California Cannabis Ministry

"Essential civilian demand"

2011-10-25T23:42:00.001-07:00

"Essential civilian demand"(1,2,10) for an "herb bearing seed" (3, 4) of known and demonstrated "strategic resource" value (5-12) "of first necessity to the wealth and protection of the country"(12) is the surest, most time-efficient legal avenue for ending all prohibitions and regulation of Cannabis agriculture, manufacture and trade. Cannabis is valuable beyond the rightful jurisdiction of any court because it is both unique and essential to national security and global integrity. (13) It is both fraudulent and treasonous to tolerate obvious disinformation being presented as fact by the DEA (14) regarding a critically important agricultural resource.

Time is the limiting factor in the equation of survival. Every spring planting season that passes without the benefits of Cannabis, is gone forever. Considering our responsibility to future generations, and the creatures with whom we share this planet, it is everyone's responsibility of to exercise essential civilian demand as soon as possible in order to obviate the essential resource scarcity that has been illegally imposed.

The evolution of revolution is revaluation: Cannabis is essential, not illegal.

"Viva la revaluación!"

Blessed rushes to all our relations,

Paul J. von Hartmann,
Cannabis scholar
Biodynamic agriculturist
October 26, 2011

California Cannabis Ministry
http://californiacannabisministry.blogspot.com/

References

1. 44 C.F.R. PART 334—GRADUATED MOBILIZATION RESPONSE
Title 44 - Emergency Management and Assistance,
§ 334.6 Department and agency responsibilities. (f)
http://law.justia.com/cfr/title44/44-1.0.1.6.83.html

2. THE DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT OF 1950,AS AMENDED[50 U.S.C. App. § 2061 et seq.]Title VII - General Provisions Sec. 708. VOLUNTARY AGREEMENTS AND PLANS OF ACTION FORPREPAREDNESS PROGRAMS AND EXPANSION OF PRODUCTIONCAPACITY AND SUPPLY [50 U.S.C. App. § 2158] Page 2, paragraph 1
http://www.fema.gov/library/viewRecord.do?id=3590
[Also, see #13. William J. Clinton Executive Order 12919 below]

3. Genesis 1:29-31. Holy Bible
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+1%3A29-31&version=ESV

4. First Amendment. U.S Constitution. "Amendment I -- Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights_transcript.html

5. Franklin D. Roosevelt Executive Order 9280 - December 5, 1942
Delegating Authority Over the Food Program.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=16211&st=hemp&st1=hempstead%2C+hemphill#axzz1Gylt2Jf6

6. Harry S. Truman Executive Order 10161 - September 9, 1950
Delegating Certain Functions of the President Under the Defense Production Act of 1950
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=60772&st=hemp&st1=hempstead%2C+hemphill#axzz1Gylt2Jf6

7. Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Order 10480-- August 14, 1953
Further providing for the administration of the defense mobilization program
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=59221&st=hemp&st1=hempstead%2C+hemphill#axzz1Gylt2Jf6

8. John F. Kennedy Executive Order 10998 - February 16, 1962
ASSIGNING EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FUNCTIONS TO THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=58936&st=hemp&st1=hempstead%2C+hemphill#axzz1Gylt2Jf6

9. Richard Nixon Executive Order 11490 - October 28, 1969 -Assigning Emergency Preparedness Functions to Federal Departments and Agencies
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=60479&st=hemp&st1=hempstead%2C+hemphill#axzz1Gylt2Jf6

10. William J. Clinton Executive Order 12919 - June 3, 1994
National Defense Industrial Resources Preparedness
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=50295&st=hemp&st1=hemphill%2C+hempstead#axzz1Gylt2Jf6CFR 44

11. "Hemp for Victory". U.S.D.A. film. 1942.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jokV8xlJTNE

12) Thomas Jefferson. “Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country.”
http://www.marijuanaquotes.org/top-5-marijuana-quotes-from-early-us-presidents/

13. "Cannabis vs. "Global Broiling": An Inconvenient Priority" Paul J. von Hartmann. California Cannabis Ministry.
http://californiacannabisministry.blogspot.com/2011/03/cannabis-vs-global-broiling.html

14. DEA Clarifies Status of Hemp in the Federal Register. October 9, 2001. "“Hemp” and marijuana are actually separate parts of the species of plant known as cannabis. ...“hemp” is not a term that is found in federal law...DEA Administrator Asa Hutchinson stated that “...hemp and marijuana are both parts of the same plant and that hemp cannot be produced without producing marijuana.”"[sic]
http://www.justice.gov/dea/pubs/pressrel/pr100901.html

‎"Cannabis Holy Anointing Oil vs. Gangrene"

2011-10-14T03:23:00.000-07:00

by Reverend Roger Christie
(edited and passed on by yours truly, because Roger has been imprisoned without trial or bail or visitors since July 8th, 2010 and cannot continue being as active and effective a Cannabis activist, minister, healer, cultural pioneer and true American hero that he would otherwise be if he weren't being illegally rendered and marginalized as a political prisoner.)

The following accounts of Cannabis Holy Anointing Oil (made by Roger according to the recipe in Exodus 30:23) apparently being effective in healing gangrene, are a compilation of posts and photos which can be found at the Hawaiian THC Ministry forum

http://www.thc-ministry.org/forum/showthread.php?t=173&highlight=Mindy%27s+precious+legs

and emails I have recently received from Roger regarding a total of three gangrene healings. The photographs were made by Roger on Maui in 2004. I am posting this information here for the first time, with future edits and updates to come.

Please pass this information on and send whatever support you can to Roger

The Last Marijuana Trial
http://the-last-marijuana-trial.com/

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09-27-2004

Dear Friends,

Aloha. I have received a personal testimony about the holy anointing oil that is so touching and so real that I want you to know about it. The people whose story this is don't have a computer, however they have promised to send me a written copy of their testimony. As soon as it arrives I will post it here for you all to enjoy. Until then, this is what I know:

I heard from Robert H. of Lahaina, Maui about a month ago with a very sad story. His sweet girlfriend, Mindy was in terrible pain and discomfort and wanted to die. She was on multiple pharmaceutical prescriptions, the strongest pain-killing kind, and yet the only remedy that gave her comfort was smoking cannabis. They had no money as every month they spent all of their small income on rent, some food and her medicines.

I connected Robert with my partner in healing sacrament on Maui. He was able to deliver some flowers to them a couple of times for free. It was a blessing and gave Mindy some well-deserved comfort. Still, her condition worsened and she wanted to die to escape the misery, the pain and the poverty.

Apparently diabeties has taken a terrible toll on her, and both of Mindy's legs were green and black and there were holes in her skin all the way to the bone. She was scheduled to have her legs amputated last week as there was no hope, according to her doctors.

When I heard this story I immediately sent Robert and Mindy a bottle of holy anointing oil with THC Ministry membership and ordainment papers for both of them. Now for the good news:

I heard back from Robert last week and he said that a miracle has happened! Get this; the holy anointing oil has caused new skin to grow on Mindy's legs! They both tell me that the skin is now fresh, pink and healthy after applying just ten drops - three times per day to her legs. A visit to the doctor last Wednesday was joyous instead of tragic. Instead of making arrangements for amputation, the doctor was completely amazed and surprised.

Yesterday I spoke with Mindy and she was HAPPY! I could feel the smile in her voice and the will to live back in her life now. Both Robert and Mindy are on a healing path and are praying and working for 'full recovery'. Apparently the healing has been so dramatic that at this rate they hope and expect Mindy to be up and possibly out of her wheelchair in a week or two.

I must say that this is a 'chicken-skin' story to tell you. It is the latest in our miracle testimonies and is my pleasure to pass along. I must say that I am drawn-in closer and closer to the Bible as we get blessings with the holy oil recipe of Exodus 30:23. There is something miraculous in this formula and it's being proven, day after day, by Lilli and Kate and Meghan and now Mindy. We also have another special holy oil testimony coming in the next few days that I know about. Have I missed anyone else? Please remind me if I have.

What can I say? Mahalo ke akua. Hallelujah!!!!

Much love and respect to one and all,

Roger

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10-04-2004

Hello everyone,

Aloha. I just returned from four terrific days and nights on Maui. One of the most special things I did was to visit Mindy and her devoted lover Robert, and I got to see Mindy's legs; her precious, pink-skinned, almost fully-healed legs! It was a sight to see and a visit to remember. What nice people, too.

Mindy told me that her doctor called her (previous) condition, the 'never-healing disease'. Can you imagine? I suggest that if you ever hear that kind of negativity from your doctor that you get another doctor immediately!

We visited for over an hour and had a fine time together, including tears and laughter. I even got a few revealing photographs, including one of Mindy standing outside on the lawn in the yard. That might not sound very dramatic ... until you know that Mindy has not stood on her own legs in over three years. :-}

All the very best to you,

Roger

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ROGER CHRISTIE on 10/11/2011 wrote
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God/dess bless you for doing this sacred service!

You may call the patient Mindy as that was her name; unfortunately she passed away about five years after the successful leg treatment. She never re-ordered holy anointing oil. I've always called that experience 'Mindy's precious legs'. Bless her and R.I.P.

Yes, you have my permission to post this as far as it will go. Remember that there is still a controversy about making the holy anointing oil and what 'fragrant cane', 'sweet cane', or 'aromatic cane' is. The King James version of the Bible says that the mystery ingredient is calamus root (as far as I know it's not in the 'cane' family of plants). With something so extremely important to Christians ('anointed ones') and Jews, one would think this very sacred recipe would be crystal clear in every translation of every Bible as it's to be used 'throughout all the generations'. Hopefully our personal experience of making and using the holy oil with Cannabis as the fragrant cane will help to spread the very effective and inexpensive recipe to those who need it most.

The bottle of holy anointing oil I sent to Mindy was one-half liquid ounce. She applied ten drops @ three times per day directly into the nasty wounds. One small bottle was all that was necessary for complete healing of 'incurable' gangrene. Can you imagine her joy in her calling Maui Memorial Hospital and canceling the amputation surgery? Wow!

Mindy asked me to keep her last name a secret as she was NOT following her doctor's orders by using the holy anointing oil and by canceling the amputation surgery. She was concerned about possibly losing her medical benefits and her Social Security disability benefits. Her doctor never knew the truth of her miraculous recovery.

In my opinion, one bottle (or more!) of holy anointing oil should be in every personal and professional first aid kit, in every doctor's office and in every hospital all over the world. In addition to gangrene, the 'oil of gladness' has proven effective for staph infections, cuts, warts, dental abceses, pain and more.

Holy anointing oil is a topical to be used for opening the crown chakra in a sacred ceremony as in 'anoint the head with oil', and as a topical treatment for infection, disease and pain. We've also found it useful for brushing teeth and absorbing into the gums to fight tooth decay.

Did you receive my email about a month ago about the book "Anointing: Secrets of the Messiah Medicine" by Michael Albert-Puleo, M.D.? It's a fantastic edition well worth reading! Please get it as it's a crucial Ministry read - and important for your library.

* This is one of the MAIN points we want to make in calling our trial "the last marijuana trial". If / when 'Christians' (90% of USAmericans!) understand that THEIR sacred and necessary holy anointing oil is supposed to be made with Cannabis - Cannabis will be freed. Simple as that. Since the very word 'Christian' means 'anointed one', and the vast majority of Christians are zero anointed, we think there will be a great renewal and revival of true Christianity once this sacred anointing is brought back into common usage like Jesus the Christ did. *

Je/sus = I am Latin or French ("Je suis") to this day.
Christ = anointed

Jesus Christ = I am anointed

Anti-Christ = I am not anointed, or I am opposed to the anointing.

One can only imagine how wonderful this world will be with masses of people being properly anointed and sincerely prayed over. And so it is.

Love and healing to you and all,

Roger

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Mindy's infection was caused by diabetes, which turns into gangrene way too often.

I understand that the cause of Mindy's death was the diabetes.

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Another case of gangrene was my friend, Lee, who called me one Sunday afternoon from Hilo Hospital. He called to tell me that he was in the hospital and scheduled to have his big toe amputated at 8 a.m. the next day, because of gangrene. He was looking for a prayer of support. Well, yeah! I said I'd be right up there.

I arrived to see Lee in bed with a large amount of bandages wrapped around his foot. He was in pretty good spirits considering the situation. I told him about my experience with Mindy's legs so he let me see his affected toe and give the holy anointing oil a try (without his doctor knowing). The toe was totally black! I had a 1/2 liquid ounce bottle of the sacrament with an eye-dropper top for him. I said a prayer of positivity and applied the oil all over his toe with the help of his wife. I left them the bottle and suggested they re-apply the oil many times before the morning. I got a call the next day around noon from Lee who told me that when he woke-up his toe had obviously healed well enough overnight so that the amputation surgery was cancelled and he left the hospital soon afterwards.

Another important piece of the healing puzzle here is that Ministers, Priests and Rabbis are officially allowed into all hospitals that I know of to counsel and pray and give sacraments to patients. I think it's important for Cannabis Ministers to introduce themselves to their local hospital Administrators, openly and honestly discuss their services and sacraments and invite themselves in as part of the services to their patients.

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The last example of healing gangrene with holy anointing oil came just about two years ago at the THC Ministry offices. Share will remember this, too. Our friend and Rabbi Ministry member Owen had a friend on Oahu who used to be his landlady and she had a gangrene foot that he was especially worried about. I think the woman's name was Sally.

Sally didn't want to go to a doctor or hospital as she was ashamed of her condition and embarassed or afraid to have it looked at. The worse it got - the more she resisted treatment. Owen told her about our successes and he persuaded Sally to fly to Hilo to meet Share and me, and to get our prayers and holy anointing oil treatment.

When she arrived we couldn't believe it! Sally had her terribly gangrene foot wrapped in paper towels (soaked in pus) slipped into a Croc sandal. The smell was SO TERRIBLE we could hardly breathe! She flew on the airplane that way. Thank God there were open windows and a fan overhead in our office.

I counseled with Sally for a while (I think Share did, too.) and we gave her confidence in the Ministry and our ways and our sacraments so she became willing to show us her foot.

OMG, it was awful. Almost the entire foot was a mess; oozing pus all over and being eaten away by the disease. Gangrene is a "flesh-eating disease", literally. Well, it was time for me to get some more paper towels and dab away the pus and get to a place where we could apply the holy anointing oil and then pray for healing and a full recovery. We did the necessary and got her fresh towels for the airplane trip home. (We might have wrapped a plastic bag over the whole foot and sandal, as I recall.) Sally took about 5 bottles of holy anointing oil with her.

We heard a few weeks later that she finally went to a doctor and he insisted on amputating a few toes, but the majority of her foot was saved.

Madness Alert?

2011-06-27T14:16:00.001-07:00

Perhaps I am mistaken, but...

2011-06-14T09:06:00.000-07:00

The Zillion Dollar Deception

2011-06-14T07:33:00.000-07:00

The true costs and harms of the so-called "drug war" are environmentally, economically, morally and socially immeasurable. Misdirection, away from natural values by corporately corrupted media and the inertial extinctionism of obsolete "Gaiacidal" industries, is too obvious to merely point out any longer.

Time is the limiting factor in the equation of survival. "Our forefathers didn't die for the freedom to complain."(1) Ending prohibition of industrial Cannabis hemp is critical to national security and global integrity. "Essential civilian demand" is the most direct way to achieve that. (3, 4, 5)

Through prohibition, a critical "Gaiatherapeutic" evolutionary direction has been obstructed by blatant fraud. Mankind is morally bankrupt in practicing proportionate gratitude for the miracle of life, honoring a balanced Natural Order. It's obvious that the shift in values must return to respect for Nature, inclusive of appreciation for Cannabis, because extinction is so predictable and proximate.

At what point do the people recognize the severity of the consequences of inaction? How many will stand together for Mother Nature and say, We do not allow the government to invade nor industry to pollute our sacred gardens?

There is no unemployment on a hemp farm. There is no hunger or war on a hemp farm. That is what we the world's oldest global culture, has always chosen, and now choose again; Without asking permission that will never come from an obsolete, valueless, corrupted, armed & dangerous bureaucracy.

Regarding U.S. currency: Keep your toxic dollars. By "essential civilian demand" We the People have our local, regional and statewide currencies, based in Cannabis hemp and other garden and farm products. We can grow our own food and fuel, herbal therapeutics, paper, cloth and building materials. We can export peace through organic, non-GMO agriculture, using hemp sacks, using hemp fuels to farm and spread around to the other people in the world who can't survive without it.

The government is fired. Failure to acknowledge the true value, and lying about Cannabis in so many ways is high treason. As recently as World War Two, hemp was revived as a "strategic resource." (5,6,7,8,9)And ever has it been that valuable to the integrity of the Earth. (10)

The only common seed with three essential fatty acids, the best vegetable proteins in abundance, producing complete nutrition and sustainable biofuels from the same harvest, producing an abundance of atmospheric "monterpenes" to heal the increasing UV-B radiation, purify the water, protect the harvest and prevent illness. The arguments and evidence in favor of ending Cannabis prohibition exceed whatever rationale might be presumed necessary to making the critically needed changes --immediately and peacefully.

It begins with a shift in human values and a commitment to the truth. Full realization that Cannabis agriculture ecology, manufacture and trade are unique and essential to mankind's future existence on this planet is a critical step. Once humans have the choice to value peace over synergistic collapse, then the prohibition of Cannabis turns to treason.

Read the DEA's fraudulent "clarification" of hemp in the Federal Register for the past ten years. This obvious masterpiece of misanthropy is the thin and deadly lie that has cut the throat of a proportionate, potent, agricultural response to climate change, planet detoxification, peaceful energy production, malnutrition and food insecurity.

With hemp in the soil, not one more tree will need to be cut down for paper. Not one more soldier will have to die for oil. Not one more child will have to go hungry. How soon is too soon to end the most obvious lie? Prohibition is over. Release all Cannabis prisoners and federal detainees, starting with Reverend Roger Christie. (13)

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References

1. Quote: Rick Paul Springer, ("Excuse me Mr. President", Broken Eagle Press, Arcata, Caifornia Republic. ...love, wherever you are brother...

2. DEA Clarifies Status of Hemp in the Federal Register
http://www.justice.gov/dea/pubs/pressrel/pr100901.html

3. 44 C.F.R. PART 334—GRADUATED MOBILIZATION RESPONSE
Title 44 - Emergency Management and Assistance,
§ 334.6 Department and agency responsibilities. (f)
http://law.justia.com/cfr/title44/44-1.0.1.6.83.html

4. THE DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT OF 1950,AS AMENDED[50 U.S.C. App. § 2061 et seq.]Title VII - General Provisions Sec. 708. VOLUNTARY AGREEMENTS AND PLANS OF ACTION FORPREPAREDNESS PROGRAMS AND EXPANSION OF PRODUCTIONCAPACITY AND SUPPLY [50 U.S.C. App. § 2158] Page 2, paragraph 1
http://www.fema.gov/library/viewRecord.do?id=3590

5. William J. Clinton Executive Order 12919 - June 3, 1994
National Defense Industrial Resources Preparedness
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=50295&st=hemp&st1=hemphill%2C+hempstead#axzz1Gylt2Jf6

6. Franklin D. Roosevelt Executive Order 9280 - December 5, 1942
Delegating Authority Over the Food Program.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=16211&st=hemp&st1=hempstead%2C+hemphill#axzz1Gylt2Jf6

7. Harry S. Truman Executive Order 10161 - September 9, 1950
Delegating Certain Functions of the President Under the Defense Production Act of 1950
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=60772&st=hemp&st1=hempstead%2C+hemphill#axzz1Gylt2Jf6

8. Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Order 10480-- August 14, 1953
Further providing for the administration of the defense mobilization program
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=59221&st=hemp&st1=hempstead%2C+hemphill#axzz1Gylt2Jf6

9. John F. Kennedy Executive Order 10998 - February 16, 1962
ASSIGNING EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FUNCTIONS TO THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=58936&st=hemp&st1=hempstead%2C+hemphill#axzz1Gylt2Jf6

10. Richard Nixon Executive Order 11490 - October 28, 1969 -Assigning Emergency Preparedness Functions to Federal Departments and Agencies

11. Holy Bible, King James version. Genesis 1:29-31 "And God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed...and every green herb..."

12. The First Amendment
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

13. The Last Marijuana Trial
http://the-last-marijuana-trial.com/

Fraudulent valuation of a "strategic resource" by the DEA amounts to a "misprision of treason"

2011-06-11T11:16:00.000-07:00

Ten years of tax-funded treason is long enough. The following misinformation has been on-line for ten years, come October 2011. Bold type designates the falsehoods and intentionally misleading definition of Cannabis "hemp" by the DEA.

DEA Clarifies Status of Hemp in the Federal Register, October 9, 2001

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) today announced rules to clarify the legal status of “hemp” products. “Hemp” is part of the cannabis plant, which is also known as marijuana. * The rules published in today’s edition of the Federal Register explain the circumstances under which “hemp” products are subject to control under federal law.

“Hemp” and marijuana are actually separate parts of the species of plant known as cannabis.* Under federal law, Congress defined marijuana to focus on those parts of the cannabis plant that are the source of tetrahydrocannabinols (THC). THC is the hallucinogenic* substance in marijuana that causes the psychoactive effect or “high.” The marijuana portions of the cannabis plant include the flowering tops (buds), the leaves, and the resin of the cannabis plant. The remainder of the plant — stalks and sterilized seeds — is what some people refer to as “hemp.”* However, “hemp” is not a term that is found in federal law.*

DEA Administrator Asa Hutchinson stated that “many Americans do not know that hemp and marijuana are both parts of the same plant and that hemp cannot be produced without producing marijuana.”

While most of the THC in cannabis plants is concentrated in the marijuana, all parts of the plant, including hemp, have been found to contain THC. The existence of THC in hemp is significant because THC, like marijuana, is a schedule I controlled substance. Federal law prohibits human consumption and possession of schedule I controlled substances. In addition, they are not approved by the Food and Drug Administration for medical use.

The rules that DEA is publishing today explain which hemp products are legal and which are not. This will depend on whether the product causes THC to enter the human body. If the product does cause THC to enter the human body, it is an illegal substance that may not be manufactured, sold, or consumed in the United States. Such products include “hemp” foods and beverages that contain THC.

If, however, the product does not cause THC to enter the human body, it is a noncontrolled substance that may lawfully be sold in the United States. Included in the category of lawful hemp products are textiles, such as clothing made using fiber produced from cannabis plant stalks. Also in the lawful category are personal care products that contain oil from sterilized cannabis seeds, such as soaps, lotions, and shampoos.

In issuing these rules, DEA has attempted to strike a fair balance between protecting the health and safety of all Americans and accommodating legitimate industry."

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And with that, the intractable lead agency sitting arrogantly at the head of a monumentally counter-productive "drug war" slams the lid on the world's most valuable agricultural resource, obviating the possibility of Cannabis farming and gardening in the United States and much of the world, where it could do a lot of good.

The truth is that the psychoactive strains of Cannabis are known as 'marijuana.' There are more than 400 active compounds in marijuana that work synergistically to afford unique and essential therapeutic benefit with a high degree of safety. Nutritionally, Cannabis is the only common seed with three essential fatty acids and is the best available source of organic vegetable protein on Earth. There is no THC in the seeds of either strain of Cannabis.

"Hemp" refers to the low-THC strains of Cannabis that contain very little THC compared to the marijuana strains. Hemp and marijuana are distinct, with very different cultivation methods used to grow very different crops.

There is no measurable THC in the steam distilled essential oils of hemp, yet this tremendously therapeutic and useful substance is still prohibited in the U.S.. For example, cannabinoids found in hemp have been shown to be as effective in treating breast cancer as chemotherapy with much less trauma inflicted on the patient.

Contrary to the published statement by the DEA, the term "hemp" is used to identify a "strategic food resource" in six Executive Orders signed by Presidents Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon and Clinton.

Misrepresenting a "strategic food resource" as a "Schedule One drug" is a threat to national security, imposing scarcity on critically important domestic agricultural production.

Global "Essential Civilian Demand"

2011-06-11T08:05:00.000-07:00

Shall we quit playing games about the legitimacy of Cannabis prohibition?

Since the bees & bats & krill & amphibians & coral &... are dying, can we all at least 'intellectually' agree and openly recognize? that organic, non-GMO Cannabis agriculture and gardening are BOTH unique and essential (nutritionally, ecologically, industrially); therefore beyond the rightful, i.e. morally accountable jurisdiction of any court.

Of course, an unaccountable chemically-based economic system installs morally bankrupt courts to shape the character of what's allowed by law. Since the numbers of people who want to end the so-called "drug war" all around the US and the world are now solidly in the majority; and because the economic inertia not to end prohibition is so dangerous, obvious and predictable; then the question is: "Do humans have the ability to over-rule a dysfunctional court system, through coordinate "Global Civilian Demand" for Cannabis?"

Sufficient historical precedent and legal purchase exists to put the current corporate outlaw political regime out of the money business, with digitally coordinated recognition of the simple polar shift in human values that has already spread to the majority: Cannabis isn't illegal, it's essential. Ecologically, nutritionally, and industrially.

We have nothing to fear but the atmosphere itself. Time is the limiting factor in the equation of survival. Drugs don't make seeds, herbs do.

"Every herb bearing seed...and every green herb" are immediately beyond the rightful jurisdiction of any court IF WE CHOOSE, AS A SPECIES, TO SURVIVE. Certainly the freedom to farm is far beyond the rightful authority of the economically corrupted and unobjective US courts that refuse to uphold our own Constitution and international treaties which we've signed.

In the US and in international courts, an uncompromising legal action against the DEA is needed, reclaiming freedom for sincere Cannabis spirituality under protection of the First Amendment (recognizing the ancient traditional connections between agriculture and spirituality clearly, emphatically articulated in Genesis 1:29); charges of "fraud" and "misprision of treason"; applying "substantive due process" and "strict scrutiny" are all that are needed to end Cannabis prohibition globally.

And we must. Spring 2012 we must be ready to "sow hemp everywhere" or miss the opportunity to recover from our accelerating trajectory into extinctionistic UV-B radiation levels.

Accounting for Cannabis

2011-06-11T06:12:00.000-07:00

The wave is finally breaking. The critical polar shift in values is "hempening." The revolution for the Earth is in your mind.

What's more valuable, a seed or a bullet? In one is contained the death of a miracle. The other holds the miracle of life energy in suspension, waiting for rain, sun, and perhaps a loving hand.

Cannabis is no more illegal than the moon. Prohibition makes co-conspirators of the birds. Arrest the Earth then for we (the contemporary generation of the most ancient Cannabis culture) are of it.

I shudder to think where we are headed if we do not initiate a proportionate agricultural response to "global broiling" by increasing UV-B radiation. Already the symptoms of imbalance and degeneration are everywhere.

No one is flying the plane. There is no credible, uncorrupted leadership available. Maybe Ron Paul, Ralph Nader, Dennis Kucinich, Gary Johnson...but in the immediate present, we lack political accountability to the point of a quiet, effective, global revolution in values.

And there doesn't need to be. We all just have to agree that survival is more important than government. Trusting in the ancient operating systems of the planet, we find our way back to "Gaiatherapeutic" relationship with our Mother the Earth.

Everything that harms the Earth must be stopped immediately, particularly if it is chemical-based industry. The boreal forests need to be protected, and sprayed with monoterpenes, not cut. We need "farmies" not armies. I pray that the legitimate ancestoral relationship between mankind and agriculture will not be violated further than it has, and the intelligence of the majority has been tried beyond accountability.

This is the rational, peaceful, educated, thoughtful navigator of the aircraft we are all riding on telling you that we don't have another growing season to waste. If humans do not wish to be broiled to death by UV-B radiation and the toxic stew we are creating through buying energy we can make for ourselves, then we must make the shift from Cannabis is illegal, to Cannabis is essential before next Spring 2012.

The polar shift in values will lead to more monoterpenes in the atmosphere, more complete nutrition, regional food security, and eventually an end to armed aggression. Changing what's valuable from petroleum to Cannabis is the wild card that we must play now. Support "essential civilian demand" for "every herb bearing seed" "of first necessity to the wealth and protection of the country."

Adopting the Jeffersonian valuation of hemp is the obvious choice. How many more Fukashimas will it take? Or Gulf disasters? or violent storms, volcanic explosions, intensifying earthquakes? Environmental outlaws must at least be stopped. In the present conditions of environmental emergency, if an industry doesn't actively heal the planet, it has no meaningful positive value.

The sooner people start planting hemp "everywhere" as George Washington advised, the better our children's chances for survival. The money you hold now is only as valuable as you make it by spending it on a worthwhile idea. Ending Cannabis prohibition by a simple shift in values is the most valuable idea on the planet for the greatest number of people.

Anyone who fails to acknowledge the true value of Cannabis hemp agriculture, historically and scientifically revered as a "strategic resource" "of first necessity to the wealth and protection of the country" is guilty of "misprision of treason," the failure to act in the interest of national security.

Ending Cannabis prohibition is the top priority: Trusting for help.

2011-06-06T05:44:00.000-07:00

Though I understand it is considered a sign of wisdom, the hardest thing for me to do is to ask for help. I am weakened by a prideful streak that equates neediness with personal failure. I am trusting openly now for help in continuing to call for the complete and immediate end to prohibition of Cannabis, without limit or further bureaucratic interference.

If this is a vision that you share, then please consider that helping me helps you to help everyone to live a better way. A way without chemicals, a way without radiation, a way without war. Cannabis offers real solutions, but time is the limiting factor.

Ending Cannabis prohibition begins with a solid commitment to historical and scientific proof of the truth, that "Cannabis is unique and essential." Our species has been making a critical mistake in values for far too long, choosing chemicals and GMOs and wars, believing we don't have any alternatives available.

Well, we do. Recognizing the true value of the world's most nutritious, useful, ecologically essential agricultural resource is the window of opportunity we are missing as it closes.

If my observations regarding the Cannabis plant are true and of real value, then I am learning to trust that the information will be supported, better than I can imagine for myself. I trust with all of my heart that is true. The ability to continue has been an often deeply strenuous test of an exhaustible energy and clarity of focus. Some have called it a strength, but there are weaknesses built into it. If you can help, I trust you will.

Time is obviously running out for us to recover balance. Under present conditions, the boreal regions will not grow back and will most likely die out altogether. To put it bluntly, presently we are on a one-way ride to radioactive, chemically saturated hell. Ending Cannabis prohibition is the top priority.

Comment on AlterNet's "Vision: As the American Capitalist Economy Craters..."

2011-05-31T07:44:00.000-07:00

See

http://www.alternet.org/vision/151107/vision:_as_the_american_capitalist_economy_craters,_promising_alternatives_emerge/comments/

Let's cut to the chase, shall we?

A polar shift in values is urgently needed in time to avoid global extinction. The equation of survival precludes endless debate over nuances of economics that fail to address the compounding, accelerating threats to our existence. The bees are dying. We have nothing to fear but the atmosphere itself. How much time do you think we have left to regain environmental balance? In another ten years we'll all be singin' John Prine's song about the "cold cold ground" unless we get our heads out of our asses and reclaim our freedom to farm "every herb bearing seed." It is as simple as that.

