Join Me At Truth Fest 2011 on October 1!

Join me on October 1, 2011 as I kick off The Southern Alliance For Medical Marijuana's grassroots movement to bring Compassionate Act- Safe Access Laws of Protection in the South for those choosing by right, to use the medicine of their own choosing. This big Rock Concert event will feature some of the best in alternative music with bands such as "God Pawn" and "Rabbits With Glasses".

My MS (Multiple Sclerosis) helped me to discover the healing ability of marijuana as a medicine, and now even independent scientific clinical studies have showed that marijuana even has CURATIVE abilities!  I want my Medicine and I will fight for the rights of myself and any body else that needs a voice!
Help me start the kick off early by donating to The S.A.M.M. Now!
We need volunteers of all types!

We begin our drive by asking for pre-pay orders for our first annual 2012 SAMM Calendar, set to be published and shipped in December.  The cost of a calendar is $22.50 + 2.50 S+H. This quality high gloss calendar will feature the most beautiful medicinal plant on the planet, Cannabis.

Donors contributing $50 or more receive a free calendar.  Donations of $100 and up receive 2 calendars!
You can place your order at the link to the far right of this page.

Our goal is to bring all Southern States into a united front on the necessity of medical marijuana protection laws for Southern citizens with chronic and serious illness.

Help start the march to freedom by being an early member and make a donation now to help kick off this regional campaign for civil freedom!  The medical marijuana issue is NOT a moral issue, it's a civil right's issue, and until we start viewing it as such, the South will continue to live in ignorance and millions of southern citizens will be without their preferred, legal medicine, while dozens of other states in America are protecting their citizens with the necessary laws and we're being sent to prison for minor amounts of marijuana possession, facing prison for up to 2 years for a just a few grams of marijuana, or even just one plant!

It's time to shatter the illusion and take a stand, if not for yourself, for the people that really need you!

I hope to see you at Truth Fest!
Kim West
skype: kim.psi

Buy A Hemp Product During Hemp History Week

May 2-6 is desginated officially as Hemp History Week 2011!

Hemp History Week is important for many reasons.  The week reflects back on Hemp in America.  From the history of requiring the early colonists or war requests for hemp farming.  We have entered in new millenia of information sharing and justice.  But, to date, US farmers are not allowed to grow Hemp, though they are able to grow Tobacco.  Businesses are forced to Import Hemp which is over $100 Million per year now and growing exponentially each year.

Help support Hemp in your own way this week.  Bring attention by contacting your government representatives and telling them you want US Farmers to Farm Hemp!

In order to promote Hemp AND Marijuana this week only, I am running a special!  Anyone that orders a hemp product from my website below,  will give all profit to The  Southern Alliance For Medical Marijuana   
The SAMM is a Tennessee based not for profit organization that helps to bring awareness to the regions lack of medical marijuana protection under the law.  Currently, a critically ill patient with MS could go to prison for 2 years for just a few grams of  Marijuana!  Persons caught growing marijuana for medicinal and personal use face heavy fines and imprisonment up to 2 years!  70% of our prison population is interred for minor drug possession, 70% (approx) of those numbers are for simple marijuana possession.

Our Hemp products are vegan, kosher and organic and very healthy.  Start off Hemp Week, Hemp Healthy!
Thank you in advance for your support!

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Kim West Hipps

Here's a great article from the Hill as taken from the NORML website at:

http://blog.norml.org/2009/04/08/the-hill-america%E2%80%99s-new-marijuana-zeitgeist/

Writing last week in Time.com, Joe Klein became the latest in a steady stream of media pundits to call for the legalization of marijuana (”Why Legalizing Marijuana Makes Sense”). That’s right, ‘legalization’ — with an “L.”

While the notion of regulating the sale and consumption of cannabis for adults might still induce reflexive giggles from the Oval Office, the issue is no longer a laughing matter among the public.

Lawmakers in two states — California and Massachusetts –- are debating the merits of taxing pot like alcohol, and a pair of recent polls (here and here) indicate that Western voters endorse this proposal by a solid majority. According to statistician Nate Silver, national support for legalization could reach “supermajority” status in just over a decade!

Why this momentum now? Klein sums up three primary reasons.

1) Americans are spending billions in judicial resources arresting and prosecuting minor marijuana offenders; these monies could be better redirected elsewhere.

2) America is in the midst of an economic recession; taxing marijuana could redirect criminal justice costs toward more serious crimes, raise tax revenue, and greatly reduce, if not eliminate, the involvement of drug cartels in the illicit marijuana trade.

