Its a really good read, if you have time. Criminalization of pot is a racist act.

- http://www.marijuanaparty.com/article.php3?id_article=201

POT PROHIBITION HISTORY

Canadian pot prohibition is more than 80 years old.

There have been two very different 40 year periods.

From 1923 to 1963, the law was very rarely enforced.

During the first 40 years, only a couple of hundred people were ever arrested.

There is no official record that the law against cannabis was ever enforced before the 1930?s.

Back in 1961, Canadian support for the United Nations? Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs then resulted in the Canadian marijuana laws having the second heaviest minimum sentence in Canadian criminal law.

According to the law, the only thing worse than marijuana was murder.

Besides illegal drugs, no other crimes were enforced by mandatory minimum jail terms but murder or manslaughter.

From 1964 to 1970, the number of cannabis crime convictions was doubling every year.

This increase rate slowed somewhat between 1970 to 1972, when the government first said they would decriminalize.

The rate increased after that decriminalization did not happen, however, the exponential speed of that rate increase slowed.

The majority of all cannabis criminals have been young people. That has stayed the same from the 1960?s until in the 2000?s.

(Good statistics on cannabis crimes from 1972 to 1996 are not readily available. The government appears to have stopped wanting to keep or publish the numbers.)

In 1969, about 5,000 people were charged with cannabis crimes.

In 1996 there were 50,000 in trouble, by 2001 it was 70,000.

The numbers are still increasing.

Statistics Canada has reported that:

"The rate of total drug offences increased for the ninth straight year, driven by increases in both cannabis offences ? In 2002, three in four drug incidents were cannabis offences, most of which were for simple possession."

There are at least a million Canadians consuming cannabis from time to time, and perhaps more than three million.

The best recent studies have said that more than four million Canadians had consumed some cannabis during the past year.

It was also discovered that the most frequent consumers were young men with relatively high education & income.

The youth participation rate a few decades ago maybe was about 10%. Currently, it is guessed that at least 25% of youth participate in pot, and more recent opinion polls indicated that it may be higher.

Public opinions polls favouring legalization of marijuana have gone up from 25% a few decades ago, to around 50% now.

All taxpayers are paying for pot prohibition, instead of benefiting from taxes on pot products being added to all the governments? general revenue. The difference between these 2 possibilities could be ?guesstimated? at roughly five million dollars per day.

A landmark in the history of pot prohibition in Canada was the 1972 Cannabis Report from the Canadian Government?s Commission of Inquiry into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs (the Le Dain Report). Taken as whole, this report is still better than most of the other official material available. (The minority report in favour of cannabis was quite good.)

A Canadian Senate Report on Cannabis was released September 4, 2002. (The Nolin Report)

The summary of the Nolin Report is 60 pages long, and the whole Senate Report is ten times bigger. It is as good or better than the Le Dain Report.

This Senate Report on cannabis has indicated that enforcing pot prohibition takes about 30% of the Canadian criminal justice system.

Despite the million dollars a day the Federal Government spends, and a similar provincial sum, pot prohibition does not work.

The Senate Report recommended that marijuana should be legalized, similar to how alcohol is available.

If marijuana were legalized in this way, then the Federal crimes would be gone. After that kind of repeal of the Federal criminal laws, then any regulations would be in provincial jurisdictions.

(However, as will be discussed below, treating marijuana as if marijuana was really as dangerous as alcohol is to agree to compromise with dishonesty about marijuana.)

Today, almost everything that is worth knowing about pot can be searched for and a source found on the internet, along with way more things not worth finding.

There is an overwhelming amount of marijuana information available, which includes a great many good books and articles, as well as a lot of very bad pot propaganda.

As the anecdotal story was told in an editorial of the December, 2004, issue of the Scientific American:

This system has unintended, almost comic, consequences. For example, it has created a market for research marijuana, with ?buyers? trading journal co-authorships to ?sellers? who already have a marijuana stockpile or license. The government may also have a stake in a certain kind of result. One scientist tells of a research grant application to study marijuana?s potential medical benefits. The NIDA turned it down. That scientist rewrote the grant to emphasize finding marijuana?s negative effects. The study was funded.

Of course, it is extremely difficult to do a scientific study about the corruption of science by politics. However, as a general rule, a lot of the so-called science about marijuana has been paid propaganda.

When looking at any information about marijuana, one has to seriously consider the probability that government funded information is false.

Usually, even after some breakthrough finally occurs, like the law courts legalizing medical marijuana, then whole system adapts to diminish that.

Medical marijuana court cases have, so far, not had a judgment released that goes past that of the Ontario Court of Appeal (O.C.A.), since the government did not then appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada (S.C.C.) in those earlier medical cases.

The original breakthrough Canadian court case in the year 2000 was R. v. Parker.

Next in importance was the October 7, 2003, R. v. Hitzig case.

There is a long and complicated story of cannabis court cases. The whole story is so strange that it seems quite incredible.

A ripple effect from the medical marijuana victories undermined laws against possession of Cannabis for a while.

In July, 2000, the Ontario Court of Appeal gave Parliament one year to act to allow a medical exception to marijuana prohibition.

The lower courts recognized, in mid-2002, the fact that Parliament had failed to act, and therefore, the delayed invalidation order made by the Ontario Court of Appeal took effect.

An Ontario Superior Court judge confirmed an Ontario provincial court judge decision that the failure of Parliament to act had caused the invalidation of the pot possession prohibition.

The Ontario Court of Appeal, on October 7, 2003, recognized that there had been no valid law against pot possession, between July 31, 2001, and October 7, 2003.

Several thousand criminal charges for possession of pot that were laid in the time the law was in limbo between July 31, 2001, until October 7, 2003, had to be dropped by the Canadian government.

The O.C.A. claimed it fixed all the medical marijuana regulations, in order to claim that it had made pot prohibition valid again. (Some people disagree that the O.C.A. had jurisdiction to do that. But, even if that was true, it would be a technicality, since Parliament still has the power to re-enact any marijuana law.)

What is most important is that the Supreme Court of Canada (S.C.C.) heard three significant marijuana cases on May 6, 2003:

*David Malmo-Levine v. R. Caine v. R. Clay v. R.*

Two judgments in these three cases were released by the S.C.C. on December 23, 2003.

WE LOST, by the S.C.C. judges voting 6 to 3 to uphold prohibition.

An excellent place to link through to these court cases is www.cannabislink.ca

Since the S.C.C. confirmed pot prohibition on December 23, 2003, the time of interesting and hopeful court cases has now ended. The remaining medical marijuana details are relatively minor.

Even as this article is being written, we might be waiting for the Supreme Court of Canada to decide on some medical marijuana cases. (It is difficult to keep up with all that is currently happening.)

The court cases made progress only with medical marijuana, but have run into a dead end of deference to Parliament, with respect to the future of recreational marijuana.

Therefore, all the important issues are now about pot politics. Legal battles against marijuana laws are relevant as part of a political campaign, possibly to make it slightly more expensive and difficult for the government to enforce the law.

A Commons Committee Cannabis Report was released December 12, 2002. (The Torsney Report.)

That Committee also observed the fact that 75% of the Federal drug war budget, of at least $500 million, was spent on pot prohibition.

The Committee also stated that spending this more than a million dollar a day enforcement was not effective.

Unfortunately, the Torsney Report seems to be more like a collection of press releases than a scientific study.

The government of Canada continues to be in agreement with the Commons Committee Report, and not the Senate Report.

A Speech from the Throne in 2002 said the government was going to decriminalize marijuana.

But, the 2003 Bill C-38, which was supposed to decriminalize, died on the order paper when the 2004 election was called. (This seems like d?ja vu back to the situation in 1972, and feels like the marijuana issue has become frozen in history.)

A package of so-called decriminalization Bills will be before Parliament in 2005.

(A private Members Bill C-420 is also interesting, because that should apply to cannabis just as much as it applies to chamomile and other natural herbs.)

However, before discussing these further, we need to back up and talk about how we talk about pot.

The pot plant is one plant.

How Do We Name This Plant?