"Capitalism" in and of itself isn't the problem. If "Gaiatherapeutic" (i.e. Earth-healing) values are factored into the equation, then capitalism can serve as incentive for healing the planet. Unfortunately, chemicals have been the basis of our economic system since before we were born, so global death remains the inevitable product of human labor.

If Americans can shift our collective values from "petroleum is valuable" to "Cannabis is essential" then we may have a very slight chance of avoiding extinction. In fact Cannabis agriculture, manufacture and trade are both unique and essential to our existence. Unless we plant Cannabis as fast as we can, everywhere we can, we will be broiled to extinction by increasing UV-B radiation. It's already happening. Since 1990, UV-B reaching the surface of the planet has more than doubled.

Even the supposedly open-minded and progressive AlterNet won't publish the true, unique and essential value of the most valuable agricultural resource on Earth. Irrational social prejudice never sleeps.

If you're curious about why Cannabis is both unique and essential, and why 'time' is the limiting factor in the equation of survival, then consider

Cannabis vs. "Global Broiling": An Inconvenient Priority
http://californiacannabisminis...

“Shastashares” is an alternative currency option that was offered to the Mount Shasta region in the Spring of 2010. People there weren't ready for it. As it is, I've left the web page on-line to serve as a template for other communities to consider. Shastashares combines the efficiency of regional production and exchange with the practical values inherent to natural wealth.

Shastashares
http://shastashares.com/

Shastashares Brochure
http://shastashares.com/Shasta...

When things get bad enough, people may have time to coordinate the will necessary to effect the fundamental change in value that's needed. It's called "essential civilian demand" in three federal documents pertaining to mobilized civilian response to national emergency. Failure to act in the interest of national security is a "misprision of treason."

A federal lawsuit against the DEA for failing to acknowledge the historically and scientifically revered value of Cannabis ecology, agriculture, manufacture and trade in the context of the present, synergistic collapse of globally integrated systems is called for. Fraudulent characterization of a "strategic resource" as a Schedule One "drug" is worse than terrorism [sic] (i.e. repercussions, predictable response to armed aggression, "pay-back," "instant karma," etc.) could ever be.

Jefferson said

“The greatest service which can be rendered any country
is to add a useful plant to its culture.”

and

"Hemp is of first necessity
to the wealth & protection of the country."

-- Thomas Jefferson
3rd President of the United States, inventor,
Cannabis farmer

It follows logically then that the greatest harm that can be done to the country is to remove the most useful plant from our national crop rotations, and our backyard gardens. In fact, since we've cut down the boreal forests for paper, instead of growing hemp, we've slaughtered 50 % of the lungs of the planet, which also happen to produce atmospheric sunscreen" in the form of aerosol "monoterpenes" that reflect solar radiation, seed cloud formation and serve to purify the aquatic system of the Earth.

In case you're wondering what our "paternally protective" government has to say about the true value of hemp, this is the fraudulent & treasonous* definition of "hemp" that's been on line for ten years:

DEA Clarifies Status of Hemp in the Federal Register
October 9, 2001
http://www.justice.gov/dea/pub...

“Hemp” is part of the cannabis plant, which is also known as marijuana. The rules published in today’s edition of the Federal Register explain the circumstances under which “hemp” products are subject to control under federal law.

“Hemp” and marijuana are actually separate parts of the species of plant known as cannabis. Under federal law, Congress defined marijuana to focus on those parts of the cannabis plant that are the source of tetrahydrocannabinols (THC). THC is the hallucinogenic substance in marijuana that causes the psychoactive effect or “high.” The marijuana portions of the cannabis plant include the flowering tops (buds), the leaves, and the resin of the cannabis plant. The remainder of the plant — stalks and sterilized seeds — is what some people refer to as “hemp.” However, “hemp” is not a term that is found in federal law.

DEA Administrator Asa Hutchinson stated that “many Americans do not know that hemp and marijuana are both parts of the same plant and that hemp cannot be produced without producing marijuana.”

While most of the THC in cannabis plants is concentrated in the marijuana, all parts of the plant, including hemp, have been found to contain THC. The existence of THC in hemp is significant because THC, like marijuana, is a schedule I controlled substance. Federal law prohibits human consumption and possession of schedule I controlled substances. In addition, they are not approved by the Food and Drug Administration for medical use.

The rules that DEA is publishing today explain which hemp products are legal and which are not. This will depend on whether the product causes THC to enter the human body. If the product does cause THC to enter the human body, it is an illegal substance that may not be manufactured, sold, or consumed in the United States. Such products include “hemp” foods and beverages that contain THC.

"If, however, the product does not cause THC to enter the human body, it is a noncontrolled substance that may lawfully be sold in the United States."

There are so many untrue statements posed as fact that jail sentences for those responsible would have to be imposed. Intentional, intractable, mis-valuation of a "strategic resource" is the greatest threat to national security (and global integrity) that there is.

The REAL question is "How bad do things have to get before all solutions are considered?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

Every Spring planting season that passes without the many benefits of hemp is gone forever. 'Time' is the only thing we can't make more of. No matter how much money you think you have, you can't buy time. Not even a minute. When it's too late to save this planet, it will be too late forever.

So, what's really valuable?
Monoterpenes, protein, energy, paper, cloth, herbal remedies, heirloom seeds...

Good luck, y'all. Shit's about to hit the fan in a big way. I trust you'll have your heirloom seeds stashed before the US loses its preferred currency status.

Why do you think Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the French IMF chief was set up? He's been an outspoken threat to the U.$.A.

Cannabis in Japan

2011-04-06T06:33:00.000-07:00

As if increasing levels of solar UV-B radiation weren't bad enough, the release of radiation in Japan has introduced an accelerated time frame for global extinction. Now we really don't have a growing season to waste, or even a minute to spare.

Hemp seed from Chernobyl needs to be planted in Japan immediately to phytoremediate the area. Biodynamic agricultural methods must be utilized in case there is benefit in applying Rudlolf Steiner's methods to solving the problem as has been suggested.

As radioactivity spreads throughout the world, people everywhere need to eat Cannabis raw. See www.cannabisinternational.org for more information.

At what point does blind obedience become immoral insanity?

2011-04-01T08:24:00.000-07:00

Dear C,

I wanted to thank you, and let you know I've forwarded some of your recent posts concerning the NIH/NCI "trouble bubble" to Roger Christie, imprisoned-without-trial-or-bail-or-visitors since last July, awaiting trial this July. My first thought after reading your email is "Roger would go..."

As you know he's achieve incremental victories somewhat similar to this in the past, influencing the Hawaiian courts and funding regarding Cannabis policy. Now he's being forced to try in a different way, putting his freedom on the line to change federal law by standing up for our religious freedom, for the past ten years as a state-licensed Minister.

It is my most humble honor to salute you both as true heros of our shared time and cultures. You both have achieved a lot more than I have in effective and substantial ways.

That's why I'm conflicted in pointing out that you are both taking strong, but indirect routes, trying to effect change in the bureaucracy through the bureaucracy for the bureaucracy, financed with your money against you.

My question is why do you think change at the State level makes any difference? And why not simultaneously act for federal change?

By conceding fundamental, rightful jurisdiction over "every herb bearing seed" we acknowledge a power greater than our right to live. When is something so valuable that it is no longer a matter of further debate?

How bad do things have to get before we exercise "essential civilian demand" at federal and international levels -- and really just get this done and get to the real work of planting?

Please see the federal documents listed in the references at my website. http://www.californiacannabisministry.blogspot.com

"Essential civilian demand is specifically referred to in three of them. There are six Executive Orders identifying "hemp" as a a "strategic resource."

Misprision of treason is a crime without an associated action. Anyone who opposes or delays ending Cannabis prohibition in the United States and the rest of the world, by this spring is certainly guilty of misprision of treason. Cannabis happens to be both unique and essential for three very specific reasons -- nutritionally, ecologically, and industrially.

Thomas Jefferson said that “The greatest service which can be rendered any country
is to add a useful plant to its culture” and that "Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth and protection of the country" It logically follows then that the greatest harm inflicted against our nation is prohibition of the world’s most useful plant from American farms, gardens, and vegetable boxes.

See

Cannabis International Foundation
http://www.cannabisinternational.org/

for sufficient information and references to determine the true, essential value of Cannabis. In the context of compounding crises we face in the 21st Century, Cannabis is valuable beyond the rightful jurisdiction of any court.

We don't have another planting season to waste. If we don't have seed in the ground this Spring, we will be poor again in the Fall. As soon as American currency loses it's preferred status in the world market, if we don't have an alternative, efficient, regional base of organic/biodynamic agriculture Americans will starve to death.

As it is we are all being poisoned to death by increasingly toxic environmental imbalances. The emergency doesn't need to be declared to be real. This spring is critical. The argument is over.

On top of everything else, the nutritional value of Cannabis plant,seeds, leaves, flowers, pollen, roots and all for healing/preventing diseases from radiation make the situation far far beyond debate. With the spread of radiation, the debate has ended. Anyone who doesn't plant and grow Cannabis everywhere this spring in the United States and the rest of the world is a fool, ignorant perhaps, but a fool none the less.

I've said for twenty years that if anyone can give me one good reason that's true not to grow Cannabis then I will stop insisting upon it. Until then, the courts have not established rightful jurisdiction, and I respectfully refuse to obey.

Coordinated tax revolt is the next step after a misprision of treason lawsuit. All irreversible technologies have to be discontinued at once. ITs are the biggest threat to the greatest number of people over generations into the future. Global bans on authorized use of depleted uranium munitions is the first priority, along with "fracking" cloud seeding/chemtrails, GMOs.

I'm talking about establishing an objective public court based on true naturally integral values. In an objective court, hemp would be legalized in a heartbeat. The measure of shameless intractability in our unobjective courts is that a plant so valuable can be prohibited for so long. At what point does obedience become insanity?

If we all pull really hard for change at the federal level according to this strategy, at Roger Chrisite;'s trial, we could end prohibition in the court by jury nullification.

Cannabis vs. "Global Broiling": An Inconvenient Priority

2011-03-10T09:04:00.000-08:00

by Paul J. von Hartmann
revised 3/22/2011

Human disregard for ancient operating systems of the Natural Order has imposed fundamental imbalances on Earth's environment over a relatively short span of evolutionary time. In just half a century, critical insults imposed on our atmosphere are resulting in increasing levels of midrange ultraviolet solar radiation (UV-B) "broiling" the surface of the planet. I trust this brief introduction to the problem and an ecologically realistic strategy for resolution will serve to initiate the timely, purposeful, coordinated polar shift in values required to avoid extinction. A proportionate organic agricultural response to the compounding threats is available, if we choose as a global community to survive.

UV-B exposure causes genetic mutation, impaired immune response and abnormal cell growth in plants and animals. Increasing incidence of cancers, cataracts, falling agricultural production, declining forest health and a catastrophic decline in the world's "indicator species" (including bees, bats, birds, amphibians, coral reefs, juvenile fish species, shrimp & crab larvae, phytoplankton and krill) consistently indicate profound systemic imbalance. Though single causes are impossible to neatly isolate, health trends in all species indicate the synergistic break down resulting from increasing UV-B radiation.

For example, marine science has implicated "enhanced" UV-B in its disorienting effects on solar-sensitive krill, in the Antarctic. Increased UV-B interferes with krill mobility and reproduction, effectively undermining the foundation of the oceanic food chain. On land, half of the crops studied for UV-B sensitivity produced less food under conditions of elevated UV-B. In people, it can take two decades for the effects of a single intense exposure to manifest into symptoms of terminal illness.

Measurements taken by the National Science Foundation Ultraviolet Monitoring Network since 1988 show an alarming increase in UV-B levels. Comparing UV-B intensity between 1990 and 2010, at sea level in San Diego, California, there was an 118% increase in the number of days with UV-B readings rated as "Very High" (11 days at 10+ in 1990, 24 days at 10+ in 2010). At the South Pole (where the krill live) readings as high as 65.78 have been recorded (01/05/2001). When the UV index is greater than 9, UV-B is considered extreme. You will sunburn in less than 15 minutes. Higher elevations receive less protection from the Sun than lower altitudes.

Recent scientific understanding of the protective, "radiative" influence of atmospheric aerosols, historically produced in abundance by the boreal forests, makes further destruction of the northern "Taiga" regions an immediate primary concern. The boreal forest is the world's largest terrestrial biome, encircling the cold Northern Hemisphere. The forest covers 6.4 million square miles (11 percent of the world's land surface area) from Siberia to Alaska, Canada, Northern Europe and Northern Asia.

Boreal forests consist mainly of pine, spruce and fir trees. In addition to sequestering and storing atmospheric carbon, the forests exude a fragrant concoction of volatile aerosol compounds, including "monoterpenes." It's what you smell when walking through a pine forest.

Monoterpenes rise from the forests into the stratosphere, where they reflect solar radiation away from the planet and "seed" exceptionally bright and persistent clouds. The clouds produce a dilute, monoterpene-enhanced rain. Before they are washed from the sky, monoterpenes serve as a refractive "sunscreen," shielding the planet against UV-B. Possessing powerful antibiotic, anti-fungal, and anti-viral properties, monoterpenes may also serve as a water purifying agent, circulating through the our mycilially integrated aquatic ecosystem.

Since 1950 about half of the Taiga has been lost to logging (primarily to make toilet paper, newsprint, and magazines), oil & gas extraction, flooding (for hydroelectricity) and increasing insect pest infestation (attributable to global warming). Increased instability in the Middle East, advanced technology for working in freezing conditions and increasing, unaccountable extraction methods are expanding natural resource exploitation into areas and technologies previously considered either impossible, too environmentally destructive or unprofitable for plundering. The current rate of logging has been estimated to be five acres per minute, all day, every day. The remaining forests are being catastrophically decimated by unprecedented insect infestations attributable to continuous breeding cycles, made possible by increasing global temperatures.

The vast boreal region that previously served to sequester and store atmospheric carbon, is turning from "carbon sink" to "carbon source." Additional carbon dioxide and methane are being liberated from warmed soils as accumulated plant matter thaws and decomposes. If this continues, eventually no recovery will be possible. As UV-B levels continue to increase and the planet gets hotter, the impending release of stored carbon on such a vast scale poses an incalculable threat. Release of greenhouse gasses on such a vast scale will exacerbate global warming beyond predictability. More UV-B also increases temperature, which increases UV-B, resulting in further warming. As temperature and radiation levels increase, monoterpene production by the forest declines.

Under present conditions the slow-growing coniferous forests will never recover. As the forests are cut, dry up, get eaten and die, protection from the Sun, afforded by homeostatic concentrations of monoterpenes established over thousands of years, is plummeting. At the same time carbon, methane, chlorine, methyl bromide and other atmospheric "weapons of mass destruction" are quietly eroding protective atmospheric ozone, the precipitous decline in monoterpenes is leaving the planet exposed to unprecedented levels of UV-B.

We truly have nothing to fear but the atmosphere itself. Increasing UV-B is an ubiquitous, immediate threat to individual health and the functional integrity of the ecosystem. Due to the deadly nature of elevated UV-B radiation, credible science appears to indicate that we are faced with imminent global extinction unless all possible remedies are applied in time to have an effect. Unless we are successful in addressing elevated UV-B radiation, it won't matter much what other problems we do manage to solve.

"Global broiling" by escalating intensities of UV-B requires that all solutions be immediately, objectively considered. There may yet be enough time remaining to implement a biotherapeutic response to the insidious, lethal effects of increasing UV-B. All possible solutions must be prioritized and effectively implemented; Regardless of existing so-called "political realities" determined by obsolete, extinctionistic, economic inertia and critical wealth disparity, misdirecting incumbent, self-empowering, corporate political regimes that perpetuate imposed essential resource scarcity. If we are to avoid synergistic collapse of environment, economics and social structures upon which our lives depend, expansion of the organic arable base for maximum production of atmospheric monoterpenes is a global priority, regardless of any perceived constrictive influence. Freedom to farm "every herb bearing seed" is the first test of religious freedom.

At present, because of the blatantly irrational, counter-productive agricultural prohibition of Cannabis, the most likely remedy to global broiling is not even being considered. Potentially the world's most widespread, prodigious source of monoterpenes, the Cannabis plant is exceptional in producing copious amounts of 58 monoterpenes in less time, in more soil and climate conditions, with greater ecological and economic benefit than any other agricultural resource on Earth. "Hemp" is also capable of sequestering nine tons of carbon per acre in a growing season, while respiring an abundance of oxygen and detoxifying contaminated soils.

Cannabis is an ancient, highly adaptable, globally distributed, agronomically beneficial, pioneer crop. Six American Presidents have signed Executive Orders identifying "hemp" as being a "strategic food resource," available by "essential civilian demand."

Cannabis is inarguably the most complete and potentially available source of organic vegetable protein on Earth. Hemp is the only common seed containing three essential fatty acids (EFAs) in proper proportion for long-term consumption. Hemp is also the only plant that produces complete nutrition and sustainable biofuels from the same harvest. This eliminates the mistakenly perceived trade-off between biofuels energy production and food security. In addition to being the world's most useful, nutritious and safely therapeutic "herb bearing seed," hemp also produces biodegradable plastics, paper, cloth, resins, therapeutics, pesticides, and building materials. Cannabis is potentially the most rapidly, globally distributed crop on Earth. In just three growing seasons, Cannabis can adapt itself to virtually any soil and climate condition, excepting the radical extremes.

It is all too apparent that the integrity of Earth's environment is quietly unraveling under the effects of increasing UV-B radiation. Accelerating loss of atmospheric monoterpenes is an unpredictable, under-regarded "loose cannon on the deck" of Spaceship Earth. Expansion of the arable base, timely production of atmospheric monoterpenes, and rates of carbon sequestration we are able to achieve will largely determine our survival or extinction. A polar shift in values and an expansive global campaign of Cannabis agriculture is urgently needed to compensate for the decline in monoterpenes from the death of the boreal forests.

In the context of compounding, accelerating crises we face in the 21st Century, it appears that 'time' is the limiting factor in the equation of survival. The irrational prohibition of 'marijuana' has intransigently obstructed timely, objective consideration of Cannabis agriculture, manufacture and trade as proportionate global response for addressing multiple conditions of irreversible imbalance. The most advantageous sequence of remedial measures must be implemented immediately, to effect timely resolution of interrelated imbalances. Organic Cannabis farming appears to be mankind's most time-efficient and cost-effective strategy for resolving problems of climate, food insecurity, economics and energy production. If humans plant Cannabis intensively this spring, there may yet be enough time remaining for agricultural remedies to have an effect.

Because 'time' is the limiting factor in the equation for healing the planet, Spring 2011 is the most critical planting season in human history. If humans don't make the best use of every growing season we may have left to heal Earth's atmosphere, then there is something very wrong with our society. To ignore an historically revered solution in deference to a so-called "drug war" that's known to be counter-productive to its own stated objectives, risks sudden, irreversible synergistic collapse. Regardless of perceived limitations attributed to so-called "political realities", the unavoidable fact is that what’s needed is an immediate, massive global planting of Cannabis.

Humankind faces a simple choice which must be decided before the Spring planting season of 2011. Either our species recognizes Cannabis as both unique and essential, and we use Cannabis as a pioneer crop to expand the arable base, planting hemp everywhere that it can possibly grow; Or the Earth will be "broiled" to eventual extinction, under elevated, increasing intensities of UV-B radiation.

An immediate, fundamental shift in values is urgently called for, out of critical global necessity. At the moment, in Hawaii, an opportunity currently exists to end prohibition by applying knowledge of the true value of Cannabis to free Cannabis Ministry Reverend Roger Christie. Hemp is valuable because it is unique and essential for several reasons. Petrochemicals aren't valuable because they are insidiously toxic to our health & environment. There are so many variables and uncertainties regarding the synergistic causes of imbalance, the focus needs to shift to an active change in what is considered valuable.

Extrajudicially imprisoned-without-trial and shamelessly denied bail five times since July 2010, Reverend Christie’s immediate release from prison is an epic legal milestone that could punctuate the end of essential resource scarcity in the United States. The Constitutional supremacy of "religious freedom" empowered through public right of "essential civilian demand" for a "strategic" "herb bearing seed" "of first necessity" is currently being focussed on the blatantly unobjective federal court proceeding.

Ending Cannabis prohibition can be most expeditiously accomplished by regarding polls showing the majority of Americans in favor of reclaiming public access to Cannabis over the unaccountable control of the blatantly disingenuous, criminally intransigent, viciously counter-productive, obscenely expensive and tragically deadly DEA. Legal supremacy of our Constitutionally protected "religious freedom" applied to nationwide public exercise of "essential civilian demand" for a "strategic" "herb bearing seed" "of first necessity," using a campaign of jury nullification, combined with lawsuits against blatantly unobjective court proceeding will be revealed as sufficient to end Cannabis prohibition at the federal level.

In essence the true value of Cannabis must free Roger Christie, through public nullification of disingenuous laws, before his trial that's been postponed until next Summer. Because of what is at stake, and the ham-fisted dismissal of due process by the court, Reverend Christie’s case presents a "perfect storm" in which to convene “The Trial for the Century” in the court of public opinion. In essence, Reverend Chrisitie's pre-trial exoneration will end Cannabis prohibition, potentiating the timely reversal of climate catastrophe.

The 'limiting factor' in the equation of survival, time is the only thing we can't make more of. Every spring that passes is gone forever. Either our species will succumb to the inertia of a functionally obsolete, chemically corrupted, outlaw political regime that's usurped control of the United States, leading us to extinction; Or people will wake up to the truth and wisdom of abandoning a viciously counter-productive prohibition in time to reintroduce the world's most "Gaiatherapeutic" resource and let the free organic agricultural market work.

As people continue to discover that Cannabis agriculture is the most effective "phytotherapeutic" plant remedy to the most fundamentally toxic problems we face, eventual implementation of sound organic agricultural policy will be implemented. The real question then is, "How bad do things have to get before all solutions are considered?"

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References

1."Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?"
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v471/n7336/full/nature09678.html

2. National Science Foundation
Ultraviolet Monitoring Network
http://uv.biospherical.com/
http://uv.biospherical.com/student/CSVRequest.asp

3. Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW)
http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/arep/gaw/gaw_home_en.html

4. "Climate Change and the Northern Forests" June 1998
http://archive.greenpeace.org/climate/arctic99/html/content/factsheets/oldreports/forests.html

5. Ozone Depletion and UV Radiation
http://www.ehso.com/ehshome/OzoneDepletionEffects.htm

6."Climate Projections Based on Emission Scenarios for Long-lived and Short-lived Radiatively Active Gases and Aerosols" (2007), Review of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program's Synthesis and Assessment Product 3.2, Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (BASC)
http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=12035&page=5

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8. Hemp: Our Lifeline to the Future: The Consequences of Hemp Prohibition
OCTOBER – NOVEMBER 2010, Dr Andrew Katelaris.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/48475419/Hemp-Our-Lifeline-To-The-Future-by-Dr-Andrew-Katelaris-c-2010-Nexus-Magazine-October-November-2010-Issue

9. Reverend Roger Christie and The Last Marijuana Trial
http://the-last-marijuana-trial.com/

10. Boreal Forest is World’s Carbon Vault  Breakthrough Mapping Analysis Looks at Peatlands, Permafrost and Soil Carbon in Canadian Boreal  http://www.interboreal.org/globalwarming/

11. The Ho‘omaluhia or "Peacemaker" Award
http://www.dpfhi.org/index.php?id=89

12. First Freedom Project
http://www.justice.gov/crt/spec_topics/religiousdiscrimination/brooklyn_flyer.pdf

13. US HI: OPED: 'Ice' Addiction Is Booming, Thanks To Anti-Pot Efforts
Pubdate: Tue, 2 Sep 2003
Source: Honolulu Star-Bulletin (HI)
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v03/n1319/a01.html

14. 1991-94 Final Report, "Ice and Other Methamphetamine Use: An Exploratory Study"
http://christie-et-al.s3.amazonaws.com/necessity/Ice-Methamphetamine-Exploratory-Study.pdf

15. An Open Letter to Hon. MICHAEL B. SHAPIRO, FLORENCE T. NAKAKUNI! and MICHAEL K. KAWAHARA
http://californiacannabisministry.blogspot.com/2010/09/open-letter-to-hon-michael-b-shapiro.html

*References to "essential civilian demand" in government documents

*16. 44 C.F.R. PART 334—GRADUATED MOBILIZATION RESPONSE
Title 44 - Emergency Management and Assistance,
§ 334.6 Department and agency responsibilities. (f)
http://law.justia.com/cfr/title44/44-1.0.1.6.83.html

*17. THE DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT OF 1950,AS AMENDED[50 U.S.C. App. § 2061 et seq.]Title VII - General Provisions Sec. 708. VOLUNTARY AGREEMENTS AND PLANS OF ACTION FORPREPAREDNESS PROGRAMS AND EXPANSION OF PRODUCTION CAPACITY AND SUPPLY [50 U.S.C. App. § 2158]
http://law.justia.com/cfr/title44/44-1.0.1.6.83.html

[*See also, #23. William J. Clinton Executive Order 12919, below]

Six Executive Orders identifying "hemp" as a "strategic food resource"

18. Franklin D. Roosevelt Executive Order 9280 - December 5, 1942
Delegating Authority Over the Food Program.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=16211&st=hemp&st1=hempstead%2C+hemphill#axzz1Gylt2Jf6

19. Harry S. Truman Executive Order 10161 - September 9, 1950
Delegating Certain Functions of the President Under the Defense Production Act of 1950
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=60772&st=hemp&st1=hempstead%2C+hemphill#axzz1Gylt2Jf6

20. Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Order 10480-- August 14, 1953
Further providing for the administration of the defense mobilization program
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=59221&st=hemp&st1=hempstead%2C+hemphill#axzz1Gylt2Jf6

21. John F. Kennedy Executive Order 10998 - February 16, 1962
ASSIGNING EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FUNCTIONS TO THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=58936&st=hemp&st1=hempstead%2C+hemphill#axzz1Gylt2Jf6

22. Richard Nixon Executive Order 11490 - October 28, 1969 -Assigning Emergency Preparedness Functions to Federal Departments and Agencies
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=60479&st=hemp&st1=hempstead%2C+hemphill#axzz1Gylt2Jf6

*23. William J. Clinton Executive Order 12919 - June 3, 1994
National Defense Industrial Resources Preparedness
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=50295&st=hemp&st1=hemphill%2C+hempstead#axzz1Gylt2Jf6

24. American Presidency Project
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/

25. MANAGING TERRORISM’S CONSEQUENCES: LEGAL ISSUES http://www.law.depaul.edu/centers_Institutes/ihrli/downloads/managing_terrorisms_consequences.pdf

26. The Taiga or Boreal Forest
http://www.marietta.edu/~biol/biomes/boreal.htm

"The Trial for the Century"

2011-02-14T06:17:00.001-08:00

The true value of Cannabis as both unique and essential makes Roger Christie's trial the most proximate opportunity for ending the illegal war on "every herb bearing seed" through "essential civilian demand."

"The Trial for the Century" will determine whether we are in time to plant hemp this Spring. One planting season may be all that's left to effectively mitigate global broiling by increasing UV-B radiation. The true value of Cannabis in the context of multiple crises makes Roger's trial globally significant, and worthy of international support and attention.

Pray for Roger, and pray that we are not too late to make this critical shift in values, "of first necessity to the wealth and protection of our nation" and planet...

“Trial of the century” is an idiomatic phrase used to describe certain well-known court cases, especially of the 20th century. It is often used popularly as a rhetorical device to attach importance to a trial and as such is not an objective observation but is the opinion of whoever uses it.”

“It’s a way of saying, ‘This is really fabulous. It’s really sensational.’ But it doesn’t really mean anything.” – Attorney F. Lee Bailey

Ref: Wikipedia

Adding substance to hyperbole, Hawaiian THC Ministry Reverend Roger Christie’s trial is surely and magnificently “The Trial for the Century” potentially advancing legal distinctions that are critical to national security and global integrity. Whether our species has the capacity to evolve into conscious active respect for Nature, rather than blindly achieving violent extinction, will be presaged by what happens to Roger Christie and the Green 14.

This is true because, in the end, it’s not really about the “pakalolo.” Roger’ trial is about Cannabis vs. climate change. If we don’t solve changes in our atmosphere, using Cannabis in a proportionate organic agricultural response to increasing UV-B radiation, beginning this Spring, then it won’t matter much what other problems we do solve.

There is no ‘marijuana’ on a burned out planet, so let’s deal with the biggest problem first. We can worry about arranging the deck chairs after we steer clear of the iceberg we’re about to plow into.

You don’t have to be a Harvard economist to know that once the U.S. loses “reserve currency status,” as we’re about to, then things are going to get really, really hard. If we don’t have the world’s most unique and essential agricultural resource in our fields, seeded and ready to harvest by this fall, America will be poor.

Invest in heirloom seeds now, while your money still has perceived value. Hemp inclusive regional economies are the future, so get started planting for seed, not just sensi, this Spring.

Restoring integrity to the Natural Order and honoring the primary relevance of Natural Law in determining the quality and sustainability of life on this planet is fundamental to our survival, and to Roger’s release from federal prison — before any trial.

The ‘trial’ must happen first in the objective Court of Public Opinion, but it isn’t Roger’s trial. It’s the trial of the Cannabis plant itself.

Is “Santa Maria” is a gift from “God” or a botanical harlot sent by “The Devil?” The true, unique and essential values of Cannabis makes the question seem as ridiculous as it is. Prohibition is soon to be revealed as the absurd circus that it is.

In Hawaii the circus will be rolling into town two months before Roger’s trial to saturate the Islands with jury nullification flyers.

Everybody knows somebody who knows somebody who knows someone who has money to invest in the future of this planet. Roger’s case is potentially the most legally explosive focal point for a polar shift in values, favoring “Gaiatherapeutic” industries.

If hemp can heal the atmosphere, as Roger Christie, I and others insist it may be able to do (if there are enough growing seasons left), then Roger is a visionary cultural world leader, entitled to due compensation for the time he’s served and for the libelous characterization, that has been the only justification for the egregious violations of his civil liberties.

Conscious realization of ‘time’ as the limiting factor in the equation of survival makes Roger’s a defense of global necessity. The Trial for the Century could be a turning point, punctuating the global shift in values that has already started.

Discovery of the endogenous endocannabinoid system makes the punitive scheduling of Cannabis dangerously primitive by comparison and functionally obsolete. The nutritional value of hemp seed as both unique and essential; the ecological importance of Cannabis monoterpenes for reflecing solar radiation away from the Earth; the critical importance of a return to organic/non-GMO agriculture; the extreme urgency of planting Cannabis in every possible soil and climate condition.

