Pot Prohibition History

POT PROHIBITION HISTORY

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I have been researching marijuana since 1967 ...

Some of what I have learned since then follows.

There are also some posts in the thread
"History of Prohibition" that appears on
the English language forum found here:

http://www.marijuanaparty.ca/forum.html

The basic point I will make, which will colour everything here, is that marijuana laws have never been based on anything but dishonesty backed up with violence from governments.

The paradoxical truth is that society is controlled by huge lies.

Pot politics is a tedious propaganda war, where the people promoting prohibition have had at least a thousand times more resources to promote their lies than the people who have attempted to resist those lies, while the people promoting prohibition have at least a million times more force to be able to use to back up their lies. That was always the way it was, and still is today, and so learning more about the history of prohibition ends up very frustrating, since it does not seem to make any difference.

Pot prohibition originated and was integrated inside of a social pyramid system. The history of pot prohibition was rooted in racism, that rationalized slavery. The same pattern of social facts of a few people using dishonesty and violence to control others was what made pot prohibition.

I have engaged in several political experiments.

I cultivated cannabis in public gardens
every summer from 1982 until 1987 ...

During 1986 and 1987, I had engaged in lengthy correspondence with
several ministers of the Canadian government, advocating change ...

In 1987, I deliberately left marijuana plants in a public garden and testified to that in a written statement with the RCMP.

I stated that I wanted to challenge the constitutional validity of the marijuana law. I had been cultivating several dozen marijuana plants in a community garden plot. The RCMP seized them and later charged me for cultivation and possession of cannabis.

I had a legal argument for why the
cannabis law was unconstitutional.

That argument has never been heard nor
decided upon by any court in Canada ...

It was not decided on in my particular case because the Crown counsel, RCMP officer witness, and the Judge conspired to make deliberate errors, so that they would not have to bother to listen to me. Therefore, my argument about the constitutionality was not heard, since I was summarily acquitted.

After I deliberately cultivated cannabis, and that was confirmed by all the evidence, including a certificate of analysis and my own testimony, when I went to court the charges were summarily dismissed. (And, one can not appeal having charges dismissed.)

The transcript of that trial is amusing, since all the evidence, and my own admissions that I had been cultivating cannabis are all there, but, nevertheless, I was summarily acquitted.

After the results of that political experiment, I stopped working on pot politics until the early 2000s.

I realized then what has been confirmed again and again since, that the law is based on huge lies backed up with lots of violence, and therefore, the truth makes no significant difference to the real situation. However, there is nowhere to hide, and the alternative to attempting to resist is to do nothing.

After 1987, I spent a couple dozen years working on
issues in the funding of the political process, and,
always, the more I learned, the worse it got ...

The REAL challenge inside pot prohibition history IS
understanding how huge lies, backed with coercions,
were able to control everything that really happened.

To understand the history and probable future of
pot prohibition, one has to put that in a context
of the history and current funding of politics ...

Canada is really a fascist plutocracy &
pot prohibition is a tool of persecution.

In 2008, the Conservative Party advocating increased criminalization cannabis has 10,000 times more funding than the Marijuana Party. Canadian governments are spending millions of times more money to promote pot prohibition than the Marijuana Party can spend resisting. The collective efforts of the U.S.A. and the U.N. to promote pot prohibition are even more orders of magnitude greater still.

The real world system today is primarily a fascist plutocracy, and pot prohibition is another excuse to build a bigger fascist police state, which is what the fascist plutocracy needs to keep itself growing.

The history of the funding of the political process was central to creating the vicious cycles of power and money that control civilization.

Pot prohibition illustrates the ways that huge lies backed up with violence are controlling civilization, while driving more social polarization and destruction of the natural world.

Pot prohibition is a symbol of all these real problems.

Canadian pot prohibition is more than 80 years old.

There have been two very different 40 year periods.

From 1923 to 1963, the law was very rarely enforced.

During the first 40 years, only a couple of hundred people were ever arrested.

There is no official record that the law against cannabis was ever enforced before the 1930s.

Back in 1961, Canadian support for the United Nations’ Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs resulted in the Canadian marijuana laws having the second heaviest minimum sentence in Canadian criminal law.

According to the law, the only thing worse than marijuana was murder.

Besides illegal drugs, no other crimes were enforced by mandatory minimum jail terms but murder or manslaughter. Our legal system continues to run on presumptions that marijuana is almost as bad as murder.

The huge lie that marijuana is almost as bad as murder, because marijuana was a narcotic that made users become addicted and criminally insane, before it killed them, was the original set of reasons for why the marijuana laws were enacted.

This set of huge lies that marijuana was an addictive and fatal narcotic, that drove people criminally insane, is referred to as the "reefer madness" view of marijuana. Statements asserting that view, back in the 1920s and 1930s, were the original justifications for why marijuana laws were needed.

The long story of the history of pot prohibition gets to be tediously repetitive, because it was the same pattern of dishonesty backed up with violence by governments, decade after decade, generation after generation, which is still continuing to get worse now ...

Evidence and logical arguments have never made any significant difference to the law, while huge lies and distortions of the truth have prevailed, decade after decade.

We are stuck in the rut of that history, and discussion of that history has to go around and around in that rut, decade after decade, watching as that rut gets deeper and deeper, with no apparent way out in the foreseeable future.

Truth and justice have never made any difference in the past, and still are not making any difference to the law now. Instead, lies continue to prevail. Understanding that social fact is the main challenge to understanding pot politics.

The history of the events in pot prohibition parallels the general history of other political events that were happening at the same time.

From 1966 to 1970, the number of cannabis crime arrests in Canada was roughly doubling every year. For instance, 1966, 112 arrests; 1967, 447 arrests; 1968, 817 arrests.

This rate of slowed somewhat between 1970 to 1972, when the government first said they would decriminalize.

In both Canada & the USA, governments commissioned
studies into cannabis, whose results were then ignored.

The marijuana laws were originally based on huge lies, and
even the truth as revealed by the governments’ reports
never made any difference, but rather all of the lies
ended up being enforced with more & more violence.

Superficially asking "why?" is nowhere near sufficient!

Deeper paradigm shifting required is to answer that question.

The cannabis crime rate increased after the earlier decriminalization talked about in 1972 did not happen, however, the exponential speed of that rate increase slowed. But nevertheless, cannabis consumption and cannabis crimes have continued to increase substantially in the population as a whole, and especially amongst young people.

The majority of cannabis criminals have been young people. That has stayed the same from the 1960s until in the 2000s. Young people are more likely to try marijuana, and more likely to continue to consume. One of the biggest changes is that the rate of cannabis consumption reported amongst youth in Canada doubled from 1993 to 2003. Young people are way more vulnerable to being caught committing cannabis crimes than older people. All of the statistics and stereotypes are distorted by the fact that poor young people are the most vulnerable to being seen and arrested, while older people with income can enjoy more privacy and legal protections.

Since marijuana laws are based on lies and hypocrisy, it is sublimely amusing how successful those laws have been in actually doing the opposite of what they claim they were supposed to do. As a general rule, in our society, the younger you are, the more you are being lied to, cheated and robbed by the political system that you were born into. Pot politics exemplifies the general pattern of this hypocrisy.

Pot prohibition is the most extreme example of a general pattern of social facts. Pot prohibition backfires most badly when it comes to its effects on youth, and people who promote more prohibition are the worst liars and hypocrites when they advocate more enforcement of cannabis crimes is necessary to protect young people.

(Good statistics on cannabis crimes from 1972 to 1996 are not readily available.
The government appears to have stopped wanting to keep or publish the numbers.)

In 1969, about 5,000 were charged with cannabis crimes.

In 1996, there were 50,000 in trouble.

By 2001, it was 70,000.

The arrest totals between 2001 to 2005 have varied between about 60,000 to 70,000 per year.

The rate in 2007 was only 62,000.

http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/85-002-XIE/85-002-XIE2008007.pdf

See Table 5, which appears on page 14 of that pdf.

Cannabis possession: 47,101 which was a 6.1% increase.

Other cannabis*: 15,409 which was 2.1% decrease

(*Other cannabis includes: trafficking, importation and production.)

Total cannabis crimes: 62,510 which was a 4% increase.

The cross-Canada average was very different
in different provinces and different territories.

Regarding possession, some provinces &
territories had a 30% to 4o% increase,

which is what I expected would be the national statistics.

However, B.C. only had a 10% increase,

while the biggest population provinces of

Quebec and Ontario had only a 2% to 3% increase.

Differences between provinces and territories were particularly mysterious.

For instance,

Newfoundland & Labrador had 20% to 30% increases.

And, Nova Scotia also had almost as great increases.

While New Brunswick possession barely increased,
while its other cannabis charges decreased 10%.

The British Columbia rates all went up about 10%.

while the change in Ontario was only a 1% increase.

These regional difference patterns are hard to explain.

The strangest anomaly was the comparison between
the North West Territories, versus in Nunavut ...

NWT went up an average of 30%

while Nunavut went down 30%.

In the Yukon, the possession went up almost 4o%
while its other cannabis offences were down 25%

The important facts for the overall national average
were that the average in Quebec went down about 2%
while the average in Ontario increased by only 1%.

Overall, 2007 result was a national increase of ONLY 4%,
while, variations between provinces and territories
was significant, & seems to have been strange ...

The real pattern of social facts was strange,
and demonstrated big differences between
different regions in Canada, while the big
provinces barely changed at all, which was
why the national average barely changed.

The overall cannabis crime averages,
for which I found numbers for, were:

1995 ... 43,845

1996 ... 47,234

1997 ... 47,933

1998 ... 50,917

1999 ... 60,011

2000 ... 66,171

2001 ... 70,624

2002 ... 69,989

2003 ... 60,670

2004 ... 67,832

2005 ... 59,973

(2006 is missing)

2007 ... 62,510

The arrest rates for simple possession reached
a 30-year record level of arrests in 2007, and
increased by 5% more in 2008 to 50,145 arrests.

Note that while the overall arrest rates
for other crimes tended to be decreasing
arrest rates for cannabis, and especially
arrests for ordinary marijuana possession
have been increasing more dramatically ...

Of course, the mainstream marijuana movements
keep on plaintively asking "why" which is the
question that this article will try to answer.

Statistics Canada has previously reported that:

The rate of total drug offenses increased for the ninth straight year, driven by increases in both cannabis offenses. In 2002, three in four drug incidents were cannabis offenses, most of which were for simple possession.

It is worth repeating that in the early 2000s,

75% of the war against some drugs is against pot.

Statistics Canada reported on 2004 that:

The rate of drug incidents increased 11% last year ... Of the almost 100,000 drug incidents known to police in 2004, half were for possessing cannabis. The rate of cannabis possession incidents increased 15%.

Cannabis cultivation, otherwise known as marijuana grow operations, has more than doubled over the past decade, from 3,400 incidents in 1994 to more than 8,000 incidents last year.

A pattern of record breaking arrests of cannabis cultivators has been common during the 2000s.

There are at least a million Canadians regularly consuming cannabis from time to time, and perhaps more than three million. Statistics Canada studies have said that more than four million Canadians per year had consumed some cannabis in the early 2000s. Chronic cannabis consumers are at least 1% of the population, while occasional consumers may be somewhere around 10%, or more, depending on how one defines occasional consumption.

Frequent consumers are men with relatively high education and income. However, it is poor young people who are seen to be the consumers. This social fact is typical in the way that it contradicts stereotypical prejudices.

The public perception of pot is a standing misrepresentation.

People with education and income that consume cannabis are the biggest number, but they are rarely the ones that are seen to be cannabis consumers, and rarely arrested for cannabis crimes. Although young poor people consume less cannabis, they are seen to be doing it, and are those who are most frequently arrested for doing it.

The youth participation rate a few decades ago maybe was about 10%. Currently, it is guessed that at least 25% of youth participate in pot, and more recent surveys and polls indicated that it may be higher. It seems to be higher in Canada than any other industrialized country.

The Canadian cannabis culture is probably the most hypocritical of anywhere in the world. The gap in Canada between what our laws say, and the social facts about cannabis cultivation, consumption and criminalization seem more contradictory in Canada than anywhere else.

A 2007 U.N. report says Canada has the highest rate of cannabis consumption in the developed countries. Especially Quebec reports one of the highest per capita rates of cannabis consumption in the world.

Public opinions polls favouring some sort of legalization of marijuana have gone up from 25% a few decades ago, to around 50% now. The main difference now is that almost as many older people agree with changing the cannabis laws as younger people do, while, a generation ago, most older people were against pot.

A landmark in the history of pot prohibition in Canada was the 1972 Cannabis Report from the Canadian Government’s Commission of Inquiry into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs (the Le Dain Report ). This was in a political climate where decriminalization was first proposed by the government.

Taken as whole, the Le Dain report is still better than most of the other official material available. The minority report in favour of cannabis was quite good.

Le Dain’s majority report last recommendation was:

The cultivation of cannabis should be subject to the same penalties as trafficking, but it should not be a punishable offense unless it is cultivation for the purpose of trafficking.

That would have allowed growing your own marijuana. It would not have allowed marijuana to become commercialized. It may have allowed people to barter, but not allowed marijuana to become a commodity in our political economy that was controlled the way that other commodities were controlled by the monetary systems. That would have been a very good thing. It is part of the pattern that this good report was NOT acted on.

Instead, the law stayed the same, & everything got worse.

A Senate Report on Cannabis was released September 4, 2002, (the Nolin Report ).

The summary of the Nolin Report is 60 pages long, and the whole Senate Report is ten times bigger. As a scientific study, is as good or better than the Le Dain Report. However, the recommendations to allow the commercial production and sale of marijuana to be legalized like alcohol is now are bad ideas. In any case, no kind of legalization of marijuana looks like it can happen within the foreseeable future.

Talking about legalizing marijuana is talking about something much bigger than marijuana. Marijuana should be seen as a salient symbol and extreme example of the ways evil governments operate with deliberate ignorance to promote policies based on huge lies backed up with coercion. Pot prohibition is integrated into the whole social system. Since the relationship between a plant and people is relatively simple and easy to understand, understanding pot prohibition can become a template for understanding how most of our most important laws are legalized lies.

Talking about legalizing marijuana like the Le Dain Report recommended was a good idea that might have allowed more freedom marijuana from the monetary and corporation systems a little longer. Talking about legalizing marijuana like the Nolin Report recommended was a bad idea that enslaves marijuana even more into the monetary systems.

Our money and tax laws are similar to our marijuana laws, except astronomically worse. They are all based on the triumphs of huge lies. The interaction between the marijuana laws and the monetary systems have had extremely evil effects.

Decriminalizing or legalizing marijuana to become a normal commodity inside the money and tax systems would do nothing about the root problem that the mainstream society is based on the madness of militarism that became too triumphant, resulting in our whole society being controlled by huge lies.

Since pot prohibition is integrated into the whole social system, truly legalizing marijuana should be much more than merely making it become a normal part of the monetary and taxation systems, since those monetary laws themselves are based on lies that are astronomically worse than the marijuana laws are.

Pot prohibition plays a symbolic role in being the single, simplest way that huge lies and coercions control our civilization.

Talking about "decriminalizing" or "legalizing" marijuana that does not address that salient symbolic significance is merely more lies and hypocrisy.

People who advocate decriminalizing or legalizing marijuana into the mainstream of society, to make it become normal, are either fools who still mostly believe in lies, or a new breed of professional liars that want to benefit from the established systems of huge lies that control the way our society operates.

Decades of pot prohibition (attempting to back up the huge lie that the best plant should be treated like murder) have made that become the single biggest thing that the police do.

Understanding how such an insane situation could develop requires a change in political perceptions.

The Senator Nolin Report on cannabis indicated that enforcing pot prohibition consumed about 30% of the entire resources of the Canadian criminal justice system.

It would likely get a lot worse if the Conservative Party eventually won majority control over Parliament, since the Conservatives are fascist drug war mongers.

If the Conservatives get their way, (such as with Bill C-26 during the 39th Parliament, or its return as Bill C-15 during the 40th Parliament) then the arrest rates could increase a lot, and minimum jail terms for cannabis crimes will greatly increase the need for more prisons. (Which will provide excuses to privatize prisons.)

Bill C-15, as a reincarnation of Bill C-26, MIGHT drive pot prohibition to become as much as 90% of the overall drug wars, and then, perhaps as much as 50% of the entire resources of the Canadian criminal justice system will be wasted on pot prohibition, but that still will not work to actually prohibit pot in the real world, except to make marijuana more expensive and thus provide incentives for better organized crime to make more profit.

However, I would also predict that the differences between different parts of the country might also increase, under the polarizing effect of new laws requiring mandatory minimum jail sentences for growing & selling pot.

In the real world, pot prohibition has provided the backbone to grow better organized crime gangs upon.

What pot prohibition really does is serve as a tool of persecution inside of a fascist plutocracy, to provide excuses to build more of a fascist police state. That is what marijuana laws were actually intended to do, and that is what marijuana laws are successful in really doing. Marijuana laws were created by organized criminals, to benefit organized criminals.

The goals behind marijuana laws
are the goals of fascist plutocracy.

Those goals are actually being achieved. There is more profitable organized crime. All of other stated goals were lies and hypocrisy. None of those goals are being achieved.

In the early 2000s, despite the million dollars a day the Federal Government spends, and perhaps a larger provincial sum, and an increasing municipal sum, pot prohibition does not work. On the contrary, all the evidence indicates that pot prohibition tends to increase consumption. Since all drug prohibition backfires so badly, but still continues, decade after decade, it becomes necessary to think about whether prohibition was originally designed to make things worse, and to think about why and how that happened.

Generally speaking, the more one learns _ about politics, the worse it shall get:

The conclusion is that only a culture
that was crazy and corrupt to the core _would have made cannabis be criminal.

Superficially "decriminalizing" or "legalizing" marijuana to make it become "normal" is not sufficient because our entire civilization is crazy and corrupt to the core, and criminalizing cannabis is merely one small symptom of that overall social sickness resulting from the triumphs of huge lies directing what our civilization is really doing.

