Today, most people at least know of or are familiar with THC and CBD. But not many people talk about many of the lesser known cannabinoids. Some of the better understood include CBC (Cannabichromene), CBG (Cannabigerol), and CBN (Cannabinol). Many other cannabinoids including the few we’re going to talk about are non-psychoactive and can be effective in treating a number of symptoms.
   Being lesser known cannabinoids CBG, CBC, and CBN can be difficult to find in isolated forms, with only a few reputable suppliers manufacturing these isolates. On the other hand, you may have better luck finding products that have higher amounts of these lesser known cannabinoids. Keep in mind that these compounds typically are more effective as a group; this is known as the entourage effect.

CBC (Cannabichromene)

   Let’s get into it with CBC…Cannabichromene is a rare, non-psychoactive cannabinoid, usually found at low levels of <1% when present. Some research has suggested that CBC may work as an antibiotic and may be effective in combating bacterial infections. CBC also appears to reduce pain, work as a potent anti-inflammatory agent, act as an antidepressant, and ease the symptoms of menopause.
   Surprisingly, CBC has shown the potential to not only protect the brain, but actually encourage it to develop new brain cells in the areas specifically responsible for memory and learning. When the brain discontinues development of new cells in these areas, individuals become at higher risk for neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s. CBC may be a great aid in preventing or delaying the onset of such conditions; this has resulted in some patients using the compound for its potential neuroprotectant properties.

CBN (Cannabinol)

   THC ages we get a cannabinoid with a wide range of effects known as CBN. Essentially cannabinol is an oxidative degradation product of THC. It may result from improper storage or curing and extensive processing, such as when making concentrates.  It is usually formed when THC is exposed to UV light and oxygen over time. Although some see this conversion as a bad thing, there are others that prefer cannabis that has reached this stage as its effects change.
   If you have sleeping troubles then CBN may be the cannabinoid for you as it is potentially the most sedative cannabinoid researched. Many users of Cannabinol use it for these sedative effects to treat or ease insomnia.
   CBN has also shown positive effects in appetite stimulation for patients suffering from anorexia, cancer, and other conditions that have a negative impact towards appetite.
   Research also suggests that CBN works as a powerful antibiotic. Along with CBC, CBN has been shown to effectively treat antibiotic-resistant infections like methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
  Patients suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or Lou Gehrig’s disease may find some relief with CBN as studies have found it helpful in slowing the disease’s progression. Researchers were able to delay the onset of ALS symptoms in mice treated with CBN, showed one study.
   According to additional research, CBN showed to be effective in patients with glaucoma by effectively lowering ocular pressure. Ocular pressure is the symptom which can cause blindness in glaucoma patients.

CBG (Cannabigerol)
 
  Last but certainly not least we have CBG. Cannabigerol is a non-psychoactive cannabinoid commonly found in cannabis. CBGa is the precursor to both THCa and CBDa in the plant usually found at low levels of <1% when present.
   Similar to CBC and CBN, CBG has also been shown to have antibiotic properties. That isn’t the only potential use of this cannabinoid however.
CBG has showed promising results as a powerful pain reliever and may even be more effective than THC or CBD. Due to these pain relieving properties, CBG may also be effective with the side effects of menopause. With that being said, CBG has also been shown to help prevents bone loss and the onset of osteoporosis after menopause.
   Among the benefits of CBG include patients that use the compound to regulate their emotions. Research has shown that CBG raises serotonin levels in the brain, giving promises that it could work as a moderate antidepressant.
  In closing, this cannabinoid also has been shown to have anti-tumor properties, and the potential to be especially helpful for individuals with skin cancer. CBG also has the potential to help with other skin conditions including alleviating psoriasis by preventing reddening of the skin.

