Proposal for City of Oakland: Grow Hemp

by New Oaktown

Sun, Jun 14, 2009 12:35PM

City of Oakland faces massive falling revenues and need to chop its budget down to size. Would growing hemp on empty city lots, such as that in the Uptown district, raise much-needed funds as well as raise a useful plant which provides more than medicine? Fiber for clothing, food, paper pulp, jobs, agricultural awareness are all benefits of this proposal.

As you know, City of Oakland is pretty broke now, and not getting any richer. That’s just like most other US cities, and we aren’t in some measly two-year recession here. Oakland’s need for revenue is great.

V Smoothe and other Oakland bloggers have covered a potential pot tax on our July ballot in some detail. What I haven’t seen anywhere is discussion of the city actually growing and selling its own marijuana to raise revenue. This idea may not be as crazy as you might believe. (Or maybe it is!)

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