Dear People in the drug policy reform community,



Project P.E.A.C.E. is back in France working to effect drug policy changes at an international

level, and editing the DV documentary film "Return to Reason." The following is an essay that will

be circulated in the European Union next week. Let me know if you're interested in hearing more

about how I think we can end Cannabis prohibition, by this Spring, by exercising "essential

civilian demand."



I really think it is time to broaden the definition of "medical" 'marijuana' to include the

healing nutritional dimensions of Cannabis seed. A strong legal aruement could then be made for

our First Amendment protections of Freedom of Religion, as gratitude for sustenance has always

been part of  a legitimate spiritual relationship with food (i.e. Thanksgiving).



I am also working with Roger Christie at the THC Ministry in Hawaii to secure our spiritual

freedom with regard to Cannabis, and would be interested to know what you think of a more

broadbased approach to Cannabis policy reform.



Best regards to all,



Paul



P.S. Attached is an illustration that MPP is welcome to use as you like. Let me know if you would

care to see more.



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At What Cost, Prohibition?



The most tragic toll that current drug policy has had is hardly known. I am referring to the

impact that prohibitionist policies have had on global food security.



The end result of prolonged, intransigent, excessive and exclusively negative characterizations of

'marijuana,'  are that historical knowledge of the unique and essential nutritional properties of

Cannabis seed has been all but forgotten. Over-looked and actively suppressed by those

institutions whose responsibility it is to enforce treaties that provide for the common good, the

most useful and potentially abundant agricultural resource on Earth has been made scarce.



The United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization has failed to acknowledge the true value of the

world's richest source of organic vegetable protein, and the only common seed with three essential

fatty acids (EFAs). This degree of negligence is unprecedented in human history, and is largely

complicit in the agonizing illnesses and deaths of billions of people. The toll that Cannabis

eradication has had on wildlife populations is inestimable.





NUTRITIONAL ANALYSIS OF HEMP SEED

g/100g Hemp Seed (fresh, organic, non-sterilized)

Data Supplied by NewTech Laboratories





Protein 23.04

Carbohydrate e 52.67

of which sugars 2.47

Fat 9

Sodium (mg/100g) 17.7

Dietary Fibre 35.36

Kcal 384

Kjoules 1606

Saturated fatty acids 1

Mono unsaturated fatty acid 1.1

Poly unsaturated fatty acid 6.5

Trans fatty acids <0.1



FATTY ACID BREAKDOWN:

(as % w/w of fat)



Butanoic Acid C4 <0.1

Hexanoic Aci d C6 <0.1

Capry lic Acid C8 <0.1

Capric Acid C10 <0.1

Lauric Acid C12 <0.1

Myristic Acid C14 <0.1

Palmatic Acid C16:0 8.4

Stearic Acid C18:0 3.1

Arachidic Acid C20:0 <0.1



Monounsaturated Fats:

Palmi toleic Acid C16:1 <0.1

Oleic Acid C18:1 13.1



Polyunsaturated Fats:

Linoleic Acid C18:2w6 56

Linolenic Acid C18:3w3 19.4

GLA C18:3w6 awaiting results



Trans fatty acids:

Palmitoleic Acid c16:1 <0.1

Oleic Acid C18:1 <0.1



Hemp seed does not contain the anti-nutrient trypsin inhibitors as found in soy milk.



(End of Document)





Nutritional analysis for Polish hemp seeds

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Last updated 20/6/99

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The following figures have been supplied by a Polish company for Polish Seeds



Vitamins:

E 30 mg/g

C 14 mg/g

B1 9 mg/g

B2 11 mg/g

B3 25 mg/g

B6 3 mg/g



Amino Acids (mg/g of seeds):

Alanin e 9

Arginine 18.8

Cystine 19.8

Glutamin Acid 34.8

Glycin 9.7

Histidinc 2.5

Isoleucinc 1.5

Leucine 7.1

Lysine 4.3

Methionine 2

Phenylalanine 3.5

Prolamine 7.3

Serine 8.6

Treonine 3.7

Tryptophan 0.6

Tyro sine 5.8

Valine 3.9



(End of Document)



In some varieties of Cannabis four essential fatty acids can be found. The following information

has been copied from



http://www.hempfood.com/I HA/iha03114.htm l



Cultivation of Cannabis oil seed varieties in Finland

J.C. Callaway1 and T.T. Laakkonen

21 Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry,

University of Kuopio POB 1627, FIN-70211 Kuopio, Finland

2Palkkila Farm, Hatsinant ie 219, FI N-16 710 Hollola, Finland



Table 2. FIN-314 Seed Analysis Results (means of 2 analyses each of 2 random samples, standard

deviation in brackets)