Today, most things worth knowing about pot can be searched for and a source found on the Internet, along with way more things not worth finding.

There is an overwhelming amount of marijuana information available, which includes a great many good books and articles, as well as a lot of very bad propaganda.

There are three main groups of
information that are available.

The first group is the propaganda from the prohibitionists, which have many orders of magnitude more resources to present and repeat lies.

The second group are the mainstream marijuana movement people who have little resources to promote their limited version of the truth about marijuana.

The third group are the radical marijuana people, who have even less resources to communicate the radical truth about marijuana.

There are many sources of information which are somewhere between the first group and the second group. That particularly includes some of the government commissions that have come to correct conclusions about cannabis and the real effects of pot prohibition. That also includes people who used to be involved in law enforcement, but have since come to reconsider the way that the drug wars have actually made things worse.

Most of the marijuana debate is between huge lies and littler lies.

As the anecdotal story was told in an editorial of the December, 2004, issue of the Scientific American:

This system has unintended, almost comic, consequences. For example, it has created a market for research marijuana, with ’buyers’ trading journal co-authorships to ’sellers’ who already have a marijuana stockpile or license. The government may also have a stake in a certain kind of result. One scientist tells of a research grant application to study marijuana’s potential medical benefits. The NIDA turned it down. That scientist rewrote the grant to emphasize finding marijuana’s negative effects. The study was funded.

Of course, it is extremely difficult to do a scientific study about the corruption of science by politics. However, as a general rule, so far, most of the so-called "science" about marijuana has been paid propaganda.

When looking at any information about marijuana, one has to seriously consider the probability that most government funded information is false. (There have been at least a dozen significant exceptions, of government studies that produced relatively honest reports, but their recommendations have always been ignored by the governments that commissioned those studies.)

The majority of news media reports also contain egregious distortions and dishonest statements about marijuana.

Pot prohibition has always been propaganda wars based on lies.

Truth about cannabis has never made much difference to the law.

Learning about pot prohibition leads to the general intellectual challenge of attempting to understand how society can be controlled by huge lies, backed up with coercions.

Politicians, police, and the mass news media, have always been using every possible kind of lie and distortion of the truth, decade after decade, to promote pot prohibition.

The more one understands this problem, the harder it becomes to come up with any practical solutions. The vast majority of "studies" of marijuana were driven by prejudice, and that prejudice became starker when the news media oversimplify the story. It is much more common to find outrageous lies about pot in the news media than anything else.

(However, there are a significant minority of better opinions appearing now that were hardly ever seen before.)

Fake science "studies" are beginning to be challenged in the news media more than they ever were in the past.

Prohibitionist propaganda still dominates the public space.

Even IF it was true that marijuana was as bad as alcohol, pot prohibition would still backfires as badly as alcohol prohibition did.

It is because marijuana is not as bad as alcohol that the pot prohibition is not as bad as alcohol prohibition was.

The drug is secondary to the drug business.

The nature of the drug does have some secondary qualifying effects.

Since marijuana is one of the safest drugs, its perversions are some of the most harmless perversions.

This has resulted in pot people previously not being as violent as some other people involved in illegal businesses, which has made pot prohibition easier to maintain.

The established system, that has punished more than a million people for cannabis crimes in Canada, has to keep on attempting to justify itself, as it is headed towards punishing two million people.

DECADE AFTER DECADE OF REPEATING CONTEXT:

Racism and corruption made pot prohibition as a tool of persecution that could be used as an excuse by governments to attack vulnerable groups of people, while also putting hemp out of business. These tools of persecution have been drifting through the decades of their history, while new social generations gradually transformed pot prohibition.

It is only in the last ten years that marginal changes have been made in marijuana laws.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s there has been some small return of legalized industrial hemp and medical marijuana.

Compared to the total prohibition of all pot in previous decades, those changes were symbolically significant, even if they are relatively tiny compared to what the changes should be.

More than 90% of Canadians approve of medical marijuana. A generation ago, most Canadians had never even heard of medical marijuana. A generation before that, most Canadians have never even heard of "marijuana" at all.

Usually, even after some breakthrough finally occurs, like when Canadian law courts legalized medical marijuana, then our political system as a whole tends to adapt to diminish the significance of that breakthrough. But nevertheless, in the context of global pot prohibition, the legalization of some industrial hemp and medical marijuana in Canada has been a significant development.

Medical marijuana court cases have, so far, not had a judgment released that goes past that of the Ontario Court of Appeal (O.C.A.), since the government did not then appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada (S.C.C.) in those earlier medical cases.

The original breakthrough Canadian court case in the year 2000 was R. v. Parker. This is the most important marijuana case that has ever been won in Canada. Medical marijuana has a constitutional right to exist, and only an override using the notwithstanding clause in section 33 of the Canadian charter of Rights and Freedoms could stop that constitutional right to medical marijuana.

Next case in importance was October 7, 2003, R. v. Hitzig.

There is a long, complicated story of cannabis court cases.

The story is so strange that it seems incredible.

A ripple effect from the medical marijuana victories undermined laws against possession of cannabis for a while. This period was known as the “Summer of Legalization.”

In July, 2000, the Ontario Court of Appeal gave Parliament one year to act to allow a medical exception to marijuana prohibition.

The lower courts recognized, in mid-2002, the fact that Parliament had failed to act, and therefore, the delayed invalidation order made by the Ontario Court of Appeal took effect.

An Ontario Superior Court judge confirmed an Ontario provincial court judge decision that the failure of Parliament to act had caused the invalidation of the pot possession prohibition.

The Ontario Court of Appeal, on October 7, 2003, recognized that there had been no valid law against pot possession, between July 31, 2001, and October 7, 2003.

Several thousand criminal charges for possession of pot that were laid in the time the law was in limbo between July 31, 2001, until October 7, 2003, had to be dropped by the Canadian government. (This was probably why the arrest rates wobbled up and down from 60,000 to 70,000 during these years.)

It was a confusing time. Some popular presentations of the stories that there would be decriminalization by the Liberal Party government, along with the de facto legalization that rippled out from the obstruction of the Parker case by Health Canada during the Summer of Legalization, made many people believe that marijuana had been legalized.

That confusion has reincarnated in 2007, when some lower courts in Ontario again dismissed minor possession charges on the grounds that the law was still not constitutionally valid.

Some people continued to think that marijuana had been legalized. Indeed, the government has explicitly recognized this fact, and has allocated ten million more dollars to try to inform people that marijuana is still as illegal as it ever was, and pot was never actually decriminalized. It seems too astonishing that some people misunderstood that marijuana had been legalized, when it never was, however, it is one of the bizarre social facts of the 2000s that a significant minority of people erroneously believed that marijuana has already been decriminalized or legalized, when, in fact, it was not.

However, there may be truth in the claim that the pot possession prohibition is not legally valid due to the failure of the lawfulness of the medical marijuana exemptions. Some legal confusion still exists about this in 2007.

The public presentation of prospective decriminalization, and apparent legalization from the failure to obey Parker, combined to make some people to believe marijuana was legal, and that belief stayed as an impression that was not necessarily displaced by the fact that the proposed decriminalizations never happened, and after the Summer of Legalization, the courts put the pot prohibition back in place. However, in 2007 this possible confusion was re-launched by a lower Ontario court.

It is difficult even for someone who follows this closely to clearly know what is going on, or what will happen.

Many current court cases are pursuing the failures of the medical marijuana exemptions, and those failures have, and continue to, cause great confusion over the current constitutional validity of the pot possession prohibition provisions.

The O.C.A. claimed it fixed all the medical marijuana regulations, in order to claim that it had made pot prohibition valid again.

Some people disagree that the O.C.A. had jurisdiction to do that. And in 2007 an Ontario lower court judge agreed again with the lawyer who made the earlier claim that the failure of the medical exemptions invalidated the entire pot possession prohibition. And so, there still is something of a peculiar merry-go-round in the legal status of the pot possession prohibition.

(But, even if that was true, it would be a technicality, since Parliament still has the legal power to re-enact a marijuana law. Parliament could fix the defects in their pot possession prohibition by passing constitutionally valid laws to provide for medical marijuana exemptions. However, Parliament has failed to do that, and thus some lower courts have recognized that fact, back in 2003, and again in 2007.)

The Supreme Court of Canada (S.C.C.) heard three significant marijuana cases on May 6, 2003:

David Malmo-Levine v. R.; Caine v. R.; & Clay v. R.

Two judgments in these three cases were released by the S.C.C. on December 23, 2003.

WE LOST.

S.C.C. judges voted 6 to 3 to uphold pot prohibition.

Parliament has discretion to continue to make cannabis criminal, but must provide a constitutionally valid medical marijuana exemption law.

An excellent Web site to link
to these court cases is
www.cannabislink.ca

And see:

http://www.thepotlawhasfallen.ca

Note that was an Ontario decision, and it has already be held not to apply in British Columbia ... thus the confusions and contradictions continue.

Since the S.C.C. confirmed pot prohibition on December 23, 2003, the time of interesting and hopeful court cases has now ended. The remaining medical marijuana details are relatively minor. The details of the on-going legal confusion caused by the medical marijuana exemptions are interesting legal puzzles, but they are not enough to stop Parliament from having the legal power to criminalize cannabis, if Parliament wants to continue to do that.

It would be nice if a medical marijuana, or sacred cannabis court case, or some other kind of case, threw pot prohibition for another loop, and forced Parliament to deal directly with these issues in a more forthright way. We might be waiting for higher courts in Canada to decide on some cases for years to come. It is quite difficult to keep up with all that is currently happening. There have been many thousands of cannabis court cases reported, and so many more happening all the time that it difficult for one person to fully keep up with.

There is a wide spectrum of different legal opinions, and it may still be many years until the courts and the government dance around and resolve these issues more clearly.

The court cases made progress with medical marijuana, but have run into a dead end of deference to Parliament with respect to the future of recreational marijuana.

In theory, an Order in Council could simply delete cannabis from the schedule of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. If cannabis stopped being a Federal crime, then it would automatically return to being under provincial and municipal jurisdictions to regulate.

However, Canada would run into troubles with international treaties it has signed if it tried to significantly back away from the global war against cannabis.

Legal cases are firmly within the overriding importance of their political context. The main things that have mitigated the reality of marijuana laws have been the discretion of police and courts not to enforce the law as much as they otherwise could. The marijuana laws themselves have changed very little, but the way that those laws are actually enforced have changed a lot, and that has been very different in different times and places across Canada.

The political climate that influences the discretion of police and courts has been much more important than changes in the laws themselves. The political climate with the Conservative Party government is bad, and is acting to prompt police to crack down more, as much as they could really afford to, and could eventually even overrule the courts to impose worse penalties.

The cost of actually enforcing the law more is the main thing that really limits how much more marijuana laws can be enforced. It would add billions of dollars more per year to the budget of the Canadian criminal justice system to increase the enforcement of pot prohibition. To spend these limited resources in the war against marijuana clearly is an insane and absurd priority. Attempting to understand where that political climate comes from is a challenge to comprehend. Evidence and logical arguments have never made any difference. The only way to understand it is to perceive it inside an overall context of a society that is controlled by dishonesty backed up with violence. The legal system is but the codified bullshit of bullies. That system rationalizes itself with hypocritical lies, and keeps itself going with coercions. It is worthwhile to try to decode the bullies’ bullshit about their so-called "rule of law."

Since marijuana laws have never been based on anything but dishonesty backed up with violence by governments, and since dishonest governments have the power to appoint the judges that agree with the governments’ prejudices, Canadian courts are too corrupt to end pot prohibition.

Legal battles against marijuana laws seem only relevant as part of an overall political campaign, possibly to make it slightly more expensive or difficult for the government to enforce the law. In this context, any resistance is assistance.

A Commons Committee Cannabis Report was released December 12, 2002, (the Torsney Report).

That Committee also observed, at that time, the fact that 75% of the Federal drug war budget, of at least $500 million, was spent on pot prohibition. The war against some drugs is primarily a war against marijuana. The majority of all the drug war law enforcement efforts are directed in ways that make the least sense and work the worst. Again, one has to eventually consider the possibility that this is intended. It is difficult to learn everything that the evidence and logical arguments indicate, and then not finally conclude that the government is evil, because it must really want things to get worse. As the Nolin report predicted, things have gotten worse since 2002.

Recent estimates of the cost of drug wars: about 80% of

USA spends $76.8 billion annually on drug prohibition.

Canada spends $2.3 billion annually on its prohibition.

(The sheer cost of enforcing the pot prohibition,
during adverse economic conditions for governing,
might be the best pressure to drive it through its
psychotic breakdown, that will eventually end it???)

REPEATING on this foundation, for 80+ years:

Unfortunately, reports like the Torsney Report seemed to be more like a collection of press releases than a scientific study. They illustrate the way there can be a disjunction between the facts and the conclusions.

The marijuana laws began as tools of persecution to give governments an excuse to attack vulnerable racial groups in society, and simultaneously benefit those who would profit from the hemp industry being put out of business. Since marijuana laws began with this racism and political corruption, marijuana laws were really the work of evil governments, and governments continue to be evil by continuing to keep cannabis being criminalized.

Governments are evil because they operate on the basis of deliberate ignorance.

Pot prohibition was the most absurd, insane and evil of the established drug prohibitions, but they all fit within the same kind of evil governments doing the opposite of what they say they intend to do, because racism and political corruption were the true purposes behind those drug laws, since both served a greater fascist plutocracy, which needs a greater fascist police state to keep growing.

A main purpose of the drug wars was to have excuses to build a fascist police state, that can keep the fascist plutocracy going.

Rational arguments that the drug wars badly backfire, and do the opposite of what they were supposed to have done, have fallen on deaf ears, since the real intentions of the drug wars are to achieve those real objectives of making things get worse.

The real global government is a fascist plutocracy, which needs to build a bigger fascist police state, and is actively doing so in every way it can. Pot prohibition is merely one more major component in that overall system. That is why all the evidence and logical arguments against the drug wars, based on social health and the commonwealth, have failed. Since the real government of Canada is a component of the global fascist plutocracy systems, our governments cooperate with driving more and more wars, that benefit the warmongers. The pryamidion people at the top of the social pyramid are engaged in a deliberate war against consciousness, and they desire keeping other people ignorant, afraid, and enslaved. Pot prohibition began with racism, that was developed from slavery. As the drug wars have expanded, more and more people are being treated like slaves by the governments that subject their citizens to huge lies, backed up with coercions.

It goes back to the start of slavery to prohibit slave from being able to grow their own crops. (See John Akpata’s video on Youtube about this idea.)

The mainstream marijuana movements that want to legalize marijuana back to become a normal part of the mainstream of society fail to perceive that the mainstream of society is an evil social pyramid system, derived from Neolithic civilizations, that is destroying the natural world, and driving worse and worse social polarization. That entire mainstream is controlled by huge lies, backed up with lots of violence, that is spinning out of control towards a psychotic breakdown, while pot prohibition is one of the components of that overall system. That is why merely legalizing marijuana to make a normal part of the mainstream society that criminalized cannabis is not enough!

These drug wars keep people too ignorant and afraid of drugs to learn to have better relationships with those drugs. These policies were intended to keep a spiral of dishonesty and violence going that will enable organized crime to grow, and require always more and more police and prisons. In that context, the people at the top of social pyramid can become ever more wealthy and powerful, despite the worsening social polarization and destruction of the natural world. As the people towards the top of the social pyramid get more and more wealthy and powerful, while the people towards the bottom get poorer and less powerful, the whole system of huge lies and coercions is able to propel itself forwards.

Pot prohibition is one of the simpler facets of that overall situation.

As long as huge lies, backed up with violence, benefit the ruling classes in becoming more wealthy and powerful in the short-term, then the long-term consequences of controlling civilization with lies has no practical way to stop that being done. Since, throughout the history of pot prohibition, one can find several studies commissioned by governments that have been relatively honest about cannabis, but then see that those studies were always ignored, and their recommendations never implemented, eventually one should face the social facts that the absurd, insane and evil marijuana laws were not some accidental mistake, but rather were part of an overall design.

A few of the government funded studies have been scientific enough to face the facts and come to logical conclusions, however the majority of these studies have been short-circuited by prejudice.

The Liberal Party government of Canada continued to be in agreement with the Torsney Commons Committee Report, not the Senator Nolin Report, nor even the Le Dain Report.

The Conservative Party government of Canada has time warped back to the "reefer madness" views of marijuana that were popularized back in the 1930s. The current Conservative government ministers are on public record as claiming that marijuana is extremely physically addictive, and actually similar to cocaine or heroin. In 2008, the Minister of Health published a statement that he would tell the “truth” to Canadian youth that smoking marijuana was 20 times worse than smoking tobacco. The only way to understand such insane errors is to gain perspective on how the entire society is organized in the shape of a pyramid that depends upon huge lies and lots of violence to make sure that the majority of people continue to be ignorant and afraid. Pot prohibition is really about keeping that social pyramid growing.

The Conservative Party drug policies are not based on
anything remotely related to the truth about cannabis.

The Conservative Party government is fascist drug warmongering.

Their policies are not based on any science, but rather based on absurdly insane and evil ideologies. Everything they are doing is thus making the opposite of what they claim they are doing actually happen in the real world. The Conservatives are achieving their real goals of keeping the fascist plutocracy growing, and turning Canada into more and more of a fascist police state. Canada is apparently following the USA to flow down that path of least morality.

There was some possible hope with the previous Liberal Party government of having at least a hypocritical "decriminalization" of the possession of small amounts of pot.

A Speech from the Throne in 2002 said the government was going to decriminalize marijuana.

That 2003 Bill C-38, which was supposed to decriminalize, died on the order paper when the 2004 election was called.

That seemed like déja vu back to the situation in 1972, and
feels like the marijuana issue has become frozen in history.

