This from the marijuana Policy Project:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DECEMBER 18, 2006


marijuana U.S.'s Top Cash Crop, New Study Finds
U.S. marijuana Crop Worth More Than Corn, Wheat Combined


CONTACT: Bruce Mirken, MPP director of communications, 202-215-4205 or 415-668-6403

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- marijuana is now the most valuable cash crop in the U.S., exceeding the value of corn and wheat combined, according to a new study released today. This is so despite decades of marijuana "eradication" campaigns in which over 100 million marijuana plants have been destroyed.

"The fact that marijuana is America's number one cash crop after more than three decades of governmental eradication efforts is the clearest illustration that our present marijuana laws are a complete failure," said Rob Kampia, executive director of the marijuana Policy Project in Washington, D.C. "America's marijuana crop is worth more than our nation's annual production of corn and wheat combined. And our nation's laws guarantee that 100 percent of the proceeds from marijuana sales go to unregulated criminals rather than to legitimate businesses that pay taxes to support schools, police and roads."

The report -- prepared by researcher Jon B. Gettman, who has a doctorate in public policy and specializes in economic development -- can be downloaded at at Table of Contents. Key findings include:

**Using conservative price estimates, marijuana is America's top cash crop, with a value of $35.8 billion this year -- exceeding the combined value of corn ($23.3 billion) and wheat ($7.45 billion) combined.

**The top marijuana producing states are California, Tennessee, Kentucky, Hawaii, and Washington. marijuana is the top cash crop in 12 states and among the top three cash crops in 30 states.

**Despite intensive marijuana eradication campaigns that seized over 103 million cultivated marijuana plants and wiped out an average of nearly 36,000 cultivation sites per year, U.S. marijuana production increased tenfold from 1981 to 2006, from 1,000 metric tons (2.2 million pounds) to 10,000 metric tons (22 million pounds), according to U.S. government estimates.

**This enormous growth in marijuana cultivation, despite massive eradication efforts, indicates that "marijuana has become a pervasive and ineradicable part of our national economy" that should be put under a system of legal regulation.

With more than 21,000 members and 100,000 e-mail subscribers nationwide, the marijuana Policy Project is the largest marijuana policy reform organization in the United States. MPP believes that the best way to minimize the harm associated with marijuana is to regulate marijuana in a manner similar to alcohol. For more information, please visit MPP Homepage.

http://www.drugscience.org/Archive/b...ana%20Laws.pdf

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"They must find it difficult...Those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than the truth as authority"

what about it?

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da fuck?

beats me


im like 2 years 2 late

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"They must find it difficult...Those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than the truth as authority"

that's exactly what im saying....

funny how we've never heard anything about this! well on the news should i say!!!!

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yea, its messed up its like u need to attach a drunken baby to it just to get it to make the main stream news


u think if obama was prez he would eventually free the weed? or you know remove the propeganda atleast?


ill pay more taxes for that, fuck it

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"They must find it difficult...Those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than the truth as authority"

This is the reason I have said for a few years now Educate, Legalize, Regulate. VV

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http://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/53595-vv-singing-blues-seed-perpetual.html
http://www.rollitup.org/grow-room-de...p-journal.html

i dont know.....i sure do hope so!

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Maybe those assholes in Washington should read that and get a damn clue!!! its not like they will ever eradicate it anyway. it just proves the war on drugs is a big fat failure and a waste of tax payer money.

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