William H. Foster THIS

temecula, CA – Just this morning I read two things that gave me a revelation. the second one is the one I am writing about here. William H. Foster, PhD, President and CEO of The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, posted a story with the title Marijuana Legalization: How Should Medical Marijuana Be Regulated? I read the piece and found it to be highbrow and completely unaware of the big picture as much as you would expect from a snobbish elitist, an Obama-ite. When you boil it down, the question really is, what does the marijuana community really want? And that’s a fair question to ask, even for a snob.

In asking that question Dr. Foster is really getting to the heart of the matter. For me, having talked to Jack Herer and read his book, having been privy to Ed Rosenthal’s theories, and having an engineer’s background, I believe I speak for them all when I say this fight isn’t about medical marijuana, though that is who now mans the front lines. This fight isn’t about recreational pot and being able to smoke weed. Plenty of people do that in California and across the nation on a regular basis as is, defiant of the law. The fight about pot, over marijuana, has and will always be about utilizing the benefits of hemp, plain and simple. That’s what makes this whole issue good versus evil.

Here you have a plant, a common weed, a crop able to be grown by most famers with no pesticides or fertilizers, could even be used as shield protection to other crops, and can produce products that would replace ones now using trees, coal, and oil. Use of hemp to produce cloth that lasts longer than cotton while not producing any of the cotton pollution side effects to the environment is another benefit. Plastic and rope can come from hemp. Ingesting the product for recreation is better than either alcohol or tobacco, and the lab tests show miraculous things medically for certain strains of hemp, aka marijuana. Yet no current official utilization is made of the plant that has been used by mankind collectively for 10,000 years as both food, clothing, magic, medicine, recreation, and shelter.

So Dr. Foster, it isn’t a case of regulating hemp only as a medicine or a way to get high recreationally. Hemp could literally save the earth as a planet. When you and all the other eggheads can recognize the plant for what it is, something for ‘everyman’, then regulating the plant will fall into regulating the products that come from it. The simplest way is to regulate the seed distribution because after that, the market regulates the products that come from the seeds. This is what Soros and Monsanto see. Soros doesn’t get tied up with all the little shit, i.e., ‘collective/dispensary; non-profit/no-profit; etc. that the pencil-dicks do. Pencil-dicks only gum-up the works.

So to paraphrase something a Nicolas Cage character might say, “Now here’s how this needs to play out.” Joe Grumbine, the AMA, and others are right about rescheduling marijuana. But this is only the first step in a long journey to free mankind from many bad habits. Ultimately and I don’t want this to sound scary, but personally, I’d rather see people use hemp for almost everything. By the nature of hemp as a plant that’s easy to grow and to harvest means people could grow it to smoke or medicate while industry could produce hemp for paper, wood, oil, plastic, food additive, convenience products aka ready-roll packs, clothes; while expanding such cottage markets as edibles and health products.

Tests have determined that THC has receptors in your brain; it may be shown that THC is a good additive to lipsticks, creams and other products that have contact with your skin and body. Not much research has been done in this area. On the other side is whether the old recipes using hemp oil in levitation ointments will be tried as taboos are swept away, especially around Halloween. To think that Mary Jane is a one trick or two trick pony is poppycock. No simple tax and regulate ‘pot’ or ‘MMJ’ scheme will work. Otherwise the government would have won this ‘drug war’ long ago. Don’t forget, though underground marijuana use never went away, the drug/medical aspect was brought to the forefront by the Vietnam War, a conflict started by a government ’royal house’ lie. How so much like Dune. Foster that, Doc?