Add to that the clear and present threat to national security, global integrity and the functional integrity of the United States Constitution whose First Amendment has been traded for the insultingly obviously libelous contradictory characterization of Roger Christie as “a danger to his community” by an unobjective court where the judge works for the plaintiff, that’s imposing a hard drug epidemic on Hawaiian society by eradicating marijuana; where violent offenders are being released on bail at the same time that Hawaii’s first Ho‘omaluhia Drug Policy Award recipient languishes in federal prison; an dfinaly, “the whale in the living room”, the stark hypocrisy of a President who admits to smoking marijuana who continues to enforce marijuana prohibition.

The irrational social prejudice against Cannabis is humankind’ s most self-destructive bias, obviating the possibility of a morally grounded, free organic agricultural market. Marijuana prohibition has infected human ‘politiconomic evolution’ with a Mutant Government Outcome (MGO) “terminator gene” which inevitably conveys disparate economic advantage to those who are willing to compromise the integrity of the ecosystem by valuing toxic wealth over environmental health.

"the center of true religion"

2011-02-12T08:52:00.000-08:00

The most beautiful and profound emotion we can experience
is the sensation of the mystical.
It is the sower of all true science.
He to whom this emotion is a stranger,
who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead.
To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists,
manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty,
which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms-
this knowledge, this feeling,
is at the center of true religion.

~ Albert Einstein ~

The Disastrous War on Drugs Turns 40: How Does the Grassroots Stop the Misdirection by an Oxymoron?

2011-02-12T08:05:00.000-08:00

The following is my reply to Ethan Nadelmann's essay concerning the future of drug policy reform

"The Disastrous War on Drugs Turns 40: How Do We Stop the Madness?"
http://www.alternet.org/story/149895/the_disastrous_war_on_drugs_turns_40%3A_how_do_we_stop_the_madness?page=entire

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The surest way to end Cannabis prohibition is to recognize Cannabis as both unique and essential to the survival of our species. The ecological argument of Cannabis vs. climate change has yet to be considered by the drug policy reform establishment, so how can we expect anyone else to understand that reintroduction of Cannabis agriculture, manufacture and trade to the free market economy is critical to the survival of our species?

DPA tripping to extinction
Or...
UV-B radiation is blocked by Cannabis monoterpenes -- so what's "illegal"?

What is it about Cannabis vs. climate change, that the drug policy reform establishment doesn't want to recognize the strongest argument in favor of ending prohibition -- Cannabis monoterpenes potential for radiative forcing as a biogenic way of addressing "global broiling" by increasing UV-B radiation?

If DPA won't bring attention to Cannabis vs. climate change, then all of you DPA $upporter$ who really want prohibition to end this year, instead of "someday,maybe" can stop sending money to George Soros, and start sending it to Reverend Roger Christie in Hawaii. As far as I know, DPA hasn't sent Roger a thin dime in twenty-five years of Cannabis activism.

Expanding upon my previous hurried comments, offered ultimately as good news (in harmonic tones effecting world peace)...

We the People must consider that prohibition of Cannabis could end in a week through a simple, objective shift in values. Cannabis is both unique and essential, not illegal. A matter of historical, religious and scientific fact, any other assessment of Cannabis as other than "strategic" treasonously undermines national security.

Cannabis is healing. Fossil fuels are toxic. Cannabis is globally distributed and free to anyone who wants it. Petroleum is unevenly distributed and expensive in every way. How could our species ever achieve balance as long as our money is based in toxins that are "Gaiacidal" and spiritually bankrupt, from inception?

Game over. The DEA has been begging to be sued for ten years of public fraud based on this spurious and fatally misleading definition of "hemp":

"...stalks and sterilized seeds — is what some people refer to as “hemp.” However, “hemp” is not a term that is found in federal law."

DEA Clarifies Status of Hemp in the Federal Register, October 9, 2001
http://www.justice.gov/dea/pub...

Neither statement is true.

It is a "misprision of treason" for failing to act in the interest of national security by refusing to recognize the true value of a strategic resource. Cannabis can't be both a "strategic resource" and a "Schedule One drug," so who is responsible for perpetuating this legal contradiction?

Come on DPA, MPP, NORML, etc. what EXACTLY is the hold-up in applying a fraction of your massive combined annual budgets to supporting the magnificent grassroots exercise of the Law of the Land, over anti-Constitutional prohibition statutes being tested in "Trial for the Century" of THC Ministry Founder, Reverend Roger Christie? If you recognize the historical significance of Cannabis, then you must see the power of Roger's challenge of wrongful authority. Why won't you support it?

Cannabis is not, cannot, and never has been truly illegal because without it our species won't see the end of this Century. Time is the limiting factor in the equation of survival. We don't have another planting season to waste.

The First Amendment is the first line of defense against prosecution by any objective court. Genesis 1:29 makes the end of Cannabis prohibition a matter of religious freedom. Our freedom to farm "every herb bearing seed" is the first test of religious freedom. On page one of the King James Bible used in U.S. courts and swearing in of elected officials, "God" is quoted on the first page, referring to "herbs" three times.

Drugs don't make seeds. Herbs do. The legal distinction is enormous. Yet with all of the resources of the drug policy reform establishment applied to the argument against the horrid, inevitable results of prohibition, the most fundamental truths are still not being presented or supported.

Why does the drug policy reform establishment continue to fail in presenting the most straight-forward and powerful arguments? Millions upon millions of dollars have been applied to pointing out the problems and lobbying for legislative action. How much has really changed as a result of all that time and money spent?

My frustration with the drug policy reform establishment has to do with the oxymoronic paralysis of progress that is the direct result of a disparity of wealth that exists within the drug policy reform culture. Over the past twenty years of being involved with the global effort to end the "drug war" I've witnessed talented, intelligent communicators of truth, such as Reverend Roger Christie (See http://the-last-marijuana-tria.../) be roundly ignored by the inefficient and ineffectual expenditure of millions of dollars, countless volunteer work hours, and much too much precious time, to be content with another of Ethan's lucid, eloquent, informed, though practically incomplete, accountings of the harms of prohibition. What's missing is a cohesive, comprehensive, objective valuation of Cannabis as a "strategic resource""of first necessity""critical to national security""unique and essential""beyond the rightful jurisdiction of any court" as Jack Herer, Roger Christie, I and many others in the grassroots Cannabis culture have been writing, filming, and speaking in public about for decades, over and over again. And conditions continue to deteriorate at an accelerating pace without a proportionate response, and in the case of Ethan's recent NORML conference outburst, counter-productive public rudeness.

As brilliant and passionate and dedicated to a righteous cause as Ethan Nadelmann is, why is he and how can he not recognize Cannabis as both unique and essential? It is baffling to me. Prohibition cannot exist in the presence of true value, so what's blocking that shift?

Six American Presidents have recognized Cannabis as a "strategic resource" available by "essential civilian demand" yet DPA fails to acknowledge the power in that. Will President Obama be publicly mandated by the drug policy reform establishment to recognize Cannabis as both unique and essential, an historically revered "strategic resource" deserving of sacramental legitimacy? How bad do things have to get before Cannabis is recognized by the drug policy reform establishment as critical to national security and global integrity?

How long will it take before common awareness that (at last!) the majority of American's polled understand the urgent necessity of ending Cannabis prohibition leads to victory over unaccountability, falsehood and illogic? Instead of keeping the keep the ball rolling on the most recent wave of positive energy generated by Prop 19, by focussing on Roger Christie's "Trial for the Century" the drug policy reform establishment is ignoring (or in the case of NORML's St.Pierre & Belville, taking pot shots at) a major legal opportunity.

The Constitutional battle that's about to happen in Hawaii presents an opportunity to actively engage the 'feral government' that has blatantly traded due process for slander & libel, in the unlawful imprisonment-with-out-trial-or-bail of Roger Christie. Simply by accusing Christie of being a "danger to his community" the rights and privileges guaranteed by the State and Federal Constituions protcting freedom of religion have been suspended to silence a recognized "Peacemaker."

Roger Christie's trial is several magnitudes of significance larger than Prop 19, with a fraction of the investment from the monied elements of the drug policy reform establishment -- which includes the wealthy pot growers and most of the rich dispensary owners making bank on prohibition, whose vested interests don't favor seeing the Cannabis plant liberated.

There is so much to be said by the grassroots that has not been heard because the "freedom to complain" is being eloquently choreographed, scripted and substituted for the larger truth applied in direct action. On January First, 1992, Roger Christie and I set a legal precedent when we planted 'marijuana' in a public exercise of peaceful civil disobedience in Lahaina, Maui, after I sent a registered letter to Hawaii's State Attorney General, Warren Price. The formal challenge of rightful jurisdiction was six pages long (with references) and demanded that AG Price take individual responsibility for the true value of Cannabis. Once again a contest between Price vs. value. Price lost, and resigned from public office a few months later.

As I've written to DPA, MPP, NORML, etc. for years, the arguments in favor of Cannabis vs. climate change are the most broadly compelling, along with food security and nutrition, two areas where Cannais is both unique and essential. Why have there not been Congressional hearings to weigh the value of Cannabis agriculture against the lingering vestiges of "Reefer Madness"?

Ofcourse the conditions of environment, economics and social imbalance has created a condition of extreme global emergency, poised on the edge of synergistic collapse. The Earth's boreal forests are dying from pest infestation, logging, increasing UV-B radiation and warming of the atmosphere. The pines used to produce copious quantities of atmospheric aerosols called "monoterpenes." Presently, the balance of monoterpenes in the atmosphere is plummeting. If we don't start planting Cannabis as fast as we can, everywhere we can, it will soon be too late to avoid irreversible collapse. Expanding the arable base, increasing efficiency of our economic model to mandate accelerated reforestation with the help of the "Tree of Life" is humankind's only chance for survival.

If I am wrong, then I invite anyone to give me one good reason that's true not to grow Cannabis. If anyone has a better idea than Cannabis agriculture, manufacture and free, untaxed trade, for mitigating climate change, then I'll work on your idea for free for the rest of my life.

We have nothing to fear but the atmosphere itself. If we don't solve the climate change equation, it won't matter what problems we do solve.

There is no money on a burned out planet Mr. Soros, Mr. Lewis, Mr. Branson, Mr. Nadelmann... while US currency still has perceived value, please, invest in Roger Christie's "Trial for the Century" in order to reclaim the world's most useful crop. This is where the real progress can be made in a timely way.

Bans on irreversible plant technologies (GMOs) need to be immediately imposed on agriculture as unnecessary and counter-productive to feeding the world, and a threat to global integrity.

Free Roger Christie! Now!!

Substantive Due Process & the curious case of Roger Christie

2011-02-09T09:09:00.000-08:00

"Substantive Due Process" is the fundamental constitutional legal theory upon which the Griswold/Roe/Casey privacy right is based. The doctrine of Substantive Due Process holds that the Due Process Clause not only requires "due process," that is, basic procedural rights, but that it also protects basic substantive rights. "Substantive" rights are those general rights that reserve to the individual the power to possess or to do certain things, despite the government’s desire to the contrary. These are rights like freedom of speech and religion. "Procedural" rights are special rights that, instead, dictate how the government can lawfully go about taking away a person’s freedom or property or life, when the law otherwise gives them the power to do so.

"Supporters of Substantive Due Process...point to its long history and its dynamic ability to defend basic human rights from infringement by the government. They argue that Substantive Due Process provides comprehensive nation-wide protection for all our most cherished rights, which might otherwise be at the mercy of state governments. They argue that the doctrine is a simple recognition that no procedure can be just if it is being used to unjustly deprive a person of his basic human liberties and that the Due Process Clause was intentionally written in broad terms to give the Court flexibility in interpreting it."

http://www.stanford.edu/group/psylawseminar/Substantive%20Due%20Process.htm

Strict scrutiny
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict_scrutiny

Strict scrutiny is the most stringent standard of judicial review used by United States courts reviewing federal law. Along with the lower standards of rational basis review and exacting or intermediate scrutiny, strict scrutiny is part of a hierarchy of standards employed by courts to weigh an asserted government interest against a constitutional right or principle that conflicts with the manner in which the interest is being pursued. Strict scrutiny is applied based on the constitutional conflict at issue regardless of whether a law or action of the U.S. federal government, a state government, or a local municipality is at issue.
The notion of "levels of judicial scrutiny", including strict scrutiny, was introduced in footnote 4 to United States v. Carolene Products (1938), in the context of the New Deal. Governmental restrictions on constitutional rights that undergo strict scrutiny are most commonly but not invariably found invalid. The first and most notable case to apply strict scrutiny and find the governmental actions valid was Korematsu v. United States (1944), in which the Supreme Court upheld racial-based curfews of Japanese Americans during World War II.

Strict scrutiny arises in two basic contexts: when a "fundamental" constitutional right is infringed[citation needed], particularly those listed in the Bill of Rights and those the court has deemed a fundamental right protected by the "liberty" or "due process" clause of the 14th Amendment; or when the government action involves the use of a "suspect classification" such as race or, sometimes, national origin that may render it void under the Equal Protection Clause. These are the two applications that were anticipated in footnote 4 to United States v. Carolene Products.

To pass strict scrutiny, the law or policy must satisfy three prongs:

First, it must be justified by a compelling governmental interest. While the Courts have never brightly defined how to determine if an interest is compelling, the concept generally refers to something necessary or crucial, as opposed to something merely preferred. Examples include national security, preserving the lives of multiple individuals, and not violating explicit constitutional protections.

Second, the law or policy must be narrowly tailored to achieve that goal or interest. If the government action encompasses too much (overbroad) or fails to address essential aspects of the compelling interest (under-inclusive), then the rule is not considered narrowly tailored.

Finally, the law or policy must be the least restrictive means for achieving that interest. More accurately, there cannot be a less restrictive way to effectively achieve the compelling government interest, but the test will not fail just because there is another method that is equally the least restrictive. Some legal scholars consider this 'least restrictive means' requirement part of being narrowly tailored, though the Court generally evaluates it as a separate prong.

Legal scholars, including judges and professors, often say that strict scrutiny is "strict in theory, fatal in fact," because popular perception is that most laws subject to this standard are struck down. However, an empirical study of strict scrutiny decisions in the federal courts, by Adam Winkler, found that laws survive strict scrutiny over thirty percent of the time. In one area of law, religious liberty, laws that burden religious liberty survived strict scrutiny review in nearly sixty percent of applications.[1]

the Big Picture

2011-02-08T08:29:00.000-08:00

Call in to my Blogtalkradio show at noon today to discuss the Big Picture: "Cannabis vs. Climate Change."

Arguing inconsequential details of ending prohibition is "rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic." If we have another growing season to make the coordinated transition from global hydrocarbon addiction/overdose to carbohydrate sustainability, we'll be very very very lucky.

Humans have got to grow as much Cannabis as fast as we can, in as many soil and climate conditions as we can, or increasing UV-B radiation is going to cook us. Google "global broiling, hemp" to read details of hemp monoterpenes replacing the monoterpenes from pine trees, declining as the boreal forests disappear.

Arguing about taxing®ulating pot (i.e. imposing an insolvent, politically corrupt, counter-productive, crippling bureaucracy on organic agriculture) is a potentially extinctionistic waste of precious time, the limiting factor in the equation of survival.

Cannabis is different than booze or tobacco because the quality of marijuana products is determined primarily by genetics, not agricultural method. While organic cultivation sets the standard for purity, relatively minimal gardening skill and attention to the plants is required to produce an enormous quantity of a very high-grade product. Dispensaries will wind up growing their own or buying from self-regulated caregivers & gardeners who grow more than they need to satisfy demand from community, friends and family.

Free market competition and personal reputations for excellence will determine whose Cannabis products are most in demand. Because of its exceptional degree of safety, marijuana has been traded under the worst possible conditions of social imbalance, without harming anyone.

Tainted products are an unfortunate reality in a black market, not in a free market. Testing and safety analysis is and ought to be more affordable and available for those who want to have their herb analyzed, but .

Individual responsibility for personal choices needs to be taught from a young age. Imposition of regulations on adults who make safe choices based on mature judgement is tyranny.

"Dolphin Economics and a polar shift in human values"
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Sorry to disagree with you CB, but Flop 19 was a tar-baby that may represent "political reality" to some, but would have caused a shitstorm of legal confusion and a blizzard of media distraction had it passed. As it is, the way is clear in the US for a stronger grassroots movement in proportion to the crises we face: "essential civilian demand" for a "strategic resource."

DPA, abNORMLly tripping to extinction -- meet Reformus interruptus amongus.....

2011-01-30T10:57:00.000-08:00

Or...UV-B radiation is blocked by Cannabis monoterpenes -- so what's "illegal"?

It was surreal, fascinating, though a sadly de-energizing trip, to observe the intentional immobilization of the grassroots Cannabis culture by the monied, drug policy reform establishment (oxymoron). DPA's duplicity was explicitly revealed in the spontaneous outburst by Ethan Nadelmann at the Berkeley NORML conference last Saturday. The mere mention of "essential civilian demand" was enough to cause Ethan to violate Robert's Rules of Order in a spontaneous outburst that was so panicked and vehement as to be unintelligible.

I wonder if anyone remembers what Ethan actually said, when he terminated my brief moment (perhaps 30 seconds?) at the public microphone. All I recall is Ethan's loud, unruly response to my question about a federal strategy of "essential civilian demand" (1,2), directed to Assemblyman Tom Ammiano.

Giving Ethan the benefit of the doubt that he is truly working to effect an end to Cannabis prohibition, rather than choreographing an industry coup under the direction of George Soros, has become impossible and incredible., In fact, at the Berkeley NORML conference, Ethan clumsily abandoned his usual composure to dismiss a potentially effective legal strategy to end prohibition, with subversive, authoritarian misdirection.

Rather than affording me a few minutes to introduce the most compelling arguments and strategies for achieving Cannabis freedom (as conference attendees were repeatedly invited & effectively prevented from doing), and raise support for Roger Christie in Hawaii, the NORML conference lined up attorneys and bureaucrats to further confuse the direct action element of the grassroots Cannabis contingent.

From his condescending reference to my writing as "stuff" to his failure to acknowledge the significance of hempen atmospheric monoterpenes, the leader of the drug policy reform establishment either doesn't want to believe in, or doesn't understand the significance of Cannabis vs. climate change. Even more disturbing is his obstruction of truth, and other people's right to hear and consider it.

I told Ethan immediately after the panel dispersed, that what's lacking in the drug policy reform establishment is a commitment to truth. Without it we are lost. Leaders sacrifice credibility when they lose respect for the truth and the responsibility for humility that goes with it. Too bad. For awhile, Ethan was a great leader toward reason, and an effective spokesperson for the inevitable, rational result. In derailing a critically important message of truth, that I have sent him for years, he has relegated himself to being just another footnote to an insolvent economy buying time on a dying planet.

If DPA refuses to participate in a moderated discussion on Cannabis vs. climate change, then all of you DPA $upporter$ who really want prohibition to end this year, instead of "someday,maybe" can stop sending money to George Soros, and start sending it to Roger Christie. As far as I know, DPA hasn't sent Roger Christie a thin dime in twenty-five years of activism.

Now that Roger Christie's Ministry has been arrested and charged federally; and Roger Christie (a recognized "Peacemaker" in Hawaii) is currently imprisoned-without-trial; denied bail five times; slandered as a "danger to his community"; been denied visitors; and had his trial postponed until April 26th, Roger has transcended himself by eliciting ham-fisted injustice from the prison industrial complex. Roger's "Trial for the Century" is the grassroots counter-point to the impacted, too comfortable, drug policy reform establishment, of which Ethan Nadelmann is the appointed head.

Only when Roger Christie walks out of federal prison, a free Cannabis Minister, will the integrity of the Constitution and the spiritual legitimacy of the world's oldest culture be restored, for the first time in our lives.

Federal references to "essential civilian demand"

1. Executive Order 12919 of June 3, 1994
National Defense Industrial Resources Preparedness

Sec. 103. General Functions.
Federal departments and agencies responsible for defense acquisition (or for industrial resources needed to support defense acquisition) shall:
(a) Identify requirements for the full spectrum of national security emergencies, including military, industrial, and essential civilian demand;

PART IX—GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 901. Definitions.
(e) ‘‘Food resources’’ means all commodities and products, simple, mixed, or compound, or complements to such commodities or products, that are capable of being ingested by either human beings or animals, irrespective of other uses to which such commodities or products may be put, at all stages of processing from the raw commodity to the products thereof in vendible form for human or animal consumption. ‘‘Food resources’’ also means all starches, sugars, vegetable and animal or marine fats and oils, cotton, tobacco, wool, mohair, hemp, flax fiber, and naval stores, but does not mean any such material after it loses its identity as an agricultural commodity or agricultural product.

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_12919

2. Code of Federal Regulations, Title 44 - Emergency Management and Assistance--CHAPTER I--FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY >
44 C.F.R. PART 334—GRADUATED MOBILIZATION RESPONSE
Title 44 - Emergency Management and Assistance

(f) At Stage 1, declaration of national emergency or war, the crisis is under the control of NSC or other central authority, with GMR being integrated into partial, full or total mobilization. At this point the more traditional mechanisms of resource mobilization are pursued, focusing on resource allocation and adjudication with cognizance of the essential civilian demand.
http://law.justia.com/us/cfr/title44/44-1.0.1.6.83.html

3. THE DPA-MONSANTO CONNECTION: GEORGE SOROS DONATES $1M TO PROP. 19 CAMPAIGN: WHY GEORGE SOROS WANTS MARIJUANA LEGALIZED
"The DPA is the leading organization spearheading the reform of Cannabis policies in the United States, and has been made up of some of the most powerful and influential characters in today’s global petro-bio-chemical-military-banking-industrial complex."
http://votetaxcannabis2010.blogspot.com/p/monsanto-connection-george-soros_27.html

"Where Next for Marijuana Reform?" NORML in Berkeley -- A Plan for the Now! Year

2011-01-16T05:24:00.000-08:00

Aloha! & kine regards to all who are on course to participate in the NORML conference at the end of this month. I trust it will serve a broader understanding and maximize efficient use of everyone's precious time, to offer in advance what I feel is the most effective public protocol for ending Cannabis prohibition, by this Spring -- not in 2012.

Time is the limiting factor in the equation of survival. Increasing UV-B radiation is of primary ecological concern. Cannabis must be intensively planted this spring for the production of atmospheric "monoterpenes," biogenic sunscreen for the planet.

While informative and stimulating, drug policy reform events have typically effectively misled and postponed drug policy reform progress by perpetuating bureaucratic confusion at the grassroots level. Clear-cut, simple strategies for an effective, national shift in policy have been marginalized from within the entrenched drug policy reform establishment. Typically there is an arrogant unwillingness to advance arguments inclusive of industrial hemp as part of a comprehensive legal mandate to end marijuana prohibition through objective resource revaluation.

Simple strategies calling for formal revaluation of Cannabis agriculture are casually dismissed as idealistic without being seriously discussed. Instead the concerned public is being misguided into supporting expensive and convoluted political campaigns that introduce division and go nowhere.

There isn't time for the drug policy reform community's continued failure to end Cannabis prohibition. The NORML conference will best serve it's stated objectives if it is the catalyst for a class-action federal lawsuit charging the DEA with "misprision of treason." Failing to act on the true value of Cannabis is a threat to national security.

Waiting until 2012 to try to end Cannabis prohibition by the timid uncertain comfort of a popular vote is an unacceptable, ineffective, sheepish waste of time. In the most real and immediate perception possible, obvious conditions of accelerating radical global imbalance require the most direct and comprehensive courses of action possible.

The truth is that Cannabis is both unique and essential, too valuable to be within the rightful jurisdiction of any court. Cannabis is essential for three specific reasons, all of which are critical to human survival, beyond merely "legal." No one needs permission from the electorate to survive. Another vote isn't needed.

NORML, DPA, SSDP, DPFC, LEAP, MPP, ASA, HIA, VH have all failed to identify Cannabis as both unique and essential. It is this failure to accurately assess the true value of Cannabis that has limited the effectiveness of the grassroots Cannabis culture. If the Cannabis culture under-values itself, then how can we demand accountability of our government? Thomas Jefferson singled out hemp as being "of first necessity" while six American Presidents have signed six Executive Orders identifying Cannabis as a"strategic resource."

Cannabis cannot possibly be both "strategic resource" and "Schedule One drug" -- the terms are oxymoronic. Since the definition of "hemp" posted on-line for the past ten years by the DEA is conflicted and blatantly false, it ought to be a very simple legal matter to charge the higher echelon of the DEA with criminal negligence and possible fraud. It is a "misprision of treason" to fail in recognizing the true value of Cannabis, when six American Presidents have signed six Executive Orders identifying hemp as having strategic value.

"Essential civilian demand" is the ultimate product of immediate necessity and true value. An accurate, objective, comprehensive valuation of Cannabis agriculture, ecology, manufacture and trade immediately removes Cannabis from the rightful jurisdiction of any court. Popular vote is not needed, nor is it the most direct way of securing access to any and all strategic food resources.

Neither civilian demand nor individual liberty depends on majority vote. A cogent, efficient rationality rules by existing Constitutional protections, pervasive reason and preeminent concern for the common good.

Once access to hemp for industrial applications is achieved at the national level, a major economic motivation for marijuana prohibition will have been eliminated. The prohibition of marijuana will fall away as people come to recognize the many other benefits of Cannabis. Current imbalances in the marijuana trade will be naturally evened out by widespread cultivation of hemp and the proliferation of more small outdoor marijuana gardens for personal use and regional industries.

Forget diversionary illusions of taxation and regulation. The bureaucratic costs and inefficiencies of both would encumber the free organic agricultural market that requires as much initial momentum as it can get. This year, the United States and other countries could experience an agricultural renaissance, with requisite retooling in preparation for the Fall harvest.

Regional economies based in "Gaiatherapeutic" industries are part of the larger picture, that reconsiders drug policy in the context of fundamental economic and environmental solutions."Essential civilian demand" at the Federal level is what's required, right now, before this spring.

Every planting season that passes without the benefits of Cannabis agriculture is gone forever. If time truly is the limiting factor in the equation of survival, then how hot do things have to get before all solutions are considered?

There is only insanity in continuing the tragic farce of asking for permission to survive from chemically corrupted bankers who run the country, caring only for profit and control. The government is an outlaw to its own Constitution. The American people are being humiliated and bullied by the fear-mongering war machine that dominates through blatant lies, revenue raising and armed intimidation.

By arguing for "legalization" at the state level, rather than moving forward with a federal and international strategies for total Cannabis freedom, the funded drug policy reform establishment validates the drug war. Rather than suspending Cannabis prohibition using the strongest arguments possible, watered-down truths are being understated and doled out in fragmented rationale.

As for Prop19, its greatest short-coming was the potential for vast legal confusion it invited, industry elitism it conveyed and the burdensome record-keeping it institutionalized. Hemp farmers don't need to be taxed and regulated. We need large quantities of fertile, feral American seed and the freedom to plant it.

Poop19 perpetuated the myth of marijuana's "harms" and maintained the illusory need or effectiveness of government oversight (i.e. "control" [sic]).

"Prop-Up-Prohibition # 19" also reinforced the rediculous illusion that a change in the Cannabis laws has to happen legislatively, by popular vote, state by state. It does not. Federal law protects our freedom to farm "every herb bearing seed."

In fact, what Flop 19 did prove is that a direct-line, federal strategy is needed, a strategy that is not contingent on popular approval.

I trust that this will advance further discussion of the most effective and immediate strategy possible.

"Where Next for Marijuana Reform?"

Essentially the question implies a future step, rather than recognizing that we're in mid-step, right Now! The energetic momentum of public support still lingers after the dream of "legalization" was effectively stimulated by the run up to Prop 19.

The time to use that inertia is right Now! The legacy of freedom we are obligated to pass on to our children is not predicated on some vote in 2012. Cannabis prohibition could be ended at the national level through "essential civilian demand" if the full force of truth is applied, using all of the resources available to the drug policy reform community in a coordinated national and international effort. Inviting international opinion into discussion of American drug policy seems obvious. Everyone is impacted by the perverse dynamics of American marijuana policy.

Because of the legitimate historical and tradition link between agriculture and religion, there can be no rightful jurisdiction over any "herb bearing seed" let alone one that has been recognized as critical to national security. THC Ministry founder, Reverend Roger Christie, sits imprisoned-without-bail since July 2010, his trial postponed until April 2011. The outcome of Roger Christie's trial may largely be determined by the rapidly shifting public perception of Cannabis value.

2012 is a million minutes away. Anything can happen between now and the next election. Once the U.S. dollar loses its "preferred currency" status things are going to look a lot more different than anyone can anticipate. The conditions we face require immediate action, not prolonged cooperation with a rogue outlaw political regime that's selling off our country to corrupt banksters.

Any politician who doesn't support the reintroduction of Cannabis into United States agricultural rotations must be regarded as either grossly uninformed, incapable of leadership, or guilty of "misprision of treason" -- failing to act in defense of national security.

The illusion of beneficent governance, into which most of us were born, is fed by our naive trust and dependence. In reality, no one needs permission to survive. Environmental indicators make it apparent that our generation has the particular responsibility of addressing climate change. Reintroducing the world's most useful agricultural resource, back into U.S. crop rotations for the first time in our lives, regardless of majority approval is what's required.

For possible insight into extremes of where we may be headed, if we are not proactive, see

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward
http://www.zeitgeistmovingforward.com/

I am recommending that we convene an international Court of Public Opinion to publicly decide whether Cannabis is a "Schedule One drug" without value or a "strategic resource" that's critical to national and international security. Revaluation of Cannabis as being both unique and essential will end the prohibition of it.

My goal is to end Cannabis prohibition in time for people to plant it, primarily for reasons of ecological urgency, this spring. The immediate relevance of atmospheric "monoterpene" decline, due to the accelerating death of the world's boreal forests, ought to be of international concern. Monoterpenes protect the Earth from increasing UV-B radiation that's broiling our planet and causing myriad problems, including temperature increase.

Of necessity, the most direct and decisive process for ending prohibition must be implemented immediately. Now that the healing properties of raw Cannabis leaves and flowers is being revealed, there can be no law limiting production of this essential nutritional resource.

A test of rationality is presented to us in the case of Reverend Roger Christie, whose trial is coming up in April, in Hawaii. I'm coordinating an independent offense defense committee in order to participate in the court proceedings as an adviser to the defense. Those people who are interested in helping to secure Roger's release are invited and encouraged to participate.

In response to Dr. Nichols

2011-01-08T11:02:00.000-08:00

Dear Dr. Nichols,

While I truly appreciate the pangs of conscience you suffer, surely you must acknowledge individual responsibility as a primary factor in the life choices people make, particular concerning which substances they use.

You have chosen to study chemical drugs, for quite noble reasons, in spite of the possible dangers they pose to people who choose to ingest them (predictable). You must be aware that pharmaceutical drugs are implicated in the deaths of more than one hundred twenty thousand people per year in the U.S., not to mention countless episodes of non-lethal overdose, causing adverse reactions, pharmaceutical addiction, etc. These are numbers that indicate a fundamental danger in the choice to use chemical drugs for any reason at all.

