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Fuel For Hurricanes: Global Broiling & "The War On Herbs"
by Paul J. von Hartmann
"Although we cannot be certain global warming intensified [Hurricane] Katrina per se, it clearly has created circumstances under which powerful storms like Katrina are more likely to occur now and in the future." -- Pew Center on Global Climate Change
Forget "global warming." This comforting description of what's really happening is an insult to the avoidable pain and suffering of people who are still in the midst of sickness, death, mysery and chaos. Katrina is only the latest example of catastrophic events that are certainly exacerbated by the "global broiling" of our planet.(1)
"Recent research...shows the intensity of hurricanes -- the wind speeds and the duration -- seems to have risen by about 70 percent in the past 30 years."(2)
Under-reaction to on-going crises of this scale has several counter-productive effects. The worst of these is to limit the scope of pragmatic thinking, narrowing the broader vision that is essential to rational consideration of all possible solutions. Unless this changes, the horrors of Katrina, the Asian tsunami, and other incomprehensible disasters will continue to intensify.
Even though present conditions of accelerating global broiling threaten to throw the ecosystem of the Earth into an irreversable slide to extinction, measures being considered by so-called world leaders and scientists fall far short of what they could be. The reasons for this are shamefully poor, at best, and criminally negligent at worst. The suppressive effects that Cannabis prohibition is having on science, agriculture, economics and reason are the greatest threats to sutainable existence that there are.
It is apparent that mankind's addiction to fossil fuels and other chemical contaminants, has been a primary cause of Global Broiling. Because we can grow the energy we need, globally, organically, while stripping carbon from the air and toxins from the soil, it stands to reason then, that organic agriculture is our best chance for reversing the damage that's been done to the Earth's atmosphere.
"Hemp is Earth's number one biomass resource; it is capable of producing 10 tons per acre in four months....Each acre of hemp would yield 1,000 gallons of methanol. Fuels from hemp, along with the recycling of paper, etc., would be enough to run American virtually without oil...Farming only 6% of continential U.S. acreage with biomass crops would provide all of America's gas and oil energy needs, ending dependence upon fossil fuels." (4)
If it seems unbelieveable that the government could be so wasteful and destructive to the common good, then consider the inargueable fact that the world's most useful and nutritious plant, and the only common seed with three essential fatty acids (EFAs), is prohibited. This the case, even as hundreds of millions starve, billions suffer from malnutrition, and Global Broiling threatens the world with decreasing protein production. (5, 6)
Essential resource scarcity is being induced by incorrectly labeling the Cannabis plant a "drug" by those who profit from the sociopathic "Economics of Punishment." Included in this are the prison-industrial franchise, the federal, state, and local law enforcement consortia, and an inflating government bureaucracy addicted to harvesting of people-for-profit, through creation of a burgeoning black market.
Concurrently, the chemical and biotech industries that would otherwise succumb to free-market competition from organic agricultural products, are generating obscene wealth for a few people, inducing radical corruption in our systems of governance, and imposing essential resource disparity and toxic environmental conditions on the rest of the planet. Extremes of conflict and dysfunction resulting from these fundamentally warped elements, are predictably leading to irreversable, synergistic collapse of the Earth's primarily significant, integrated systems, known collectively as the Natural Order.
Until the lingering, unrealistic influence of "Reefer Madness" gives way to escalating conditions of environmental imbalance, and related emergencies which necessitate "essential civilian demand" for "strategic resources,"(3) it is just a matter of time before our species distroys this planet through inefficient, mis-valuation of critically determinate agricultural resources and an extinctionistic disrespect for Nature.
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References:
1. "WAS KATRINA'S POWER A PRODUCT OF GLOBAL WARMING?"
Pew Center on Global Climate Change
8 Sep 2005
http://ealert.pewclimate.org/ctt.asp?u=2996490&l=104735
2. "Katrina Fuels Global Warming Storm"
by Alister Doyle
Published on Friday, September 9, 2005 by Reuters
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0909-05.htm
3. EXECUTIVE ORDER 12919. NATIONAL DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL RESOURCES PREPAREDNESS. June 6, 1994. PART IX - GENERAL PROVISIONS (e) "Food resources"
"Food resources" means all commodities and products, simple, mixed, or compound, or complements to such commodities or products, that are capable of being ingested by either human beings or animals, irrespec tive of other uses to which such commoditie s or products may be put, at all stages of processing from the raw commodity to the products thereof in vendible form for human or animal consumption. "Food resources" also means all starches, sugars, vegetable and animal or marine fats and oils, cotton, tobacco, wool, mohair, hemp..."
4. "The Emperor Wears No Clothes" Jack Herer.
Economics, Energy, and Environment
http://www.jackherer.com/chapter09.html
5. "The Emperor Wears No Clothes" Jack Herer.
Cannabis Hempseed as a Basic World Food
http://www.jackherer.com/chapter08.html
6. Global Warming Threatens Food Shortages in Developing Countries
http://www.futureharvest.org/news/climate.shtml
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The Harms of Prohibition:
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.
