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The New Revolution
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Let us talk for a moment about the current state of affairs in the United States. Our society is one based on profit, no matter the sector, be it Wall Street or tobacco, beer or beauty products, jails or pharmaceuticals. Knowing this, you have to ask yourself, where do you put the limits on these things. If everything is for profit, then the goal of everything is to get all the money you can. This makes sense when you apply it to competing products like beer, soda pop, snack foods, and many other things, but when you stop and think about the way to profit in healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and jails, you have to reconsider the process.
If a jail is for profit, the way to increase profit is to increase the number of inmates. For each inmate in the US, on average, a jail gets $70,000 per year of incarceration. That creates incentive for jails to increase the number of inmates. How do they do this? Create an atmosphere that breeds more crime! Fights, drug trafficking, alcohol production; all these things go on jails everyday. The result? Extended sentences.
Before we go any further, lets look at how these jails got so full to begin with. Approximately 48% of prison populations in the US are made up of burglars, murderers, rapists, and other violent offenders. So what makes up the other 52% you ask? Non-violent drug offenders! That’s right, your government allows your tax dollars to pay for the incarceration of more non-violent drug offenders, many sentenced under mandatory minimum sentences, than it does violent criminals. In fact, many violent criminals are released on parole early to make room for the non-violent offenders under mandatory minimum sentences.
Going further, lets look at the drug “crimes” themselves. Many are prescription pill offences. The government allows the drug manufacturers to produce enough pills to allow the known problem of abuse to continue and increase. The drug manufacturers gladly produce mass quantities of pills such as Oxycontin and others, knowing full well that the majority of them will end up on the black market, and they don’t care. Doctors then write the prescriptions because of incentives given by these manufacturers. The effect of this policy of turning a blind eye is that the government is effectually producing addicts. When the addicts then get out of control, they wind up in the for-profit prison system.
About half of the people incarcerated for non-violent drug crimes are in for simple marijuana possession, but sentenced to ridiculously long terms because of mandatory minimum sentencing. Our government has always used marijuana users as scapegoats for their policy abuses. Hundreds of millions of dollars a year are poured into fighting a weed. That is why law enforcement is mostly against ending prohibition. They fear the loss of revenue, for they too, are for-profit.
It is time we stand up and let this government know that we are no longer sleeping through their deception. We have awakened and will no longer tolerate them stripping our personal liberties. We are united together against the tyranny of the prohibition machine that creates addicts only to punish them for being what they were conditioned to be. This is the New Revolution, ladies and gentlemen, and we can no longer afford to be silent. The weapon of this revolution is the voice we are given. It is time we use it. For more information on what you can do, write to me.
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Rev Mike
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Hemp Can Save the World: Review of the Hemp Revolution Documentary
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Yesterday, I had the opportunity to watch a wonderful documentary on Hemp called “the Hemp Revolution”. If you get an hour in a day, then I recommend that you check this documentary out as it explores many different angles of the hemp rise, fall, and potential rise again.
If you are interested in seeing the documentary in its entirety, then I am posted a link here for your view. Full Hemp Documentary, but here is a clip for you to get an overview here:
Hemp History
The use of hemp has been around for thousands of years. I know this may be hard to believe, but it is true. There have been documented evidence of the ancient Egyptians using the plant, the Chinese using it back in it’s Dynasty era, India has used it for thousands of years, the aboriginal Australians, South Americans, and even those in the Americas thousands of years ago.
Knowing that hemp has been used for food, clothing, canvases, fibers, oil, a smoking substance and more, leads us to wonder how and why did hemp all but disappear from the modern productive world? Well, this documentary goes into this as well, but we will leave that for later.
Just understand that hemp has not always been a damned drug in this world and we believe one day it will be back and thus will free the people from the entrapments of corporate greed. Cause once you understand how and why hemp was banned in the United States, the influence the United States has on the rest of the world, then you will get why this was a corporate decision and not the will of the people. But we will get into that in a moment.
The United States was founded on the backbone of the hemp movement. All paper during the founding of the country was created on hemp. In fact, the declaration of Independence was printed on 100% hemp paper.
Hemp, the Forest, and Paper
Hemp is critical to the forest because it has the capacity to save the forest from destruction of people. Each year, people consume billions of pounds of paper for reading, books, wrapping gifts and a myriad of other activities. But each one of these activities takes trees to create the paper used. These trees are being torn down day and day in the forest of the world. This may not seem like a big deal, but at the rate we are on today, this simply isn’t a sustainable future. Eventually, we will run out of trees to continue feeding our paper fetish.
Not to mention that the paper that are generated by wood has a lower quality of paper than compared to hemp. These papers need to be treated and infested with tons and tons of chemicals that treat the wood and turn it into useful paper. These chemicals run off into the water streams around the plants and infect the environment around it. The pollution from making paper is crazy and it makes no sense when there is an option that grows from the ground.
Hemp paper does not need any chemicals or pesticides to grow, unlike cotton. So hemp is great for the environment. And in paper production, the chemicals to make paper useful are not needed in hemp paper. It is just completely friendly to the environment.
More on Hemp
There are many, many more uses for hemp and the derivatives that it produces that it isn’t even funny. If people really want to make a difference in this world, then they have to wake up to the reality that this plant was put here by the Gods to help the people, not harm them.
But until hemp is legalized, we will smoke in protest. Smoke one to the greatness of the hemp plant!
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