May I recommend your consideration of herbal therapeutics as a much safer, perhaps more promising area of investigation for achieving your worthy goals. The most obvious plant candidate for study in the treatment of Parkinson's is Cannabis, one of the "safest therapeutically active substances known to man." (DEA Judge, Francis Young, 1982) I offer for your consideration

Cannabis Use, Effect And Potential Therapy For Alzheimer's, MS and Parkinson's
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071014163644.htm

Even more fundamental than the use of 'marijuana' are the nutriceutical properties of hemp seed, in prevention and treatment of many imbalances, is a largely over-looked, primary avenue of science that could benefit tremendously from your skills and experience. No one has ever died from ingesting Cannabis in any form.

I wish you the very best of luck in resolving your conflict over people's misuse of your work. I trust you will consider the work I do for the inertial interest and curiosity it is meant to generate in scientists who are looking for the best answers to the imbalances we face. There is perhaps no greater threat to science than the confusion and suppression being imposed on objective scientific inquiry, tarnished by the atmosphere of politically corrupted bias against the therapeutic potential in "every herb bearing seed."

Sincerely yours,

Paul J. von Hartmann
Cannabis scholar

Summary of "Cannabis vs. Climate change: An Inconvenient Solution"

2011-01-06T10:52:00.001-08:00

Regarding Teen Marijuana Abuse

2011-01-06T09:55:00.000-08:00

While I sympathize with parents whose children abuse marijuana, it is the prohibition of Cannabis that has made marijuana into a "forbidden fruit," more attractive to rebellious young people than it otherwise would be. Every negative experience anyone has ever had with 'marijuana' has occurred in the context of the "drug war."

The vast majority of people who use Cannabis do so without tragedy. Your child has to take responsibility for his/her choices. If marijuana were not available then it is likely that people who abuse Cannabis would find another, more harmful substitute (i.e. alcohol, hard drugs). In fact I don't encourage recreational use of marijuana by young people.

Personally, I didn't even try smoking ganja until I had graduated from college, in the late '70s. Alcohol was my drug of choice in those days, as it is for many young people. Many of the problems and pressures that young people find impossible to deal with are caused by the drug war. Regardless of the effects marijuana has on people who use it, the prohibition of marijuana is far more harmful to environment, economics and society than any other policy being imposed.

Abuse of marijuana or anything else is a symptom of deeper unhappiness/imbalance. Finding out what the root cause of substance abuse is is the only way to recover balance. I sincerely wish you the best of luck in finding out why your child feels the need to use marijuana so much.

I am the father of a young son. If he chooses to use Cannabis when he grows into adolescence, there is nothing I will be able to do other than to make sure he recognizes and accepts full responsibility for his choices and how his life turns out. If he doesn't know the difference between right and wrong by the time he's 14, there won't be anything I can do about it.

Hapby Now! Year! "Just Say Now!"

2011-01-01T16:48:00.000-08:00

Starting off 2011 with some very Good News!

The Short story: Cannabis cures climate change. If we want to survive, then we have to plant Cannabis, everywhere, right now.

Short explanation:"monoterpenes" block UV-B radiation. Monoterpenes are volatile organic compounds that reflect solar radiation away from the planet and seed cloud formation. Monoterpenes are what make pine trees and Cannabis so aromatic. Climate research done on Earth's boreal regions show that monoterpenes serve as atmospheric 'sunscreen' for the Earth.

The pines are dying. Not so many monoterpenes coming up off the boreal regions anymore. Cannabis hemp, marijuana grows faster, produces more monoterpenes in a growing season, organically, rotationally, in more soil & climate conditions, to the greatest benefit to soil, water & wildlife than any other agricultural crop.

It is sheer madness to turn our backs on an obvious solution, bogged down in bureaucratic inefficiency and critical resource scarcity/disparity. All that needs to happen is for everyone who chooses survival over extinction, to plant feral Cannabis seeds everywhere.

To grow every Cannabis seed there is for the wolrd's most nutritious, unique and essential seed, recognized in six Executive Orders as a "strategic resource" has become critical to the continued existence of our nation and the Earth. Plant hemp everywhere right now, while there's still time to block the increasing UV-B radiation that's broiling the planet.

Biogenic VOCs (i.e. naturally occurring, Volatile Organic Compounds) are needed, not chemtrails. Right now there's aluminum, barium and strontium raining down on everyone and everything.

Forest fires are burning hotter. Powdered metals have coated the trees, causing them to burn hotter and throw heavy metals back up into the air.

"What In The World Are They Spraying?"
http://www.countercurrents.org/murphy030310.htm

Chemtrail spraying obviously has to stop, but the UV-B still has to be blocked. Check out my blog for details.
Love is the limit of law. Plant hemp now.

Love to All Our Relations.

Open Letter of Aloha to President Obama

2010-12-29T10:48:00.000-08:00

Dear Mr. President,

I trust Aloha Spirit to imbue my request with brotherly love for a friend in which it is written. Mahalo nui loa, Mr. President, for your compassionate, essential consideration of a pre-trial post-Christmas pardon for THC Ministry founder, Reverend Roger Christie.

Reverend Roger has been extrajudicially imprisoned-without-trial in Honolulu since July 8th. Blatantly 'false witness' against an honorable man's character is all it has taken to dismiss our "First Freedom" without due process.

Previously honored by his community with the Ho' omaluhia “Peacemaker” Award, Roger has been denied bail five times, is not allowed visitors, and his trial was postponed until April 2011. Punishment-without-trial is the very thing the Constitution was written to prevent.

In reality, Roger is being imprisoned for his success in defeating Cannabis prohibition through his on-going Cannabis scholarship, community service and "ganjanomics" pioneering. A peaceful resident of the Big Island for a quarter Century, Roger has been effective in bringing legal actions that have made marijuana enforcement the lowest priority, grounded marijuana eradication helicopters, and effectively mitigated the hard drug epidemic knowingly caused by government-induced scarcity of pakalolo (NIDA1991).

In essence, common sense and due process are being dismissed in deference to a counter-productive "drug war" waged against a known "strategic resource" (Executive Orders 9280, 10161, 10480, 10998, 11490, 12919), identified by Thomas Jefferson as being "of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country."

I am asking that you grant Reverend Christie release so that the integrity of our Constitution may be restored, and Cannabis inclusive solutions to problems, from drugs to climate change, may begin to be freely considered.

Blessings to you and your family for safe and meaningful Holidays,

#

Paul J. von Hartmann
Cannabis scholar

Former Hawaiian Islands resident

Oahu 1957-60
Maui 1988-1993
Big Island 1999

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Paul J. von Hartmann
California Cannabis Ministry

"Our freedom to farm "every herb bearing seed" is the first test of religious freedom."
http://www.californiacannabisministry.blogspot.com

Between the Dreams Productions : projectpeace channel on You Tube
"Video documentation is the most time efficient and cost effective way of communicating a complex message."
http://www.youtube.com/user/projectpeace

Cannabis vs. climate change
"We have nothing to fear but the atmosphere itself."
July 4th, 2009 BlogTalkRadio Broadcast
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/projectpeace

"What Now" KOWS FM radio interview
Extended interviews with accomplished thinkers, writers, artists, farmers and scientists addressing the global crisis, 11-15-10 Paul von Hartmann // On Cannibis the plant
http://www.pantedmonkey.org/

"Shastashares"
a regional currency option for Northern California based in "Gaiatherapeutic" abundance
http://www.shastashares.com
http://www.shastashares.com/ShastasharesBrochure.pdf

"The Fundamental Challenge of Our Time"
Translated into Dutch and adopted as the manifesto for the Cannabis College Amsterdam in 1998
http://fundamentalcoot.blogspot.com/

Origins of the ministry: Project P.E.A.C.E. (Planet Ecology Advancing Conscious Economics)
"There is no money on a burned-out planet."
http://www.webspawner.com/users/projectpeace

Executive Orders Referenced:

December 5, 1942 Franklin D. Roosevelt Executive Order 9280 -
Delegating Authority Over the Food Program.

September 9, 1950 Harry S. Truman Executive Order 10161 -
Delegating Certain Functions of the President Under the Defense Production Act of 1950

August 14, 1953 Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Order 10480--
Further providing for the administration of the defense mobilization program

February 16, 1962 John F. Kennedy Executive Order 10998
ASSIGNING EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FUNCTIONS TO THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE

October 28, 1969 Richard Nixon Executive Order 11490 - Assigning Emergency Preparedness Functions to Federal Departments and Agencies

June 3, 1994 William J. Clinton Executive Order 12919 -
National Defense Industrial Resources Preparedness

‎"Ice and Other Methamphetamine Use: An Exploratory Study, Final Report" -- National Institute on Drug Abuse

2010-12-28T10:44:00.000-08:00

"Results from the study in Honolulu indicate that ice is finding uncomfortable but considerable position among other illicit drugs. The use of ice in Honolulu had led to particularly serious physical and psychological problems and significant social disruption in poor working communities where it replaced marijuana which had become scarce and expensive due to eradication policies. Ice continues to result in very serious individual problems contributing to the devastating impact on these communities.

"There are thought to be several influences on the tremendous growth of ice in Honolulu after 1987. Residents were both pushed away from pakalolo, their staple drug of choice, and pulled toward ice by a well organized marketing campaign by Asian distributors. Also, the overwhelming smokable drug of choice, marijuana or pakalolo, which has been grown and used throughout the islands for many years, became the target of a government eradication campaign. This drove up prices, drastically reduced availability and left locals without their their customary, and many would say relatively benign, smoke. Also very importantly,, many locals derived either part or all of their livelihood from marijuana production, robbed of this needed income many experienced considerable economic hardship. Thus when a new, easy to use, smokable product entered the drug market, one which at first felt non-threatening to youthful novitiates -- ice it was readily accepted as a product to be used and sold. Initial users were often likely to think of it as a substitute of sorts for pakalolo (Dayton, 1994)."

http://christie-et-al.s3.amazonaws.com/necessity/Ice-Methamphetamine-Exploratory-Study.pdf
christie-et-al.s3.amazonaws.com

Comment on AlterNet article by to Tony Newman

2010-12-26T08:57:00.000-08:00

Thanks to Tony Newman and AlterNet for pointing out several noteworthy, incremental shifts that happened in drug policy during 2010. There is one MAJOR victory that bears special mention because it is happening right NOW. The wrongful imprisonment-without-trial of Reverend Roger Christie, in Hawaii, is less than obvious and fundamentally relevant to much more than just the drug reform movement. Currently in process, the outcome of this crucially decisive contest depends on people's awareness of what's really happening, clearly visible in the truths that have already been revealed by it.

'Mahalo' to Sister Lauren for reminding people of the sacrifice being made by Reverend Christie, a True American Hero of 2010 who is spending this Christmas in federal prison. Imprisoned since July 8th, Roger Christie has been denied bail five times, is not allowed visitors and has had his trial postponed until April 2011 ! Does this not register as outrageous on every patriotic American's Constitutional Richter Scale?

Formally recognized for his work as a "peacemaker" by the Hawaiian community he has served for the past quarter of a Century, Roger is nevertheless being maliciously characterized as a "danger to his community" by the court, using mere slander to suspend the Constitution, cancel religious freedom, and over-ride due process of law. Several elected officials, community leaders, and many people on the Big Island and elsewhere have written letters of support for Roger, calling for his immediate release from prison.

That Roger is being extrajudicially punished proves how effective he has been in establishing a potent First Amendment religious transcendence of Cannabis prohibition statutes. In fact, most religions acknowledge the spiritual legitimacy of "every herb bearing seed" rendering prohibition of any herb beyond the rightful jurisdiction of any court. Considered objectively, it is obvious that the Cannabis plant is an herb, not a "drug." The legal and practical distinctions are significant.

Drugs don't make seeds. Herbs make seeds. Cannabis agriculture happens to be both unique and essential for three very specific reasons (nutritionally, ecologically, industrially). Cannabis is therefore logically and morally essential, valuable beyond the moral accountability of any court.

For the past ten years, Roger has applied for and received government licenses and permits in a sincere attempt to legally codify the THC Ministry, while openly making sacramental Cannabis available to church members on Main Street in Hilo. Roger has been effective as any single individual activist alive, in educating the public about the nutritional values of Cannabis seed; blocking the federal funds for helicopter eradication in Hawaii; making marijuana enforcement the lowest priority for Big Island police, and actively mitigating the hard drugs epidemic, exacerbated by the scarcity of marijuana in Hawaii (NIDA report,1991).

That the federal court system has suspended due process to keep Roger from being able to defend himself shows that his righteous, direct defense of our basic human rights is a threat to the incumbent outlaw political regime that has usurped control of the United States government. Not only are both the State and Federal Constitutions being shredded in Hawaii, everyone's fundamental human right of free religion is being shamelessly attacked in the name of a failed, counter-productive so-called "drug war" [sic]. In truth the war on Cannabis and spirituality is a war on free market organic agriculture and our freedom of choice.

Unfortunately, the enormous significance of what Roger has achieved seems to have been lost on the funded elements of the drug policy reform groups, who have yet to contribute meaningfully to Roger's defense. Unlike the charlatans and "drug dealers" he has been wrongfully compared to by some, Roger has no financial spoils with which to defend himself or his co-defendants.

The federal court system in the U.S. has been revealed as an unobjective lackey, fronting for the corporate corruption it protects. If you really want to make a difference in ending prohibition, then please help support Roger.

If you can, please send Roger a letter to let him know that he has your appreciation and support.

Send you letter to:
Roger Christie
Federal Bureau of Prisons
99279.022
Unit 5B
PO BOX 30080
Honolulu, HI 96820

The Cannabis Charity Education and Defense Fund is a non profit organization established to help people like Roger Christie and the Green 14. Please donate to them by using the form at
http://the-last-marijuana-trial.com/

You can also write a letter of appeal to the newly elected governor of Hawaii, Mr. Neil Abercrombie. He is the point-person in Hawaii whose responsibility it is to uphold the Constitution. A "pre-trial pardon" is certainly in order, and a fair consideration of what's happened here is required.

It remains for the drug policy reform community to maintain whatever momentum still remains from the widespread agreement on "legalization" congealed by Prop 19. I am calling on DPA, MPP, NORML, DPFA and others who can afford to, to act on this now. There is strength in truth, but it requires unity. As in any "tug-of-war" the side that pulls together at the same time, is undeafeatable.

for meaningful holidays, in peace,

PvH

This is my comment on "Top 8 Drug Stories of 2010: Momentum Is Building to End the Failed Drug War"
http://www.alternet.org/story/149296/top_8_drug_stories_of_2010%3A_momentum_is_building_to_end_the_failed_drug_war

Release Reverend Roger Christie Immediately : A Formal, Public, International Exercise of "Civilian Demand" for the Rule of Law to be Respected

2010-12-09T06:06:00.000-08:00

This document is intended to serve the public interest through the formal, public, international exercise of "civilian demand" that the First Amendment of our Constitutions, both State and Federal, be obeyed, due process followed, and our "freedom of religion" respected in Hawaii. As the newly elected Governor of Hawaii, Mr. Abercrombie now has the responsibility of defending and enforcing the First Amendment of Constitutions, both State and Federal, which secure Roger Christie's "freedom of religion" as they secure all of our "god-given, inalienable, natural rights."

Reverend Roger Christie's imprisonment is, in essence, an attack on our national security by unobjective, chemically-addicted courts. A counter-productive "drug war" has been waged against Cannabis agriculture because hemp farming competes with the chemical industrial addiction imposed on our society for the past seventy-three years. The world's most useful agricultural resource has been outlawed because dominant economic interests cannot compete with Cannabis in a free market.

The contemporary crucifixion of Roger Christie in Hawaii is as blatant and obvious a proof of corporate corruption as the crimes of pollution being committed against the Natural Order. From Gulf war atrocities to "drug war" atrocities; from the Exxon Valdez to BP's Gulf of Mexico disaster; from hydraulic "fracking" to the production of radioactive waste, America's addictions to "Gaiacidal" chemicals and processes is precipitating evermore blatant extremes of self-destructive behavior.

Reverend Christie has been disingenuously accused as a "danger to his community" when it is common knowledge that he has been a loved and widely respected peacemaker in his Big Island community for more than a quarter of a Century. It is criminal that he is being denied bail simply because he has been maliciously characterized by an employee of an unobjective court.

Until Reverend Christie is released, a part of every American remains in prison. The magnitude of injustice in Roger Christie's being denied due process of law, is measured in the incalculable sacrifice of American patriots who fought to secure the legacy of freedom being violated and disrespected. In truth, there is no true freedom anywhere as long as a man of peace is wrongly imprisoned.

Please show consideration in the form of compassion, leniency, mercy, clemency and active, proportionate appreciation for the good work done by Roger Christie in mitigating the hard drug epidemic in Hawaii. It is well-known that a shortage of 'pakalolo' in Hawaii translates into increased hard drug and alcohol abuse, gang violence, crime...

I trust that Mr. Abercrombie's will recognize the opportunity for true leadership, presented by the polar shifts in medical science, public perceptions and political realities surrounding Cannabis ecology, agriculture, manufacture and trade. As Governor of a State that is being "broiled" by UV-B radiation, I would think that you of all people would recognize the critical "strategic" significance of Cannabis, recognized by seven American Presidents as being "of first necessity."

A timely response to this "Civilian Demand" is requested, as every day that Roger Christie is robbed of in prison is precious time that is gone forever.

Mahalo! for your vision of a "New Day" for Hawaii. I trust it is one where the bright sunshine of truth and clear rivers of freedom will begin to flow under your leadership and courage.

Paul von Hartmann
California Cannabis Ministry
former Hawaii resident,
Oahu 1958-1960
Maui, 1988-1992
Big Island 1998-1999

The question remains,

2010-11-28T16:54:00.001-08:00

"Does NORML recognize Cannabis as BOTH unique and essential to achieving sustainable human existence on Earth?"

That's the REAL 'yes' or 'no' question that people everywhere on this planet need to understand the right answer to in record time.

So far I haven't heard any of the foremost experts or expensive lawyers at NORML point this out. $990,000 !! and you can't communicate the fact that Cannabis (with a capital 'C' -- don't you have a CBE Style Manual in the NORML library?) is both unique and essential?

Since Cannabis IS, in fact, both unique and essential, then, factoring in the power of truth and the urgency of the crises we face, then your better choice is to hope I'm right and that 5 grand a day for a week (in Sacramento -- NOT New York) IS enough to successfully exercise "essential civilian demand" for a federally recognized "strategic resource."

The amount of money it takes to end prohibition is beside the point anyway. 35 grand or 35 million won't matter soon. There is no money on a burned-out planet. We can always print more money, but we can't make more time.

Strategically located in the middle of an agricultural cornucopia, Sacramento is where the national and international momentum generated by Prop 19 was and may still be waiting for a proactive continuum. Since Jerry Brown is California's homegrown governor, again, and a smart politician, all Californians have to do is to show him that we know what he would be politically savvy to acknowledge (i.e. the true value of Cannabis) -- or face charges for "misprision of treason" for failing to act in the interest of national security.

Instead, as soon as Prop-up Prohibition #19 failed to pass, all the groups packed-up, & ran to Colorado, hypnotizing the public into waiting for 2012 while they busily write the next 'magic 'Prop.

The shift in values from "illegal" to "essential" is the point. Prohibition can't last if Cannabis is recognized for what it is truly worth. NORML (and you personally) have failed to recognize the simple truth, ultimately powerful truth that Cannabis is both essential and unique. An objective, comprehensive science-based review of Cannabis, is what Jack Herer strived for all of his life.

It's not endless amounts of time, misdirected human effort and piles of money that will end prohibition. It's the increasingly urgent necessity of avoiding synergistic collapse, combined with the power of the truth and the ability to communicate the strongest arguments, objectively and comprehensively in the court of national and international public opinion.

NORMLDPAMPPASA continues to fail in this by ignoring the legitimacy of the First Amendment, under-estimating the power of State and Federal Constitutions, casting dispersions on the legitimacy of the THC Ministry and minimizing Roger Christie's decades of public service, spiritual study and Cannabis scholarship.

$5,000 a day is enough of a catalyst to secure a week of venues in Sacramento before Spring. Fund-raising strategies would be initiated to extend the effects to a national campaign of grassroots activists and social leaders who support ending the "drug war" completely, nationalizing the effect of essential civilian demand in Sacramento.

I'm working for your kids too, Russ. Your self-indulgent sarcasm and contentious response to science-based information is counter-productive & comes off as adolescent. Did you know about "monoterpenes" and UV-B radiation before I told you about it? Do you GET it?

There y'go, two more questions.

Cannabis is "the savior" -- I'm simply a determined messenger.

35 Gs, one week. Don't say I didn't tell you so...

What good are State medical marijuana laws when patients are still getting busted?

2010-11-27T20:32:00.001-08:00

Half-assed, bureaucracy-style "semi-legalization" creates a paper trail for law enforcement, who then bust "honest" ganja people, who have naively placed their trust in an outlaw government by registering to toke. Be glad P19 didn't pass or it would have been a feeding frenzy.

Reclaiming our freedom to farm "every herb bearing seed" is the only way to end prohibition. Half-measures are a trap If the Cannabis culture in this country would get its ass off the couch between political elections (more accurately, "political erections" -- you can't screw a whole country without one..) and exercise "essential civilian demand" for the "strategic resource" that's been identified as critical to national security by SEVEN AMERICAN PRESIDENTS (in one simple statement and six Executive Orders) we'd have been done with 'marijuana' prohibition a long time ago.

Obviously! it's the perverse economics of toxic chemical addiction to fossil fuels and unevenly distributed natural resources that keeps "Propping-up" prohibition -- OBVIOUSLY!! The economics of industrial hemp and all industries related to hemp agriculture DWARFS the marijuana trade. Protein production, herbal medicines, biofuels production, paper, cloth, paints & varnishes, lubricants, plastics, building materials, bio-pesticides, etc. are worth trillions compared to the mere hundreds-of-billions that marijuana is going for on the black market.

Ending hemp prohibition is more supported by a greater percentage of Americans anyway, compared to outright marijuana "legalization" which is supported by about half the people already.

Hemp education is the most proximate route for ending marijuana prohibition, yet none of the monied drug policy "reform" groups (DPA, NORML, MPP, ASA...) advocate the end of hemp prohibition much. None have responded to this Cannabis filmmaker/photographer/writer/spokesperson's applications for funding -- not even a tiny little bit.

The drug reform groups also play a key role in perpetuating the "drug war" by neutering the grassroots effort in two ways. First by manufacturing legitimacy-through-consent for the illegal, anti-Constitutional prohibition statutes that also siphon-off public support for more effective individuals, like Roger Christie. Roger and i used to sit around wondering why we weren't being financially supported by the porky groups, and I think that's one possible reason why.

It may have been part of the reason Roger finally started a group ministry, after struggling out in Hawaii for more than twenty years of individual Cannabis scholarship, entrepreneurial ventures and selfless, penniless activism. Roger needed and deserves public support. He certainly wasn't getting much help as just a regular guy. By formalizing his beliefs, he created a service designed in such a way to support himself at a bare subsistence level, and demonstrated for others the value of teaching people about the true value of Cannabis.

Cannabis seed: "Gateway" to Health

2010-11-27T11:46:00.000-08:00

Nutritional properties of high- and low-THC strains (a.k.a. 'marijuana' and "industrial hemp"[sic] respectively) are the same in possessing three essential fatty acids, protein, essential amino acids, vitamins, minerals, anti-oxidants and a digestive enzyme to aid with assimilation of hemp seed nutrition. Because of hemp seed's preventative and therapeutic effect on health, Cannabis can truly be considered a "gateway" herb (i.e. Drugs don't make seeds, herbs do).

To be continued...

Re: “Roger Christie absurdly considered “danger to the community”, held without bail” By “Radical” Russ Belville on November 23, 2010

2010-11-25T08:25:00.001-08:00

Thanksgiving that Russ has finally figured this much out. Really, the very least you could say, understating the obvious to regain some credibility as a capable spokesperson for the pot culture. I agree with appreciate how you state a lot of the rationale for ending prohibition, but Russ, you’ve still got a hellllluva long ways to go before you’re anywhere near “radical.” Listen up young man…

Roger has already admitted mistakes, that are minor issues anyway. What is important is the good the Reverend Roger Christie has achieved (which he also, typically, fails to mention, but I won’t) is so much greater than you apparently comprehend, the courage demonstrated so much more to be respected, that I am actually concerned for you. When you come to understand how miniscule and effectively treasonous your issues with the Ministry are; when understand how important it is to forgive Roger’s over-enthusiasm and optimism (which has propelled his incredible successes for almost thirty years!) in appreciation for the great, then I trust you will be proportionately ashamed of not flying to Honolulu on the fat budget NORML has, to demand of Governor Lingle and Governor Elect Abercrombie that they immediately effect the release of Roger Christie!

The point is that for ten years, Roger has risked his life and the safety of his loved ones by mitigating the hard drug epidemic and abuses of power in Hawaii so successfully, that the feral DEA is now suspending due process and shred the Constitution in order to persecute a good & honest man. One whom you continue to help disrespect by harping on the minor, understating the obvious and ignoring the enormous. Impinging on the motivations and legitimacy of the THC Ministry from within the Cannabis culture helps the DEA characterize Roger as a black market charlatan in the court of public opinion. This is the only court where he can and will be saved, for all the right reasons.

Obviously, the federal courts are not objective. We are an occupied country.

Do you really want marijuana prohibition to end Russ? Then sign on to federal “essential civilian demand” for “hemp” a “strategic food resource” as stated in Executive Order 12919 and FIVE other Executive Orders signed by five other Presidents.

Ending hemp prohibition will do more to end marijuana prohibition than any other tiny step we could take, yet NORML, MPP, DPA, ASA and other publicly funded non-profits fail to present the strongest arguments for ending all Cannabis prohibitions — without taxes to the insolvent, anti-Constitutional regime that occupies our government.

Do you understand how critical Cannabis agriculture manufacture and trade are to our survival? Do you under-estimate the power of the truth?

I’ve asked you before to openly recognize Cannabis as both unique and essential, for three very good reasons, and you disappeared from the conversation. Then I read your post-mortem on “Prop-Up Prohibition#19″ (a.k.a. “Whoring the Diva” — A short story of political tar baby seduction, cashing-in bigtime on people’s sincere desire for “legalization” and an end to the world’s most violent, cruel and destructive social element). Essential civilian demand recognizes the legal suspension of Cannabis prohibition (and the outlaw operations of the DEA) through objective, comprehensive, international, science-based assessment.

Dammit, NORML must be a sham. I could end Cannabis prohibition with fifty grand in one week. THAT’s the power of the truth. That’s the true value of Cannabis. It will be enough to end prohibition as soon as people in positions of responsibility within the Cannabis culture begin to present the strongest arguments.

Checkout my blogs, videos and radio shows for this pilot’s manual for flying Spaceship Earth. Radical begins in extreme attitude combined with extreme acceleration.

What is potentially the most available and complete source of essential nutrition?

2010-11-22T07:22:00.000-08:00

Answer: Cannabis seed.

Current food security concepts fail to recognize the unique and essential properties of hemp seed. For this reason, they are doomed to continue failing until the shift in values in achieved. Until Cannabis seed is considered objectively and comprehensively, this discussion is incomplete.

On a broader more ominous scale,"global broiling" by increasing UV-B radiation is increasing, impacting the immune response of all life on Earth. Among other effects of UV-B are the contributing influence of global broiling on the collapse of pollinator populations and insectivores, both of which impact crop production. Exacerbating the problem are the boreal forests being cut and the pine trees dying from global-warming related epidemic pest infestation.

Among other consequences of losing the boreal forests is the reduction in the amount of atmospheric aerosols called "monoterpenes." That's what you smell in a pine forest. Monoterpenes reflect solar radiation away from the planet and seed cloud formation. Aside from being nutritionally complete, unique and essential, Cannabis also happens to produce more monoterpenes than any other food resource, in a shorter span of time in more soil and climate conditions than any other agricultural resource.

To solve the food security equation, all organic, rotational solutions need to be implemented immediately, inclusive of Cannabis agriculture, manufacture and trade. Presently, the only thing that inhibits the free agricultural market is the very thin misconception that it is difficult to tell industrial hemp from psychoactive strains of marijuana. In fact it is quite easily to distinguish between the varieties, each having distinct physical structure, plant spacing and the presence of pollen-producing males growing among the female hemp flowers.

Please consider information in the following interview

What Now, 11-15-10
Extended interviews with accomplished thinkers, writers, artists, farmers and scientists addressing the global crisis

Paul von Hartmann // On Cannibis the plant
http://www.pantedmonkey.org/

Time is the limiting factor in the equation we are behind the curve in solving. If we don't figure out global broiling, then it won't matter what other problems we do manage to solve.

Note: This was posted to

Do current Food Security concepts serve the fight against hunger?
http://km.fao.org/fsn/fsn-home/en/?no_cache=1

An Open Letter to Hawaii's Governor-Elect Neil Abercrombie

2010-11-21T09:04:00.001-08:00

Dear Governor-Elect Abercrombie,

I am writing to formally invite you to issue the first "pre-trial pardon" in American history, to effect the immediate release of Reverend Roger Christie, before Thanksgiving Day. He has been held in federal prison in Honolulu since July 8th, been denied bail four times, and had his trial postponed until next April. For Roger Christie to remain in prison on Thanksgiving would be an egregious insult to the inconceivable sacrifices made by previous generations to secure the American freedoms that are our primary obligation to defend.

As the responsible person in Hawaii for defending both State and Federal Constitutions, and their First Amendments in particular, I am asking you to convey this request to Governor Lingle before Thanksgiving, in order to achieve unity on behalf of the Law of the Land, in a bi-partisan call for Roger's release.

You must be aware that due process has been suspended in your State. In denying Reverend Christie a fair trial before imprisoning him the foundations of freedom have been suspended by a failed drug war.

Roger is a dear personal friend and an internationally respected Cannabis cultural ambassador. Reverend Christie has been a productive, progressive community rights activist on the Big Island for more than a quarter of a Century. I trust you will see the importance of prioritizing his release in defense of all our Constitutional rights at this critical time in our social evolution.

With every good wish,

Paul J. von Hartmann
Cannabis scholar
California Cannabis Ministry

The legal purchase of documentation

2010-11-20T21:28:00.000-08:00

The legal purchase of documentation
WHAT a waste of time...It is SUCH a shameful, counter-productive mistake to disparage the THC Ministry.

If it wasn't WORKING, then the 'feral government' wouldn't be violating due process to find Roger guilty-without-trial! SHUT THE FU, Russ&Peeair, Roger's accomplishments DWARF any suck-face criticism of his methods. The sheer validity and functional integrity of Roger Christie's work of the past twenty-five years makes Pierre's self-stroking essay stupidly self-indulgent and unconscionably obscene. What a twat...

Roger has KICKED ASS for TEN YEARS! with the truth. THAT's why he's being spanked by the dick-less, lying, anti-Constitutional feds.

