Legalization of Hemp in Mexico Will Help Solve the Emigration & Rural Poverty Problems

After watching Roy Germano's "The Other Side of Immigration" and having lived in Michoacan, Mexico for 2 years, I recognize the benefits that the legalization of marijuana and hemp would bring to both the USA and Mexico. (See http://youtu.be/F8t78ClZFpY for a review of Germano's new documentary.)



Currently America suffers from a mountain of debt generated in part by poor agricultural and tax policies, a failed war on drugs, failed immigration policy, and significant unemployment, and the destruction of the small farming industry facilitated by NAFTA and corporate farming. It's about time for a new direction.



Meanwhile, Mexico has suffered a significant decrease in oil production and thus reduced oil export revenues. As Mexican citizens are unable to find employment in the US, remittances will decrease dramatically and many will return home to a lower cost of living. Unfortunately, they also return to fewer economic opportunities in the countryside, with the exception of the illegal drug trade.



20 years of NAFTA has primarily benefited US corporate farmers aided by Federal subsidies and driven Mexican farmers out of business through dumping by corporate farmers.



Mexico must pass legislation similar to H.R.1831, the Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2011, submitted by US Congressman Ron Paul, which will enable its rural farmers to grow a cash crop unlike any other.



Mexico, like all other nations, must have access to every available clean energy resource available on god's green earth and this MUST include HEMP. Legalizing and taxing hemp across the Mexican Republic would spawn new industries that could be a vital part of the solution to many of its economic problems, which in turn would help solve the emigration problem.



Hemp is high yield crop, producing more biomass per acre than most other crops and can be used for biofuels, biomass, textiles, paper, plastics, and more. Unlike oil, coal, natural gas or nuclear fuels, hemp is a biodegradable, renewable resource that could supply us with raw materials for thousands of years, without changing our climate and without producing waste that remains radioactive for millions of years.



Taxing every stage of the production and distribution of this new crop and energy source would create revenues for city and state governments fighting revenue shortfalls. Confining licenses to citizens and chartered small businesses would promote sustainable businesses for the rural farmers across the country and creative clean energy entrepreneurs could contribute to GDP with exports of their new natural and clean energy resources and products.



Americans concerned about energy, pollution, war, illegal immigration, and economic prosperity, must support HR1831 that is currently in the hands of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.



Mexicans concerned about sufficient jobs for rural farmers must lobby their own government to draft similar legislation and spawn a new and booming industry that could propel Mexico and its citizens into prosperity.



#hempforvictory #hemp4Mexico

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