​     After signing the Farm bill and legalizing hemp in the United States last December, the industry has experienced exponential growth: “Reports and Data” suggest the market could be worth more than $13 billion by 2026. While hemp-derived CBD products are popping up everywhere, hemp also has major implications for sustainable clothing. Recently denim icon Levi Strauss & Co. has made significant progress in making this a reality.
     Levi's, in March, unveiled a collaboration with the Outerknown that includes a pair of jeans and jacket made from a blend of 69% cotton and 31% hemp that the company claims feels like pure cotton. This is significant because hemp uses significantly less water and chemicals than cotton to produce. Hemp however, is a more difficult material to work with as the fibers come from the stalk of the plant whereas cotton is derived from a puffy bud at the top of the plant.
     "It's a longer, stiffer, coarser fiber," stated Levi's head of global product innovation, Paul Dillinger, to Business Insider. "It doesn't want to be turned into something soft. It wants to be turned into rope." Levi's has formulated a way to soften the hemp fibers and able blend them with the cotton in a way that uses significantly less water than the process used to turn hemp fibers into a rough material. "It's great that it's resonating with the consumer, but it's more important that it's helping to future-proof our supply chain," he said.
     "Our intention is to take this to the core of the line, to blend it into the line, to make this a part of the Levi's portfolio," Dillinger said; Entailing Levi’s hemp is an ongoing project that is intended to become a large part of the company’s bottom line and not just part of a niche market
     Dillinger directed that Levi's is committed to improving the quality of its cottonized-hemp aiming for a 50/50 blend for most apparel, and 100% hemp for specific products. Dillinger also expects a cottonized-hemp garment that is all hemp and feels all cotton in the foreseeable future.
     Dillinger expressed the need for cotton alternatives. Being familiar with the status of hemp, it wasn’t until European hemp research discovered by Levi’s, that the solution became apparent. Levi's would not reveal its partners or details of its breakthroughs, except to say that it had a market-ready material after three years.
   When Levi's finds achieves production of 100% cottonized-hemp clothing, "We're going to go from a garment that goes from 3,781 L of fresh water, 2,655 of that in just the fiber cultivation," "We take out more than 2/3 of the total water impact to the garment. That's saving a lot."
Dillinger, although optimistic, quickly pointed out that he doesn't want hype around the hemp industry. Levi's and its competitors aren’t fully replacing cotton or revolutionizing the industry overnight. There is still many years of research and development, and it is likely that hemp will be one of many cotton alternatives.
     "So often there's the assumption that to purchase a sustainably-made product is going to involve a sacrifice, and that the choice is between something ethically made or something that's cute," he said. "You don't have to sacrifice to buy sustainably." The idea behind the line is the customers won’t even know the difference.

     Two bills that could legalize cannabis at the federal have been introduced into congress by U.S. Representatives Jared Polis (D-CO) and Earl Blumenauer (D-OR). These bills would establish regulation of cannabis similar to alcohol, and would also put on federal excise tax on recreational cannabis while leaving states to choose their own side.
     HR1013 the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act would remove cannabis from the scheduling of the controlled substances act while transitioning oversight of marihuana from the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to the Bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms, and explosives. This would also provide a safety nets for individual states, freeing them from intervention by federal agencies.
     HR1014 the Marijuana Tax Revenue Act of 2015 would establish a federal excise tax on the non-medical sales of cannabis as well as an occupational tax for marijuana businesses. HR1014 will also provide civil and criminal penalties for those who fail to comply with federal regulations. The federal excise tax would begin at 10%, rising as the black market is phased out to a cap of 25%.
    HR1013 & HR1014 have been assigned to a congressional committee on February 20, 2015, which will consider it before possibly sending it on to the House or Senate as a whole.
     Currently 23 states have medical marihuana laws in place, while 4 states including the District of Columbia have legalized recreational cannabis; 11 more states have passed legislation for low THC strains to be used for some medical conditions. The laws are always changing and there currently other legislation being debated such as Maryland who decriminalized last year, and is now looking to pass regulation and taxation.

