Proposition 420
The U.S. H.E.M.P. Act
United States Homeland Economic Management Provisions Act
A proposition initiative by Kenneth N. Bykerk, Citizen (ConquerorWyrm@hotmail.com)
Section 1: Medicinal Marijuana
PURPOSE: To allow for patient prescribed use, cultivation and possession for personal medicinal use of cannabis products;
---------- The patient should be the one to decide whether or not they need or would like to use cannabis as a medicine of choice for pain management, appetite stimulation or any other ailment which cannabis has been suspected or proven to assist with.
PURPOSE: To establish the method of use and the dosage of medicinal cannabis use.
---------- Being that dosage amounts work differently for each individual, even for the same individual at different times or for different reasons or through consumption methods, and that potency is both non-lethal as well as uncontrollably variable depending upon the product acquired or cultivated, it is impossible to prescribe specific 'doses'. Therefor, the patient must be in charge of their own dosing and the method of consumption.
PURPOSE: To establish the amount of cannabis to be either cultivated or possessed by a private citizen for personal medicinal use.
---------- Recommended amounts would be roughly one pound or up to a dozen live plants per adult individual to be allowed within a private residence, an amount allowing for lack of ambulation and/or inability to acquire cannabis for medicinal use.
Section 2: Legalization
PURPOSE: To allow for adult individuals to possess, cultivate and use cannabis without fear of prosecution.
---------- The Private Citizen should be the one to decide whether or not they need or would like to use cannabis as a recreation or medicine of choice without of Federal, State or Local prosecution.
PURPOSE: To establish the amount of cannabis to be either cultivated or possessed by a private citizen for personal use.
---------- Recommended amounts would be roughly one pound or up to a dozen live plants per adult individual to be allowed within a private residence, an amount allowing for lack of ambulation and/or inability to acquire cannabis for medicinal use.
PURPOSE: To establish an immediate amnesty for all individuals currently incarcerated on non-violent cannabis related charges.
---------- It is cost prohibitive as well as morally suspect to incarcerate a single tax-paying Citizen at the tax-payer expense, both in costs associated with incarceration, loss of tax-revenue and destruction to the core concept of the American Family. Issue immediate release and complete pardons for all Citizens currently incarcerated in the United States.
Section 3: Industrial and Economic
PURPOSE: To allow and encourage hemp production and cultivation for use in all available spheres in which said product may be established as an economically viable product;
---------- Encourage the exploitation of hemp/cannabis in all industrial or marketable capacities and encourage both Individual as well as Corporate participation.
PURPOSE: To establish hemp/cannabis as a National Security Resource.
---------- Recognizing that hemp/cannabis cultivation is to be essential to National Economic Security, establish certain 'protectionist' measures to ensure domestic cultivation as well as manufacture of all processing and cultivation machinery to be done within the borders of the United States. Non-U.S. hemp products as well as equipment for the cultivation and/or processing of hemp/cannabis should receive excessively restrictive tariffs for a period of not less than one decade from the enactment of the U.S. H.E.M.P. Act with limited relaxations in regard to essential strategic allies and trading partners past that date. Goal is to ensure U.S. dominance in the hemp/cannabis industry as well as ensure required equipment production is not outsourced to potential strategic or economic competitors.
PURPOSE: To establish and allow for taxation of hemp/cannabis related products.
----------- Developing a method of taxation specific to hemp/cannabis consumption separate from all other taxes or duties and to establish permanently flexible rates of taxation to allow for economic stimulus. Recommended allowed variable rates of taxation for a Federal hemp/cannabis tax should range between 5 - 10%. Recommended allowed variable rates of taxation for State Governments should range between 2 - 5%.
PURPOSE: To identify, establish and declare where monies received from the taxation of hemp/cannabis related products are proportioned.
---------- Establish a permanent and unchangeable description of for the disbursement of Federal revenues received from hemp/cannabis taxation as detailed below:
DISBURSEMENT OF FEDERAL HEMP/CANNABIS REVENUE
A: 5% to State and Local Police Departments nationwide.
PURPOSE: To double the relative pay of all State and Local Police Officers within a decade from enactment of this proposal.
---------- A percentage of the total revenues acquired from the taxation of hemp/cannabis would be set aside with the intended goal of providing a means to double the relative income of all State and Local Law Enforcement Officers within 10 years after then enactment of this Proposal.
PURPOSE: To establish a continuing and ever-growing fund for the continuous upgrade and purchase of necessary equipment nationwide.
---------- A percentage of the total revenues acquired from the taxation of hemp/cannabis would be set aside with the intended goal of upgrading critical equipment of Law Enforcement Agencies nationwide, with emphasis given to those departments, rural or urban, most in need.
Purpose: To provide additional funds for continuous training and education of State and Local Police Officers nationwide.
-----------A percentage of the total revenues acquired from the taxation of hemp/cannabis would be set aside with the intended goal of funding on-going training and educational programs for those employed in State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies.
B: 5% to Fire / Safety / Emergency departments and organizations nationwide.
PURPOSE: To double the relative pay of all those who serve as Fire / Safety / Emergency personnel within a decade from enactment of this proposal.
---------- A percentage of the total revenues acquired from the taxation of hemp/cannabis would be set aside with the intended goal of providing a means to double the relative income of Fire / Safety / Emergency personnel within 10 years after then enactment of this Proposal.
PURPOSE: To allow for growth in numbers of trained fire/safety/emergency personnel nationwide.
---------- A percentage of the total revenues acquired from the taxation of hemp/cannabis would be set aside with the intended goal of recruiting and Training of Fire / Safety / Emergency personnel.
PURPOSE: To allow for continuous purchase and upgrade of fire/safety equipment nationwide.
