Spring is moving into summer and the ground is breaking with new sprouts from seeds planted earlier in the season. Now is the time for renewal, the earth is coming to life again and it's time for us to plan for the harvest. Unfortunately we can't because the one crop that we'd plant is illegal. Yes illegal.
You'd think that for something to be illegal, not just restricted or regulated but illegal, it would be the most dangerous thing you could have. If it's illegal then it has to be so harmful that any contact with it would be fatal. Cocaine has a better rating on the DEA's schedule of narcotics than cannabis THC. This must be the worst thing in the world.
Imagine my surprise to find that what they were saying was just so much bullshit. I was 19 when I found out. Now I'm not going to lie and say the first couple of times weren't very intense for me, they were but I learned how to enjoy myself and it was fine. It wasn't like liquor. With liquor you lose everything you just become stupid. You can't control yourself on liquor. Hangovers, splitting headaches, finding out the ass you made of yourself the night before. You have to make liquor out of grains and herbs that ferment. Whiskey is set up four years before it's consumed all these processes are manufacturing. What you have with Cannabis is nature.
I didn't start smoking cannabis on a regular basis until after my divorce. My friends all smoked and we just ran in a crowd. I didn't try anything else until we moved away from all my friends. Moving to a bigger city I was around a different sort of people. Along with cannabis, I could get other things and remembering the lie I was told about cannabis I tried them. I was lucky, some of the people I knew didn't make it.
It wasn't until I met Gatewood Galbraith that I knew the whole truth about the war on cannabis. The worst scam that's ever been pulled on the American people. I hate to think what they could have done in 1936 if they'd had the internet and not just a west coast newspaper. People were gullible back then and believed most of what the media shoved at them. Movies like "Reefer Madness" and all the fear propaganda that ended us up with the marijuana tax act.
I met a man named Jack Herer in 1989, during Gatewoods campaign and I bought his book. I couldn't put it down. "The Emperor Wears No Cloths" was truly the bible for the legalization movement. I couldn't believe what he was writing about because at that time we didn't talk openly about cannabis. It was all there and verifiable. You know you find something out and it just burns in you and the more it burns the more you see lies and you finally just wan to scream. That is what inspired me, I couldn't stand back any longer
Gatewood and Jack are gone. They were good friends and died within a short time of each other. I couldn't help feeling responsible to carry on what they had started. I sat with Jack back in 1990 in front of the Federal building and talked with him for hours. He autographed my book and in a long rambling thought, as Jack was want to do, he named me his surrogate to Kentucky and made me responsible for educating as many people as I can. In Jacks words " No one can beat a fact".
Since Jack first published his book a lot more facts have come out. Many more facts about how the government ignored reports that suggested they should legalize cannabis and continued with their war. How cannabis is medicine even though it remains a schedule1 narcotic that it's alleged to have no medicinal value. This plant can help shrink breast tumors, skin cancers, lower blood pressure along with the other things people already know it does. Why is this still illegal.
It's mind boggling when you think about this whole thing and you realize it has been a lie and that millions of lives have been ruined or lost because of this lie. If you can't get excited. If you can't get angry. If you can't demand a change then something is very wrong with this country and it's citizens.
Cannabis helped thousands of veterans with PTSD. Support the troops Legalize it, Regulate it and educate the people with the truth. Let us be the judge of what we put in our bodies.
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