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REPOSTED FROM: http://projectpeace.blogspot.com/
By Ecologist Paul Von Hartman
ALso See: HEMP LEGAL IN VERMONT!
The Limit of Law
At what point does a law become so transparently perverse that it ceases to command respect? When
do truth, morality and reason over-rule an unjust, environmentally, economically and socially
degenerative law? In the absence of accountability for the truth, is there an obligation to obey
such a law, or is there a moral obligation to disobey it?
Prohibition of Cannabis was instituted seventy years ago, primarily in order to make money for a
relative few wealthy people, at the expense of many other, poorer people. The laws prohibiting
Cannabis hemp cultivation, manufacture and free trade have induced prolonged, essential resource
scarcity, induced global food insecurity and malnutrition, global chemical dependence on toxic
finite resources, and imposed radical economic disparity. At the same time, the "drug war" has
been proven to be -- beyond doubt -- counter-productive to its own stated objectives.
The reason for this is that problems are profitable. A wealthy, all-powerful and voracious
bureaucracy has been constructed to suppress economic competition from small scale, organic
agriculture. Small farms stabilize regional economics, evenly distribute the wealth of what's
truly valuable. Cannabis provides clean fuels, healing food, copious quantities of biodegradable
fiber, plastics, and substantial agronomic benefit. Without Cannabis as part of the global
economy, sustainability may not be possible for our species.
Time is the limiting factor in the equation of survival. Unless we make the best use of every
growing season that remains, before the planet is beyond saving, globally broiled beyond
recognition, then we are doing too little. It may already be too late to avoid synergistic
collapse of environment, economics and social evolution. Certainly that is happening in some parts
of the world, right now.
Cannabis is the only common seed with four essential fatty acids (EFAs)in proper proportion for
long-term consumption. Cannabis seed is, potentially, the best available source of organic
vegetable protein on Earth, is a valuable rotational crop. It also tastes wonderful.
In spite of all this, Cannabis seed is not even recognized as food for humans by the United
Nations Food & Agriculture Organization (UN/FAO). The overwhelming failure of logic that argues
for prohibition is obviously part of a generator for political corruption and the wealthy black
market. An unregulated drug market Is also a potential delivery mechanism for chemical pathogens.
On average, one law enforcement officer is killed per month, enforcing drug laws that only make
drug use more prevalent. Trillions of dollars have been wasted in the futile attempt to control
what can never be controlled through coersion.
The fundamental challenge of our time is to re-valuate the world's most useful and nutritious
organic agricultural resource, and initiate a normal relationship with this plant, in time to
plant this spring, for food, for biofuels and in the end, for world peace. The natural, god-given
freedom to farm Cannabis is "self-evident," beyond the rightful jurisdiction of any court. If our
children are to inherit natural rights, then we must claim them by limiting the rule of law to
serve the common good. This means allowing for a truly free, organic agriculturally-based, market
economy, operating in harmony with the Earth's Natural Order.
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Paul J. von Hartmann
Project P.E.A.C.E.
Planet Ecology Advancing Conscious Economics
www.pvonh.com
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Thursday, January 04, 2007  |
The following was written in response to a forum question about which currency would most likely favor our survival:
It isn't the "euro," the "dollar," the "yen," or the "sheckle" that determines whether or not
humans are able to recover the global balance that would allow humankind to achieve sustainable
existence. It is the character of the resource base, of whatever currency we choose, that will
decide the future of this planet. Right now (and for the past three generations), our economic
system is/has been based on highly toxic, unevenly distributed, unsustainable energy production.
This poor choice, made early last century, could only lead to the present, extinctionistic result
we are all in the middle of.
To shift the paradigm, back to sustainability, we must recognise the urgency of prioritizing
respect for the Natural Order, and re-designing our economic systems to reflect increasing
awareness of where we are in the paradigm we've co-created. Inertia and time-lags are working
against that, but it doesn't mean that there isn't still a chance for us to recover.
In my opinion, because of our reletively recent ability to communicate globally, electronically,
instantaneously, it may still be possible to achieve harmony with the primarily significant Laws
that determine our collective fate. We can make energy from renewable resources. We can shift our
values to disempower the short-sighted, chemical/radioactive economy, by initiating pragmatic
solutions, currently being suppressed by the corrupted forces that have achieved political
dominance.
Consider what would happen if the world's most useful agricultural resource were to be utilised to
its fullest potential, instead of being widely, dogmatically, prohibited. Consider what the effect
would be if people were suddenly aware that the Cannabis plant (a.k.a. hemp, 'marijuana') is the
most immediate, best available source of renewable biofuels, organic vegetable protein and the
only common seed with three essential fatty acids, on Earth. The fundamental imbalances that have
resulted from inducing prolonged, essential resource scarcity are hardly being considered because
of the knee-jerk resistance, resulting from propaganda, prejudice and distraction surrounding the
issue of 'marijuana.'
Because we haven't had access to this "strategic" resource for so long, most people cannot imagine
how critically determinate this unique and essential crop truly is. Consider that, incredibly, the
UN/FAO doesn't even recognize the world's most nutritious seed as food fit for human consumption.
That's just one, blatantly obvious indication of how extreme the insidious corruption of human
values is.
I've been teaching people about the true value of Cannabis for the past fifteen years. A lot has
changed in that time, but I am still constantly amazed at the resistance that persists, in spite
of growing awareness and concern for the accelerating degeneration of our environment, economics
and social structures fundamentally related to induced, essential resource scarcity. If you were
on an island, and offered the choice of a barrel of petroleum or a bag of hemp seed, which would
you choose? Unfortunately, our grandfathers were hood-winked into choosing the barrel of
petroleum. Earth Island is now polluted and the barrel is almost empty.
If we don't snap out of "Reefer Madness" our species will become extinct as the result of
synergistic collapse of the Natural Order. If we acheive global consensus on the urgency of
initiating a shift to organic agricultural solutions to the equation of survival, we may yet be
able to secure a liveable future. I believe that ending Cannabis prohibition is the first step to
finding our way back to balance and harmony with the ancient, abiding forces that govern this
planet.
'Time' is the limiting factor in the equation of survival. It is in everyone's best interest to
actively demand an end to Cannabis prohibition. If we all pull together to achieve this lynch-pin
change, the economic forces that steer our environmental and social evolution will shift in ways
that may yet avert the predictable synergistic collapse we are certainly barreling toward.
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Sunday, February 19, 2006 |
Illegal to Eat ?
Consider how the drug war impacts food security. Because of 'marijuana' prohibition, the UN Food & Agriculture Organization has been criminally negligent by failing to promote hemp cultivation for seed protein.
Failure by the UN to acknowledge and educate people regarding the exceptional food value of Cannabis seed, introduces a global issue of grave concern, on a scale that amounts to genocide. Imposed essential resource scarcity is directly responsible for epidemic malnutrition, illness anddeath, effecting billions of people.
Interfering with people's natural right to farm an unique and essential food resource is an unacceptable, criminal consequence of prohibition, that continues to go completely unaccounted for.
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