Hemp For Victory 2026! Exercising “Essential Military and Civilian Demand” for Regional Organic Cannabis

Formal Notice to the United States Department of Agriculture: Exercising “Essential Military and Civilian Demand” for Regional Organic and Biodynamic Cannabis and Hemp Production under the Defense Production Act

Formal civilian demand to end THC limits on industrial hemp in the interest of National Security and Global Integrity

*Submitted by:**  

Paul J. von Hartmann, Cannabis scholar

California Cannabis Ministry

Project PEACE

Planet Ecology Advancing Conscious Evolution

March 1, 2026  

Brooke Rollins 
United States Secretary of Agriculture 

Congressman Glenn Thompson 

PUBLIC COMMENT

Re: H.R. 7567 – Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026

Honorable Members of Congress,

National security is not abstract. It is material.

It is measured in the fertility of our soil, the resilience of our supply chains, the stability of our energy systems, the vitality of our workforce, and the sovereignty of our domestic production capacity.

The Farm Bill is not simply agricultural policy. It is national infrastructure policy.

Within H.R. 7567 are explicit priorities — soil health, renewable biomass, rural workforce development, domestic supply chain strengthening, nutrition security, and biobased manufacturing expansion. Industrial hemp intersects with every one of these objectives.

Failure to align hemp policy with these priorities creates internal contradiction within the bill itself.

I. Industrial Hemp as Strategic Agricultural Infrastructure

Industrial hemp (≤0.3% delta-9 THC under current federal law) is agronomically and economically distinct from intoxicating cannabis markets. It is cultivated globally for fiber, hurd, grain, and biomass.

The United States legalized hemp in 2018, yet regulatory instability has prevented scaling of domestic fiber and grain infrastructure. Meanwhile, the U.S. continues to import hemp textiles, processed fibers, and hemp food products that could be produced domestically. 

Beyond primary processing, industrial hemp represents a dormant domestic manufacturing platform at a moment of national vulnerability.

The United States faces a housing affordability crisis, fragile food systems, energy volatility, supply chain dependency on foreign industrial inputs, and accelerating climate instability that is already disrupting agricultural predictability. Simultaneously, USDA data continues to warn of soil erosion, organic matter decline, and long-term productivity stress in major agricultural regions.

Against this backdrop, hemp is not a niche crop — it is an underleveraged strategic asset.

Hemp fiber and hurd can be converted into construction materials including insulation, hemp-lime composites, molded fiber panels, and other building inputs that address energy efficiency and embodied carbon concerns in housing. Its fibers are used globally in automotive composites and industrial materials. Its cellulose supports paper and packaging applications. Its seed provides a unique and essential food source, and clean energy from the same harvest. Its biomass contributes to renewable fuel pathways, energy storage and carbon-rich derivatives such as biochar, all while sequestering carbon in a regenerative way. 

These industries are not speculative. They are active globally.

What the United States lacks is not capability — it is scale and regulatory coherence.

Each regional hemp processing facility can anchor a vertically integrated local economy: farmers producing raw material, processors refining fiber and grain, manufacturers converting materials into finished goods, construction trades installing those materials, and consumers purchasing domestically produced alternatives to imported inputs.

This is not theoretical economic potential — it is supply chain diversification and domestic manufacturing restoration.

At a time when policymakers speak of reshoring industry, rebuilding rural America, and strengthening national security, restricting lawful farmers from participating in fiber and grain production under disproportionate regulatory burdens undermines those objectives.

Climate volatility is already shortening harvest windows and destabilizing yields. Soil degradation reduces future productivity. Energy costs strain rural margins. Housing demand outpaces supply.

In this context, expanding diversified regenerative crop systems is not ideological — it is pragmatic.

Industrial hemp does not solve every crisis. But it intersects meaningfully with housing materials, renewable biomass, soil systems, rural jobs, and nutrition resilience.

Denying proportional access to this agricultural and industrial lane is not cautionary governance.

It is strategic contraction at a time when expansion of domestic capacity is urgently needed.

II. Soil Health, Carbon Cycling, and Agroecological Stability

Hemp produces high above-ground biomass and deep root systems that contribute to:

• Improved soil structure and aggregation

• Reduced erosion risk in certain rotations

• Organic matter return to soil systems

• Increased microbial activity through root exudates

USDA conservation programming acknowledges soil degradation and erosion as long-term threats to agricultural productivity. Integrating hemp into soil health frameworks is consistent with the bill’s conservation investments.

Healthy soils are not environmental luxuries. They are foundational to national food security.

III. Renewable Biomass and Energy Resilience

Title IX expands advanced biofuel frameworks and supports sustainable aviation fuel derived from renewable biomass.

Industrial hemp is a lignocellulosic biomass source. While not a singular energy solution, diversified biomass systems enhance energy resilience. Co-product streams (fiber, hurd, seed) improve economic viability relative to single-output crops.

Energy independence depends on feedstock diversity and domestic production.

Restricting scalable biomass crops while promoting renewable fuel infrastructure creates policy inconsistency.

IV. Domestic Manufacturing and Rural Workforce Multipliers

The bill strengthens domestic supply chains, supports biorefinery assistance, and expands rural workforce training.

Industrial hemp processing requires:

• Decortication facilities

• Fiber refinement operations

• Seed pressing infrastructure

• Manufacturing conversion lines

Each processing facility generates agricultural demand, transportation jobs, equipment servicing, manufacturing labor, and construction work.

Economic multipliers in regional processing exceed farmgate crop value alone. Domestic fiber capacity reduces reliance on imported materials from geopolitical competitors.

National security includes industrial capacity.

V. Nutrition and Food Security

Hemp seed contains approximately 22% protein by weight, all essential amino acids, and a near-ideal omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acid ratio. Two tablespoons provide roughly 11 grams of protein and meaningful omega-3 content  .