The most popular common word for cannabis is pot. The origins of this word seem to be lost in the oral tradition of black jive talk in the U.S.A..

The word marijuana was analogous to the word nigger.

The Nolin Report says the word marijuana comes from Mexican slang for cheap cigarette.

The word marijuana was deliberately misleading and derogatory.

Due to the overwhelming amount of officially repeated dishonesty, even the words we use to talk about this plant are problematic.

The plant genus Cannabis had the original English name hemp.

The scientific or latin name for the plant is saying cultivated hemp in that language.

The hemp plant is the same as the marijuana plant, they are both cannabis.

Both the scientific and common names for this plant appear to have some serious problems in their usage.

Official government publications have tended to the spelling of marihuana, while almost everyone else now writes marijuana.

Even in the thousands of court case reports, the j spelling is three time more common than the h spelling of the word.

(In many of the government documents, the spelling jumps from h to j depending on the context.)

The word marihuana, for the government of Canada, was also identified with cannabis and hash.

The hemp plant was probably disseminated in Asia, Europe and Africa at the beginning of human history.

The use of marijuana was originally part of many cultures around the world.

A root word for pot is in many languages.

The cannabis plants, and the people who consumed it, were probably spread throughout Eurasia and Africa, however, the plant had to go with people to travel beyond the Eurasia-Africa continent.

Evidence of ancient cannabis culture is in India and China.

An old word for the plant was ?ganga? in India, and ?ma? in the Chinese language.

The hemp plant was native to China, and it was a very important part of ancient Chinese civilization.

The oldest evidence of people using hemp comes from very ancient China.

Hemp was brought by the early French first to Canada, however, the original prohibition of cannabis in Canada was mostly due to the role of Chinese Canadians in history.

However, before we talk about the influence of the Chinese upon the history of cannabis in Canada, and then later the influence of hispanics and blacks in the U.S.A. on the history of cannabis in Canada, first we should still try to clarify our language.

The genus of plant that we call Cannabis has a few so-called species:

Cannabis sativa, Cannabis indica, and Cannabis ruderalis

However, those were originally called species because they were geographically limited in their ability to mix.

Plant breeders have crossed the cannabis so-called species back into each other, which means that they should no longer be called species.

Species, by definition, are the specialized organisms that interbreed only with themselves.

Cannabis species were falsely named, even in the science books.

The Cannabis genus is practically one huge species now, because human plant breeders have made it that way, with genes from all the so-called species mixed.

The word Cannabis perhaps should be capitalized, if that really was the genus name of a group, however, since cannabis is truly one species, then cannabis would really be a species name, and hence not need a capital C as a genus name.

In general, pot politics is very paradoxical, and the language that we use is very problematic.

The scientific analysis of the psychoactive molecule, the THC, has been known since 1964, and anyone who wants to learn more about that molecule can do so, however, it still is buried under bad language.

The isomeres of the tetrahydrocannabinol molecules are different than most psychoactive substances, because THC molecules contain no nitrogen.

Like alcohol, or sugar, THC is made of only hydrogen, oxygen and carbon atoms.

It was the THC, which was only made in abundance in some particular varieties of pot plants, that was a reason why pot plants have been made illegal.

Understanding this entire situation requires being very critical of the language that is being used both commonly and scientifically.

Races: Marijuana and Human

The pot plant is a tree of life, with male and female plants, and different races of plants.

There is an analogy between the THC in pot and melanin in people.

THC evolved to protect pot plants from Ultra Violet light. Melanin evolved to protect human beings from UV light.

Melanin refers to a group of naturally occurring dark pigments, especially pigments found in the skin or hair in human beings.

If one had the eyes of a honey bee that could see UV light, then the UV light absorbing pigments of THC would be more apparent.

THC oil may be compared to the pigments found in sunscreen lotions that are not visible to human eyes, but which absorb UV light.

The different races of marijuana plants, are like the different races of people.

Coloured pot has too much THC oil, and that is what is prohibited, except in medical marijuana.

Medical marijuana is black pot, however, that is o.k. because it can come wrapped in a white lab coat.

Industrial hemp is now regarded as o.k. because it is white pot, in the sense that industrial hemp may be considered to be like an albino human being.

People might benefit from using THC oil as a sunscreen. (This is only a theoretical speculation, since, now, hash oil is too expensive to actually use like that.)

Since cannabis was always the same plant, whatever the name, it was suppressed from 1938 up until the early 1990?s, when industrial hemp in Canada was allowed to attempt a comeback, but under strict THC limits.

The plant should be allowed to produce its own optimum amount of THC oil depending upon its growing conditions.

The separation of legal industrial hemp, and legal medical marijuana, from illegal recreational pot, does not make any more logical sense than the separation of different human races.

The names for the pot plants are analogous to names for the human races, and separating kinds of pot plants is analogous to separating different human races.

Just as there is some science about human races, but also a vastly greater amount of prejudice, so too there is some science of pot plants, but vastly more prejudice about pot plants.

All pot plants are all the same plant, like all human beings are human beings.

Only some breeds of hemp, grown under the right conditions, produce significant psychoactive THC oil in their flowers.

Best breeds or growing conditions were not found in Europe, but were found in the warmer climates around the world, and especially in the higher altitude tropical climates.

The psychoactive THC oil present on the flowers of pot plants probably evolved in some relationship with Ultra Violet light, and to assist in protection from dehydration in the sunlight.

Flowering plants have have a pistil, with stigmas, that are places where pollen can stick and be transported into the pistil for pollenation to form seeds.

However, some kinds of pot plants produce lots of THC oil.

Since most flowering plants have female parts which work to catch pollen, it is an oversimplification to think that marijuana plants produce THC oil to catch pollen.

There is something unique in marijuana plants, the THC, that is not necessarily involved in their pollenation.

Industrial hemp plants, grown to produce fibre or seeds have very little THC, but they still can get pollenated.

Merely because flowering plants have sticky structures that are used to catch their pollen, does not mean that pot plants make so much THC in order to do it.

Since not all cannabis plants need an abundance of resin in order to become pollenated, it is not necessarily so that the cannabis plants that do produce abundant THC oil are doing it in order to be able to be better pollenated.

The original location of the evolution of pot plants that have evolved to produce an abundance of THC oil, indicates the probable botantical or biological cause.

It was only the marijuana plants adapted to an abundance of sunshine, that evolved the abundance of THC oils too.

When Europeans began their global conquest about 500 years ago, they had plenty of hemp, however, it was not very psychoactive.

After the Europeans had mostly completed their global conquest, they had done so with their rationalizations based on racism.

This racism, which was based on the reality of the struggle for power and control, found it expedient to pick particular substances or drugs, associated with different cultures, to demonize or to adopt as either a tool of exploitation, or as a tool of persecution.

(Opium exported to China by English and Americans during the 19th Century is an example of a tool of exploitation.)

Drug prohibition, in general, was rooted in racism, and making some drugs illegal was mostly done to create tools of persecution which originally had racist purposes.

Globally, drug prohibition primarily has had a racist effect. As a global conspiracy theory, that probably was intended.

Real human history has been controlled by violence and dishonesty. Real human history has been about a lot of slavery and racism. Real human history made pot prohibition.

In Canada, marijuana was first made illegal in 1923 probably in order to give the government of Canada another excuse to arrest and deport people from China who were no longer wanted in Canada.

The narcotic drug law system was probably set up to do that. It did do that in the original anti-opium law enforcement. The House of Commons Debates stated that the government was deporting Chinamen as fast as the government could. However, those cannabis laws were never actually needed.

(After what the English and Americans did to China, back in the 19th Century, the perverse irony of that was quite awful.)

Yet still, the conclusion that our cannabis laws were racist must be informed speculation, after knowing the context, more like a 2 + 2 = 4 conspiracy theory conclusion that is not directly proven by any hard evidence.

In 1923, cannabis was mysteriously tacked on to the schedule of our narcotics law.

In Canadian House of Commons Debates the Minister of Health simply said that there was a new drug on the schedule.

The evidence shows an unknown person simply typed Cannabis indica and hash onto a copy of the law.

