which include the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights, International Covenant on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the
Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities. As health, by definition is the level
of functional and/or metabolic efficiency of an
organism and in humans it is the ability of
individuals or communities to adapt and self-
manage when facing physical, mental or social
changes as defined by (Huber M, Knottnerus
JA, Green, L., van der Horst H, Jadad AR,
Kromhout D, Smid H. (2011) In their article
How should we define health.)
Up until 1937 people have for thousands of
years grown and benefited from cannabis
therapeutically, socially, economically and
spiritually. It is only due to a small group of
greedy racist morally corrupt business men that
prohibition was initially enacted. There is no
scientific basis for prohibition. All of the
propaganda that has been so deviously
distributed throughout the years since 1937 has
confused and misguided people into believing
that cannabis is unsafe. When in fact cannabis
is the safest medicine and recreational plant
known to man far superior to alcohol and
pharmaceutical products. There has never been
a recorded death and this is stated by the United
Nations.
The social effects of cannabis being sold in
places like Colorado have shown that opioid
deaths dropped significantly, violent crime and
domestic violence dropped, the amount of
young people who tried cannabis stayed the
same ( it is believed with the appropriate
education this will drop). Motor vehicle
accidents dropped. The cannabis industry is
now a billion-dollar money maker for Colorado
with funds being used for schools, roads,
hospitals and improvements being made to all
services. Employment has risen exponentially.
All of the studies that have portrayed cannabis
in a negative light have been for one funded by
industries that do not want cannabis to be made
legal such as the pharmaceutical, alcohol and
incarceration industries. And two they have
been incomplete with no co-morbidity factors
taken in consideration, which the authors have
stated themselves and further stated that more
research was needed to be effective and when
publicized have been cherry picked to discredit
cannabis as the effective therapeutic medical
plant that it is.
As the scientific community moves from
studying the effects of cannabis on hundreds of
illnesses to looking at cannabis as a
preventative dietary staple to stave off many of
the diseases and illnesses that cannabis
effectively treats we will move into a situation
where the wellbeing of our population will
change dramatically to end the scourge of many
of the illnesses that plague our society and
create a quality of life never seen before that
will end our reliance on pharmaceutical
poisons. This factor is why pharma companies
have pushed so hard to keep cannabis
prohibited.
All of the above is why we need to get together
in our own communities and grow cannabis in
our own back yards. Prohibition is not only
allowing a massive black market to prosper it is
stopping every single Australian from having
access to an essential dietary staple, therapeutic
agent and recreational product.
All of us who are able bodied need to form
groups, procure seeds or clones and together as
communities start growing. There is safety and
power in numbers. Just one person growing
here and there gives only those people power in
some respects by taking advantage of the
unavailability of cannabis supply with those of
low moral fibre making money from other
people’s misery and in other respects sets up
good people who are only in it to help others to
be persecuted by unjust laws. By everyone
growing we put an end to all of this bullshit.
I am advocating for integrity based civil
disobedience. This is not about being a rebel or
a criminal. This is about collectively disobeying
an unjust immoral law that is causing suffering.
People need access to whole plant cannabis and
the Australian government is never going to
allow this to happen.
I am asking that we organize ourselves for
spring 2018 for all of us to start growing
cannabis. It time to change this system.
Evil conquers when good men do nothing.
We will defy…….