Weed: Legalize and tax it

[kentauros]

139. I have a print version of Jack Herer's book.

I think I bought it after the first edition of "High Weirdness by Mail" came out

One thing I've imagined in recent years is the idea of a "Johnny Hempseed" person or even a movement. That is, to reseed the clear-cuts, fallow public lands and so forth. Especially seed the clear-cuts owned by paper companies, then "turn them in" for propagating illegal substances.

The methods I've considered include model rockets, RVs, balloons, or just people hand-seeding (at night.) For those methods that wouldn't be done by hand, you'd have to pack the live seeds in some kind of soil container so that the "payload" isn't eaten by birds, yet has a ready medium for sprouting and taking root quickly.

This would have the added benefit of preventing or reigning in erosion on these cleared lands, whether the plants survive their subsequent discovery or not. Tearing them out could give people a means to fight against their removal, perhaps if the erosion-control has done some good in any town or community downhill from the hemp fields. I know, that's probably a weak example, but it's something else to throw in the faces of the prohibitionist DEA and others like them