By jumping on board the bitchwagon, and casting Roger's considerable achievements in a disrespectful light (while he's sequestered in prison, DISALLOWED visitors AND illegally denied bail four times!)) Belville and Pierre have banished themselves to the 'purgatory' of mediocrity.

TOO bad Russ, you were ALMOST "radical." As it is, by FAILing to act in the interest of national security, by FAILing to honor the First Amendment, and by dismissing a potent FEDERAL legal strategy, that's been painstakingly constructed over the past three decades by Roger Christie, and sacrificed for by previous generations; for ALL the good you may have done in the past; you've suddenly rendered yourself intellectually inconsequential in the larger scope of ultimately compelling rational argument. WHATEVER WORKS IS FAIR in ending Cannabis prohibition!!!! Don't you get that? Who the hell are you to judge the validity of religious freedom? however Roger chooses to define it?

Roger Christie is a modern day hero, for his forthright and righteous representation, demonstrated regard for the spiritual legitimacy of the world's OLDEST global culture. Roger's success is about WHO HE IS and how he represents one perspective on an infinite CANNABIS SPIRITUALITY, on behalf of ALL of people who feel a spiritual connection to the Cannabis plant, "RELIGIOUS" OR 'spiritual' or 'recreational' or 'nutritional' or 'industrial 'or NOT!

How can you not get that? Love is the limit of law, NOT the other way around. Roger represents the love of the Cannabis plant translated into legal, Constitutionally potent religious terms. The government said "this," & Roger did "that" in order to comply, codify, legitimize, cooperate... and you don't support it. Shame on you for all the sorrow perpetuated by divisiveness.

Others have attempted to invoke a religious defense and failed because they didn't have the legitimate spiritual foundation, the demonstrated spiritual regard, the holistic comprehension, the dedication and purity of motivation that Roger has -- even in prison, ROGER STILL BELIEVES in the power of the truth -- the true value of Cannabis -- the spiritual legitimacy of Cannabis -- the REAL meaning of "every herb bearing seed" the first test of religious freedom. .. Roger's Ministry opened the doors, and faced-down prohibition in downtown Hilo, everyday! and won for ten years!

Roger's effort has been characterized by his enormous courage, unimpeachable sincerity, capable diplomacy and multiple, considerable, successes in giving a legitimate defense to prosecution. NO! It didn't work in every case as it should have--it just worked in a LOT of cases, where people's rights were respected by law enforcement!!!!!! How dare anyone minimize the importance of that. Even ONE instance of a person's rights being honored is reason to respect Roger's work !

Roger has given a (quite handsome) human face, high moral integrity, enormous grace, inarguable intellect, functional rationale, and public dignity to the spurious, fraudulent arguments against Cannabis freedom for twenty-five years! Roge has been brave enough to recognize the spiritual dimensions of the world's oldest global culture while others jaw-boned about piss-ant, self-interested propositions (#19) and superficial statutes. Roger's work means more than all the bullshit I've listened to for the past twenty years, including wading through all the bickering to get to this comment.

Oh, and by the way -- just to set the record straight -- NORML SCKS. HOW much money has NORML gotten from people to end prohibition? And how miserably have they failed? And how limited have NORML, MPP, DPA, ASA and all the other well-funded reform groups been, in presenting neutered arguments to end prohibition?

I am quite frankly DISGUSTED with the mealy-mouth divisiveness of the drug reform movement. Shame on Ethan and Keith and HT and all the rest of the stoner crowd for failing to raise the full force of reason to end this stupid, extinctionistic "debate."

How's this for a clear and proportionately realistic argument of the drug policy situation:

If we don't end Cannabis prohibition,
by this spring (!), then
we're ALL going to fucking die!

Google "global broiling" if you doubt this.

GET IT -- Extinction OR survival? Our choice! You don't have to be "religious" to understand that. By the way, Russ religious freedom includes the freedom to be an atheist, so you better hope Roger isn't convicted if you enjoy your unreligious freedom.

Why haven't I read a comprehensive argument on NORML's impotent website? Or DPA's? Or eMPeePee's, or ASA's? Does anyone who knows more than just a little about marijuana doubt that this is true?

If you still have doubts, then PLEASE! for the sake of your children and mine, GO to http://www.pantedmonkey.org/ and listen to sixty minutes of undiluted truth (See Ken's broadcast of 11/15/2010). If that isn't enough to wake you are up then you're far deader much sooner than you know.

Oh, and Don't look to me for amiability and diplomacy while my best friend is in prison. That's Roger's forte, not mine.

Civilian demand for Reverend Roger Christie's immediate release

2010-11-17T08:39:00.000-08:00

Roger Christie's imprisonment-without-trial is a blatant threat to national security of the United States. Everything this country stands for is being disrespected as long as Roger remains behind bars.

The newly elected Democratic governor of Hawaii, Mr. Neil Abercrombie, has stated that

"This election was about a call for change. And I know that desire for change was in the minds of those who voted for me and those who voted for my opponents. Everyone knows that Hawaii needs to and can do better. Everyone wants to have renewed confidence that our best days are ahead of us.

"Our campaign was based on a fundamental belief that government belongs to all of us. Government doesn’t exist to serve politicians or powerful interests or the loudest voices. Government exists to serve all the people, and if things are to improve, we must all take responsibility to make it so...

"This campaign was about people, reaching out to one another, and drawing on their talents and initiative. This is how we campaigned and how we will govern."

http://www.neilabercrombie.com/

So, how many people would be willing to sign on to a formal "civilian demand" for Roger Christie's release, to be formally registered with Mr. Abercrombie, the newly elected Governor of Hawaii? Roger's imprisonment-without-trial is a threat to national security in the extreme.

As screwed up as it is that Roger is in prison, the situation presents a great opportunity for the Governor to do the right thing, politically. By making Roger's release the first act of his administration, Mr. Abercrombie could establish his progressive realistic leadership in the direction of healing Hawaii's hard drug epidemic while respecting the legal potency of a fundamental human rights argument.

The Governor is point-person for defense of the Constitutions (both State and Federal) that Mr. Abercrombie is about to swear to uphold and defend. If we call on Hawaii's Governor to issue a "pre-trial pardon" it could transform the dangerous absurdity of Roger's imprisonment into a pivotal shift in political consciousness around the true values of marijuana, the counter-productivity of Cannabis prohibition and the functional legal integrity of the First Amendment.

Safe Access?

2010-11-10T12:54:00.001-08:00

There is no "safe access" on a burned-out planet. The relatively minor issues concerning 'marijuana' will finally balance only after the larger issue of industrial/feral hemp is thoroughly discussed. Aside from everything else Prop 19 would have done wrong, it would have given the state-by-state-marijuana-industry-stumblefolk-approach to Cannabis freedom (a.k.a."legalization") priority over the much more critical urgency of growing industrial hemp across this entire country beginning in the spring of 2011.

I trust that people in the midwest are about through harvesting the so-called "ditchweed" seeds that are this nation's most precious repository of "strategic" genetic material. The genetics contained in the ditchweed seeds have developed adaptive ability that recent strains don't have. The ability to respond to soil and climate variations is a key attribute that must be regarded in the selection of which seeds to plant. The planet's atmosphere is changing, weather patterns shifting. Cannabis is an adaptive species that we can't survive without. That realization within the Cannabis movement will do more to provide safe access to marijuana than any other shift in consciousness we could make.

You might think that marijuana activists and the monied reform groups would push for assessment through presentation of the most potent comprehensive argument.

Ever notice how DPA,MPP,NORML, ASA all avoid the industrial hemp debate, as though having the world's most nutritious plant on your side is a handicap. Whose "side" do you think THEY'RE on?

"Every herb bearing seed" is pretty simple, clear, broad. Conceding rightful legal jurisdiction over Cannabis, by voting to get back our natural right to farm any plant gives away far too much. It concedes the natural right to farm any plant and dismisses the spirituality of agriculture, our most direct link between the economics of our society and The Divine, whatever you choose to call it. Whatever puts life into seeds says that every seed is a legitimate sacrament.

What happens in the extraordinary, illegal-imprisonment-without-trial, anti-First Amendment case of Roger Christie is the measure of safe access for me. Is there enough cohesion left in American culture to recognize such a blatant threat to the Constitution, and insist that -- by virtue of the fact that we're headed for global extinction, the governments are insolvent, and the social order is breaking down --that we have the right to grow Cannabis, the world's most nutritious, useful, ecologically beneficial crop?

Can Roger Christie be set free immediately? to assert the potency of the Constitution, demonstrate the power of the First Amendment, and serve as a directional first step in the direction of survival using the momentum gained from the Prop 19 debate?

The Perverse Effect of Roger Christie's imprisonment

2010-11-09T07:23:00.000-08:00

"As US economist and Nobel laureate
Milton Friedman observed in a 1991 interview
on the public television program America’s
Drug Forum: “If you look at the drug war from
a purely economic point of view, the role of the
government is to protect the drug cartel.” From
a global perspective, prohibitions on all presently
illegal drugs have resulted in a massive illegal
market that the United Nations has estimated
is worth $320 billion. These profits remain
entirely outside the control of governments.
They fuel crime, violence and corruption in
countless communities and have destabilized
entire countries such as Colombia, Mexico and
Afghanistan.

"Regarding the link between drug law enforcement and
violence, a recent systematic review of English
language research papers that evaluated the
association between drug law enforcement
and violence demonstrated that, rather than
improving community health and safety,
drug prohibition contributes to violence in
communities by empowering organized crime
groups that use violence to gain or maintain
market share of the lucrative drug market.
This review described a literature indicating that
successful law enforcement interventions appear
to have the perverse effect of making it more
profitable for new suppliers to get involved in the
market by removing key players."

International Centre for Science in Drug Policy (ICSDP)
"Tools For Debate"
UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF CANNABIS PROHIBITION, Page 15
http://www.icsdp.org/Libraries/doc1/Tools_for_Debate_-_US_Federal_Government_Data_on_Cannabis_Prohibition.sflb.ashx

It is criminal that Roger Christie remains in prison, when the government that keeps him there has admitted that doing so has "the perverse effect of making it more profitable for new suppliers to get involved in the market."

An Expanded Letter to Congresswoman Woolsey from West Sonoma

2010-11-05T08:20:00.000-07:00

Dear Congresswoman Woolsey,

I am an international Cannabis scholar, a concerned father, and a sorrowful friend. As the responsible father of a bright three-year-old son, I am concerned for his future. Precious time is being wasted in small-scale bickering about 'marijuana' where essential civilian demand for industrial hemp is much more urgently needed, at the federal level. Please understand that there is ample evidence to support the conclusion that Cannabis farming in the United States is critical to resolving crises of global climate change, ending the drug trade and many other undesirable results of prolonged, induced, essential resource scarcity, for several important reasons.

Please consider my request for a meeting to discuss the following, in total quite critical to national security. If it is not critical to national security, then I would like to have it explained to me where I am mistaken.

I've also been asking the same question for almost twenty years: Is there a protocol for exercise of "essential civilian demand" referred to in Executive Order 12919? Would it not be timely to exercise civilian demand in the apparent absence of functional leadership in the failure to recognize the true value of Cannabis agriculture, ecology, manufacture and trade to issues of food security, nutrition, climate change mitigation, and disparity of wealth?

I wrote the "Fundamental Challenge of Our Time,"* a formal challenge of rightful jurisdiction over any "herb bearing seed." It was and is my responsibility to point out that our freedom to farm every herb bearing seed is the first test of religious freedom. It has been reported in the King James Bible that God's first order was so important that He referred to "herbs" and "seeds" three times on the first page . Doesn't it follow then that our right to "every herb bearing seed" is a primary, fundamental human right, inarguably protected by the First Amendment? I feel that any presumption of jurisdiction over Cannabis agriculture is unwarranted. Due to the unique and essential properties of Cannabis it is a critical crop for the wealth and security of our nation. Failure to act in the interest of national security is called a "misprision of treason." Prohibition of the world's most nutritious and useful agricultural resource is precisely that, a direct attack on ancient traditions of agriculture, inexorably melding spirituality and farming, that are protected by State and Federal Constitutions.

I feel that research and broad ecological perspectives I've developed are critical to recognizing the true value of a crop that's been identified in six Executive Orders as critical national security. In spite of my efforts to deliver what I consider to be very good news, it is not being acknowledged or acted upon by the State Attorney General's office.

I would not want to file a legal action against our new governor for "misprision of treason" but in fact, AG Brown has failed to act in the interest of national security. I sent a registered letter to his office in February, and got a form letter back.

The critical stature of the "strategic food resource" hemp has increased with recent reports completed in the field of atmospheric science involving "radiative forcing."

Our most useful "strategic resource" continues to be misclassified as a "Schedule One drug" (i.e. possessing no benefit to humankind). You and I know that is false, as is the definition of hemp on the DEA's website. It is a blatant threat to national security and highly illegal for the DEA to characterize a strategic resource as having no value.

"The marijuana portions of the cannabis plant include the flowering tops (buds), the leaves, and the resin of the cannabis plant. The remainder of the plant — stalks and sterilized seeds — is what some people refer to as “hemp.” However, “hemp” is not a term that is found in federal law.

"DEA Administrator Asa Hutchinson stated that “many Americans do not know that hemp and marijuana are both parts of the same plant and that hemp cannot be produced without producing marijuana.”
http://www.justice.gov/dea/pubs/pressrel/pr100901.html

Please meet with me to implement "essential civilian demand" or send a protocol to me so I can proceed to prepare for the reintroduction of Cannabis agriculture, manufacture and trade in California. I believe that the freedom to farm "every herb bearing seed" is the first test of religious freedom. Traditions of agriculture connecting farming and spirituality predate written history and continue to this day.

The First Amendment is being shredded in Hawaii, with the illegal imprisonment of Reverend Roger Christie, a personal friend and cultural hero. Roger's been denied bail four times, and had his trial postponed until April. I'd appreciate your help in effecting Roger's release in whatever way you can. Everyone's right of due process is being violated in deference to unconsidered slanderous accusations.

If you knew Roger Christie like I do, you would be outraged at the characterization of his activities that enforces additional imbalance into a situation created by law enforcement itself. How far will the drug war deteriorate before We the People stand up for our freedom to farm "every herb bearing seed"? It's pretty simple. Either we farm hemp or the increasing UV-B radiation will fry everything on Earth.

With the destruction of the boreal forests comes an atmospheric imbalance in the form of monoterpene depletion. That wonderful pine fragrance is also sunscreen for the planet. As temperatures increase and logging continues, the "radiative forcing" effect of the boreal forest is decreasing.

Cannabis agriculture is the most time-efficient, available, affordable and effective strategy for resolving the depletion of atmospheric monoterpenes and other atmospheric aerosols that protect the planet from increasing UV-B rdaiation. Time is an important element, the limiting factor, in our chances for success in avoiding global catastrophe in the form of synergistic collapse of environment, economics, and social structures that determine the quality of life on Earth.

Thank you for your time in consideration, and for your many good works. I look forward to meeting with you at your convenience.

Sincerely,

Paul J. von Hartmann
California Cannabis Ministry

"Our freedom to farm "every herb bearing seed" is the first test of religious freedom."
http://www.californiacannabisministry.blogspot.com

Between the Dreams Productions : projectpeace channel on You Tube
"Video documentation is the most efficient way of communicating a complex message."
http://www.youtube.com/user/projectpeace

Cannabis vs. climate change
"We have nothing to fear but the atmosphere itself."
July 4th, 2009 BlogTalkRadio Broadcast
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/projectpeace

"Shastashares" a "Gaiatherapeutic" currency option
http://www.shastashares.com

Project P.E.A.C.E.
Planet Ecology Advancing Conscious Economics
"There is no money on a burned-out planet."
http://www.webspawner.com/users/projectpeace

* "The Fundamental Challenge of Our Time"
Adopted as the manifesto for the Cannabis College Amsterdam in 1998
http://fundamentalcoot.blogspot.com/

Prop 19 gave us the momentum to exercise federal "essential civilian demand". Will we use it or lose it?

2010-11-04T12:46:00.000-07:00

Support "essential civilian demand" for the "strategic resource" Cannabis "hemp" RIGHT NOW, for planting this Spring 2011.

We'll find out who the REAL Cannabis advocates are when we see who shows up for a federal action to reclaim our First Amendment freedom to farm "every herb bearing seed." NO PERMISSION ASKED, BECAUSE NONE IS NEEDED. NO LIMITS ON CULTIVATION. NO TAXES ON POT.

The true value of Cannabis is what will end the prohibition of it. Any "Prop" that fails to identify Cannabis as both unique and essential just Props up the lie that Cannabis is "dangerous" enough to require "control" by the government. Cannabis isn't dangerous, it's therapeutic, nutritious, and ultimately useful, abundant and critical to our survival.

Passage of Prop 19 would have perpetuated and further impacted the lies of "Reefer Madness" by adopting the false values of "drug war dinosaurs" who refuse to acknowledge Cannabis as "the safest therapeutically active substance known to man."

Marijuana prohibition will end as soon as everyone in the world who wants Cannabis to be "legalized" realizes the true value of the herb as both unique and essential.

It's easy to see who Prop 19 favored by counting up how much marijuana can be grown in a 5'x5' indoor garden, as opposed to how much can be grown in the same amount of space outdoors. Prop 19 would have made it tough for the outdoor growers to compete with the indoor market.

Finally, the "carbon-footprint" of the indoor market is obscene. Growing indoors is irresponsible & selfish. Grow outdoors, share generously, be thankful for the harvest. If those were the only "rules" around Cannabis, THERE WOULD BE NO PROBLEMS associated with the plant and considerable benefit to all creatures.

The plop thickens....Peron busted, again...

2010-11-04T12:10:00.000-07:00

Having been a target of America's outlaw regime's slanderous mudslinging, I can assure people that egregious lies are the currency of an outlaw government.

Reading what is said about people who oppose Cannabis prohibition, a surreal gravitational pull, carring reality far away, to the self-serving tunes of the extreme 'right.'

Dennis Peron is being spanked (by the cops who work for the courts who work for the corporations), for standing up and speaking his widely respected truth, in natural competition with the "oilgarchy." Dennis is a courageous friend who's paid a heavy price for his integrity. Let him be. San Francisco better rise up to defend him or shame on you, after all he's done for our generation and The City.

It's easy for minions of the unobjective court to characterize people like Dennis Peron, Reverend Roger Christie (founder of Hawaii's THC Ministry) and other peaceful Green Prisoners as "dangerous to society" as long as the myth of Cannabis being dangerous is kept alive by "drug war dinosaurs" working for Monsanto, et al.

If people ever want freedom from chemical servitude, then we have to take back our "freedom to farm" from corrupted, unobjective, economically vested courts. The most insidious harm of prohibition may be that it undermines the objectivity and integrity of our legal system and our moral values as a society, at a fundamental level. Even experts/true grassroots heroes like Chris Conrad are willing to promote a flawed initiative, calling it "legalization" when "Prop-Up Prohibition#19" wasn't legalization at all.

The fact is that ending Cannabis prohibition doesn't require a vote. Laws are in force to protect traditions and spiritual practices associated with organic agriculture that pass the test of the Golden Rule. Ending Cannabis prohibition merely requires an objective, comprehensive global valuation of Cannabis as both unique and essential, beyond the rightful jurisdiction of any court. That could happen in a week, electronically, globally, rationally.

National Institute On Drugs Report 1991-1994

2010-11-03T18:31:00.000-07:00

"Plenty guys I know use ice because they can't get pot."

This is a key perspective, albeit an obvious one, that's been edited from public scrutiny by the "drug war dinosaurs" who seek to control our lives.

In the absence of marijuana, hard drug use is more prevalent.

Thanks to Roger Christie, who is sitting in federal prison right now, for this one.

http://www.thc-ministry.org/NIDA_Report.jpg

Albert Einstein Quotes on Spirituality

2010-11-03T18:26:00.000-07:00

"The scientists' religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection."

"The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after knowledge."

"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."

Sighs matter...

2010-11-03T07:52:00.000-07:00

... but they won't end Cannabis prohibition.

"Essential civilian demand" for a federally recognized "strategic resource" will.

Don't let up, Prop 19's 'failure to thrive' be mistaken for a wasted effort. It wasn't. It brought people together, got people talking, got people thinking and got us all rolling in the same direction. Thanks to Richard Lee and everyone else who achieved a major victory for human consciousness. Whatever happens is another step toward our full-on freedom to farm.Prop 19 HAD to fail, in order get us to where we need to be.

Prop 19's NOT passing makes room for a bigger law, Freedom of Religion, to kick-in.

Prop 19 served as an important step in the right direction. Don't give back an inch of that progress.

Let's make more, before spring...

a different horse

2010-11-02T23:04:00.000-07:00

I know some people are disappointed that Prop 19 didn't pass. You have my sincere and deepest sympathies. Now that that's over with, total Cannabis freedom will have the room to ride in on a different horse than expected.

The San Francisco Giants won the World Series yesterday! With about the same odds, we can end Cannabis prohibition before this year is out!

We can best use the energetic momentum and media storm surrounding Prop 19 to fling this thing into the Federal ring, by exercising "essential civilian demand for the "strategic food resource" referred to as "hemp" in six Executive Orders, signed by six American Presidents -- Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, & Clinton; Singled out by Thomas Jefferson as being "of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country. "

Jefferson also stated, "The greatest service
which can be rendered any country
is to add a useful plant
to its culture."

Consequently, the greatest harm that can be inflicted against any country is to remove its most useful plant from its agricultural rotations. Cannabis hemp prohibition is clearly a prolonged and insidious threat to national security.

A lawsuit for 'misprision of treason" must be leveled against the US "drug czars" who have misled the American people by promulgating a simple lie that crippled the hemp industry in the U.S. for seventy three years -- that it's hard to tell the difference between rope and dope. In fact it's easy to distinguish between high- and low-THC strains without even getting out of your helicopter. See my blog to see the differences.

The rationale for reintroduction of Cannabis hemp is plenty potent enough. This magical moment of publicly focussed attention on Cannabis will fade quickly if we fail to act. We can reintroduce Cannabis hemp to California by next Spring 2011, if we start RIGHT NOW! Ask me how.

Industrial hemp in California is sure to fly if Prop 19 loses. It's a classic opportunity to show the world that the people of California won't take "Just Say No" for an answer. With industrial Cannabis legalization, marijuana prohibition will fall away quickly as the two major Cannabis varieties balance each other out through cross-pollination. It has to happen to avoid global extinction.

I trust you won't mind if I repost this report I wrote six years ago. I can't find it anywhere on line anymore. It was apparently deleted from all original release sites. As far as I can tell (by Google-searching key words from the title) there is no transparent reporting of research activity in this direction at the moment.

Enjoy the absence of federal retaliation for Prop 19. It's our move to bring up the subject of industrial hemp, immediately.

Cannabis isn't illegal, it's essential. The following report takes on an ominous feeling in retrospect. Perhaps the prospect of such a grave mistake coming so close to having been made, that people will see the urgency of reclaiming our individual right to Cannabis, as the single voice of many hearts.

Love is the limit of law.

: ) }-***********

PvH

U.S. Congress Heads Up ARS Project

2010-11-02T21:28:00.000-07:00

Reposted here since it was deleted from it's original release site. As far as I can tell, there is no research activity being openly funded by tax dollars at the moment.

FOR RELEASE: June 10, 2004

U.S. Congress Heads Up ARS Project:
"World's Most Useful Plant" targeted for Biological Attack

Even as medical 'marijuana' patients and the hemp foods industry are racking up Supreme Court victories against the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA); even as Canadian and European farmers are cranking up Cannabis production to keep pace with public demand for industrial hemp oils, resins, fiber and cellulose; even as Cannabis is being recognized as being "the world's most useful plant," researchers at U.C. Davis are indulging in "Reefer Madness," preparing to infest North America with insect pest species from Eurasia.

Since 1999 the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Research Service (ARS) has been preparing to attack the 'marijuana' plant, targeted for "classic biological control" in 2005. "Secure facilities" have already been built in California, where scientists will grow 'marijuana' in order to study the eating habits of various Eurasian agricultural pests.

According to the ARS annual report for 2003, "The problem is quite serious as marijuana is a controlled substance in the United States and is often grown and sold illegally. It is relevant to local and national law enforcement agencies and was initiated through Congressional mandate." The Department of Agriculture's report continues, "Research was initiated on this project at the request of Congress and the State Department to identify new biologically based methods of controlling marijuana. Cooperating foreign institutions in Italy, Russia, China and Kazakhstan conducted both field and literature surveys for natural enemies of Cannabis sativa and selected two primary candidates, Psylliodes attenuata (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) and Cardipennis rubripes (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) to begin further host-specificity and biology research on."

According to the ARS report, "walk-in plant growth chambers" were constructed at Davis last year, that "allow 'marijuana' to be grown under secure conditions and used in quarantine." DEA certification was expected to occur in the fall of 2004. "These plants will be used in the final stages of testing for the effectiveness and environmental safety of selected biological control agents. This should lead to the availability of new biological control agents for this narcotic plant." [sic]*

Faced with such monumental conflict of reason, and accelerating deterioration of our environment, at some point people must ask themselves several questions. First, it seems imperative to question the underlying motivations of a drug policy that, after almost seventy years, has had only tragic, counter-productive results for the Earth's environment, human economics and social evolution.

Creation of a black market economy is the most obvious and predictable result of any prohibition. "Forbidden fruit" is always more expensive, leading inevitably to violence and corruption of police and politicians. When a critical agricultural resource is prohibited for three generations, the destructive illusion of a "free market economy" is even more dangerous, insidious and persistent. Industries that would otherwise succumb to the laws of fair economic competition, have become institutionalized, dominating the evolution of human values. Our generation is approaching the end of that dead end road, fighting for limited energy resources when we could have been farming biofuels all along.

By devaluating the most useful and potentially abundant organic agricultural resource on the planet, and inducing a prolonged condition of essential resource scarcity, mankind has been diverted from a course of sustainable energy development. After three generations of Cannabis prohibition, degenerative, anti-natural imbalances in economics have steered a toxic course for our social and political structures as well. Teetering precariously on the edge of synergistic collapse, the very real possibility of extinction looms in our foreseeable, predictably tragic future.

The absence of balancing influence, inherent to a free market, has institutionalized anti-natural values to desperate extremes. Such mad science as is happening at Davis, being directed against humankind's best hope for sustainability, is clearly agricultural espionage carried out by a chemically vested government, subverting the best interests of its own people. Unsustainable values, combined with the unpredictable instability of atmospheric carbon imbalance, are no longer theory, capable of being characterized as "gloom and doom" scenarios. Scientists agree that global warming is a real and present danger, even if political frontmen for toxic industries would have us believe otherwise, in the interest of protecting the short-term bottomline.

Corporate influence of political leadership, the economics of punishment at home and abroad, and the market dynamics of chemical industrial food and fuel production, has engendered corruption blurring the lines between industry and government. At U.C. Davis, government science is being employed by hemp's economic competitors to strengthen the advantage that chemical industry already enjoys, over agricultural solutions and common sense.

As conditions of imbalance increase it is critical to assess the impact that corporate/politcal hybridization is having in perpetuating a self-serving prohibition. After decades of conclusive studies and clinical reports in many countries, identifying Cannabis as "the safest therapeutically active substance known to man," which holds considerable benefits for mankind,
it is inevitable to conclude that government health concerns used to justify prohibition are not to be taken seriously. In fact, considering all available credible science, it is obvious that prohibition only serves to increase profits for multi-national corporations protecting chemical-industrial interests against competition from agriculturally-based industries.

It is common knowledge that there are many substances approved by the U.S. government, that are much more dangerous to people's health than 'marijuana.' Alcohol and tobacco are America's primary recreational drugs, far more lethal and addictive to both users and non-users than 'marijuana.' Chemical pharmaceuticals and even some foods that are commonly consumed with deadly result are readily available to people who choose to assume the risks associated with them. Even peanuts can kill. Obviously, realistic concerns for public health and safety have nothing whatever to do with 'marijuana' prohibition.

Cannabis prohibition is clearly motivated by industries concerned with the plant's potential to compete in a truly "free market" economy. More than ever it is essential to understanding which industries and corporations currently control the present "un-free market," exercising disproportionate economic influence, usurping control of the American government, leads to more questions.

The petroleum industry and the pharmaceutical industry are two of the most obvious competitors. Americans pay the highest drug prices in the world. Annual spending for pharmaceuticals, is up to $250 billion, doubling every five years. More than 120,000 people die every year in the U.S., from "legal drugs" taken in accordance with their doctor's prescription.

Virtually everything that is being made from petroleum hydrocarbons, can be made better, cheaper, and with less pollution using Cannabis, a carbohydrate. Less obvious, but equally powerful are the soybean industry with interests tied to biotech and chemicals for agricultural. Monsanto controls more than 80% of the biotech industry, and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pfizer pharmaceutical. These are the economic forces driving prohibition, through political influence and lobbying groups such as Partnership for a Drug Free America.

It's no secret that America's second generation oil president is the petroleum & pharmaceutical industry's favorite son. The CEO of Pfizer donated $200,000 to Bush's campaign this year. Other blatant examples, of government officials serving billions of dollars worth of prohibitionist interests on behalf of chemically-dependent industries, abound. In America's present administration there are no fewer than six top ranking officials, directly associated with Monsanto, including the Supreme Court Judge who put GW Bush in office (Clarence Thomas), the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (Anne Veneman), the Secretary of Defense (Donald Rumsfeld), the U.S. Secretary of Health (Tommy Thompson), Chairman of the House Agricultural Committee (Larry Combest) and Attorney General John Ashcroft.

"The Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP), a coalition of militant peasant groups, has called for a boycott of Monsanto products. KMP is attempting to block the use of the genetically modified YieldGard Bt-corn and is protesting Monsanto's interests in the United States-led war on Iraq. Rafael Mariano, KMP chair, said the program boycott on Monsanto products is part of a civil disobedience campaign to protest against US industry's attacks on the Iraqi people.

"The US military campaign to topple the Iraqi leadership was for the benefit of US war industries like the US-based Monsanto, the proponent of the genetically engineered Bt-corn in the country and manufacturer of Agent Orange...Monsanto is no less than a war industry," Mariano said.

Mariano further stated that it was a "clear mockery" that US President Bush launched the strike on Iraq under the pretext of disarming it of its weapons of mass destructio, because the US itself is the primary producer of weapons of mass destruction.

The forest products industry is another cash cow tied to chemical production. Recent estimates put the potential market for hemp paper at between $15 to $30 billion a year worldwide. About 20 paper mills around the world use hemp fiber, with an estimated annual world production volume of 120,000 tons. This represents about .05 percent of all paper. India and China dominate this potentially vast market. In the U.S., the "green" paper industry (including recycled and natural fibers) accounts for about $20 million in a $230 billion industry. Expanded use of agricultural crops and other tree-free materials for paper would not only spare trees but would also produce paper with minimal environmental impact from the chemicals used to manufacture paper.

