IMO the biggest silent issue that could have hands-down won us Iowa is the legalization of industrial hemp. As far as I know none of the other GOP candidates care about Hemp but RP introduced a bill to legalize.
this is HUGE- if you know anything about hemp then you know that it is an ABSOLUTE BOOM for any and all American farmers and for all domestic manufacturing. This is practically a miracle plant that needs almost no fertilizer, no pesticides/herbicides, increases the yields of other plants when used in crop rotation, replenishes the soil of resources and can quite literally be used to make 80% of all products in the market- You can bet that American farmers will vote hemp and will vote Ron Paul. I think we could have won Iowa if we'd sold the hemp issue as being third most important after Foreign Policy and Fiscal Conservatism.
But we still have a chance. The entire breadbasket might be up for grabs and you know that if we sell our position on hemp, there will be an increase of Paul support. CA, the two Dakotas, Virginia and Kentucky have been trying to legalize hemp for AGES now (I'm sure that there's a bunch of other states i'm missing as well) but the DEA and the republican establishment have been stepping all over them. We need to sell our position on this issue to win votes.
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