Basically, everything intelligent since the early 1970s
has been systematically repressed by fascist plutocracy.

Instead of scientific information about pot changing the laws to bet better, the drug wars based on lies and violence from the government were systematically escalated from the early 1970s onwards. Again, this is merely the most extreme example of the general pattern of social facts, whereby all kinds of scientific information about social and environmental problems has been deliberately denied and suppressed, while everything actually done was based on bigger lies, backed up with more violence. Therefore, instead of cultivating more cannabis, it continued to be criminalized, and everything else being done by the fascist plutocracy, with respect of social polarization, and destruction of the natural world, has greatly increased.

Instead of the slightly saner decriminalizations proposed by government commissions, much more insane drug war escalations were promoted. None of the talk about "decriminalization" ever amounted to anything.

It happened again with Bill C-17, that died on the order paper before the 2006 elections, which was in a package of so-called decriminalization Bills were before Parliament in 2005. Those Bills also were put on the back burner, and again not passed before the general elections.

A private Members Bill C-420, back then, was also interesting, because that should apply to cannabis just as much as it applied to chamomile and other natural herbs. There are similar fraudulent forces at work that would restrict all access to herbs and vitamins, etc., if they could get away with it. The same kinds of political corruption that funded the campaigns to criminalize cannabis are at work relentlessly all over the world to accomplish similar goals wherever and whenever they can.

There is an astronomical amount of evil being done through the corruption of governments. Pot prohibition is the single most outstanding illustration of these things, which is why ending pot prohibition is of great symbolic significance, and why the struggle to keep it going, or to stop it, is much more important that merely about marijuana itself.

With the Conservative Party forming the government of Canada, there is no chance of any kind of decriminalization of small amounts of pot possession, and instead, there is a real chance of much more severe penalties for cannabis cultivation. The real situation is one of retreat before evil forces that can not be stopped, but only partially resisted.

Everything else important is being controlled by huge lies that worked well in the short-term, but will work worse and worse in the long-term. Controlling society with huge lies eventually tends towards the psychotic breakdown of that society, as reality gets further and further out of touch with the huge lies, but the huge lies keep on going by being backed up with more and more violence.

Pot prohibition is a relatively easy to understand special case of what is happening everywhere else in more complicated ways throughout our global civilization where global pirates are privatizing the planet.

Anyone who actually looks at the evidence discovers that the Federal provincial and municipal governments spending millions of dollars per day on enforcement is not effective. Rigorous thinking about the laws of supply and demand forces the conclusion that it is impossible for the enforcement to ever do anything but make the overall situation get worse.

Having policies that work to drive an increasing spiral of dishonesty and violence benefit those who are adapted to thrive in that context, which they created and maintained for those reasons.

As a global fact, pot prohibition is the most extreme example of a general pattern. Pot prohibition manifests the biggest lies backed up with the most coercion, revolving around one single thing, the pot plant. It is precisely because pot is the single best plant for people that the fascist plutocracy has done everything possible to discredit and destroy it. People brainwashed to believe in the big bullies’ bullshit end up living in a Bizarro Mirror World, where the silly stereotypes they believe in have become farther and farther away from reality.

In the overall context of our political economy, pot is not an absolutely large factor, and there are orders of magnitude worse other things that are happening.

In the early 2000s, pot prohibition was only about 0.4% of the total of all governmental budgets in Canada. If the Conservative government prevails, it may increase to 0.5%. But nevertheless, since the war against some drugs is mostly against marijuana, and that war makes the least sense against marijuana than any against all other drugs, pot prohibition, as a particular special case, is the single most extreme example of the general pattern of how our culture has been controlled in the past, and still is being controlled now.

Understanding pot prohibition history, and the future of pot politics, both tend towards a "paradigm shift."

That "paradigm shift" is meant in the sense of Thomas Kuhn’s book on the Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

We have gotten to the point where our established politics has become so bad that mainstream reform is no longer good enough, but only a real, radical, revolution could be sufficient.

To understand the absurdities of the present situation, one has to understand the history of pot prohibition. Ideas about future pot politics depend upon understanding the past of pot prohibition.

Doing that all takes place within one’s basic concepts about how civilizations work, or should work.

Tragic splitting apart of the mainstream marijuana movements.

When looking at the history of pot prohibition, and following that to speculate on the future of pot politics, there is a growing gap in the perception of both the problems and solutions depending on whether or not one goes through some paradigm shifts.

The mainstream marijuana movement looks at the past, and advocates that marijuana should become decriminalized, and then legalized, to become a normal part of the mainstream society that the mainstream marijuana movement feels that it belongs to.

Radical marijuana ideas result from seeing paradigm shifts as crucially necessary to both understand the real problems, and to propose genuine solutions.

Radical marijuana regards the mainstream as being the problem itself, and therefore legalizing marijuana back into that mainstream as not being a genuine solution.

By and large, radical marijuana attitudes agree with what the mainstream marijuana movement says about the past and future of pot prohibition. Radical marijuana regards the mainstream marijuana movement as being good, as far as it goes, in its analysis of the past problems, and the first steps towards some partial solutions.

However, radical marijuana is inherently based on a deep scientific revolution by basic paradigm shifts in the way that all political issues are perceived, including pot politics.

It is a basic social fact that ALL social institutions are controlled by organized lies and forces. Since that is a basic human reality emerging out of physics and biology manifesting in social groups, "democracy" can never been anything more than another way to organize lies and forces that might use more information.

Radical marijuana opinions adhere to regarding the marijuana laws as exemplifying the fundamental social facts that ALL institutions are organized lies and forces.

Governments are, and necessarily must be, the best organized gangs of criminals. Democracy does not change that fundamental fact, but only modifies how those facts are manifested.

The established systems are based on huge lies, backed up with lots of violence, that are automatically getting worse and worse. The mainstream marijuana movement superficially recognizes those social facts with respect to marijuana, and endeavours to ameliorate that situation. However, the mainstream marijuana movement wants to continue to believe in the bullies’ bullshit of impossible ideals that never have existed in the real world, and never can.

The paradigm shift that is necessary to understand pot politics, and all of the rest of politics, is that words like "truth, justice, freedom and democracy" are never more than transcendental poetry, that have no real existence.

What actually exists are various lies and coercions.

What truly exists is an evolving dynamic equilibrium of what exists. What exists are forces, including the forces within human brains that build their model of their world, that do so by subtracting parts from the Whole.

All human institutions are based on relative lies and relative forces, and these express themselves through subtractions and robberies. Human beings fundamentally live as robbers in their environment, including the ways that they build their brains, which are based on subtracting parts from the Whole to build patterns in their brains.

Everything human beings do is based on subtraction and robbery.

The reality that human societies are based on organized lies and robberies is hidden underneath the biggest bullies’ bullshit social stories, that most people have been brainwashed to believe in, and tend to want to continue to believe in.

Different groups in society attempt to market various better brands of their kinds of bullies’ bullshit, and big political parties are professionals at doing that.

The Canadian cannabis community has split apart into different camps that support different political parties.

When that happened, the Parti Marijuana Party transformed into becoming Radical Marijuana.

Radical marijuana is based on the realization that the entire mainstream society, in every significant aspect, is based on huge lies, backed up with lots of violence, and that deeper difference means that no reforms within the mainstream to merely make marijuana become legalized can be regarded as a sufficient solution to the real problems.

Radical marijuana attitudes are revolutionary in ways that can not be reconciled with acceptance of the mainstream, and can not be reconciled with the mainstream marijuana movement efforts to understand the past of pot prohibition, nor attempts to change the future of pot politics upon that basis.

The established mainstream is based on presuming false fundamental dichotomies between things, which are used to explain what exists, and to plan what we should do to change that.

Solutions to problems based on false fundamental dichotomies are wrong.

The mainstream of society normally runs on hypocrisy, where the bullies’ bullshit social stories become sufficiently dominant to be accepted by enough people.

However, these claims to represent truth, justice, freedom or democracy, etc., are all themselves relative lies, which are really based on and backed up by force.

The established mainstream of society is the dominant systems of lies and coercions that maintains its already built systems of frauds and robberies.

To be “mainstream” is to accept, or believe in, the dominant lies and coercions that control one’s society.

In the short-term, in the practical ways now, the mainstream marijuana movement makes more sense than the radical marijuana approach. By and large, what the mainstream marijuana movement says is agreed with by radical marijuana.

However, the mainstream marijuana movement stops too short for the radical marijuana attitude to accept it as a long-term way to either understand the problems with pot prohibition, nor to accept it as providing genuine long-term solutions in the future of pot politics.

Radical marijuana concepts are based on paradigm shifts and scientific revolutions that attack the illusions about the foundations of the mainstream society.

The mainstream marijuana movements are run by reactionary revolutionaries who promote impossible ideals as being the means towards solutions to social problems.

As long as one continues to accept some false fundamental dichotomies between people, then impossible ideals actually backfire in the real world. All human institutions operate through lies and coercions. There is no fundamental dichotomy between organized crime gangs and the government. Governments are merely the best organized crime gang at that time and place.

Different groups using slightly different systems of lies and coercions organize their groups in different ways. Those groups compete with each other regarding which sets of lies and coercions serve their systems of frauds and robberies better.

We have to accept that paradigm shifts are really rough scientific revolutions. While everything that the mainstream marijuana movement does to try to change the mainstream treatment of marijuana appears like good things to do inside of the mainstream, and, to that limited extent, is also agreed to by more radical marijuana attitudes, there are deep differences in theories about society that can not be reconciled.

The paradigm shift made by radical marijuana ideas is to regard it as a fundamental social fact that governments are necessarily the best organized gangs of criminals. This view describes what already actually exists, and the reasons WHY it exists do not allow any way to change that fundamental social fact.

A correct view of political science is based on there being no fundamental dichotomy between organized crime and government, but rather, it is based on unitary mechanisms that recognize governments are simply the best organized gangs of criminals, that have the power to legalize their own lies, and to engage in robbery, because nobody else can stop them. The de facto situation is that governments are the biggest bullies, and their "rule of law" is primarily their bullshit.

All governments are based on legalized lies.

Pot prohibition is the most extreme example.

Real changes do not result from competitions between lies and the truth, but rather conflicts between different systems of lies.

This paradigm shift perceives that everything all human beings know is a relative illusion. What we know is always based on subtraction from the Whole, and thus what we "know" are all relative lies. Nobody can Know the Whole. All claims to do so are always lies. All claims to know an absolute truth are psychotic bullshit, and relative social success for those claims are due to them being promoted by violence, to serve the interests of bullies.

There is no fundamental dichotomy between lies and the truth. There "is" a transcendental Truth that nobody can truly know, but only speak about by using a kind of transcendental poetry. However, that transcendental truth is useless, since all real knowledge is subtracted from the Whole, and thus all real knowledge is a relative lie. So too, everything that human beings do is the expression of real forces, and all human beings must necessarily live in the world as relative robbers.

Systems of lies & coercions justify themselves in ways
which attempt to rationalize their frauds and robberies.

The bullies’ bullshit uses transcendental poetry about truth, justice, freedom and democracy, to attempt to hide its reality as a system of lies & coercions running organized frauds & robberies. Civilization is, and must be, some system of organized robbery. Pot prohibition exists in that real context. Solving social problems becomes a radically different task after one faces the social facts that all societies must necessarily be based on some system of organized robbery.

Changing the real rates of robbery is the only thing possible in the real world. Ending all robbery is an impossible ideal, and impossible ideals backfire to make the opposite happen in the real world.

The controlled opposition cannabis advocates, that want marijuana "legalized," are not friends of Radical Marijuana, since they fail to identify the social facts that the mainstream is the problem, not the solution, and therefore, moving marijuana into that mainstream is not enough. The mainstream lies to itself far too well to be able to change its lies. We should diminish the dishonesties, and alter the real rates of robbery, but not pretend that it is possible to stop all dishonesty, nor stop all robbery.

Any true paradigm shift will not be popular, but rather, it will be a relative, radical truth whose discovery and demonstration will be very unpopular to begin with, and may take generations before it is accomplished.

At the present time, it is not clear whether human beings shall survive having good physical and biological sciences, while at the same time have sociology and political science that are based on big bullies’ bullshit.

Progress in physics, chemistry and biology have made weapons of mass destruction that are billions and trillions of times more powerful than ever before in human history, however, the social pyramid systems in Neolithic civilizations are based on dishonesty backed up with violence keeping the majority of people ignorant and afraid, in order that they can be controlled and exploited by the pyramidion people who have concentrated social power and privileges through their social pyramid systems, and therefore have every possible advantage to continue telling huge lies, and backing those lies up with coercions.

That the single best plant for people was
criminalized is symbolic of this situation!

A sufficient paradigm shift will be rejected by both the governing forces and their fake oppositions. The vast majority of people have been brainwashed to believe in the bullies’ bullshit, and almost all public debate takes place in ways that take for granted most of the huge lies that control civilization.

A big enough paradigm shift changes the frame of reference to demolish the old system of lies, but thereby permits a new system of lies to gradually emerge in that new frame of reference.

All human knowledge is necessarily subtracted from the Whole that human beings can never Know. Systems of understanding are systems of ways of subtraction parts from the Whole, and then attempting to put those parts back together again. All of those systems of understanding are based on different sets of relative illusions. Big paradigm shifts radically change the way that systems of understanding work, however, they must continue to be systems of understanding operated by human beings within inherent limits to measurement.

When human beings attempt to build models of the world and themselves within their brain, they are necessarily looking at the world through a small keyhole. Even when large groups of people, over long periods of time, all communicate with each other about their small slit perceptions of the world around them, that is still no more than an infinitesimal inside the infinite.

Since all human beings must necessarily really operate as robbers within their environment, and all groups of people must necessarily be gangs of robbers, those are the fundamental social facts that are the most denied and suppressed by the biggest social lies.

The dishonest bullies’ bullshit depends on false fundamental dichotomies between people.

There are no fundamental dichotomies between organized criminals and governments, since a government is the best organized crime gang.

Paradigm shifts occur when the frame of reference in which the system of understanding operated changes radically.

That is why there can be a registered political party like the “Parti Marijuana Party”, named after just one plant. The government picked on hemp to make it become their extraordinarily symbolic "marijuana."

We need to back up to talk about how we talk about pot.

The pot plant is one plant.

How Do We Name This Plant?

In general, pot politics is very paradoxical, and the language that we use is very problematic.

Due to the overwhelming amount of officially repeated dishonesty, the words we use to talk about this plant have all been distorted. Prejudices are built into the language that we use to talk about these topics. These prejudices are so deeply built into the common language that it is practically impossible to say anything about cannabis that is not automatically pejorative. The triumph of dishonesty backed up with violence is that it may control people’s minds without them even being conscious of that fact. They automatically use a language that has deep bias built into it. “Parti Marijuana Party” has assimilated those prejudices in order to try to transform them.

The Nolin Report says the word marijuana comes from Mexican slang for cheap cigarette.

The most popular common word for cannabis is pot.

One theory of the derivation of the word "pot" says that it was also originally Mexican in origin.

"In Mexico, there was a drink known as potacion de guaya, or "drink of grief," which was wine or brandy in which marijuana buds were steeped," writes Ian Lendler in Alcoholica Esoterica. "When referring to marijuana in America, the potacion part got shortened, which is where we get the slang term pot."

Therefore, “pot” was a marijuana liqueur, where the THC oil was dissolved into the alcohol.

It instructive that the two most common words for this plant in North America both come from Mexican Spanish slang.

That we talk about "marijuana" and "pot" instead of about hemp and cannabis, is due to the historical propaganda campaigns to tell huge lies about this plant, which deliberately adopted and popularized the Mexican Spanish slang words, rather than the original English word or scientific Latin word for this plant.

Official government publications have tended to the spelling of marihuana, while almost everyone else now writes marijuana.

Even in the thousands of court case reports, the j spelling is three times more common than the h spelling of the word.

(In many of the government documents, the spelling jumps from h to j depending on the context.)

The word marihuana, for the government of Canada, was also identified with cannabis hash.

Cannabis plants had an original English name hemp.

The hemp plant is the same as the marijuana plant.

(Several plants with good fiber content also were given common names associated with hemp, although botanically they were different than cannabis. Common names for plants usually are of little scientific use, and the half dozen or so plants with "hemp" in their common name are not cannabis.)

Both the scientific and common names for this plant appear to have some serious problems in their usage. Failures to agree on the name of the plant indicates the degree of deeper disagreements about this plant. There is a long history of association of people with this plant, but, prohibition has made the words used to name this plant become very problematic.

The hemp plant was probably disseminated in Asia, Europe and Africa at the beginning of human history.

The use of marijuana was originally part of many cultures around the world.

A root word for the pot plant is in many languages.

The cannabis plants, and people who consumed it, were probably spread throughout Eurasia and Africa, however, the plant had to go with people to travel beyond the Eurasia-Africa continent.

Cannabis and human beings probably had an ancient relationship that goes way back before any records of evidence that still exists and is available now. Cannabis may well have had an ancient relationship with the animals that later evolved into modern human beings. Cannabis might have been one of the first plants cultivated by people, at the beginning of agriculture.

Evidence of ancient cannabis culture is in India and China.

An old word for the plant was “ganga” in India, and “ma” in the Chinese language.

These words were modified in their cultural context by various cultural attitudes.

The hemp plant was native to China, and it was a very important part of ancient Chinese civilization.

The oldest evidence of people using hemp comes from very ancient China.

There seems to be evidence of the use of hemp fiber from 10,000 years ago, and evidence of hemp seed use from 6,000 years ago, and evidence of the knowledge of hemp as medicine from writings in both ancient India and China several thousand years ago.

Hemp was an important crop up until the middle of the 20th Century, when it was made criminal.

Hemp was first brought by the early French when they came to Canada, however, the original prohibition of cannabis in Canada was mostly due to the role of Chinese Canadians in history.

