Earth-healing Economic Evolution

As long as our economic system elevates the value of Gaiacidal chemicals over organic Cannabis agriculture, we are doomed. At the moment we are poisoning ourselves with mercury and arsenic, whose solubility is increasing as the result of increasing UV-B radiation.

There’s only one crop that can replace the aerosols lost as a result of the death of the boreal forests, logged for paper (instead of using hemp). As long as the world’s most valuable plant is prohibited, humans will exist in a state of self-inflicted natural resource poverty. Essential resource scarcity imposed by Cannabis prohibition has led to our chemical economic addiction, just as the scarcity of ‘marijuana’ in Hawaii has led to a methamphetamine epidemic consuming the peace of those sacred islands.

Suffering an insufficiency of abundant, globally distributed, Gaiatherapeutic resources, there is no hope of producing complete nutrition and sustainable biofuels from the same harvest, as there is with hemp. Cannabis is a critical pioneer crop for regenerating the soil and expanding the arable base, which is necessary to increase the carrying capacity of this planet. 

Protein production limits carrying capacity. Cannabis hemp seed is the best available source of globally distributed proteins, essential fatty acids, essential amino acids, anti-oxidents, anti-viral, anti-carcinogenic … How obvious does the solution have to be before it is given due consideration? Cannabis is essential, much too valuable to be truly illegal.

The question is, does our species have the adaptive capacity to achieve a polar shift in values in time to avert systemic collapse? In other words, how hot does Earth have to get before all solutions are considered?

                                  The REAL Question

de·spair

de·spair  intr.v. de·spaired, de·spair·ing, de·spairs 1. To lose all hope: despaired of reaching shore safely. 2. To be overcome by a sense of futility or defeat. n. 1. Complete loss of hope. 2. One despaired of or causing despair:   Unevolved species are the despair of their evolutionary masters. Humpback whales off Maui, vertical in the water column, touching the tips of their pectoral fins.  "I love you." was the message I got from it.

Climate Change Task Force

Dear President Obama,

Please allow me to congratulate you on the leadership you have shown in recognizing "hemp" as a "strategic resource" available by "essential civilian demand." In signing Executive Order 13603 you have made it possible to simultaneously address global climate change, food security and sustainable biofuels production, through organic agriculture.

In April 2012, I sent an email to Rep. Gus Bilirakis
(House Committee on Homeland Security
Emergency Preparedness, Response and Communications
Committee on Homeland Security), to which I have not received a response of any kind. I encourage you to recognize the urgency of planting Cannabis hemp this spring planting season.

In December 2012 and January 2013, I spoke with Secretary of Agriculture Vilsack and his chief advisor Mr. Robert Bonnie about the three reasons Cannabis is both unique and essential to national security. I also pointed out that there presently exists no emergency preparedness protocol for exercising essential civilian demand.

I am concerned that increasing UV-B radiation is not being adequately responded to as the immediate threat that it surely is. Increasing UV-B causes mercury, arsenic, selenium compounds and other deadly toxins to become more available to plants and animals. Genetic mutation, immune suppression, abnormal cell growth, reduced harvests, increased insect pest infestation, water shortages, severe weather, and many other symptoms of fundamental imbalance are related to UV-B radiation.

Cannabis is the only crop that produces sufficient quantities of atmospheric aerosols needed to replace those lost with the death of the boreal forests that used to produce the "monoterpenes" that shield our planet from the Sun. We have no choice - we must grow hemp out of urgent necessity, or be "UV-Broiled" to extinction.

The greenhouse gas reduction target approved by the House of Representatives and embraced by you as the U.S. goal is woefully inadequate. Please factor in Cannabis hemp as capable of sequestering nine tons of carbon per acre per growing season. To demonstrate substantive U.S. leadership in meeting America’ moral responsibilities as the nation responsible for nearly 30 percent of the greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere, as well as much of the carbon emissions occurring now, we must reintroduce hemp.

The emissions cap approved by the House amounts to a reduction of only about 4 percent by 2020 compared to 1990 levels. That is only a tenth of the cuts that leading climate scientists believe is necessary from industrialized economies if we are avoid the most serious consequences of climate change.

