artist: Kami Lerner
Willie Nelson Time 4 Hemp interview podcast of 11/27/2008 sheds light upon many aspects of relationship between family farms and commercial hemp. Through his work with Farm Aid, Willie Nelson has brought attention to the need for price parity for farm products.
Forcing farmers into bankruptcy and then offering them welfare has not proven to either benefit farmers nor secure our food supply. Forcing farmers into bankruptcy only benefits the institutions of the financial services industry.
The financial services industry has structured our economy to first force debt upon raw materials producers and then foreclose upon them, thereby acquiring the means of raw materials production themselves. To save family farms, family farmers need to start growing crops that actually return a profit.
Without restructuring the entirety of agri-business, neutralizing the power of politicians protecting vested interests, re-evaluating the influence of dairy and beef lobbies and nullifying the effects the pharmaceutical industry, petro-chemical industry, forest products industry and textile industry, only a few crops can return a profit to farmers today.
Commercial hemp can return a profit to farmers today.
In one fell swoop, the raw materials underlying a broad spectrum of industrial production can shift from nonrenewable resources to renewable hemp based materials and farmers can obtain a living wage from their labor.
With commercial hemp at the center of new agricultural policy, local agricultural economies around the world can afford to liberate themselves from United States agri-business domination. Profitable farmers will no longer require welfare-like subsidy.
Without the subsidies, agricultural products will need to be sold at parity prices. Without competition from subsidized products, farmers around the world can sell their produce at parity prices.
Economies based upon renewable and sustainable agricultural production benefited human society for thousands of years before the evolving complexities of contemporary human society allowed the financial services industry to maneuver the nations of the world into servitude with fictional value.
By confusing debt for value, the financial services industries manipulated fractional reserves into the controlling interest of key industries. Managing key industries into bankruptcy and foreclosure extended their power while increasing their wealth.
As part of the consolidation of raw materials production, the commercial potential of hemp based products was killed by oppressive legislation deceptively passed through an ignorant congress. The criminalization of cannabis-hemp-marijuana is a key feature of the economic enslavement of raw materials producers and thereby steering the entire economy.
The war on drugs is part of the monopolization of raw materials production to enable wholesale enslavement. The widespread collapse of family farms emerges as a symptom of the larger erosion of personal sovereignty, rights and freedom.
The protection and survival of family farms around the world, including decriminalizing the most versatile and perhaps most profitable crop that can be grown today, helps insure the peaceful survival of all people. Profitable family farms and access to the broad spectrum of hemp based products goes a long way towards promoting global peace.
Widespread legal hemp production can also substitute for nonrenewable resources. Wars for the acquisition of increasingly rare nonrenewable resources will no longer seem convincingly necessary.
Widespread legal hemp production will also prove an economic boon to family farms, removing the localized frictions manipulated by regional warlords. The dissolution of cartels and monopolies removes their influence from public policy.
Economically healthy family farms and unrestricted utilization of hemp materials goea a long way to supporting peace. So when it comes time to choose, choose peace please.
Debaters debate the two wars as if Nixon’s civil war on Woodstock Nation didn’t yet run amok. One need not travel to China to find indigenous cultures lacking human rights or to Cuba for political prisoners. America leads the world in percentile behind bars, thanks to ongoing persecution of hippies, radicals, and non-whites under banner of the war on drugs. If we’re all about spreading liberty abroad, then why mix the message at home? Peace on the home front would enhance global credibility.
The drug czar’s Rx for prison fodder costs dearly, as lives are flushed down expensive tubes. There’s trouble on the border. My shaman’s second opinion is that psychoactive plants are God’s gift. God didn’t screw up. Canadian Marc Emery sold seeds that enable American farmers to outcompete cartels with superior domestic herb. He is being extradited to prison, for doing what government wishes it could do, reduce demand for Mexican.
The constitutionality of the CSA (Controlled Substances Act of 1970) derives from an interstate commerce clause. Only by this authority does it reincarnate Al Capone, endanger homeland security, and throw good money after bad. Official policy is to eradicate, not tax, the number-one cash crop in the land. America rejected prohibition, but it’s back. Apparently, SWAT teams don’t need no stinking amendment. Father, forgive those who make it their business to know not what they do.
Nixon promised that the Schafer Commission would support the criminalization of his enemies, but it didn’t. No matter, the witch-hunt was on. No amendments can assure due process under an anti-science law without due process itself. Psychology hailed the breakthrough potential of LSD, until the CSA halted all research and pronounced that marijuana has no medical use, period.
The RFRA (Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993) allows Native American Church members to eat peyote, which functions like LSD. Americans shouldn’t need a specific church membership to obtain their birthright freedom of religion. Denial of entheogen sacrament to any American, for mediation of communion with his or her maker, precludes free exercise of religious liberty.
Freedom of speech presupposes freedom of thought. The Constitution doesn’t enumerate any governmental power to embargo diverse states of mind. How and when did government usurp this power to coerce conformity? The Mayflower sailed to escape coerced conformity. Legislators who would limit cognitive liberty lack jurisdiction.
Common-law must hold that adults are the legal owners of their own bodies. The Founding Fathers decreed that the right to the pursuit of happiness is inalienable. Socrates said to know your self. Mortal lawmakers should not presume to thwart the intelligent design that molecular keys unlock spiritual doors. Persons who appreciate their own free choice of path in life should tolerate seekers’ self-exploration.
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