YOU KNOW!?
That there are 718 U.S.
Patents on file with/refference
to Cannabinoids
(that's a jump from 698 in the previous year 2008)...
and for Hemp, there are 7,554...Do your own search
quite possibly this belongs on the list of things that make you say, hmm?........
Nevada
55/
59,000
N. Dakota
71/
26,000
Ohio
112/
402,500
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