In the U.S., hemp food products are a small but fast-growing sector of the natural foods industry, with annual sales of about $5 million. Canadian farmers seeded 3,800 acres of hemp in 2002 and harvested about two million pounds of the crop. In 1994, President Clinton signed Executive Order 12919, specifically identifying hemp as a "strategic food resource" subject to "essential civilian demand."

Consider that the nutritional value of Cannabis seed makes hemp the most nutritious and healing food on Earth. This is an inarguable fact, since Cannabis is the only common seed with three essential fatty acids (EFAs) in proper proportion for long-term consumption. Cannabis seed is also the best available source of organic protein on the planet.

Consider that neither the U.S. government, nor the United Nations, has any research projects, anywhere in the world, where Cannabis is being considered as a source of vegetable protein. Even in countries where it is perfectly legal to grow Cannabis, (even subsidized by the European Union in some places), there are no U.N. Food & Agriculture investigations being carried out. Not one.

Instead of growing organic Cannabis, humankind is growing soybeans for protein. This is a relatively poor choice, since there are several good reasons not to eat soybean, unless it is properly fermented. Also, from an agricultural perspective, soybean is much more difficult to grow than Cannabis, requiring substantial chemical application to suppress competition from weeds.

Cannabis naturally defends itself against most insect pests, and crowds out competition from most weeds. This and many other beneficial agricultural characteristics make Cannabis an excellent rotational crop, useful as a companion plant to help with cultivation of other crops, re-mineralization of nutrient-depleted soils, for preventing soil erosion, as a seasonal windbreak, and to break up compacted soils.

Cannabis is such a valuable plant, capable of producing so many products, that it may not
be possible for mankind to achieve sustainable existence on this planet without it. Certainly, without hemp the United States of America as we know it would not exist. As most people know by now, all of the founding fathers of this country were hemp farmers, including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Alexander Hamilton.

"Make the most of the hemp seed and sow it everywhere."
--George Washington (1794)

"We shall....want a world of hemp more for our own personal
consumption." --John Adams (1783)

"Hemp is of first necessity....to the wealth and protection of the
country." --Thomas Jefferson (1791)**

"Hemp is an article of importance enough to warrant the employment of
extraordinary means in its favor."--Alexander Hamilton (1791)

Cannabis is capable of producing more food, fuel, medicines, fiber, cellulose,
and resins organically, sustainably than any other plant on Earth. Not
only is it imperative to stop the waste of money and obviate the destructive impact of the research being done at U.C. Davis, it is as important to ask why this research has been allowed to continue for five years, in light of what is common knowledge about this critically important agricultural resource.

Such obvious abominations as the importation of invasive insect species from one continent to another, serve to make the absurdity and economic motivations of prohibition that much more blatant. As nothing else could, this plan to self-inflict a bio-terrorist attack on the world's best hope for sustainable agriculturally-based industry, should finally wake up America to the sinister character of corrupt economic forces that are running our government.

Unless people recognize (before the election) the insidious predation of impacted economic forces, perverting the human economic structure, treasonous influences imbedded within our political fabric will continue to impose essential resource scarcity, capitalize on, and exaggerate the imbalances which result from it.

Walt Kelly is as right as he everlovin' was, "We have met the enemy and he is us."

* Note: While Cannabis can be "psychoactive" it is non-narcotic.

** Thomas Jefferson even smuggled hemp seeds into the U.S. from China.

#

Paul von Hartmann is an international freelance photjournalist, Cannabis scholar, and Natural rights activist.

This essay may also be found posted at the P.E.A.C.E. blog entitled
"Cannabis and Iraq: Why Prohibition Leads to War"
http://cannabiswars.blogspot.com/

Thursday, June 10, 2004

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1. Research Project: Classical Biological Control of Narcotic Plants
http://www.ars.usda.gov/research/projects/projects.htm?ACCN_NO=402468&showpars=true&fy=2003

2.Medpot stars give for patients
http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/2569.html

3.Study Shows Therapeutic Benefits, No Adverse Effects in Long-Term Marijuana Users
http://www.infoimagination.org/ps/drug_war/articles/mj_study.html

4. War foes urge boycott of US products
http://www.geocities.com/kmp_ph/strug/032403.html

5. Asia Farm & Consumer Groups Denounce UN FAO Support for GMOs
http://www.organicconsumers.org/ge/asia052404.cfm

6. Big Biotech Silencing Critics of Pesticides & GE Crops
http://www.organicconsumers.org/ge/bigbiotech060304.cfm

7. Organic Consumers Association
Campaigning for Food Safety, Organic Agriculture, Fair Trade & Sustainability
Millions Against Monsanto
If you're talking about PCBs, Agent Orange, Bovine Growth Hormone, water privatization, biopiracy, untested/unlabeled genetically engineered organisms, or persecuting small family farmers, you're talking about the Monsanto Corporation.
Monsanto's Government Ties
http://www.organicconsumers.org/monlink.html

8. Scientists Demand Action on Invasive Species: National Environmental Coalition on Invasive Species (NECIS) issued a "Call To Action on Invasive Species."
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_environment/invasive_species/page.cfm?pageID=1275

9. Executive Order 13112 of February 3, 1999 -- Invasive Species
http://www.invasivespecies.gov/laws/execorder.shtml

10. Top selling prescription drug (retail sales 2001): Lipitor (Pfizer) a cholesterol reducer $4.52 billion (increase of 22.3% from 2000). Source: National Institute for Healthcare Management Foundation

Crumbs of freedom

2010-11-01T15:50:00.000-07:00

HolyShoot!! -- Michael K! hapbpby to have you onboard the discussion. Welcome to the clothing-optional brainpool...

: ) ]-********briefly,

It's still a federal offense to cultivate in California & every other state, even if you do have a medical exemption, which I don't. I'm a Cannabis minster and a patient, but the way I see it, legal protections afforded by the former cover the latter.

The decrim bill in California was mostly a matter of Arnold being too broke to bust people for dime bags any more. That's an economic dynamic that you attribute to PeeWee 19 even before it passes? I don't think so. It's nice but it's not enough to recover AS's integrity after vetoing two industrial hemp bills.

Prop 19 is a crumb of freedom in the trap of prohibitionist illusion, keeping everyone happy&stoned enough to accept that the government has legitimate authority to disqualify our ancient spiritual relationship with the agriculture of any herbs bearing seeds.

Prop 19 appeals to people who are content with what they think is all they can get. I hear the argument for incremental change, but it's like riding a skateboard on a tsunami -- it's generally the right shape, but ultimately it's a poor choice of equipment. The big picture will continue to get lost in the distraction of repercussions against Peepee 19.

CB, yes BP (unfortunate initials - no relation) is "holding [his] nose and voting "yes" (really "yeah, welllll, okay") for the "message effect" and I'm not saying that it wouldn't be good for P19 to lose by a slim margin, for the same reason, but think of all the endless crap we won't have to deal with adjusting to what follows the passage of prohibition-lite.

Better to know we're still fully at war with lying dinosaurs, than to cow into complacent acceptance of the illusion of freedom and get entangled in a maze of endless legal confusion and directional diversions.

Comment on Viv's statement

2010-11-01T14:09:00.001-07:00

Lots to comment, not so much time...

You may be surprised to know I don't support Prop 19, mainly because it will confuse the path to complete legalization. If it doesn't pass, we will have a clear shot at a national strategy for ending Cannabis prohibition. If it does pass, people will go back to their little 5x5 gardens and be placated with that.

Sorry to say that Prop 19 only allows a 5'x5' (a 25 sq ft) garden, not even big enough for a single outdoor plant. Prop 19 pushes people toward indoor cultivation for max yield in a 5x5 space.

The best I can say about "Plop 19" is that it has generated the energy & public attention that has to be followed through with a national exercise of "essential civilian demand" for the "strategic resource" hemp, that's known to be critical to national security -- by this Spring 2011. To miss another hemp growing season in the US would be sheer madness.

I could care less whether the fossil-fuel-burning indoor pot grows are legitimized and taxed, because that dynamic does more harm than good in the long-run.

Grow outdoors! Support sunshine energy, not petrol pot! The increasing price of energy will keep the price/profits up on indoor Frankenweed. Taxes and regulation will further prostitute and distort the cost of Mary Jane. Instead of treating her like the scared Diva that she is, Prop 19 continues to make a whore of the world's most useful and nutritious agricultural resource.

Reply to Chris Conrad

2010-11-01T14:04:00.000-07:00

Come on Chris, I'm disappointed you don't understand the complexities of sociopoliticoeconomic dynamics better than that. A vote bought buy annonymous corporations don't mean squaT, for starters. We're an occupied country Chris. The people need to take back the truth about Cannabis -- Right now. Before the confusion and expense of disingenuous debate plunges us into endless legal bickering and a flood of meaningless news.

"First of all Prop 19 is not "legalization" (Bill Panzer). How imprecise for you to use that word. At best, Prop 19 is a mixed adolescent message: "we're gonna grow & smoke pot, no matter what you say, Dad, but we'll share some with you since you can't pay the mortgage on the state.

It concedes rightful jurisdiction and misdirects away from efficient progress at the Federal level. If we perpetuate the lie that Cannabis is other than the most useful, nutritious, ecologically significant...then shame on us for watering down the message and the legacy of what we've been entrusted to deliver intact and complete.

Dear Chris & Mikki,

2010-11-01T10:30:00.000-07:00

Beautiful video & music. Very seductive.

Honestly, I wish I could jump on the bandwagon with you & all the other beautiful people who yearn for Cannabis freedom and an end to the "drug war" so badly that they are branding Prop 19 as "legalization."

It's not -- Prop 19 embraces & perpetuates the lie about Cannabis being "dangerous" to young people, and continues to waste law enforcement resources to terrorize the world's oldest global culture. Imposing taxes on herbal therapeutics is unfair to people who are not well.

The "message effect" that W.Panzer referred to isn't worth the federal/municipal legal confusion, the de-energizing effect of passing weak permission, and the willing public concession of rightful jurisdiction over a god-given natural resource that is both unique and essential.

Roger Christie is in federal prison right now, standing up for EVERYONE's First Amendment right of free religion. Prop 19 would do nothing for him if it passes. Prop 19 would have made no difference to him even if it had passed before he was arrested.

Passage of "Prop-Up Prohibition#19" will legally entangle, confuse, placate and fragment the national activism that needs to happen to end Cannabis prohibition by this spring.

A 5'x5' limit on gardens (not even enough space for one decent outdoor plant) means that, for maximum "legal" yield, people will be pushed toward growing indoors.

If Prop 19 doesn't pass, can we use the momentum generated by what looks to be a close vote to initiate federal "essential civilian demand" for the "strategic food resource."

Come on Chris & Mikki, you are leaders in this movement. Lead toward strength, not confusion. The credible science exists to revaluate Cannabis as essential to national and global security.
It is a "misprision of treason" to fail to recognize the true value of Cannabis.

Conditions of ecological necessity make the opportunity for Cannabis freedom much bigger than Prop 19 and more urgent than people apparently realize.

The bees are dying! The Bats are dying! The coral reefs are dying! UV-B radiation is increasing as the boreal forests are cut or die from global temperature increase. Check out my ministry blog to understand more about why Cannabis monoterpene production is essential to our survival-- not illegal!

Feel free to publish anything I write in the West Coast Leaf. Isn't this "newsy" enough ? You've been doing great work much longer than I have. It was chris who got me into the hemp movement that's steered my life for the past eighteen years, and I thank you for that sincerely. But I think you're wrong on backing a move that concedes what you know to be true in the interest of what you think we can get if we go along with the stale, intransigent dogma and lies, the vestiges of "Reefer Madness."

No corporate government tax on pot. No corporate government domination over organic agriculture. If even a fraction of the money that's been poured into Prop 19 is directed toward national essential civilian demand, prohibition could be over in ONE MONTH. The truth about Cannabis is THAT strong in the context of multiple, accelerating crises we face.

[The preceding statement was written and posted in response to a lovely pro-Prop 19 video shared on Facebook by Chris Conrad and Mikki Norris.]

Prop 19: Maintenance and addition of criminal and civil penalties

2010-10-31T21:05:00.000-07:00

" if it passes that we will be on an accelerated path"

Perhaps, but I'm not convinced of that. Too much potential for legal confusion, federal retaliation and misdirection by the feds and anti-marijuana zealots in positions of responsibility in municipal govts, who will certainly obstruct the implementation of Prop 19 by invoking the "save the children" rap that Prop 19 sings along with to a degree, by perpetuating the myth of "danger" associated with Cannabis use. How many Cannabis-smoking/growing parents will be exposed to losing their kids if Prop 19 passes?

Prop 19: Maintenance and addition of criminal and civil penalties

"Maintains existing laws against selling drugs to a minor and driving under the influence.
Maintains an employer's right to address consumption of marijuana that affects an employee's job performance.
Maintains existing laws against interstate or international transportation of marijuana.
Every person 18 years of age or older who hires, employs, or uses a minor in transporting, carrying, selling, giving away marijuana, or knowingly sells or gives away marijuana to someone under the age of 14, shall be imprisoned in state prison for a period of three, five, or seven years.
Every person 18 years of age or older who knowingly sells or gives away marijuana to someone older than the age of 14 but younger than 18, shall be imprisoned in the state prison for a period of three, four, or five years.
Every person 21 years of age or older who knowingly sells or gives away marijuana to someone older than the age of 18 but younger than 21, shall be imprisoned in county jail for up to six months and fined up to $1,000 per offense.
Any person who is licensed, permitted, or authorized to sell marijuana, who knowingly sells or gives away marijuana to someone under the age of 21 results in them being banned from owning, operating, or being employed by a licensed marijuana establishment for one year. "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_19_(2010)#Maintenance_and_addition_of_criminal_and_civil_penalties

That's not "legalization." It's a sucker-punch.

2010-10-31T21:04:00.000-07:00

Prop 19 is a recipe for expensive confusion, costing precious time and money.

2010-10-31T21:01:00.000-07:00

Prop 19 is a recipe for expensive confusion, costing precious time and money.

What's needed instead is a formal re-assessment of Cannabis, based in credible science. The studies have been done. The reports written. Cannabis is the safest most effective herbal preventative and therapeutic agent that there is. Cannabis in many forms (seeds, buds, essential oils, etc.) is effective in preventing, treating and in some cases, curing a wide range of ailments, including physical, emotional, and substance abuse (i.e. alcohol & hard drugs) problems.

Prohibition in any form for anything creates a vicious, violent, black market with real damage inflicted on individuals, the environment and society. Ending prohibition of the world's most nutritious, useful, environmentally beneficial agricultural resource, by recognizing its true value, will do more good than any other move we could make. It's been done in other countries and the results are tangible, verifiable and profound.

Unfortunately, Prop 19 perpetuates the baseless, erroneous, prohibitionist myth of people needing government 'protection' from marijuana. Misinformation and a "Reefer Madness" imposed valuation of Cannabis conveys corporate control over our freedom to farm.

Violation of our Constitutional rights is a greater threat to national security than marijuana could ever be, even if the lies being told about it were true. Individual responsibility for life choices is the key to normalizing our relationship with Ca

2010-10-31T10:08:00.000-07:00

USSA/USSR -- Same rules, different flag. Is this what Americans want?

William Panzer dissects Prop 19

2010-10-30T19:46:00.000-07:00

"It's about 1:40 a.m. and I just watched Cannabis Planet's Prop 19 show in which I was misquoted by Dragonfly. I've been hanging out on the sidelines in the ongoing debate within the movement. Now that we're getting close to election time, I thought I'd share some thoughts.

"First, Prop 19 is not "legalization" and I don't believe those in the movement who are against Prop 19 are against legalization. To the contrary, I believe most movement opponents are against 19 because they are FOR legalization.

"Every anti-cannabis law on the books today will remain unchanged if Prop 19 passes with a single exception: a new offense is added, Health & Safety Code §11361(c) which provides that a person 21 or older who gives less than an ounce of cannabis to a person 18-21 (as, for example, a 21 year old boy handing a joint to his 20 year old girlfriend) is guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to 6 months in jail and a $1000 fine. Under current law, the offense would call for a $100 maximum fine and no jail.

"The fact that 19 fails to repeal or even amend any other section of the Health & Safety Code is both it's greatest flaw and, ironically as I'll explain below, perhaps its saving grace.

"The most common fear is that 19 could potentially impinge on medical cannabis rights. Proponents have pointed to the purpose language as evidence that it would not effect 215/420. In reality, the court's do not look at the purpose language, only resorting to it if an ambiguity is found in the body of the statute. As for the body of Prop 19, I am less than thrilled with the drafting. There are inconsistencies and the language is loose enough to support several different interpretations. If an appellate court were inclined to find that Prop 19 preserved all 215/420 rights, there is language in 19 to support that. If, on the other hand, an appellate court was inclined to find that 19 allowed local municipalities to impinge on 215/420, there is language that could support that position too. The bottom line is that the body of the statute could have clearly stated that local municipalities are not authorized to pass any ordinance or regulation that infringes on 215/420 in any manner, but it doesn't.

"As scary as the above may seem, I have now come to the conclusion that it is likely moot. I now believe that it is likely that §11301 "Commercial Regulations and Controls", the section of Prop. 19 that authorizes local government to legalize and regulate cultivation, sales, taxes, etc., will likely be ruled invalid as an unconstitutional delegation of powers in violation of the following sections of the California Constitution:

"ARTICLE 4 LEGISLATIVE
SEC. 16. (a) All laws of a general nature have uniform operation.
(b) A local or special statute is invalid in any case if a general
statute can be made applicable."; and

"ARTICLE 11 LOCAL GOVERNMENT

SEC. 5. (a) It shall be competent in any city charter to provide
that the city governed thereunder may make and enforce all ordinances
and regulations in respect to municipal affairs, subject only to
restrictions and limitations provided in their several charters and
in respect to other matters they shall be subject to general laws.
City charters adopted pursuant to this Constitution shall supersede
any existing charter, and with respect to municipal affairs shall
supersede all laws inconsistent therewith."

"Because Prop. 19 fails to either repeal or amend current cannabis criminal law, we would have a situation where, for example, state law dictates that sale of cannabis is a felony, yet Prop. 19 gives cities and counties authority to override this state law. This is an authority that is specifically denied to local municipalities in the state constitution. Thus Prop. 19's goal of authorizing local government to override state law would require a constitutional amendment. The saving grace is that if the power to override state law prohibiting cannabis cannot be legally delegated to the locals, than the power to impinge on 215/420 similarly cannot be delegated to local authorities.

"The most amazing factor of this whole debate to me is how Prop. 19 is being almost universally portrayed as "legalization" in the media and by many in our movement who, quire frankly, I suspect have never actually read the text of the initiative! What makes little sense to me is that this initiative, which doesn't legalize cannabis, is being sold as legalization. It seem to me, it would make more sense to draft an initiative that does legalize cannabis and sell it as regulation.

"Nevertheless, because it is being touted as legalization, if it passed it would be perceived around the world as legalization. It would also give some modest protections to cannabis users. It essentially protects you from getting an infraction ticket in your own home so long as there are no children under the same roof. The greatest benefit would be to persons who wanted to cultivate a modest indoor grow, or about one healthy outdoor plant.

"I guess my conclusion is that though Prop. 19 was poorly thought out and poorly drafted and, in my opinion, tragically represents a lost opportunity, I don't fear that it will be used to curtail medical rights, nor will it result in commercial cannabis stores and high taxes on everything cannabis. So I plan to hold my nose, close my eyes, and vote "yes" for the message effect. Then I'll keep my fingers crossed that if it is declared unconstitutional as I anticipate, there will be a groundswell to come back with a better and true legalization initiative in two years."

Bill Panzer

Reply to "Any corporation that gets big enough to dominate the marijuana market will be taken down by the feds."

2010-10-30T19:44:00.000-07:00

The corporately corrupted Supreme Court has ruled that corporations are people and can pour unlimited funds into our elections. Obama appointed a Monsanto shill to head up the Dept. of Agriculture. The corporations own the Feds!

Control is control and right now, by & large, the chemical companies have it by virtue of warped values and corrupt politics, antagonistic toward the planetary systems critical to survival.

I know of at least one mad genetic plan that I heard at a science congress in Frankfurt in 2002. Genetic markers were being developed for Cannabis by Italian researchers. Almost all of the distinguished agricultural scientists and industry professionals there got up and left the room. In the California, I'd like to think that my efforts to expose mad agricultural research at UC Davis, regarding development of soil born viruses to attack Cannabis, had something to do with that project being discontinued, if in fact it truly has been.

The only way to devalue the extinctionistic, unevenly distributed chemically-based economy is to develop regional currencies based in "Gaiatherapeutic" industries, with a free agricultural market inclusive of Cannabis agriculture, manufacture and trade.

www.shastashares.com

I'd like nothing better than to adopt the widespread illusion that Prop 19 would legalize Cannabis. I anticipate lawsuits and legal hassles galore if this passes, and endless arguments about impacted myths that have been debunked by hard science.

If I could in good conscience vote for less than a completely realistic, comprehensive view of Cannabis I might, but my interpretation of Prop 19 is that it concedes rightful jurisdiction introduces confusion and wastes our most precious limited resource -- time. Certainly, a part of me wants to vote yes on 19 and I acknowledge the progress afforded by Prop 215. But how long are we going to go along with a globally contrary illusionary valuation of Cannabis?

Here's the DEA's "clarified" definition of hemp, another legal battle waiting to happen...

""Hemp” and marijuana are actually separate parts of the species of plant known as cannabis. Under federal law, Congress defined marijuana to focus on those parts of the cannabis plant that are the source of tetrahydrocannabinols (THC). THC is the hallucinogenic substance in marijuana that causes the psychoactive effect or “high.” The marijuana portions of the cannabis plant include the flowering tops (buds), the leaves, and the resin of the cannabis plant. The remainder of the plant — stalks and sterilized seeds — is what some people refer to as “hemp.” However, “hemp” is not a term that is found in federal law."

http://www.justice.gov/dea/pubs/pressrel/pr100901.html

Too much is at stake to put up with this insultingly incompetent resource mismanagement. Opposition by prohibitionist America is no longer credible. 'Time' is the limiting factor in the equation of survival. We have nothing to fear but the atmosphere itself.

Love trumps law.

2010-10-30T19:42:00.000-07:00

Your planet is dying, why would I want to come down there?

Besides, somebody's got to fly ahead, trusting you'll catch up sooner than too late.

Can you and I agree that Cannabis is more than merely 'beneficial' -- that Cannabis is in fact both unique and essential? Know why? There are three very specific reasons, backed by irrefutable science. Food, climate, biofuels.

Tune-up & call in this Sunday at high noon

Axilological praxis : The Art of Shifting Cannabis Value
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/projectpeace

I do appreciate your sacrifices, your service, and your ability to communicate your views. No doubt, this war has taken a heavy toll on all of us, on many levels. Friends I've lost to cancer, just for starters, and the nine hundred fifty million starving, malnourished people that could otherwise be self-sustaining, and the other millions of casualties that are unnecessary, beyond the pale.

Most recently, on July 8th, my longtime friend, patriot and Cannabis associate, THC Ministry Reverend Roger Christie, was taken to federal prison in Honolulu and remains in federal prison to this day. He's been denied bail four times and his trial postponed until April 2011. Roger's is a first-time, non-violent accusation with no local complaint registered against him.

Please people, write to Roger and let him know his standing up for the Constitution means something to you. Tell others you know about him. For twenty-five years he's been a valuable, widely respected member of his Big Island community, and a globally respected cultural ambassador, a premiere Cannabis scholar, delightfully sincere and charming hemp store entrepreneur, and courageous founder of the Hawaiian THC Ministry.

http://the-last-marijuana-trial.com/

This is what essential civilian demand does that Prop 19 doesn't. It demands that "Green Prisoners" be released from prison by recognizing the illegality of Cannabis prohibition. How can a "strategic resource" possibly be a "Schedule One drug"? They're opposites!

Thanks, but I'm not waiting for the approval of soccer moms and don't under-estimate their capacity for understanding what's best for their families and community. Look at the success of hemp foods in the US even though we can't grow it here! Soccer moms are making that choice more and more.

Even if I have to do it alone, I'll continue to call for immediate, comprehensive objective revaluation of Cannabis from experts in all fields. As far as I can tell through my years of filming and participating in the evolution of 21st Century Cannabis culture, the plant is valuable far beyond the rightful jurisdiction of any court. Why would I seek permission to grow it?

Not just for humankind, by the way. Mankind s far beyond its rightful authority in inducing scarcity of a unique and essential food resource upon which other species also depend for optimum health and ultimate survival.

No tax on Cannabis. No regulation of Cannabis farming. Imposed bureaucracy will only increase the cost of farming and perpetuate further interference with corporate entities that control our political system. Besides, Cannabis is a successful competitor, fortunately a very beneficial one, and will spread naturally, unless of course, the government continues and expands its war against ditch weed.

Our freedom to farm "every herb bearing seed" is the first test of religious freedom. First Amendment, there it is. Defend it or not. Use it or lose it.

Is everyone who loves the Cannabis plant a Cannabis minister yet? Why not start your own individual ministry in order to help reclaim our First Amendment right on behalf of the ancient Cannabis culture? Of which we are co-evolving the leading edge. If this makes sense to you, then you can simply write a letter to yourself in appreciation for the true value of Cannabis. Potential may still remain if we act wisely, efficiently, and with conscious application of the gentle quiet power of truth.

Love trumps law.

direct action, not distraction

2010-10-30T19:41:00.000-07:00

"the only thing standing in the way of planting industrial hemp in California is the prohibition of marijuana"

Not exactly. A most easily dispelled myth has effectively stopped industrial hemp agriculture. That is the institutional lie, promulgated by law enforcement, that it's difficult to tell marijuana from industrial hemp. Not true.

They are physically distinct, planted differently and in a field of hemp, the male flowers grow among the female flowers to produce seeds. All that's needed to end industrial hemp prohibition is to challenge and easily defeat that lie. It wouldn't hurt to point out that industrial hemp agriculture is the most cost-effective way to naturally balance commercial marijuana production and the quickest way to get the pot plantations out of the National Forests.

Holding the government accountable for the truth about Cannabis at the federal level could happen if even a fraction of the money and effort that's being poured into Prop 19 were directed into exercise of essential civilian demand. And as I've said before, they are not mutually exclusive.

There is no established federal protocol for essential civilian demand. I've attempted to create one through construction of a formal public record: endless written challenges of rightful jurisdiction, public civil disobedience, film, and most recently on my BlogTalkRadio program.

None of that matters if people don't understand the condition of extreme urgency we face, and support timely consideration of all possible solutions at the federal and international level.

The bees are dying. We don't have time for distraction.

Reply to comments on AlterNet about Prop 19

2010-10-30T19:40:00.000-07:00

Thanks for your thanks&consideration of what some (who have sacrificed nothing) so easily dismiss as a "rant." Taxation and regulation is the way our corporately conscripted government cripples industries that are in competition with the Masters of War.

At 55 I am too old to be intimidated by the bogeyman of what's thought to be "impossible." If our ecosystem was the one we had back in '79 I might agree with you, but with 50% of the bees dead, and UV-B killing everything, we need a stronger, more immediate strategy than a 5x5 foot pot garden.

Cannabis monoterpenes reflect solar radiation away from a planet that's losing its atmospheric aerosols, produced by the dwindling boreal forests. A massive planting is needed this spring to rebalance that equation.

Essential civilian demand is the way to achieve that, but you don't see anyone addressing this as "possible." Why is that? A federal strategy is not mutually exclusive of a state strategy.

The equation of survival is simple. Time is the limiting factor. Do you want to survive or not? What's really real? Obama & Holder, or melting ice caps and mass species extinction?

If people think things are bad now, wait until petrol prices suddenly jump and electronic communication becomes unaffordable -- chaos. That's as real as it gets.

"Misprision of treason" is the failure to act in the interest of national security. Right now, all of our politicians are guilty of failing to recognize the true unique and essential "strategic" value of Cannabis.

more debate on Prop 19...

2010-10-30T19:39:00.002-07:00

"...end criminal prohibition for recreational cannabis use..."

Get real. Prop 19 doesn't do that.

If Prop 19 passes, a twenty year old grower who gets caught selling a a couple of ounces, or growing a few plants, will still become fodder for the court system. If anybody grows more than a five- by-five foot plant, then they'll be "breaking the law." Please, "ending prohibition" with Prop 19? Give me a break...compared to what is necessary and possible, Prop 19 is a misdirection.

First, Prop 19 acquiesces Constitutional protections over our god-given right to grow "every herb bearing seed." Don't even consider conceding your freedom to farm if you ever want to be free.

"Essential civilian demand" would achieve that, but our generation apparently lacks the balls necessary to even discuss what the true value of Cannabis really is. I've been trying for decades to objectively realistically revaluate Cannabis as both unique and essential, beyond rightful government jurisdiction, and gotten only verbal encouragement for the most direct strategy there is for ending prohibition.

Secondly, Prop 19 fails to make the most of our historic opportunity -- to recognize the true value of the world's most valuable agricultural resource. Prop 19 misses the larger, badly needed opportunity for an agricultural renaissance, by burdening it with an expensive, inefficient bureaucracy. The corporate government can only get its cut of the pot market through perpetuating the lies of prohibition -- that Cannabis is somehow "dangerous" and needs to be regulated by a protective paternalistic "bureaucrazy." That lie has been revealed as completely false, in fact the opposite of what is true.

Cannabis has finally been recognized all over the world as an agricultural and therapeutic wonder at the same time that petrol has finally been recognized as a deadly, unacceptable source of energy. Our governments have corrupted themselves to economic insolvency and now the same entities want to control Cannabis, resource they've refused to acknowledge !

The fundamental shift in values that's happening right now means that anything is possible.

Third, Prop 19 avoids the opportunity to recognize the enormity of what's happening nationally and globally. Wake up! The world's MOST useful and nutritious plant, a known "strategic resource" has been erroneously characterized by the corporate regime, that is recalcitrant in classifying Cannabis as a Schedule One drug -- in spite of rigorous science and international consensus to the contrary!

Follow that kind of "leadership" if you want, but I won't go along with the illusion. Are you content to concede rightful jurisdiction over "every seed bearing plant" without doing everything possible to revaluate Cannabis beyond government control of any sort? I'm not.

As long as we have the slimmest chance of reclaiming our freedom to farm, then we are obligated to go for it.

"...establish California as the most forward-thinking and liberalized area in the world for cannabis policy, Amsterdam, Vancouver, etc included."

Hah! -- not hardly. Cannabis grows openly everywhere in Holland, Canada and other regions where hemp is being farmed because Nature spreads the seeds all over the place.

That's a primary difference between a drug and an herb. Drugs don't make seeds, herbs do. That's significant to the discussion of "control."

"It's great that you love and appreciate cannabis"

I simply appreciate Cannabis for what it is truly worth. Cannabis is both unique and essential. Until the meaning of that sinks in, then people will continue to be misled, in a stupor of mis-vauation that persists after seventy-three years of "Reefer Madness."