The words typed in the law schedule by an unknown person in the government were never even spoken in Parliament.

There was no debate, and indeed, no public knowledge.

Official government documents from 1923 draw a blank. (See the research undertaken in government archives, as reported by P.J. Giffen, et al., in their good book Panic and Indifference: The Politics of Canada?s Drug Laws 1991, Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse)

There is no direct evidence of the government?s purpose, because there is no direct evidence whatsoever for why the government originally made marijuana become criminal.

Instead, still in 1923, only a few months after marijuana was deemed to be a narcotic (which is totally untrue) the government of Canada enacted a Hemp Bounties Act, that paid white farmers, mostly in Manitoba and Ontario, to grow hemp for use in binder twine and similar industries.

There was an irony that between 1923 and 1938 the government had two opposite laws about fundamentally the same plant.

Another irony was that Cannabis indica and hash were made illegal in 1923, but yet, nine years later, Cannabis sativa was still being allowed in medicines.

That changed in 1938, when the Canadian government made growing any hemp illegal.

Reading through the 1938 House of Commons Debates indicates that Canada was motivated by the U.S.A. to make future cultivation of Cannabis become criminal, including even for the government subsidized hemp farmers.

One of the most ironic quotes comes from the former Prime Minister, MacKenzie King, saying that they did not want to attract any more public attention to the fact that they were putting out of businsess the hemp farmers that the government had originally subsidized to get into that business.

In general, the 1938 House of Commons Debates are full of irony that they repeatedly state that they want to criminalize cannabis, however, they also wanted to call as little public attention as possible to the fact that they are criminalizing it.

All hemp was outlawed because marijuana was outlawed. Canada was moved to do that by the U.S.A. influence.

THE INFLUENCE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The word marijuana was adopted by law enforcement officials, and popularized by the news media.

The war against some drugs has always had a dynamic relationship between the news media and the politics of law enforcement.

The news media have been major sources of misinformation.

In general, the news media care primarily about profit,vwhich can be made from senationalized stories,vand secondarily about promoting propaganda which assists the owners of those media.

In the U.S.A., quite powerful business empires, with their financial and family interconnections, profited in various ways from demonizing marijuana.

Most people then did not know that marijuana was the same plant as hemp.

The word marijuana was popularized by a propaganda campaign.

The racism that started the prohibition of pot was supported by vested economic interests that wanted to see the hemp industry put out of business.

Hemp can readily compete with cotton, for instance, and hemp takes less fertilizers or pesticides to grow.

Since the cotton industry originally was based on slavery, the people who made profits from that industry were used to using violence and dishonesty to get what they wanted.

The hemp industry in the 1930?s was preparing for a huge leap forward made possible by the design of new machines that would have made hemp even better.

The people who produced the fertilizers, pesticides, and nylon etc., had interconnections and influences and political manipulations, and they wanted to put the hemp industry out of business, and so they promoted the huge propaganda campaign, telling big lies about marijuana, over and over, to gain their objective.

One of the facts about propaganda is that is it possible to tell a big enough lie, enough times, until most people believe it.

Persuading large numbers of people to believe in lies is much too easy to do, especially when people telling those lies can control the environment of the listeners.

The original, established public opinions about marijuana were created by dishonesty backed up with violence.

Moreover, making marijuana illegal was an example of the more general, wide-spread, political perversity that resulted from discrediting and destroying natural products that could not be patented or could compete with products which could be patented or otherwise monopolized somehow.

This was also similar to the effect of alcohol prohibition. (Perhaps ethanol should have originally been a fuel that could have been in competition with oil, although now, that is no longer as good an alternative as it was.)

Powerful people who had made lots of profit from their oil and petrochemical products, then used some of that huge profit through a corruption that funded the political process, in order to put many possible natural alternatives out of business.

It is very difficult to appreciate the enormous magnitude of the long-term economic distortions that have been caused by drug prohibition.

The ulterior purposes were the real purposes.

The ulterior purposes have been fulfilled.

The stated purposes have totally failed.

This is typical throughout politics.

What was really intended actually happens.

The stated lies and hypocrisy for prohibition totally failed, and instead caused their opposite to actually happen more and more, because the real truth for why there was a prohibition was never stated, and was never the primary intention of those who made the original prohibition laws.

There was a constellation of interests, wherein racism and profit co-incided, which led to discrediting and destroying natural products, with the most extreme example of this being pot prohibition.

There was an astonishing racheting effect of lies from one person being repeated as the truth by other people, going around and around in an ever worse vicious cycle.

The influence of the U.S.A. is conflated with the issues inside Canada.

These factors have tended to feedback into themselves. The U.S.A. law enforcement statements were quoted as the truth in Canada.

In general, the political process in Canada has been fundamentally similar to the political process in the U.S.A., except that the history of the U.S.A. has been more hard ball, with much more violence and dishonesty than was normal in Canada.

Fraudulent forces are clearly dominating the U.S.A. government. In the real world, there has been nothing which could stop the triumph of dishonesty backed up with violence, that has made a complete mockery of democracy.

The U.S.A. both takes away the right of prisoners to vote and many states permanently take away the right to vote from people who have been in jail.

Millions of Americans are denied their right to vote because they have been the victims of drug prohibition. (Of course, these laws started to stop blacks from voting.)

The United States of American seems to hold the world record for the highest per capita incarceration of citizens anywhere in the world, at any time in history.

This is now the opposite of the Canadian voting rights situation. Since Canadians still retain their right to vote while in jail, it would not be as easy to built a concentration camp in Canada as it is becoming in the U.S.A., and since Canadian laws limit the amount of money that can be contributed and spent by political parties, we are a little less vulnerable to corruption. (However, our improved election finance laws are belatedly like closing the barn door after our horse has already run away.)

The Canadian political process has some slight theoretical chance that our historically established system could be changed. That theoretical possibility seems less in the U.S.A..

The government of the U.S.A. continues to be the single greatest obstacle to legalizing marijuana in Canada and around the world.

The U.S.A. marijuana laws were first used to attack Mexicans, then used against Blacks.

In the U.S.A., El Paso, Texas, in 1914, had their first law against marijuana.

Mostly in the U.S.A., (but which also was influential in Canada by being quoted as the truth) there was a propaganda campaign, funded behind the scenes by some big businesses, to paint pot as a dangerous addictive narcotic that caused criminal insanity and fatalities.

The only thing that most Canadians knew about marijuana was what various mass media, such as MacLeans magazine, had told them, which was the racism of Emily Murphy.

The only motivation for the Canadian marijuana laws apparently was the result of the obviously racist attacks on Chinese Canadians. That is the only motivation that makes sense, and is supported by an abundance of evidence, if one does enough research into the entire cultural background of that period of history.

Before and during 1923, a lot of other bad laws were enacted against all the Chinese in Canada, especially the Chinese exclusion laws, or what they called the 43 humiliations, since the Chinese were the only people that were explicitly excluded from Canada.

It is generally believed by those who study the 1920?s, as a kind of a conspiracy theory with no smoking gun, that the Canadian government was induced to add cannabis to the schedule of narcotic drugs because of Emily Murphy. Hence, Canada?s marijuana law was literally Murphy?s law. (All of her recommendations for punishments were adopted, but none of her recommendations for treatment were used.)

Emily Murphy is famous and respected for her role in the campaign for women?s rights in Canada, however, as the first female judge in the British Empire, she also is an example of the general rule that these women had to be twice as tough as the average man in order to be considered equal. Judged from within her times Murphy was simply being a tougher racist than any man available to do that job at that time. It is not fair to judge Murphy with today?s morality, since, according to the morality of her times her racism was well-respected and proper.

In the reality of the global situation back then, it is plainly obvious that, if excuses had not been invented to stop immigration from Asia, then colonies of settlement, like Canada, would have been overwhelmed by Asians.

But for all the racism that stopped it from happening, British Columbia would have become Chinese Columbia.

Drug prohibition became, and still mostly is, a cleverly coded way to achieve the objectives of racism, without being overtly racist. Governments could operate tools of persecution that worked well, but did not have to be defended with overtly racist reasons, but could be defended with dishonesty about ?narcotic? drugs instead.

