http://pr.cannazine.co.uk : Whilst the United Kingdom weigh's up the risks between horse riding and tripping on ecstasy, or what classification cannabis should be in the eyes of the law, in the United States the debate put forward by Californian Assemblyman Tom Ammiano is a little more concentrated and far less ambiguous and conveluted.
Simply put the political machine within the state of California is discussing whether cannabis should be made legal for recreational use, and taxed alongside tobacco and alcohol. Although the British law-makers would probably prefer the public never got to hear about it.
Democrat Tom Ammiano
Ammiano recently presided over what his office has called "the first legislative consideration of the issue of cannabis legalisation since California banned the drug in 1913."
Before the hearing, the San Francisco Democrat called the criminalisation of cannabis for recreational purposes a failed policy, and one that denies the state a significant revenue stream. The polar opposite of what Ammiano's political counterparts in the UK have to say on the issue.
http://pr.cannazine.co.uk : When the G20 leaders met in the United States recently the hot topic of discussion was climate change. How to go about reducing the amounts of greenhouse gases which are released into the environment every single year. And whilst the worlds political spin-doctors burned the midnight oil coming up with solution after expensive solution, the sad fact is that a very real means to reduce the amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was completely ignored.
Simply by replacing nylon rope with a stronger product which is made just like it always used to be, from industrial hemp, we could reduce the worlds global carbon emissions. The same could be said for polyester clothing, plastic furniture and a million other products which are currently manufactured using petroleum by-products. But hemp isn't even on the agenda and its time the public started to ask the polticians why this is the case?