     August 29, 2013, Attorney General Eric Holder made the call to the governors of Washington and Colorado informing them that the Justice Department would not block the state’s implementation of voter passed legal recreational marijuana programs. Justice will cooperate with the states, even though federal law still prohibits the possession, cultivation, and distribution of cannabis under almost all circumstances. (Cannabis is grown by the government for research, and provided to four or five patients under the compassionate IND program of the Food and Drug Administration.) To carry out this policy, Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole issued a four-page memorandum to all United States attorneys.
     This is a tremendous political victory for the millions of Americans who have been working to end marijuana prohibition. It was set up by the votes in Washington and Colorado last November when more than 55 percent of voters in those states approved initiatives to legalize the production and distribution of recreational marijuana under strict controls and taxation in those states. After decades of struggle by NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws), DPA (Drug Policy Alliance, formerly the Drug Policy Foundation), ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union), and MPP (Marijuana Policy Project) the foundation had been laid for those votes. Countless citizen activists associated with those groups, and newer organizations such as stopthedrugwar.org, SSDP (Students for Sensible Drug Policy), LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition), SAFER, and Marijuana Majority just to name a few, and risk omitting many who played essential roles, helped create the political and legal climate in which the Obama administration and Justice Department were compelled to retreat.
     This decision will unleash enormous energy to adopt marijuana legalization programs in other states. In almost every state legislature, bills will be introduced. In many states, citizens will begin to gather signatures to put cannabis legalization on the ballot. While some of these measures will be unsuccessful initially, in the next decade, those in most of America and many parts of the world are going to be living with legal marijuana. Today's announcement accelerates the entire timetable for marijuana law reform.
     Energy must now be directed to developing the appropriate social controls for legal marijuana. We have seen very positive changes in how we behave with alcohol and tobacco. Social norms that effectively discourage young people from marijuana use, especially heavy use, need to be developed and propagated. We need to anticipate the risks that commercialization of marijuana pose in the promotion of brands and advertising that encourages heavy or inappropriate use.
     Importantly, this announcement and memorandum explicitly further legitimizes state experimentation with marijuana distribution for medical purposes. Unfortunately, they do not transfer marijuana from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act to a schedule recognizing its medical legitimacy. That is an important development that must be taken to expedite the delivery to the public of marijuana as a medicine in a way that doctors can know what their patients will be using, and which will expand the opportunity to refine dosage and cannabinoid profiles. Maryland's health authorities hope to use its medical marijuana program that takes effect on Oct. 1, 2013 to build this research base.
     Those who remain wary of the idiosyncratic prosecutorial practices in U.S. Attorney offices around the country will focus on the last paragraph of the memorandum that affirms that federal law regarding marijuana remains valid and any violation may be investigated and prosecuted where it "serves an important federal interest." As those of us who have observed the waves of federal raids against dispensaries in California, Michigan, Montana, Washington and Colorado, federal prosecutors and DEA agents have used the federal law to harass and persecute doctors and medical marijuana providers. Hopefully, those days are over!

The heart of today's Justice Department memorandum is the recognition of:
     The enactment of state laws that endeavor to authorize marijuana production, distribution, and possession by establishing a regulatory scheme for these purposes affects this traditional joint federal-state approach to narcotics enforcement. The Department's guidance in this memorandum rests on its expectation that states and local governments that have enacted laws authorizing marijuana-related conduct will implement strong and effective regulatory and enforcement systems...

     Justice warns that these systems must be carried out in practice, that the states "provide the necessary resources" and "enforce their laws and regulations in a manner that ensures they do not undermine federal enforcement priorities."
     This announcement is historic noting the recognition by the U.S. Department of Justice, which has been the primary obstacle for reform of marijuana laws for 40 years. This shows that the political reality has changed. Sadly, there are tens of thousands of persons in prison today for using, growing, and distributing marijuana. The number of those imprisoned for marijuana is going to start coming down. We need to call upon President Obama and the governors of the various states to start systematically commuting the sentences of marijuana prisoners. State prosecutors need to stop seeking prison or jail sentences for marijuana offenders. In cities across the nation, mayors and city councils must direct their police departments to stop marijuana possession arrests.
    Today, it is profoundly important to recognize that the Obama administration has joined the rapidly growing consensus that there is no moral justification for punishing marijuana use and those who provide marijuana to adult users.

