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Thursday 26 March 2020

Cannabis Advocacy: What We Must Do

The world's super rich, the few percent, who hold the bulk of economic wealth today and who exert vast influence over governments and businesses, must look in a new direction to try and create a more sustainable and equitable future for all. The traditional businesses and policies, that have enabled them to accumulate the wealth they have today, are unsustainable now. Not only that, the path we are taking as a result of it, is resulting in a fast approaching catastrophic end to all life on earth. The super rich must recognize the potential of the cannabis plant and invest their wealth in creating and supporting cannabis related sustainable businesses. They must influence governments to change their policies with regard to cannabis so that the prohibition on the plant is lifted. Their focus should not be only on wealth accumulation, and immediate profits, but on the well being of all life on earth. In this regard, it is not only businesses that they should look at, but they must also push for the legalization of cannabis for recreational use, especially the home growing of the plant, by all individuals who desire to do so. This will deliver sustainability to the grassroots that hold up the entire structure. 

Judges, lawyers and law enforcers must stop the unjust and harmful persecution of the cannabis plant and its users based on the existing incorrect laws regarding cannabis. Judges must make it clear to all that they will no longer bring to trial cases related to the cannabis plant. This will send the message to different law enforcement entities. Lawyers must step up with the correct knowledge and information and must be able to defend a cannabis user competently. Wherever a law enforcement officer is faced with the situation of taking legal action against a cannabis user or the plant, the officer must desist from doing so, recognizing the incorrectness of the cannabis laws. Not only this, all those persons currently in prison or under trial for cannabis related offenses must be released. All past cannabis related criminal records must be expunged. These changes to approach have happened in many places. Not only should this correction happen at the implementation level, but also the judiciary, bar councils and the law enforcement bodies must look to make the changes at the policy level so that the current incorrect laws are changed. They must, through their organizations and associations, push lawmakers to change the cannabis laws so that recreational use of cannabis including its home growing by individuals is legalized everywhere and the cannabis laws stand corrected, a correction that is too long overdue.

Lawmakers must recognize that their responsibility is not to businesses and the super rich but, most importantly, to the well being of society and all life on earth. They must understand the incorrect cannabis laws and the evils that have fallen on the planet as a result of this. They must work together, irrespective of party or national allegiance, to make cannabis legal for recreational use and for home growing by individuals. Repeated short term focus on wealth accumulation and retaining power has resulted in an unsustainable world. Lawmakers must show the strength and will to work towards the sustainable future that cannabis holds an opportunity for. We are fast losing the time to make the course correction, while we continue to be lost in dangerously trivial, shortsighted pursuits at the cost of life on earth. The ones who are suffering the most are the masses of people, animals, natural resources and the environment. The ones who are gaining from all this are a very few. This gain is only illusory because the damage being done is not going to spare anyone irrespective of what economic or political power they think they possess.

Physicians and pharmaceutical companies, and the organizations that they are a part of, must recognize that the cannabis plant is affordable universal healthcare that can vastly improve the health and well being of not just humans everywhere but can also revive nature through its sustainability. For the benefit of the plant to reach every living being, these entities must put aside their short sighted goals of profit and look to address the problems that the majority of society faces on an urgent basis. Having a secure job and increasing wealth will be meaningless if nature and society, which enables these things, ceases to exist. The cannabis plant must be legalized for recreational use and for individuals to grow at home for it to be effective on the largest possible scale. For this to happen these entities must look beyond commercial, synthetic, pharmaceutical medicines and speak out about the benefits of the cannabis plant. They must include the plant in their medicines and cures, not with the objective of maximizing their profits, but with the objective of universal health. They must put pressure on governments and international health bodies to change their policies and to take a pro-cannabis approach. They must speak out to the larger society and correct the misinformation surrounding the plant and its potential for healthcare.