Mineral content includes magnesium, phosphorus, iron, and zinc  .

In a nation facing food insecurity and rising diet-related chronic disease, excluding lawful hemp foods from strategic nutrition frameworks overlooks a viable domestic protein source.

Food security is not solely caloric. It is nutritional.

VI. Legal Precision, Regulatory Proportionality, and Farmer Burden

Congress possesses authority under the Commerce Clause to regulate agricultural production. That authority should be exercised with rational basis and proportional alignment to actual public safety risk.

Current federal hemp regulations require:

• Criminal background checks for producers

• Mandatory pre-harvest THC sampling and laboratory testing

• Crop destruction mandates triggered by marginal THC threshold exceedances

These provisions were designed to distinguish hemp from intoxicating cannabis markets. However, when applied to certified industrial fiber and grain varieties contracted for non-consumable processing, the regulatory burden becomes misaligned with actual risk.

Industrial hemp cultivated exclusively for fiber, hurd, biochar, construction inputs, textiles, industrial cellulose, or renewable biomass does not create an intoxicating consumer pathway. The stalk, hurd, and fiber are not psychoactive commodities.

Yet farmers producing these materials remain subject to:

• Criminal history screening requirements unrelated to product safety

• Laboratory testing costs on crops destined for industrial processing

• Mandatory destruction of biomass for marginal THC variance, even when no ingestion or inhalation exposure pathway exists

This framework imposes economic friction without proportional public safety benefit.

The destruction of industrial biomass due to marginal cannabinoid variance — when the crop is contractually destined for non-consumable use — represents avoidable economic loss inconsistent with national supply chain strengthening objectives.

A coherent modernization would:

• Distinguish certified fiber and grain production lanes from cannabinoid extraction markets

• Exempt industrial feedstock crops from disproportionate background check requirements where no retail cannabinoid commerce is involved

• Shift compliance enforcement to finished ingestible or inhalable consumer products

• Protect lawful interstate commerce in fiber and grain

Regulation should follow risk.

Where intoxicating consumer exposure is possible, safeguards are appropriate.

Where no such pathway exists, regulatory restraint is both rational and economically strategic.

VII. Ecological-Economic Coherence

Agriculture is not separate from ecology.

Long-term economic resilience depends on ecological stability — soil carbon retention, biodiversity support, diversified cropping systems, and regional production capacity.

Industrial hemp is not a miracle crop. It is a systems crop.

It connects:

• Soil restoration

• Renewable biomass

• Domestic manufacturing

• Workforce development

• Nutritional security

Policy coherence requires recognizing these interdependencies.

VIII. Recommendations

I respectfully urge Congress to:

1. Protect clear regulatory lanes for non-intoxicating industrial hemp grown exclusively for fiber and grain.
   
   
2. Remove disproportionate THC enforcement burdens for crops destined for non-consumable industrial processing.
   
   
3. Integrate hemp explicitly into soil health, renewable biomass, and biobased manufacturing frameworks under this bill.
   
   
4. Ensure SNAP and nutrition policies reflect lawful hemp foods supported by nutritional data.
   
   
5. Regulate finished cannabinoid products through product standards — not through punitive crop-level restrictions.
   
   

The Farm Bill is a statement of national priorities.

If we prioritize resilience, sovereignty, and lawful enterprise, industrial hemp must be treated as strategic infrastructure — not regulatory collateral damage.

Security begins in cultivation.

This proposal synthesizes a comprehensive dialogue on the strategic role of industrial hemp and cannabis in advancing U.S. national security, economic equity, and sustainability. It urges the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to invoke authorities under the Defense Production Act of 1950 (DPA, 50 U.S.C. § 4501 et seq.), as implemented by Executive Order 13603 (National Defense Resources Preparedness, superseding EO 12919), and supported by 44 CFR Part 332 (Voluntary Agreements Under Section 708 of the DPA), to prioritize and allocate resources for the expansion of regional, organic, and biodynamic production of low-THC industrial hemp and high-THC cannabis varieties. This action addresses essential military and civilian demands amid vulnerabilities in supply chains, food and energy security, climate instability, and economic disparities.  

By exercising DPA priorities, the USDA can facilitate scaled domestic production, regulatory modernization, and integration with complementary economic tools like regional hard currencies (e.g., modeled on Berkshares), fostering resilient, equitable economies that mitigate radical global disparities while bolstering national defense preparedness.  

## I. Executive Summary of Key Discussion Points  

This proposal draws from an in-depth GrokAI conversation exploring Cannabis as under-leveraged, unique & essential federally recognized “strategic” asset since 1942.  

- **Strategic Resource Prioritization:** Unconstrained by THC limits and obsolete regulations, industrial hemp rates as an 8–9 on a 1–10 scale for national security priority, comparable to critical minerals or foundational feedstocks. It supports regional food & energy security, supply chain diversification, renewable biomass, food security, soil health, and industrial capacity—directly aligning with DPA goals for military sustainment and civilian resilience.  

- **Mitigating Economic Disparities:** Regional organic and biodynamic production of high-THC cannabis (for medicinal/adult-use markets) and low-THC hemp (for energy, food, fiber, biomass) empowers small-scale farmers, indigenous communities, and marginalized groups. It decentralizes wealth from illicit or corporate-dominated chains, creates jobs across value chains, reduces import dependencies, and promotes social equity by addressing racial and gender inequities exacerbated by prohibition-era policies.  

- **Sustainable Economic Integration:** Combining production with regional hard currencies (e.g., Berkshares model—backed by local assets, circulating within communities) enhances efficiency through localized multipliers, equity via inclusive cooperatives, and sustainability by incentivizing regenerative practices. This improves food security (via hemp's nutritional proteins and omegas) and energy security (through biofuels, biochar, and renewables), countering climate volatility and fossil fuel reliance.  

