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"Essential Resource Scarcity and the Rise of Evil"
What would happen to the moral integrity of human society if scarcity of the most useful agricultural resource on Earth were imposed for seven decades? Would essential resource scarcity lead to moral decay, if toxic substances were sold as acceptable substitutes for renewable ones? What would happen if people were forced to choose between living comfortably for a short time, or honoring our responsibility of maintaining the integrity of Earth's biosystems?
Imagine for a moment, a plant that can be used to make everything currently being made from petroleum. Imagine further, that from the same plant, a globally-distributed abundance of environmentally-compatible fuels, paper, cloth, building materials, vegetable oil, agricultural biocides, biodegradable plastics and 25,000 other products could be grown, sustainably and organically to produce products that were much better, at less cost, and with less pollution than are currently being produced from other resources.
Imagine even further that this same plant produced copious quantities of seed, more nutritious than any other common seed on Earth. Include the distinction of the seed being the world's best available source of vegetable protein, amino acids, Vitamin E, and the only common seed with three essential fatty acids (EFAs).
Add to this mythical plant the distinction of being "the safest therapeutically-active substance known to man," effective in prevention, treatment and cures for many serious illnesses, including cancer, Multiple Sclerosis, heart disease, AIDS, arthritis, muscle spasticity, Alzheimer's disease, glaucoma, malnutrition, stress, depression, eczema, sexual dysfunction and many other grave afflictions.
Imagine now that this plant has such extraordinary psychoactive and entheogenic properties, that it has served mankind for thousands of years, resulting in the spiritual development of our species. Include among its attributes, the genesis of the three major world religions, and serving as the main ingredient in the Holy Anointing Oil used by Jesus Christ.
On top of all that, give the plant exceptional agricultural characteristics that further increase its value as a rotational crop, a companion plant, soil conditioner, soil re-mineralizer, soil erosion inhibitor, soil detoxifier, and seasonal wind-break. Include also, consideration of the plant's value as a critical food and cover resource for wildlife.
Now, stop imagining, to know that such a plant exists, globally, in the "herb bearing seed" called Cannabis (hemp, 'marijuana,' ganja, Santa Maria, hennep, hanf, Chanvre, mota, kanopya...). Prohibition of the world's most useful and potentially abundant agricultural resource has induced scarcity where equitable resource distribution could exist.
Undoubtably, the absence of Cannabis is a primary, fundamental influence, resulting in the rise of evil in human society. In the absence of this uniquely essential, renewable resource, mankind has been forced to use toxic, finite, unevenly distributed chemicals, that are throwing-off the balance of Nature.
Commerce in chemicals, and the obscene profits being made by people who suspend morality to invest in the inevitable wars being waged as the result of imposed, prolonged essential resource disparity, are enriching those entities having the least respect, the least moral responsibility and social consciousness, in regard to human stewardship of the Natural Order. Our political structures have been fatally corrupted by the effects of prolonged natural resource scarcity, to the extent that there is no place on Earth which is safe from the ravages of mankind's terminal addiction to fossil fuels.
Criminal punishments and other means of marginalizing people who recognize the true value of Cannabis, have resulted in an atmosphere of prejudice, judgment, confusion, fear and denial regarding our best hope for reversing "global broiling" and future generation's chances for a livable planet. The rise of evil under present conditions of induced scarcity is as inevitable as it is unstoppable, unless mankind reassesses the true value of the most useful, nutritious and healing natural resource on Earth.
Time is the limiting factor in the equation of survival. Unless mankind overcomes the dogmatic reluctance to consider Cannabis for its unique and essential value, then by the time we realize it is too late to save this planet, it will have been too late for some time.
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posted by projectpeace @
10:32 PM
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Monday, October 24, 2005  |
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