Measure 80 summary part 2: Facts About Some Founding Fathers

  75 days until ballots need to be in.  Let's look at the next part of the text of Measure 80:

Whereas the people find that federal and corporate misinformation campaigns that economically benefit small groups of people have suppressed the information above and the fact that:

(a) George Washington grew cannabis for more than 30 years and, while he was President, said, “the artificial preparation of hemp is really a curiosity” and told his Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, that he was, “suggesting the policy of encouraging the growth of Hemp”;

(b) Thomas Jefferson invented a device to process cannabis, and cannabis fiber was used for most clothing and paper production until the invention of the cotton gin;

(c) Gouverneur Morris of Pennsylvania, who spoke at the U.S. Constitutional Convention in 1787 more than any other delegate and of whom James Madison said, “the style and finish of the Constitution properly belongs to the pen of Gouverneur Morris,” wrote a paper he sent to Thomas Jefferson called, “Notes Respecting Tobacco” that compared cannabis and tobacco and concluded that cannabis “is to be preferred”; and, 

  In plain words, this section says that the Federal government and corporate interests have worked very hard to get people to think that cannabis is simply bad.  "In order not to give the wrong message to our children," the beneficial nature of the cannabis plant has been officially denied, and historical facts about cannabis have been suppressed.  I think it's hard to find fault with that statement.

  Throughout the time our country was founded, cannabis was not only legal, but an integral part of the economy, and that the Founding Fathers enjoyed the benefits of cannabis through industrial as well as recreational uses.  George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew cannabis, and Gouverneur Morris, who wrote out the final copy of the Constitution with his own hand on hemp paper, preferred smoking cannabis to smoking tobacco.

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