Hemps Notorious Cousin video by North Shore Cartoon.

The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, or NORML as the grassroots organization is known, keeps providing the tools and resources for activists to use in their field work.  I appreciate their efforts and those of the countless others that work for reform every day.  Most have heard of the Notorious B.I.G., well the NORML Blog found a great video about the Notorious P.O.T., HEMPs often misunderstood cousin.

Thanks to the Global Mana Foundation and the design group North Shore Cartoon for publishing a very creative, funny and spot-on political commentary in the form of a short cartoon focused on the costly absurdity of the U.S. government banning the domestic production of industrial hemp.

Most all other countries (Canada, France, Great Britain, China, Switzerland, etc…) do not allow the lawful use of cannabis for non-medical purposes, yet, they allow for the production of one of the most utilitarian and environmentally-friendly row crops that humans have been cultivating and prospering from for thousands of years.

Regardless of whatever happens in state and federal governments with ‘marijuana’ laws in future regarding medical access, decriminalization or legalization, the US government must stop trying to enforce a complete and total blanket prohibition on all forms and uses of the amazing cannabis plant—notably, like other major countries have done regarding industrial hemp.