MEHEMP - Musicians & Entertainers Helping End Marijuana Prohibition

Welcome to our community! "Musicians & Entertainers Helping End Marijuana Prohibition!!!" , light up and enjoy the healing power of the KIND HERB... it can and will help change the world ... even more then it did in the last 8000 years!!!

Artists have alot to say about this topic ..and should have a say..since they have gotten artistic inspiration from Cannabis for thousands of years.. and look at all the amazing things they gave us ..Music , is but one!

When the laws are more damaging to individuals & to society than the use of the Prohibited substance itself, then the laws must be changed. We are wasting valuable law-enforcement resources & tax dollars, while maintaining an unregulated market, prohibition only makes matters worse for everyone. Marijuana consumers and society as a whole are being harmed by the Prohibitionist policies of our government. Policies should instead minimize the harm associated with marijuana. 'Musicians & Entertainers Helping End Marijuana Prohibition' (MEHEMP) works to educate & promote policies to help minimize the harm associated with marijuana & it's Prohibition.

Summary: A Call to Action!

Since 1937 marijuana Prohibition has been a racist war against minorities, but also against Jazz musicians, Artists, Beatniks, Poets, Authors, Musicians, Actors, any and all nonconformists. Today the prohibition of marijuana users has blossomed into a multibillion-dollar war against all of America. In 2005 alone, the FBI reported that 786,545 Americans were arrested for marijuana crimes. Over 88% of the arrests (696,074) were for simple possession. The Government targets medical patients. Even people in wheelchairs are arrested for seeking pain relief. AIDS and cancer patients are arrested for illegally using marijuana to increase their appetite and assist with nausea.

Use of marijuana for medicinal purposes is now legal in twelve states. Citizens in seven states have voted for the use of medical marijuana in every initiative put on the ballot. The Federal government has tried to subvert the will of the people by threatening doctors and patients with arrest.

In one election, Washington D.C., voters have had their voice squelched by Congress. When ordered that the vote tally of the November 3rd, 1998 election not be counted! Exit polls showed the initiative winning 69% to 31%. Not counting their vote is a direct challenge to democracy.

Over 500 American family farms are being lost every week due in part to not being able to compete in the burgeoning hemp market.

The environment is being damaged by a reliance on ecologically destructive logging and farming that could be greatly reduced by the development of a hemp industry that will never be possible so long as the US must import all of its hemp products.

The government of the United States and others around the world, following a mandate of an agency of the United Nations - under US guidance - are seeking to censor all criticism of current policies and to subvert the arts into instruments of prohibitionist propaganda.

And now artists are going to have to choose between supporting the repressive prohibitionist propaganda machine or speaking out for truth and freedom. The existence of mehemp truly confronts artists with the challenge of being a part of the problem or a part of the solution.