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It occurred to me yesterday that people who believe in an open agricultural economy could just start printing Cannabis Currency, that everyone can invest in the future of. The Cannabis industry certainly has known value to give momentum to such an economic shift. Such a system would open the new economy to public support. We could sell them as novelty items to begin with, at our film festivals, or to use in buying encouragement from people who would like to support the idea.
I have a permit to grow that I printed years ago that helps put human values back into perspective with the Biblical quote in Genesis, where "God" refers to "every herb bearing seed."
In any case, that's another idea that could allow investment of conscious revenue.
posted by projectpeace @
8:59 PM
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Tuesday, September 27, 2005  |
Stolen Time
It's 4:37 in the morning. France is still sleeping. Not even birds are awake at 4:37.
This time is my own, to read, to work or just sit with my cat. The rest of my life is being stolen, by thieving politicians. Like many other people in the world, the struggle for justice and freedom consumes my life energy, thought and attention...
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The most useful and nutritious plant on Earth.
What issue is fundamental to all other environmental, economic and social policy issues? What is the most useful and nutritious agricultural resource on Earth, that strips carbon from the atmosphere more efficiently and benefits other organic crops grown in rotation with it, more than any other crop? What evolutionary path is humankind's best hope for attaining sustainability within a functioning Natural Order?
If you said "Cannabis prohibition" I'd be surprized, but in fact, strange as it may seem, most of the imbalances we are facing are the result of a poor and self-serving choice made sixty-eight years ago. The world's best source of vegetable protein and essential fatty acids was made scarce through legislation. Essential resource scarcity has been imposed for so long that people have forgotten the agricultural and ecological significance of the Cannabis plant.
By choosing chemicals over plants, and war over farming, as the bases for mankind's economy, the grandfathers of today's corporate industrialists initiated a short-term paradigm, with predictable consequences. Unless Cannabis is recognised for its true value, then the slide to extinction will continue for lack of an holistic respect for the Natural Order, of which Cannabis is a critical component.
Please consider the following essay, and let me know if you would be willing to include the solutions I've been investigating, photographing and writing about for the past fifteen years, in the NRDC discussion. Time is the limiting factor in the equation of our survival. We don't have a spring planting season to waste if our children are to have any chance at all. Every logical measure to rebalance our relationship with the Natural Order must be considered, regardless of existing prohibition statutes. Executive Order 12919 specifically identifies "hemp" as a strategic food resource, yet the UN/FAO doesn't even acknowledge the exceptional, unique and essential, nutritional profile of hemp seed.
Every year that passes without intensive cultivation of hemp, equates to the needless death, malnutrition and illness of billions of people and animals, in every country on Earth. To remain silent on this issue is unfortunate for everyone.
(Sent to NRDC and Earthjustice this morning with "At What Cost, Prohibition?".)
posted by projectpeace @
7:32 PM
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As global conditions of environment, economics and social evolution accellerate toward synergistic collapse, whatever viable solutions we can present to solve the overwhelming problems facing us, must be recognised as essential, emergency procedures for reversing global broiling and containing the spread of Avian flu.
Of necessity, the American occupation in Iraq must end, and agricultural reparations to the Natural Order prioritized. Working together to cultivate plants that clean the atmosphere most efficiently, and allow us to shrug off the toxic economic control that poisons every creature on this Earth, every day. That's the extinctionistic paradigm we are presently facing.
It is our choice to keep using chemicals or switch to sustainable, organically and biodynamically grown agricultural resources. Cannabis is the link to mankind's chances for achieving sustainability within the Natural Order.
A "critical" resource is missing from the equation of survival. Unless we plant Cannabis for fuel and food this coming spring, it may not be possible to grow it by the following spring. People have taken a lot for granted, and trusted the wrong politicians for much too long.
Unless the leadership of our gobernments recognises the obvious edge of existnce upon which we balance precariously, our borderline situation will crumble from beneath our feet.
PvH
posted by projectpeace @
8:00 AM
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