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The following is a letter e-mailed to the United Nations this morning. For what it's worth...
Dear People,
I am writing to bring attention to a fundamental imbalance that has led our world to the brink of war. Please consider that solutions are usually simple. It is the problems we create which are complex.
The failure of the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization to investigate Cannabis as a unique and essential food resource is at least a major oversight, if not outright negligence. It has been known for decades that Cannabis seed is the only common seed with three essential fatty acids in proper proportion for long term consumption. Cannabis seed is also the best available source of vegetable protein on the planet, and potentially the most abundant. President Clinton identified Cannabis as a "strategic food resource" in Executive Order 12-919, in 1994.
From what I can find through my inquiries and participation in FAO's on-line conferences, the UN has no agricultural projects or investigations being conducted in this area. If I am wrong, please let me know. If this is true, then it is clear that the UN is "throwing the baby out with the bath water" in its dismissal of Cannabis as a drug plant. Cannabis is in fact the most useful and essential plant on Earth.
Consider that if Cannabis and man were the only two species living on this planet, we would still have all the nutritional resources we need to survive. This cannot be said of any other living species, plant or animal.
In April, the United Nations will convene the UNGASS drug policy conference. I am writing to appeal to you to reconsider the irrational prohibition of the Cannabis plant. Making Cannabis a "forbidden fruit" just makes it more appealing to rebellious young people. Consider the reduced levels of teen use in the Netherlands as proof of this.
Obviously and predictably, prohibition has engendered black market economics, the economics of punishment, and the economics of scarcity. The tensions created from all the different wars that result from constriction of Natural economic principles, over three generations of prohibition, have manifested imbalances in every aspect of mankind's social evolution. The arbitrary economic disparity that has enriched people like Saddam Hussein, George Bush, and Osama Bin Laden is further exaggerated by induced scarcity of an essential and unique agricultural resource.
Prohibitionism at the U.N. has had a corollary impact on the credibility of the U.N.'s effectiveness in addressing issues of food security and health. Please be aware of this, if you are not already.
I will be in Vienna in April, to video tape the UNGASS meeting, if that is possible. Please advise me as to how I might receive a press kit and permission to film. I am a Member of the International Freelance Photographer's Organization (IFPO) and a member of the International Documentary Association (IDA) based in Los Angeles, California.
Please see my webpage at
http://www.webspawner.com/users/projectpeace
and follow links to other sites of interest for more information about the purpose of P.E.A.C.E. And the digital video documentary I am submitting to the U.N. under your 1503 procedure.
Thank you for your time in processing this inquiry.
Sincere Regards,
For peace,
Paul J. von Hartmann
posted by projectpeace @
11:09 PM
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Saturday, March 15, 2003  |
Prohibition’s Gravity: The Economics of Extinction
Ethological Premise:
Three generations of prohibitionist drug policies have resulted in fundamental, inertial, behavioral imbalances, accelerating mankind’s social devolution, through spiritual fraud toward eventual extinction.
Rationale
Regressive, anti-Natural, policies have materially enriched and therefore reinforced the influence of self-serving degenerative economic structures lacking functional moral accountability. Imbalances resulting from and customized to complement prohibitionist principles and thinking have engendered the Economics of Punishment, spawning increasingly authoritarian government s. Control of global social evolution has been usurped by the unimpeded presumption of anti-Natural latitudes, characterized and empowered by an absolute lack of accountability to future generations.
Solution
In the interest of survival, on behalf of Future Generations and those creatures who cannot speak for themselves, I recommend the following:
The creation of a Global Community Committee comprised of internationally selected individuals, responsible and accountable for investigating, accumulating and coordinating the flow of historical data (Cultural Memory), current wisdom (Global Understanding) and research (Progressive Inquiry) for the purpose of actively incorporating the interests and perspectives of future generations, (and other creatures who cannot speak, with whom we share this Earth) into the process of social evolution and evolved global governance.
Implementing the result of such activities would maximize recent evolutionary effects and advantage s incumbent in rapid advancements in communications technology, This process would simplify social evolution and decision-making, reduce the burden of obsolete, overbearing, inefficient, intrusive and unnecessary government structures, which are currently blocking progress toward sustainable existence, respect for Nature, individual freedom and spiritual autonomy.
Form
Connected through every means of communications electronics available, input to the common consciousness (potentially from every person on Earth), available for consideration in real time, could be coordinated from global electronics communications outposts (GECOs). This would afford real-time discussion and efficient decision making on timely and relevant issues. Coordination of resources and material wealth could be applied in much more rational and efficient ways, rewarding progressive innovation and emphasizing equitable distribution in response to communally beneficial values.
Free individual access to the system would afford input opportunities for All, with a designated succession of appointed operatives to receive, evaluate. and relay ideas and suggestions of merit. Elevating and amplifying the impact of direct individual innovation on the basis of merit would eventually develop coordinated world thought. Everyone’s input, concerns, questions, research, opinions and ideas could be incorporated into the process of global decision-making, carried out by electronic voting to achieve global consensus.
Taxation of luxury items and an upper limit on inheritance could eliminate the bureaucracy of current, anti-Constitutional (U.S.) income tax systems. This is the most effective step mankind could make toward a more livable standard for greater numbers of people, in the shortest amount of time.