I believe We the People have the authority to leverage more ambitious and effective climate legislation from Congress, through essential civilian demand for hemp; and encourage your Administration to design a regulatory structure that will achieve U.S. greenhouse gas reductions in cooperation with Europe and other areas of the world, by initiating a truly free organic agricultural market for the first time in our lives.

I further encourage you to start an international “race to the stratosphere” by carrying out your campaign promise to make America the most energy-efficient economy in the world at the same time we produce the monoterpenes needed to produce fuel, food, herbal therapeutics, build materials, as the basis for "Gaiatherapeutic Industries" to heal the planet.

I encourage you rally the United States, and the world community, to deal with climate change objectively, proactively, aggressively and immediately.  How hot does Earth have to get before all solutions are considered?

No other leader in the world today is as well positioned and well equipped to mobilize around this profoundly important issue. America has extraordinary intellectual resources, technical capabilities and capacity for innovation, as well as our proud tradition of helping the world navigate difficult passages.

I urge you to show the bold and progressive leadership that this urgent issue requires. An enlightened America can mobilize the world to address these challenges. Please contact me to understand more about "Cannabis vs. Climate Change" which is the title of my book on the subject.

"The least restrictive means..."

"The least restrictive means of preventing the sale and distribution of marijuana is" to end Cannabis prohibition..

It is well known, through undeniable historical precedent and contemporary empirical knowledge, that prohibition creates a violent, scarcity-dependent black market (to artificially elevate prices), where there is otherwise an organic, self-regulating, agricultural free market; institutionalizes a "forbidden fruit" that is more attractive to young people; imposes scarcity of an essential, "strategic resource"; induces radical economic disparity; corrupts law enforcement and the justice system; and systemically undermines the economic integrity of society by eliminating a critical agricultural resource.

The most certain way of establishing a hard drugs epidemic is to persist in the counter-productive prohibition of a therapeutic herb, through historically inaccurate, scientifically unfounded, contrary assessment of Cannabis as a "dangerous drug"; rather than a tenable science-based evaluation of Cannabis as an herb that is both unique and essential.

Drugs don't make seeds. Herbs do. You can make a drug from an herb, but you can't make an herb from a drug. You can grow an herb from a seed, but you cannot grow a drug from a seed. "Drugs" and "herbs" are are not the same thing.

Herbs can never be "controlled" because they grow from the soil, where one seed produces tens-of-thousands more seeds. It is folly beyond reason, to think that in a free society Cannabis can ever be "controlled" even if that was desirable, which it isn't.  The legal distinction (yet to be established) is significant, as the inaccurate, obsolete definition of Cannabis as a "drug" has engendered institutional malfeasance in over-extending the rightful jurisdiction of an economically-corrupted court.

"the government's compelling interest in preventing diversion of sacramental marijuana to nonreligious users" is based in the erroneous valuation of what is, in fact, an historically revered, ecologically, nutritionally and industrially essential, federally recognized  "strategic resource." The  true value of Cannabis encompasses the origins of human spiritual development, the evolution of our civilization, world exploration, and the founding of the United States. Because of climate imbalances resulting from prolonged Cannabis prohibition, Cannabis agriculture must now be revalued, recognized as fundamentally integral to interfacing global ecology with the human social order.

Cannabis is so far beyond the rightful jurisdiction of any legitimate court, that only through through the dismissal of science, disregard for the will of the people, and armed assault by economically-motivated federal enforcement, can the incumbent, outlaw fossil fuels regime get away with such an egregious violation of a fundamental human right: Our freedom to farm "every herb bearing seed" is the first test of religious freedom.

Strict scrutiny will show that the court has nothing to say about the distribution of Cannabis, because it's cultivation, consumption, manufacture and trade are essential to our continued existence on this planet. I have individually, formally challenged the rightful jurisdiction of any court over any "herb bearing seed" without a reply from three State Attorneys General Warren Price, Dan Lungren, and Jerry Brown. I have also written to the Department of Homeland Security, through the office of my Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey.

There has been no shred of accountability for the truth regarding the value of Cannabis. The government must be forced to account for it's antiquated, "compelling interest" in prohibiting Cannabis, compared with the People's compelling interest in growing it. Cannabis agriculture is, potentially, the organic agricultural basis for a sustainable human economic system, within the primarily significant Natural Order.