---------- A percentage of the total revenues acquired from the taxation of hemp/cannabis would be set aside with the intended goal of upgrading critical equipment of Law Enforcement Agencies nationwide, with emphasis given to those departments, rural or urban, most in need.
PURPOSE: To allow for the development of Citizen Emergency Preparedness training programs nationwide
---------- A percentage of the total revenues acquired from the taxation of hemp/cannabis would be set aside with the intended goal of establishing Citizen Emergency Preparedness programs nationwide so as to better and more appropriately deal with National and Environmental emergencies.
C: 27% to Education
PURPOSE: To double the relative pay of all Public School Classroom Educational Professionals (Teachers) within a decade form enactment of this proposal.
---------- A percentage of the total revenues acquired from the taxation of hemp/cannabis would be set aside with the intended goal of providing a means to double the relative income of Public School Education Professionals (Teachers) within 10 years after then enactment of this Proposal.
PURPOSE: To allow for continuous training and hiring of Public School Education Professionals (Teachers) achieve a 20:1 maximum Student/Teacher ratio nationwide.
---------- A percentage of the total revenues acquired from the taxation of hemp/cannabis would be set aside with the intended goal of Recruiting, Training and Hiring of Public School Education Professionals (Teachers) so as to achieve a maximum Public Classroom Student (K-12) to Teacher ration of no greater than 20:1 nationwide.
PURPOSE: To allow funds for continuous purchase and upgrade of modern and basic educational materials for Public School classrooms nationwide.
---------- A percentage of the total revenues acquired from the taxation of hemp/cannabis would be set aside with the intended goal of providing an continuing fund with which to purchase modern teaching and educational materials for Public School classrooms nationwide with emphasis given to those Public Schools, rural or urban, most in need.
PURPOSE: To allow funds for continuous building of new schools as well as upgrades and repairs to existing schools across the United States.
---------- A percentage of the total revenues acquired from the taxation of hemp/cannabis would be set aside with the intended goal of Renovating and Building new Public Schools nationwide with emphasis on those Public School Districts, rural or urban, most in need.
PURPOSE: To allow funds for establishing College Incentive Programs.
----------- A percentage of the total revenues acquired from the taxation of hemp/cannabis would be set aside with the intended goal of developing College Incentive and Grant programs and to implement such programs.
D: 27% to establish Universal Health Care
PURPOSE: To establish a general fund from which all United States Citizens receive 100% Universal Health Care.
----------- A percentage of the total revenues acquired from the taxation of hemp/cannabis would be set aside with the intended goal of establishing Private Health Accounts for every U.S. Citizen. Citizens would have available to them $X amount per year to spend as they choose on medical procedures. For sake of argument and simplicity, let us choose a number of $100,000 / year / citizen. Each year, this number would not accumulate but reset at that base. Assumption is that balanced between that majority who would not need their entire annual account amount, there will be enough to allow for those who need more expensive treatment than the standard annual target allotment to surpass that amount without penalty to either that individuals Personal Medical Account or to the availability of funds for any other Personal Medical Account.
PURPOSE: To allow each U.S. Citizen to access their Personal Medical Accounts for medical procedures of their choice at Medical Facilities of their choosing.
---------- U.S. Citizens would have choice in what Medical Professional of their choice with the goal of encouraging fair market rates on medical procedures through competition, to allow for choice of medical facility to receive treatment, and to allow for choice in medical procedure needed or desired.
PURPOSE: To assure continued opportunities for the Insurance Industry within the health care community.
----------- As it is unable to assure that any Industry has the right to exist beyond the market need for that Industry, the established Personal Medical Accounts will eliminate the need for Private Health Insurance. The Insurance Industry, if it so chooses, may continue to offer that service regardless loss of profit or need. The Insurance Industry is encouraged to establish and offer as a service for sale the Management of Personal Medical Accounts.
E: 27% to Infrastructure Upgrades
PURPOSE: To fund development of an alternative bio-fuel and delivery systems nationwide.
----------- A percentage of the total revenues acquired from the taxation of hemp/cannabis would be set aside with the intended goal of creating an "Apollo Program" focused on the development of a viable hemp-based uniform bio-fuel similar to the Nation of Brazil's use of cane-based bio-fuel. Goal is to eliminate national dependence on fossil-based energy sources.
PURPOSE: To establish needed infrastructure upgrades nationwide through locally awarded Contracts.
----------- A percentage of the total revenues acquired from the taxation of hemp/cannabis would be set aside with the intended goal of promoting, through Locally awarded contracts, nationwide upgrades and repairs to the nation's infrastructure (such as electrical grids, waterways, highways, bridges, levees, etc.).
F: 9% to Military Veterans and Active Service Families
PURPOSE: To ensure that families of Active Service Military Individuals are provided livable and sustainable funds.
---------- A percentage of the total revenues acquired from the taxation of hemp/cannabis would be set aside with the intended goal of providing a base of funds to financially assist the families of Active Services Military Personnel to ensure that such families never have to resort to conventional welfare programs or 'pay day' loans to pay their basic support expenses.
PURPOSE: To establish a program to assist Veterans who are homeless.
---------- A percentage of the total revenues acquired from the taxation of hemp/cannabis would be set aside with the intended goal of establishing a 'rescue fund' to assist Veterans who are homeless.
PURPOSE: To establish a fund to ensure Disabled Veterans are provided a livable pension.
---------- A percentage of the total revenues acquired from the taxation of hemp/cannabis would be set aside with the intended goal of establishing a pension fund to offer compensatory assistance to Disabled Veterans.
PURPOSE: To establish a "Fallen Soldier" fund to assist families of fallen Service Personnel.
---------- A percentage of the total revenues acquired from the taxation of hemp/cannabis would be set aside with the intended goal of establishing a fund to partially compensate and assist the immediate families of Military Personnel who perish in the service of the United States.