Businesses worldwide, whether small or large, must look at how they can bring the cannabis plant to the core of their businesses, whether it be products or services. Every single industry must look to incorporate the versatile plant in all possible ways in their scheme of things. If this sustainable plant is added to the way we do business today, it will go a very long way in reducing the damaging impact we are having on the planet and life on earth. Industry bodies must promote research on the plant's applications as well as make it a priority to focus on it. Businesses must also put pressure on lawmakers to change the existing laws that keep the plant illegal. This recognition of the cannabis plant as a key option for doing sustainable business must be taken up to protect the environment from further damage and to prolong the chances of life on earth. The choice must be made in favor of sustainability, as against the making of faster and more profits than the competition. At the end of the day the earth is the supplier of all resources and life is the customer for all products and services. Without both, there will be no business left.

Artists, whether in the fields of visual arts, music, literature or any other field, must bring the focus to the cannabis plant through whatever means possible. The plight of the plant and its users as well as its benefits and potential to make this world a better place must become a key part of the messaging from artists everywhere. This is much needed to raise the level of awareness world wide and to change the cannabis laws worldwide. Cannabis must be legalized for recreational use and for individuals to grow at home for its benefits to be wide ranging. Currently the path that the world is taking is making it more and more obvious that we are fast running out of time to sustain it.

Farmers must be allowed to cultivate the cannabis plant. There should be no restrictions or regulations on the cultivation. This will enable the farmer to have a precious crop that they can barter or trade for other essentials that they require. It will also enable them to sustain themselves in situations of hardships and adverse conditions. Not everybody can or will take the troubles of home growing their own cannabis. The crop from the farmers will enable the larger society to meet its demand for the plant. Historically as well, when there were no curbs on cannabis cultivation, it was usually a handful of farmers in a village who cultivated the crop for the larger community's needs and not everybody. Government and law enforcement must not take legal action against these farmers. They must also not destroy the cannabis crop where they find it growing, which is usually among the poorest farmers, tribals and backward communities all over the world. All infrastructural support must be provided to a cannabis farmer as is currently done for farmers of any other crop.

Pesticide, insecticide, herbicide and disinfectant companies must explore cannabis as an organic option for their products. Currently the highly toxic and environmentally damaging products of these industries have reached every corner of the world, polluting all our natural resources and our food chain. Many of these industries are a by-product of the second World War's biochemical warfare initiatives. Even though there have been widespread reports from the 1950s about the huge damage that these products are causing to all life, governments and large businesses continue to push their usage on an ever increasing scale. Where they are banned in individual countries through awareness, like DDT is for example, they are unscrupulously exported to other unwary and naive countries. This ignorance of the interconnected world and natural food chain will only cause widespread damage.  The damage caused by accumulates in all living beings and natural resources like a ticking time bomb. waiting to go off when the limits of individual and natural tolerance is reached. Many man-made poisons lie dormant in the soil, water and air as the natural earth and life have the ability to neutralize small quantities of these poisons but beyond a certain point they manifest themselves as illnesses causing quick or prolonged and painful deaths. The many antibiotic, anti-fungal and disinfectant properties of cannabis have been known for long but the plant has been prohibited rendering the ability to use it at any scale impossible. 

The environmental protection abilities of cannabis must not be disregarded anymore. As a sustainable plant that grows in even adverse conditions with limited water, the plant has tens of thousands of applications that can be used to replace non-biodegradable materials with biodegradable products. Plastics, construction, energy, automobile, pharmaceutical, medical, paper are just some of the industries which cause havoc with the environment, not just with their end products, but also through their raw materials, production processes and waste discharges into the environment that remain there for nearly eternity. Not only for man, but also the entire food chain, cannabis is a sustainable option, providing the necessary nutrition for bee populations and birds that hugely contribute to pollination and sustenance of the food chain. These vital links in the chain have nearly collapsed due to man's indiscriminate actions. Cannabis offers the potential of healing these wounds to nature and curing her of the fever of man's actions. This potential of the plant cannot be ignored anymore and all industries and government institutions must embrace the plant on a war footing to try and restore equilibrium to nature instead of continuing to rely on unsustainable synthetic products.

