Section 3: Industrial and Economic Proposal

Section 3: Industrial and Economic

Purpose:      To allow and encourage Hemp/Cannabis Production and Cultivation for

                        use in all available spheres in which Hemp/Cannabis may be established

                        as an economically viable product;

Encourage the exploitation of Hemp/Cannabis in all Industrial or Marketable capacities and encourage both Individual as well as Corporate participation.

"Make the most of the Indian Hemp Seed and sow it everywhere."

~ George Washington

Hemp/Cannabis is most likely the most versatile natural bio-product known to man with applications ranging from textiles to papers, from fuels to foods, from soap and cosmetics to building materials and plastics.  With such versatility , there remains ample room within any industry for inclusion into nearly any existing consumer market as well as the creation and/or alteration of near countless numbers of other possible markets.  With the breadth of possibilities available, there exists opportunity for both existing Corporate Industry to include Hemp/Cannabis into their portfolio of commodities as well as allowing Private Industry a nearly unlimited resource for new growth and experimentation.  With the encouraged inclusion of both Private and Corporate interest in Hemp/Cannabis as an Industrial Commodity, the potential for Job creation, from designers to manufacturers to book-keepers to janitors, is limited only by the near limitless imagination of the American Entrepreneur Spirit.

 

Purpose:      To establish Hemp/Cannabis as a National Security Resource;

Recognizing that Hemp/Cannabis cultivation is to be essential to National Economic Security, establish 'protectionist' measures to ensure Domestic cultivation as well as manufacture of all processing and cultivation machinery to be done within the borders of the United States.  Non-U.S. Hemp/Cannabis products as well as equipment for the cultivation and/or processing of Hemp/Cannabis should receive restrictive and prohibitive tariffs.  Goal is to ensure U.S. dominance in the Hemp/Cannabis industry as well as ensure required equipment production is not outsourced to potential strategic or economic competitors.

"An acre of the best ground for hemp, is to be selected and sewn in hemp and be kept for a permanent hemp patch."

~ Thomas Jefferson's Garden book 1849

By basing a significant part the economic recovery of the United States on Hemp/Cannabis as a marketable commodity, all efforts should be made to ensure U.S. dominance in this sphere by placing tariffs and moratoriums on non-U.S. produced hemp as well as machinery used in the cultivation, harvesting and processing of Hemp/Cannabis.  This is to ensure both a technological head start for the U.S., a broad base of domestic employment as well as a National Security safeguard against any possible potential economic boycotts on either machinery or spare-parts needed within this Industry.  With specific trading partners with whom the U.S. relies on for specific Industries, such tariffs should be relaxed to accommodate as needed but primary manufacture of Hemp/Cannabis equipment necessary for the maintenance of the Economy should be U.S. produced so as to avoid falling hostage to potentially hostile foreign markets.

Purpose:      To establish and allow for taxation of Hemp/Cannabis related products;

Developing a method of taxation specific to Hemp/Cannabis consumption separate from all other taxes or duties and to establish permanently flexible rates of taxation to allow for economic stimulus.  Taxation rates should be established on a flexible scale for both State and Federal Governments.

"The greatest service that can be rendered to any country is to add a useful plant to its culture."

~ Thomas Jefferson

For the Federal Government, there should be a flexible tax rate between, for example, 10-20%, adjustable to allow for needed economic adjustments based upon the current state of the Union.  State Governments should also be able to establish, for their own revenue purposes, a flexible tax rate between 5-10%.  This Hemp Tax should exist exclusively on all Hemp/Cannabis related products with no further taxation being allowed upon those items subject to the Hemp Tax.  The Author here acknowledges that the rates here stated are arbitrary and based upon nothing more than ease of simple percentages and that, though the concept of a single, solitary tax upon Hemp/Cannabis products should remain the base of this proposal, the percentage tax-rate is admittedly subjective and requests professional auditor review.

Purpose:      To identify, establish and declare where monies received from the

taxation of Hemp/Cannabis related products are proportioned;

Establish a permanent and unchangeable description of where monies received from Hemp/Cannabis taxation are to be disbursed.

“For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving.”

~ I Timothy 4:4

Any Federal revenue gained from an exclusive Tax upon Hemp/Cannabis products should, being that such a Tax is to be established by mutual consent of the Citizens of the United States, that all proceeds of that Tax be readily accountable to the Citizens prior to the establishment of such Tax.  In this case, an agreed upon, limited and permanently exclusive series of programs falling under six primary categories wherein the whole of the Citizenry benefits equally.  These six target areas are to be a) Law Enforcement, b) Fire/Safety/Emergency funding, c) Education, d) Universal Health Care, e) National Infrastructure Upgrade and Repair and f) Veterans Affairs and Assistance.

All State revenue gained from an exclusive Tax upon Hemp/Cannabis products should be left to the Citizens of each State to decide on how that revenue should be used.