Standing outside of a Sacramento medical cannabis dispensary, you might detect something in the air. No, it's not secondhand THC vapor — public medicating is prohibited in the county. What you sense is a shift in perspective. Public pressure is building for the legalization and regulation of one of the oldest cash crops in America: the plants of genus Cannabis. The US federal government has held since 1970 that cannabis is a danger to public health and safety and listed the annual flowering h... davidwattsbarton FreedomFighter comment-17185 2009-11-03T22:13:05Z 2009-11-03T22:13:05Z GET Well Jack Herer FreedomFighter 2009-11-03T22:13:05Z Steven Bourasa comment-17019 2009-11-02T17:40:29Z 2009-11-02T17:40:29Z Read the definitive book on hemp and marijuana online for free: "The Emperor Wears No Clothes" http://www.jackherer.com/ Yes, George Washington grew HEMP!!! Steven Bourasa 2009-11-02T17:40:29Z MomtoHD comment-16990 2009-11-02T03:55:27Z 2009-11-02T03:55:27Z I wish we could get away from this idea that hemp is only about pot as a drug. The uses of industrial hemp could literally save the economy and our planet. It has been a cash crop since the beginning of civilization, and not because everyone just sat around smoking it. It made paper, the sails of ships, clothing, food...the uses go on and on. AND it's sustainable. We need to get past only looking at it in terms of a drug and legalize it at least as an industrial crop. MomtoHD 2009-11-02T03:55:27Z FreedomFighter comment-16930 2009-11-01T17:21:22Z 2009-11-01T17:21:22Z and the picture was taken by me in my back yard a few years ago!! FreedomFighter 2009-11-01T17:21:22Z David Watts Barton comment-16891 2009-11-01T06:04:53Z 2009-11-01T06:04:53Z This story was written by former Sacramento Press intern Cheyenne Cary. I only uploaded it. David Watts Barton 2009-11-01T06:04:53Z