These elements form a cohesive strategy: Cannabis as "systems crops" that connect soil restoration, domestic manufacturing, workforce development, and nutritional resilience, all while flipping extractive economies toward partnership-based models.  

## II. Rationale for Exercising Essential Military and Civilian Demand  

Under the DPA, the President (delegated to agencies like USDA) may prioritize contracts, allocate materials, and expand productive capacity to meet "essential civilian demand" beyond baseline levels, ensuring national defense preparedness against threats including supply disruptions, environmental crises, and economic vulnerabilities (EO 13603, § 101; 44 CFR § 332.1). EO 12919 (superseded but foundational) outlined similar measures for industrial resources, emphasizing voluntary agreements to scale critical sectors. Hemp and cannabis qualify as strategic resources due to their multifaceted applications:  

- **Supply Chain and Industrial Resilience:** The U.S. imports hemp-derived products, exposing vulnerabilities akin to foreign dependencies on critical materials. Scaled regional production diversifies inputs for construction (hemp-lime composites), automotive composites, textiles, and bioplastics, reducing geopolitical risks and restoring domestic manufacturing—essential for military logistics and civilian infrastructure (DPA Title I priorities).  

- **Food and Nutrition Security:** Hemp seeds provide complete proteins, essential amino acids, and omega fatty acids, addressing food insecurity and diet-related diseases. Regional biodynamic models ensure stable, local supplies, mitigating harvest disruptions from climate instability—critical for civilian sustenance and military rations (aligning with USDA conservation programs and DPA emergency preparedness).  

- **Energy Independence and Climate Adaptation:** As lignocellulosic biomass, hemp supports biofuels (e.g., sustainable aviation fuel), energy storage, and carbon sequestration via biochar. Organic/biodynamic practices enhance soil health, erosion control, and biodiversity, building resilience against accelerating climate threats—vital for both civilian energy systems and defense operations (EO 13603, § 201 on energy resilience).  

- **Economic Equity and Workforce Mobilization:** Regional production, paired with hard currencies like Berkshares, recirculates wealth locally, empowering rural and underserved communities. This counters radical disparities by shifting profits from traffickers or corporations to smallholders, creating multipliers in jobs, transportation, and biorefineries—echoing DPA objectives for a mobilizable industrial base (44 CFR Part 332 voluntary agreements).  

Invoking DPA for hemp/cannabis is not novel; recent applications include agricultural inputs (e.g., fertilizers during shortages) and bioeconomy initiatives. Regulatory barriers (e.g., THC testing, background checks) create internal policy contradictions, undermining Farm Bill priorities in soil health, renewable biomass, and rural development (H.R. 7567). Exercising DPA authorities would modernize these, distinguishing industrial lanes from intoxicating markets and protecting interstate commerce.  

## III. Proposed Actions and Implementation  

The USDA should:  

1. **Invoke DPA Priorities:** Designate regional organic/biodynamic hemp and cannabis production as meeting essential military and civilian demands. Allocate resources (e.g., grants, loans via Farm Service Agency) to scale infrastructure, including decortication facilities, biorefineries, and cooperative food networks.  

2. **Regulatory Modernization:** Exempt certified industrial hemp from disproportionate burdens; shift from enforcement to testing of finished products. Integrate high-THC Cannabis into equity-focused frameworks, prioritizing small-scale organic producers & distribution.  

3. **Economic Integration with Regional Currencies:** Pilot programs combining production with Berkshares-style currencies, backed by hemp/cannabis assets or USDA reserves. This incentivizes local circulation, funds sustainable practices, and enhances food/energy security through community-supported agriculture and bioenergy cooperatives.  

4. **Monitoring and Evaluation:** Establish metrics for equity (e.g., diverse ownership), sustainability (e.g., carbon sequestration), and security impacts (e.g., import reductions), reporting annually under DPA frameworks.  

These actions align with USDA's mandate under EO 13603 (§ 202) to coordinate agricultural resources for defense preparedness.  

## IV. Expected Outcomes and Benefits  

- **National Security:** Enhanced resilience in critical sectors, reducing vulnerabilities to disruptions.  

- **Economic Equity:** Redistribution of wealth to base producers, revitalizing rural America and global peripheries.  

- **Sustainability:** Regenerative systems improving soil, food, and energy security amid climate challenges.  

## V. Conclusion  

Security begins in organic cultivation. By exercising DPA authorities, the USDA can transform Cannabis from regulatory collateral to foundational infrastructure, fostering an efficient, equitable, and sustainable economy. This proposal calls for immediate action to prioritize these crops as strategic assets for America's future.  

Respectfully submitted,  

Paul J. von Hartmann  

@projectpeace  

## References  

1. Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended (50 U.S.C. § 4501 et seq.).  

2. Executive Order 13603: National Defense Resources Preparedness (Federal Register, Vol. 77, No. 56, March 22, 2012).  

3. Executive Order 12919: National Defense Industrial Resources Preparedness (Federal Register, Vol. 59, No. 109, June 7, 1994; superseded by EO 13603).  

4. 44 CFR Part 332: Voluntary Agreements Under Section 708 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as Amended.  

5. Berkshares.org: Model for Regional Hard Currency Systems.

A National Cannabis Scholar is Needed in the Trump Administration

 Here’s why…

“#GlobalBroiling” describes increasing solar UV-B radiation, making it through Earth’s atmosphere to the surface of our planet. #UVBroiling is happening all over the world, with increasing intensity & incidence. 

Boreal deforestation and marine phytoplankton loss have reduced stratospheric aerosol terpenes by fifty percent in the last seventy years. 

Cannabis is the only crop that can replenish Earth’s atmosphere with aerosol terpenes in the time that we may have left to make a difference.