     The federal government could not care less about pot smokers, and a bunch of people feeling happy and eating nachos late at night while talking about the universe and maybe a little “green” peace. In fact, the U.S. government only cares about keeping industrial farming illegal because that will ruin the corporate medicine, power, and fuel conglomerates. Think about it; cigarettes and alcohol cause diseases and deaths by the thousands, but you never hear of anybody overdosing on pot. So what is so bad about marijuana? Hemp is what is so “bad” about cannabis, and the United States government does not want or need the competition. If they legalize cannabis, they legalize the growing of hemp; it is that simple. 
     If you do not know about it already, no plant on earth, not even soy; has ever spawned as many different products, nor as much controversy as hemp. You can buy hemp clothing, paper, milk, oil, and many other products at your local stores. One Canadian company actually built an electric car out of hemp. Hemp is “taxonomically identical” to marijuana, as both are classified as Cannabis Sativa L, and the only true difference between them is the concentration of THC, or delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, the psychoactive substance in pot, of which marijuana usually contains at least three percent.
     We could say goodbye to pesticides, GMOs, and fertilizers. Hemp can be used for natural medicine, food, textiles, medicine, paper, clothing and affordable shelter. Hemp can serve as natural fuel for homes, cars, and businesses. The power companies that charge you hundreds of dollars every month would be crippled. Thousands of retail “conglomerates” would go under. Gas companies would go bankrupt. People could get healthy, instead of eating processed foods and GMO pesticide-laden, cancer-causing food. That is right; cancer could be prevented and cured. Forget about marching for the cure; cannabis and hemp would be the new “dynamic duo” of food and medicine in the United States and all over the earth.
     Therefore, what do the feds and the mainstream media do about hemp and its impending benefits? Look over there, a distraction! Let us talk about whether or not people should be allowed to smoke pot, that way nobody will think about hemp being legalized, which would solve nearly every resource crisis in the United States. The media has everyone debating about stoners and hippies instead of natural resources.
     Millions of people living “off the grid” are a huge problem for the government, as well as the corporations that overcharge and abuse the power of supplying energy and resources to the country. Gas and power rank at the top of that “food chain.”
     If the U.S. government legalizes cannabis at the federal level, and all or most of the states follow suit shortly thereafter, that would mean everyone could grow hemp. If everyone can grow “pot,” then everyone becomes their own small farmer, and for reasons far beyond some practical vegetable garden, that provides a tasty, healthy salad. Far beyond the “weed” garden of “the herb” that helps with cataracts, skin cancer, allergies, and nausea.
     Hemp becomes your second job and your greatest source of wealth; because growing it eliminates major bills you incur regularly, bills which are influenced by inflation and corrupt government. Suddenly, you drop off the grid, actually growing your own power, fuel, clothing, building material, and food. Have you really taken a long look at the benefits of hemp, or did you think that was just a “hippy” thing?
     By the way, do not expect any successful “green energy” development and resources coming from the government any time soon. That is like the war on drugs, cancer, terror; all complete hoaxes. Most Americans spend 40 hours a month working just to pay their power and fuel bills. Why do you think we are at war, because terrorists threaten our way of life? No, it’s for free oil from abroad to be sold in United States.
     Hemp as fuel and clean energy, question: Who needs a welfare check or social security when you can grow a few grand worth of hemp every month in your own back yard? “Hemp fuel is a way out of oil! Planting only six percent of the continental United States with biomass crops such as hemp would supply all current domestic demands for oil and gas.” That is perfect for cars, homes, small businesses and living off the grid.
Hemp clothing is free of chemicals; say goodbye to formaldehyde and skin allergies. Organic linens are sold right here in the U.S. legally, but who knows? You could be wearing chemical-free, eco-friendly, cruelty-free hemp products that are made in the U.S. Oh, and what about water conservation and being environmentally friendly? Hemp plants need around 50 percent less water per season than cotton does, and hemp can grow with little irrigation.
     Hemp is essential food. Seeds of the plant “cannabis sativa” (hemp seeds) contain all the essential amino acids and essential fatty acids necessary to maintain healthy human life. No other single plant source has amino acids in such an easily digestible form, nor has the essential fatty acids in as perfect a ratio to meet human nutritional needs. In addition, hemp provides sustainability. Hemp is 100 percent biodegradable, so goodbye pollution from plastics, like bisphenol-A (BPA).
     Lastly, why do you think alternative fuel agendas are a big joke? Why are they full of companies that are federally funded, but running for the hills, with the federal funds feeding huge salaries and bonuses that bankrupt the companies? These businesses are designed to fail, period. Natural News has covered this well before. Health enthusiasts all over the world are waking up to the truth about natural resources and natural medicine. Mike Adams said it best, “We are living through the end of one era and the birth of a new one.”