Palmitic acid (C16:0)

Palmitoleic acid (C16:1)

Stearic acid (C18:0)

Oleic acid (C18:1)

Linoleic acid (C18:2)

GLA (C18:3)

Linolenic acid (C18:3)

Arachidic acid (C20:0)

Eicosenoic acid (C20:1)

Eicosadienoic acid (C20:2)

Behenic acid (C2 2:0)

Lignoceric acid (C24:0)



(End of Document)



Much more information, and detailed explanations in this area can be found on the internet at the

following websites in several languages:



http://www.chanvre-info.ch/



http://www.hemp.co.uk/html/manuscript.html



http://www.hemp.co.uk/html/firstclinicaltrials.html



http://www.hempfoods.com.au/



http://www.ukcia.org/research/default.php



"The essential fatty acids are truly the welding link in nutritional health. Simple deficiencies

can cause symptoms which may be mistaken for major systemic diseases such as diabetes. Essential

fatty acids provide many health-giving properties which positively impact human vitality. Their

myriad benefits include regulating blood pressure, nourishing the immune system, controlling

inflammation in the body, and preventing the formation of abnormal blood clots."



-- From "Essential Fatty Acids" by Deborah Lee, Woodland Publishing, 1997.



To see what little the UN/FAO has to say about Cannabis, see

http://www.fao.org/ag/AGA/AGAP/FRG/afris/Data/494.HTM

http://www.fao.org/





Conclusion



Protein production determines carrying capacity. Because Cannabis is a unique and essential

protein resource, it has never been within the rightful jurisdiction of any court. An individual's

right to produce food has always been beyond the moral accountability of government.



Because Cannabis is not truly a "drug," and is in fact an herb with a long and varied history of

natural values, in a free society people have a fundamental right to take advantage of all of its

potential benefits. In the tradition of sincere respect and spiritual appreciation for sustenance

afforded by Nature's resources, every person has an inalienable right to prosper through the use

of "every herb bearing seed."  



Mankind is far beyond its rightful authority in legislating scarcity of a unique and essential

natural resource, upon which other species also depend for their survival. The counter-productive

effect of prohibition on global food security has imposed a much greater harm to humans and

wildlife than any perceived threats, real or imagined, posed by Cannabis freedom.





Paul von Hartmann

Project P.E.A.C.E.

Planet Ecology Advancing Conscious Evolution

10 December 2004



Project P.E.A.C.E.

http://webspawner.com/users/projectpeace



Formal Individual Complaint to the U.S. Government

http://www.formalcomplaint.blogspot.com/



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"Human Behavior Survey" sent to ENCOD today





1. Do you agree with the axiomatic truth that, "Forbidden fruit is always sweeter." ?



2. Do you think that making Cannabis a "forbidden fruit," may make 'marijuana' even more

attractive to teens than it would otherwise be, in the absence of prohibition?



3. Do you think that undermining global food security, by prohibiting the world's best source of

vegetable protein, is a legitimate and necessary cost of the drug war?



4. If your child was deathly ill, and Cannabis was the only safe and effective remedy that would

improve his or her condition, would you get it for them regardless of whether it was legal or not?



5. In such a situation, would you rather grow your own biodynamic herbal remedy or buy it from

someone you don't know on the black market?



6. Do you think that, if Cannabis were no longer prohibited, hard drug and alcohol use would

increase or decrease?



7. Do you agree that civil liberties are precious, having been paid for by those people who have

given their lives in wars, so that we may live in peace?



8. Do you agree that in a "crime" where there is no victim, it might work better to let people

have the individual right to make a personal choice, rather than being punished into submission by

laws that violate everyone's civil liberties?



9. Do you think that waging a civil war on the world's only truly global culture (Cannabis) is a

war that is winnable, or even worth fighting?



10. If people everywhere were free to grow whatever they wanted or needed in their gardens and on

their farms, do you think the black market in those plants would benefit or disappear?



11. If you could make clean, renewable biofuels out of organic plant material, at a fraction of

the cost of petroleum and nuclear energies, would you choose to do that rather than polluting the

planet with toxic, unevenly distributed, finite resources ?



12. Do you still think Cannabis prohibition is making living conditions on Earth better????



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Ofcourse there are many more questions to ask...perhaps we could all ask them all, all at once, on

both sides of the Atlantic!



for peace,



PvH