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ヘンプと法律

THE 1937 MARIJUANA TAX STAMP ACT
v.
UNITED STATES
CONSTITUTION

Hemp the Cannabis sativa plant, was legal for all uses to U.S. Citizens beforethe Marijuana Tax Act of 1937. What happened? How did the government takecontrol of drug policy? How did the Prohibition of intoxicating liquor fit in tothe story? What are the present arguments made to justify federal governmentcontrol of drug policy? How are the laws changing?

So many questions need answers.The movement to re-legalize the hemp plant has had several surgesin the past 63 years, including its use in World War II, the sixties revolution,the re-discovery of industrial uses of hemp and the Medical Marijuanamovement. Included in this section will be some of the artifacts of the effortto re-legalize the plant, buttons, bumper stickers, posters, fliers, pamphletsand books that the museum has collected.

The legal nightmare of hemp prohibition went on long enough to cause the home invasion murder of Donald Scott. No drugs were present. The various police agencies had already divided up Scott's 4 million dollar property on paper. These tactics over a relatively harmless plant are an outrage. The government will only be stopped with re-legalization of hemp, all hemp.


The Ventura County District Attorney's REPORT ON THE DEATH OF DONALD SCOTT. March 30, 1993.	We have solutions to the "drug war." We have the precedent of the first prohibition, which ended one day in 1933. Prohibition II will end one day, also.

"The general rule is that an unconstitutional statute, though having the form and name of law, is in reality no law, but is wholly void...its unconstitutionality dates from the time of its enactment...No one is bound to obey an unconstitutional law and no courts are bound to enforce it." -16 Am Jur 2d 177

And where did the money go?


Our elected officials make the bad laws as well as the good ones. We need jury nullification to help get rid of bad law.	Question authority!

The only freedom which counts is the freedom to do what some other people think to be wrong. There is no point in demanding freedom to do that which all will applaud. All the so-called liberties or rights are things which have to be asserted against others who claim that if such things are to be allowed their own rights are infringed or their own liberties threatened.

This is always true, even when we speak of the freedom to worship, of the right of free speech or association, or of public assembly. If we are to allow freedoms at all there will constantly be complaints that either the liberty itself or the way in which it is exercised is being abused, and, if it is a genuine freedom, these complaints will often be justified. There is no way of having a free society in which there is not abuse. Abuse is the very hallmark of liberty. -Former Lord Chief Justice Hailsham, "The Dilemma of democracy"


	NORML POSTER AD.

A 1994 call for help. "...in California we have an initiative process to get around cowardly officials lacking the nerve to do the right thing." Two years later the people passed Proposition 215 allowing some people to use Cannabis, but not all.

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