Obviously, there are more than a few ways for to view hemp/marijuana:

Illegal: Despite industrial hemp’s well-documented uses, it cannot be commercially grown in the United States. Why, you ask? It seems the powers-at-hand cannot grasp the reality that there is a difference between industrial hemp and marijuana.

Medicine: The scoop from NORML is that Modern research suggests cannabis is a valuable aid in the treatment of a wide range of clinical applications. These include pain relief (particularly of neuropathic pain, pain from nerve damage), nausea, spasticity, glaucoma, and movement disorders. Marijuana is also a powerful appetite stimulant, specifically for patients suffering from HIV, the AIDS wasting syndrome, or dementia. Emerging research suggests that marijuana’s medicinal properties may protect the body against some types of malignant tumors and are neuroprotective. Currently, more than 60 US and international health organizations support granting patients immediate legal access to medicinal marijuana under a physician’s supervision.

Efficient and Economical: “Industrial hemp is an incredible resource,”explains our friends at hemp.com.. “Hemp is harvested for its fibers for hemp clothing and seeds for hemp oil. With a relatively short growth cycle of 100-120 days, it is an efficient and economical crop for farmers to grow.”

Super Fiber: HempOrganic.com explains, “Hemp is the world’s strongest natural fiber. It has been used to make cloth and rope for over 10,000 years.  Hemp was the first crop ever cultivated for textile production. Hemp cloth is stronger, longer lasting, more resistant to mildew, and cheaper to produce than cloth made of cotton.  Hemp ropes are known for their strength and durability.  The original Levi Strauss jeans were made from a hempen canvas. Even Old Glory was made from hemp fiber.”

Animal-Free Protein Source: The edible part of hemp provides many nutritional benefits. This includes higher protein levels than those found in nuts, other seeds, meats, dairy products, fish, and poultry.

A Way to Ride the Waves: Thanks to EcoFoil by OceanGreen, instead of polyurethane or polystyrene blanks being used on their surfboards, they use hollow balsa wood from FSC certified Nicaraguan forests. These handcrafted blanks are purchased under fair trade arrangements for the final shaping in Cornwall. Fiberglass is eliminated from the mix through the application of an organically grown hemp cloth “skin” which has about 10% of the CO2 emissions associated with fiberglass.

Your Next Home: Researchers at the University of Bath believe hemp “could be used to build carbon-neutral homes of the future to help combat climate change and boost the rural economy.” To which, the crew at eco worldly add, “Homes built from the hemp-lime material can reach carbon neutrality in large part due to the remarkable efficiency by which the fast growing hemp plant can store carbon as it grows.” This gives a new meaning to the term “grow house.”

Misunderstood: David P. West of the North American Industrial Hemp Council points out that smoking industrial hemp will not get you high, using hemp oil will not get you high, and hemp fields cannot be used to hide marijuana plants because hemp is grown quite differently, and is harvested at a different time than marijuana.

Better than alcohol: According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), alcohol abuse is the third leading “preventable cause” of death in the US. Number of deaths from smoking weed: 0

Way better than tobacco: Tobacco use is the leading preventative cause of death in the US each year, causing about 1 out of every 5 deaths. This is more than all deaths from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), illegal drug use, alcohol use, motor vehicle injuries, suicides, and murders combined. Number of deaths from smoking weed: 0

     Of course, the war on weed can trace some of its roots to long-standing racism. In addition, marijuana arrests/convictions help feed the ever-growing profits of the fast-growing military industrial complex while criminalizing this medicine helps protects the growing profits of big-pharma.