3) The use of marijuana by adults is objectively less dangerous — both to the user and to society as a whole — than the consumption of alcohol. (Case in point: Drinking alcohol, even low to moderate amounts, was recently associated with elevated incidences of cancer, particularly among women. By contrast, a study published last week in the Clinical Journal of Investigation shows that cannabis kills malignant cancer cells.) It is illogical to endorse a public policy that arbitrarily prohibits the former while embracing the latter.

Of course, Klein is hardly the only mainstream pundit as of late to jump on the marijuana ‘legalization’ bandwagon.

In the past days, leading commentators like David Sirota (The Nation), Kathleen Parker (Washington Post), Paul Jacob (TownHall.com), Hendrik Hertzberg (The New Yorker), Andrew Sullivan (The Atlantic), Glenn Greenwald (Salon), Debra Saunders (San Francisco Chronicle), Leonard Pitts (Miami Herald), John Richardson (Esquire), and Margery Eagan (Boston Herald), have all opined in favor of regulating cannabis. In fact, Americans’ sudden support for legalization is even beginning to draw attention from those outside the United States.

As well it should be.

American’s support for marijuana law reform is fast approaching a tipping point — a scenario made all that more remarkable when one considers that the federal government has spent nearly seven decades propagandizing against it. Mainstream America is coming to terms with marijuana, and growing more and more dissatisfied with our nation’s failing pot policies. Writes Klein: “Obviously, marijuana can be abused. But the costs of criminalization have proved to be enormous, perhaps unsustainable. Would legalization be any worse?”

He’s no longer the only one asking.

Political Inspiration

Well, we have finally made it to "D-Day". Election day is here and what a whirlwind it has been. For the first time in American history, a black man could become president of this United States. And, not only is he a black man, but a liberally minded black man at that! Is this really the same America?! Some thought it would never happen but here we are and the future is looking bright. For those of us that support hemp legislation and marijuana legalization, we can't help but wonder if this new wave in American politics might be indicative of the possibilities that still await recognition and understanding by the American people and its leaders. Many democrats have supported hemp and marijuana decriminalization efforts in recent years, even a few conservatives, like Ron Paul. And we may have a democratic dominant house and senate in the very near future. So, what does this mean to the pro-hemp agenda? Well, it means that if people will collectively, and loudly voice their desires to see the changes we need in the hemp/marijuana debate, that we just might accomplish this. However, anybody waiting for a politician to risk their reputation or a possible re-election might be seriously disappointed unless the voice of the mass collective demands it from them.
The call for change will continue but we must demand the change that we seek!
Over 20 million americans smoke marijuana on a regular basis, and we are sending atleast $150 million per year to Canada to produce our Hemp for us while American farmers are living in poverty, and foreclosing on valuable, fertile land.
The big buzz word this election campaign has been "Energy Independance" and everyone, both conservative and liberal agree that this must be a top goal of the American machine.
Hemp offers us the energy independance we seek!
We don't have time to keep waiting for change. It's time for us to become politically active about all of the changes we seek as Americans, the time is now!
I hope that everyone will feel inspired enough by this current election to continue being active and that we will no longer sit around waiting for change to happen.
Last night I attended a Tennessee NORML rally here in Nashville. Though it was slightly unorganized and there were only a small handful of people attending, I couldn't help but wonder what would happen if that small handful of people felt inspired enough to help create the changes they seek? What could it mean for the state of Tennessee and the entire country?
We've all seen what a grassroots movement is capable of accomplishing. We are watching it unfold right now.
As I said in a previous post, we are sitting collectively on a precipace of great change and the wind is blowing our direction if only we will work to create the needed changes that will move America into the future.
I encourage everyone to start working on the local/regional level. Contact your congressmen/women. Write your senators. Attend rally's, talk about it with your friends, family and co-workers and help remove the stigmas that remain and prevent us from moving forward. Donate to organizations like the Marijuana Policy Project (www.mpp.org) , Vote Hemp (www.votehemp.com) and NORML (www.norml.org) and keep the momentum going.
Read-up on the issues and stay informed. And, show that the demand for hemp products is high, by purchasing hemp products.
I believe that soon, we could watch our farm lands become "fields of green". North Dakota will be one of the first, if the federal government doesn't over-ride the State's decision. Make sure they don't, by becoming politically active as an individual and joining the collective voice of reason. The time is now and for the first time in years, I truly believe that, "Yes, We Can!"