Religious institutions must change their messaging from an anti-cannabis stance to a more outspoken pro-cannabis stance. They must recognize the usage of the plant throughout history in aiding in concentration and meditation. They must recognize that the plant was widely used by people of all religions. They must recognize that the plant is a powerful aid to spirituality and one that can be accessible to all. The current stance of religious organizations of trying to do all they can to increase their membership must change to the main aim of every religion which is helping every single human being to connect with the divine spirit. These organizations must recognize the vast oppression being caused to the divine plant and its users, especially the poor, minorities, the elderly. Religious bodies wield vast influence on lawmakers and the super rich of the world. This influence must be used to change the message around the cannabis plant so as to enable its legalization for recreational purposes and its home growing by individuals, thus making it an accessible spiritual tool for all as it was in the past. 

Scientists and other men of knowledge must speak out about the incorrect prohibition of the cannabis plant. They must not ignore the vast evidence that history provides about the plant's benefits. They must promote the usage of the plant in all fields, be it industrial, agricultural, medical or recreational. This is one of the truly sustainable options available to us. By changing worldwide policy we can almost instantaneously bring its usage back into mainstream society instead of continuing to waste vast amounts of resources and time on trying to discover and invent unsustainable new materials. We are fast running out of both time and resources and the cannabis plant must be pursued as a sustainable scientific option for bringing the world back to equilibrium for life. Scientists must exert their influence on businesses, the super rich, healthcare and governments to highlight the non-sustainability of most current approaches. They must also clear the misinformation that now exists in the wider society regarding the harms of the cannabis plant and promote a better understanding of the plant among all.

Hey junkie, this dope is not against you. Of course he believes that his dope is a much better intoxicant, more versatile medicine and more useful to the planet than your junk but that doesn't mean he intends to ban your junk in retribution for you helping to get his dope banned. What he does want, however, is that you start growing your own plant at home like him. In this way, you source your junk directly from the plant instead of putting money in the pockets of chemists who increasingly make more and more toxic stuff that destroy you, me and the planet. Your money is making the chemist pay the government to arm itself and protect him while pushing you and me closer to death. Growing your own plant will give you organic healthy junk in the best possible way, directly from the plant, like how it used to be for thousands of years, making you sustainable and the planet sustainable..yes, you can go green too..don't remain snowblind..we need your eyes too, to steer the planet away from man-made chemical disaster...


People who love alcohol should start and increase the brewing of beers, making of wines and distilling of spirits at home. They should work to bring back natural alcohols like palm toddy back into the mainstream. Industrial alcohol is harmful to public health due to its potency, toxicity and lower sustainability as compared to the small scale stuff. Money from big alcohol is mainly going into suppressing small scale industries, funding governments that are becoming increasingly repressive and blocking the efforts of reviving green and safer intoxicants like cannabis, the intoxicant of the poor. Industrial alcohol is fueling violence, crime, addiction and death in large numbers. Yes, it does have its place in society but that need not be at the cost of all other natural intoxicants. In fact the consumers of natural intoxicants should be the majority, especially the poorer folk, with industrial alcohol forming the minority consumers, especially the elite and those who can afford it. The ideal balance of alcohol should be small scale or home made alcohol to industrial alcohol in the ratio of somewhere like 70:30 in society. Then it will be truly sustainable, healthy and medicinal for society.


Each one of us, as a part of this world that we live in, must recognize our potential and power to make the changes necessary to bring the world back to sustainability once again. Each of us must raise our awareness and knowledge of the cannabis plant as a means to sustain ourselves and the planet. A shortsighted focus on unsustainable ways to live has brought us to the position we are in today. We must use our individual influence to change the cannabis laws wherever we are by speaking about it and correcting the misinformation that surrounds it. We must exert pressure on the businesses we are involved in, the healthcare industry that should protect us and the governments that control the laws to legalize cannabis for recreational use and for individual home growing. Being passive recipients of all that is provided to us is likely to find us without a home, food, health and a world in a very short time.

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