Time is the limiting factor in the equation of survival. Time is the only thing we can’t make more of. Time is the NFT of the 21st century. If we run out of time, then money loses all value. Cannabis solves several major global imbalances at the same time. That makes #hemp more valuable than the money that’s needed to scale-up regional processing infrastructure before Fall Harvest 2025. Anyone who isn’t growing hemp for seed & stalk in their region is food & energy insecure. Whatever people depend on for those things now may not be available very soon for a variety of reasons.

When President Trump signed the 2018 Farm Bill, he reintroduced #Cannabis #hemp to American farms for the first time in seventy years. It is by far his greatest achievement, though he’s yet to understand fully why that’s undeniably true.

To finally resolve systemic imbalances imposed by “Reefer Madness,” that continue to obviate a true, free market; the Earth-healing, #Cannabis #hemp industry would benefit from perspectives being offered for more than thirty-three years. 

There would be enormous benefit to President Trump‘s new administration in appointing a National Cannabis Scholar, to establish a realistic, “outside the bong” assessment of Cannabis value. National security and global integrity depend upon regional resilience and “#Gaiatherapeutic_Industry.”

“Essential military and civilian demand” (EO 12919,13603) for #Cannabis “#hemp” is an accelerated federal protocol affording access to “#strategic” resources. Hemp has been identified as being strategic to national security in seven Presidential Executive Orders since 1942, signed by FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Clinton & Obama. 

The historical precedent for what needs to happen in Spring 2025 is the “#Hemp_For_Victory!” campaign in 1942, that produced fuel, food & fiber feedstocks, that were critical to supplying the War Department during World War Two. Responsible emergency preparedness measures in CFR44 (Part 334.1 (b) - Graduated Mobilization Response, GMR) “Establishes a system for developing and implementing mobilization actions that are responsive to a wide range of national security threats and ambiguous or specific warning indicators. GMR provides for a coherent decision-making process with which to proceed with specific responses to an identified crisis or emergency.”

Global Broiling is the “identified crisis.” Increased solar UV-B suppresses immune response, causes genetic mutation, abnormal cell division (cataracts & cancers), global temperature increase, reduced harvests, hotter forest fires, soil microbiome damage, phytoplankton & forest destruction, accelerated materials degeneration and increased solubility of mercury, arsenic, and selenium compounds out of aqueous solution.

Paul J. von Hartmann,  Cannabis scholar, photographer

“Spherical economics”

“Spherical economics” ~ Earth-healing values for “Gaiatherapeutic” industry

Definition: A “spherical” economic perspective prioritizes functional respect for Nature over industry profits.

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In a “spherical economy” environmental toxins and environmentally destructive industrial practices have negative value. Conversely, time-sensitive environmental services are assigned positive economic value. 

For example, when a unit of paper is produced from hemp, the value of the trees that were not needed to be cut to produce that paper is calculated into the value of the hemp paper; along with the carbon, oxygen and terpene values associated with organic Cannabis farming. 

Integrated complexity obscures mankind’s full understanding of global systems and processes comprising the Natural Order. Vast mystery inspires proportionate awe, commanding cautious respect. 

To intentionally modify integrated systems without  understanding or proportionate regard for unintended consequences is reckless beyond criminality. 

Even today, mankind continues to disrespect integrated systems upon which our future depends in the interest of obsolete impacted industries riding the economic inertia of the status quo. 

Cutting down forests to make paper is sheer madness. Consuming ecosystems turned into toxic energy and manufacturing generating “Gaiacidal” materials knowingly subverts natural relationships that are essential to maintaining functional integrity in Earth’s atmosphere, soil, water, air and wildlife. 

In the past few decades, humanity has become increasingly aware of how close we are to inevitable ecological “ripping points,” from which recovery isn’t possible. Social and economic imbalances are increasing concurrently, as the possibility of nuclear annihilation looms, at the whim of fossil fuels 

enriched, warmongering global industrialists. 

At what point does the pointless absurdity of mankind’s current dominant social evolutionary trajectory run out of illusory value? The hologram of value currently represented in human economic markets is disingenuous. The foreseeable terminus has rendered mankind’s previously accepted values functionally obsolete. In the absence of crucial systemic relationships being eroded by increasing demand, inefficiency and consumption, a non-linear extinction level event becomes increasingly likely.

Integrated environmental services that were once dismissed by industry as inconvenient, “unquantifiable externalities,” burdensome to the bottom line & inconvenient for centralized control; have become urgent national security priorities in every nation, with limited time running out at an accelerating rate.

Fortunately, in “The Tree of Life” there is Nature’s biogenic herbal remedy, that may yet be effective in helping mankind to avert the ripping point of irreversible systemic collapse. If a timely, proportionate, organic agricultural response is initiated before this Spring in 2023, the world may yet have time to coordinate with Nature for the eventual healing of the Earth, and mankind’s peaceful social evolution. 

It is in everyone’s best interest to heal the planet, and secure regional natural resources providing complete essential nutrition, while providing abundant, clean energy. There’s only ONE crop that does all of those things, from the same organic harvest, in more countries, in the shortest span of time, with the greatest environmental & agronomic benefits: 

Human physiology depends upon our Endogenous Cannabinoid System for optimum health & proper development. Federally recognized in the U.S. as a “strategic resource” since 1942, “hemp” is essential for complete essential nutrition, providing food & energy security in every country where it can be grown. 

Cannabis is uniquely, essentially nutritious, not dangerous or undesirable until it’s made “illegal.” Cannabis is mankind’s functional interface with the Earth’s Natural Order.

The evolution of revolution is revaluation.

It’s time to think outside the bong about Cannabis. Integrated natural systems require mankind’s immediate return to responsible stewardship. 

Objective assessment and logic are needed regarding mankind’s choices of the natural resources we have to work with in supplying industry with optimally “Gaiatherapeutic” industrial feedstocks. 

On land & sea, natural systems are under persistent chemical attack. Conditions of radical contamination and imbalance in dynamic systems has become commonplace. Entire regions of the Ocean are expanding “dead zones.”

