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I understand and appreciate the idea of incremental success on a State level, on behalf of medical Cannabis patients, of which I'm one. Unfortunately, the State law still leaves all of us exposed to Federal and International prosecution, not to mention the dangers of living in a world being corrupted by the black market.
The seeds you're eating came from Canada, which means they are not as fresh as they could be if you could get locally grown seeds. They may also have been nutritionally comprimised during importation if they were steamed, killing enzymes and the life energy of the seed. They're also much more expensive than they would otherwise be, making them less available to people. And you ought to be able to grow your own food, and trade in a valuable commodity.
As a preventative nutritional resource, hempseed can be considered "medicinal" for anyone who eats them, and certainly they are a key resource for proper growth and development of children. It seems that in seperating hemp from 'marijuana,' we shot ourselves in the foot by conceding rightful jurisdiction over an unique and essential natural resource, to a government that has never had rightful jurisdiction.
Essential oils require 50 lbs of buds to make one ounce of fluid, so there aren't many people in the States that make them. I'm importing them from France, but even there, they're expensive as hell.
My attempt to identify our unalienable right to grow and use the whole Cannabis plant, is a challenge to U.S. Federal law and the International Treaties that limit access to Cannabis in any amount, for any reason. By exercising "essential civilian demand" for a "strategic food resource" we would gain much more by revaluating the plant in the majority interest.
I believe it is a much smaller step, in terms of social evolution, to end prohibition by public demand than by trying to get politicians to lead. Changing the laws is a long process. Identifying the laws as being based on a tragic resource mis-valuation, will reveal the fundamentally counter-productive degeneration of society resulting from prolonged, essential resource scarcity.
Our species is running out of time to heal this planet. Cannabis is a major factor in the equation. The sooner we blow by any prohibition of Cannabis, as other than counter-productive to society on many levels, the better medical patients will be protected at every level of government.
As for the financial windfall, the people keeping this plant down already know that the potential for Cannabis. They just haven't figured out how to control what is the world's most evenly distributed sustainable crop. They already control the competing industries, so why should they let Cannabis into the "free market?" Every day that passes in this economic vacuum, billions are made by polluting.
What will shift the economic inertia controlling our government? I think identifying Cannabis as a critical resource and revaluating it in proportion to its true value is the key to the necessary re-distribution of wealth that begins with changing the public's opinion about the whole Cannabis resource.
PvH
posted by projectpeace @
6:23 AM
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