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From: [s d hc] at [pro-sancho.cts.com] (San Diego Hemp Council)
Subject: CALIFORNIA HEMP INITIATIVE - 1994
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 94 12:34:43 PST

CALIFORNIA HEMP INITIATIVE - 1994
5632 Van Nuys Blvd. Suite 310, Van Nuys CA 91401
213-656-3140
Jack Herer & Chris Conrad, Chief Proponents

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 3, 1994

COURT ORDERS ATTORNEY GENERAL TO CORRECT TITLE AND SUMMARY
  FOR HEMP/MARIJUANA INITIATIVE

Los Angeles -- Proponents of the California Hemp/Marijuana Initiative filed
and won an historic case in Sacramento today (#376820), forcing state
Attorney General Daniel Lungren to revise and correct their official title
and summary before collecting signatures to qualify the initiative for the
November 1994 ballot.

In essence, the Sacramento Superior Court agreed with hemp advocates that
Lungren had prejudiced voters against signing the initiative by failing to
mention the 21 year age limit the measure sets for legal use of marijuana, as
well as agreeing to correct a number of other technical points. This is the
first time in history that such a judgement has been handed down against an
Attorney General.

Hemp is the valuable industrial crop grown throughout the world to make
textiles and paper. One product of hemp is the medicinal herb sometimes
called marijuana. This initiative would restore California's once prosperous
hemp industry while regulating marijuana like the state's wine model. The
proponents had insisted that the word hemp should be included in the title
and summary, but the judge did not compel the Attorney General to comply.
Nevertheless, the proponents hope to have that decision reversed and the
title and summary amended to refer to hemp before it appears on the November
ballot.

"This decision is important for the hemp reform movement and for the
integrity of the initiative process," said initiative proponent Chris Conrad.
"Now our best hope for justice is for a flood of volunteers to come out and
collect the signatures needed to qualify the measure, and for voters to
educate themselves with the facts about hemp and send a message to the
Attorney General this November by voting yes on hemp!"


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 San Diego Hemp Council -- [s d hc] at [pro-sancho.cts.com]
  Hemp Can Save The Planet -- Re-Legalize It NOW!