September 6 & 7, 2008 - Hempstalk 2008

[Johnny]

Eastbank Festival Plaza
2 SE Main
Portland, OR 97214

Performers/Speakers: Keith Stroup - Founder of NORML, John Trudell, Folk Uke, The Human Revolution, Jack Herer, The State of Jefferson, Herbivores, Los Marijuanos, Mystical Soup, Tim Pate, Paul Stanford, Madeline Martinez, Russ Belville, Mikki Norris, Chris Conrad, 7th Seal ,Will Flowers, The Lost Wages Band, Melodie Silverwolf, and more to be announced.

Though tobacco and alcohol cause hundreds of thousands of deaths every year, cannabis is completely nontoxic and has never caused a single death in thousands of years. Yet tobacco and alcohol users can avail themselves of a regulated market, while cannabis users are subjected to arbitrary prosecution and punishment by enforcers of this unjust law. Our work shall continue to end this and we shall prevail.
Archaeologists agree that cannabis was among the first crops purposely cultivated by human beings at least over 6,000 years ago, and perhaps more than 12,000 years ago.

The most resourceful crop on earth, cannabis yields industrial hemp for canvas, oil, fiber, and paper among other things; a harmless medicine for gravely ill individuals; and a source of recreation for millions of people around the world.

Hemp prohibition is the result of propaganda by the petrochemical, cotton, and wood-based paper industries, who foresaw competition from hemp. Virtually anything that can be made from petroleum can be made from hempseed and other vegetable oils at a much lesser cost, and hemp fiber is many times more durable and resourceful than cotton or wood-based paper. Let's restore our right to grow this resourceful crop!