However, before we talk about the influence of the Chinese upon the history of cannabis in Canada, and then later the influence of Hispanics and Blacks in the U.S.A. on the history of cannabis in Canada, first we should still try to clarify our language.

The genus of plant that we call Cannabis has a few so-called species:

Cannabis sativa, Cannabis indica, & Cannabis ruderalis ...

The scientific or Latin name for the plant is merely saying cultivated hemp in that language. In particular, sativa meant "useful" ... so Cannabis sativa was useful hemp. Cannabis indica was hemp from India. Cannabis ruderalis was name for a sort of wild Cannabis.

Cannabis indica was first associated with being psychoactive.

However, sativa can be equally, or differently, psychoactive.

Those were originally called species because they were geographically limited in their ability to mix.

Plant breeders have crossed the cannabis so-called "species" back into each other, which means that they should no longer be called species.

Species, by definition, are the specialized organisms that interbreed only with themselves.

Cannabis species were falsely named, even in the science books.

The word “Cannabis” perhaps should be capitalized, if that really was the genus name of a group, however, since cannabis is truly one species, then cannabis would really be a species name, and hence not need a capital C as a genus name.

The Cannabis genus is practically one huge species now, because human plant breeders have made it that way, with genes from all the so-called species mixed. However, "experts" do not agree upon how to name this plant, and thus can barely be expected to agree on the properties of that plant. The triumph of huge lies imposed on hemp has made it almost impossible to talk about it without automatically using bad language. Expedient lying, enforced for long enough, takes control of the language, and makes the language itself embody the lies. The speakers tend to be attached to their language, as installed in their brains, and thus they are attached to their lies and the social system that sustains those lies, while it also maintains the entire system of organized robbery that provides people with their way to make a living from their role in the natural world. What human beings were doing was deliberately hidden. Thus, pot prohibition has a reality which is hidden behind huge lies and hypocrisy about what that prohibition is supposed to be doing.

Pot prohibition is another clear
example of how social lies lead
to compromising "science," and
even botany became distorted.

We need to go back to
fundamental facts which
made sense, by definition.

Just like all human beings are actually members of the same species, all pot plants are members of the same species too.

The real political science and sociology around pot prohibition can not be understood outside of understanding the dynamics of fascist plutocracy, and its fascist police state. Those, in turn, can not be understood outside of the energetics of ecology.

Paradoxically, the more valid scientific research is done, the more is revealed the contradictions caused by human laws based on huge lies, backed up with coercions.

Natural law is related to human law in a paradoxical way, since human laws are based on human lies and coercions, that are the bullies’ bullshit which asserts it is the truth, but is actually only a set of huge lies, which only prevailed because it was developed through a long history of being backed up with violence.

Human laws do emerge from natural laws.

Natural law made & maintain human laws.

However, the way that natural laws became expressed in human laws was through the human forces being developed, and especially through the human forces necessary to engage in robbery being developed. Human laws emerged from organized dishonesty and violence, serving systems of fraud and robbery, and mostly those human laws are based on denial and suppression of those fundamental social facts.

The good sounding ideals about how human laws should be derived from natural laws are different versions of the bullies’ bullshit social stories. The paradox of successfully controlling society with huge lies is that central social fact is excluded from awareness. We have social structures. However, the ways we talk about them is almost totally distorted by the dominance of the bullies’ bullshit world view.

Progress in post modernizing science has mostly been in the form of structural theories. As we progress with the development of structural theories in physics and chemistry, and so on, the dismal failure of structural theories of sociology and politics become more apparent.

The essential dilemma is the history of the triumph of militarism, which is based on deceit for its triumphs, and therefore, this dilemma is that our debt controls evolved from death controls, but that fact is denied and suppressed, so that, the central facts that civilizations are organized systems of robbery is not open to rational debate, since those who are controlling the society through being the best at death and debt controls, depend on their being able to do so because other people are ignorant and afraid.

Social and political systems have become primarily based on social stories that are the bullshit spouted by the bullies that control those social and political structures. It is not theoretically difficult to do human sciences, except that the people who control society are running the whole thing using huge lies and coercions, and do not want people to understand those basic social facts.

Furthermore any real solutions can not be achieved by making the bullshit impossible ideals become real, but can only be approached as changes in the rates of robbery, and changes in the systems of lies that people tell each other and themselves.

It is in that context that we have a fake democracy, that is really a fascist plutocracy. It is in that context that we must try to understand pot prohibition that started with lies about "narcotic drugs."

Chemistry is primarily structural theory, and chemicals which we call "drugs" are understood as having a particular atomic and molecular structure.

The scientific analysis of the psychoactive molecule, the THC, has been known since 1964, and anyone who wants to learn more about that molecule can do so, however, it still is buried under bad language.

The isomeres of the tetrahydrocannabinol molecules are different than most psychoactive substances, because THC molecules contain no nitrogen.

Like alcohol, or sugar, the THC is made of
only hydrogen, oxygen and carbon atoms.

Just like all plants primarily use water and carbon dioxide to make glucose, to power and build the plant, marijuana, in particular, uses sunlight to recombine steam and smoke into THC molecules.

It was the THC, which was only made in abundance in some particular varieties of pot plants, that was a reason why pot plants have been made illegal.

Understanding this entire situation requires being critical of the language that is being used both commonly and scientifically.

POT IS A WONDERFUL PLANT

Marijuana is a good fiber source to make clothes, paper, rope, etc., and, marijuana is a relatively good producer of an annual biomass. Anything that can be manufactured or made from cellulose fibers can be readily manufactured or made from marijuana plants too, including fuel. Everything made from hydrocarbons could also be made from carbohydrates.

If one selects the right strains and grows them in the right way, then hemp fiber is of superior quality compared to alternatives.

The most astonishing possible use of marijuana is as a food source, especially the marijuana seeds. This fact seems so incredible, and has been deliberately denied and suppressed for so long, that it is very difficult to come to terms with this truth.

Marijuana seeds are the single best plant source for human food.

Cannabis should be food first.

Because of that, along with other benefits, it is correct to say:

Pot is the single best plant on the planet for people.

This is not to claim that marijuana is miraculous. Of course, marijuana is only a plant, and grows naturally, but nevertheless, as a real fact, according to an honest and relevant comparison of all the natural properties of all plants, the pot plant is, without any reasonable doubt, the single best for human needs.

Deeper understanding of pot prohibition leads one to perceive that it is because marijuana is so good, that the government told such huge lies about it being so bad.

This paradigm shift in perception takes a lot to go through. However, once one does, then everything else in politics can be perceived through the same set of paradigm shifts. A world controlled by a spiral of huge lies ends up becoming more extremely inverted and backwards in every way, and, in particular, pot prohibition ended up being the most obvious thing in this Bizarro Mirror World.

Since pot is the single best plant for people, therefore, the law ended up focusing its energy on enforcing laws about that plant being like murder more than any other single issue subject to the rule of law and its enforcement.

Pot prohibition does more than any other single thing to engender disrespect for the rule of law, and to support the growth of organized crime.

Pot prohibition symbolizes the insanity of laws based on huge lies, backed up with more coercion, spinning out of control towards some psychotic breakdown. Every facet of the general dilemma of controlling civilization with huge lies is manifested within the particular context of marijuana laws.

The single best thing about marijuana IS
the edible protein and the oil in the seeds.

The most important thing about this seed bearing plant IS its seeds, which are good. However, propaganda has demonized marijuana to claim that the most important thing is that its flowers contain a terrible drug.

This difference in attitude about whether marijuana is a good seed bearing plant, or an evil drug, goes all the way back to the various interpretations of the Bible.

Hemp seed protein content is comparable to that of soy beans, but better.

The hemp seed amino acid profile in hemp protein is better suited to human needs than soy beans.

Every type of hemp product from oils, to sprouts, and grass juice, etc., could be practical and nutritious.

Hemp oil is the oil pressed out from the hemp seeds. It is a good oil, in fact, the best single oil from plants for human diets, because the ratio of the different kinds of essential fatty acids in hemp oil is the best suited to human nutritional needs.

Hemp oil may help some people balance their diets and significantly improve their health. However, this kind of hemp oil contains very little THC, and it is the different THC molecules that are the most psychoactive in cannabis plants.

Of course, hash oil should not be confused with hemp oil. Hemp oil is made from the seeds, hash oil is made from the flowers.

Marijuana, like all plants, contains a very large number of different kinds of molecules, all of which have large chemical names. The effect of consuming cannabis changes with the different amounts of the different molecules found therein. Compared to most other common drug substances, like those containing alcohol or caffeine, cannabis is much more complicated in its effects because there are many more combinations of the different chemical components in cannabis.

If one considers the people who enjoy alcohol or caffeine, and ways that they like to learn all about their favourites, it is quite possible to do even more of that with cannabis.

One can become a cannabis connoisseur, even more so than those who appreciate alcohol or caffeine, because cannabis has inherently more complexity to learn about and appreciate.

Overall, marijuana is a relatively weak drug, and, often, the first thing many people say when they try marijuana is that “it does not do much.”

During the long history of marijuana laws, every rhetorical trick in the book has been used by propagandists to exaggerate how extremely dangerous marijuana was, like claiming marijuana was the "assassin of youth" and so on.

Study of statements made by people who enforce pot prohibition can become a study of almost every possible way that some people can lie and distort the truth in order to influence other people. The majority of news media reports make no effort to report the truth, but mostly parrot anti-pot propaganda.

Throughout these discussions, in subsequent articles in the party leader section of this Web site, and our English language Forum, I return, again and again, to the long list of little marijuana lies that are still prevalent.

The denial of the obvious fact that marijuana can be good medicine, something for which written records go back thousands of years, has been permanently stopped here by our Canadian courts.

In that case, the news media could show in thirty seconds how a person in pain and palsied would visibly obtain relief from smoking marijuana. Those news media images were one of the main reasons why more than 90% of Canadians came around to agreeing with legalizing medical marijuana, which created the political climate that motivated Canadian courts to create the medical marijuana exemption to the pot prohibition.

It remarkable how much benefit some particular kinds of sick people can obtain from medical marijuana, and therefore, one has to agree that cannabis can have a powerful effect for these people.

From the point of view of people who use marijuana recreationally, it is difficult to imagine people who use marijuana medically, and do not want and do not like the psychoactive effect.

Regarding the various people with different kinds of illnesses that clearly benefit greatly from consuming cannabis as their medicine, we must agree that marijuana can be a herb with strong properties.

But, for healthy people, marijuana is relatively mild, and this is especially so because there tends to be a saturation effect, where the more one consumes, the more the effect is diminished.

People who consume a lot of cannabis all the time have much less of an effect produced than people who rarely indulge.

Since marijuana has no fatal overdose, and the psychoactive effects decrease with prolonged dosages, taking lots of large doses tends to become boring, rather than interesting the way intermittent small doses are.

There has been a possibly amusing trend in the history of white people who started to consume cannabis, and transferred social habits that evolved with respect to alcohol or tobacco onto marijuana usage. However, like many other things which seem amusing, it was also a wicked truth at the same time that cannabis culture became like comedy news, where the only place one could hear the truth was in jokes. Treating marijuana as if it were just like alcohol or tobacco was another aspect of the crazy corruption of culture.

Treating marijuana as if marijuana was the same as alcohol or tobacco was a way that "white" culture attempted to assimilate other cultures, while at the same time attempting to deny and suppress those cultures. It is impossible to understand the history of pot prohibition without the history of racism, and this history is really very profound in the ways that both people and plants can be compared.

The relationships between plants and people did get as bad as the relationships between people. Indeed, the extremely bad ways that the relationships between people developed, where it became common for some groups of human beings to deny that other groups were also human beings, also became part of the pattern of the relationships of people with plants.

The short-term benefits from robbery, in the form of slavery, drove ideologies and religions that literally maintained that some of the different races of human beings were not human beings. Therefore, they were not men, and therefore could not be citizens, and had no rights as men, but rather could be owned by other men. Thousands of years of that kind of history of huge lies used to attempt to rationalize robbery and slavery warped and perverted every aspect of culture, including the basic relationships between people and plants.

Contemporary cannabis culture, that regards cannabis as something that should be treated like it was the same as alcohol or tobacco, can not be understood without the horrible history of racism that had such an extraordinarily perverse and often paradoxical effect in the way that different cultures were both in conflict and combined at the same time.

When people today automatically assume that marijuana should be regarded like alcohol and tobacco are regarded, they are going down the path of least resistance to maintain extremely bad social habits and perverse prejudices. That the vast majority of people tend to automatically assume these kinds of prejudices illustrates how entrenched these problems really are.

Cannabis culture is a slave society.

Like other slave societies, cannabis culture has tended to take pride in the stupid things that it has adapted to do to survive inside of its slave society.

The ideas that we should treat cannabis the same as we treat alcohol or tobacco are profoundly wrong ideas, that take for granted most of the lies about cannabis as being true. Almost all of the contemporary public debate about pot politics takes place at the bottom of a pit of prejudice. Almost all of the language that we typically use, and almost all of the assumptions made about cannabis culture in that debate, are so deeply buried down in that deep pit of prejudice that it is practically impossible to resolve these problems.

One way to illustrate these problems is to try to understand both the analogy between racism and marijuana, as well as the causal relationship between the history of racism and the history of marijuana.

There was a deep truth in the analogies between different kinds of cannabis plants, and the different races of human beings. This analogy highlights the way that racism drove marijuana laws, and how contemporary cannabis culture is still extremely perverted in significant ways by the long history that made that culture what it is today.

Races: Marijuana and Human

The pot plant is a tree of life, with male and female plants, and different races of plants.

There is an analogy between the THC in pot and melanin in people.

THC evolved to protect pot plant seeds from too much Ultra Violet light.

Melanin evolved to protect human beings from UV light.

Melanin refers to a group of naturally occurring dark pigments, especially pigments found in the skin or hair in human beings.

If one had the eyes of a honey bee that could see UV light, then the UV light absorbing pigments of THC would be more apparent.

THC oil may be compared to the pigments found in sunscreen lotions that are not visible to human eyes, but which absorb UV light.

Different races of marijuana plants
are like the different races of people.

The word “marijuana” was analogous to the word “nigga.”

The word "marijuana" was deliberately misleading and derogatory.

Asking citizens to vote for

"Radical Marijuana"

is like asking to vote for

"Crazy Niggas."

In general, our society is controlled by professional liars and hypocrites, and marijuana laws are one of the most obvious examples of that.

Since marijuana laws started with racism, they have the same intellectual validity as the ideas of racism do.

As the fascist plutocracy builds its bigger and steeper social pyramid, that elevates its pyrmaidion people to have more and more relative power and privileges, while more and more people are compressed at the bottom of the social pyramid systems, and enslaved, the overall dynamic makes more and more people become treated like slaves, and become victims of abuse due to the triumphs of huge lies, backed up with lots of coercions.

Overall, more & more people end up being treated like a nigga.

There is a pogrom against people who like pot.

The fascist plutocracy has evolved to work more abstractly, by using the monetary systems, and the laws which superficially are supposed to not discriminate. However, the social facts are that the drug wars are mostly against young poor people, and especially against young poor people that belong to visible minorities inside major countries, or even more so inside third world countries.

As the fascist plutocracy, and its necessary police state powers, grow worse and worse, there is more social polarization, and a lot of the old, white, middle class ends up being wiped out, and reduced to being treated like any other nigga or disadvantaged racial minority was.

There is a very deep connection between racism and pot prohibition. This analogy can be applied in many different ways. It includes differences in class and religion, or anything else that can serve as a flag in the system of social controls.

The differences between different pot plants are similar to those between different races of human beings, and thus, "coloured pot" has too much THC oil, and that is what is prohibited, except in medical marijuana.

Medical marijuana is black pot, however, that is o.k. because it can come wrapped in a white lab coat.

The best kinds of recreational marijuana are identical to the best kinds of medical marijuana. It is nothing but the bullshit of bureaucracy that created the legal fiction that separated the two. (However, if one goes through all of that bullshit paperwork to qualify for medical marijuana, then the police are no longer allowed to arrest a person that possesses or cultivates that medical marijuana.)

The Ontario Court of Appeal created this stupid idea that one’s constitutional rights depend on how sick one is. After an individual becomes sufficiently sick, and can find a doctor to certify that fact, then that individual acquires a constitutional right to possess and cultivate marijuana. If one is not sick enough, or can not get a medical doctor to certify that one is sick enough, then one has no legal right to marijuana.

Industrial hemp is now regarded as o.k. because it is white pot, in the sense that industrial hemp may be considered to be like an albino human being.

People might benefit from using THC oil as a sunscreen. (This is only a theoretical speculation, since hash oil is too expensive to use like that now.)

Hash oil might provide a good sunscreen body lotion ingredient, perhaps added to a mixture with hemp oil. If marijuana was completely legal, then that hash oil need not be too extensive. It would be like using a plant’s natural sunscreen chemical instead of some other synthetic pigment. A good argument might be made that a hemp and hash oil sunscreen would probably be a healthy sunscreen, although this is merely a speculation, with no practical test possible, since, in fact it is illegal, and therefore would be insanely expensive, and only various inferior artificial sunscreens are available.

There are good reasons why industrial hemp should be allowed to include industrial marijuana. There are bad reasons to separate and stop marijuana from being grown on an industrial scale. The cultivation of the cannabis plant is still mostly suppressed by lies and coercion, although a tiny token amount has be re-legalized.

Since cannabis was always the same plant, whatever the name, it was suppressed from 1938 up until the 1990s, when industrial hemp in Canada was allowed to attempt a comeback, but under strict THC limits, and later in 2000, when medical marijuana was allowed to make a very restricted comeback.

The re-legalization of industrial hemp started in the early 1990s, with a hemp experimental crop first allowed in 1993, more in 1994, and by 1998 the first legal commercial crops were allowed since 1938 made cannabis cultivation criminal in Canada.

(Except for during World War II, when the prohibition against industrial hemp was relaxed for a while, due to the requirements in that war’s situation.)

