Winter 2010 Newsletter

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St. Patrick’s Day is just around the corner. We’ve got your boiled dinner covered with fresh cabbage, potatoes, carrots, parsnips & more. “Irish” flower arrangements also available!

Easter: Sunday, April 4^th - Delicious selection of Lake Champlain Easter Chocolates, local baked goods, white eggs for decorating, fresh vegetables, as well as Lilies, Tulips& other festive flowers to decorate your home & make your celebration complete!

If you’re a Hollis resident… don’t forget to vote Tuesday, March 9^th

Help Lull Farm promote the recycling and composting of materials that are too often dumped into landfills. Landfills everywhere are running out of room! The EPA estimates that roughly 25% of the garbage in the U.S. is made up of yard trimmings and food scraps. That's over 60 million tons each year! Instead of watching your local landfills get bigger and more expensive to maintain each month –

VOTE ‘YES’ ON QUESTION #6 to allow composting to continue in Hollis!

Cannabis Corner

Brought to you monthly by Carl Hedberg

Truth and Money

This month the NH House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee voted 16 to 2 not to kill a progressive tax and regulate cannabis measure.  Instead, they agreed to study HB 1652 and issue recommendations in November.  This is pretty remarkable in a state where our Governor and a certain former AG don’t even want cancer patients to have safe and legal access to cannabis.

The reason for the shift?  Truth and money, but certainly not in that order.  The current recession has gutted state coffers to the point where lawmakers have begun to listen more carefully.  Not everyone is happy about that.

Prohibition has always been about using our government and our money to build and maintain commercial barriers to cannabis competition.  Ending that war and embracing this ancient food, fiber and medicinal cultivar will deliver a long-overdue gut-punch to industries that have long supported the war; petroleum, pharmaceuticals, prisons, textiles, plastics, chemicals, agribusiness, alcohol, and tobacco. 

Legalization would also be a huge blow to government agencies and law enforcement groups who get paid our money to wage a 100-year battle that a vast majority of taxpayers now strongly oppose.  Prohibitionists used to be able to claim the 800,000+ citizens arrested each year for simple possession wasn’t a big deal because in most cases it was just a slap on the wrist.  Angry taxpayers don’t want to pay billions for court-clogging wrist-slaps, and lawmakers who do are going to start losing their jobs.

Repeal of alcohol Prohibition in 1933 helped spur the economy out of a deep recession by creating legal markets and new industries.  With well-respected professors like Jeffery Miron at Harvard and Brendan O’Flaherty at Columbia confirming that the same thing would happen if we legalized cannabis, it’s easy to see why lawmakers are finally hearing the truth.