Thursday, December 13, 2018

The only acceptable cannabis policy is freedom


Free Means Free

Pills, butts and booze. For nearly eighty years those have pretty much been our only legal options in this country, and indeed around the world. Americans have been lied to, frightened, bullied, marginalized, brutalized, locked up, and even gunned down; socially, economically, politically, culturally, and spiritually manipulated and coerced into giving up their right to choose anything outside of an industrial-age trio of mostly toxic and addictive manufactured products.

Since the primary objective of the drug choice enforcement war is to keep patients in the dark about cannabis (spoiler alert: It’s medicine) it should come as no surprise that Washington is still guarding the gates as the walls come down, or that this prohibition will end like the last one; by will of the states

Had enough? Have you finally had enough of elected, appointed and self-appointed leaders like Kevin Sabet (?!) telling you what you can and can’t use for medicine for fun for solace for courage reflection inspiration motivation connection for communion or to just chill out?

Wake up Americans! The founders of this (could be) great country made it very clear. We the People have the right to do whatever we want with our own bodies. No provisos. No quid pro quo. Our bodies, our lives, our choice. And we earn that perfect freedom by taking personal responsibility for our actions and associations.

Now is the time to use that thing in your hand to discover the convenient truth about a certain forbidden flower that must not be named...

CANNABIS! 

Listen. Do yourself, your family, your friends, your community, this nation, and the planet a favor.

Open your eyes guys! In Colorado it’s looking like a miracle medicine that just happens to come with its own multi-billion dollar enterprise frontier of green jobs and opportunities. 


Meanwhile, back in Prohibitionland…

Marijuana legalization is a bad idea. It sends the wrong message to children and besides Fox News says that stuff can snare you like a rabbit and make you crazy…and without more research do we really want to risk legalizing a drug with euphoric effects when—

FULL STOP, LOOK,  LEARN,  EVOLVE!

Just Google a name or two: Rick Simpson Shona Banda Donna Lambert Brave Mykayla Comstock tragically departed Cash Hyde Charlotte’s Web Run from the Cure… By all means put the kids on the project because of course they need to learn the truth too. And the truth is that cannabis is an all-natural medicine for adults, and for sick kids, pets, and livestock in the care of adults.

And don’t even bring up the smoking! That’s Mary Jane, she’s the party girl in the cannabis family. Sure, taking a hit can be fun and creative, motivating and inspirational, and while that may not be the best choice for all your healing needs, a toke or a vape can work as medicine. Why? That’s what cannabis is; medicine.

Want proof? Green dragon cannabis tincture and oil. Ancient medicine. Queen Victoria, loved it. Her private physician, JR Reynolds, swore by it. Here in America, Sir William Osler, founder of John Hopkins University—our father of modern medicine—he hailed cannabis tincture as the most satisfactory remedy for migraines.

These days patients treating themselves in the privacy of their own lives (imagine that) report that cannabis extracts work for insomnia, depression, anxiety, stress, chronic pain, restless legs, fibromyalgia, hangovers... And possibly the most remarkable news to emerge from the shadows is that green dragon can help patients battling ruinous and deadly addictions to alcohol, pills and powders.

It’s beautiful medicine. And get this. Green dragon is nothing more than (search word alert) decarboxilated (gently heated) cannabis flower trim soaked in pure grain alcohol, strained then (carefully because it’s flammable) simmered down to around three to five drops strong. Link to the forbidden ancient recipe

Prohibition-era tincture boil. RI circa 2010
Liquid weed. Exotic, potent, fiery emerald green drops in a stealthy little tinted vial. A Dionysian remedy from a time before the Great Prohibition. Safe, effective and not the least bit physically addictive. Patient tested and approved. Made for the revolution.
 
Available now, but only through the cannabis underground because our government forbids the use of grain alcohol for anything other than getting dangerously drunk. In cannabis country we don’t buy into that crap anymore. Prohibition-era laws are going away because they’re wrong. And we ALL have a right to choose cannabis because it’s a plant.

Christians! Genesis 1:29, right? Weed’s ours! God said! -cannabis 1:29

Mr. President, members of Congress, federal, state, and local prohibitionists, industrialists, drug war loyalists, evangelicals and other moralists, nannies, naysayers, hand-wringers, and pot-bashers throughout this free country. Here this! Cannabis prohibition is finished in America and so goes the world. The war is over. Your side lost. Stand down, come clean and let the healing begin.

As for the Marijuana Policy Project and other legalization organizations: Thanks but we don’t need donor-supported lawyers negotiating the terms of our personal freedom because there are no terms to freedom.

Free means free. And that goes double for hemp.