This is especially clear if one follows the political career of MacKenzie King, Canada?s longest-serving Prime Minister. MacKenzie Kind had solved the problem of unwanted Asians by inventing the Canadian anti-opium laws, and later, the anti-marijuana laws were added on, as an extra.

To fully understand the whole truth about marijuana law, one has to look at all of Canadian history in a radically different way.

MacKenzie King built his political career on being a drug expert. What he was really expert at was being a liar and hypocrite, who deliberately used deceit to obtain political objectives.

What is both extraordinary and banal at the same time is the way that dishonesty backed up with violence could set up and run the system that exists now.

Murphy?s writings contained many extremely racist statements. Those writings were the major source of the popularization of the huge lies about marijuana in Canada.

In particular, the most extreme of Emily Murphy?s statements were about how degrading it was for white women to have sexual relations with Chinese men.

Throughout the early 1920 - 1940 campaign to make cannabis criminal, both in Canada, and in the U.S.A., the emotional hot button that the propagandists pushed hardest was that coloured men were going to use marijuana to seduce white women.

While it may be true that marijuana might make sex more enjoyable, it is a shallow view of politics to think that this fear of marijuana being used by coloured men to seduce white women was the major reason why marijuana laws were passed.

Perusal of Murphy, and many similar public statements by others, takes a lot of reading between the lines to fully understand.

The prohibitionists did not really care that much about some white women being destroyed by coloured men, so much as the prohibitionists wanted to be able to persecute and destroy coloured men.

Being able to persecute and destroy some coloured men, made it more possible to control other coloured men.

Furthermore, in order to truly understand the process that produced prohibition, one has to follow the flow of money that funded this kind of campaign.

The issue was not about saving white women from degradation, but rather who would bother to campaign against marijuana, because in some precessional ways they would profit from it.

There is no doubt that racism and sexism originally generated the hottest of the sensational arguments against some drugs, but they were not truly the main reasons for the prohibition.

Marijuana is an extremely beneficial whole green plant. From the start, it was strange that a whole plant was made illegal, instead of concentrated drugs that could be derived from that plant.

The facts are that marijuana directly kills no one, but the marijuana laws result in situations where people get killed in various ways by other people.

There is the gross disproportionality that marijuana kills nobody, while marijuana laws result in some people being killed in Canada, including kids that commit suicide after they get caught with pot, and an unknown, but probably large, number of seriously sick people, that would have lived longer with more marijuana medicine.

The perverse pot prohibition black market can be and often is dishonest and violent, and sometimes that violence becomes bad enough as the fact that more than one human being has been shot and killed by police enforcing pot prohibition, and more than one human being has been killed while acting as the police who enforced the pot prohibiton.

The vicious cycle of dishonesty and violence in our laws began with the creation of this law itself, because the law made the black market now, and the worse that market, the more dishonesty and violence in every aspect, including during the enforcement of that law.

A war on drugs can never be won, but those who are losing always claim that they only need more resources to yet win.

Repealing prohibition would mean a black market would stop, and most of the worst things would stop, after we were able to get out of the vicious cycles of that market.

The hemp industry could recover much better after all kinds of marijuana plants were fully legalized.

Governments could gain revenue from taxing pot products.

POT IS A WONDERFUL PLANT & THE LAW IS INCREDIBLE

Marijuana is a good fiber source to make clothes, paper, rope, etc., and, marijuana is a relatively good producer of an annual biomass. Anything that can be manufactured or made from cellulose fibers can be readily manufactured or made from marijuana plants too.

If one selects the right strains and grows them in the right way, then hemp fiber is of superior quality compared to alternatives.

The most astonishing possible use of marijuana is as a food source, especially the marijuana seeds. This fact seems so incredible, and has been deliberately denied and suppressed for so long, that it is very difficult to come to terms with this truth.

Marijuana seeds are the single best plant source for human food.

Because of that, along with other benefits, it is correct to say:

Pot is the single best plant on the planet for people.

This is not to claim that marijuana is a miracle plant. Of course, marijuana is only a plant, and grows naturally, but nevertheless, as a real fact, according to an honest and relevant comparison of all the natural properties of all plants, the pot plant is, without any reasonable doubt, the single best.

Hemp seed protein content is comparable to that of soya beans, but better.

The hemp seed amino acid profile in hemp protein is better suited to human needs than soya beans.

Every type of hemp product from oils, to sprouts, and grass juice, etc., could be practical and nutritious.

Hash oil might provide a good sunscreen body lotion ingredient. (If marijuana was completely legal, then that hash oil need not be too extensive.)

Of course, hash oil should not be confused with hemp oil.

Hemp oil is the oil pressed out from the hemp seeds. It is a good oil, in fact, the best oil for humans, but this kind of hemp oil contains very little THC, and it is the different THC molecules that are the most psychoactive in cannabis plants.

Marijuana, like all plants, contains a very large number of different kinds of molecules, all of which have large chemical names. The effect of consuming cannabis changes with the different amounts of the different molecules found therein. Compared to most other things, like those containing alcohol or caffiene, cannabis is much more complicated in its effects because there are many more combinations of the different components in cannabis.

If one considers the people who enjoy alcohol or caffiene, and ways that they will learn all about their favourites, it is quite possible to do even more of that with cannabis.

One can become a cannabis connisseur, even more so than those who appreciate alcohol or caffiene, because cannabis has inherently more complexity to learn about.

Overall, marijuana is a relatively weak drug, and, often, the first thing many people say when they try marijuana is that it does not do much.

During the long history of marijuana laws, every rhetorical trick in the book has been used by propagandists.

Study of statements made by people who enforce pot prohibition can become a study of almost every possible way that some people can lie and distort the truth in order to influence other people.

Throughout this discussion, we might return, again and again, to the long list of little marijuana lies that are still prevalent.

The denial of the obvious fact that marijuana can be good medicine, something for which written records go back thousands of years, has been permanently stopped here by our Canadian courts.

It remarkable how much benefit some particular kinds of sick people can obtain from medical marijuana, and therfore, one has to agree that cannabis can have a powerful effect for these people.

From the point of view of people who use marijuana recreationally, it is difficult to imagine people who use marijuana medically, and do not want and do not like the psychoactive effect.

Regarding the various people with different kinds of illnesses that clearly benefit greatly from consuming cannabis as their medicine, we must agree that marijuana can be a herb with strong properties.

But, for most healthy people, marijuana is relatively mild, and this is especially so because there tends to be a saturation effect, where the more one consumes, the more the effect is diminished.

People who consume a lot of cannabis all the time have much less of an effect produced than people who rarely indulge.

Since marijuana has no fatal overdose, taking lots of large doses tends to become boring, rather than interesting the way a few small doses are.

It is a waste of good marijuana to consume too much of it.

There has been an amusing trend in the history of white people who started to consume cannabis, and transferred social habits that evolved with respect to alcohol or tobacco onto marijuana usage.

Amongst all the drugs, the hallucinogens are the most psychoactive in small doses, and the least fatal when consumed in great overdose. Marijuana is the most mild of the hallucinogenic pyschoactive drugs.

Due to the larger cycles of historical abuse, too many people have serious personality problems, and one manifestation of those problems is drug substance abuse. These problems are usually talked about with an absurd language which gives drugs some magical powers to be themselves good or evil.

People who abuse drugs, and the people who blame them, both will tend to blame the drug itself, as if the substance had some magic powers and properties.

This is the language of the liars and hypocrites which make things worse by being more dishonest.

Making any drug illegal is an absurd approach.

It assumes that the problem is in the drug, and not in human perceptions and precepts.

Addiction is a cultural thing.

?Addiction? is defined in absurd ways by the established system, to be almost anything that one likes and wants to do again means that one is therefore addicted to that substance or behavior, except, of course, that the established system is blind to applying that definition to everything in a equal way.

Rather, any habit that is frowned upon becomes an ?addiction.? However, any habit is a habit first and foremost, and habits with respect to drugs are not in the molecules of these drugs, but rather in the psychological and social behaviors of users.

