Commitments

OFFICIAL SEATTLE HEMPFEST® PLATFORM

Twenty-five national and regional movement goals

  • Legal home-grows
  • Release of all non-violent cannabis offenders nationally
  • Legal school medicating for minor patients
  • Second Amendment equality protections for cannabis users
  • Public consumption lounges allowed
  • First Amendment equality in advertising, sponsorship, and promotion for cannabis-related businesses
  • Consumption protections for patients in public housing
  • Legal domestic industrial hemp production
  • Use in hospitals
  • Equality protections for transplant patients
  • Nutritional, sugar-free medical-marijuana “medible” alternatives
  • DeSchedule: Cannabis completely off the Federal Schedule / Controlled Substances Act
  • Removal of Cannabis from all binding treaties
  • Reparations in the form of expunction of all records relating to convictions for cannabis possession.
  • Parental rights / protections for cannabis users
  • Merit-based licensing for pot stores (or remove caps on the number of stores to allow a supply and demand-based market model)

  • Workplace protections/job discrimination

  • Reasonable regulations for concentrates

  • Restricting pesticides/herbicides/fungicides (organic production standards)

  • Driving impairment technology (impairment-based field test)

  • Fair, reasonable zoning for cannabis businesses
  • Tax/banking reform (end 280E restrictions)
  • Reasonable smell regulations for production facilities and elsewhere
  • Environmental impact of throw-away packaging examined
  • Tenant /Renter consumption protections