Function
Regeneration of deserts, regional economics, and the renaissance of basic principles of Natural value and efficiency, would enable necessary expansion of the arable base. In the absence of prohibition, an internationally coordinated program of intensive Cannabis cultivation could be initiated to increase man’s Natural material abundance, effectively balancing man’s petroleum dependant, consumption-based patterns, which have perpetuated mass cultural denial of the inherently immoral, inarguably toxic, classically addictive, Economics. Of Extinction.
Paul J. von Hartmann
Project P.E.A.C.E.
Planet Ecology Advancing Conscious Economics
http://www.webspawner.com/users/projectpeace/
posted by projectpeace @
11:47 PM
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Friday, March 14, 2003 |
The Three Great Lies
We have been told three Great Lies all our lives. What is a Great Lie? It is a lie that is not only untrue, but actually the opposite of what is stated.
The first Great Lie we've been told is that "Solutions to complex problems are always very complex." The truth is that solutions to complex problems are usually very simple. It is the problems which are complicated by the assumption that solutions are complex, instead of considering and perhaps easily recognizing that the solution is obvious and fundamental in its simplicity.
The second Great Lie is that "Change always takes a long time." Well, the truth is that just because that's the way it was yesterday, doesn't mean that it has to be that way today or tomorrow. With mankind's ability to communicate globally, instantaneously, electronically in many languages for free, the common consciousness which, ideally, determines public policy, can function much faster than any of us can possibly imagine. That our political systems are lagging behind our technological abilities is a function of the inefficiency with which one operates, relative to the efficiency of which electronic consensus could function to determine global awareness, and therefore public policy.
The third Great Lie is that "Cannabis is a bad plant." The truth is that Cannabis is the best plant. For many reasons, Cannabis is unique and essential for mankind to develop sustainable economics and balanced relationship within the Natural Order. A "critically determinate" resource, without which mankind will not survive, Cannabis freedom is so fundamental a freedom that most people are unable to comprehend the significance of hemp seed nutrition as a basic tenet of human rights.
posted by projectpeace @
2:34 AM
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Monday, March 10, 2003 |
"Oil & Water" ---
I am just finishing editing on rough-cuts of the digital video documentary "Return to Reason", which now includes last week's drug policy reform meeting at the European Parliament, Brussels. Those activists or concerned citizens who would like to participate in creating an effective tool for reasoned drug reform are welcome to put the word out to whomever needs to hear that this project requires practical support before April.
Dolphin economics states that "I help you, help me, help us, help everyone..." I've done what I can to this point without additional assitance. A little help from a lot of people would be ideal, though a lot from one might be quicker. Once the material energy manifests, to rent theater space in Vienna, distribute tapes to the media, etc. then 'Time' will be the limiting factor in the effectivness of this communications-based strategy for prompting accountability for the truth about prohibition.
The plan is to saturate the media with an 11 minute digital video trailer of "Return to Reason", and approximately one hour of roughly-cut excerpts from two major drug policy reform conferences. The voices of reason, calling for drug policy review and increased fexibility in International treaties, is a rationale first step toward defusing the explosive health and civil liberties anomalies that have resulted from three generations of fear-based, prohibitionist dogma.
At the "Out From The Shadows" conference in Merida, Mexico and at the International meeting of NGOs at the European Parliament, perspectives that might otherwise go unheard will be amplified to reach the ears of the public. The intractablity of the United Nations, who in the past has caved-in to wealthy lobbyist and the ravings of sensationalist press, blocking drug policy review in spite of overwhelming clinical evidence and simple common sense. It is expected that the UN will attempt to readdict us all to "zero-tolerance" prohibitionism, in spineless compliance with the "quasi-religeous moral imperative" and flaccid arguements put forth by the United States drug war dinosaurs, who are profitably addicting the U.S. and other nations to the Economics of Punishment, chemical consumption, and armed aggression.
The danger of our time lay in out-balance, synergistic relationships, hooked to inertial environmental, economic and social paradigms accelerating beyond man's ability to anticipate or even perceive what the effects of past and current policy choices are. Mass denial of the extinctionistic nature of our toxic economic system has allowed the inevitable results of poor choices made three generations ago, to warp our social evolution to the point it is at now. Mankind is rushing toward the edge of extinction, with only the slightest chance of changing direction to avoid irreparable, catastrophic, synergistic collapse of fundamental systems.
To do other than revaluate our relationship with Nature (and Cannabis in particular) and actively appreciate the bounty with which we have been blessed, is to condemn present and future generations to misery beyond imagining while disrespecting the painful, usually bloody sacrifices made by previous generations to secure liberties and freedoms devoured by prohibitionist intolerance of individual diversity.
Time is the limiting factor in the equation of man's survival. Time is the only thing we can't make more of, so if we are to survive, we must make better use of the time we must necessarily, optomistically assume that we still have left. If Natural systems are ever to be rebalanced, respect for Nature must be recognized for its full primary fundamental significance, and sustainable economic existence consciously prioritised as determinate to survival and the quality of life, for All with whom we share this Water Planet.
posted by projectpeace @
2:11 AM
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