Legalize the Cure to What?

While marijuana has never killed anyone, marijuana prohibition has killed millions.

Let us start with cancer

There are any number of issues in the US that need to be cured.

• Runaway Government deficits
• Health care spending
• Energy independence
• Climate change
• Job growth
• Growing prison populations
• Growing marginalising of population segments

To name just a few.

 But there is one issue, if solved, that would quickly remedy and have a massive beneficial impact on all of the above.

For all of us.

The Re-Legalization of Cannabis Hemp

The first law regarding cannabis...Jamestown, VA 1609.  It was illegal not to grow hemp.

There are estimates of up to 50,000 known uses of hemp.

The majority of the public has been educated to object to just one use. 

The vast majority, including recreational users, have no idea that the other 49,999 uses exist.

What if they knew about the other 49,999?

Will a democracy support 49,999 to 1?

Pick one problem, just one issue that you want to be a priority from the list above.

Now think of all the reasons why that problem can't be solved.

Then ask yourself this question.

What would your world be like if Cannabis hemp were legal?

We've got a lot of problems that need a cure.

• Healthcare 
• Energy Solutions 
• Global Warming 
• Huge Federal Deficits 

Just to name a few.

Pick one. What's your priority? Where do we start?

What do you want to cure?

Fortunately, there is a substance that can help us cure each and every one of these problems and more.

But there's an issue. Most people have no idea what the name of this substance is.

They think it's called Marijuana or Marihuana.

But the actual name of the cure is hemp, Cannabis Sativa or Cannabis Indica.

And that's a problem.

According to a recent (March 2009) CBS News survey, 58% of Americans say marijuana should be illegal.

That's down from previous polls and the trend over the past few decades has been toward support for legalizing marijuana. But it's still a solid majority.

To learn why marijuana is illegal, click here.

However, in a February 2008 poll conducted by Zogby International, 78% of those polled in North Dakota supported legalizing hemp farming in that state.

That tells me that people don't realize that hemp is marijuana. Or, more accurately, that marijuana comes from hemp.

And that's bad.

Not because people don't know that marijuana comes from hemp.

But because people don't realize all the other benefits derived from hemp.

Including the medicinal value of THC, the stuff that makes you feel good.

If you don't know about just a few of the benefits available from hemp, here's a list of places to start learning.

• Hemp has more potential for bio fuel than any other crop 
• Hemp has the ability to cure cancer 
• Hemp consumes more CO₂ than most crops 
• Hemp can allow us to harvest fewer trees 

Marijuana is still considered by many to be a dangerous drug, according to an August 2009 poll conducted by Rasmussen Reports. And that's also a problem.

We've been taught that there are dangers associated with smoking hemp, of marijuana.

Starting with William Randolph Hearst and Harry Anslinger, going up through Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, the indoctrination has continued.

Brainwashing may be the best term for what has happened. Even the National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse (The Shafer Commission) in 1972 knew that marijuana is about as harmless a drug as you can get. And that includes such 'drugs' as tobacco and caffeine.

Cannabis can't kill you, it's not a 'gateway' to other substances, it doesn't create psychosis, it's not addictive.

But you know all that already. If not, look around on this website and others to confirm what I've said. You'll find that it's true.

So we have to overcome this mass indoctrination of our population in order to get them to agree to the utilization of cannabis for all these other things.

The public needs to learn that the same plant that gives us the evil marijuana also gives us a way to make a huge dent into solving the problems listed above.

And to do it without insisting that all hemp be somehow limited in its THC content. THC as well as cannabidiol (CBD) is extremely valuable in medical cannibis.

And yes, people will use some of this cannabis as a non-medicinal drug. Just as they use alcohol now.

So how do we do this? What model do we need to use in order to get hemp into use as a mainstream crop in America?

How do we get a total prohibition repealed and changed to a free market commodity to be exploited by all available means?

We use a wedge issue.

This is not a new tactic. The Republican Party has used this tactic with great success in recent times. It works.

A wedge issue is necessary in order to divert attention from what some people find objectionable to marijuana, that it can get you high, to what people find that they can't live without.

An issue that has an appeal so strong that they are willing to overlook or accept the small negative property it carries in order to embrace and demand access to the benefit it offers.

The largest segment of the U.S. population remains the Baby Boomer's. This demographic first embraced marijuana in the early 1960's as a counter culture symbol as well as a recreational drug.

They know for the most part that the hype and hysteria surrounding its use was overblown propaganda.

They have first hand knowledge of the effects of smoking cannibis.

And for the most part, they simply outgrew their fascination with this drug and moved on with their lives. But their nagging suspicions of any lasting effects of the drug remain.

Mostly a residue of their exposure to years of intentional misinformation combined with their waning interest in the substance.

But this group is graying.

They went through the Eighties and Nineties raising their families, establishing their careers, amassing wealth.

They thought that the society that resulted had worked out pretty well.

And it had. Until last year and the financial meltdown.

Now, their retirements are in question.

Gas prices are divorced from supply and demand.

Health Insurance reform is a major issue. Their parents are getting old and sick.

And they will be soon having their own health issues if they're not already.

A major change is needed. A goal, an issue that will help.

Perhaps one that recaptures some of that idealism from their youth.

They need an issue to embrace that can make a real difference in the world for themselves and their kids.

A change that counts.

Here's an issue that they can embrace.

Use Cannabis to cure cancer.

That's right. Use cannabis to treat and cure cancer. Cancer and a host of other diseases, but primarily cancer.

Why? Because it works.

Never mind that someone will use cannibis non-medically.

Kids use whatever is in Mom and Dads medicine cabinet anyway today to get high.

The cleaning supplies cabinet isn't safe. They're huffing Dust Off. And every drug in those pill bottles can kill these kids. All those aerosols can kill these kids.

Cannibis or marijuana has never killed anyone. Ever.

How can you abuse something that can't hurt you?

That's non-addictive, non-habit forming and doesn't present any adverse physiological changes?

We don't care if people can potentially abuse it. And, like alcohol or caffeine, it will be abused according to someone else's definition.

Anything can be abused. Chocolate, caffeine, even education to some cultures are all fraught with abuse.

Hemp can keep our folks alive and healthy.

It can keep us alive and healthy.

Getting high off it is not the issue.

Getting people healthy with it is the issue.

This is the type of response we need to cultivate.

This will work.

Unless your last name is DuPont or Dow or Merck or Rockefeller, there is no good reason on God's green earth for cannibis to be illegal. I know it, you know it.

It's time to let other people know it.

Use the potential that cannabis has for curing cancer as a wedge to open this crop up to markets that we haven't even imagined yet.

Get your magnet.

It will lead to a multitude of other products designed to get this message out.

People will talk.

Mainstream Media will cover the story.

The population will become enraged when they realize what solutions are being withheld from them by an antiquated law sold with bigotry.

But it has to start with you. It must start with you.

Who else is going to do it?

So let 'em know that you want to Legalize the Cure!

Can you name the First Prohibition?

18th Amendment? No, go back farther.

Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914? No much older.

British Stamp Act? Not even close.

I'll give you a hint.

The Garden of Eden.

The  Prohibition.

Two people to police. An omnipotent overseer. This had to be foolproof.

It still got broken.

It didn't work.

Prohibition has never worked.

Fortunately for us, the penalty wasn't mandatory prison. Maybe eternal probation if you care to believe the story, but it was dealt with by giving us consciousness rather than prison bars.

 Man added those later.

Have you had enough?