Canadian cannabis cultivation still suffers from that 60 year history of almost total prohibition. The development of the potential for industrial hemp is still hampered by the effects from the history of pot prohibition.

The separation of illegal marijuana from legal industrial hemp is merely more of the tiny loops of vicious cycles of lies and hypocrisy imposing arbitrary legal fictions.

The plant should be allowed to produce its own optimum amount of THC oil depending upon its growing conditions.

Information about the cultivation of cannabis for food and fiber in the past indicates that some of the better quality seeds and stalks also were significantly psychoactive because those strains of plants’ flowers made significant amounts of resin. There is no good reason to believe that albino pot will produce the best seeds or stalks, and a lot of reasons to think that requiring industrial hemp to be albino pot results in the cultivation of inferior breeds of cannabis plants that produce lower quality seeds or stalks.

One irony of have made the cultivation of all cannabis become criminal is that plant breeders have specialized in cultivating a wide variety of cannabis plants that are excellent in producing different strains of plants for their psychoactive interest, but, at the same time, the cultivation of cannabis for food and fiber was almost totally destroyed, and there has been a huge loss of the opportunity to breed cannabis plants for the sake of better seeds or fiber. It is possible that there has been a tragic extinction of some of this potential?

Requiring industrial hemp to be albino pot is a bad idea that compromises with lies about marijuana. They are all one plant, and plant breeders and farmers should be allowed to develop and cultivate better kinds of cannabis plants for all their various uses.

There is no good reason to think albino pot makes the best industrial hemp, while there are many good reasons to think that industrial hemp that produces the best seeds and stalks will also produce some significant amount of resin at the same time in its flowers.

There are stories that some hemp seeds in ancient China were much bigger and of far superior quality than the seeds that come from the albino pot hemp food products that are now allowed. If plant breeders and farmers, and farming technology, had not been made completely criminal in Canada for sixty years, we surely would have far, far better breeds of cannabis plants for seeds and stalks than we have now. What we have available now are only the pathetic survivors of the decades of pot prohibition, not the flourishing products of good genetics and farming technologies.

If greater cannabis cultivation was ever fully legalized, and greatly subsidized like it should be, in order to fully recover its potential, then a priority would be to try to find the surviving plant genetics that are best for growing seeds and stalks, and encourage the improvements of those.

The perverse irony of pot prohibition has motivated plant breeders to develop excellent strains of pot for recreational and medical uses, while simultaneously destroying the motivation for plant breeders to develop the potential of pot plants for the sake of their seeds and stalks.

The separation of legal industrial hemp, and legal medical marijuana, from illegal recreational pot, does not make any more logical sense than the separation of different human races. The original established attitudes towards marijuana make as much intellectual sense as did racism, since the attitudes towards marijuana started with racism.

However, with legal medical marijuana and legal hemp, many people involved make a fuss about the seriousness of the bullshit bureaucracy that stops the police from arresting them, and try to distance themselves from pot.

Just as in the case of the history of human slavery in general, the history of pot prohibition in Canada has entered the phase of segregation and apartheid. In Canada, black marijuana that is medicalized is legal, and albino hemp that is industrialized are legal, but mostly pot is still persecuted and oppressed.

Most of the industrial hemp people continue to try to distance themselves from marijuana, and say that marijuana is a "distant cousin" of hemp. Most of the industrial hemp promoters are still analogous to Uncle Toms, that still identify too much with their masters.

Indeed, most of the mainstream marijuana movements think it is practical for them to be like Uncle Toms. Since the mainstream of society is really a sophisticated system of slavery, most of the mainstream marijuana movements think it is practical, and best for them personally, to accept that, and work within it to advance their interests.

Overall, there has been relatively trivial and token progress in re-legalizing industrial hemp and medical marijuana, but the bigger situation is a vicious cycle of dishonesty & violence.

The re-legalization of a little industrial hemp and some medical marijuana has indicated a change in Canada.

This change was relatively small in absolute magnitude, but significant symbolically.

Making marijuana illegal in the first place was primarily done for the same reasons why human slavery and racism happened.

The language of our legal system was mostly derived from a long history of violence and dishonesty, and the legal language used in drug prohibition is a language adopted by professional liars or immaculate hypocrites.

The names for the pot plants are analogous to names for the human races, and separating kinds of pot plants is analogous to separating different human races. Since that prejudice against plants was worst than the prejudice against people, even the scientific names for this plant are all wrong, and violate their own principles for scientific nomenclature. When it comes to the alleged botany about hemp plants, the lies have triumphed, and it seems to be more like what would have happened if we still lived in a racist society based on slavery, wherein the scientific textbooks would have different species names for the different races of human beings.

The triumph of huge lies around marijuana, permeating throughout everything do to with hemp, have been so ubiquitous that one can find example after example, in publication after publication, that have systematically been edited, distorted, deleted, etc., in all of their references to, or mentions of this plant.

One can go to a typical public display garden, operating as a teaching tool, and find the same kinds of systematic lies there too.

It is if there was some kind of time and space warps that took effect after the criminalization of cannabis, after which all public sources and displays regarding the knowledge of plants were systematically perverted.

Old textbooks, written before the criminalization, even allowed for how obsolete and old-fashioned their level of knowledge of plants in general was back then, are still often better than any textbooks written after the insane huge lies, backed up with coercions, took control of our culture, and found their expression throughout almost every kind of public discussion or display of the pot plant.

Almost every word, in every language, used to talk about pot plants suffers from systematic bias, due to the oppression of the triumphs of huge lies regarding this plant.

It is like a "racism" that we still
take almost completely for granted.

Just as there is some science about human races, but also a vastly greater amount of prejudice, so too there is some science of pot plants, but vastly more prejudice about pot plants.

Pot plants are the same plant, like
all human beings ARE human beings.

Only some breeds of cannabis, grown under the right conditions, produce significant psychoactive THC oil in their flowers. That tends to be called "marijuana" and medical marijuana is the plants with the best qualities of those resins and oils on their flowers.

Metaphorically speaking, marijuana “sweats” in the sunlight, by producing the THC containing resin over its flowers. That is the essential oil that is psychoactive and may be medically active.

The best breeds or growing conditions for psychoactive pot were not found in Europe, but were found in the warmer climates around the world, and especially in the higher altitude tropical climates.

Artificial growing marijuana environments tend to be made more like the conditions one would naturally have at the top of a tropical volcano.

Ultra-Violet light plays a role in this.

270 to 300 nanometers U.V.B lights, for five hours per day upon flowers, adequately simulates tropical light.

Normal human blue light perception stops at about 450 nanometers.

The plant protects immature seeds from too much light by absorbing the U.V. energy to use to make more THC molecules ... as IF the plant was getting a tan.

Buds are "sun tanned" according to their genetic abilities to become tanned.

Its genetics makes a marijuana plant tend to make the kinds and amounts of resins that it does. It is a complicated chemistry, that influences how the plant’s flowers mature, and what kinds of resins it makes over time.

The psychoactive THC oil present on the flowers of pot plants probably evolved in some relationship with Ultra Violet light, and to assist in protection from dehydration in the sunlight, and provide other forms of protection to the seeds.

Flowering plants have have a pistil, with stigmas, that are places where pollen can stick and be transported into the pistil for pollination to form seeds.

However, some kinds of pot plants produce lots of THC oil.

Since most flowering plants have female parts which work to catch pollen, it is an oversimplification to think that marijuana plants produce THC oil to catch pollen.

There is something unique in marijuana plants, the THC, that is not necessarily involved in their pollination.

Industrial hemp plants, grown primarily to produce fiber or seeds, may have very little THC, but they still can get pollinated.

Merely because flowering plants have sticky structures that are used to catch their pollen does not mean that pot plants make so much THC in order to do that.

Since not all cannabis plants need an abundance of THC resin in order to become pollinated, it is not necessarily so that the cannabis plants that do produce abundant THC oil are doing it in order to be able to be better pollinated.

The original location of pot plants that evolved to produce an abundance of THC oil indicates some probable botanical or biological causes.

It seems only the marijuana plants adapted to an abundance of UV light in sunshine that evolved their abundance of THC oils too.

When Europeans began their global conquest about 500 years ago, they had plenty of hemp, however, it was not very psychoactive.

After the Europeans had mostly completed their global conquest, they had done so with their rationalizations based on racism.

This racism, which was based on the reality of the struggle for power and control, found it expedient to pick particular substances or drugs, associated with different cultures, to demonize, or to adopt as either a tool of exploitation, or as a tool of persecution.

(Opium exported to China by English and Americans during the 19th Century is an example of a tool of exploitation.)

Drug prohibition, in general, was rooted in racism, and making some drugs illegal was mostly done to create tools of persecution which originally had racist purposes.

Slavery was profitable to slaver owners.

Pot prohibition was profitable some.

Globally, drug prohibition primarily had racist effects.

That appears to have been a global conspiracy to make cannabis become criminal in ways that were really intended to hurt non-white people at that time.

It was only decades later that making cannabis be criminal directly that it began to hurt many white people, with the emergence of some voluntary coloured young people, the hippies, in the 1960s.

The prohibition impacts most on poor youth now, wherever they are. However, the prohibition was originally intended to be used as tools of persecution against despised racial minorities. Those tools of persecution have ended up being used against poor youth, throughout the world, and since there are far more poor youth in the South, rather than in the North, the drug wars hit hardest on poor young people in third world countries.

Real human history has been controlled by violence and dishonesty.

Real human history has been about a lot of slavery and racism.

That real human history made pot prohibition.

In Canada, marijuana was first made illegal in 1923 probably in order to give the government of Canada another excuse to arrest and deport people from China who were no longer wanted in Canada.

The narcotic drug law system was probably set up to do that. It did do that in the original anti-opium law enforcement from 1908 onwards. The House of Commons Debates stated that the government was deporting Chinamen as fast as the government could. However, those cannabis laws were never actually needed at the original time they were created, since the task they were intended to help with was already completed by the time those laws were added to the already established system of persecution and deportation.

Marijuana laws started as overkill by governments, and have never gotten any better.

Yet still, the conclusion that our cannabis laws were racist must be informed speculation, after knowing the context, more like a 2 + 2 = 4 conspiracy theory conclusion that is not directly proven by any hard evidence.

Rather, in 1923, cannabis was mysteriously tacked on to the schedule of our narcotics law.

In Canadian House of Commons Debates the Minister of Health simply said that there was a new drug on the schedule.

The evidence shows an unknown person simply typed Cannabis indica and hash onto a copy of the schedule of the law.

The words typed in the law schedule by an unknown person in the government were never even spoken aloud in Parliament.

There originally was no debate and little public knowledge.

Official government documents from 1923 draw a blank. (See the research undertaken in government archives, as reported by P.J. Giffen, et al., in their good book Panic and Indifference: The Politics of Canada’s Drug Laws, 1991, Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse)

There is no direct evidence of the government’s purpose, because there is no direct evidence whatsoever for why the government originally made marijuana become criminal.

One theory for why marijuana was originally criminalized in Canada was raised Catherine Carstairs

A summary of her ideas was outlined in a Wikipedia article:

Canada had added marijuana to the Confidential Restricted List in 1923.

In 1937-1938, the year after the passage of the Marijuana Tax Act in the United States, the Division of Narcotic Control carried out a survey of the provinces to determine whether or not marijuana was being grown in Canada In 7 provinces, 1000 premises were found in which cannabis was growing. In practically every instance, the person apparently had no knowledge of the psychotropic properties of the plant and willingly helped to destroy the plant. At the same the, arrangements were made with provincial governments to add cannabis to a schedule of noxious weeds in order to provide convenient machinery for handling the destruction of cannabis growing on vacant lots. Not every case went smoothly. C.W. Harvison, the former Commissioner of the RCMP described a situation in his memoirs where the police found marijuana growing in a well-kept garden. The owner was an elderly woman, who grew the marijuana for her canaries. According to Harvison: "On behalf of her happy birds, she took furious objection to any ridiculous law would deny them their happiness. The constables expressed their regrets, explained that they had no alternative but to destroy the plants and started for the garden. They were half-way to the marijuana patch when the door of the cottage burst open and the spinster, armed with a broom, and screaming "Scat you brutes!" rushed forth to do battle. To their everlasting credit, the policemen decided that the situation called for discretion rather than valour. They beat a hasty retreat to the car and drove off. As far as 1 know, the lady continued to grow marijuana, and her birds continued to sing magnificently for the rest of her days."’

Still, back in 1923, only a few months after marijuana was deemed to be a “narcotic” (which is totally untrue) the government of Canada enacted a Hemp Bounties Act, that paid white farmers, mostly in Manitoba and Ontario, to grow hemp for use in binder twine and similar industries.

There was an irony that between 1923 and 1938 the government had two opposite laws about fundamentally the same plant.

Another irony was that Cannabis indica and hash were made illegal in 1923, but yet, nine years later, Cannabis sativa was still being allowed in medicines. Generally speaking, research into the history of drug laws shows a fact-free environment that the legislators operated in, with mostly quick passage of laws in debates that show that lawmakers knew very little.

The good things that laws do usually take a lot of time and energy to develop. The bad things that laws do tend to get done in quick and dirty ways, with very little real public debate.

The almost total absence of public debate changed in 1938, when the Canadian government made growing any and all hemp totally illegal.

That debate finally provided some direct evidence of the kind of absurd lies that Parliament assumed were true. Parliament took for granted the "reefer madness" view of marijuana that it was almost as bad as murder, because marijuana was an addictive, fatal, narcotic that made people become criminally insane.

It is still common for Canadian government officials to assert that marijuana is extremely physically addictive, and may be compared to heroin and cocaine, and is much worse than tobacco, and so "reefer madness" is still controlling the criminalization of cannabis in Canada. The United Nations still also says marijuana is comparable to cocaine and heroin, and promotes the quite silly idea that pot has somehow become many times more potent than it used to be. One can still regularly see news media reports quoting police and so-called addiction experts repeating various discredited lies about cannabis, (which lies enable them to make their living).

Reading through the 1938 House of Commons Debates indicates that Canada was motivated by the U.S.A. to make future cultivation of Cannabis become criminal, including even for the hemp farmers that the government originally had subsidized to grow more hemp.

One of the most ironic quotes comes from the former Prime Minister, MacKenzie King, saying that they did not want to attract any more public attention to the fact that they were putting out of business the hemp farmers that the government had originally subsidized to get into that business.

In general, the 1938 House of Commons Debates are full of irony that they repeatedly state that they wanted to criminalize cannabis, however, they also wanted to call as little public attention as possible to the fact that they are criminalizing it. They wanted to kill marijuana, but they did not want to call public attention to the fact that they were killing marijuana, because they worried that would backfire.

It now seems like they were preparing their own time bomb Guy Fawkes Day for the future. Their plan appears to have been to believe in outrageous lies about marijuana, then gradually become more and more dishonest about marijuana, in order to continue promoting those outrageous lies, and then use more and more violence to enforce laws based on that dishonesty.

This absurd, insane and evil situation now controls cannabis in most of the world, and the government of the United States of America is still the main force behind keeping that social situation going. America became the most powerful country after the Second World War, and has being going more and more psychotic ever since, and abusing its powers as much as it could. The USA became the heartland of the global fascist plutocracy, that was promoting a global fascist police state. Driving the criminalization of cannabis was part of the foreign policy of the USA, and that had a huge effect upon the United Nations and Canada.

Hemp was outlawed because marijuana was outlawed. Outlawing marijuana was significantly promoted in order to be able to make hemp also become outlawed.

Canada was moved to do that by the U.S.A. influence.

INFLUENCE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The word marijuana was adopted by law enforcement officials, and popularized by the news media.

The war against some drugs has always had a dynamic relationship between the news media and the politics of law enforcement.

The news media have been major sources of misinformation. Most news media still usually present egregious distortions as the "facts" about drugs which are presented to the public by the police. The police have become the main material manifestation of the dishonesty backed up with violence by governments.

It is inherent in that process that it is spiralling out of control, with more and more violence attempting to back up dishonesty, in ways that can never work to do anything but increase the overall vicious cycles of dishonesty and violence in society.

The police did not start this cycle, the politicians did. However, the police and the news media always were, and still are, the factors that most influenced public opinion to enable politicians to do what the fascist plutocracy that controlled those politicians wanted to be done.

Ending this cycle could not be done merely by changing the police, but must be done more by changing the politicians. The crux of any success depends on finding a different way to fund the political process that will be able to move beyond the ability of the fascist plutocracy to control the politicians because they were able to control the funding of the political process, including dominate the media of communication.

Changing the politicians requires changing public opinions. Changing public opinions is an extremely dangerous and difficult struggle against the police and the news media that are the main public lobbies for keeping pot prohibition going.

Public opinions about marijuana in 20th Century North America were created by the mass media mostly quoting whatever the police said as being the truth. And so, again, the funding of the political process, including the ownership of the mass media, present the practically impossible to solve nature of the political problems that we face.

We are stuck in a Repeating Social Pattern:

Marijuana laws are merely the most salient symbol and the most extreme example of the fact that governments are the best organized gangs of criminals, that use lies and coercions to serve their own systems of frauds and robberies. Government legalize their own lies to become laws, because nobody else can stop them. The abilities of the ruling classes to keep the vicious cycles of money and political power going make a fake "democracy" which is a cruel joke.

Genuine pot politics eventually faces the social facts that marijuana is good and the government is evil, and there is no way to compromise with the bullies’ bullshit with anything less than that.

Governments picked on pot, the single best plant on the planet for people, to assert the huge lie that it was almost as bad as murder. Governments pushed pot prohibition towards psychotic breakdown.

Of course, pot prohibition must exist inside the human reality that is based on relative illusions and the use of forces.

Radical truth about society is needed for sanity.

