New roads are nice, but they're a luxury. Remove our constitutional requirement that fuel taxes must be spent on roads, and allow the state to dip into this tax stream during extreme hardship.
Hemp is a useful material with a rich history. It can be used for clothing, for food (high in protein and omega-3), and bio-fuels among other things. It CANNOT be ingested to get you high. So why is it essentially illegal to grow? It has a close association with Marijuana. It is, technically, a marijuana plant. However, since other countries can grow industrial hemp legally, why can't we? Currently, we import millions... more »