Campaign for the Restoration & Regulation of Hemp

Oregon State University - Feasibility of Industrial Hemp Production in the United States Pacific Northwest

We can take the first steps for the rest of our country toward an energy source based on sustainability, life and growth, as well as naturally based food, medicine, sacrament, and recreation. Industrial Hemp will save many farms and cannabis will be regulated and sold through adult only stores, with tax proceeds generating millions of dollars toward the General Fund, thus ending the unjust war on cannabis.

This site provides an introduction to OCTA, publishes the full text of law (OCTA), and explains why CTA will be upheld in a court of law.

OCTA was carefully crafted over a period of years, with the input of dozens of people. The first third of the text, or Preamble, is a finding by the people, giving the reasons we are breaking from federal drug scheduling.

• Protect children! This is the real Protect Our Children initiative. The Cannabis Tax Act (CTA) will take the lucrative marijuana market out of the blackmarket where children and substance abusers often control it today, and place it in adult only stores, where the age limit of 21 and older is strictly enforced.
  
  
• Help farmers! We will license farmers to cultivate cannabis for both medicinal and adult private use. Farmers will be able to grow industrial hemp without a license, for paper, fabric, protein and oil.
  
  Allow doctors to prescribe untaxed cannabis through pharmacies, so patients won't have to grow their own or buy medicine illegally.
  
  
• Raise millions of dollars in new public revenue, lowering the tax burden on all and saving you money. Take the profit out of crime.
  
  
• Restore industrial hemp, the most productive agricultural source of fiber protein and oil. Hemp seed oil is diesel fuel. The first cordage, cloth and paper were invented from hemp fiber.
  
  
• Wipe out the black-market. The CTA allows police and the courts to concentrate on real criminals that hurt others, not arrest, prosecute and jail harmless, productive adult cannabis users. Stop our government from tearing families apart. Let's show real family values and end cannabis prohibition.

Oregonians have already benefited from cannabis by receiving $900,000 from the selffunding Oregon Medical Marijuana Program into the state general fund. Replacing prohibition with a system of taxation and regulation will produce combined savings and tax revenues of an estimated $300 million per year.

Let's take the profits away from drug cartels and use it to support our state's economy and social programs. Let's stop our government from tearing families apart with senseless arrests and prosecution. Let's show real family values and positive change for our environment by ending cannabis prohibition in all its forms.