Pot Politics, Marijuana Myths, and Cannabis Culture

First things first: For those of you who have no idea who William Randolf Hearst, Andrew Mellow, or Harry J. Anslinger were, do a google search including 'marijuana' or 'hemp'.

The simple fact of the matter is, most people are ignorant of the facts behind Marijuana prohibition. Unlike alcohol's one hundred thousand or big tobacco's more than four hundred thousand killed a year, Cannabis Sativa Indica Ruderalis also known as Hemp or Marijuana, has killed no one.

Apart from the fact that more people go to jail for marijuana than for violent crime, you'd think that the government was on to something. You'd think that, because more than five hundred thousand people a year die from using marijuana, the government would have to do something about it. You'd probably think that going to prison for five years or more as a minimum would be great for the drug pushers dealing in such a dangerous drug, and you'd be right.

As least as far as MADD, SADD, DADD, and tobacco activists might be concerned. But the fact of the matter is, marijuana is more beneficial than crude oil, provides more protein than soy beans, and has more versatility than both combined. Acre for acre, it provides more paper of a higher quality than any tree using a far less toxic process.

Its plentiful-and renewable-seed provides more than enough natural, non-toxic oil to eliminate the need for any other energy source for all of mankind's foreseeable future. It is the solution to all of humanity's problems. It is the single greatest hope for the starving of mankind. It can be made into home building materials and turned into fabrics that produce clothes that are almost indestructible.

It can take our society-the societies of every country- to the next plateau of industrial and technological advancement without causing any environmental pollution, attrition, or erosion, and do so while restoring the habitats of wildlife. It is the most valuable resource unknown to man, and there is a reason for that. Politics. Your government is lying to you. The most troubling thing about that is our government is lying to itself in the process.