“600 million Indians will die laughing,
if I say that hemp is a dangerous drug.”
Tadhg Stopford
The Hemp Foundation
Green Gold - What is wealth?
I
s it having food, health and shelter & time? Because if those
are sorted, you can be you.
So, why is Mother Nature’s most abundant provider of top quality food,
health, shelter, fuel, plastic, paint and pleasure prohibited? Why do
‘free democratic’ governments limit public access to this natural source
of food, fibre and medicine?
Kiwi-farmed hemp was re-legalised in 2006, but MoH and MPI have
largely disabled the industry ever since, apart from the recent legalising
of hemp seed in November 2018, (12 years later).
Hemp’s like a dirty secret. It can’t be planted within 5km of a school,
or anywhere it can be seen from the road. It can’t be fed to animals (a
recent change under a National-appointed pharma veteran), or used
for medicine despite being both safe, beneficial and having ‘no risk of
abuse’ according to the World Health Organisation.
Hemp has
‘No risk of abuse’
The traditional home of ‘drug hemp’ (or Cannabis Indica) is India, a
proudly independent state since throwing off the tyrannical shackles
of Empire. India’s ambassador reportedly refused to agree to the 1961
Single Convention on Narcotics, saying:
46
Pakistan and Bangladesh also exempted themselves.
Despite these (then) 1.5 billion people having legal access to cannabis
since 1961, there has been no discernible social harm.
That figure is now closer to 2.5 billion people, with around 600 million
eligible to be extorted by the ‘medicinal cannabis’ racket now fixing
up world markets. This racket is of epic proportions, obscene ethics
and gargantuan profits. It is an utter betrayal of the public trust by
politicians and regulators for private profit. But we all know ‘that’s just
politics’.
For example, Cannabis Sativa (industrial hemp) enjoyed 1000 years
in Britain’s herbal Pharmacopoeia ‘as medicine’. Cannabis Indica was
reported by Professor O’Shaughnessy in 1843 and, by the 1890s, Great
Britain was importing 100 tons of Cannabis Indica resin a year ‘as
medicine’. Cannabis was only removed from the Pharmacopoeia in the
1970s.
Yet today Britain prohibits public access on the grounds that it has no
therapeutic value and a high risk of abuse, despite being the world’s
biggest exporter of cannabis medicine (at $1000 a bottle/$33,000 USD
per year).
Interestingly, that medicine is made by Britain’s own GW
Pharmaceuticals. It’s biggest shareholder is the $1.4 Tn Capital Group,
and Philip May (husband to PM Theresa May) is a senior exec there.
Coincidentally, the husband (Paul Kenward) of UK Drugs Minister
VIctoria Atkin, is the MD of British Sugar, which grows 23 football
pitches of cannabis for Theresa’s husband’s company. Funnily enough,
half that crop is ‘Skunk #1’, a legendary winner of many Cannabis Cups.
You couldn’t make this stuff up. It’s so wrong.
So who exactly does cannabis threaten?
It doesn’t threaten people. Cultures across the globe have revered this
strategic resource for millennia. It’s been the backbone of empires,
like the British, Roman and Chinese, to name just three. Because it
offers people food, health, shelter, pleasure and more. But it does
threaten some major markets, and a few destructive monopolies like
pharmaceuticals and petro chemicals – the industries that are bleeding
our wallets and taxes, while poisoning our health and environment.
Would you believe it used to be a crime not to grow cannabis in both
Great Britain and the USA? True fact. It’s the world’s most useful and
valuable crop. It’s green gold, and it’s “safe even in immense doses”
according to Pfizer subsidiary Parke-Davis.
Thank goodness the coalition’s referendum legislation looks good.
Please make sure you and all whanau vote ‘Yes’ in 2020. q
47