Drug addiction is a death culture, and it is the culture that is the problem, not the drug. Blaming these drugs, and making the drugs become illegal and criminal, is a cultural problem.

The moment any drug is criminalized, a crazy culture is in control.

Fortunately, if one has to be ?addicted? to some drug, then marijuana is the best ?drug? to be addicted to.

The criminalization of drugs never made any logical sense, but rather, was really done for ulterior purposes.

Our social system has been built on dishonesty and violence, and drug laws are an extreme example of this situation.

It remains absurd even when the particular drugs can be fatal, and it becomes the most overwhelming absurd with safer drugs.

Drugs with fatal overdoses tend to produce more and more effect the larger the dose one consumes, but the few drugs that do not have a fatal overdose, tend to plateau off, where a larger dose does almost nothing more.

Of course, the more concentrated the drug the stronger the effects from that drug.

The claim that marijuana is much more powerful now than before is only true if one is talking about the commercial availability.

Marijuana plants have always had a very large range of differences in the amounts and kinds of psychoactive molecules they contained.

Stronger pot is available to a larger number of people, but, marijuana plants themselves had most of the natural varieties to begin with.

Even if one starts with good seeds or good clones from good plants, and grows those plants very well, one only ends up with marijuana.

Good marijuana is simply good marijuana, or, if one views it that way, then still bad marijuana is yet simply bad marijuana.

Pot has not become vastly more powerful, only more people can now buy better pot.

Until the science and technology of genetic engineering became more than the traditional breeding and growing then marijuana is only still a natural plant, and it does not become supernatural.

There is an entire frontier for all living organism, made potential with enough science and technology, to make a new marijuana plant with some genes from any other bacterium, plant or animal built into it.

However, the real possibilities for genetic engineering in the future, would be much bigger than for marijuana.

Marijuana itself is still a relatively weak substance, compared to almost all of the other known drugs, and growing better plants in better ways does not change that fundamental fact.

The rhetorical propaganda claims that marijuana can precipitate mental illness, or that marijuana is a gateway drug that leads people into using drugs, really make no statistical scientific sense whatsoever.

If those claims were ever found to have some slight truth, then, stopping cannabis from being criminalized is the best way to prevent those things from getting worse.

The psychoactive properties present in marijuana flowers are concentrated in hash, and even more concentrated in hash oil, which contains the most THC oil.

Hash oil is the oil made from the hemp flowers, and it can have a lot of THC oil in it theoretically up to almost 100%.

For a reasonable consumer, the better the quality the drug, the less that they want to consume, and even for those who are unreasonable consumers, it is still only THC.

The highest concentrations of the THC resins are found around the immature seeds, especially in the covers called the bracs. However, mature seeds themselves have very little THC oil within their hard shells. (This relates to the fact that the plant?s glands, which secret the THC containing resin, apparently have the primary purpose of protecting the immature seeds from too much sunlight.)

The costs of hemp seed and hemp seed products have been another victim of pot prohibition.

Cannabis should have continued to be cultivated, and should now be one of the world?s major grains and a very generally cultivated agricultural crop, except that pot prohibition killed this potential.

Pot prohibition was like making both flax and oats illegal at the same time, because cannabis is like a combination of both, but better than either.

The hemp industry, even after a relaxation of pot prohibition, will have a hard time recovering its position in the economy.

The historical effect of pot prohibition has set the hemp industry so far back against its competitors, that it is still caught in a double bind, that hemp products are too costly to begin to be able to compete. Hemp products can not become less expensive, as they should and could well be, until they are able to be cultivated and manufactured on the same scale as their competitors. However, hemp products are, right now, after decades of being illegal, still too expensive compared to their competitors, and thus, hemp products are now too costly to be able to compete, and in this double bind, it will take a very long time for hemp products to ever get to the scale of production that their competitors now enjoy. Thus, hemp products could not become cheaper until they were made and sold more, but hemp products can not be made and sold more until they are cheaper.

The pendulum of politics should swing back to the government subsidizing pot production for decades in the future to compensate for the prohibition in past decades.

A purpose of the Marijuana Party is to push that political pendulum.

Since cultivation of cannabis was made illegal for decades, all cannabis products, and not merely smokable marijuana, have been made unreasonably expensive in the current market.

Marijuana seeds are truly the single most practical solution to what is arguably the worst single problem in the world, which is malnutrition by lack of protein for poor children.

That can be thought of as directly causing more suffering than any other single identifiable material cause which has practical possibilities to ameliorate.

The amino acid profile of the kinds of protein in pot seeds is more similar to the protein needed in human nutrition.

It is an astonishing fact that hemp protein is better than soya and the list of less adequate plant protein sources goes on down from there, with no other single plant, besides the pot plant, being better to feed people.

Furthermore, from a purely agricultural point of view, is quite practically possible to select and grow marijuana plants that are very productive.

Marijuana is already a relatively hardy plant to cultivate, and may not need exceptional herbicides or pesticides.

Animal proteins are more expensive to produce than plant, (although there is considerable potential in aquaculture.)

As an overall fact, pot is the best single protein producer, and there are few facts that are more difficult to swallow. Thinking about the nutritional value of marijuana is like repeatedly bashing one?s head against the thick brick wall of pot prohibiton.

As the apocryphal story about the Buddha has said, it would be possible for human beings to live on nothing but hemp flowers with half mature seeds.

Even after one researched this aspect of marijuana, again and again, it still is difficult to accept.

Growing marijuana for the seeds to feed to poor children is the best single solution to the single worst problem.

Cannabis cultivatation should be subsidized by governments. All kinds of cannabis should be allowed to be cultivated, and not only the albino kinds with restricted THC amounts.

The amount of THC that the pot plant produces should be legally allowed to enable the best agricultural result in any area.

The various psychoactive properties of the THC oil have been used as the excuse to make hemp illegal.

However, while racism is no longer promoted by governments, the original systems built on racism are still operating.

There have been extraordinary coincidences in evolution, that made the THC oil that marijuana plants evolved work to protect that plant from Ultra-Violet light, and also be psychoactive within the human brain.

There is no evidence of any deeper mechanism for why this evolutionary co-incidence actually has happened, but it did.

The human brain produces chemicals within itself which have a shape similar to THC molecules, and therefore, THC is psychoactive in us.

This THC, in the pot plant itself, acts much like the human pigments that make skin colour darker. Therefore, hemp plants that grew where it was sunny are analogous to people who grew where it was sunny.

Both were protected from UV light by molecules they made.

An extraordinary co-incidence in a natural evolution has led to the symbolic role of marijuana in society.

A plant that lives an analogy to coloured people, and whose colour is psychoactive, had to become extraordinary in human ecology.

The marijuana plant, with all of its wonderful properties, inevitably has ended up being symbolic in the whole system.

All the astounding facts about pot plants, in the context of historical facts about human ecology and political economy, are what made the current situation.

The evolution of our political economy has been driven and directed by the men that prey on men.

The men that preyed on men invented tools of persecution.

These processes can be regarded as a natural path of the development of human ecology, since men that enslaved other men were simply doing what they could because nothing else could stop it.

The general ability to control the energy of others requires a system of punishments to maintain itself.

The robbery can not continue without the violence, in the form of punishment, to make it really work.

Furthermore, once that system of robbery is up and running, then any so-called rewards within that system still exist within that context of robbery, and, of all the ways that the robbery became clearly psychotic, the most was when it became the system of punishments to stop cultivation of pot, which existed in a real context of subsidizing other things.

A similar argument may be made regarding white sugar, and white flour, as can be made regarding hemp history. There is an extraordinary history of race and class conflict which has ended up producing an extraordinarily sick culture.

Almost everything in our culture has been compromised by the overall necessity to survive in a context were some of the side-effects of culture ended up being more important than the main effects.

In all of evolution, natural selection commensurates things which seem incommensurable. If there is some side-effect of a cultural practise that is really significant, then it can change the entire culture to conform with it.

The inertia of habits, which are learned by imitation, without need for much conscious thought about them, is a main way to understand most of human behavior.

