Here's to ya:
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]WOODSTOCK, New York -- A couple who habitually brand their one dollar bills with a marijuana leaf and the quote: "I grew hemp," were recently contacted by Woodstock police acting on behalf of the Secret Service. Joy Beckerman and James Horn, owners of the Heaven On Earth Hemp Store, report that the police came to them with Xerox copies of stamped dollar bills and a written warning from the secret service specifying that the practice of defacing United States currency was a federal crime. Although Horn admits that the local officers were laid back about the whole issue, he claims that the notice stated that the U.S. Attorney General would be contacted and charges would be pressed if the couple didn't immediately stop the stamping. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]While Horn fully admits to stamping many of his dollar bills with the pro-hemp message, he is alarmed that the federal government seems to be targeting him alone. Since Heaven On Earth sells the "I grew hemp" stampers, the couple argues that the government has no way of proving that the bills in question were defaced by them. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Horn says that he will continue to both sell stampers and stamp some of his one dollar bills despite the warning. The couple see their action as a way of informing the community of hemp's industrial uses and its historical background as an integral American crop. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]For more information, please contact either Joy Beckerman or James Horn of Heaven On Earth @ (914) 679-4990.[/FONT]