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It's nice to see the intersection of green and... green. Global warming is the most prominent issue of this coming century, while the grass-roots movement to end cannabis prohibition is growing bigger each day. I love how they are connected.

I 100% agree. This isnt any different than so many years ago when booze was being "smuggled" to those who wanted it. History tends to repeat itself. Its a law of nature. All we have to do is keep the topic fresh. You gotta fight for your right to farm.

Awesome post , the Government doesn't have to legalize it, just decriminalize it and let those of us who want to farm it, farm it.

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

I thought the talking was quiet relative to the music. Also, some of the words were a bit hard to read against the moving background, but there's some great info. I'm voting up. Greenlight!

Every bad experience anyone has ever had with Cannabis has taken place in the context of a drug war. You're right that "teenagers everyday use cannabis, because it is available" Prohibition doesn't make Cannabis less available, just more attractive and more expensive.

The black market in marijuana has effectively blocked the free market in industrial hemp. This is a bad trade. Kids see gangsters and oil companies getting rich and organic farmers going broke.

Teaching young people individual responsibility for making good choices in their own lives is where it's at, not punishing people for a natural desire to experiment with altered states of consciousness.

Drugs don't make seeds. Herbs make seeds. The point is that herbs can never be controlled because they come right up out of the ground.

Teaching respect and giving people the tools to lead productive lives is the best way to help people.

The problem is that the only way to get this done involves getting some VIP politicians on board. But politicians are terrified to come out for the purposes of legalization, and they always will be. They're afraid of being labeled and judged - they're afraid of losing their voter base. And so many people have a stick up their asses about weed, that the politicians fears are totally justified.

In a way, the war on drugs (at least on pot) HAS worked, by creating an anti-cannabis culture (as evidenced by some of the above posts) of people who see hemp as something that only hippies can benefit from... No matter how many times they're presented with the truth, some people will never open their minds to this...

It's very sad.

Our "heritage of violence" is the result of self-serving leadership who several generations ago, intentionally vested our economic system in toxic, unevenly distributed, expensive, finite chemicals. The economic disparity that afflicts our species is the inevitable result, along with armed conflict, black market economics, the economics of punishment, etc...A shift to science-based values is all that's needed to change that. If every region of the world can grow their own fuel and food, then there's nothing to fight over. We have to resolve global climate imbalance by letting organic agriculture work, eventually making chemical ag obsolete.

You may not be in my way, but the laws that you pay taxes to have enforced are creating fundamental problems. I've been knocking myself out for the past twenty years, presenting one possible solution to "a few of those problems." It may not be a panacea, but it is good, healthy, valuable, honest work, and that is a panacea for a lot of people's problems.

Spiritual influences of the world's oldest global culture are foundational to all modern religions. Cannabis is mankind's most ancient agricultural crop. It's normal to be thankful to whatever creative power gives rise to "every herb bearing seed" whatever people choose to call it.

I am not in your way. I support your right to live like a neolithic villager on your hemp farm, if that is what you want to do. Knock yourself out. The fundamental challenge of our time, as I see it, is overcoming our heritage of violence, greed and short-sightedness, and retraining our competitive instinct into creative problem-solving. Because we have plenty of problems to solve. While hemp cultivation undoubtedly addresses a few of those problems, I certainly don't see it as a panacea for humanity's ills, and I question the quasi-religious tone of your attitude toward this plant. Food is just food. Fiber is just fiber. Fuel is just fuel. The problem is us.

Ending Cannibis prohibition is The Fundamental Challenge of Our Time? Ridiculous. The guy who thought that up must have been stoned at the time.

Ending Cannabis prohibition is

"The Fundamental Challenge of Our Time"
http://fundamentalcoot.blogspot.com/

integral for mankind to achieve sustainable existence on Earth.

It will work when people recognize their own interest in it working. Individual responsibility is also individual freedom. Freedom to farm is the first test of religious freedom. God's first command was so important he said it twice on the first page of the Bible, "every herb bearing seed...and every green herb." First Amendment protects our individual freedom of/from religion. If you were on an island, would you open the bag of hemp seed or the barrel of oil...? Since 80% of the people think marijuana should be decriminalized, and a lot of people grow it legally in several states, then don't you think we farmers are grown up enough to grow industrial hemp responsibly? Don't give me a break -- just let me work. Cannabis freedom, NOW...

let us know if this works.