The history of the environmental circumstances that have first allowed for and re-inforced various individual and social habits will make lots of sense, if one learns enough about that situation, however, as the real situation changes, these habits do not change.

For instance, throughout a lot of civilization, most alcohol drinks were safer than the available water, and oversalted food was safer than unsalted food. The false glamour and respect in our culture for alcohol and salt in our foods, etc., can not be intelligible without this history. There is an extraordinarily long list of things that people do now, because they had to do it in the past. The general word for this is skiamorphism, or shadow shaped. A host of habits still exist now, that once upon a time made some sort of sense, but have now become absurd.

Of course, these examples of skiamorphism should not be oversimplified, since they evolved in complicated ways.

A catalogue of these kinds of human stupidity would be lengthy. Pot prohibition is merely one glaring example of social stupidity.

Another good example is the common computer keyboard. Originally, the typewriter keyboard was deliberately designed to put the most used letters as far apart as possible, in order to stop the first typewriters from getting jammed.

However, as the technology evolved, that soon became irrelevant. But nevertheless, everyone learned to use that old-fashioned keyboard, and, changing those habits, after learning them, became too difficult to bother to do in the short-term.

In fact, people who learn to use a keyboard that puts the most frequently used letters the closest together can type about three times faster.

However, almost everyone still learns to type on the old keyboard, and after they learn on that old keyboard, it becomes more difficult in the short-term to learn the new keyboard, than it seems worth doing in the long-term.

And so, despite that fact that learning to type on these old-fashioned keyboard results in being three times slower, almost everyone is being taught that absurdly inefficient way. (One expects a way we may escape that kind of absurdity is if the culture evolves to a point where keyboards become so obsolete that they are no longer used.)

This general idea of skiamorphism applies everywhere. It especially applies to pot politics, where the side-effects of pot prohibition became more important than the main effects, and all the social habits established by the truly real effects are still now controlling things, even although they are absurd.

We mostly continue to teach youth the stupid habits old people have. We do not have to work at doing that, since young people learn automatically by imitating old people. Rather it takes a lot of conscious effort to change habits and stop imitation from copying things that should no longer be copied.

If all our science and technology stayed similar for long periods, then old people would be wise and worth listening to, however, in a modern world, only the most abstract general principles are worth learning from old people. Everything else has now become obsolete and counter-productive or even destructive.

As the rate of change in our technological society increases, being normal means that one already has obsolete attitudes, and being normal is no longer to be sane, but rather, being normal is rapidly becoming a form of insanity.

Thereis an immense historical cycle of abuse, that only has higher consciousness as a hope for eventual progress out of vicious cycles.

The habits that people have regarding drugs and nutrition make sense when studied from the context of our history, but thosehabits are outrageously stupid to continue.

Almost every aspect of our cultures, from nutrition to family systems, have become a really absurd situation that only exists now due to history.

We are still moving with an inertia towards a disaster. We should be using our consciousness to select for better habits, however, instead, we do nothing and wait for back-up systems of natural selection to cause changes by the collapse of the old.

Nowhere are old habits worse than in the manners in which the reality of the history of violence and dishonesty has created social habits regarding how to organize our social and political systems in ways that depend on the continuation of dishonesty and violence to work.

Our history has favoured the personalities that enjoy punishing other people. The men that prey on men were both genetically and culturally selected to develop their ability to rob other people, and to perfect tools of persecution to do that job.

One of those tools of persecution that was used to maintain power was pot prohibition.

The structure of the system as a whole enables the use of punishment units, with two punishment units being multiplied to produce a reward.

That is the true structural theory of social control, which is deliberately deniedand suppressed by those doing the controlling

Of course, a reward seems better than a punishment, but the reward only exists in the context where we were otherwise prevented from obtaining it.

That is, we are born in a condition of a priori robbery, and that is the first punishment, and then we may be allowed to partially escape from a punishment, and that seems to be a reward.

In many ways, our legal birth certificate is both the best, and the worst, document that is generated by the state. The theory of Sovereign Law is that the Sovereign owns the lives and liberty of all subjects, and that, then, we only have the rights and freedoms which are given back to us by the Sovereign. That is the condition of absolute a priori robbery that we are entered in when our birth certificate is first issued for us.

Pot prohibition robs us of the right to cultivate and possess cannabis,and then,in that context, we are partially allowed to have inferior stuff.

By being able to rob most people, then that entire system benefits from being able to control everything else, and those who derive their benefit from the robbery have been able to establish their social stories about what they are doing and why they do it.

That system enjoys using punishment to stop the good that could, and then seems to reward by allowing a lesser good to prevail.

The real result ends up the opposite of what it claims to be. Punishment is supposed to stop the bad, and reward the good, however, it actually ends up more doing the exact opposite.

Within the system, the petty criminals who break the laws may be punished, but the huge criminals who make the laws, end up in a positive feedback of benefit from their crimes.

Since the system as whole is based on huge and on-going crimes that are not stopped, therefore, it fosters and increases the real frequency of the petty crimes that exist within that system.

The only way to truly decrease the frequency of the petty crimes within the system is to decrease the way that the whole system is actually operating as huge crimes.

And so, in fact, pot seeds are the single best protein plant food, and the single worst global problem is the lack of protein, but, all established powers are actively suppressing pot, instead of using that money to subsidize production ... well, that is the way the real world is now, as run by the men that prey on men.

Marijuana laws are merely the single worst simple example of how the entire global system really works and what it really is doing to us.

However, merely ending the legal prohibition of pot is not adequate to solve the rest of the problems.

All of natural ecology is the study of dynamic equilibria, and evolution is change in systems of dynamic equilibrium.

Thinking that we can fix one single thing, like legalize marijuana, and that will be enough, is a ridiculously silly view of politics.

Anything we do will automatically tend to cause some of the opposite effects too.

We can not simply stop one system of social and political control without replacing it all with better systems of alternatives.

Whether we like it or not, the real solutions to most problems are probably going to emerge out of a chaos that will occur when the old systems can no longer cope, and are collapsing.

We are still going to need to struggle to survive, however, the social habits of how we survived in the past have now become the greatest danger to our future survival.

Since marijuana, due to the inherent nature of that plant, and its place in the history of human beings on Earth, has become a symbolic spearhead of the situation, marijuana provides a talking point for this.

What is not clear is how our human ecology is possibly going to evolve in the future.

It made sense for racists and industrialists to make cannabis criminal in order to benefit from the effects of that dishonesty and violence.

It made sense that they were able to build the system that now exists, however, it no longer makes any sense.

We can readily imagine some specific improvements.

We should channel the money spent on pot prohibition into growing pot seeds that we could feed to starving children.

However, due to the symbolic cultural connections, problems of child poverty and malnutrition worsen, while a good solution could be more cannabis cultivation.

There is a connection between the political power prohibiting pot and the children being malnourished.

There still may be many questions and qualifications, (especially the main question of what happens if these children did not die, and then produced more children) however, the nature of a fundamental obstacle is clear.

The culture which has dominated and controlled the world, deliberately denied and suppressed growing the best plant.

A culture which can and does dominate and control the world, is necessarily based on a history of violence and dishonesty, and one of the ways that was expressed was pot prohibition.

Another of the expressions of this global system is massive and growing malnutrition of childen.

Global statistics estimate that about one child every five seconds dies from malnutrition.

The most practical solution to this problem would be to subsidize pot production, while now in the real world pot crops are destroyed.

Since pot prohibition is the worst simple example of the real history of dishonesty and violence still controlling the future towards tragedy, can we hope that an end to pot prohibition would be symbolic of a turning in the tide and the feeding of young children could be by greater cannabis cultivation?

It is easy in politics to draw up a list of what is wrong, and a list of what we theoretically should do to fix it.

However, all the dynamic equilibria of human ecology are an evolutionary process that is governed by the real facts about power and information.

That necessarily includes the counter-intuitive real facts about violence and dishonesty which create social stories that become mostly the opposite of what they talk about.

A fascist plutocracy system is what exists in the real world. It is a form of government that can be described as being government of money, for money, and by money.

The monetary system can control almost everyone, and a very small group can control that system, which has become almost totally corrupt.