Mic Check: No matter where you may personally stand on using hemp and/or marijuana, it should be apparent that this issue is closely connected to other socio-economic battles being waged by Occupy Wall Street. It’s all part of a much larger fight for a holistic global justice. Let’s make the big connections, broaden our scope, and find more allies. Nothing less than our shared future is at stake!

     After speaking with Senator Chuck Winder on February 15, 2013 at approximately 4:00 pm I have made the conscious decision to submit my testimony on RS 21862 and 21872 via e-mail as I will not be able to make it to the committee meeting at 8 am on Wednesday the 20th. I ask that my testimony, and the evidence provided be presented, and taken into consideration at this hearing.
     I feel that Senator Winder does not have a proper understanding of the “Controlled Substance Act of 1970;” After providing him factual and lawful information in regards to this Act Winder stated, “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
     Looking at the facts contained within this Act, the classification of marijuana/cannabis is in direct violation of the Act itself, and therefore should be considered inadmissible. My factual reasoning behind this directs me to the requirements of a “Schedule I Controlled Substance.”
     According to USC>Title 21>Chapter 13>Subchapter 1>Part B>Section 812 “…a drug or other substance may not be placed in any schedule unless the findings required for such schedule are made with respect to such drug or other substance. The findings required for each of the schedules are as follows:” (I feel that only schedule I is significant in my testimony so I will not be listing all schedules.)

(1) Schedule I
(A) The drug or other substance has a high potential for abuse.
(B) The drug or other substance has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States.
(C) There is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision.

     For this testimony I would like to direct my attention to part (B) of this schedule. This states that marijuana, as a Schedule I substance, has no accepted medicinal value in the United States. This is simply not true as there are multiple patents on medical marijuana; one in particular is held by the United States of America, as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services. This is Patent No. 6,630,507, which I have taken the liberty of adding for the committee.

United States Patent 6,630,507
Hampson , et al. October 7, 2003

Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants 

Abstract

Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism. This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and HIV dementia. Nonpsychoactive cannabinoids, such as cannabidoil, are particularly advantageous to use because they avoid toxicity that is encountered with psychoactive cannabinoids at high doses useful in the method of the present invention. A particular disclosed class of cannabinoids useful as neuroprotective antioxidants is formula (I) wherein the R group is independently selected from the group consisting of H, CH.sub.3, and COCH.sub.3. ##STR1##

Inventors: Hampson; Aidan J. (Irvine, CA), Axelrod; Julius (Rockville, MD), Grimaldi; Maurizio (Bethesda, MD)
Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, DC) 
Appl. No.: 09/674,028
Filed: February 2, 2001
PCT Filed: April 21, 1999
PCT No.: PCT/US99/08769
PCT Pub. No.: WO99/53917
PCT Pub. Date: October 28, 1999

