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“Return to Reason”
Summary
Accurate revaluation of the Cannabis plant will do more to effect world peace and environmental balance than any other fundamental shift in perception and policy that mankind can make. Cannabis is a unique and essential agricultural resource, with more complete nutrition and more industrial uses than any plant on Earth.
Essential Reasoning
Mankind’s social and economic evolution were skewed, by prohibition of Cannabis (hemp, ‘marijuana’), three generations ago. Based on “gutter science”, and hysterical political rhetoric (still referenced as fact by today’s ‘drug war dinosaurs’), prohibition’s regressive influence has warped commonly accepted Natural values. Widespread criminalization of the world’s most useful agricultural resource has crimped the free organic agricultural market to the point of dysfunction, setting in motion ‘extinctionistic’ dynamics, characteristic of induced essential resource scarcity
Choosing a hydrocarbon-based economic paradigm over a carbohydrate economy condemned our species to degenerative addictions to toxic, inefficient, unevenly distributed, environmentally devastating, finite forms of energy. This has led the world, predictably, to increasing illness, economic disparity, unsustainable agricultural practices and escalating global conflict.
The uneven distribution of determinate resources, in which we currently live, is a self-inflicted condition of pre-catastrophic imbalance, exhibiting symptoms which inevitably precede synergistic collapse of major operating systems. Upcoming global catastrophe has been revealed by science as a predictable matter of ‘when’, rather than ‘if’. For an ever-increasing number of unfortunate creatures on this planet, needless suffering describes the condition of their lives at this moment.
The tragic, illogical impact of Cannabis criminalization can be most apparently perceived through consideration of prohibition’s effect on retarding global food security. Consider that Cannabis is the best, and potentially the most abundant, source of organic vegetable protein and essential fatty acids (EFAs) on the planet. Hemp was officially designated a “strategic food resource” by President Bill Clinton (Executive Order 12919).
Failure by the U.S. government and the United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) to investigate the farming of Cannabis - anywhere in the world, for any reason - is clearly immoral and unacceptable. Millions of people are starving and dying of preventable diseases, for the lack of what could easily be the most abundant source of uniquely healing organic nutrition.
Cannabis is obviously an essential rotational crop, upon which the success or failure of sustainable organic agricultural may depend. Given the exceptional nutritional profile of the Cannabis seed, potential global distribution of the resource, practical benefits to the soil and in the cultivation of other food crops, the impact of prohibition is profoundly fundamental. Considering hemp’s industrial utility (for production of more than 25,000 products including fuels, herbal therapeutics, building materials, paper, cloth…) the role of Cannabis in global economics could be transformational. Certainly other creatures with whom we share this planet are also suffering from scarcity of this unique component of a complex Natural Order.
Long before man’s recorded history began, the Cannabis plant was an integral component of survival for many cultures. It is only relatively recently, in 1937, that Cannabis (hemp ‘marijuana’) was criminalized in the U.S. to protect the economic interests of chemically-vested, politically powerful, industrial competitors. This poor choice of resources has led mankind to degenerative, anti-Natural values and morally bankrupt laws.
Over time, black market economics engendered by Cannabis prohibition, have become an increasingly destabilizing influence in mankind’s accelerating devolution through spiritual fraud, aberrant violence, political corruption, and dependence on the institutionalized, Economics of Punishment. Politically induced fear and cultural addiction to toxic, unsustainable sources of energy, are causal to oil wars ravaging the planet. Industrial imperialism inevitably leads to social conflict and loss of civil liberties, including our “self-evident” Natural right to farm “every herb bearing seed”.
Many symptoms of environmental, social and economic imbalance find a common underlying root in mankind’s warped attitude toward the Cannabis plant. Ravaging the environment to achieve short-term accumulation of wealth, has allowed man’s most polluting industries to gain control by force, subjugating less aggressive practices, whose long-range wisdom does not include or tolerate disrespect of Nature.
The absence of Cannabis from organic agriculture has led to failure of small farms and regional self-sufficience, increasing dependence on industrial farming and chemical-intensive practices. This is at least partially responsible for development of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Sold to the public as a necessary means of increasing food production, GMOs are a short-sighted measure, posing an incalculable threat to the Natural Order. Lacking credible valuation of Cannabis as a critical resource, Nature has been erroneously estimated to be incapable of supporting our species.
Many nations are trying to change their prohibition laws to reflect a less expensive and punishing, more humane and realistic, approach to mankind’s relationship with Cannabis. The Netherlands, Switzerland, Canada, Great Britain, Germany, France, and many other countries are refusing to accept the United States government’s dogmatic prohibition of Cannabis. Impacted by more than seven decades of drug propaganda, the United States continues to suffer under an unsustainable system of values, which is at war with reason and the Natural Order.
Extremist economic interests, working to squeeze a few more decades of profit from existing regressive technologies, perpetuate conditions of disparity and aggravate imbalance. Wealthy industrialists continue to manipulate the toxic, perversely ‘politiconomic’ forces that made them rich at the expense of everyone else, including future generations. Confusion over mankind’s most fundamental values has made social atrocities commonplace and injustice the rule rather than the exception, dishonoring sacrifices made by previous generations to secure our precious freedoms. People’s Natural right to farm is the ‘lynch-pin’ issue of our generation. Constricted availability of the most useful plant on Earth continues to rob mankind of our most uniquely essential renewable resource. Whether our species is able to transcend Cannabis prohibition, and reintroduce this critical resource in a timely way, could conceivably prove to be the deciding factor in determining the extinction or survival of all life on Earth.
posted by projectpeace @
8:29 AM
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