July 24, 1995
Lee P. Brown Director Office of the National Drug Control Policy Executive Office of the President of the United States Washington, DC 20500Dear Mr. Brown:
In January 1995, I submitted to your office the business plan for Kansas Environmentalists for Commerce in Hemp (KECH) in compliance with Executive Order 12919. Office of the National Drug Control Policy did not do me the courtesy of a response. I did receive correspondence and encouragement from all the other related departments for licensing of cannabis cultivation under Executive Order 12919.
In March 1995, I wrote the ONDCP office again. With scheduled plans to be in Washington, D.C., at the end of the month, I asked for an appointment to answer any specific questions ONDCP might have regarding my industrial intentions requesting a license. In my March correspondence, I also presented additional facts, including a letter from the U.S. Department of Energy, prioritizing cannabis as an alternative fuel crop. Of course we both know this caused such waves, the Department of Energy almost disappeared.
The fact is, the Department of Energy alternative fuel subsides for corn based ethanol, has made Senator Dole, and businessman Dwayne Andreas wealthy beyond concept of most Americans.
During the last ten weeks, I have painstakingly read & researched every word, & line item of the two volume National Drug Control Strategy Policy Proposed Budget for 1996.
I have also read the 1993, 1994, & 1995 published reports regarding marijuana & drugs produced by these departments:
just to mention a few.
As an elected official in the city where I reside, I am appointed to the cities budget committee. This year with my benefit of studying the ONDCP proposed budget, I was able to awaken consciousness comparing differences between administrations, their policies and their priorities they bring with them. I was able to demonstrate how proposals by the federal government fulfilled line item request for equipment by various law enforcement departments in our city.
I also have been appointed to the Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) board for the last three years. As members of this recommendation board, we were told of the formative HUD administrative allocating changes last year. Particularly in my city, two centers that provided residential care to abused women were denied funds in FY 93 & FY 94, community policing was funded instead. I shared the ideas and concepts as printed in the ONDCP proposed budget, with other board members, some of them ministers, and other citizens representing persons in Wichita. As I explained, most understood that if you want federal money, in the future, request must be stated as to make them 'drug related'. Consequently many concluded the same as I, in that the federal government has finally gone way to far with their war against marijuana.
I could be redundant and impress you with my knowledge of the ONDCP published position. Personally, I am simply dumb-founded that the Office of the Presidency of the United States, & the ONDCP could actually believe they will be able to continue their war on marijuana with world wide communication easily accessible for one and all. You do not see people booking flights to come to America to consume our cannabis do you? Certainly not, they book flights to Europe, or Jamaica.
With the General Accounting Office of the United States documenting that the Drug Enforcement Agency reports that the average THC content of marijuana confiscated all over the US is only 5%. Acknowledgment of this would tend to influence one to believe the inhalation of carbon dioxide at close proximity, the 'ole increased cerebral blood velocity flow theory, or, simply stated 'affixation', is really what persons are experiencing and defining as 'high'. Ask any fireman to explain how the inhalation of any burning material affects the body.
I would also suggest there are rare occasions where the fertilizer used to grow the plant is so concentrated it contaminates the plant, and the user of that plant then poisons themselves when they consume the burning matter. In that case perhaps people should smoke the miracle grow, or other fertilizers on any vegetation, thus reducing personal risk of prosecution for marijuana cultivation.
I would also like the ONDCP to note that no country has reported an decrease or increase in the life expectancy of its citizens because they enforce, or fail to enforce U.S. mandated laws controlling cannabis. ONDCP publications note that attitudes of marijuana being a dangerous drug began to change in the youth beginning in 1992. ONDCP did not give credit to the coalition who began in 1990, and is busy educating American citizens about Cannabis. In fact, not one mention was made in any of ONDCP publications of the industrial, environmental, or nutritional values of cannabis.