Since the courts are bankrupt, fiscally and morally, without pretense to objectivity, the judges themselves have rendered their own opinions as meaningless, reeking with bald-faced illogic, contradiction and prejudice.

Since July 8th, 2010 (two years, three months, two weeks and one day), Hawai'i Cannabis Ministry founder Reverend Roger Christie has been in legal limbo; suffering indefinite, coercive imprisonment, without trial, refused bail eight times, and denied visitors for openly practicing his sincere, scholarly, State-licensed, religious belief that people have a God-given right to grow and use "every herb bearing seed." Anti-Constitutional violations of due process and the First Amendment are obvious and undeniable proof of the court's unobjective politicized corruption.

Illegal courts may eventually convict us all for reclaiming our inherent, natural right as specified in Genesis 1:29-31, but as the environment, economics and social order degenerate into systemic collapse, the true value of Cannabis eventually will rise to human awareness, purging the shallow lies of the chemical military industrial complex as the planet broils under increasing UV-B radiation, cooking the planet to extinction.

The REAL question is,

"How hot does Earth have to get before all solutions are considered?"
http://youtu.be/edZw3hXkGJo

Blest rushes,

PvH

Drugs don't make seeds.

Regardless the decades of time & energy WASTED on inadequate State initiatives, public protests and endless court battles...

The world's oldest global culture does not need (and will never get) permission to exist from an extinctionistic, dysfunctional, hyper-violent, morally & fiscally bankrupt, physiologically and mentally degenerate, evolutionarily disintegrated, transient and hypocritical, corporately corrupted political regime. The insidious prohibitionist construct can only result in the inevitable counter-productive result we are willingly participating in.  

ANY tolerance for ideas about controlling, taxing and regulating any "herb"  -- as if it really was a "drug" -- is fundamentally misguided from the outset.  "Drugs" don't make seeds. "Herbs" make seeds. You can make a drug from an herb but you can't make an herb from a drug! They are not the same thing! Where is the legal distinction that reflects the reality of the many differences between drugs and herbs?

Why does the contemporary Cannabis culture simply continue to accept that herbs are, somehow, rightfully regulated by a "drug" agency? Since when is farming any "herb bearing seed...and every green herb" no longer a fundamental human right, and forced through manipulation, propaganda and illogic under the jurisdiction of the corporately controlled courts.

The contemporary Cannabis culture has yet to recognize and fully acknowledge itself, in solidarity, as the world's most ancient global culture. To reclaim our legitimacy,  We the People of the Cannabis culture need to identify Cannabis as both unique and essential.  In doing so Cannabis will be elevated to its rightful stature, which is in fact valuable beyond the rightful jurisdiction of any court.

The evolution of revolution is revaluation. Viva la revaluacion!

Fragmentation of the Cannabis "movement" into distinct "medical", "industrial","nutritional", "recreational" and "spiritual" compartments has divided and bureaucratized the grassroots. We have been misled by "pro-Cannabis" bureaucrats, who have a vested interest in conceding rightful jurisdiction over "every herb bearing seed." Every "voter initiative" that begs permission (that will never come), has been sold to us as a way to "legalize" or "decriminalize" marijuana,  while our freedom to farm "every herbbearing seed" has been undermined and disempowered by the "drug policy reform establishment" including DPA, NORML, MPP, ASA and the rest of the oxymorons who have failed to end prohibition.  

In spite of the obscene amount of money and time spent in "fighting" lobbying and voting to regain what is our god-given right to grow, use, smoke, plant, harvest, sell, and worship the Cannabis plant, in ALL of its many forms and uses; criminal disregard for the public will continues to be demonstrated by the blatantly misanthropic, anti-Constitutional, federal ("feral") government's increasing harassment of California dispensaries.

It is amazing and enormously sad to observe that regardless of mankind's imminent, predictable, foreseeable extinction as the result of compounding systemic imbalances being imposed on environment, economics, and social order, we are STILL allowing ourselves to be herded into hoping for relief through an impotent and disingenuous vote.

Our children will grow up justifiably angry at us for our collective cowardice. "Essential civilian demand" is the surest, quickest way to reclaim our (federally and internationally) un-restricted access to the one and ONLY plant that can reverse climate change, before we run out of growing seasons.