The radical marijuana paradigm shift is to perceive this as the way it always was and necessarily will be. Human knowledge will always be based on subtractions that are relative lies, and civilization will always be based on organized systems of robbery, that may enable our survival. Any new government must be some new system of lies and coercions, that serve new systems of frauds and robberies, that may serve a new way of survival. We can make a greater use of information and be more conscious of the true social facts, but we can not change the laws of nature that created those social facts.

We could build different systems of social resistance to channel social energy, but we can not stop energy from going down its path of least resistance.

All real human beings MUST live as robbers in their environment. The vast majority of social stories have become ways to deny or suppress, or rationalize, or justify, the basic real facts that people are gangs of robbers.

Transcendental poetry about our Unity has been used to exploit our relative real disunity. The robbed and the robbers are ONE, in the Whole Environment, but all useful real knowledge is about measuring the relative real rates of robbery, that different people engage in. It may all be ONE ENERGY, but the differences are different rates and styles of transformation of energy, and the conflicts are between different kinds of whirlpools in the ocean of energy.

False fundamental dichotomies are set up to distinguish good robbery from bad robbery, and the good robbers from the bad robbers. Those reflect real relative differences, but they are never absolute differences. As soon as we define any group of human beings, then they necessarily have to take energy and matter from their environment to survive.

Real human survival is necessarily based upon operating some systems of organized robbery. Civilizations have evolved to build layers of organized frauds on top of that foundation of organized robbery. This is the bullies’ bullshit social stories that dominates our societies. It is a language that empowers every sort of social fraud.

Pot prohibition is an extreme example of how some groups of people have been able to use lies and coercions to defraud and rob other groups of people. However, on a deeper level of reality, no society can exist without necessarily surviving as some system of organized robbery in its environment, and any society has to have some set of social stories to provide the means to organize that society.

Pot prohibition is the kind of extreme anomaly in the set of social facts that drives us to go through the necessary paradigm shifting to understand why the single best plant on the planet for people could end up being treated as if it was almost as bad as murder.

How can such huge lies, backed up with so much coercion, control our civilization?

The mainstream marijuana movements tends to ask "why" ... without ever providing any sufficiently perceptive answers.

To repeat:

the answers are that our real government is a fascist plutocracy, with a long history of using dishonesty and violence to make and maintain systems of organized frauds and robberies, that keep that social system going.

That context made and maintained pot prohibition. That is the main answer to "why" pot prohibition was made, and is still being maintained.

It is the real role of governments in human ecology and political economy that need to be faced here.

Ideas that we should decriminalize or legalize marijuana that do not understand the truth about WHY marijuana was demonized and criminalized and made illegal do not diagnose the true political problems, and do not provide enough treatment for that social sickness.

Our entire society is being controlled by huge lies and coercions, while pot prohibition is only the single most insane example of that pattern of social facts.

The deeper problem is that progress in science and technology has amplified the divergence between civilizations that understand more truth about natural laws, but which simultaneously are still attempting to maintain huge social lies, that hide social facts from awareness.

The deliberate amplification of fear and ignorance towards cannabis was a salient symbol, and the most extreme particular example, of how the entire social pyramid system depends on keeping most people ignorant and afraid.

This kind of social system is developing an enormous conflict between its science and technology, and its bullies’ bullshit social stories.

The gap between societies with the powers of post-modernizing science, and technologies being controlled by old-fashioned social lies and bullies’ bullshit stories, is getting bigger and bigger every day. Every day, things are automatically getting worse and worse, because everything is being controlled by huge lies, that are getting further and further away from reality. This results in human & industrial ecologies that constantly develop greater social polarization, and constantly destroy more of the natural world. The overall pattern is the short-term triumph of lies and coercions which is headed towards collapsing into chaos.

Pot prohibition is a simple little example, because it is about the relationship between people and one plant.

Bigger examples of society being controlled by huge lies and lots of coercions are the money laws and weapons of mass destruction.

We are rapidly reaching some turning or breaking points where the control of civilization by its old-fashioned systems of huge lies is becoming psychotic, and impossible to continue too much longer. Many exponential growth curves appear to be approaching their limits.

We desperately need new governments that will face the social facts about themselves, but that seems to require a series of political miracles, which probably cannot happen without there first being significant psychotic breakdowns of the established systems, after they continue to behave according to their belief in their huge lies, until their reality gets too far away from their lies to be able to be sustained any longer.

Any new political party that takes over the government takes over an already well-established system of organized robbery and fraud. Political parties that deny those fundamental social facts continue to be the kinds of professional liars and immaculate hypocrites that will permit the established huge lies to continue to control civilization in ways that will get farther and farther away from reality.

In the short-term, it is more successful to compromise with the huge lies that dominate society, and to benefit from operating within the frame of reference of those huge lies.

However, in the long-term, that kind of triumph of huge lies loses touch with reality, while social polarization, & destruction of the natural world worsen.

Pot prohibition is based on huge lies about pot.

All behaviours based on believing huge lies
are becoming more absurd, insane, & evil.

Everything else, throughout civilization, was
integrated within the same overall huge lies.

The history of scientific revolutions is full of illustrations of this process of the frame of reference changing, so that radical new ways to understand the world develop.

Political science should go through paradigm shifts, and pot politics is one of the ways that paradigm shift is being pushed.

Paradigm shifts do not change what exists.

They change ways we think about what exists.

Changing the ways we perceive politics
may spiral back to change that politics.

The problem with operating within the established mainstream of society is that one is operating within their bullies’ bullshit social stories. That helps work with and for the bullies, in the short-term, but, in the post-modernizing world of advanced sciences and technologies, the bullies’ bullshit has become lies so astronomically large, that they are insanely out of touch with reality.

The mainstream marijuana movements continue to accept most of the bullies’ bullshit, except they rejects some of it concerning cannabis.

Radical marijuana recognizes that all social stories are based on relative lies, and all social organizations must be based on systems of robbery. The way that radical marijuana view understands the history of pot prohibition leads to a different view of what ending pot prohibition should be or could ever really be.

While the mainstream marijuana movements could be much more successful in the short-term than radical marijuana, the mainstream movements’ compromising with huge lies, and working within the bullies’ bullshit world view, has no good long-term future.

The mainstream marijuana movement has the relatively easy task of pointing out the hypocrisies and failures to live up to the stated ideals of "freedom and democracy" that governments have been displaying.

There is plenty of evidence and logic arguments available regarding the reality of cannabis and the crazy cannabis criminalization. However, understanding why that information has been deliberately ignored by governments, that continue to back up bigger lies with more coercions, requires way more than merely more "education" about cannabis. The deeper education must be about government itself, which is that government are, and necessarily must be, the best organized gangs of criminals. Attempting to "educate" people about cannabis that does not place the problem in the real context is a fake education.

In a 60 second sound bite, not much else can be said, and the mainstream marijuana movements must try to get their attention of the mass media to feel validated. This leads to a vicious cycle between the mass media and the mainstream marijuana movements.

The "leaders" of the mainstream marijuana movements tend to become the performing clowns for the mass media.

The mass media tend to only pay attention to the spokespersons that are saying what the mass media want to fit into their social narratives. However, the mass media themselves are the main promoters of the overall bullies’ bullshit social stories.

The mass media are mostly the enemies of the truth about marijuana, and the mass media have always been major promoters of the huge lies about marijuana in particular, and the structure of society in general.

The mass media are almost totally owned and controlled by the fascist plutocracy, and therefore are majorly responsible for keeping society controlled by huge lies.

Staying within the frame of reference of the mainstream society is a dead end. We need to radicalize the mainstream, whereby the mainstream itself will go through the necessary paradigm shifts and change its frame of reference, within which the mainstream understands the world and behaves within that world.

There is no good way that human beings can survive having good post-modernizing sciences of physics and biology, etc., which are directed by bogus bullies’ bullshit views of sociology and politics.

The mainstream marijuana movement is an opposition to the established prohibition system that is still controlled by the bullies’ bullshit world view. It may well be more successful in the short-term, because cannabis advocates that work within the mainstream values may be able to have more money and power to campaign with.

It is always easier in the short-term to stay within the established frame of reference. However, there is not going to be any sufficient solutions to post-modernizing political problems to be found within the established mainstream frames of reference.

Marijuana law reform is a dead end, and
cannabis "reformers" do not understand
that we really require a revolution.

The mainstream marijuana movement may be good
enough to work towards legalizing marijuana
to become a normal part of the mainstream.

However, that is a dead end, because it is the frame of reference that the mainstream assumes is right that is the source of the worst problems, than can never be solved while staying within that frame of reference.

Our future politics must go through radical
paradigm shifts for human beings to survive.

Pot prohibition should not be seen as a some
single issue isolated from the social system.

Instead, pot prohibition should be seen as integrated into the fascist plutocracy, as the single most extreme example of the pattern. The problem is not marijuana laws by themselves, but rather the triumphs of huge lies being able to control everything else the mainstream society was doing.

Truly understanding the history of pot prohibition, and the future of pot politics, should be based on recognizing the imperative reasons for real, radical, revolution.

Communication is initially an engineering problem.

It takes energy and time to communicate to people.

To end pot prohibition requires a series of apparent political miracles.

The funding of the political process should be changed, so that the fascist plutocracy has less power to control politicians and their political parties. However, the fascist plutocracy already controls the biggest political parties, and thus controls the government, and the government appoints the judges in the courts, and so, the entire system is already set up, and resistant to being changed in any way that would diminish the real power of the established fascist plutocracy to control the real political process, and the legislation that it enacts.

It is already a thoroughly integrated system, and pot prohibition is a tiny aspect of that overall predicament.

To change public opinions appears to include attacking the popular lies that the police, and the news media, repeat about cannabis. But they are groups with the power to back up their lies with violence, or groups with the power to amplify their lies by orders of magnitude more than anyone else.

The established fascist plutocracy already control education and the mass media, and thus has many orders of magnitude more power to brainwash people to believe in bullshit, than anyone who attempts to promote policies based on any more truth or justice.

In general, the news media care primarily about profit, which can be made from sensationalized stories, and secondarily about promoting propaganda which assists the owners of those media. The police, and all of the other people who make their living enforcing the law, or otherwise are employed within the drug prohibition industries, have a significant vested interest in keeping the established systems of hypocrisy, lies and coercion going. The news media have already been built into enormous multi-billion dollar conglomerates. The police and drug prohibition industry has also grown to be enormous, and they have the ability to easily resort to violence to back up their lies.

The history of the triumph of dishonesty and violence controlling society has built the established systems that dominate society now. Knowing that history helps us understand that problem, but merely knowing about the true nature of the problem does not change the nature of that problem.

Since real society is a system of organized frauds and robberies made and maintained with lies and coercion, that truth itself does not change the real fact that society is still being controlled by lies and coercions. Rather, that truth itself indicates the real reasons why things are getting worse and worse, faster and faster, and only trivial, token gestures of improvements are being made in that overall context of deterioration caused by the triumph of huge lies controlling society, and thus gradually driving that society to become more psychotically insane.

The degree to which society has already become corrupted seems to have gone past any means within that society for amelioration. It looks like it is committed to spinning out of control, rather than that it has any reasonable chance of changing to save itself.

Marijuana "reforms" presumes some political miracles of reforming the marijuana laws within the established mainstream. Reforms like that presume that the mainstream is not already too mad to save itself. Such reform of the mainstream does not recognize that the mainstream society has become profoundly insane, and that pot prohibition was merely a symptom of that deeper insanity.

Marijuana "revolution" presumes that the mainstream society will be driven to become more completely insane, and collapse into chaos, after which, some marijuana revolution will be possible within the context of greater revolutions.

In the U.S.A. history, quite powerful business empires, with their financial and family interconnections, profited in various ways from demonizing marijuana. This is plainly obvious fact, and there is some evidence to indicate it was intentional. However, as with all conspiracy theories, it is difficult to prove to someone who does not want to believe it.

The effects of the marijuana laws were plainly obvious in that they did put the hemp industry out of business, and those laws were mostly used against racial minorities. Proving those things were the conscious purposes is difficult, although all the background information and whole context of social facts makes what is known historically look like it was very probable that the actual effects were the real intended effects, which where deliberately concealed by hypocrisy about what the intended effects were supposed to be.

After many decades of the real effects having been consistently different and divergent from the stated intentions, it has become more and more plainly obvious that there must be a set of ulterior purposes, which were the real purposes, for putting the hemp industry out of business and making hemp unable to compete with other industries. Clearly the establishment is using pot prohibition more and more as a tool of persecution against some groups.

Most people in the 1920s and 1930s did not know that marijuana was the same plant as hemp. The more one looks into the details of the history of pot prohibition, the more plausible it becomes that basing marijuana laws upon huge lies could not have been an accidental mistake, but must have been part of a deliberate plot.

Marijuana law reformers want to believe that marijuana laws were some mistake, because, if they perceive it was deliberate evil, then their notions of "reform" become more pathetically inadequate. Marijuana revolution is based on the idea that the fascist plutocracy developed pot prohibition with deliberately evil intentions, and therefore, marijuana revolution has to become a small component of the total revolution that is needed, and might happen after the established systems, controlled by huge lies in every way, drive themselves too close to collapsing into chaos.

The marijuana reforms are nicer notions _ than ideas behind marijuana revolutions.

However, it appears that people who promote marijuana reforms are mostly ignorant of the real social facts, that marijuana laws symbolize.

By and large, marijuana reformers
operate within the mainstream, &
they want to continue to believe
in the bullies’ bullshit views.

They want to become successful
within the mainstream society.

They do not want to understand that.

Real social problems are much worse
than mainstream marijuana movements
want to admit to themselves are real.

There is no doubt that racism was at the root of the main public justifications for pot prohibition, and that the actual application of these laws has primarily had racist effects.

The history of pot prohibition created the language that we use, where both the words "pot" and "marijuana" come from Mexican Spanish slang. The old English word of hemp was eroded, and most of the legalize hemp people have become something like Uncle Toms in their attitude towards marijuana laws.

Cannabis culture is a slave society, and everything generally true about slave societies is more or less true about cannabis culture as well. Pot prohibition has been a pogrom.

The word marijuana was popularized by a propaganda campaign. The language that we use today is the historical result of the struggles between imperialistic information systems in the past. (Thus, saying "Marijuana Party" is a lot like saying "Nigger Party.")

REPEATING propaganda campaign was racist.

During the late 1960s, a lot of middle class white youth started consuming cannabis and thus became “voluntary coloured people,” who then experienced directly what it was like to be discriminated against on the basis of race.

The robbery that was slavery drove the attitudes that were racism, and those attitudes started to impact upon white middle class youth that became involved in the drug wars.

The drug wars had originally been mostly against visible racial minorities, but, in the late 1960s, the drug wars turned against white youths that got in their way.

During the late 1960s, there were exponential increases in the numbers of youth being arrested for cannabis crimes.

Primarily the drug wars are now against
poor young people, because they are the
worst enemies of the fascist plutocracy.

The interaction of demographics and economics is an aspect of the relationship between human ecology and industrial ecology. Since these systems are all going more and more insane, the overview appears to be that the rich are committing suicide, while the poor are declaring war on the rich. There are some deeply disturbing trends here, and it was not an accident that the insane ideology of racism has been transferred from being slaveries based on race and sex, to being slaveries based on class and age. There is an enormous spiral of social developments here that are spinning more and more out of control.

One of the ways that this social insanity started to manifest itself was when the drug wars against racial minorities began to be directed more and more against young white people.

During the late 1960s, an exponential increase in the drug wars started, and many of the casualties were white, middle class, and lower class, youths.

In response, both of the governments of
Canada and USA commissioned studies:

The basic political problem with pot prohibition has been perfectly clear since the early 1970s, when government enquiry in Canada, & another government enquiry in the USA, both said the same things & both were deliberately ignored.

Le Dain report:

http://www.druglibrary.net/schaffer/Library/studies/LeDain/ldctoc.html

Shafer report:

http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/Library/studies/nc/ncmenu.htm

Since the early 1970s, it became clear that the governments of North America were deliberately ignoring the truth about cannabis.

Since the early 1970s, it became clearer and clearer that the real governments of North America were evil fascist plutocracies.

Since marijuana laws were originally deliberately based on huge lies, it should not be too surprising that the truth about marijuana continues to have no relationship to marijuana laws, and even the governments’ own good studies are disregarded, while instead the drug wars are escalated.

Again, this is why marijuana law “reform” is grossly inadequate, and has never worked. The law was always based on an evil, and was always maintained by an evil, and that evil is integrated into a system that controls the whole society.

Regarding the Conservative Party’s efforts since 2005 to increase the criminalization of cannabis, see this article:

http://www.marijuanaparty.ca/article.php3?id_article=430

The deliberate ignorance of social facts that has become more public and painfully obvious ever since the 1970s has extended throughout most of the other more important bigger political problems.

Things that had always been crazy and corrupt became more clearly so, and the way those social facts were being deliberately ignored and aggravated become more patently apparent.

Faced with these real social facts, the question then is WHY?

The truth is that truth has never made much difference.

The paradoxical truth is that society is controlled by lies.

Marijuana laws were made, & are being maintained by,
huge lies, backed up by lots of coercion, while every
kind of evidence and legal argument has been ignored.

The mainstream marijuana movements continue
to fail to face the social facts, while they
continue to attempt to present evidence,
and logical arguments, as if the truth,
and justice, were going to matter ...

Several decades of experience
from political experiments
proving that the laws are
evil, and operate within
deliberate ignorance,
to serve interests
of the existing,
real, fascist
plutocracy,

seem to have bounced off the thick skulls
of the mainstream pot activists who have
switched to supporting the big parties,
that all deliberately ignore radical
truth about the fascist plutocracy.

The racism that started the prohibition of pot was supported by vested economic interests that wanted to see the hemp industry totally put out of business.

The first country to demonize marijuana in order to put hemp out of business was Egypt, and the Egyptian cotton industry was the lobby that originally led the way to the later global effort towards the global pot prohibition.

The industrial revolution was integrated.