     This patent shows the many uses of cannabinoids which are found in marijuana/cannabis. What are cannabinoids though?
     One learns in biology that the human body has many systems; the circulatory, respiratory, digestive, and nervous systems to name a few. Each system of the human body has parts. For example, the nervous system is made up of the brain, spinal cord, and nerves. By the late 1980s, science identified a new human system known as the endocannabinoid system (ECS). This system present in all mammals, which includes humans and 15,000 other species. A mammal is any vertebrate animal distinguished by self-regulating body temperature, hair, and milk-producing females.
     The ECS has two main parts: cannabinoids, which are chemical neurotransmitters, and two receptors called “CB1″ and “CB2.” Cannabinoids activate receptors found throughout the body; in all organs, for example. In fact, all systems in our bodies are modulated by the endocannabinoid system. This means that as a body system changes, it uses the ECS to do so.
     Science has defined three classifications of cannabinoids. These are “endogenous cannabinoids” (endocannabinoids), which are produced by the human body; herbal cannabinoids, or the found in the cannabis sativa/indica plants (marijuana); and synthetic cannabinoids, normally produced and distributed by pharmaceutical companies, but also found in spice, k-2, or herbal incense (on one end of the spectrum these are deemed highly dangerous, on the other very valuable).
     Use of cannabinoids found in marijuana/cannabis is covered under Patent No.6,630,507. Since no one has been arrested for patent infringement, this is therefore called "Easement." The non-action of law enforcement enforcing this patent technically allows legal use of cannabis in all forms.
     When two Federal Agencies who receive federal tax dollars, claim different facts, the only facts which are true are contained under U.S. Patent laws, and not made up by the DEA.
     Making marijuana/cannabis legal is not about letting people smoke a natural non-toxic substance. It is about creation of jobs, making an already existing industry legal, and providing safe access to the world’s least harmful medicine.
     It is a crime to keep the marijuana/cannabis laws on the books, since the laws were created using fraud for “profit” and lies about its true uses; such as providing safe medicine, powering our cars, feeding the poor, clothing the world, and cleaning our skies of air pollution amongst thousands of other uses.
     Smoking cannabis is less than .1% of the total uses of hemp and marijuana. Users tend to be non-violent and peaceful. We only want freedom restored by using truth and liberty as a base; a concept that is very American. Using deadly force, military tactics, and invasions of privacy against us is unjust and should be considered as terrorism. Promoting or enforcing the laws against marijuana/cannabis is an act of treason on the sovereign citizens of America. ("…kill or personally injure the sovereign or the sovereign's family." [1])

[1] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/treason

     Although the democrats in Congress may be the leader on marijuana reform; Colorado Rep. Jared Polis, the Democrat who introduced a bill this week that would make the federal government treat cannabis the way it treats alcohol, says Republicans should see a lot to like in his bill.
     First, there is the appeal to fiscal conservatives; “Anybody who cares about the budget deficit needs to look at all potential sources of revenue,” Polis told Salon in an interview. Polis and fellow co-sponsor Rep. Earl Blumenauer, a Democrat from Oregon, estimate that their proposal could raise $20 billion a year in new taxes on cannabis sales.
     “I think it’s part of the overall budget fix that we need to balance the budget and restore fiscal integrity. This is an area where it turns it from a liability and a cost center, in terms of fighting the drug war, into a revenue source to help fund schools, to help close the budget deficit, and to help ensure that other programs don’t need to be cut as much,” Polis continued, sounding much liked a deficit hawk.
     There is also the issue of states’ rights and local control; “Somebody can want to keep marijuana illegal in their state or in their county, but all this does is keep the federal government out of it and lets states and counties decide how to treat it within their borders. That’s really the focus of our effort,” he explained.
     Polis hails from Colorado, where voters in November approved a similar tax-and-regulate regime. “The libertarian ethos of Colorado, our proud culture of independence, make this a very popular issue that cuts across party lines,” he said.

     Even archconservative former congressional representative Tom Tancredo, best known for his hard-line immigration views, supported Colorado’s legalization effort. (He has since backed down on his promise to smoke a joint if the bill were approved.)

     Polis and Blumenauer’s bill is based on a bill originally introduced by Democratic Rep. Barney Frank and Republican Rep. Ron Paul, both of whom have left Congress. “It’s absolutely a bipartisan bill. I think it appeals across the ideological spectrum. This had a lot of support for Republicans, Democrats, and Independents in Colorado,” he said.

     Polis says he has been surprised at how quickly support has grown for reform both within Congress and outside. “Even from when I started in Congress just four years ago, there’s been increasing support and recognition that the drug war is failing,” Polis said.

     Still, for lawmakers who hail from states that have not enacted medical marijuana or legalization statutes, “it’s still a non-issue, so it’s harder to get it on their agenda.” Polis encouraged people who care about this issue to put it on their lawmakers’ agenda by calling their offices, raising the issue at town halls, and appealing to Republicans in language they can understand.