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| Midge Potts Announced in June the she will seek Missouri's US Senate seat in 2010. |
Midge Potts for Congress
Contact: Midge Potts
Midge_Potts_US_Senate@MySpace.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 25th, 2009
Third Element of Economic Transformation Plan Revealed By Senate Candidate
Potts Says She Would Submit Bill in US Senate to Allow Farmers to Grow Cannabis
Springfield, MO -- On Monday November 16th, Midge Potts revealed that the third element of her Economic Transformation Plan would be to repeal any and all federal statutes that outlaw growing hemp and marijuana in the United States. While appearing as a guest on the conservative talk radio Super Dave Show, airing daily on KFBL 1060am in Springfield Missouri, Dave agreed with Midge that marijuana should be made legal.
"If American farmers could grow cannabis, it would be an incredible jump start for our economy," Said Ms. Potts, "Besides the tax revenue we will gain from recreational use, the United States will also benefit by utilizing hemp's industrial uses as a replacement for petroleum products such as plastic, soap, rope, canvass and many other everyday items in the new Green Economy."
In her June 2009 campaign announcement, Ms Potts spoke of the Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act as the first element of a five tier Economic Transformation Plan. The second element calls for a massive tax restructuring in the United States to include an amendment to the Constitution dismantling the Internal Revenue Service.
If elected to the US Senate in 2010, Midge Potts says she also intends to submit a bill to Congress that would allow growing cannabis on a person's own private property, and allow people to use their harvest as they deem appropriate in their own home just like any other common herb.
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Good for her! It takes courage to stand up publicly and speak the truth, under the quasi-police-state atmosphere of the drug witch hunt. But it is interesting that Americans, in the privacy of the voting booth, don't always conform to the Reefer Madness orthodoxy which the professional politicians all defend.
For example, the medical marijuana ballot question has passed in 11 out of 12 states where voters could vote on it directly. Medical use of pot outpolled Bill Clinton in California in 1996; and medical marijuana also beat G. W. Bush in Montana in 2004; and medical marijuana even got more votes in 2008 in Michigan than President Obama did.
Although the ballot measures were vigorously opposed by the federal government, narcotics bureaucracy, and police unions, nevertheless medicinal cannabis beat EACH of the last three Presidents IN THEIR OWN STRONGHOLDS.
Colleen Bonniwell, a statewide candidate for the Grassroots Party in Minnesota a few years ago, once said: "The man-made law that outlaws marijuana does not have the force of the Creation behind it, only the creation of force."
I hope people in Missouri rally around and build a genuine grassroots campaign for Midge Potts. You don't need to be a pot smoker to know that drug prohibition is a costly, counter-productive failure, and that tax revenue from cannabis could balance state budgets.
Legalized cannabis cultivation for food, fuel, fiber, herbal medicine, and recreational enjoyment would also furnish a lot of jobs. Historically, Missouri was once a national center of hemp fiber cultivation! Hemp should be grown not merely for rope, but also as a great resource for textile and paper production. And despite the best efforts of entrenched interests and puritan fanatics to lie to people about it for the last 70 years, the truth is that as a relaxing, sociable way to get high, pot is just a whole lot safer than alcohol.
Please read This Post! The last line talks about research for PTSD. If not for cancer PT. Then how about medicine For our Troops returning from War. They felt the taxpayers should be informed that there was every legitimate reason for the field of public health to continue large scale research on cannabis medicine and therapies. All the participants, it seems, believed this. Many of them (such as Mechoulam) believed that cannabis would be one of the world's major medicines by the mid-1980s. In March 1997, Mechoulam, in a speech at the Bio-Fach in Frankfurt, Germany, still believed that cannabis is the world's best overall medicine. In 2006 Mechoulam started using cannabis to treat Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
Afghanistan has done so well growing poppies, We should follow suit like them and other third world countries in growing addictive substances in our own backyards. Just another step in BO's quest to take us down this road of immorality and socialismj.
Why do Afghanistan's poppy fields bring in so much money? ONLY because of prohibition, which creates artificial risks that jack up prices way beyond the cost of production.
If opium poppy cultivation were legal, as it USED TO BE in the USA, then people could indeed grow poppies in their backyards. And if a few sorry people became drug addicts, they could do so without resorting to crime to pay it.
The REST OF US would be safer, because the way to put the drug gangs out of business is to take the drug business out of the gangs.
But that is irrelevant to this story! This candidate is talking about Cannabis---a non-deadly "substance" (natural herb) which is mildly habit-forming, rather than paralyzingly addictive.
Pot is much much safer both pharmacologically and sociologically than opiates, or for that matter, alcohol.
Besides, most Missourians don't object to Anheuser Busch being the state's most prosperous industry. . . brewing their addictive poison. In North Carolina, addictive tobacco is a major industry; in Kentucky they double down with both tobacco AND whiskey. So why is it a crime to grow ganja?
Mark Twain, Missouri's famous son, once wrote: "Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits." [Hint: he was being satirical and was actually poking fun at the prohibitionists.]
Truly, nothing could be more unAmerican and more communistic than these prohibition laws which tell American citizens what they can and cannot eat, smoke, or drink.
If you think that most Americans can't be trusted to make intelligent decisions about what they want to ingest, then you yourself don't have the faith in freedom which our founding fathers believed in.
Sadly, "Balmy" thinks everybody else is as weak-willed and unable to handle the responsibility of freedom as she is. She wants to run everybody else's personal, private life---isn't that communistic? And she sets herself up as the supreme judge of morality and immorality . . . I suppose her qualification is the brilliant mixture of arrogance and ignorance she brings to the job.