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The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies
In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
http://www.law.indiana.edu/uslawdocs/declaration.html
1. Induces essential resource scarcity of fuel, food, and shelter for humans, animals and future generations.
2. Institutes a black market economy.
3 Corrupts governments, locally and globally.
4. Creates essential resource disparity, that inevitably leads to wars over energy, water and other essential natural resources.
5. Creates an economic vacuum that has addicted and corrupted our economic system to be dependent on toxic, evenly distributed and finite resources for our essential needs.
6. Degrades the environment on regional and global levels. "Global Broiling" is the best example of the far reaching effects that mankind's addiction to chemicals is already having.
7. Creates poverty, where abundance could easily exist.
8. Causes malnutrition, illness and death from nutritional deficientcies.
9. Threatens everyone's food security
10. Perverts human social evolution toward violence.
11. Responsible for the rise of GMOs, having created protein shortages.
12. Economically empowers the least conscious
13. Disrepects Science
14. Institutionalizes Disrespect for Nature
15. Inhibits free spiritual evolution.
16. Robs us of our Natural Rights, upon which our government was founded and ultimately.
17. Robs other creatures, with whom we share this planet, of an unique and essential resource.
18. Creates conditions of misinformation, which ultimately harm people.
19 Accelerates the spread of HIV/AIDS between infected mothers and nursing infants.
20. Creates a "forbidden fruit" which makes adolescent experimentation more likely.
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"When policy-makers advocate rigid, abstinence-only drug and sex education programs of questionable value, to the exclusion of safety-oriented approaches that dare to provide an honest, comprehensive fallback strategy, they put our young people in real jeopardy. If sex and drug prevention programs prohibit the discussion of practical information about how to take precautions if one is not abstinent, they are neither education nor protection."
Author: Dr. Marsha Rosenbaum
http://www.mapinc.org/newssf/v05/n612/a10.html?56328
Pubdate: Thu, 14 Apr 2005
Source: Orange County Register, The (CA)
Copyright: 2005 The Orange County Register
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In 2000, the member states of the United Nations committed themselves to creating a “more peaceful, prosperous and just world,” to “free[ing] our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty,” to making “the right to development a reality for everyone,” and to ridding “the entire human race from want.”
Are these just more well-meaning words? Perhaps this time they will make a difference, because the joint declaration also set out eight goals—the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)—and each goal has specific, measurable targets that should be met by 2015.
These goals aim to make definite improvements in the lives of the world’s poor people, judged, in most cases, against their situation in 1990. The need for accomplishing these goals is immense. Today, 1.1 billion people live on less than one US dollar per day (the internationally recognized poverty threshold)—430 million in South Asia, 325 million in Sub-Saharan Africa, 260 million in East Asia and the Pacific, and 55 million in Latin America. Too many children live lives characterized by hunger and illness, and all too often succumb to early death. Moreover, another 1.6 billion people live on between one and two dollars per day, often sliding temporarily below the one dollar per day threshold. To enable all these people to live in dignity, the eight goals to achieve by 2015 are: Agriculture, Food Security, Nutrition and the Millennium Development Goals :
1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
2. Achieve universal primary education
3. Promote gender equality and empower women
4. Reduce child mortality
5. Improve maternal health
6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
7. Ensure environmental sustainability
8. Develop a global partnership for development.
Essay by Joachim von Braun, M. S. Swaminathan, and Mark W. Rosegrant
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"Nematicidal effects of hemp (Cannabis sativa) may not be mediated by cannabinoid receptors" J. M. MCPARTLAND
Few nematodes infest the roots of hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) plants, and hemp plant extracts have been utilised as botanical nematicides. The responsible constituent may be A 9 -tetrahydrocannabinol (A 9 -THC).
INTRODUCTION Hemp, Cannabis sativa L., is rarely infested by nematodes (McPartland et al. 2000). This makes hemp attractive to farmers using Integrated Pest Management (IPM), as a rotation crop with nematode-susceptible plants. About 4000 species of nematodes are plant parasites, and they damage crops around the world (Weischer & Brown 2000). The damage they do tends to be under appreciated, because most nematodes attack roots, causing unseen, underground damage. Although nematodes are very small, simple organisms they can occur in high numbers and it is their accumulated impact that causes damage.
In humans, A 9 -THC exerts its effects via a family of G protein-coupled receptors, known as cannabinoid (CB) receptors. CB receptors are phylogenetically ancient, and occur in many vertebrates and invertebrates.
In New Zealand, the most economically damaging crop nematodes are Globodera pallida and G. rostochiensis, which threaten potato yields and export status (Mercer 1994; Bulman & Marshall 1997). Hemp has been rotated with potatoes to suppress G. rostochiensis (Kir'yanova & Krall 1980). In New Zealand pastures, the most important nematodes of white clover are Heterodera trifolii, Ditylenchus dipsaci (Mercer 1994), and four Meloidogyne species (Mercer & Miller 1997). Hemp rotations suppress soil populations of//, glycines (Scheifele 1998) and M. chitwoodi (Kok et al. 1994). Some hemp cultivars are resistant to M. hapla (Meijer 1993) and other Meloidoygne species (Mateeva 1995). Soil mixed with 3% w/w dried Cannabis seed cake suppressed M. incognita (Goswami & Vijayalakshmi)
New Zealand Journal of Crop and Horticultural Science, 2001, Vol. 29: 301-307 0014-0671/01/2904-0301 $7.00 © The Royal Society of New Zealand 2001 301 Short communication Faculty of Health & Environmental Sciences UNITEC Private Bag 92 025, Auckland New Zealand M. GLASS Department of Pharmacology University of Auckland Private Bag 92 019, Auckland New Zealand Abstract
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Please see
http://formalcomplaint.blogspot.com
to see what we must do to legally transcend prohibition in time to avoid synergistic collapse of the ecosystem, human society, and our economic structures.
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