Extreme contamination of Earth’s hydrologic cycle has rendered further manufacture and consumption of endocrine disrupting “forever chemicals” functionally obsolete. Reproductive systems in man, plants & animals are being impacted.

Mankind’s long term industrial production increasingly depends upon our achieving cooperative, symbiotic relationship within Earth’s highly evolved systems. Earth-healing, “Gaiatherapeutic industry” is more immediately essential to mankind’s functional integrity within the Natural Order than it has ever been.

Two hundred years ago, the native people lived in functional balance and harmony with Nature. What was taken, with spiritually-founded gratitude, did not deplete Mother’s bounty nor upset her balance. 

The lives of game animals were essential for survival. People honored the necessities of life as blessings, generously bestowed by a benevolent universal spirit. Mythologies were created to conceptualize respect for natural manifestations of apparent mystic influence. The Earth, Sun, Moon and stars were seen as ancient kin, spiritual ambassadors of gods, held in justifiable awe & passionate reverence. 

No part of brother buffalo ‘Tatonka’ was wasted. Salmon were deified in reverential recognition of their foundational importance to human survival. 

Multi-dimensional, entheogenic experiences further broadened mankind’s elevated regard and consideration of human existence, inspiring visions, dreams and profound philosophical insights. Life was worshipped for its ability to give life. Fecundity was life’s precious alchemy of Creation insuring survival. Nature was exalted and respected for giving insights into dimensions of existence greater than ourselves.

Eventually, dishonesty, greed & avarice achieved political dominance through skullduggery; creating the gods of money, celebrated in our own image & indulgences, elevating egos, personal wealth & status above consideration of Mother Earth. “Modern” industrial avarice has long since displaced spiritual respect for Nature. Eliminating hemp from the free market warped human values as other toxic resources & practices were elevated to fill the void of industrial feedstocks created by legislation.

In the prohibition of Cannabis, a sacred & spiritual being was subjugated through falsehood, prejudice & technology. 

Her genus name ceased being capitalized. The sacred goddess spirit embodied in “The Tree of Life” was coldly whored to industry, and remains so to this day.

Even though the Christian God’s first commandment was quoted, repeated twice in “every herb” as mankind’s meat (Genesis 1:29-31), we continue to live in conditions of epidemic scarcity and malnutrition.

Without the added dimension of moral accountability, “circular economies” can still steamroll over ancient, spiritually inclusive “spherical” value systems.  Contrived “credit offsets” excuse and defer corporate crimes against Nature and humanity.

Concern for future generations is still being dismissed, delayed and relegated to marginalized groups, labeled “anti-progressive,” and “environmental extremists,” characterized as “tree-hugging” purveyors of “gloom & doom.” 

When Nature’s mysteries of intangible systemic integrity became inconvenient to production, they were deemed “unquantifiable externalities.” The quality of life that depends upon systemic balance was subordinated in deference to unbridled “progress,” yielding maximum short-sighted profit. 

Over time, mankind’s loss of respect for Nature has become increasingly virulent, allowing competing market interests to dominate, wielding ever-increasing political influence to impose control through resource misvaluation. 

Respect for Nature includes properly assessing the value of natural resources we have to work with, in a context prioritizing respect for ancient, established, integrated natural systems.

Unevenly distributed fossil fuels deposits afford centralized pockets of energy production, leading to unnatural disparity of wealth. When farming of hemp was banned, the most globally available and abundant vegetable protein and biofuels feedstock was removed from the “ free market.”Patterns of energy production were established and impacted by “drug” policies against a “strategic” “herb.” 

Military industries flourished, needed to secure access to unevenly distributed energy resources. 

In the absence of Respect for Nature, Earth-killing, “Gaiacidal” industries have displaced & supplanted an Earth-healing alternative. Wealth disparity has achieved dangerous extremes through ruthless media manipulation of markets and human values. 

Wealth has been glamorized over respect for Nature. Global conferences to decide the fate of Earth’s future unnecessarily consume obscene quantities of toxic resources in meaningless time-wasting inefficiency.

Resources that can be controlled by the wealthy few are subsidized by governments. Cannabis hemp, which cannot be centralized & controlled is over-regulated, suppressed & banned. There is no mystery or ambiguity regarding our ecological predicament. As long as problems are allowed to generate profit, they will continue to be created by intention.

It is inconceivable that mankind’s selection of industrial feedstocks has expanded beyond reason to include self-destructive poisons. Modern industry consumes natural resources whose functional environmental significance supersedes material values placed upon the commodities manufactured from them.

Among the most egregious examples of this perverse dynamic is found in mankind’s production of paper. Even though the boreal forests have long been celebrated for their critically important environmental services as the “lungs of the Earth,” half of the world’s boreal forests have been cut down or died from pest infestations in the past seventy years. 80% of the forests were rendered into paper products using chemical-intensive, toxic industrial processes. 

Big mistake. All of those paper products could have been made better, at less cost, with less pollution, using organically grown hemp. Compared with paper made from trees, an acre of hemp is estimated to produce four times the volume of paper, using a fraction of the processing chemicals.

While “circular economics” has been introduced in response to problems of manufacturing, reuse & waste disposal, “forever chemicals” and ubiquitous, environmentally persistent plastics have nevertheless become imbedded within Earth’s hydrology. A spherical Earth-first perspective has become increasingly urgent and  necessary.

Time is the only thing we can’t make more of. Time is the limiting factor in the equation of survival. Time is the NFT of the 21st century.

On a planet threatened with systemic collapse, the value of money is linked to the time & efficiency it buys. A rich man with one minute to live is not wealthy at all. 

A circular economic model maps out patterns of human industry that are pointed in the right direction, though in my understanding of it, the dimensions of time & spirituality seem to be left out of the modern “circular” industrial model. 