ONDCP continue to ignore the magnitude of exciting research being conducted in many Universities around the world since the discovery of the Cannabinoid Receptors. (On the KECH Internet Home Page, each one of the above icon items will place you [i.e. National Library of Congress/Agriculture. Dept., Penn State, Michigan State University, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK; Henry Ford Library, University of the Netherlands, University of Japan, University of India, or the seed banks in Amsterdam, .] in research laboratories all over the world.)
In the United States alone, the genius of 60,000,000 like minded people as myself are adding their energies toward the spread of the truth, and to expose ONDCP marijuana myths & lies. Another known fact ONDCP choose not to address is the hemp for paper issue - which will open many a question regarding abaca, kenaf, and the federally funded research being conducted in Texas with the International Paper Corporation since the early 1950's. Actually about the time the government took another stern stand regarding cannabis, cloaking the American media, and public in ignorance.
Then as now, our foreign diplomacy discussions, be they with communists or nationalists, is and has always been who controlled the "drug fields": The Communists, or the OSS who after being exposed to scandal in the late 1970's for manufacture and distribution of MK-Ultra (LSD in its most powerful form, chemicals invented & produced by the United States War Department) changed their name to the CIA to avoid extinction being requested by Senate Sub Committee Hearings conducted by Senator Kerry.
In June, I received a letter from our most recently appointed United States Secretary of Agriculture, Dan Glickman. Briefly, Secretary Glickman thanked me for my expertise, then finalized his letter with this statement. "As you are already aware, USDA discontinued research on hemp decades ago. It may be true that varieties presently grown for hallucinating purposes are short in stature as compared to those grown for other purposes. With modern day breeding methods, however, the hallucinating characteristics could easily be incorporated into the tall growing plants and they would be indistinguishable from each other."
Documented in the publications I sent to you in the past, and in the afore mentioned ONDCP studies, ONDCP is aware that agriculture cannabis often exceeds twenty five foot in height, and drug cannabis seldom exceeds four feet in height. Department of Agriculture archives demonstrate in print, & graphics the growth patterns of each plant. To obtain the best fiber, cannabis is seeded 600 seeds to the square yard. To cultivate drug cannabis, one plant to every five square yards is required.
In previous submissions, I have included a study of the cannabis in Kansas, refereed to as 'ditchweed' in ONDCP publications. In 1937, scientists recorded that there was negative trace of THC in cannabis from Kansas. In 1976, under Governor Docking administration, another study was completed utilizing current resources at the time, and scientists concluded that the Kansas ditchweed had a THC content of .0065. While investigating this subject mater, I discovered research that proved it took several environmental factors that Kansas lacked to produce drug type cannabis. The environmental factors necessary to produce a higher THC content are: length of growing days, altitude, exposure to ultra violet rays.
ONDCP documentation concurs this by stating the average THC content of all marijuana seized in the U.S. is only 5%. ONDCP documentation also states that in Alaska, where they have six months days, six months night, also the first land mass annually to be exposed to ozone depletion, and increased ultra violet ray exposure produces a 29.3% THC marijuana, still not as commercially valuable as the Amsterdam plants.
Economically, cannabis is a very valuable crop, producing incomes for farmers in estimation of $900.00 per acre.
Environmentally, scientists have discovered that most species living on this planet have cannabionid receptors. Depending on where the cannabinoid receptors are located in the body regulates the importance of having Cannabis on those cannabinoid receptors.
I am asking the ONDCP to sign my request for licensing, not because I intend, or even believe it to be possible to cultivate drug cannabis in Kansas. But because the ONDCP will recognize nutritionally, cannabis is invaluable toward optimum health for all species sharing planet Earth.. I am asking the ONDCP to immediately act because the seed harvesting season is rapidly approaching in Kansas. If I am to be able to ensure the government I am not producing drug cannabis, I must reap, and sow naturalized Kansas seeds.
Please refer to the business plan submitted by KECH in compliance with E.O. 12919. I would hope that my request will gain support from the ONDCP, and the State Department, considering the deteriorating relations between the U.S. and China, the coalitions greatest resource of hemp fibers & fabric.
Thank you for your considerations, awaiting your reply.
Debby Moore Founder