Emergency Preparedness, Response and Communications Committee on Homeland Security: "Essential Civilian Demand"
http://californiacannabisministry.blogspot.com/2012/04/emergency-preparedness-response-and.html

Unless we recognize 'time' as the limiting factor in the equation of survival, and every growing season wasted  in argument as an opportunity lost,  then one day very soon we will wake up to realize that there is nothing that can be done to prevent our own, self-inflicted extinction, following a period of unthinkable suffering, illness and death.

Reverend Christie denied bail for the seventh time

In order to deny Reverend Christie bail for the seventh time, several layers of institutional malfeasance have been caked with fetid logic, clearly evidenced in the following, absurd statements:

-- "A prosecution memorandum stated the delays are due mostly to Christie and his wife and co-defendant, Sherryanne “Share” St. Cyr Christie."

Reverend and Mrs. Christie are being blamed for their own indefinite, coercive, imprisonment-without-trial-or-bail, even as they attempt to navigate an un-objective, mercenary and disingenuous court. The Just "Ice" system is treasonously “unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious” in its prejudice against the Cannabis plant, a known "strategic food resource" and "dietary essential" that's critical to national security. Federal courts are routinely vindictive against courageous people who dare to speak the truth about Cannabis. 

Prosecutors and judges in this case are doing everything they can to make sure that if this case ever does come to trial, the jury will be predisposed to render a guilty verdict. It is well-known that defendants imprisoned before trial are much more likely to be found guilty by jurors, who naively figure that  "if he's already in prison, then he must be guilty."

In fact the Christies are kind and peaceful, victims of a perverted "drug war," that is causing a hard drugs epidemic in place of safe and effective herbal remedies. In the midst of a marijuana-scarcity-induced, hard drug epidemic; the "Just Ice" system in Hawaii has dismissed due process and the Rule of Law in order to avoid acknowledgment of credible science and twelve thousand years of recorded history. Both are overwhelmingly clear and consistent regarding the many beneficial properties of Cannabis; and the predictable consequences of ‘marijuana’ eradication.

Roger and Share are standing boldly and strongly for the truth, presenting evidence of the sacred stature of Cannabis, “The Tree of Life” as the honored sacrament for the world's oldest global culture. For their courage and honesty they are being viciously punished by shameless, ungrateful, professional liars.

-- "Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Kawahara wrote that a year of delay was caused by Christie “attempting to negotiate pleas for both St. Cyr and himself instead of going to trial.” "

In truth, the prosecution is using indefinite detention as a means to coerce Reverend Christie into taking a "plea deal." The courts are finding out that there is increasing likelihood that Roger won't be convicted by a jury. People are sick of the failed “drug war.” Thanks to Roger, Share and activists like them all over the world, mankind is rediscovering the truth about the healing properties of Cannabis -- for our bodies and to recover functional integrity in Earth’s ecosystem.

-- "He stated that another cause was “Christie’s and his wife’s (St. Cyr) elections to change attorneys in midstream.”"

In fact, there were at least four delays that were not elected by Roger:

Roger's first public defender quit, to take a job at a private law firm. 

His second court-appointed attorney quit because Roger refused to "cut a deal" with the prosecution.

The third big trial delay was because the prosecutor's wife was suddenly diagnosed with ALS, a painful, fatal disease.  Roger was asked to accept the delay while incarcerated, with zero benefit to him. With great compassion, he did so, with a prayer for the prosecutor’s family.  

What irony that Cannabis is possibly the only effective treatment for ALS. Roger wrote to me that  “If they had lived in Hilo years ago I would have likely been the guy to deliver it to her at home, or in hospital or hospice.  For a donation.”  

The fourth trial delay was imposed when the prosecutor's wife died and Roger was asked - for the second time - to accept another delay while incarcerated, with zero benefit to him.  He accepted once again, without complaint and with another prayer for the prosecutor's family's healing and well-being.  

Interestingly, none of this was mentioned by the prosecutor in court. Rather, it was falsely presented that Roger had delayed proceedings for his own (incarcerated) benefit!  Some nerve that liar has.  There is a heap of bad karma accumulating on him in this life, bearing false witness in federal court, no less.