"keep in mind the position you're supporting when you do so"

Among other names and concepts, it's been called "god-given" "The Constitution, "inalienable rights" "natural law" "self-evident" ...

It's so easy (and arrogant) to call something "meaningless" if you don't understand it. If you won't even try to understand the larger picture, then I can't help you.

"...comparing Prop 19 to modern-day cannabis prohibition" :

2010-10-30T19:39:00.001-07:00

"...comparing Prop 19 to modern-day cannabis prohibition" :

Prop 19 maintains myths & illusions about Cannabis that have effectively institutionalized prohibition for 73 years.

Dispelling that illusion is happening through the efforts of activists and scientists like Jack Herer, Todd Mikuriya, and other visionaries who pushed the envelope of what was acceptable or possible even a few years ago. See

"Medical marijuana: The science behind the smoke and fears"
BY IGOR GRANT,
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2010
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/oct/22/medical-marijuana-science-behind-smoke-and-fears/

It remains for people to say, "If the corporately corrupted government has been intentionally wrong, obstructionist and misleading about Cannabis all these years, then why should government continue to have jurisdiction over a "strategic resource" it has failed acknowledge the true value of for seventy-three years?

Federal, essential civilian demand, before next spring. That would be an easy choice if it weren't for the "fear of flying" exhibited by those who underestimate the power of truth.

support for marijuana prohibition is dropping

2010-10-30T19:38:00.000-07:00

Popular support for marijuana prohibition is dropping even as the tragic numbers keep increasing and the tax money to support prohibition runs out, i.e.:

-- 30,000 people murdered in Mexico since 2004
-- incalculable money wasted and countless lives lost enforcing counter-productive policy
-- percentage of the American people learning about the many other beneficial uses of Cannabis

The debate needs to be broadened beyond "pot" and "industrial hemp" to encompass all of the properties of the Cannabis plant and the most effective way to "regulate" Cannabis agriculture manufacture and trade.

In short, the way I understand it by participating in what's happening in Europe, Cannabis is self-regulating. The low-THC strains seed the high-THC strains. Pot is less the "forbidden fruit" as it is here, so of less interest to rebellious youth.

In reality, individual responsibility is what's real. People have to take responsibility for making life choices.

2010-10-30T19:37:00.000-07:00

"how do you propose to exercise that "essential civilian demand"?"

A week-long series of public educational events featuring film screenings, hempseed receptions and barter fair, broad-based, expert and public testimony in Sacramento, establishing the true value of Cannabis ecology, agriculture, manufacture and trade as both unique and essential.

Taking up arms isn't an option. Coordinating truth is. Prohibition will be ended by a simple shift in values from illegal to essential. "Essential civilian demand" is a simple, formal challenge of rightful jurisdiction over any natural resource that is both unique and essential.

A public demonstration of responsibility for the true value of Cannabis on the steps of the State Capitol would establish legal precedent, concurrent with a lawsuit for "misprision of treason" against the Governor for failing to act in the interest of National Security when twice he vetoed legislation that would have allowed for farming of industrial hemp, a known "strategic resource."

Then we plant our organic, non-GMO hemp fields across the nation this spring. That's it. That's my plan. And it's not mutually exclusive with Prop 19 - just supercedes it. Prop 19 is going to create more distraction and confusion, waste more time. It's time to end prohibition nationally, before next spring.

Cannabis has been recognized as a "strategic resource" by six American Presidents. It needs to be recognized as critical to national security again -- by "We The People" this time. The science exists to support revaluation.

In your heart-of-hearts, do you REALLY need permission from a dysfunctional, morally bankrupt, Geneva Convention-violating government to feed your family and community the world's most complete source of organic vegetable nutrition fresh out of your garden?

Not so relevant, but I enlisted in the Marines in '74, when I was 19. More meaningful has been the evolution of the desire to serve all beings, through Cetacean awareness work, direct action with Sea Shepherd and through on-going participation in international human rights work, beginning with everyone's freedom to farm.

I've defended myself, by myself, in Federal Courts twice, been convicted twice refused to pay twice. Judge me as a looney if you want to, but learn about Cannabis monoterpenes vs global broiling first. I'm the guy that figured that one out. All I need is people to get this message out and we can start letting people out of prison.

Prop 19 a product of political "realities" ?

2010-10-30T19:35:00.000-07:00

"...the planet is dying under the mis-leadership of political "realists."

Is federal exercise of "essential civilian demand" too radical for you? The true value of Cannabis as a proportionate response to to global warming and global broiling is what's real.

What makes "lawful possession" of Cannabis legal is the impossibility of continuing a counter-productive, extinctionistic policy that's run out of political inertia after being revealed for what it truly is -- deadly, expensive, and manipulative.

LAWFUL possession

2010-10-30T19:34:00.000-07:00

"Prop 19 makes LAWFUL the personal possession of [Cannabis]."

No, extremely urgent environmental necessity does that and the First Amendment backs it. Even simpler.

Essential civilian demand isn't "waiting for utopia" - it's the conscious evolution of the fundamental values of human society lining up with the supremely relevant Laws of the Natural Order; combined with a realistic understanding of how the process of change has changed, as the result of instantaneous global electronic communication.

If you and I realize that Cannabis is essential to the survival of humankind, then everyone else on the planet can be apprised of that in the blink of an eye. If Thomas Jefferson had a laptop do you think our government would be as it is today?

What's apparently lacking is the united voice of all people who understand the true value of Cannabis and the endless harms of prohibition, holding our government accountable for seventy-three years of misinformation and deceit.

Letter to William Panzer in reply to "Prop 19: Why I'm Reluctantly Voting "Yes""

2010-10-30T19:30:00.000-07:00

Thank you for your reasoned statement regarding "Prop-Up Prohibition #19." I'm almost to the point of supporting it for the same "message effect" reason, but I'm still concerned about two things:

1. Voter acquiescence of (both state and federal) First Amendment protections of the ancient historical/traditional relationship between ancient, spiritually integrated (i.e. organic, biodynamic) practices of gardening/agriculture and "religious" freedom. Prop 19 essentially concedes rightful jurisdiction over "every herb bearing seed."

"Acquiescence is a legal term used to describe an act of a person in knowingly standing by without raising any objection to infringement of his rights, when someone else is unknowingly and honestly putting in his resources under the impression that the said rights actually belong to him. Consequently, the person whose rights are infringed cannot anymore make a claim against the infringer or succeed in an injunction suit due to his conduct. The term is most generally, "permission" given by silence or passiveness. Acceptance or agreement by keeping quiet or by not making objections."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquiescence

Legal precedents cited by the THC Ministry
http://www.thc-ministry.org/marijuana-religion-legal-precedents.html

2. Prop 19 embraces the fraudulent prohibitionist position that Cannabis is dangerous to human physiology and society, rather than beneficial, as medical, social science and empirical investigation have borne out. As you know, Cannabis nutrition has been clinically recognized as effective in providing essential nutrients; herbal marijuana has been shown to be effective in prevention and treatment of many diseases; and is an acceptable alternative to hard drug use (including alcohol).

Here is the hard to find NIDA document that bears out the tragic social consequences of marijuana scarcity in Hawaii

http://www.thc-ministry.org/NIDA_Report.jpg

http://journals.lww.com/addictiondisorders/Abstract/2008/03000/Methamphetamine_Use_in_Hawaii.4.aspx

I'm still convinced that legally, because Cannabis has been identified in six Executive Orders signed by six American Presidents as a "strategic resource" critical to national security, it is a well-documented "misprision of treason" to fail to act on the known "strategic" value of Cannabis.

Please let me know if you have any interest in helping me to exercise "essential civilian demand'

"Sec. 103. General Functions. Federal departments and agencies
responsible for defense acquisition (or for industrial resources
needed to support defense acquisition) shall:

(a) Identify requirements for the full spectrum of national
security emergencies, including military, industrial, and
essential civilian demand;"

Responsible Office: Defense Affairs Division
Subject: NATIONAL DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL RESOURCES PREPAREDNESS
http://nodis3.gsfc.nasa.gov/displayEO.cfm?id=EO_12919_

2010-10-25T09:27:00.000-07:00

Comment on AlterNet article "19 Reasons Pot Should Be Legal"

2010-10-25T09:25:00.000-07:00

For eighteen years I've been working hard (in the US and in Europe) to completely end Cannabis prohibition. I wrote "The Fundamental Challenge of Our Time", translated into Dutch and adopted as the manifesto for the Cannabis College in Amsterdam in 1998. (http://fundamentalcoot.blogspot.com/)

I've had a formal complaint on-line since 2003

http://formalcomplaint.blogspot.com/

and challenged two state attorneys general then planted Cannabis publicly twice, demanding to be arrested for something that has never been truly illegal. I've also been convicted as a tax protester for refusing to give money to an outlaw political regime, violating its own Constitution.

Of course prohibition of the world's most healing, useful and nutritious herb has to end. Anyone who doesn't know that by now is either heartless, brainless or economically corrupted by Cannabis-competitive industries (i.e. fossil fuels, chemical ag, pharma, timber, etc...).

Prop 19 doesn't end prohibition of marijuana or industrial hemp. "Prop-up Prohibition #19" perpetuates the "drug war" by equating marijuana with alcohol, imposing convoluted legal penalties on some people, and raises revenues through regulations and punishment under the bogus, arrogant assumption of rightful jurisdiction.

Prop 19 concedes rightful jurisdiction, disregarding our right to"every herb bearing seed" gutting traditions of spirituality associated with agriculture, the agrarian backbone of the First Amendment, by "acquiescence."

"Acquiescence is a legal term used to describe an act of a person in knowingly standing by without raising any objection to infringement of his rights..."permission" given by silence or passiveness....Acceptance or agreement by keeping quiet or by not making objections."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquiescence

The reasons presented here for voting 'Yes' on "Prohibition-lite" are simplistic. As does "Poop 19" it embraces illusions of harm rather than benefit associated with ingestion of Cannabis. Science has repeatedly proven otherwise.

The best "medicine" is the one that keeps you from getting sick in the first place. Cannabis seed nutrition achieves that, while the stress relief provided by marijuana (particularly when you grow your own) helps in a myriad of other ways.

No court has the right to tell you that you can't grow Cannabis -- it's unique and essential for three very specific reasons. Only you can give away your rights (and everyone else's) by accepting imposed authority and disingenuous assessment of Cannabis from a morally and financially bankrupt, economically corrupted regime. Only by "We the People" failing to recognize the true essential value of Cannabis has prohibition persisted, insulting compassion, reason, the sacrifices made for freedom, while betraying the trust of future generations.

Cannabis isn't illegal - it's essential. No tax on pot. And no government regulation of any non-GMO, organic "herb bearing seed."

"Essential civilian demand" for the "strategic resource" Cannabis is desperately needed. Non-violent Green Prisoners need to be released and compensated for the crimes committed against them in the name of an illegal prohibition.

The bees are dying. The coral reefs are dying. The boreal forests are dying. How bad do things have to get before all solutions are considered? A massive planting of Cannabis is the only thing that can save our stupid, short-sighted human asses.

Where's a "fair and balanced" editorial policy at AlterNet? Why isn't this information allowed to progress beyond the comments section of this news service before the election? You may think Prop 19 "legalizes" marijuana, but it doesn't. People are so desperate for this change they'd grasp at razor blades to see it happen.

"19 Reasons Pot Should Be Legal"
http://www.alternet.org/story/148595/19_reasons_pot_should_be_legal/comments/#disqus_thread

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Cannabis ministry founder denied bail for the fourth time

2010-10-23T06:24:00.000-07:00

It is outrageously illegal to keep Hawaii's THC Ministry founder, Reverend Roger Christie in prison. The imprisonment of Roger Christie is so anti-Constitutional that Hawaii's Governor Linda Lingle, must be mandated to immediately issue a pre-trial pardon for this blatantly illegal federal attack against one of her State's most widely respected citizens.

Roger Christie is a respected member of his Big island community, well known and respected by local law enforcement as a sincere, cooperative and rational gentleman. The local police know Roger's ministry is doing the Big Island community a great service by making organically grown marijuana available to people who choose to use it. Personal spiritual choice, individual health, and the pursuit of happiness are all being denied without trial. It is inconceivable that such an egregious violation of human rights could continue without international regard and response.

When the implications of Roger's incarceration are fully understood by sufficient numbers of people, then it will be clear that the peole responsible or his being denied bail are complicit in criminally violating the most foundational laws of our political system. When news of this finally makes it into the mainland media, the last marijuana trial will achieve much more than Prop 19, at a fraction of the expense in time and other precious resources.

Injustice of this magnitude can only occur in a condition of mass illusion, a vacuum of reason. Prohibition is perpetuated by false and damaging values that begin with disrespect for the Laws of Nature and assigns a positive economic value to toxic chemical substitutes.

If Governor Linda Lingle fails to act in defense of state and federal Constitutions she has sworn to uphold, then she is guilty of "misprision of treason" as are all of the the other public officials who fail to recognize the critically "strategic" value of Cannabis agriculture, manufacture and trade, in the context of increasingly violent and toxic crises we face in the 21st Century.

I believe that through the power of internet communications, the true value of Cannabis can be communicated globally, instantaneously, electronically: "Cannabis isn't illegal. It's essential."

It's in everyone's best interest that Rev Roger be released to the care of his loving family! Roger's decades of service to his Big Island community and the world are legendarily creative, respectful and beneficial. The court does not have the power to judge Roger Christie, only the People are supposed to have that!

Federal Criminals

2010-10-16T15:55:00.000-07:00

Roger Christie is a man of peace, illegally imprisonedin Honolulu Federal Penetentiary since July 8th, 2010. He's been denied bail twice, and had his trial postponed until April 2011. Essentially, he's being judged and imprisoned without trial, for what amounts to a first-time, non-violent accusation. The criminal violations of Constitutional Law and due process are stunning in the blatant disregard for law being committed against Roger Christie. Clearly disproportionate to the alleged crime Roger has been providing sacrament to the THC Ministry community for ten years, openly and honestly. He and the local Cannabis culture have succeeded against the black market where the "authorities" have failed by growing and trading locally. Now Roger and his ministry are being punished for their effort to normalize relations with Cannabis by teaching respect and demonstrating its economic value.

If you imprison a man of truth and peace, then you violate everyone's peace, but the truth doesn't change: Cannabis is too valuable to be truly illegal. Hemp nutrition, both unique and essential, is not even close to being within the moral jurisdiction of the court. To induce scarcity of essential resources is a threat to national security.

Except that every human is free then we are none of us truly free.
"Every herb bearing seed" is no more within the jurisdiction of the court
than any womb bearing child is.

Essentially the responsibility of the father, we are charged with providing the best food possible for our children and our community. The best food possible for the greatest number of people is hemp seed. Hemp is the most potentially abundant and environmentally beneficial crop there is, so what makes people think that the government has rightful jurisdiction?

It is simply the inertial credibility that is still being assumed by an outlaw federal government. The incumbent political regime in the US continues to obstruct Cannabis, an historically revered, "strategic food resource," at every opportunity. Perhaps President Obama and Governor Arnold don't think we need essential fatty acids and sustainable biofuels from the same harvest, but I do. I challenge their authority over any "herb bearing seed" and take issue with the fact they haven't recognized Cannabis for what it's truly worth. "Misprision of treason" is the failure to act in defense of national security. Clearly, our elected officials are remiss in recognizing the strategic and ecological values of hemp.

To Roger and the Choir...

2010-10-14T08:27:00.000-07:00

Right-On Reverend! — You’re even more right than you know…
Cannabis isn’t illegal, it’s essential.

Drugs don’t make seeds, herbs do.

Freedom to farm “Every herb bearing seed” “every green herb” “every plant that bears fruit with seed in it” are the first three tests of religious freedom!

Monoterpenes from Cannabis agriculture are the sun screen for the planet!

Hemp seed is nutritionally unique and essential!

Hemp is the only crop that produces a complete food and sustainable biofuels from the same harvest!

Beyond the rightful jurisdiction of any court, Cannabis is critical to mankind’s sustainable existence on this planet, and we’d better start planting it everywhere soon, because

Time is the limiting factor in the equation of survival.

Buoyancy of Spirit

2010-10-01T06:37:00.000-07:00

Glancing at the headlines this morning, I see once again that our world is awash in sadness. Breakdown, suffering, struggle, aggression and chaos are evolving in the wake of prolonged, imposed essential resource scarcity.

If we are to survive, we need to wake up soon to the fact that agriculture is our link to the Great YouNameIt that created the world we humans are meant to care for, not pillage. Failing to recognize the unique and essential value of Cannabis ecology, agriculture, manufacture and trade is a treasonous act against the Natural Order, a commonly known threat to everyone's well-being. I am concerned that the intrenched misdirection that has masqueraded as government will continue to impose scarcity where abundance is needed.

In considering the legitimacy of my ministry and the meaning of my work, with age, I am evermore aware of the value in my empathic relationship with the people of the world. The desire to realize the fundamental human right to farm Cannabis has grown from decades of international travel, filmmaking, writing, art production, activism and photojournalism. Before that I spent thousands of hours underwater as a commercial diver on the north coast of California. And many more as an underwater photographer in the ocean around Hawaii.

The tangible connectedness I became a part of in the rhythmic surge of the sea has never really ended, translatable onto land as a universal concern for all life. I have spent much of my life advocating the appreciation of Cannabis for what it is truly worth. Add to that the value of peace, health and balance and people can begin to understand why it is so important to advance the conversation beyond "legalization" to "rightful jurisdiction." Do you really want to give the military industrial complex legal authority over any "herb bearing seed," let alone one that is both unique and essential?

For whatever buoyancy of spirit there may be in passing this perspective along, I offer this guided meditation, to recharge life energy and healing, directly from the source

http://guidedmeditations.blogspot.com/

Outlaw Petroleum

2010-09-29T05:30:00.000-07:00

If mankind wants its children to survive, then we must outlaw the use of petroleum products immediately. Simply "running out" of fossil fuels is degenerating into a violent, toxic, social evolutionary nightmare, worse than we can imagine.

Fortunately, there is a positive choice available to everyone for a short time. It begins with a fundamental shift in values. Cannabis has never been truly illegal. Cannabis is in fact both unique and essential, nutritionally complete, critical to the development of "Gaiatherapeutic" Industries.

The insanity of "drug war madness" that has afflicted us for seventy-three years, lingers in the residue of a legislated war. It continues to be an inefficient, expensive one of chemically vested politicians, passing laws, simultaneously attacking the integrity of the planetary ecosystem, and perverting the peaceful social evolution of our species.

The Earth itself is the largest living expression there is that we can touch, smell, taste and come to love in a real way. That love for the Earth taken to its logical, proportionate spiritual significance, is the limit of law. Love for the Earth is what makes us responsible to our planet Mother in a most tangible and direct way. A law that violates the health and peace of my planet is no law. It is simply a legislative assault against everyone all at once.

Clearly, the use of fossil fuels as the basis for human economics violates the Rules of the Natural Order and is proving deadly to all life on Earth. Prohibition of Cannabis is a weapon directed against the quality of life on Earth, a toxic, violent legacy to leave for our children and grand children to deal with.

Too many people already suffer unnecessarily in too many countries as the result of prolonged, imposed essential resource scarcity. The result of economic inertia, carrying our moral values away from spiritual regard for Nature, is reflected in our choice of economic base, in exactly the wrong direction. Only through the absence of spirituality in human economics is the use of toxins afforded a positive value.

The logical alternatives to petro, coal, nuclear and other toxic energy sources are obviously agricultural and organic. The systems of Nature must be healed by the natural systems that people everywhere have at hand to do that. The soil and water can be partnered with the sun, through the labor of man in the interest of shielding the planet from UV-B solar radiation.

The single most potent change in value that would afford our species the conversion from imminent environmental, economic, and social chaos to synergistic collapse, is the revaluation of Cannabis as a primary resource. Failure to identify Cannabis for its true value is proving to be a fatal mistake. We don't need to keep making it.

Outlaw petroleum by investing in an alternative local currency. If there isn't one in your community, then consider starting one. Base your money on the regional, natural agricultural wealth, made possible through untaxed, unregulated heirloom seed production. See www.shastashares.com for an example of one possible, peaceful economic alternative, that recognizes the legitimacy of a sincere, spiritual relationship with this planet. For me, that relationship is deepened profoundly through Cannabis farming. I have never asked for permission to grow Cannabis because I am protected by the First Amendment of the United States and California Constitutions; by the weight of reason; and honor of sacrifices made for our freedoms.

Basing an economic system in natural predictable abundance, as offered by an heirloom seed economy is the most effective way to bring peace and health to the greatest number of communities in this world.

We can begin by freeing Roger Christie, freeing Eddie Lepp, freeing Marc Emery. We can begin as well by freezing the prosecution of all non-violent Cannabis offenders immediately. Eventually a reviewing of civil rights violations committed against the Cannabis culture in the name of a disingenuous legislative war will be afforded in retrospect.

"It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it." -- George Carlin

"Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country."

2010-09-28T07:06:00.001-07:00

Aloha for Roger Christie

2010-09-28T05:37:00.000-07:00

At this moment, THC Minister Roger Christie sits in federal prison, and the horizons of injustice are being broadly, shamelessly expanded. An honorable gentleman of integrity, wisdom and peace is being imprisoned in the land of Aloha, without bail, falsely judged by a vindictive court-without-a-trial, as a danger to his Big Island community.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Roger has been a righteous protector and ambassador for his community, for twenty-five years. Denied bail twice, his next court date has been postponed until April 2011.

Roger's case is on the cutting edge of social evolution in the world's oldest global culture. As marijuana laws change to reflect the urgent necessity of ending prohibition, the true value of the Cannabis plant is being revealed. Cannabis is essential and unique,beyond the rightful jurisdiction of any court.

I'd like to see a coalition of the international, ecologically, agriculturally and spiritually concerned people of this Earth take responsibility for the whole, true value of Cannabis, for a change. If Cannabis agriculture, ecology, manufacture and trade are factored in to the equation of survival, then Prop 19 is plainly unnecessary and in fact a stumbling block to the real change that's needed. Anything that interferes with our freedom to farm in our own individual spiritual way, is a costly relic of a morally and economically bankrupt system that failed to identify Cannabis for what it's truly worth.

There is nothing to fear but the atmosphere itself. We are being broiled by UV-B radiation. The indicator species are dying. Wake up and stand up for Cannabis freedom. Help get Roger Christie released from prison. Write to Roger, let him know you appreciate and support him. And if you can, then send this information along to other people who may care to know that the first Amendment is being shredded in Hawaii.

2010-09-22T07:29:00.000-07:00

One's in prison one is dead.
Both are heroes.

Free Roger Christie, Bless Jack Herer...

Roger Christie

2010-09-22T07:18:00.000-07:00

Reverend Roger Christie's unlawful, anti-Constitutional, incarceration is cause for an immediate legal recourse, against the prohibition-drunk bureaucrats, who have committed an obvious crime of perjury, in order to imprison one of the world's visionary leaders. The extremes of injustice being perpetrated by the court system are defined by wh o Roger is and the absurdity of identifying him as a danger to his community. Anyone who has ever met Roger or reviews his life for the past twenty-five years can appreciate what a dangerous lie that is.

Please, contact me to help write or sign-on to a community letter that will effect Roger's release from prison, as soon as humanly/electronically possible.

Why we must exercise "Essential Civilian Demand" before the November vote on Prop 19

2010-09-15T09:12:00.000-07:00

Many people all over the world agree and insist that the so-called "war on drugs" must end. Prohibition has been known to be counter-productive (worse than merely a failure) since the 1920's when alcohol prohibition achieved the same results as the present day prohibition of marijuana is doing. Violence, black markets, abuse, corruption and polarization are the inevitable result of current policy. So why do we need a vote to "end" [sic] marijuana prohibition in November when people are being killed and sitting in prison right now?

"Essential Civilian Demand" for Cannabis could end prohibition -- in a week -- using existing laws to supersede the blatantly illegal statutes being used to impose "strategic resource" scarcity.

Failure to recognize the true value of Cannabis, and the lingering effects of Reefer Madness, have allowed prohibition to continue. Now that the real value of Cannabis is commonly known, and the harms of prohibition beyond doubt, then a challenge of rightful jurisdiction is the most direct and effective way to resolve the imbalances created.

To vote on such an obvious miscarriage of justice legitimizes the authority of those economic forces who have interfered with needed changes since the 1930s. This is an opportunity to identify the larger wrong that has allowed corporate/political manipulation to erode our natural, god-given rights to "every herb bearing seed."

I challenge the authority of any court that says I can't feed my family the most nutritious food on the planet, fresh and living, directly from my garden.

An Open Letter to Hon. MICHAEL B. SHAPIRO, FLORENCE T. NAKAKUNI! and MICHAEL K. KAWAHARA

2010-09-06T14:11:00.001-07:00

Open Letter to Hon. MICHAEL B. SHAPIRO, FLORENCE T. NAKAKUNI! and MICHAEL K. KAWAHARA REGARDING THE IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF THE REVEREND ROGER CHRISTIE:

Our freedom to farm " every herb bearing seed" is the first test of religious freedom. The imprisonment of Reverend Roger Christie, AND REFUSAL OF BAIL, is clearly a threat to national security.

Roger's incarceration insults historical sacrifice and retards the evolution of respect for the ancient Cannabis culture, which is essential for resolving compounding crises we are facing in the 21st Century. While it is true that the failure to act in defense of national security is a crime known as "misprision of treason" perhaps the best way to effect Roger's release is to simply ask politely...

Please, effect the Release of Reverend Roger Christie immediately. Roger is not a threat to his community. Reverend Christie is in fact of enormous value and benefit to the people of the Big Island and the world. When people learn what you have done, the punishment for your actions will be severe. It is no small thing to take away the freedom of a champion of freedom. The work of the Hawaiian THC Ministry, in teaching spiritual regard for 'marijuana,' is helping to balance abuse of hard drugs and alcohol in Hawaii. You must know this.

The world is quickly growing into realization of the true value of the Cannabis plant. If you don't know what that is by now, in observing the activities of Roger Christie, then it can be concluded that you are not qualified to serve the best interests of the people of Hawaii, and will be asked to step down from your position of responsibility in the very near future.

for peace, with Aloha,

Paul J. von Hartmann California
Cannabis Ministry Project PEACE

The Contemporary Crucifixion of Roger Christie

2010-09-01T05:22:00.000-07:00

Freedom of religion is under attack in the cruel and unusual imprisonment of the free-spirited Reverend Roger Christie. Held in federal prison since July 8th, Reverend Christie has been denied bail twice after being charged in a spurious, first-time, non-violent-crime accusation.

Christie is being selectively prosecuted and maliciously misjudged without objective due process or accountability as "a danger to the community." Reverend Christie is in fact being spanked by a vindictive "drug war" crazed regime for effectively defending his Big Island community against the harms of hard drugs, the black market and armed invasion by federally-funded 'marijuana' eradication helicopters.

Reverend Christie is as sincere and dedicated as he is qualified in reclaiming the spiritual legitimacy of the world's oldest global culture. Among other accomplishments during his 25 years of human rights work in Hawaii, in 2000 Reverend Christie was a recipient of the Drug Policy Forum of Hawaii’s Ho’omaluhia (Peacemaker) Award. He is also a member of the Board of Peaceful Sky Alliance

http://peacefulskyalliance.org/

Sacrifices made by previous generations, guaranteeing our spiritual freedom, demand to be remembered and reclaimed by every generation. Outrage permeates the ethereal dimensions! A deafening, ancient outcry from generations before us screams that it is not enough to simply indulge in selected freedoms while letting others languish for lack of understanding and appreciation. The integrity of human spiritual evolution is being blatantly assaulted.

The Constitution is being shredded by the shamelessly unobjective court, desecrating the First Amendment. Help make Roger Christie's the last marijuana trial. Call in this Sunday at high noon to do something about it while there's still time to evolve beyond the present trajectory to foreseeable extinction.

Guest call-in number: 1 (347) 202-0195

Values, not laws. Evolution vs. revolution

2010-08-27T06:38:00.000-07:00

The economic revolution is being imposed quietly by the incumbent regime. As values are twisted to accommodate the interests of the increasingly wealthy chemical class, control over Cannabis agriculture is about to be gained by acquiescence.

The determining factor in responsible governance of Cannabis has nothing to do with Proposition 19. Proportionate humility in the presence of the miraculous is what's needed. Transcending prohibition of the world's most nutritious and useful crop is a simple shift in its perceived value.

Proving the true value of Cannabis means simply pointing out that it is both unique and essential. Once that is established, then the value of Cannabis makes its prohibition impossible.

No vote needed. No tax needed. To concede jurisdiction over the Cannabis plant is sheer madness.

Is it not madness to give over the world's most valuable plant to the system that has failed to acknowledge its true value for seven decades? Regarding climate change and in particular “global broiling” by increasing UV-B radiation, how hot do things have to get before all solutions are considered?

If Cannabis agriculture is the most available and effective way to protect this planet from synergistic collapse of environment, economics and mankind’s social order, then why do precious planting seasons pass without recognizing the essential value of hemp agriculture, manufacture and trade?

"Essential civilian demand" for Cannabis must be carried out before the November elections. This is a pivotal time, and to fail in acting responsibly will cost present and future generations dearly.

This was written in response to a question about Cannabis on Facebook

2010-08-12T09:45:00.001-07:00

Rajeev asked "is cannabis the same plant as marijuana?"

Neither Sunil nor Sam answered your question Rajeev. The short answer is, yes, but there's much more to it than that. Confusing as the nomenclature is, a longer answer is needed to understand it fully.

Cannabis is the genus name (properly capitalized according to the CBE Manual) for an ancient plant of many names, including 'marijuana'. For this discussion a distinction is being made between two types of Cannabis, low- and high-THC varieties of Cannabis.

In the US, high-THC Cannabis is most often referred to as 'marijuana,' "pot," etc. THC has psychoactive effect and is used therapeutically, spiritually and recreationally.

Low-THC Cannabis is often referred to as "industrial hemp" or just "hemp." For the sake of accuracy, historically high-THC 'marijuana' was sometimes also called "hemp."

My concern with Prop 19 is that after seventy-three years of being wrong, misleading and abusing people about the true value of this "herb bearing seed", we are so eager to convey control over this sacred herb to the same authority that's been putting people in jail for recognizing value in it and defying an anti-Constitutional law.

Now that the corporate chemically controlled government is being overruled by the growing awareness of the American people, it's time to exercise "essential civilian demand" if we are to avoid extinction. Wake up!! The bees, bats and amphibians are dying!

A total lifting of the ban on so-called "industrial hemp" (which also has enormous therapeutic benefits) is called for without tax or regulation. Cannabis is both unique and essential, a strategic resource that's critical to national and global security.

Sunil, you and Chris Conrad know so much about Cannabis and yet you still don't understand its critical importance in avoiding the synergistic collapse that's starting and being suffered all over the world. 'Time' is the limiting factor in the equation of survival. If we don't start an intensive planting of industrial hemp by next spring, then we could all be sitting around happily rolling "legal" joints when shithitsthefan.