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 and possible abuse by people of rebellious character more likely.
21. Comprimises the legal distinction between "herbs" and "drugs," institutionalizing control of all natural products, both politically and economically.
posted by projectpeace @
11:36 PM
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"I personally was present in 1998 when the members of a field team visited
the Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative and a complete and practical
demonstration of a vaporizer wase perfomed for them and they understood the
process and how the device worked. We believed that they would include this
in their report.
They didn't. Lester Grinspoon, M.D. one of their advisory panel stated a chapter was written on the topic.
My conclusion: The members of the panel and their staff perpetrated dishonest, corrupt, and fraudulent acts as they wilfully censored any mention of the vaporizers in their report. A sad example of science suborned. A stupid and hurtful act that needlessly exposes users to breakdown products of burning and exposes the IOM and federal government's ethical defect."
Tod H. Mikuriya, M.D.
Original Message-----
> From: Paul J. von Hartmann [mailto:projectpeace@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2005 9:22 AM
> To: Dr. Tod Mikuriya
> Subject: "Reverse Victory"
>
> In case there is any question about who or what the Bush regime is working
> for, the following report is from the International Association for Cannabis
> as Medicine (IACM) Bulletin of 4 September 2005
>
>
>" USA: NIDA rejects a study with vaporized cannabis"
>
> A scientific protocol to investigate the types of emissions produced by
> cannabis vaporization has been rejected by the National Institute on Drug
> Abuse (NIDA) after an 18 month regulatory delay. In it's letter rejecting
> the protocol, NIDA claimed that the study would "not add to the scientific
> knowledge base in a significant way."
>
> (Source: Press release of California NORML of 25 August
> 2005)
>
> ===================================
>
> Aho! Drug Policy Reform Community,
>
> In every conflict, there are a few decisive "victories in reverse." This is
> one of those.
>
> By suppressing research into the health effects of vaporized Cannabis, NIDA
> has revealed an unaccountable scientific bias that threatens everyone's
> health and demonstrates the lack of credibility in the current U.S.
> administration. There is no logic or reason in NIDA's rejection of
> clinically-controlled studies of vaporized (unburned) herbal Cannabis, other
> than that the pedictable results promise substantial phytotherapeutic
> benefit. Naturally, this poses a huge economic threat to the chemical drug
> industry, and the politicans who are officers in the Big Pharma Profit
> conglomerate.
>
> The potential benefit of this announcement is in its extreme blatant
> protectionism. This serves to eliminate any lingering illusions about who
> NIDA is working for. It is obvious to anyone who would benefit from any
> healing herb, that one of the real, main reasons for 'marijuana'
> prohibition, is that Cannabis is a safe and effective herbal remedy, for
> more medical conditions than any man-made drug.
>
> What is fascinating in this disappointing display of chemical pharmaceutical
> protectionism, is the blatant hypocrisy of an institution that would ban
> safe, affordable and effective herbal remedies, in favor of concentrated,
> chemical drugs with a much greater potential for abuse, black market
> trade, and lethal overdose than do herbal therapeutics, including and
> especially Cannabis.
>
> The drug policy reform community could evidence NIDA's suppression of
> Cannabis research to bridge the gap of understanding. The circumstances
> surrounding the decision to ban research is fresh in the puclic's mind, as
> the Bush regime refused to study the levees in New Orleans though advised to
> do so. A major, international, class-action legal process needs to be
> initiated, leading eventually to exercise of 'essential civilian demand" to
> be judged in an objective international tribunal.
>
> Because conditions of the global environment demand that action be taken, it
> is incredibly urgent that the decision-making process of our species be
> modified to maximize our ability to communicate, while we still can. Weather
> patterns and other conditions of communications disruption could effect the
> entire world at any moment.
>
> Bankruptcy of the human soul has been demonstrated in the NIDA decision, a
> turning point in our choice between what's real, and spiritual extinction.
>
> "In February 2004, 60 of the nation's leading scientists, including 20 Nobel
> laureates, warned in a statement, "Restoring Scientific Integrity in
> Policymaking": "Successful application of science has played a large part in
> the policies that have made the United States of America the world's most
> powerful nation and its citizens increasingly prosperous and healthy ...
> Indeed, this principle has long been adhered to by presidents and
> administrations of both parties in forming and implementing policies. The
> administration of George W. Bush has, however, disregarded this principle
> ... The distortion of scientific knowledge for partisan political ends must
> cease." Bush completely ignored this statement."
>
from "No one can say they didn't see it coming"
By Sidney Blumenthal
Salon.com, 31 August 2005. http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2005/08/31/disaster_preparation/index_np.html
for peace,
Paul J. von Hartmann
Project P.E.A.C.E.
Planet Ecology Advancing Conscious Economics
http://www.webspawner.com/users/projectpeace/
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