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"It's Not About The Pot"
by Paul J. von Hartmann
Project P.E.A.C.E.
THC Ministry International
ENCOD
12 June 2005
"US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the Justice Department has the authority to prosecute state-authorized medicinal cannabis patients for violating the federal Controlled Substances Act."
Why do you think that the U.S. Federal government (and the United Nations) continues to wage an unethical, immoral, discompassionate, un-popular, and invasive war against medical 'marijuana' patients? Why are our fundamentally sacrosanct Natural right to heal ourselves being stolen by governemnt thugs? And what about the hypocrisy of disrespecting our hard-won civil liberties, that so many have died to defend? All of this madness has been reinforced by the Supremely Corrupt decision handed down, in spite of so many people, more than enough studies and plenty of buraucratic commissions, in many countries, having made a consistent, inarguably compelling case for ending Cannabis prohibition, for several decades.
To begin with, it really isn't about the 'pot.' Secondly, it is ultimately profitable. Finally, because we allow it to continue.
Human values have been wickedly warped for so long by "Wars & Drugs Economics" that people can't see what could be, had our grand-parents not been lied to sixty-seven years ago by the economically self-interested grand-parents of today's generation of filthy-rich politicians, about the true value of the Cannabis plant.
Consider first of all, that Cannabis is not and has never been a "drug," as the corporate chemical government is spending so much tax money to convince us it is. Cannabis (hemp, 'marijuana') is, in point-of-fact, an easy-to-grow, organic, synergistically phytotherapeutic "herb bearing seed," with more practical uses than any other agricultural resource on Earth. The recent Supremes ruling in the "Untied Snakes" is all about what is truly valuable. It has never been about "drugs,"at all. Essentially, it is about aagriculture competing in a free agricultural market, versus the chemical industrial market, and the black market.
The black industrial market includes the drug trade (legal and illegal), the Economics of Punishment, Genetically Mixed-Up Organisms (GMOs), and Predation over Peace. Predation is always more profitable. People who are capable of suspending their sense of morality or reality, enough to cut the throats of people who don't consider violence an acceptable means to achieve a selfish end eventually climb to the higher realms of public office. Economics directs politics so it is predictable that an economy based on suspension of responsibility would consistently reward corruption. Allowing people the freedom to farm would disengaged humanity from the chemically-dependent economy currently deciding our "extinctionistic" future.
The 50,000 (fifty thousand) different uses for the Cannabis plant include production of abundant, global, organic, sustainable fuels, food, agricultural biocides, and a wide variety of industrial products. Most of these products are currently being manufactured using expensive, toxic, unevenly distributed chemical resources.
The thousands of products that can be made from Cannabis would compete so successfully in a truly free market, against the products that are currently being manufactured by the chemical industrial complex, because on a planet waking up to "Global Broiling", anyone with a shred of environmental consciousness and concern for present and future generations of people, plants and animals, will choose non-polluting products over poisonous ones -- especially if they're cheaper!
Obviously, 'marijuana' will never be freely allowed, because the other uses of it threaten the dominant human economic paradigm. Why compete when you can criminalize competition against the chemical industry through an unreasonable and lucrative agricultural prohibition? Call an herb a "drug" long enough, and people will soon forget the differences between the two.
Inertia, ignorance, illusion and fear are driving the social evolution of our species. Sad though it may be to contemplate the extinction and destruction of our species and the planet upon which we depend, there is no longer any doubt, in realistic, credibly-informed people's minds, that this is the direction humankind is heading. Most experts give us about twenty years before it is hopeless, but in my opinion, that is optimistic. If we have five years left to reverse Global Broiling, we can consider ourselves to be very fortunate.
Mankind's understanding and general respect for the Natural Order is tragically below what it needs to be in order to maintain the "Web of Life." Each strand of the web that's cut means the weakening and eventual collapse of of other critical systems which are in turn connected to other systems. By the time we realize it's too late to stop the synergistic collapse of the ecosystem, it will have been too late for some time. For this reason, Cannabis prohibition is the greatest threat to this planet that there is. Fortunately, it is also one of the most easily changed, once enough people understand why it is necessary.
One of the consistently predictable characteristics of prohibition is that it has a corrupting influence. People, systems, politics, economics, courts, law enforcement, and individuals who control our governments by proxy are motivated by profit. The economics of scarcity in which we live, favor the corruptable. That's why King Bush II is still occupying the White House and Queen Dick Cheney hasn't been arrested yet.
The 'marijuana' debate is a "smoke-screen" that is being used to induce scarcity of an unique and essential "strategic resource." Essential resource scarcity has been imposed on humankind since the beginning of the last century. Our species has forgotten how important Cannabis is to our sustainable existence.
To end prohibition we must first admit that anyone who still supports it has either been economically corrupted, is not credibly informed, or lacks sufficient understanding and respect of reality, which makes global cultivation of Cannabis an ecological and humanitarian necessity. Corruption is easy to weed-out. Just look at people's personal investment portfolios.
Disregard for reality is harder to deal with, as it requires economic disempowerment. Cannabis freedom would achieve that quicker than any other alternative fuel resource. Because time is the limiting factor in the equation of survival, freedom to farm must be regained by essential civilian demand.
Last week's Supreme Court decision regarding Cannabis signals the end of objective credibility for that court, once and for all. Essential civilian demand for an unique and essential agricultural resource is urgently needed in order to get as much Cannabis seed in the ground, before the planting season passes. If this doesn't happen, then millions more people all over the world will starve in the next year. Cancer, diabetes, and other avodable illnesses will take more lives, and people who could be helped by hemp seed nutrition, medical 'marijuana' and the thousands of other benefits of the Tree of Life, will suffer unecessarily.
Every year that passes is gone forever. Time is the one thing we can't make more of. Prohibition will end when people value Cannabis in proportion to what it is truly worth.
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Paul J. von Hartmann
Project P.E.A.C.E.
THC Ministry International
ENCOD
12 June 2005
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