Study the differences between
the cotton industry & hemp,
and one will see the real,
evil, reasons why hemp
was outlawed, to give
cotton the advantage.

That makes no other sense than as the triumphs of lies.

Hemp can readily compete with cotton, for instance,
& hemp takes less fertilizers or pesticides to grow.

Since some of the cotton industry originally was based on slavery, the people who made profits from that industry were used to using violence and dishonesty to get what they wanted.

The hemp industry in the 1930s was preparing for a huge leap forward made possible by the design of new machines that would have made hemp even better.

The people who produced the fertilizers, pesticides, and nylon etc., as well as wood pulp, and so on and so forth, had interconnections and influences and political manipulations, and they wanted to put the hemp industry out of business, and so they promoted the huge propaganda campaign, telling huge lies about marijuana, over and over, to gain their objective.

Remember that some sugar and cotton industries were originally based on slave labour. Those masters knew how to use dishonesty and violence to get what they wanted. Even generations later, the social systems that evolved from those kinds of business practices still knew how to make a profit in similar ways.

One of the facts about propaganda is that is it possible to tell a big enough lie, enough times, until most people believe it.

Persuading large numbers of people to believe in lies is much too easy to do, especially when people telling those lies can control the environment of the listeners.

Getting people to believe in lies is relatively easy for bullies to push along with enough violence to back those lies up.

"The Goebbels technique" supporting Hitler’s Nazi triumphs is a name given to methods of repeating a lie until it is taken to be the truth. Fascism is a tried and true method of controlling people in ways that work all too well in the short-term, and very badly in the longer term. Marijuana laws, and most public opinions about marijuana, are clearly the result of fraudulent fascist forces.

The original, and still widely, established public opinions about marijuana were created by dishonesty backed up with violence. The real problem with using dishonesty backed up with violence to control people is that it works all too well in the short-term, but then becomes a victim of its own “success.”

Dishonesty backed up with violence serves systems of robbery and fraud that make a few people become more wealthy and powerful, and thus more and more able to continue to be dishonest and violent. That is what made and maintains pot prohibition, and the whole mainstream of our society.

However, the triumph of huge lies eventually results in society become more and more psychotic, as its social stories get further and further away from reality.

Pot prohibition is the most extreme example of that process.

Marijuana laws do, and could only, exist in the overall context of a fascist plutocracy controlling almost everything else in society.

Pot prohibition could only exist inside a fake democracy.

Mainstream marijuana law reform presumes we actually live in a real democracy. Marijuana law revolution recognizes the social facts that we actually live in a fake democracy.

Moreover, making marijuana illegal was an example of the more general, wide-spread, political perversity that resulted from discrediting and destroying natural products that could not be patented or could compete with products which could be patented or otherwise monopolized somehow.

This was also similar to the effect of alcohol prohibition. (Perhaps ethanol should have originally been a fuel that could have been in competition with oil, although now, that is no longer as good an alternative as it was back then.)

Powerful people who had made lots of profit from their oil and petrochemical products etc., or other kinds of established businesses, (including banking) then used some of their huge profit through a corruption that funded the political process, in order to put many possible natural alternatives out of business.

Our current industrial addiction to oil, and cutting down trees, was pushed through history. Our overall economic development was not based on objectively rational overviews of the alternatives, but rather controlled by the triumph of dishonesty and violence done by those who benefited from those real ways our economic developments were guided.

What exists in the world today is one integrated system of human and industrial ecology that was primarily regulated and controlled by the triumph of dishonesty and violence in political processes that built almost everything in our political economy as it exists today. Pot prohibition was one tiny component in that overall system.

The essential real social facts are about death control and debt control, and any truly good ways to legalize marijuana should address changing the real death and debt controls. Anything else, or anything less, is merely more bullshit.

The minds of many people were enslaved by brainwashing them to believe in the bullshit of bullies that would benefit those bullies. That was accomplished during the long history of the evolution of the established money systems and murder systems.

Most people ended up making their living inside of the established systems of lies and coercions, and since their lives depended upon those lies, they tended to believe in them more and more. Indeed, for most people, during most times, agreeing with the bullies’ bullshit was the way to become more successful within the context of that society at that time.

Pot prohibition is a component that is integrated into the overall human ecology and political economy systems.

Any sufficient changes to end the criminalization of cannabis should be integrated into systematic changes throughout the human ecology and political economy.

Our industrial addiction to oil etc. are flip side facets of the history of the systems of drug prohibitions. Just like dishonesty backed up with violence subsidized atomic energy far more than any other alternative energy, drug prohibition systematically was distributed and integrated in the emerging global economy.

The fascist plutocracy that made pot prohibition depends upon its death controls and debt controls. Ending pot prohibition should be done in ways that change those death and debt controls.

Ending prohibition should be an integrated part of news systems of lies and coercions that will change the way we are governed, to create radically different systems of organized frauds and robberies.

Truly understanding the history of pot prohibition leads to those necessary and unavoidable conclusions about the nature of the real world, and what it would take to really change it.

Since even the death control has to be paid for, the vicious cycles between money and political power are everywhere.

“Narcodollars” are very important in the world’s current economy. Laundered money is a huge source of distortions.

As one would expect, those who are supposed to stop money laundering are often those who do the most of it, and computer programs to detect money laundering perhaps themselves became one of the biggest ways that money was laundered.

The paradoxical nature of drug prohibition is that it was done by evil governments for evil purposes, and therefore, everything prohibition actually did was usually the opposite of what it claimed it would do and should do. Governments seem to like drug wars because the people who are the most wealthy and influential are amongst those who are profiting from the drug wars.

Given the ability to pump funding into political movements, it is fairly easy for people who were already to most wealthy to pick and choose which causes and advocates to fund, and thereby make those advocates and causes prevail. There are always a wide variety of different people, who have almost every possible different kind of opinion or perspective possible. Those who already have become the most wealthy and powerful do not necessarily have to bribe people to change what they believe, but merely have to pick out the people who already believe what the wealthy want promoted, and then the wealthy can supply funding to those people, to make their advocates and their causes prevail. The fascist plutocracy has all the means necessarily to make tools and fools out of people who become instruments to advance the agenda of the fascist plutocracy.

Alcohol prohibition was an example of that kind of social situation.

Alcohol is the single most important chemical in organic chemistry, the one that is at the beginning of everything else.

Pot is the single best plant on the planet for people.

The absurd, insane and evil history of drug prohibition has created absurd, insane and evil distortions of our industrial development.

Since the way that our entire society developed its technology was primarily controlled by dishonesty backed up with violence, attempting to understand how our society works requires understanding how human ecology and political economy went down the path of least resistance to benefit a few by hurting many more.

Crazy laws, that backfired badly on the surface usually had deeper reasons, that actually were achieved by those laws.

The long history of society adapting to natural limits resulted in developing a system of artificial limits. We internalized our way of coping with natural scarcity by creating a pyramid shaped social system of power and privileges that itself went into a vicious cycle where that system started to deliberately maintain artificial scarcity in order to perpetuate itself.

During that history, there were critical periods that took the single most important organic chemical, ethanol, and the single best plant for people, pot, and made both of them be criminal. The return of ethanol as a respectable fuel now looks like too little, too late, and, of course, growing hemp to make ethanol is hardly even on the agenda, although, if ethanol was good idea, then secondary uses of hemp to make ethanol would probably be a good idea too. For instance, hemp could be grown primarily for food from the seeds, and the rest of the plant’s carbohydrates used to make hydrocarbon fuels.

Allowing ethanol to return as a sane fuel could hardly be done unless one understands pot politics, which will put drug prohibition into the proper perspective.

Reforms to the established systems that continue to take for granted the huge lies that are their frame of reference will make alternatives like ethanol end up being perverted by that contextual craziness still being dominant.

Getting ethanol to be seen in proper perspective is extremely difficult because our monetary systems are themselves the most crazy and corrupt systems. The actual ways that ethanol is being mandated by governments fits inside of the typically inverted pattern of bullshit solutions that make things worse.

Attempting to decide whether ethanol or methanol, etc., would be a good fuel to wean ourselves away from our addiction to fossil fuels using the established monetary systems as the measuring stick is like attempting to measure material with a bent rubber ruler. Our monetary systems are almost inconceivably crazy and corrupt, and that fundamentally fraudulent financial accounting system is the main reason why social polarization and the destruction of the natural world are becoming astronomically large problems.

Unless we see how distorted our economy really is now, and understand why, then we could hardly begin to evaluate ethanol as a fuel, much less begin consider whether hemp surplus could produce ethanol, or other fuels.

Getting a handle on these things requires seeing that the current situation is the result of dishonesty backed up by violence. Attempting to make a saner, sustainable society can barely begin unless we face the real facts about how truly insane and unsustainable our society is at present.

The fundamental fact is that human beings really acted as
robbers in their environment. All groups of human beings
are, and must necessarily be, gangs of organized robbers.

The bullies’ bullshit is BOTH built on those facts,
while at the same time. it hides behind those lies.

The bullies’ use dishonesty and violence
to run organized frauds and robberies, &
that is the way everybody must be living.

Pot prohibition is the most extreme particular example.

However, the paradigm shifting in political science
results from perceiving the anomalies around pot laws
which drives us beyond the superficial acceptance of
the bullies’ bullshit as it pertains to prohibition.

The deeper realities are that whenever one makes
anthropology, sociology and political sciences
become more consistent with physics & biology,
the result is that all their "sacred stories,"
all civilizations tell, are mostly huge lies.

Within their social system,
human beings may cooperate.

However, their system as a whole,
is, & must be, organized robbery.

Understanding social systems as a whole depends on that.

Drug prohibition history emerged from
various reinforcing social factors, &
"racism" was one of the main factors.

Drug prohibition made as much
intellectual sense as racism.

Most racism that justified slavery
asserted some races were not human.

The idea that different human races
were not human being was a huge lie.

The same kind of huge lies found in racism
are found throughout most drug prohibition.

However, there were hidden factors
that made slavery work, and that
have made drug prohibition work.

What is "possible" depends on the laws of nature, and a basic law of nature is that the most probable path is the path of least resistance for energy to flow.

We have to think seriously about how this law of nature truly manifests in human societies. In general systems theory, it is a rule that the most labile component controls the system.

In the case of human beings, the path of least resistance could also be described as the path of least morality.

It is a law of nature that, in the short-term, human societies are controlled by dishonesty backed up with violence. In the longer term, there are some corrections caused by the long-term consequences of being controlled by lies and coercions. However, in the shorter term, control by dishonesty and violence is the path of least resistance, and those who are the best at being dishonest and violent are the most labile component in the overall system of a society. Therefore, governments actually must be the best organized gangs of criminals, and citizens required members of that territorial gang.

There are deep realities here that are deeply buried
under the dominant bullies’ bullshit social stories.

The dishonesty / violence serves systems of fraud / robbery.

To see this plainly obvious social fact requires simultaneously seeing that governments evolved from the best organized gangs of criminals, and that they must necessarily be, because the reality is that all human beings operate as robbers in their environment, and any group of people must live as an organized gang of robbers.

All the impossible ideals that deny that reality
are variations of the bullies’ bullshit stories.

A deeper reason why marijuana laws are legalized lies
is that ALL laws operate inside the bullies’ bullshit.

Human beings are, fundamentally, organized robbers.

Those are physical and biological facts about life.

Thus the "truth" about our legalizing marijuana
is that we change this system of legalized lies.

Respect for this "truth" requires respecting lies.

Lies, backed by violence, run the real government.

The real government maintains organized systems
of fraud and robbery that channel energy flows.

People who live inside the system
might only know their little part
of how to live inside the system.

Most people are NOT taught how systems as a whole work.

Most people are brainwashed to believe bullies’ bullshit.

There is a double dose of huge lies in bullies’ bullshit.

Connection to physics and biology is through violence.

Violence was the expression of the power to rob.

Power to rob provides energy to power robbing,
as the essential reality of living organisms, as
entropic pumps, and thus individual humans, and
social groups of human beings as entropic pumps.

To make political science consistent
with other sciences requires paradox:

A paradox in enforcement
requires that governments
must be really terrorists.

There are no fundamental dichotomies between people.

Governments are, and must be, the
best organized gangs of criminals.

That is an insight that is necessary
to stop cannabis being criminalized.

The system based on huge lies told the
single best whopper when it picked pot
to turn into their tool of persecution.

The single best plant for people
was said to be almost as bad as
murder, and should be criminal.

That fit within the entire fascist plutocracy,
whereby money and politics were recycling ...

The bullies’ bullshit is first and foremost found
in the monetary and taxation systems, while laws
regulating marijuana are very tiny by comparison.

There is already a well-established social system
based on huge lies, backed by coercion, that has
become the framework of organized robbery which
everybody is depending upon to survive there.

The bullies provide the backup to the
organized robbery civilization system.

There must be some system, for anyone to live at all.

Organized bullies’ bullshit social stories
are needed to organize the social robberies.

We already have real human and industrial ecologies.

We already have social systems that denied the facts.

The paradox is that there must be
a robbery system, and there is,
but, the main robbers have a
bullshit story they do not.

That they also get to control the social stories told about themselves, and therefore tend to get away with being dishonest about themselves, and get away with backing up their dishonesty with violence, is a natural result of the fundamental fact that they are the biggest and best organized gangs of criminals, who therefore have the power to legalize their own lies, because nobody else can directly stop them.

They may eventually be arrested by the accumulating consequences of their reliance on lies, but, in the short-term, they continue to be the best at being dishonest, and backing their dishonesty up with violence.

There is always a paradoxical problem
presented by the power to enforce law.

For there to be power to enforce rights requires
that the enforcers are capable of being
more dishonest and more violent than
any other group against which
the law would be enforced.

The enforcers necessarily have to be the best at being dishonest and violent, or else they can not remain the final enforcers. Under the law, it is a vain thing to talk about a right without a remedy. If there is no power to enforce a right, then that right does not really exist. There is no real freedom without a force. The only actual freedoms are based on forces.

To talk about abstract "human rights" without remedies,
or "freedoms" without real forces, is to speak nonsense.

Most of the talk about "truth, justice, freedom and democracy" is nothing more than transcendental poetry, that has no operational definitions to give those ideas any real meaning, but rather those words are designed and used to enable liars and hypocrites to conceal the social facts behind their actions.

The bullies’ bullshit social stories have evolved to enable immaculate hypocrites to appear to justify their frauds and robberies.

Most of what we describe as the "rule of law, or truth and justice," are ways in which the biggest and best organized gangs of criminals are able to maintain the organization of their group, which group must necessarily be a gang of robbers, who have evolved more sophisticated frauds to achieve robbery.

Their dishonesty and violence serves the
survival of their social system of robbery.

There is a long history to dishonesty and violence, which has gradually seen the physical primacy of violence be replaced more by the primacy of symbolic dishonesty. This process took many generations. During that process, there was a long historical cycle of abuse. Some people who were able to survive their own history of being abused became the most successful abusers in the future.

Those who became and maintained themselves as the biggest and best organized gangs of criminals got to call themselves the “government.”

That government was always a complicated organization which drew the members of that government from the society that they governed. In our case, the British Empire was the biggest and best pirates, and they created Canada. Canada was based on the ability of the British Empire to rob the territory of Canada and hold it. Canada inherited the British system of government, which was automatically & inherently one of the biggest and best sorts of organized systems of fraud and robbery known then as Sovereigns.

The biggest pirates gave charters to other pirate gangs.

These pirates built the legalized lies
behind the chartering of banks and the
other corporations, that dominated &
controlled the money & tax systems.

The fascist plutocracy has gone global, however, its main driving, dominating groups for a couple centuries could be described as having been the Anglo-American (Zionists).

They were behind pot prohibition, but
almost all the global bullies agreed.

Globalization is tending to now equalize the different gangs of criminal bullies more than they previously were, and some intriguing changes in the balance of power seem to be happening.

Fascist plutocracy has become relatively abstract, based on electronic numbers, representing assets. It is evolving beyond its origins in militarism, patriarchy, and the religions and ideologies of the past. Fascist plutocracy is less focused on sex and race that it used to be, and instead is most aimed in ways that are destroying the future, and thus is impacting worst on young poor people.

As one of the tools of persecution preferred by the fascist plutocracy, pot prohibition is used against poor young people the most, and, due to history, is still most used against poor youth who are members of visible racial minorities.

However, pot prohibition hypocrisy has become perversely colour blind, even though it started with prejudices against various coloured people.

The power of the government to rob is being used most to rob the future from young people. The way that these systems are set up, they have already been built, and are running automatically to destroy the future.

Everything is done to maximize the short-term benefits for a few, mostly old, rich people, while that also has long-term costs that young people will have to pay when they are older. A small percentage of youth will inherent the benefits of being able to become the pyramidion people at the top of the social pyramid systems, however, more and more of the young people will inherit some social slavery.

Canadian Sovereignty is based on power to rob:
controlling that de facto power to rob, and
justifying it with bullshit de jure jargon.

There appears to be a terrible tragedy caused by the fact that dishonesty and violence effectively controls society, until the consequences of doing that overwhelm the ability of governments to back up their lies with enough coercion.

The tragedy is that there is nothing real to stop people from going down the path of least resistance, other than the longer term consequences of doing that eventually "teaching" them.

The more powerful human beings become,
then worse the consequences of their
ability to control themselves with
dishonesty backed up with violence.

There is no doubt that the short-term success of dishonesty and violence will result in longer term failure. However, there is also no good reason to believe that fact will make any significant difference in the short-term.

The rise and fall of civilizations manifest laws of nature. The rise of an organized system of robbery based on dishonesty, backed up with violence, is the same reason why the eventual fall of that civilization will happen when its system of organized fraud and robbery can no longer be maintained by its traditional kinds of dishonesty and violence.

The entire global system is now accelerating at an exponential rate towards having to face the true consequences of controlling itself through the triumph of huge lies.

The rise and fall of pot prohibition is
going to be integrated in that process.

