The true reason our farmers face prison and fines for growing hemp is much the same as it was 73 years ago: Hemp's threat to profits from cotton, timber and paper--and especially, oil--for starters. Shifting of vast profits of entrenched industrialists toward The People would be involved, and there lies the pinch. If hemp were legal to farm, certain nefarious Elite schemes since the Industrial Revolution would be jeopardized.
So now, over seventy years since farming of the most valuable crop in history was domestically banned, look around at the death and decay. Big Oil has prevailed to the point that one of the most admired countries in the world has become the most dangerous, an Imperial Thanatos trampling the globe, killing people for control of the last great reserves and supply routes to Western markets of the black gold that is killing our biosphere. Oceans are dying. The atmosphere is heating up. And Imperial Thanatos is threatening anyone who might stand in the way of its "Benign Global Hegemony" with preemptive annihilation from the greatest killing power ever amassed, including "tactical" nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, back in the homeland, "The continuous consolidation of wealth and power into higher, tighter and righter hands" has so concentrated the nation's wealth that for the vast majority of Americans, their standard of living is plummeting while the American Dream becomes a nightmare, and the Elite laugh it up.
For too many 18+ year-olds, the best job opportunities are in the business of killing foreigners for their resources, or pipeline routes, such as in Afghanistan. America is morally, spiritually and financially bankrupt. Higher, tighter and righter hands exalt globalization, and a New World Order--final phase in our inevitable bloody slog toward a world of Lords, and serfs....
But is it inevitable? If we kicked the oil addiction, and moved away from globalization, toward regionalization, the future might look less black...even, green? We are always lectured about how oil is vital for everything! Oil gives us our food, fuel, fiber, plastics, rubber, medicine...ad nauseam. But, we DO have an alternative. Fully utilizing hemp, instead of oil, we could move toward a greener future, living in a living system, as opposed to dying in a dying system. Oil is death, originally and perpetually, very old death. Watch what happens in the Gulf of Mexico, despite the "news".... Hemp is living. Food, fuel, fiber, paper, plastics, medicine, on and on--hemp has the potential to replace many products of oil and petrochemical alchemy with products that, exactly unlike oil, have a place in a living system.
And now we approach a most telling time in the history of American hemp interdiction. Medical marijuana is advancing rapidly, despite the hypocrisy of being classified as a schedule 1 drug (no medicinal uses). The Oakland city council gave final approval last week to make their's the first city in the country to allow "...large-scale industrial pot cultivation." They intend to license four production facilities to grow, process and package medical marijuana--which will "...be heavily taxed and regulated."
We are also in the midst of a country-wide push to legalize the personal use of marijuana, also to be heavily taxed and regulated. So the big question flying at us is: If possession and personal consumption of marijuana were to be decriminalized, will domestic hemp farming remain banned?
By linking industrial hemp (no drug potential) with the drug marijuana, then employing the shameful and ridiculous "Reefer Madness" chicanery--that's how the feds snuffed hemp's competitive potential with entrenched industries in the first place. They rarely speak truth, would never admit anything like: "Certainly, we used the nastiest tricks to kill the American Hemp Industry back in "37. Hearst was pretty worked up about hemp's threat to his timber and paper biz, especially since duPont had recently patented sulfuric acid paper processing. Cotton men were itchy. Rockefeller...oil men barked loud and clear. The list is a long one. And petrochemicals were gonna be the next monster thing. Lotsa money at stake. So we made "em all happy, pulled the plug on hemp by linking it with marijuana. Slick."
They were so lucky to have marijuana, and still are. But what if they lose their massive War On Drugs cash cow? If possession and private consumption of marijuana becomes legal, how will the feds justify continued prohibition of hemp farming? Will farmers be allowed to again grow industrial hemp? Will the War On Drugs die of starvation? Will We The People be allowed one of our greatest weapons to fight globalization--to empower regionalization and help to fairly spread the wealth?