Circular production dynamics are inherent to spherical economics. Expanded dimensions of time and morally accountable responsibility orient toward global harmony and a livable future for subsequent generations of all life. The absence of corporate accountability for environmental harms would not be possible in a spherical value system.

Past mistakes continue to compound. Dangerous absurdities ricocheting over decades of profitable dysfunction, metastasize into radical systemic imbalance, threatening every creature on Earth with an unthinkable future. 

Respect for Nature is revealed as an urgent element that has been missing from mankind’s industrial evolution. Respect for Nature has become essential for recovering global systemic balance in the time we may have left to make a difference.

Conditions of imbalance are at dangerous extremes and getting worse at an accelerating rate. The window of opportunity is closing for mankind to make a difference in our collective fate.  

Doing the right things too late achieves the same undesirable result as doing the wrong things. The longer we hesitate in initiating Cannabis-inclusive strategies to heal Earth’s atmosphere, soil, water, air and wildlife, the smaller become mankind’s chances for survival.

Two hundred years ago people used the animals they hunted for more than just food. Every part of a buffalo, deer, elk, and antelope were used in some way. Functionality determined value. Spiritually charged gratitude was culturally imbedded into indigenous traditions and sacred practices. Sincere gratitude was an individual’s direct line to the divine. 

In our time, the Cannabis plant has become unique in its ability to provide essential nutrition and other “strategic” commodities, simultaneous with time-limited critically essential environmental services. Cannabis is the only crop that produces complete essential nutrition and abundant, clean energy from the same organic harvest; as it simultaneously heals Earth’s atmosphere, soil, water, air and wildlife; while redistributing the true wealth of the world.

Objective consideration of Cannabis values demands an end to institutional foolishness. The patina of misinformation and hysteria that has surrounded hemp, has clouded rational thought and undermined farm & garden policy for more than eight decades.

Vast herds of buffalo provided abundance for native peoples for thousands of years. In the sea, fish were plentiful, food for Cetaceans, man and other predators.  

If mankind is to survive, we must expand the arable base by growing a non-invasive pioneer crop that produces the abundance of protein, energy, paper, building materials, cloth, etc. needed to satisfy the needs of a growing global population. 

Because environmental conditions and systemic relationships are changing at an accelerating rate, the urgency of properly assessing the increasing value of time is growing as well. 

If there is a crop that makes better use of the time we may have left to make a difference, then the value of that crop includes both the material goods manufactured from the industrial feedstocks produced, as well as the time values of environmental services associated with organic cultivation of a resource that is beneficial to the functional integrity of the Natural Order.

Like the buffalo, every part of the hemp plant has functional value. If done properly, there is zero waste or pollution. Many products of higher quality than currently being produced, at less cost, with more environmental benefit from Cannabis, accompanied by many environmental benefits associated with its cultivation. 

Serving mankind’s essential needs while supporting Nature’s systemic integrity, qualifies Cannabis as mankind’s functional interface with the Earth’s Natural Order. There is no other crop that fulfills all of the requirements needed for a livable future. Cannabis is uniquely essential, the sacred Tatanka of our time.

Without a Cannabis hemp-inclusive free market, our species can never achieve sustainable existence on this planet. Government regulation of Cannabis has proved to be as harmful as the disastrous pandemic response, over a much longer time period.

A spherical economic perspective affords clear, objective natural resource assessments. Without a doubt, hemp processing and utilization are required on a scale that is in proportion to the vast tracts of boreal forests and inconceivable expanses of marine phytoplankton lost in the past seventy years. 

There’s need for a comprehensive, realistic agricultural resource revaluation before this Spring planting season in 2023.

A polar shift in Cannabis  value from “illegal” to essential is urgently needed, for mankind to achieve timely transition into “spherical” Earth-healing industry production models, in time to make a difference.

“Gaiatherapeutic industry” is meant to characterize mankind’s value systems that are healing to the Earth. Imbuing industry with a morally accountable  Respect for Nature eliminates incalculable, disruptive imbalances, increases efficiency, while stabilizing long term regional and global  systems.

The world can no longer afford armed conflict. Wars have escalated to the threat of global annihilation. Self-destruction is functionally obsolete. To squander what time and resources we have left on wars-for-oil  is as pointless as a fist fight on the Titanic. 

Aligning mankind’s economic values with Nature integrates appropriately urgent intention with consciously evolving symbiotic, Earth-healing “Gaiatherapeutic” industries.

Spherical Value Systems

1. Ecological values of benefit to Earth’s atmosphere, soil, water, air & wildlife supersede selfish interests.
2. Quality of Life values are identified by equitable resource availability potentiating a peaceful human social order.
3. Agronomic values add  benefit through crop rotations & companion planting.
4. Acknowledging ancient, historically and traditionally foundational concepts of kinship with all life, #RespectForNature is elevated from a trivial “unquantifiable externality” to its proper stature as a “strategic priority.”
5. Traditional utilitarian values of quality in manufactured products influence feedstock production.
6. Proper valuation of available resources is as important as responsible stewardship and repair of Earth’s Natural Order. 
7. Working with Nature to heal Nature has several advantages over short-sighted geoengineering schemes, already engendering conflict.

“Economic Sphere: A set of relations of people, arising from the creation and movement of material goods.”

Time without money is more valuable than money without time.

Nature bites last. 

You can run out of money & then become wealthy again. When you run out of time, you’re done, no matter how much money you have.

You can have all the money in the world but if you only have a minute to live in a healthy world, then what’s truly valuable?

“Spherical Economics” looks at four dimensions of human market values & benefits of industry. 

