The issue of drugs has only a contrived relationship to non-drug industrial hemp. Certainly there will be a lot of politicos voting against Ron Paul’s H.R. 1009: The Industrial Hemp Farming Bill of 2007 (if it ever makes it out of committees), because they fear being branded “soft on drugs”. But one thing few if any will ever admit, as cogs in the CorpoGov machinery whose greatest aspirations involve reelection, is the fact that the War On Drugs has become a monster causing more damage than illegal drugs ever could. Also, marijuana is the bread and butter of drug warriors. Of all the examples of what a ridiculous and harmful fiasco the criminalization of cannabis has become, besides being the excuse for prohibition of hemp, perhaps none is more telling than the fact that for years, 99% of the “marijuana” plants destroyed by drug warriors were ditchweed. Yes, those industrial hemp strains that grow wild in a number of states, and have zero drug potential. The two main uses of ditchweed are: 1) Feral hemp seed is the food supply of choice for migrating birds. 2) Ditchweed represents enormous business for the DEA’s Domestic Cannabis Eradication/Suppression Program.
If you think it seems totally insane, the spending of many millions of tax dollars, along with the diversion of law enforcement resources to jerk ditchweed, that means you must be sane. The ditchweed eradication programs are true hallmarks of cannabis prohibition, stark, indefensible examples of the sense of it all...in the same league as CorpoGov listing cannabis as Schedule 1 (no medicinal value) while Big Pharma has spent untold millions of dollars making synthetic versions of THC, the most active ingredient of cannabis. The synthetics work nowhere near as well as natural cannabis, one of the most effective and prescribed drugs throughout history, but the synthetics can be patented, which translates to corporate profit. And perhaps Abraham Lincoln was right when it comes to what includes recreational cannabis: “Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.” Progress of cannabis remains slow, but steady, one reason being the history of cannabis as one of the finest natural medicines. History can be denied, altered, suppressed, but reality can not.
What if by some incredible stroke of wisdom, cannabis is decriminalized while The King is still in exile? That may seem far-fetched, but cannabis opponents have nothing even close to the power of the mighty industrialists fighting hemp. Perhaps the most telling moment in hemp’s seventy-year American exile will come when, with cannabis decriminalized, industrialists are forced to explain why hemp should still be banned. Could the real reason hemp was ever banned in America really shine—protection of industrialists and corporate profits? This might seem unlikely, but decriminalization of cannabis keeps making steady, if very slow, progress. Hemp simply jerks around under the strings of the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration). A dozen years ago the growth of hemp-related businesses in America was very encouraging. New hemp stores were opening across the country thanks to growing awareness of hemp’s greatness. Sure, all the hemp was imported, but...there were even new magazines dedicated to hemp awareness and hemp’s future seemed bright. Then the DEA hammered it all with “zero tolerance” making even hemp cosmetics illegal. Stores got caught sitting on inventories of lip balm, lotions and shampoos and any food products containing hemp that were suddenly illegal. But courts gagged on this burst of DEA insanity. Hemp is rebounding—and this time it’s also being widely recognized as a nutritional superstar.
The magnificence of hemp keeps getting harder to deny. Nothing gives The People greater potential for breaking the biocidal stranglehold of CorpoWorld. The Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2007 may have been issued a death sentence already, being sent to the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security. If not, and the bill makes it to a subcommittee that actually has something to do with agriculture, it will have to withstand broadsides of immense lobby power from the likes of Big Oil and the Petrochemical Empire, Big Timber, Big Pharma, Prison Industrial Complex, Drug Warriors, cotton, soy, corn....
Agriculturists prevailed over industrialists in our Revolutionary War. But it didn’t take long after that for the industrialists to start laying on a growing rout...from the Civil War to CorpoGov to the Great Depression to CorpoWorld.... The People, the environment and the future desperately need a victory for the agriculturalists. CorpoGov and CorpoWorld mean enormous profits for the elite, at the expense of virtually everything else. The People need agriculturalists to grow a healthier future—and that means awareness of what hemp offers must enrich more and more people. The key to unlocking hemp is awareness. Hemp For Victory. We The People need to learn and sow the truth about The King.
If you think it seems totally insane, the spending of many millions of tax dollars, along with the diversion of law enforcement resources to jerk ditchweed, that means you must be sane. The ditchweed eradication programs are true hallmarks of cannabis prohibition, stark, indefensible examples of the sense of it all...in the same league as CorpoGov listing cannabis as Schedule 1 (no medicinal value) while Big Pharma has spent untold millions of dollars making synthetic versions of THC, the most active ingredient of cannabis. The synthetics work nowhere near as well as natural cannabis, one of the most effective and prescribed drugs throughout history, but the synthetics can be patented, which translates to corporate profit. And perhaps Abraham Lincoln was right when it comes to what includes recreational cannabis: “Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.” Progress of cannabis remains slow, but steady, one reason being the history of cannabis as one of the finest natural medicines. History can be denied, altered, suppressed, but reality can not.
What if by some incredible stroke of wisdom, cannabis is decriminalized while The King is still in exile? That may seem far-fetched, but cannabis opponents have nothing even close to the power of the mighty industrialists fighting hemp. Perhaps the most telling moment in hemp’s seventy-year American exile will come when, with cannabis decriminalized, industrialists are forced to explain why hemp should still be banned. Could the real reason hemp was ever banned in America really shine—protection of industrialists and corporate profits? This might seem unlikely, but decriminalization of cannabis keeps making steady, if very slow, progress. Hemp simply jerks around under the strings of the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration). A dozen years ago the growth of hemp-related businesses in America was very encouraging. New hemp stores were opening across the country thanks to growing awareness of hemp’s greatness. Sure, all the hemp was imported, but...there were even new magazines dedicated to hemp awareness and hemp’s future seemed bright. Then the DEA hammered it all with “zero tolerance” making even hemp cosmetics illegal. Stores got caught sitting on inventories of lip balm, lotions and shampoos and any food products containing hemp that were suddenly illegal. But courts gagged on this burst of DEA insanity. Hemp is rebounding—and this time it’s also being widely recognized as a nutritional superstar.
The magnificence of hemp keeps getting harder to deny. Nothing gives The People greater potential for breaking the biocidal stranglehold of CorpoWorld. The Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2007 may have been issued a death sentence already, being sent to the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security. If not, and the bill makes it to a subcommittee that actually has something to do with agriculture, it will have to withstand broadsides of immense lobby power from the likes of Big Oil and the Petrochemical Empire, Big Timber, Big Pharma, Prison Industrial Complex, Drug Warriors, cotton, soy, corn....
Agriculturists prevailed over industrialists in our Revolutionary War. But it didn’t take long after that for the industrialists to start laying on a growing rout...from the Civil War to CorpoGov to the Great Depression to CorpoWorld.... The People, the environment and the future desperately need a victory for the agriculturalists. CorpoGov and CorpoWorld mean enormous profits for the elite, at the expense of virtually everything else. The People need agriculturalists to grow a healthier future—and that means awareness of what hemp offers must enrich more and more people. The key to unlocking hemp is awareness. Hemp For Victory. We The People need to learn and sow the truth about The King.
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