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My brother gave him some seeds and what else is a farmer to do with ‘em anyway.

Since it came up behind the barn and as I remember it being a few dozens twelve-foot tall plants…we nick-named it ‘chicken-shit gold’!

And yes, Dad thought it should become legal too!

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I wish everyone in prison for burlap and canvas could be released (yesterday).

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Early 70′s we tried soaking cigarettes in Paragoric but all we got were soggy cigarettes. It had tincture of opium. Parents used to give it for diareaha if memory serves.

phyto-remediative Hemp plants could clean up all the chemical hazards on all of the Military bases too.

Clinton’s drug thug McCaffrey used to try all sorts of draconian silliness. He busted 17 truckloads of birdseed going to US pet shops for 60 years. A true idiot. But since Nixon’s illegal immoral unethical Controlled Substance Act lumped Hemp and RXGanja into the mix of reefer madness, they figured statistically it was all the same. So, like busting users driving up arrests to more than Nixon, Reagan and Bush! combined. He created bigger numbers of “marijuana eradications” lumping in wild unkept ditchweed. So to the public and radical right wing drug thugs, he showed how he was saveding the kids from drugs. While Boosh eradicated thousands of “Ganja” plants Clintons numbers rose into the hundreds of millions. 98% of the eradicated plants were burlap and canvas. But numbers looked good. Still continues and real citizens are doing hard time for having these non psychoactive plants in their possession. At least they could let the unemployed process it into clothing.
Be well

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Chernobyl…..(underline) cleaned up by prohibited

Hemp…

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I think it was an illegal ‘opium’ of sorts to soothe a baby’s teething.

I will try to research it myself. Thanks.

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When it became important enough, we saw change. That’s the distinction I’m trying to make, not that people that vote for drug warrior politicians are like racists.

And that in the long run our movement leaders are going to have to stay on board the movement at every election, and with every vote on candidates that will end the drug war if we want to win. We will never win if everyone gets off board the movement at the feet of candidates exactly like Barack Obama or John McCain or tens of thousands of others.

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So are medical marijuana, reduced cannabis possession sentences, and less tough anti-drug propaganda like segregation and separate but equal? Yes. And they are effective incremental tools with success that resulted in the less life and liberty being loss from the Civil War to Civil Rights. They provided avenues for others to get on board.

But what are others jumping on board to in our movement? Saying no more drug warriors. That’s my point. Not to diminish efforts that got us incremental mmj and some reduced penalty referendums, and all the debate and publicity because those winning battles are vital to the war. But the end goal is getting enough people on board that will refuse to support drug warriors. I realize that means having candidates just as good on other issues but I pre-suppose there are and will be candidates like that instead of the opposite. I know there won’t be any candidates like that until more people demand it and refuse to compromise, with the civil rights movement as my guide. That is the winning strategy.

The movement’s goal is a majority of voters refusing to vote for drug warriors. At some point, all the leaders in the movement will have to realize that in order for us to win the drug war.

“I’m sorry I can’t vote for you if you support the drug war.” When we have a majority saying that we will win. Its harder to get to that point when our movement leaders are still saying you can get off board the movement with us if a candidate still supports the drug war and only says its not a good idea to use resources to go after mmj patients in states that say its ok. We need a majority staying on board until the candidate says no more drug war.

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There isn’t someone out there to run in the Dems primary that thinks exactly the same as Obama on every other issue except that they are sick of the drug war? That is where the leadership of the movement is failing. But even when there are third party choices on the ballot the drug war is intertwined with just about every other issue you think is a higher priority for you.

And lets talk about priorities and the power of our vote. Is there a higher priority than ending the practice of locking human beings in cages that have harmed no one else? Sure, there are immediate life and death issues. But not many. And I would argue they are an equal priority anyway. Life and liberty.

I think the Civil Rights movement is a good example for us. Incrementalism happened from the Civil War until the 1950s. Voters finally said no more racists, and blacks started taking, getting, and using the power of their votes. Before then, it wasn’t the highest priority.

First, one person said they would never support another racist no matter what they thought on other issues. That first person said this issue can be compromised on no more. Then more people joined that first, saying no more votes for racists. One voter at a time stopped voting for racists. Then one person said vote for me, I am not a racist, and eventually one of them won. Then more candidates said the same and they won.

In the south, blacks organized their own local Democratic parties separate from the racist Democratic Party in place then. They beat them in some areas, they took over the party in other areas, the ran as independents and Republicans, and third parties as well. They made sure there were non-racists on the ballot and they refused to support anyone that was.

Incrementalist leaders in our movement don’t seem to think that is important, yet that was the winning strategy in my opinion. You had to go from one person saying no more racists mo matter what their other stances on issues are to the point of the majority saying no more racists.

Locking a black person in a cage because she doesn’t sit in the back of the bus with the other blacks is of the same priority level to me as locking a black person in a cage because she eats a pot brownie to relieve glaucoma or just because she enjoys it.

Why isn’t it of equal importance as everything else? Isn’t it time we decided it is of equal importance and did something about it? Like they finally did in the 1950s with stupid, minority oppressing, segregation laws? They finally said no more.

Like the civil rights movement, we need a majority of voters saying absolutely no more votes for drug warriors if we want to win. Saying the drug war shouldn’t be important enough to influence, let alone decide, your vote is a losing strategy. They stopped voting for racists and made sure they didn’t have to and we need to do the same thing with drug warriors. The faster the better.

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