Every aspect of the legal and political systems end up influenced. From constitutional law, to electoral law, to criminal law, etc., the effect of the monetary system in the real world is to turn what all these laws say on paper, into their opposite in the real world.

The efforts of a global fascist plutocracy to consolidate itself showed up in the U.S.A. influence and in U.N. treaties against pot.

Of all the things that this system is doing, the prohibition of pot is the single worst simple example. From that center to start, we can spiral out into various discourses about how other, much more complicated, examples are working.

The truth is that pot laws started like the Ontario courts? judgments have stated:

Pot law was always based on misinformation and racism, and was originally created in a climate of irrational fear.

Unfortunately, the Ontario courts only recognized that the original history of marijuana laws was based upon those kind purposes in that kind of historical context.

However, the Ontario courts went on to accept and agree that the modern reasons for why marijuana laws still exist are now based on public health policy.

Instead of seeing that our marijuana laws changed from being based on huge lies, to being based on a lot of little lies, the courts accepted that those little lies the government maintains are the valid reasons for pot prohibition.

To judge cannabis correctly is to face these facts that the Canadian marijuana laws started with huge lies, and later official marijuana projects only have gradually been substituting a lot of littler lies for huge lies.

These littler lies have blended into the truth, however, these littler lies have had similar ulterior purposes as the original huge lies. These little lies do blend into the truth, which is why the courts have been able to hang perpetual pot prohibition on a possible risk of harm.

However, the extent to which little lies blend in truth does not justify the perpetual pot prohibition without the long history that first made it.

Lies prevailed because they were enforced with violence. Little lies still prevail because they came from huge lies that were able to be enforced with an overwhelming violence.

Those lies have a 80 year head-start on the truths, because of the people who told those outrageous lies, and had the power to enforce their lies about marijuana, which is what our Prime Minister has been doing, right from the start, and is still doing now.

From the Prime Ministers on down for more than 80 years, they all have been defaming and destroying pot, in a way that started with egregious racism and corruption in the funding of politics.

Prohibition exists because of corruption in the political process that worked because of the past funding of the political process, in ways that generated real short-term benefits from dishonesty backed up with violence.

The most important real problem is the funding of politics. That is the reason why the entire system has become so sick that it is practically impossible to imagine any cure.

Pot prohibition is a simple and straightforward symptom of a social sickness that is so extremely bad, that it will probably kill us all, rather than be cured.

Marijuana Parties exist because pot prohibition is psychotic, and has been going on, and on, for decade after decade.

People who merely agree that pot is not so bad, and should therefore should not be so criminal, do not understand that pot is good, and that their government became the worst criminal.

The ability of our governments to tell lies about marijuana is merely the superficial tip of an iceberg of worse lies.

Since Canadians did not know better, they relied upon the apparent authorities, and most Canadians believed what they were told, that the marijuana plant was an addictive, fatal, narcotic, that would make users become criminally insane and homicidal.

Very few Canadians still believe those huge lies about marijuana.

However, half of Canadians still believe in some of the littler lies.

The original huge marijuana lie that marijuana is almost as bad as murder is no longer believed by many Canadian people.

However, the many little lies, that gradually were used to shore up, and then replace the huge lies, are still believed by many people.

One can travel from marijuana, to mushrooms, and through all other political issues on to the monetary system, and all the way there, the same principles of dishonesty backed up with violence explain it.

However, the further one travels on this path, the fewer people will also go along that path.

Understanding our anti-marijuana history, is merely a beginning to understand the whole of our politics, and all issues now governed by dishonesty and violence, because it was this history of dishonesty and violence, that has made most things that now exist in governments.

Although it is more probable that severe social sickness will kill our society, rather than be cured, we may hope that when enough people stop believing the lies about marijuana, then they may stop believing the lies about mushrooms, and so on and so forth, until they stop believing the lies about money.

The situation had to get so extremely bad, and to stay that way for so very long, until there was a Marijuana Party, as a response to that situation.

None of the other mainstream political parties, which jumped bandwagons to legalize marijuana, are willing and able to revolutionize society.

A clear understanding of the history of pot prohibition necessarily leads to a radically different world view of all political issues, taking small steps from marijuana to mushrooms, and taking a huge leap from marijuana to money.

The only drug substance which may be comparably dangerous to marijuana is the psilocybin magic mushroom, especially since people tend not to consume mushrooms as regularly as people might tend to consume cannabis.

All of the other common drug substances are more dangerous than marijuana.

There are relatively few drugs which do not have a fatal overdose. Most of the drugs that exist have potential for fatal overdose, and hence, almost every other common illegal, over-the-counter, or prescription drugs are more really more dangerous than pot.

Whatever an overdose of any drug does is truly the best test for how dangerous that drug really is.

When one applies this simple test to common drug subtances, it becomes plainly obvious that our drug laws are insane.

There is no rational relationship between the laws and the true facts about drugs and substances, since the actual history of drug prohibition has been based on power and prejudice, not pharmacology.

Instead, pharmacology has been perverted by politics.

If the law was rational, then marijuana would be one of the least restricted substances, because it is one of the least harmful of common drugs.

There is no rational reason to stop people from being able to cultivate and possess pot.

There are many common wild and garden plants that are much more dangerous than marijuana.

Criminalizing the cultivation of marijuana in a home garden, for personal use, is simply the single most insane law.

There is no relationship that makes any scientific sense between drug substances and the current laws to regulate those substances.

Or rather, the only relationship that truly does make real scientific sense is one that faces all the social facts about human ecology, which are the terrible facts that are too extremely bad for the vast majority of people to want to even think about, much less vote about.

The way to understand drugs laws, and most other important laws, is to understand the ways power and prejudice perverted politics.

Pot prohibition fits into the entire established system, and ending pot prohibition is but one very tiny kind of alternative in what should become our complete system of alternatives to our real human ecology.

The Marijuana Party exists because our society became so psychotic as to make the best plant on the planet be treated as if it were almost as bad as murder.

That was part of a whole social system which is based on dishonesty backed up with violence in everything and everywhere from marijuana to money.

Since the machinery of money is especially corrupt, and the monetary system controls almost everything, including exercises the most control over marijuana, almost everything is fundamentally as crazy and corrupt as the monetary system has made it be in the modern world.

It is impossible for the value of marijuana to escape from the context of the black market created by the laws. Since money and tax laws are much worse than marijuana laws, everything from marijuana to money is very similar now in their basic characteristics and nature.

However, attempting to tell people about our money laws is like attempting to tell people about marijuana laws fifty years ago, when the vast majority of people still believed in what the governments were telling them then.

The truth is that our monetary and taxation systems are almost inconceivably corrupt, and that all of the scandals that most people are aware of, are merely a few sick trees in a forest that is almost totally infected with a way worse manifestation of other effects of dishonesty and violence.

The same political processes that made our monetary system also made the current marijuana system, and any political success to change our marijuana system, should continue to change our monetary system, which would be the most radical revolution in the real world that could be.

Legalizing marijuana is a first step towards our legalizing a revolution.

Most of our social habits necessarily have been created during our social history by a militaristic culture with the prevalent attitudes of a patriarchy and a fascist plutocracy. Most of those social habits form a death culture. That culture of death has controlled society throughout most of human civilization.

The need to survive in the hostile historical situation has developed our beliefs and behaviors. (Generally, if one asks the question whether marijuana is a good to help us kill other people before they can kill us, the anwser is no.)

Since the best killers ran the robbery system of civilization, their culture has been in control of cannabis culture.

Now that the best weapons of the best killers have become way too powerful to continue to use, cannabis culture has an opening that never made much sense before, but which makes more and more sense now.

From an intellectual point of view, the overwhelming, astronomical success of building better weapons has made militarism insane, which in turn made the patriarchy and the fascist plutocracy that now controls our world become insane. Concern for the rights of other races of human beings, and the rights of women, and the rights of other species of life in our total environment all gain their modern validity from the way that militarism has become insane due to the development of weapons that are too astronomically powerful to use.

The established system of robbery that is running now has no long-term future.

