FREE! GRASS and Leaves of Green videos SOU 4/15/08

SOU Media Collective, 13.04.2008 15:04

Indy Media Week Film Showing *Grass* and *Leaves of Green* 7:15 p.m. SOU Meese Auditorium across from 7-11 in Ashland
Using video to undermine criminalization of a common plant

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Woody Harrelson explores the absurd and exploitational prohibition of an all-too common plant. "Leaves of Green" looks at the effects of this paper and chemical industry-imposed prohibition since before World War 2, on independent farmers across America. Industry lobbies Congress to prohibit hemp so the paper industry and its ancillary chemical industry can reap profits from short-fiber wood pulp, rather than the fast-growing, non-intoxicating long fiber hemp, which requires no chemicals, only water, to process into paper and a vast array of industrial products. Small, independent farmers would be able to compete with huge, multinational conglomerates if hemp was legal, but the paper industry pays lobbyists to convince elected officials to support legislation that keeps barriers to competition in place. The same situation goes for medical marijuana use, but from the health care industry: Health care industry lobbyists convince elected officials to pass legislation distorting the marketplace by introducing structural advantages to campaign donors. Say it doesnt happen. The United States Constitution was printed on hemp paper, and the rigging of the Mayflower, the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria were made out of hemp.

The SOU Media Collective presents these two films Tuesday night, tax day, in the Meese Auditorium, across Siskiyou from the Ashland 7-11. The event is free. Thank you.

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poster correction 14.04.2008 - 19:30 The poster says "Mulkey auditorium," which is in Churchill Hall. The video event is in the Meese auditorium, which is in the Art complex. The instructions in the Web page above are correct, but the poster is incorrect. It's true medical marijuana does have its side effects, but at least they aren't as bad as the prescription drugs in the tv commercials... author> Oops -- someone forgot the movies..... 15.04.2008 - 22:54 what a bummer.... warm the tar, get the feathers... ....HEMP Fest, Ashland Oregon 2009 any takers.... I Hope YOU reschedule>