1. Choice industrial feedstocks 

2. Choice of energy production technology 

3. Agricultural methods

permaculture

inter-cropping

Organic/biodynamic 

Production efficiency based In Biomimicry 

Regional energy’s societal benefits

Consumption efficiency: 

Reuse, repurpose, recycle, compost, remineralize,

Respect for Nature: No GMO

 Respect for Nature: No GMO

“If Nature doesn’t do it, people shouldn’t do it.” is the essence of Respect For Nature. Responsible stewardship of the #NaturalOrder requires humility in the wake of incomprehensible millions of years of evolution. 

What’s known for certain is that all life systems are connected. Tinkering with genetics just because we can and some people want to, is wildly irresponsible, dangerously stupid & completely unnecessary. Disrespecting Nature disrespects what many people refer to as “God.” 

There is no rightful authority that can violate the Natural Order without trespassing on the spiritual rights of people who recognize the inherent wisdom & sanctity of Nature, even though others may not give any value to “spiritual externalities.”

Compromising the integrity of systems poorly understood, upon which everyone’s wellbeing depends now and into the future, is a fundamental attack against all life on Earth. 

Humanity teeters on the brink between nuclear annihilation & irreversible systemic collapse, precisely because we have failed to respect Nature in favor of profit, control, & convenience. There’s always a price to pay for convenience. Our children will likely be paying that price, on a debt being racked up by their parents.

Race to Armageddon

 Race to Armageddon 

I’ve been wondering for decades, which of the apocalyptic threats humans have been creating will be the first to manifest global annihilation, extinguishing all life from this planet; And, how much more time may we have left to make a difference, if it’s not too late already. 

As it is, we may not have too much longer to wait before we find out. The race to extinction between nuclear holocaust and non-linear extinction level events seems closer than ever. 

There’s the war in Ukraine, with nuclear sabers rattling, ominously mobilizing & strategically repositioning. 

In the meantime, the threat of irreversible systemic collapse looms ever larger as environmental conditions deteriorate and wildlife disappears. 

Combining mankind’s environmental terrorism with unbridled armed conflict results in sudden, unpredictable realities, like melting clathrate deposits in the Arctic, and methane gushing from the Nordstream pipeline.

Genetic modification is poisoning the food chain at fundamental levels, as  scientists pretend to understand the integrated systems with which we are being experimented upon.

“If #Nature doesn’t do it, people shouldn’t do it.” is the essence of #RespectForNature.

Responsible stewardship of the #NaturalOrder requires humility in the wake of incomprehensible millions of years of evolution. What’s known for certain is that all life systems are connected.

Tinkering with genetics just because we can and some people want to, is wildly irresponsible, dangerously stupid & completely unnecessary. Disrespecting Nature disrespects what many people refer to as “God.” 

There is no rightful authority that can violate the Natural Order without trespassing on the spiritual rights of people who recognize the inherent wisdom & sanctity of Nature, even though others may not give any value to “spiritual externalities.”

Compromising the integrity of systems poorly understood, upon which everyone’s wellbeing depends now and into the future, is a fundamental attack against all life on Earth. 

Humanity teeters on the brink between nuclear annihilation & irreversible systemic collapse, precisely because we have failed to respect Nature in favor of profit, control, & convenience. There’s always a price to pay for convenience. Our children will likely be paying that price, on a debt being racked up by their parents.

Before the #Cannabis #hemp industry is polluted with GM cultivars seeking to control the multi-trillion dollar energy market, people must begin to

“Just Say No!” to #GMhemp, before we are awash in genetically modified seed, corresponding chemical inputs & toxic pollen.

There’s only one way to replenish Earth’s atmosphere with aerosol terpenes in the time we may have left to make a difference…

Cannabis vs. Climate Change: How hot does Earth have to get before all solutions are considered?

https://www.amazon.com/Cannabis-vs-Climate-Change-1/dp/1497451477

On Vimeo 

https://vimeo.com/108901421

Responding to the UN FAO Food Security & Nutrition Forum’s Open Call (1)

“What are your experiences in the use and application of the CFS Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems (CFS-RAI) for improving food security and nutrition?” 

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My experience, over the past twenty years that I’ve been offering practical suggestions in the UN FAO’s FSN forum regarding application of the CFS-RAI has been dominated by consummate frustration in having offered time-limited solutions to actively destabilizing, compounding global problems, without seeing a proportionate, timely response to rapidly worsening conditions. 

The ‘Tree of Life’ Solution to Global Extinction

Solutions are simple. It’s the problems that are complicated. But time is running out for any measures that might work. 

Uniquely effective, essential and painfully obvious solutions to systemic imbalances have been subjugated, overlooked and internationally ignored for decades. A very small “window of opportunity” for healing this planet is getting smaller,  closing at an accelerating rate. Collapse of the entire human social order could come at any minute with the intentional or accidental exchange of nuclear missiles. 

Collapse of Earth’s integrated natural systems could likewise come at any second; in unforeseen, “non-linear extinction level events” that we’ve been warned of repeatedly by the IPCC, since 2014. (2)

Global governance seems entranced in rote repetition of entrenched, extinctionistic economic patterns, propping-up status quo illusions of toxic value; wielding impacted, obsolete, dysfunctional & degenerate control systems; rather than initiating timely, innovative, uniquely effective, responsible, coordinated global action to address dangerously unstable human economic & natural systems. 

To rebalance mankind’s extreme conditions of essential resource disparity is only possible if we use the singularly effective, biogenic strategy that works with Nature to heal natural systems in the time we may have left to make a difference. (8)

Time is the limiting factor in the equation of survival. Time is the only thing we can’t make more of. Time is the NFT of the 21st century.

With the catastrophic deaths of 50% of the world’s boreal forests and marine phytoplankton in the past seventy years, Cannabis hemp has become mankind’s functional interface with the Natural Order that sustains all life on Earth.

Working with Nature to heal Nature is not optional. Doing the right thing too late achieves the same undesirable, extinctionistic result as doing the wrong things will. 

