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Hemp fans look toward Lyster Dewey's past, and the Pentagon, for higher ground May 13, 2010.
This was released to The Washington Post

Apparently the USDA grew Hemp in Arlington Farms for decades, on what is now the site of the Pentagon building. The banning of Hemp is truly a recent and corrupt event which this absurdity proves.
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Greenerfest Returns Hemp Activism To Its Roots May 13, 2010.

Inaugural event brings hemp movement back to Venice Beach While the medical marijuana movement is feeling good about how far it’s come in the last decade, another segment of the green movement is waiting for its time in the sun. Weather permitting, that time may come May 15th at the Venice Beach Boardwalk, Windward Recreation Center.
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Record-High Ratio of Americans in Prison Feb 28, 2008.
This was released to Associated Press

For the first time in U.S. history, more than one of every 100 adults is in jail or prison, according to a new report documenting America's rank as the world's No. 1 incarcerator. It urges states to curtail corrections spending by placing fewer low-risk offenders behind bars. We have been talking about this for years, and many of these are low-risk offenders. It was bad enough previously and now worse than ever, and ruining society. In fact, the California Health and Hemp Initiative 2008 would improve that situation.
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Official lao.ca.gov report on fiscal impact of CHI08. Jan 21, 2008.
This was posted on Youth Federation

We found this 070772.pdf on lao.ca.gov, the Legislative Analyst's Office for California, which summarizes the fiscal effects of the CCHHI2008 as follows: 1) Savings in the several tens of millions annually to state and local governments and 2) a potential increase of a few million dollars annually to the state drug abuse program. Are they serious? We think the benefits will be much greater.
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Schwarzenegger Vetos Hemp again. October 11, 2007.
This was posted on Ca Norml

Sacramento, Oct. 11th, 2007: For the second year in a row, Gov. Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill to permit industrial cultivation of hemp. The bill was sponsored by Assemblymen Mark Leno (S.F.) and Chuck DeVore (Irvine). The measure would have established a demonstration program for state-licensed farmers to cultivate hemp as an economic product. Text of AB 684
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Youth Federation on KZSC. December 2007.
This was broadcast on KZSC in Santa Cruz

Youth Federation recorded off the airwaves.
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Santa Cruz Hemp Museum opens as a new grassroots initiative gets underway. March 8, 2007.
This was an article from oaksterdamnews.com

A new (at the time) Hemp Museum opened its doors at 2017 N. Pacific Ave. in Santa Cruz to let people know that, far from being a “devil weed,” as Drug War propagandists like to brand it, cannabis hemp is a useful farm crop and something of a planetary savior. (First article to mention the new initiative.)
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DEA Admits 98% of Domestically Eradicated Marijuana is Actually Wild Hemp. September 7, 2006.
This was an article from norml.org

According to data released by the DEA, 98 percent of all marijuana plants confiscated in the United States. And here we thought they were the Drug Enoforcement Agency? Everyone knows you can smoke Hemp all day with no effect.
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