My Issues

  • A Real Health Cae System for Vermont
    Vermont needs a single-payer, universal Health Care system financed by an income tax on all income generated in Vemont.
  • Biomass Fuel
    We need a biomass fuel economy in Vermont, with hemp grown for vegetable diesel fuel and waste vegetation fermented for ethanol. Biomass fuel is a triple win for Vermont. It will cut the pollution of petroleum products, provide the basis for many local businesses, and cut the cost of oil and gasoline in half.
  • Education
    I want to see Vemont schools today as good as were the one-room schools of sixty years ago.
  • Electoral reform
    We need IRV for instate voting and proportional allocation in the Electoral College. IRV offers Vermonters the best way to indicate their full preferences and at the same time to keep elections within the electoral process.
  • Taxes
    Taxes shouldn't be "high" or "low", but what is required to pay for what we need, and should be on real wealth.

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November 06, 2004

Letter to Governor Douglas

I sent the folllowing email to the governor yesterday, and I shall probably send it as a Letter to the Editor to at least one newpaper...

Open letter to Governor Douglas, November 5th, 2004

Dear Governor Douglas, I could not help noticing your surprise and delight at Cris Ericson’s strongly worded support for President Bush when we ended our session on VPT’s Super Sunday.

Now I don’t suppose your opposition to legalizing marijuana has lessened because of this position of the Marijuana Party gubernatorial candidate.

But could you be ready to consider some of her suggestions? As she said, you can issue pardons.

How about enough pardons of marijuana offenders to lower our present inmate population so that we would have room to bring home the prisoners who are presently in out of state private prisons

I hope you will give this some serious consideration.

Sincerely, Patricia Hejny

November 06, 2004 in Marijuana and Hemp | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

November 05, 2004

Marijuana and Douglas

Is legalizing marijuana one of my concerns? Yes.

If you listened to the Public Television debates on October 31st, or if you have visited her web site, you have heard Cris Ericson saying everything I would want to say about marijuana and the impact keeping it illegal has had on too many Vermonters.

For me marijuana is another part of the larger problem of corporate business and its effects on our local communities. .

It was hemp, not marijuana, that was the target of several businesses in 1937 (see previous link to hemp history) and the THC content of marijuana was used as the excuse to make both hemp and marijuana illegal to grow in this country.

What you did not see on TV was Governor Douglas’s happy response to Cris’s strong support for President Bush. His face was absolutely glowing as he came over to shake her hand.

I don’t suppose his delight at finding the Marijuana Party candidate is also firmly in the Bush Republican camp will move him as far as working to legalize marijuana, but possibly he may be willing to consider some other measures.

I shall be sending him an email today, an open letter, which I shall post here tomorrow and probably send to a couple of newspapers as well.

November 05, 2004 in Marijuana and Hemp | | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)