Once a lie is told, eventually it takes more&more lies to make it sound believable. The most obvious lie is that Reverend Roger is somehow "dangerous to the community" -- the same community that awarded Roger the "Ho'omaluhia Peacemaker Award" in 2001. 

Wake up WeThePeople! Our health and our civil liberties are being stolen by lying,  rapaciously unaccountable "drug war" dinosaurs, running rampant at tax-payer's expense. In spite of the tremendous pressures of indefinite detention, and threats from prosecutors of pre-trial imprisonment against Share, the Christie’s are stedfast in their trust of truth; determined to have their case heard before a jury. 

To learn the truth about the safe and effective therapeutic properties of Cannabis for yourself, please watch the short film, 

“Leaf” 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa0nLdVJiIg] 

to learn about the safe and effective healing powers of Cannabis, with no smoke and no psychoactive effect.

Information about why Cannabis is a “dietary essential” can be found at the website for the Cannabis International Foundation 

http://cannabisinternational.org/

See: “Cannabis as a Unique Functional Food”

http://cannabisinternational.org/info/treatingyourself.pdf

The DEA’s own Administrative Law Judge issued the following opinion, in 1988:

“Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man. By any measure of rational analysis marijuana can be safely used within a supervised routine of medical care.

“It would be unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious for DEA to continue to stand between those sufferers and the benefits of this substance in light of the evidence in this record.” -- Judge Francis L. Young, Administrative Law Judge

OPINION AND RECOMMENDED RULING

http://www.ccguide.org/young88.php

In presenting false testimony against Reverend Christie, the judges and prosecutors responsible for his pre-trial punishment of have committed crimes against the Constitution.  In order to perpetuate a counter-productive “drug war” our courts have been corrupted by the political influence of economically dominant, chemically-based industries; that are economically threatened by fair competition in a truly “free market,” inclusive of organic, Cannabis-based industries.

Valuable beyond the rightful jurisdiction of any court, Cannabis is so essential that it can never be truly illegal. Our freedom to farm "every herb bearing seed" is the first test of religious freedom.

Free our heartfull soul brother, Reverend Roger Christie -- NOW! The world is starting to notice...

Fight Crime? Do Time.

Reverend Roger Christie found the middle of a mystery
 when his peaceful Cannabis Ministry
was was raided by the infantry
fronting for true villainy.

 Helicopters flew so hard drugs grew.
What was a true minister who knew to do?
“Melt Ice” his sign read; “Aloha Asa!” he even said.
Ancient ganja is our soul’s bread.
It takes a ‘head to get ahead.

 Countless wrongs upon him, Ohana, Bride & Mom.
 “Drug war” liars have corralled him with “dangerous” words,
heavy, thin, and oozing sin.

 False values have been shoved on us from up above
from the crap we eat to Carl Rove,
a toxic stew bereft of love.

 If “every herb” you do respect
you’d better learn then to protect
your most sacred fruit of intellect
in heeding reason that directs.

 Reverend Peacemaker, be free
by seeing in you what i can see;
in standing for your right to be
you deliver ours, to us & me.

 Quiet is the strongest truth.
A word, a thought will set it loose.
 Pray honesty shines in the jurist’s heart. Aloha big in soul-felt trust of my brother’s estate
he knows the global culture did predate
palsied rusting shadows of corporate hate.

 PvH7302012



[ estate, noun

1 an area or amount of land or property, in particular

• an extensive area of land in the country, usually with a large house, owned by one person or organization.

• all the money and property owned by a particular person, esp. at death : in his will, he divided his estate between his wife and daughter.

 • a property where coffee, rubber, [hemp] grapes, or other crops are cultivated. • Brit. a housing or commercial development.

2 (also estate of the realm) a class or order regarded as forming part of the body politic, in particular (in Britain), one of the three groups constituting Parliament, now the Lords Spiritual (the heads of the Church), the Lords Temporal (the peerage), and the Commons. They are also known as the three estates.

 • dated a particular class or category of people in society : the spiritual welfare of all estates of men.

3 archaic or poetic/literary a particular state, period, or condition in life : programs for the improvement of man's estate | the holy estate of matrimony.

• grandeur, pomp, or state : a chamber without a chair of estate.

ORIGIN Middle English (in the sense [state or condition] ): from Old French estat, from Latin status ‘state, condition,’ from stare ‘to stand.’]