Humanity has precious little time left to fix what we’ve broken. It’s 2022; it’s not 1975 anymore. There is no time left to waste, no room for error, and no time left to delay a global, organic agricultural campaign to heal Earth’s atmosphere of increasing solar UV-B radiation.

Ignoring the most obvious course of action with the greatest possibility of success has yielded no viable alternative strategies, either agricultural or technological. Biogenic, “Gaiatherapeutic” (i.e. Earth-healing) strategies that offer some possible, realistic chance of succeeding in resolving the most fundamental threats to all life on Earth in the time we may have left to make a difference are still not being discussed. COP 26 excluded hemp from the UN Climate Conference, as though we have time to be snobby about solutions.

Time, money and Human Resources are being squandered as people and institutions in positions of influence continue to steer us all toward irreversible, violent systemic collapse, before the middle of this century.

By the time “cascading systems failures” become obvious they will become irreversible. Multiple time-lags & inertial feedback loops obscure awareness of unknowable “ripping points” of recovery, which will have long passed before they are recognized in tragic retrospect. 

Economic inertia clouds governance, continuing to perpetuate humankind’s primitive disrespect of natural systems, long after the breakdown in systemic functionality has been revealed by atmospheric monitoring data & empirical observations. 

FACT: 

There is only ONE federally-recognized “strategic resource” that yields BOTH complete nutrition and clean energy from the same organic harvest; in more countries, in less time, providing more essential nutrition, environmental benefit & organic agronomic services than any other crop. Why has this plant been banned for eighty-five years, rather than being grown “any where” as George Washington advised? (10)

At the same time, hemp heals Earth’s atmosphere, soil, water, air and wildlife; it can be used to phytoremediate demineralized, contaminated, irradiated, compacted & eroded soils. 

A non-invasive pioneer crop that produces complete nutrition & clean energy from the same organic harvest in many countries around the world, in a very short span of time; Cannabis is uniquely qualified to expand Earth’s arable base and increase the carrying capacity of this planet.

In addition, there is only ONE agricultural resource that produces the enormous volume of atmospheric aerosol terpenes that is needed to replenish Earth’s stratosphere with aerosol terpenes, following the catastrophic deaths of the world’s boreal forests and marine phytoplankton, that used to produce twice the volume of terpenes they do now. Terpenes block the increasing solar UV-B radiation that’s “UV-Broiling” the planet at twice the levels and frequency of occurrence compared with levels that used to shield the Earth from the Sun just seventy years ago.

It is madness to stubbornly ignore the only solution there is when it is so obvious. Willful institutional ignorance continues to delay public awareness of the true, unique & essential natural value of Cannabis hemp. It would be especially sad if institutional recalcitrance turns out to be the cause of mankind’s extinction. 

As Bill Gates scatters chalk dust from a hot air balloon (5), and mirrors float in space (6), while sulfur missiles are shot at the sky (7), human disrespect for Nature continues to afflict mankind’s social evolution, threatening national security in every country with “additional disputes” predicted after 2030. (4)

Born into an illogical trajectory, we are currently aimed at, and precariously close to, achieving unpredictable global conditions leading inevitably to extinction.

Spring planting season 2022 is upon us. Coordinating every country’s  military personnel and coordinated infrastructure, from armies to farmers, means distributing hemp seed to every farmer & home gardener on the planet. 

A polar shift in values is needed immediately. Hemp must be recognized as being urgently essential, not illegal. It is the fossil fuels, nuclear energy and military industrial economies that are toxic to Mother Earth. “Reefer Madness” continues to mischaracterize Cannabis hemp, wounding our perceptions of value, a barrier build on fraud, obviating mankind’s realization of our shared desire for world peace.

Absent a timely, proportionate global response, “non-linear extinction level events” will punctuate our continued decline into environmental disintegration and escalating, violent upheaval in the human social order.

Everyone’s best chance for survival depends on all people everywhere understanding the unique and essential value of Cannabis hemp — immediately! 

For everyone’s children to inherit a peaceful, livable 22nd century, this Spring 2022 perhaps it might help to consciously, objectively identify Cannabis hemp as fulfilling all of the properties attributed to “the Tree of Life which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.” ~ Revelation 22:2 (3)

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References 

1. United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization Food Security & Nutrition Forum Open Call https://www.fao.org/fsnforum/activities/open-calls/CFS-RAI
2. IPCC Climate Change 2014 Synthesis Report Headline statements from the Summary for Policymakers  https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/ar5_syr_headlines_en.pdf

3. Revelation 22:2 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%2022%3A2&version=KJV

4. Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community (Pg. 21)   February 7, 2022 https://www.odni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/ATA-2022-Unclassified-Report.pdf

5. Solar Geoengineering: Why Bill Gates Wants It, But These Experts Want To Stop It https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidrvetter/2022/01/20/solar-geoengineering-why-bill-gates-wants-it-but-these-experts-want-to-stop-it/

6. Could Space Mirrors Stop Global Warming?  https://www.livescience.com/22202-space-mirrors-global-warming.html 

7. Stratospheric Sulfur Geoengineering – Benefits and Risks https://cires.colorado.edu/events/stratospheric-sulfur-geoengineering-%E2%80%93-benefits-and-risks

8. Fragrance of pine forests helps to slow climate change https://www.theguardian.com/science/2006/apr/14/environment.climatechange

9. Cannabis vs. Climate Change: How hot does Earth have to get before all solutions are considered?  https://www.amazon.com/Cannabis-vs-Climate-Change-1/dp/1497451477

10. “I am very glad to hear that the Gardener has saved so much of the St. foin seed, and that of the India Hemp. Make the most you can of both, by sowing them again in drills. . . Let the ground be well prepared, and the Seed (St. loin) be sown in April. The Hemp may be sown any where.“ ~ George Washington to William Pearce, 24 February 1794.

https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washingtond/farming/washingtons-crops/george-washington-grew-hemp/