Marijuana is coming back because militarism is going away. The struggle for survival has changed from there being clear winners and losers, to being the real threat of everyone losing it all.

The rise of cannabis culture follows the decline of the madness of militarism. Being able to rob other people makes less and less sense as weapons become billions and trillions of times too powerful to use for any rational purpose.

The death culture that now controls the world is losing control, and should lose control and be replaced by a new system.

Cannabis culture and consumption was always being done the historical context of other hostile social habits, and, particuarly the social habits regarding how one should, or expects others, to consume alcohol or tobacco, have been transferred on to pot.

The current reality of cannabis culture can not be isolated from the long history which has always surrounded it.

It is all one ocean of energy, and we have competing rates of transformation within that ocean of energy.

The processes of natural selection, and within that, the process of artificial section by human cultures, has created the human ecology that exists currently.

Human intelligence is the internalization of natural selection. Unfortunately, to learn enough intelligence in order to respect the long-term consequences of our ecology will probably take a long time.

The real issues of survival include everything in the social sphere, especially including the ways that human beings kill each other and lie to each other. Everything that human beings do now is related to what they had to do to survive in the past.

After habits were formed by the need to survive in past environments, then those habits continue from inertia into our present environment.

If there was enough selection pressure that required our ancestors to adapt to a reality in their past, then those habits created then, will still be controlling the way that we have to behave at present.

People do not have to know why they started doing something they do, and do not have to know why they continue to behave in the same way.

Most of the time, most people live with unexamined habits.

Anything that was a real threat in the past, regardless of how it was perceived back then, will have changed how we behaved in that past, and will, therefore, still have power right now.

People were afraid of competition, and they used dishonesty and violence to stop that competition.

However, in the end, using dishonesty and violence for the sake of security and social benefit, is a terminal illness in that society.

From the hidden and not understood threats of a virus or bacterium, to obvious clear and present dangers of other people attacking us, natural selection automatically weighed and recombined behaviors that resulted in whether people in the past are still surviving, and since people living today copied those behaviors, they explain why we behave the way we do today.

The final results of these forces of natural selection, are the creation of artificial culture and government.

Due to the historical reality of dangers in the past, we have developed a human ecology of different kinds of attitudes and behaviors which make our world today.

Throughout most of human history, dishonesty and violence has been used by some people to control other people, and those social and political habits explain why marijuana is illegal, and everything else.

The established system is almost totally based on patterns of deliberate ignorance and fear, and particularly ignorance and fear of pot.

At the present time, it is extremely difficult to predict how much more psychotic pot prohition will get, before it breaks down.

It is even more difficult to predict how much more dishonest and violent our society will become, before it breaks down.

The future of pot prohibition depends upon the future of dishonesty backed up with violence controlling human civilization and survival.

Legalizing marijuana may become the first step towards legalizing a revolution. That may be why it is difficult.

Every Jack and Jill talks about their own leaders.

Some talk about Shahi Cabinet

Some talk about Nepali Kangress, saat paatee

Some talk about Maobadi

Nepe talks about Republic

Ashu talks about Bhutani shasan

Am I not free to talk about my party

Sorry if i disturbed u folks, but the above is the article written by the leader of my party

THE MARIJUANA PARTY OF CANADA

And the leader is

MONEY MINDED BRODA,

lets discuss

OUR POLITICS

here

Decriminalizing marijuana is not only only letting smokers smoke, it is also about

-Ending the world's poverty and malnutrition.

-Marijuana is the best seed with the highest nutritional values than any other grain like wheat, rice, barley, corn etc. And it is the easiest to cultivate with the largest production.

-Protein from marijuana is the best quality of plant protein, it is better than any other ones like beans etc etc. If you consume this protein, you dont need to consume any animal protein in milk, meat or fish. It is the best protein in terms of digestion by human beings.

-Our party has begun sample production of cookies and biscuits made of marijuana grains, fully certified by the Canadian food and health agency. They have a better nutritional balanced diet than ANY pre-packaged food item in sale.

-Just like petroleum mafia killed the use of alcohol (ethanol) as an efficient motor fuel (still, ethanol fuel is hugely successful in Brazil, 85% cars run in ethnol in Brazil), the grain-mafia and the cotton-mafia killed the cultivation of marijuana.

- You can also brew ethanol from marijuana seeds.

-Cultivation of marijuana does not require any fertilizers, let alone nitro fertilizers. World would be a lot less polluted.

-Marijuana oil is the best oil over any edible oil in use now.

- Marijuana (hemp) fibre is better than cotton or ever most of the resin fibers. If legally allowed to cultivate, clothes can be 3 times cheaper and 4 times stronger than now, ending the poor world's need.

Lets ROLL....

The facts are that marijuana directly kills no one, but the marijuana laws result in situations where people get killed in various ways by other people.

The isomeres of the tetrahydrocannabinol molecules are different than most psychoactive substances, because THC molecules contain no nitrogen.

Like alcohol, or sugar, THC is made of only hydrogen, oxygen and carbon atoms.


The U.S.A. both takes away the right of prisoners to vote and many states permanently take away the right to vote from people who have been in jail.

Millions of Americans are denied their right to vote because they have been the victims of drug prohibition. (Of course, these laws started to stop blacks from voting.)

The United States of American seems to hold the world record for the highest per capita incarceration of citizens anywhere in the world, at any time in history.

Making any drug illegal is an absurd approach.

It assumes that the problem is in the drug, and not in human perceptions and precepts.


Lets make pot decriminalized

IT IS THE SINGLE BEST PLANT SPECIES IN THE PLANET

Lets Roll

Typical grains like paddy, corn etc are notorious for their share of methane release and form a substantial amount of green house gases emitted.On the other side, marijuana plants have a very high biomass production turnover because they grow quicker, they are greener, and they grow bigger. Marijuana plants conserve A LOT of carbondioxide and hence help in CO2 arrest and O2 release.

If marijuana seeds are superior over the typical crops like paddy and corns, more nutritious and tastier, then why are we mistaking by criminalizing marijuana and therefore unnecessarily accelerating global warming.

LETS ROLL...

Pot movement is

NOT SIMPLY RECREATIONAL DOPE

It is about

SAVING THE WORLD

Lets protest this
- http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1122737445185_60/?hub=CTVNewsAt11

I must say that I'm really glad that Canada took such a logical view on cannibus. They realized that it just isn't a problem and is a waste of time to go around arresting and going through the whole process just for a non-significant amount of Marijuana.

I personally have never smoked pot and never intend to. I don't smoke neither drink but despite this I am still capable of understanding that on the one hand, regardless of the effects it has on people and the brain, regardless of the addictive possibilities, it is not the responsibility of the government to control what we injest as free citizens. Let people make their own choices. If the government can regulate it's distribution we can ensure pot isn't laced with heroin, that it isn't exposed to young children (as much) and that it is used more responsibly than it is now. But then, you probably all know this.

1.) Legalize it
2.) Tax it very, very, very heavily.

Ok, Shree5, stop being a POT HEAD , kidding.

Like Matrixrose , I dont do anything like that but I do disgree with her. I would justify using POT only if it was for health reason. Only if, any other medication to ease up the pain didnt work. Other than that, there is no excuse for that. Smoking pot does kill your brain cells and its bad direction and usually stepping stone for kids to try harder drugs

So , dont legalize Marijuana cuz

1)Even if you tax them higher like ciggs here in Canada, people are still goingto BUY It.

Result: Corporate companies becoming richer and richer..and more cancer hospitals being opened...my hard earned dollars will be taxed to fund those researches..and I am not cool with that.

2)and now that you have made drugs legal and EXPENSIVE, people would want it at chepaer price

Result: More drug dealers...and more people going into this business to make some profit

3) DOnt we already have dumb kids in school..OK propose the smoking pot limit to be above 20...

Result: Do all hte kids smoke after they turn 18..most of the kids try it when they are 15-16..

My solution...imply harsh laws for drugs( soft/hard) like they do in countries like saudi/singapore...and for the people who advocate free citizenship...forget it, there is nothing called free rights..becuase people are naturally rebel by nature..they need to be tamed.
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