Naw...they'll find a way to keep tyrannizing us, to perpetuate the status quo. They always seem to because never do enough people know the truth. Too many people are having their perceptions "managed".
For instance, how many people know anything about Ron Paul's latest hemp bill, co-sponsored by Barney Frank: HR 1866, "The Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2009"?
The inevitable place such bills go to die is:
The House Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Slick.
What do you think has made Americans such slow learners?
So now, over seventy years since farming of the most valuable crop in history was domestically banned, look around at the death and decay. Big Oil has prevailed to the point that one of the most admired countries in the world has become the most dangerous, an Imperial Thanatos trampling the globe, killing people for control of the last great reserves and supply routes to Western markets of the black gold that is killing our biosphere. Oceans are dying. The atmosphere is heating up. And Imperial Thanatos is threatening anyone who might stand in the way of its "Benign Global Hegemony" with preemptive annihilation from the greatest killing power ever amassed, including "tactical" nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, back in the homeland, "The continuous consolidation of wealth and power into higher, tighter and righter hands" has so concentrated the nation's wealth that for the vast majority of Americans, their standard of living is plummeting while the American Dream becomes a nightmare, and the Elite laugh it up.
For too many 18+ year-olds, the best job opportunities are in the business of killing foreigners for their resources, or pipeline routes, such as in Afghanistan. America is morally, spiritually and financially bankrupt. Higher, tighter and righter hands exalt globalization, and a New World Order--final phase in our inevitable bloody slog toward a world of Lords, and serfs....
But is it inevitable? If we kicked the oil addiction, and moved away from globalization, toward regionalization, the future might look less black...even, green? We are always lectured about how oil is vital for everything! Oil gives us our food, fuel, fiber, plastics, rubber, medicine...ad nauseam. But, we DO have an alternative. Fully utilizing hemp, instead of oil, we could move toward a greener future, living in a living system, as opposed to dying in a dying system. Oil is death, originally and perpetually, very old death. Watch what happens in the Gulf of Mexico, despite the "news".... Hemp is living. Food, fuel, fiber, paper, plastics, medicine, on and on--hemp has the potential to replace many products of oil and petrochemical alchemy with products that, exactly unlike oil, have a place in a living system.
We are also in the midst of a country-wide push to legalize the personal use of marijuana, also to be heavily taxed and regulated. So the big question flying at us is: If possession and personal consumption of marijuana were to be decriminalized, will domestic hemp farming remain banned?
By linking industrial hemp (no drug potential) with the drug marijuana, then employing the shameful and ridiculous "Reefer Madness" chicanery--that's how the feds snuffed hemp's competitive potential with entrenched industries in the first place. They rarely speak truth, would never admit anything like: "Certainly, we used the nastiest tricks to kill the American Hemp Industry back in "37. Hearst was pretty worked up about hemp's threat to his timber and paper biz, especially since duPont had recently patented sulfuric acid paper processing. Cotton men were itchy. Rockefeller...oil men barked loud and clear. The list is a long one. And petrochemicals were gonna be the next monster thing. Lotsa money at stake. So we made "em all happy, pulled the plug on hemp by linking it with marijuana. Slick."
They were so lucky to have marijuana, and still are. But what if they lose their massive War On Drugs cash cow? If possession and private consumption of marijuana becomes legal, how will the feds justify continued prohibition of hemp farming? Will farmers be allowed to again grow industrial hemp? Will the War On Drugs die of starvation? Will We The People be allowed one of our greatest weapons to fight globalization--to empower regionalization and help to fairly spread the wealth?
Naw...they'll find a way to keep tyrannizing us, to perpetuate the status quo. They always seem to because never do enough people know the truth. Too many people are having their perceptions "managed".
For instance, how many people know anything about Ron Paul's latest hemp bill, co-sponsored by Barney Frank: HR 1866, "The Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2009"?
The inevitable place such bills go to die is:
The House Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Slick.
What do you think has made Americans such slow learners?
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