WHY DO WE NEED GOVERNMENT PERMISSION TO GROW ANY "HERB BEARING SEED?" Is the Constitution that dead in people's minds that even the First Amendment doesn't count? You know that Reverend Roger Christie is being held in federal prison, right? He's been there since July 16th, and been refused bail for a first-time, non-violent offense.

Are these the people you want to continue giving jurisdiction to rather than saying "Our freedom to farm "every herb bearing seed" is the first test of religious freedom." Done. Legal.

What you and Chris are supporting could incrementally seal our fate, effecting the predictable extinction of our species, by employing half-measures without even trying to implement the strongest most direct route to freedom: "essential civilian demand" for a "strategic" resource.

If our fathers and grandfathers did this, we'd all be spreckin Doytch & Japanese by now.

Sunil and Chris, did you notice the minimal reference made to "industrial hemp" in Prop 19 ? Does that oversight not concern you?

Because hemp has been banned using marijuana as an excuse, then wouldn't it be normal to delineate and end to the ban on hemp agriculture in the Proposition that quasi-legalizes marijuana agriculture?

Free Roger Christie, now.

2010-08-12T09:35:00.000-07:00

Reverend Roger Christie must be released immediately. This man is a benefit to a free society and is being held in violation of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Only an outlaw regime would deny this man bail, as has ben done, twice!

Stand up for religious freedom now or kiss the Constitution good-bye, forever.

Reverend Roger Christie: First case in the objective Court of Global Consensus

2010-08-08T09:04:00.000-07:00

"God" is quoted on the first page of the Bible recognized as "Holy" in the U.S. courts. The first thing God is supposed to have said was in regard to the importance of "herbs." He repeated Himself three times!

Obviously Reverend Roger Christie's imprisonment, and being denied bail, are first Amendment violations which merit widespread concern and immediate action. Any authority that presumes jurisdiction over any "herb bearing seed" is violating its own Constitution. People must take responsibility for the true value of Cannabis agriculture, manufacture and trade in a timely manner, or face increasing government tyranny throughout the slide to global extinction.

It's our choice and someone else has been making it wrongly all of our lives. Roger's case is the leading edge of social evolution and a shift in essential values. There are a few things we need to survive on Earth, and Cannabis is one of them.

A lawsuit needs to be brought immediately against all individuals responsible for emprisoning the Reverend Roger Christie. His mother is worried sick, and we all ought to be worried that Roger has been denied bail.

The unobjective court system (franchised & corrupted by perverse economics and unreasoning political power, affording the black market the power to imposed essential resource scarcity, through prohibition) are guilty as Hell of "misprision of treason."

Roger and I have been pointing out for decades that Cannabis can't be illegal, because it's essential!

Failure to act in the interest of national security is the crime of "misprision of treason." Cannabis has been identified by seven American Presidents as a "strategic food resource" that's critical to national security! You probably know that if you've read my stuff. I've been writing and speaking the same truths endlessly for so long on a G-string buget that I'm starting to burn out on doing other than gardening. Hempfest will be my last big shindig. I've got a regional plan to get going that involves starting a local alternative currency for the Bay Area. See www.shastashares.com for a link to the brochure.

Yet , groups like DPA, NORML, MPP and all the other heavily bankrolled groups, have failed to comprehend the most direct stratgey for ending prohibition because they have inexplicably rolled-over to concede rightful jurisdiction over an unique and essential natural resource.

Why would anyone agree to that? Inducing essential resource scarcity results in chaos, and eventual synergistic collapse. Cannabis prohibition is is antithetical to government.

I got to get going, so let me know if I can help in any way. I sent RC a copy of the Citizen's Rule Book & a funny card. I trust they'll laugh & let the Constitution (included in the booklet) through the prison mail censor.

Ask mothers suffering from hyperemesis gravidarum if 'marijuana' is harmful to pregnant women.

2010-08-08T09:03:00.000-07:00

"[Devlin] also cited exhaustive medical and scientific studies, court rulings and expert testimony that show pot -- though medically beneficial and legal in some cases -- poses a risk to pregnant women, young people, long-term users, drivers and those with mental disorders."

This is at least wrong and at worst debilitating, possibly fatal, to mother and fetus. Ask women with hyperemesis gravidarum if 'marijuana' is harmful to pregnant women.

What's harmful to young people is being scapegoated as the cause for the world's most harmful government policy while being intentionally tempted by the "forbidden fruit" effect created by prohibition. If the government really want to stop the marijuana trade, all they'd have to do is grow industrial hemp in abundance, and all the outdoor pot would get seeded. No more black market, no more teen abuse, no more gangs growing plantations in our wilderness areas. And many other problems solved.

Shame on anyone who believes in the so-called "drug war" as other than an anti-Constitutional, revenue raising scheme, empowering people selling expensive solutions that don't work to solve problems that are evermore profitable. Will someone please help me Wake up America. Cannabis isn't illegal, it's essential.

We have nothing to fear but the atmosphere itself. Time is the limiting factor in the equation of survival. Cannabis is unique AND essential, valuable beyond the rightful jurisdiction of any court. Our freedom to farm every herbbearing seed is the first test of religious freedom.

Reverend Roger Christie has been denied bail in Hawaii.

http://www.thc-ministry.org/?page_id=453

This is outrageous, thuggish and an unacceptable violation of our "first freedom"

http://www.firstfreedom.gov/

and the Church Arson Prevention Act of 1996

ftp.resource.org/gpo.gov/laws/104/publ155.104.pdf

Our right to right to freely evolve the spiritual dimensions of culture

2010-08-01T08:02:00.000-07:00

The following started as a letter to Tommy an earlier version of which I sent to him this morning, but really this ought to concern everyone...

Dear "We the People of the United States of America"

I thought you & folks you know might like to help me help Roger Christie get out of prison. Roger is being held without bail in a case that will eventually reclaim our First Amendment right to freely celebrate the spiritual dimensions culture. At the same time, the case reintroduces the question of rightful jurisdiction over "every herb bearing seed" -- in particular, the most nutritious, healing and industrially valuable organic crop on Earth -- for reintegration into U.S. agricultural rotations and as a feed-stock for sustainable energy production and "Gaiatherapeutic" industries.

This is an epic court contest, not to be missed or misunderstood. Roger is taking it to the limit for our religious rights and the fundamental freedom to an agricultural free market -- all at the same time!

Most importantly, Roger is sincere in his spiritual reverence for Cannabis, as demonstrated in his life and work. The fact that he has openly defied an unjust law for more than twenty years ought to afford him at least the right of bail. His biography is fascinating,

"What Eisler calls a partnership spiritually is integral to this shift. Those that are seeking spiritual guidance must be able to open their minds, and hearts to what is around them. Cannabis helps us reach deep into our spiritual awareness, and with that we can find the truth in all things." -- RC

Roger Christie
http://www.thc-ministry.org/?page_id=15

Can you help us?
Please call me anytime.

for more info,
Free Roger Christie
http://www.thc-ministry.org/?page_id=453

Roger's attorney's name is Matthew Winter
e:mail: matthew_winter@fd.com

Blest rushes,

PvH

"Collect choice spices..."

2010-07-31T06:07:00.000-07:00

The recipe that follows is from the King James Bible, Exodus 30:23. It's the Holy Anointing Oil that Christ used to bless people with. It is recipe for the oil that Roger Christie makes on the Big Island of Hawaii, on the Full Moon, and uses to bless his congregation.

Reverend Roger has lovingly shared this ancient oil and recipe with literally thousands of people, and has given several ounces of it to me for free. Roger is a true minister of Cannabis. To keep him in prison is a crime against the First Amendment. To hold him without bail is a blow to the Constitution.

"Take the following fine spices: 500 shekels of liquid myrrh, half as much (that is, 250 shekels) of fragrant cinnamon, 250 shekels of fragrant cane,(also translated as spice-cane , sweet calamus, sweet myrtle, aromatic cane, etc.)

Biblos
http://bible.cc/exodus/30-23.htm

What exactly is the harm in finding spiritual association and social evolution through the reverential appreciation of Cannabis, compared to the Department of Justice violating the First Amendment?

Set Roger Christie free, now.

Selling out the herb through popular vote

2010-07-28T10:43:00.001-07:00

"Legalizing" marijuana through a vote in November concedes rightful jurisdiction over an unique and essential "herb bearing seed" that's never been truly illegal.

Cannabis is essential and unique, beyond the rightful jurisdiction of any court. Reclaiming ancient traditions of spiritual gratitude in the context of the world's oldest global culture, founded in respect for nature, is are all that's needed to free the herb. The laws are in place. No vote needed.
Come on Tommy, we have the opportunity for "essential ciivilian demand" for critical "strategic resource."
The vote will result in the bureaucratic death of the hemp industry, as it did in Hawaii at the University's DEA"permitted" test field. Just bigger, more vicious and institutionalized.

Don't sell out the herb to the same uptight, lying, traitorous regime who, for more than seventy years, has refused to acknowledge the true value of the world's most nutritious and useful, potentially abundant and globally distributed agricultural resource.
Freedom to farm "every herb bearing seed" is the first test of religious freedom. Let's not rush for the carrot and give away the First Amendment so willingly.

beyond accountable jurisdiction

2010-07-25T15:43:00.000-07:00

Cannabis is valuable beyond the accountable jurisdiction of any court. Imposing scarcity of an uniquely essential agricultural resource is antithetical to free governance.

Burdening the Cannabis industry in a the bureaucratic mire that failed to acknowledge its true value for more than seventy years, will only make Cannabis agriculture, manufacture and trade ridiculously expensive, blatantly corrupt and criminally inefficient as the rest of the political mess.

Cannabis isn't illegal, it's essential. Anyone who concedes rightful jurisdiction before the question has even been asked concedes too much too soon. I'll not entrust my family's health and well-being when I know that the best medicine is the one that keeps you from getting sick in the first place, namely hemp seed, biodynamic, fresh, fertile.

In the "Land of the Free" people can eat what they want, except for fresh fertile hemp seed that will prevent and successfully treat cancer and other grave imbalances in body and planet. Love is the limit of law, and if you love your children enough, you'll help me shatter that law.

Can we stop all this nonsense about a 'marijuana' vote that will only codify control over Cannabis by short-sighted, naive, public acquiescence? What's needed is for people to wake up to the full legal significance of religious freedom in the Constitution, as it secures the spiritual dimensions of farming.

Roger Christie is in Honolulu prison right now, denied bail, standing up for your religious freedom too.

Hawaii Cannabis Ministry founder ordered held without bail
http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/breaking/98642399.html

Free Roger Christie and the THC Ministry 13
http://www.thc-ministry.org/?page_id=453

Please do what you can to help get Reverend Roger out of prison, whose "First Freedom" (DOJ) is being violated, at the same time he's being denied the presumption of innocence before trial. Regardless of what people think about 'marijuana' the court system has slipped several notches closer to outright fascism in the case of Roger Christie.

for peace,

Press Release: DOJ Violating Our "First Freedom"

2010-07-24T08:42:00.000-07:00

Saturday, July 24, 2010
Press Release: DOJ Violating Our "First Freedom"

Roger Christie must be released from prison immediately and his oppressors identified and immobilized.

The First Amendment of the United States Constitution is under attack, and if people let the Reverend Roger Christie languish in prison, then you will "reap what you sow" in the execution of what has historically been legally secured as the "First Freedom" in our American spiritual culture.

Our individual spiritual evolution is being attacked by people who have lost their connection to the Natural Order. Disrespect for Cannabis and the people who find essential value in it violates "natural, god-given, inalienable" rights.

No matter what you believe about Cannabis, or why you believe it, the fact remains that every negative experience anyone has ever had with 'marijuana' has happened in the context of the so-called "drug war."

What "defines" a true religion is you are entitled to believe anything you want, as long as it doesn't harm anyone else. That's called the Golden Rule.

The THC Minstry is consistent with that rule. No harm done -- in fact quite the opposite-- there's enormous benefit to the Big Island community resulting from Roger's Ministry and Cannabis educators who learn about the wonders of Cannabis from Roger. The NIDA itself reported the increase in hard drug use in the absence of an abundant pakalolo supply.

Everything else aside, you can't hold someone in prison without bail for their religious belief. It isn't okay to dismiss his peaceful religious beliefs before he's been tried.

The "religious" leaders who ought to be in prison are the ones who support Godless behavior including endless wars against the only common seed with three essential fatty acids, the best available source of organic vegetable protein on Earth and the only crop that produces biofuels and a complete food from the same harvest while generating a year-round river of "monterpenes" into the atmosphere to protect the planet against solar radiation, while re-mineralizing depleted farmlands, stopping soil erosion, expanding the arable base, producing oxygen, sequestering carbon, detoxifying air land and water, providing herbal therapeutics for free and making it possible for humanity to achieve sustainable existence within a functional Natural Order.

The people who are violating your and my freedom of religion right now by emprisoning Roger Christie, are directed by the same horrifyingly immoral regime that violates the Geneva Conventions, wire-taps your phone, wages wars for "petropoison" and proliferates the use of depleted uranium munitions, while imposing essential agricultural resource scarcity on a world on the verge of synergistic collapse of environment, economics and social structures..

Besides, Cannabis has been scientifically proven beyond doubt to be good for your health in many ways. It's The Lie of Two Centuries that THC, CBDs, CBNs or any other component of the Cannabis plant is harmful to the human body.

What's true is that, that the best 'medicine' is the one that's available for free from God, that keeps you from getting sick in the first place.

Roger Christie has been a friend of mine for almost twenty years. I think Roger would permit me to say, he and I have worked closely to help ourselves and others appreciate and recognize the spiritual legitimacy of the world's oldest global culture.

Truly, Roger Christie is first of all a man of peace. I can promise you that this man is sincere and tremendously insightful in awakening people's latent spiritual regard for the Cannabis plant. Not just the smoking of "pot" but the environmental benefits, nutritional and industrial uses as well.

Secondly, I can promise that Roger is NO flight risk. He's been single-handedly taking on the defense of the Big Island for more than two decades, and what would make anybody think that Roger would run. He never has and he's not about to be chased off by this cowardly enforcement act now.

Roger's got more "coconuts" than all 150 of the DEA peace invaders they sent to violate the First Amendment put together. Let Roger out of jail and quit worrying his Mom Doris, who must be praying up a storm right now. I certainly pray for Roger's release and will my spirit to him so that he find strength from the air we breath that connects us

Freedom to farm is the first test of religious freedom. You may not like what I grow, but it doesn't mean I won't defend the ancient, spiritually legitimate individual relationship humankind has had with the planting of "every herb bearing seed."

You may not appreciate the importance of Cannabis seed nutrition and the enormous harms imposed by banning the world's most potentially abundant, globally distributed, environmentally beneficial and industrially useful crop, but I understand it and Roger Christie understands it, and our lifelong commitment to learning, contemplating and sharing the love and apprciation we feel in our hearts for the Cannabis plant forces us to reject government the presupposed unaccountable jurisdiction of any court over any natural resource which is BOTH unique and essential.

Cannabis isn't illegal. It's essential. Our forefathers didn't sacrifce so much for the freedom to complain. The economically biased, corporately corrupted U.S. court will force feed us all chemicals and problems because the solutions they sell are expensive, don't work, and the problems are endlessly profitable.

Aloha to all from the heart of my brother-in-spirit, Reverend Roger Christie. He has given generously from his heart, to the people of Hawaii and the world. It is now time for We the People to stand up and say once and for all time, love is the limit of law.

About the pot...

2010-07-15T05:56:00.000-07:00

It's really not about the pot.

It's about our freedom to farm and the sincere & legitimate ancient spiritual traditions of agriculture. It's about healing the atmosphere while feeding hundreds of millions of starving people. It's about sustainable economics based in abundance. Conceding rightful jurisdiction over any "herb bearing seed" is sheer madness and violates the First Amendment like nothing else could.

Did you know that six American Presidents (Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Clinton) have signed Executive Orders identifying "hemp" as critical to national security? Thomas Jefferson wrote that "Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country."

Nutritionally unique and essential, Cannabis seed is the only common seed with three essential fatty acids and is (potentially) the best available source of organic vegetable protein on Earth. Doesn't it make you wonder that the UNFAO doesn't even recognize the world's most complete food as fit for human consumption?

Hemp is also the only crop that produces a complete food and sustainable biofuels from the same harvest. Hemp also produces monoterpenes that mitigate climate imbalances through radiative forcing.

Reverend Roger Christie, founder of the THC Ministry in Hawaii is recently incarcerated, selectively targeted for standing up for everyone's spiritual freedom right now. It would help to let people know this is happening.

http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/hawaiinews/20100710_14_plead_not_guilty_8_held_after_big_isle_pot_arrests.html

"First Freedom" -- An Open Letter to the Department of Justice

2010-07-11T09:30:00.000-07:00

Dear Mr. Treene,

Perhaps you are aware that Reverend Roger Christie is in jail in Hawaii. I am writing to engage the assistance of your office to effect his immediate release.

Reverend Christie is being selectively prosecuted as a leader in the public effort to recognize the legitimate, historically significant religious dimensions of mankind's relationship with the Cannabis plant. In fact, Cannabis use by humans predates organized religion. Marijuana and other psychotropic plants have been recognized as foundational catalysts for human spiritual evolution.

The DEA is protecting corporate interests by violating our "First Freedom" as a tactic of intimidation, part of a campaign to mislead the American public about the definition of industrial hemp. This is clearly a threat to national security. A search for "hemp" on the DEA website produces a page which is full of misleading inaccuracies. For example

"“Hemp” is part of the cannabis plant, which is also known as marijuana."
"“...hemp” is not a term that is found in federal law."

DEA Clarifies Status of Hemp in the Federal Register, October 9, 2001.
http://www.justice.gov/dea/pubs/pressrel/pr100901.html

In truth, six American Presidents have signed Executive Orders identifying "hemp" as a "strategic resource" that is critical to national security. Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon and Clinton are in agreement with Thomas Jefferson who wrote:

"Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country."
-Thomas Jefferson

It is clearly a "misprision of treason" to fail in recognizing the known value of hemp. Each spring planting season that passes is gone forever. Time is the only thing we can't make more of.

I invite the DOJ to participate in defense of the U.S. Constitution and national security. Please let me know how I may assist you in resolving this injustice as expeditiously as possible.

Sincerely yours,

Paul J. von Hartmann
California Cannabis Ministry

Sent to
The U.S. Department of Justice
Combating Religious Discrimination and Protecting Religious Freedom
http://www.firstfreedom.gov/

Reverend Roger Christie was arrested in Hawaii today.

2010-07-10T06:43:00.000-07:00

Primitive.

Arresting Roger Christie is thuggish -- more of the same from our military industrial corporate chemical government, that shoots innocents with drones; induces birth defects for generations using depleted uranium munitions; bankrupts our country then rewards the guilty bankers; pokes a gaping petroleum wound into the Gulf of Mexico; "fraks" our water supplies; and engenders a two trillion dollar black market while creating essential resource scarcity in the world by banning industrial hemp agriculture.

Reverend Christie is a long-time friend and a fellow Cannabis minister. I can tell you that Rev Roger is as sincere as any priest and beautifully honorable in his desire to make this world a better place. Roger's the kind of person who would pull over on the highway to help you if you were stranded. I trust & envision that he will be released soon, unharmed.

To arrest a minister of the world's oldest global culture is a shameless attack at the foundations of all religions, a blatant violation of the separation between church and state, and an environmental catastrophe that potentiates global extinction. And, oh by the way, arresting Reverend Christie is also a victory for the meth market as the pakalolo prices will inevitably rise.

The incumbent outlaw regime that controls the political landscape has made a serious mistake. Inviting in the Court of Public Opinion ignores the fact that government has failed to do other than create problems with the counter-productive, anti-Constitutional, selective and hypocritical so-called "drug war." If we don't help Roger and the other people whose First Amendment rights are being trampled, then that's a serious indication we are beyond hope for a livable future.

People know how valuable Cannabis is. Decades of Hempfests and research have revaluated the world's most nutritious and useful, environmentally beneficial, potentially abundant, agronomically essential, globally distributed "strategic" "herb bearing seed." Yet another growing season has passed without the United States planting the world's most valuable agricultural resource.

Polls indicate progressive views on the subject of marijuana and hemp are in the majority. The wave has broken on the lie of "Reefer Madness." Cannabis isn't illegal, it's essential. And time, the limiting factor in the equation of survival, is the only thing we can't make more of.

People better stand up now, for religious freedom. Otherwise, we'll lose the strongest, most direct link we have left to our civil liberties. A person's individual spiritual evolution does not need permission to exist from any court.

Any government that doesn't honor the Golden Rule is an outlaw. "Do unto others..." is being blatantly violated by your government. We the People had best respond with strength and resolve. I'm looking for a sponsor to cover my expenses in helping Roger, if anyone out there can help me help you help everyone.

Please do what you can to viralize this post:

Free Roger Christie now.
Mahalo.

Dolphin Economics 101 -- Believe It? Support it.

2010-07-05T07:28:00.000-07:00

Asking for financial help is the hardest thing for me to do. I'm going to do it now though because dolphin economics works that way:

You help me help you help everyone...

If we don't make the shift to agricultural abundance soon, then the environment will not sustain life on this planet. Because several global atmosphere changes are leading us all to predictable if not inevitable global extinction, mankind's role in a functional ecosystem at this point in time is to actively farm Cannabis for fuel and food in as many bioregions of the Earth as possible, as quickly as we can.

If a spiritual connection between agriculture and mankind still exists, then our freedom to farm is the first test of religious freedom. The First Amendment is all that's needed to immediately transcend hemp prohibition. I've written the State Attorney General's office at least three times regarding the "strategic" stature of Cannabis agriculture, and have received no reply.

Local hemp advocate petitions to address Attorney General
http://www.mtshastanews.com/news/x1121876453/Local-hemp-advocate-petitions-to-address-Attorney-General

If you believe that our right to grow the world's most nutritious plant has never been within the rightful jurisdiction of any court, then please support my effort to end the prohibition of Cannabis hemp in time to plant in California this summer. We must begin investigating the short season in California. To miss this opportunity would be a tragedy of incredible proportion and consequence.

I am willing to stand up and take responsibility for the true value of Cannabis. I have twenty years of research, writing, photographs, film and editorial illustrations. I have ten years of international experience in the European hemp industry.

First, I have to go to Sacramento for a week and exercise essential civilian demand. Then we need to get seed and put it in the ground. Acclimatization of seed stock is critical to the success of ending our addiction to fossil fuels, increasing food security & nutrition and ending the drug war.

Please send whatever support you can to help make this happen.

I've also been invited to speak at Seattle Hempfest this year. I am seeking sponsors to help make that happen.

Checks can be made payable to
Paul von Hartmann

and sent to
P.O. Box 1117
McCloud, CA 96057

Thank you in advance for your support.

Cannabis and the United Nations Food Security & Nutrition Forum

2010-05-29T08:57:00.000-07:00

Forum topic: "Women in agriculture and rural development"

At the most fundamental level, to bring the greatest relief to women in agriculture, a crop is needed that grows food and fuel from the same harvest. Protein, essential fatty-acids, essential amino-acids and clean-burning biofuels are needed in abundance, from the same harvest, to make organic farming work most efficiently.

Ideally this crop would be a complete source of organic vegetable nutrition, capable of adapting to a wide variety of soil and climate conditions. The crop would have to use water efficiently, and if it detoxified contaminated soils and re-mineralize depleted soils that would add to its usefulness in providing a clean environment for raising healthy children. It would be helpful if the crop had exceptional therapeutic properties, including antibiotic, anti-viral, anti-fungal and insect repellent properties.

If the crop provided an effective treatment and more responsible social alternative to alcoholism, it would make women's lives much less violent. Industrial uses, as a raw material for making biodegradable cloth, paper and plastics would provide multiple income streams for a single harvest would allow efficient, regional resource abundance through work, rather than war.

Cannabis hemp agriculture is the single most effective, globally available and affordable shift in value that would do the most to make life for women farmers healthier and easier than it is now. If anyone participating in this forum has a more time-efficient idea for resolving imbalances that impact us all, then I'd certainly like to hear of it. Solving the protein/biofuel equation requires all solutions to be considered.

What's presently happening is that solutions have been outlawed and otherwise marginalized because problems are profitable for the politically powerful few. The environment continues to be wounded as the result of chemically-, scarcity-, war-based economics, and our chances for being effective in resolving critical imbalances are shrinking faster every day.

For impoverished women to bear the weight of inefficiency and imbalance imposed by essential resource scarcity is an insidious misogynistic dimension of human economics that particularly impacts the health and development of children. Compounded burdens are the lot of most women on this planet. Until the effects of drug policy on food security and nutrition are addressed, this fundamental disparity will persist.

The Only Benefit of Being Terminally Wounded

2010-05-29T07:32:00.000-07:00

The silent war of values that's been quietly raging, between agriculture and chemicals, is over. Crude oil contamination of the entire ocean ought to finally convince humankind that there is no acceptable reason for using petrochemicals.

Ffuel, plastics and agricultural fertilizers can be made better, less expensively, more efficiently, and with a net environmental benefit.

"Gaiatherapeutic industries are needed immediately to begin the process of healing that needs to begin. The strategies for healing earth,air, water and atmosphere exist. What's needed immediately are "startegies."

If terminal wounding of the planet isn't sufficient to cause a radical reassessment and shift in human values and the fundamental economic base, then disappearance of a dwindling chance that our species will achieve other than violent extinction is accelerated.

How bad do things have to get before all solutions are considered and implemented?
The only benefit of the Gulf Oil Disaster is that it may be big enough and horrible enough to wake people up to the fact that there is no possibility of justifying continued use of toxic fuels when non-toxics could be easily, efficiently, regionally available.

The cost of fossil fuels energy is death for the entire planet. Reintroduce industrial hemp in 2010 or not, it's our choice.

Jack Herer's legacy rolls on...

2010-04-15T18:18:00.000-07:00

I've just learned of Jack Herer's passing. I remember and give thanks for having shared a few steps on the Hemperor's path.

Like a stone rolling to the water's edge and into another dimension, Jack's energy and passion have been transformed in concentric circles of grassroots influence. A movement born of environmental necessity, Jack Herer was pilot trainer for a generation of aviators at the stick of Spaceship Earth, flying Cannabis awareness and activism into the 21st Century.

I remember the first time we met at the San Luis Obispo hemp conference, early December in 1992. A few of us were smoking a jay outside in the twilight. He autographed my worn and highlighted copy of "The Emperor", thumbing through the dog-eared pages, smiling with satisfaction at seeing his work so thoroughly studied. Next to a sketch of a B-1 bomber encircled by peace activists, the origin of the peace symbol by Jack's account, he wrote,

"To Paul, Thanks for reading and teaching Hemp knowledge. It's what my Partner Capt. Ed & I wanted to do and the way we wish to reach people and we're glad we reached you. Love Jack"

I've been teaching, expanding and digesting hemp knowledge ever since. I never imagined it would take so long to achieve something so necessary.

Bless the soul of this great man. He has left a wake both wide and deep.

Remembering 1937...

2010-04-11T16:24:00.000-07:00

In 1937, small-scale, free-market, organic agriculture was killed in a bloodless bureaucratic coup of incalculable proportions. In 2010 the casualties of the "war of values" undermining spiritually integrated farming practices continue to accumulate.

Though left uncounted, premature human deaths, illnesses and epidemic physical mis-development can be measured in the billions as the result of chemical agriculture, endless wars, and production/disbursement of radioactive materials. A critical rotational crop with ancient cultural and therapeutic properties has been arbitrarily edited from agriculture, making sustainable production of complete nutrition and sustainable biofuels production not only impossible, but a crime.

Harms that result from imposed "essential resource" scarcity include the absence of health, societal corruption and inefficiency, reflected in the unaccountable institutional acceptance of sub-standard alternatives to organic agriculture inclusive of Cannabis.

Pretending that marijuana prohibition is other than counter-productive to its own stated objectives hasn't been credible for a long time. Consider that it is only the absence of "industrial" hemp producing pollen in the farmlands that allows for all that fine California sensimilla to be grown out in our mountain wilderness areas.

Pretending that 'marijuana' and industrial hemp are difficult to distinguish has never been credible. Here are photos to let you decide for yourself.

2010-04-10T12:41:00.000-07:00

"There’s nothing like having children to turn you into an anti-drug crusader.” -- Jack Pitney, political science professor at Claremont McKenna College

Does procreation cause feeblemindedness? Does making a baby make parents completely stupid? I trust not...

As any objective authority in the field of human psychology/animal behavior acknowledges, prohibition causes ""forbidden fruit" syndrome" in children, adolescents and adults. Adding an otherwise absent dimension of rebelliousness to 'marijuana' use, pot and other banned substances are made even more attractive to young people than they would otherwise be, without the so-called "drug war."

"FUNDAMENTALLY COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE" is the only term that can encompass the incalculable, profoundly insidious harm of prohibition. Antithetical to its own stated objectives, imposing essential resource poverty is crippling humankind's economic evolution, and disconnecting spiritual freedom from agricultural practice.

I am infinitely blessed with the love of my extraordinary child, I use Cannabis, feed it (the seedmilk) to my boy, and yet I still understand that prohibition violates his fundamental human right to farm as it violates everyone's. I challenge anyone to give me one good reason that's true, not to grow Cannabis of any strain and potency. There isn't one.

THC in its natural form isn't dangerous (i.e. no LD50). So what do the chemicalists do? They render marijuana into a pill you can OD on. Tax and regulate? More like rip-off and monopolize. Shame on us for letting it even go to a vote.

I don't need your permission to farm and you don't need mine -- if we have any balls left at all. If we don't plant industrial hemp in California this spring, then there's something really wrong with our species.

Maybe having kids does make us completely stupid. Still worth it.

"Oh people,
look around you
the signs are everywhere
you've left it for somebody
other than you
to be the one
to care..."-JBrown

Jezus, people. Wake up, Stand UP.
"Essential civilian demand" for Cannabis. High noon, Capitol steps, Sacramento, May 23rd.

Pass it on and show up.

Tax & regulate is a sucker punch.

Sow hemp everywhere" now.

2010-04-09T15:23:00.000-07:00

Seconds.
At some point
there will be only
a few seconds left
before synergistic
collapse becomes
irreversible.
Will we
only then
attempt to
employ all
possible solutions?

Do we really
love our children
so little that we would
take a chance on
failing
to heal the
Natural Order
upon which all
of us and ours
and theirs and
theirs depend
for our survival?

sad.

who will stand with me
on the Capitol
steps to reclaim
our freedom to farm
every seed-bearing plant
fresh from
American soil
for the first time in
seventy-three
years?
Seven decades of imposed
essential resource
poverty is enough.
don't you think?

DPA? NORML? CJPF? OSI? MPP? HIA? VH?

No sign of life yet
from the well-heeled
under reactive.

Not a season left to waste.

"Sow hemp everywhere"
now.