In the short-term, people are the most successful by being the best at being dishonest. Those people can become the most powerful and wealthy, and nothing about the eventual longer term consequences of basing their success on lies and coercions will matter enough to them to change their social habits. They will deliberately ignore all evidence and logical arguments that should require them to change their social habits.

The most important social habits were created at the nexus of money and political power. Those social habits both succeeded, and will finally fail, because they are based on lies and coercions.

The laws of nature allow systems of robbery to both be built, and then collapse, and perhaps some to be rebuilt from the seed-sources of the old ones that collapsed.

The most important aspect of the history of politics is the history of the funding of the political process.

Even the death control has to be paid for, and so, although the death control is the most crucially acute factor, the death control directions made and maintained the debt controls, and all of that went around in a vicious cycle, wherein the funding of the political process was the most important loop in these feedbacks.

Politics used to be much more unregulated bribery, while now money still finds a way to do legalized briberies.

Throughout most of Canadian history, a very tiny minority of the wealthiest persons totally dominated the funding of the political process, mainly by dominating the funding of both the governing political party and the main opposition political party.

To understand how legalized lies could be passed through Parliament with virtually no debate, one has to imagine who was funding the political parties, and the politicians who were personally involved in those events at that time.

There has been a huge historical cycle of abuse in the funding of the political process, where the profit from fraud was re-invested in more fraud. The people who were best at being dishonest, and backing their dishonesty up with violence, were the most wealthy and powerful people who dominated the established social systems of organized robbery, and were thus able to maintain their systems for many generations.

In this context, again, pot prohibition is an extreme example, where, precisely because pot was the single best plant for people, the huge lie that marijuana was almost as bad as murder was promoted and passed into law, and then enforced.

What is generally true all the time, namely that governments are the biggest and best organized gangs of criminals, in the particular case of pot prohibition is revealed the starkest ways.

The fundamental problem is that we can not get good government as long as the fundamental truth about the nature of all governments is denied and suppressed by governments, and by most of those people who opposed to the established governments.

A serious obstacle to better government is that too many people believe in the bullies’ bullshit stories about what the bullies are doing. Most of the people opposed to the governments are a controlled opposition that are reactionary revolutionaries that base their solutions to problems on impossible ideals. (Of course, the mainstream marijuana movements are dominated by those kinds of people.)

The triumph of huge lies controlling civilization is priming conditions that are accumulating pools of potential energy, that could drive unprecedented social storms that will eventually come to suddenly force some future social and political changes.

That field of potential energy is constantly increasing, but it is mostly laying suppressed and not being organized. Instead, the established systems are attempting to adapt the minimum that they have to, in order to stay the same.

Society is being constantly pumped up with more and more science and technology, while society itself is attempting to preserve its same social structure and shape. The established systems are attempting to pump powers billions and trillions of times greater through those systems that were never designed and did not evolve to be able to do that.

Taking the single best plant on the planet for people, and enforcing a law that it was almost as bad as murder, reveals what is really going on everywhere else.

The limit case is the creation of weapons of mass destruction that are billions of times too powerful to have any rational use. The future we are most probably looking at is one in which everyone loses. Nobody will truly benefit, in the longer term, from the triumph of dishonesty backed up with violence. However, there is apparently nothing which can stop that trajectory towards tragedy.

REPEATING POT POLITICS CONTEXT:

The biggest and best organized gangs of criminals are bullies, and their social stories about themselves are bullshit.

We live in a fake democracy where the bullies have built a real fascist plutocracy, but many people have been brainwashed to believe in the bullies’ bullshit stories about our society being “free and democratic.”

The real funding of the political process has
incestuously perverted all major legislation
to be legalized lies backed up with coercion.

Study of the real history of the funding of the political process demonstrates that less than 1% of the people actually participated in the past.

The entire history of Canada has been a very tiny minority of less than 1% of the population totally dominating the funding of the political process, and thus able to control it. That process has built all the major legislation that governs us now, and belatedly democratizing the funding does not go far enough to fix what was done in the past.

The funding of the political process controlled the flow of information available to the voters, and controlled the political parties that set the agenda presented to the voters.

People could vote, but what they thought about the issues they voted on was strongly influenced by the money funding the political process. Thus the benefits gained by those gaining ever more money by successfully corrupting established legislation, are in a vicious cycle of increasingly crazy corruption, and all of the laws passed to fix that problem tend to be immaculate hypocrisy that makes it actually become worse.

Almost all of our political debates take place through the looking glass, in a Bizarro Mirror World where false fundamental dichotomies are regarded as absolutely true. The social stories and the reality tend to be backwards to each other, and many aspects of the related issues seem proportionally backwards.

Since governments must necessarily be the best organized gangs of criminals, and civilizations must necessarily be systems of organized robbery, all of the bogus solutions that attempt to stop that happening are based on immaculate hypocrisy, that must necessarily backfire and make things worse, since those laws are based on impossible ideals that can never exist in the real world.

Most public debates are set up to be frauds, whereby the nature of the problems, and what causes them, is denied and suppressed, which leads to reactions and fake solutions that actually make things worse, since the true reality of the situation was never addressed in those original debates.

The major opposition party was funded by the same few people who funded the government, and their combined funding overwhelmed any other political party that attempted to provide opposition.

More and more the fascist plutocracy consolidated control or ownership over the school systems and the mass media, resulting in the ability to brainwash the vast majority of people to continue to pay for more brainwashing in the future.

Representing the interests of the wealthy was a funded political career which could be successful. While representing the poor was poorly funded, which probably would fail miserably.

A tiny minority had disproportionate influence because they funded political parties.

That tiny minority thought it was a good idea to make cannabis become criminal, and it was done so by an Order in Counsel, in 1923, without any Parliamentary debate at all.

Marijuana laws were passed in the context where the vast majority of people knew almost nothing, except the lies told to them by the mass media. This was the same pattern, only much worse, in a lot of our most important legislation.

Political science ought to look at the evidence of social facts and think logically about those facts. However, the society in which political science attempts to operate is based on the bullshit of bullies, and anyone who wants to make their living as a political scientist has to operate within the monetary and economic systems run by the bullies and their bullshit view of the world.

The established system is integrated in ways that almost everyone who is able to effectively participate in politics was plugged into the established robbery and fraud systems built and maintained by the biggest and best organized bullies, and all of those people necessarily repeat the same kind of bullshit about their systems to each other and the general public.

Given the overwhelming advantages of those who did the funding of the dominant political parties, attempting to resist that system has been extremely difficult and dangerous.

Any real efforts to change are necessarily inside of the context of military ethics. However, it is the inherently paradoxical nature of military ethics to be dishonest about what it is really doing.

Almost all of the apparent opposition is controlled opposition. Their irony is that they are still going to promote the bullies’ bullshit view of the world in their claims that they are going to change things. Controlled opposition is not going to promote the radical truth that governments are, and must necessarily be, the best organized gangs of criminals.

The most plainly obvious truth is also the most deeply buried under lies and hypocrisy, because the bullies are the most successful promoters of their own bullshit.

The most important issue is death control, since that controlled the resolutions of conflict. However, death control depended on being dishonest. Death control built the debt controls, which are running throughout every aspect of the way our civilization is directed. Pot prohibition is one of the facets of these vicious cycles, where huge lies, that are totally the opposite of the truth, end up controlling what society is doing.

It is made much more difficult to better balance the real forces of robbery by the facts that those doing the robbery, and those opposing it, both deny that there necessarily must be some system of robbery, and only better balancing those forces of robbery is really possible.

The plainly obvious truth about how human societies are really organized and operated is the most denied and suppressed in societies that claim they that they are already “free and democratic.” The most important issues of how the death and debt controls really exist and are working are also the most denied and suppressed social facts that are the most taboo to talk about.

An objective look at the social facts, especially the history of the funding of the political process, and the resultant monetary and taxation laws, demonstrates that all of the so-called “free and democratic” societies are really fascist plutocracies.

Pot prohibition could only exist in a society that was really a fascist plutocracy.

Pot prohibition would not exist in a society that was truly free and democratic.

Fascist plutocracies are systematically making a few people get richer, while many people get poorer, and that keeps on constantly and automatically getting worse and worse.

Inside Canada it is not yet so bad. 25% of Canadians own 75% of the wealth. We have a relatively small population living in a country that still has natural resources to strip-mine.

However, in the world as a whole, 2% of the population owns almost 50% of the wealth, while 50% of the global population owns 1% of the global wealth. In that context, what pot prohibition and the wars against some drugs do in Canada are not nearly as bad as what those laws do globally. One of the most obvious global facts is that the impact of drug wars falls hardest on the poorest countries. However, globalization is an attempt to make Canada become more like the rest of the world already is, and that will require fascist plutocracy in Canada become way, way worse than it is now, which will require Canada becoming many times more of a fascist police state than Canada is now. That pot prohibition is getting worse is symbolic of the real direction that Canada is now headed in.

To keep the fascist plutocracy system growing, the government needs to build a fascist police state. The wars against some drugs were primarily excuses to do that. Since the war on drugs is mostly against pot, the main way that our society is building a fascist police state is by enforcing pot prohibition.

That is why the truth is marijuana is good, while the government is evil, and that is truly why marijuana is illegal.

The truth is totally opposite to huge lies.

The truth is not a compromise with lies.

Genuine opposition to pot prohibition should necessarily be opposition to our fascist plutocracy. However, most of the “opposition” does not do that. Most of what the opposition does still stays within the bullies’ bullshit view of the world. Most of the opposition that believes in impossible ideals promoted by the bullies’ bullshit view of the world end up being reactionary revolutionaries, that propose bullshit solutions to political problems.

The most effective members of the mainstream marijuana movement are those who are adapted to benefit from being inside the mainstream money and power systems. The most effective members of the mainstream marijuana movement are the same kinds of professional liars and immaculate hypocrites that benefit the most from working successfully within mainstream society.

The mainstream marijuana movement is promoting a kind of "neoprohibitionism" that does not admit that is what it is doing.

Any new system is going to necessarily be some new system of lies and coercions. Any new system will amount to some kind of de facto neoprohibitionism. However, the mainstream marijuana movements do not want to face that fact, and therefore, they are even worse because they do not admit it.

The mainstream marijuana movements do not want to go through the paradigm shifting process of understanding the fascist plutocracy, and why that system exists and dominates the world.

Radical marijuana goes around the spiral of understanding the first level of truth, that the fascist plutocracy is the real government, and goes on through the second level of truth about why.

Facing the social facts about the existing fascist plutocracy is done by only a few people, and fewer still go beyond that to face the facts about why the fascist plutocracy exists. A few do good analysis of the social problems, which leads to the existence of the fascist plutocracy, but then those people mostly collapse back to proposing bullshit solutions to those social problems, that fail to fully fact the social facts that they have revealed with their previous analysis.

A better synthesis of solutions is much harder to face since it results in accepting that civillization not only IS, but necessarily MUST BE, controlled by lies and coercions, since everything has to go down its own path of least resistance. Organizing real resistance requires new systems of lies and coercions, that will change what the path of least resistance is. Anything else, and anything less, is merely more reliance on the bullies’ bullshit about impossible ideals, that actually will make the opposite happen in the real world.

The real solutions are the evolution from what already really exists.

Any real future for prohibition must necessarily end up being some kind of neoprohibitionism. However, the question is whether or not we are going to admit and face those social facts, and use more information and be more conscious about that, or are we going to continue to deliberately ignore and deny those social facts.

The mainstream marijuana movement is made by neoprohibitionists who do not understand or deny that they are promoting that. Radical marijuana is based on accepting and working within the social facts that drug prohibition will and must evolve into some neoprohibition systems.

To be realistically radical recognizes that history has been controlled by dishonesty backed up with violence, used to build organized systems of robbery and fraud. That is what actually exists, and that is what will actually evolve, by some of the old systems of lies and coercion dying, while new systems of lies and coercion will emerge from some of the sources of the old.

To be realistically radical is to organize resistance that has the goal of building better systems of lies and coercion, that will diminish the dishonesty and change the rates of robbery. To be realistically radical has to compromise in reality, but not compromise on theory.

What exists already IS a system of organized robbery, and it is impossible that human civilization can ever be anything else. We have to compromise with the realities of robbery. However, we should not compromise to agree that robbery is somehow not robbery.

We have to compromise with the reality of the bullies, but we should not compromise with the lies in their bullshit.

The reality of the mainstream must be compromised with. The bullies are real, and use real violence to back up their bullshit. We are physically forced to compromise with that real robbery. However, the bullshit social stories that dominate the mainstream society should not be compromised with.

Pot prohibition continues to be the single, simplest, most extreme example, of this overall pattern of huge lies backed up with violent enforcement of those lies. We have to compromise with the reality of the violent enforcement, but we should never compromise with the lies that are used to justify that coercion.

Campaigning to end pot prohibition that does not address the problem that we really live in a fascist plutocracy is a fake opposition. The mainstream marijuana movement in Canada should be despised and regarded with contempt because it wants to move marijuana into the mainstream and make marijuana become normal. That is a bad idea since the mainstream of society is actually run by a fascist plutocracy, that was made by the madness of too much militarism.

The mainstream is the problem, not the solution.

To be realistically radical is de facto pessimism. Since the real world is controlled by dishonesty backed up with violence, truth and justice make no significant difference to that system in its own short-term.

While there are plenty of creative alternatives, fascist warmongers are actually controlling what really happens, and their lies and violence are making everything get worse and worse, faster and faster. However, the triumph of huge lies, sustained by coercion, drives society as a whole towards a psychotic breakdown, since the lies get further and further away from the underlying reality, but people keep on lying to themselves and others, and are especially proud about lying to children, and keep on enforcing their lies with violence, to keep their society being controlled by huge lies that diverge more and more from the real world.

It is not a co-incidence that pot prohibition more and more is based on lies to children, that do harm to children. The way society is organized with huge lies benefits a few in the short-term, while hurting more in the long-term. Therefore, the biggest lies and the most hypocrisy is directed at children and acts against their real future.

The ideal would be for people to go through the perceptual paradigm shifts necessary to reconnect with the radical truth. However, in practise, society gets locked into a vicious cycle of more coercion used to back up bigger lies.

Marijuana starkly symbolizes what is wrong with this picture.

Most of our most important laws are legalized lies.

Our monetary system, the banks, and the corporations that have grown up around them, are based on the same kind of history of the triumph of lies and coercion that pot prohibition was based on, except they are astronomically bigger.

Since we, in fact, have a fake democracy,
we naturally also have a fake opposition.

Controlled opposition is going to promote trivial reforms. Controlled opposition is not going to promote real, radical, revolution. Controlled opposition is not going to go through the full spiral necessary to correct political science. Controlled opposition will do good analysis of the problems, but, only up to a certain point, and then lapse back to bullshit solutions.

The real solutions must be to build and maintain new systems of lies and coercions. Claims that we will stop all the robbery and fraud are themselves totally dishonest, and are maintained by people who are either fools or liars.

The established elite are the best professional liars, and their fake opposition agree to debate issues on the same terms inside the bullies’ bullshit view of the world.

The people with enough power to run the society that they dominated and controlled thought that pot prohibition was a good idea at the time.

Pot prohibition enabled the established society to act in racist ways, which could be concealed under the lies about drugs, and pot prohibition enabled the established industries to put possible competitors out of business.

Those who could exercise that kind of power, back then, could fund the established political parties, and therefore effectively promote the passage of laws based on dishonesty that would be enforced with the coercive violence of the state. They could also buy control of the mass media, and direct the education systems.

This overall situation in the Canadian context enabled the government of Canada to criminalize Cannabis indica in 1923, without any debate whatsoever taking place in Parliament.

In fact, the 1923 laws were never
enforced until later in the 1930s, when
all cannabis cultivation was criminalized.

The 1938 laws totally criminalized all cannabis.

The 1938 Hansard debates overwhelmingly
prove that Canada was following the U.S.A.
and the huge lies about marijuana
all assumed to be true by speakers,
from the U.S.A. repeated in Canada.

In 1938, there was no Chinese problem.

In 1938, Mexicans and Blacks
were not a problem in Canada.

There was a large & subsidized
hemp cultivation and industry
in Canada, 1n 1938, that first
was subsidized by governments,
then later criminalized instead.

Cannabis was very common in Canada
before 1938, & Hansard debate state
that some hemp was being cultivated
on about one third of all farms ...
often as a hedge or as a windbreak.

Before 1938, hemp was a very common plant.

There was zero "marijuana" problem
in Canada back in 1938, however,
the American example inspired
Canada to pass the same laws.

Huge lies about marijuana,
motivated by racism and
political corruption,
and sold with sexism,
came from the U.S.A.
to our Parliament,
and a law passed
to criminalize
all Canadian
cannabis.

Huge lies were backed up with violence.

The Canadian subsidy of hemp ended.

Canadian hemp farmers were
forced to stop cultivating,
but, because the government
had originally subsidized
the farmers back in 1923
to cultivate more hemp,
the farmers were paid
when they were forced
to stop after 1938.

Huge lies were repeated about marijuana.

Huge lies were legalized and enforced.

Pot prohibition became a paradigm
of the way the bullies’ bullshit
worked to control our culture.

Making cannabis be criminal was an expedient thing, that necessarily was based on claiming the single best plant for people was almost as bad as murder.

Making cannabis be criminal worked to enable racist forces to continue to operate, and enabled established businesses to become more profitable, and made sure that no other businesses could compete with that kind of profit.

Pot prohibition started as a tool of persecution designed to be used against relatively small and weak racial minorities, but has transformed into being used against millions of people.

Poor young people are the main victims now.

Again and again, as the fascist plutocracy automatically got worse and worse, the drug wars also automatically got worse and worse, and the drug wars became excuses to build more fascist police state powers.

As the single, simplest symbol of the whole situation, pot prohibition illustrates how unsustainable the endless escalation of dishonesty backed up with violence against more people is becoming.

As the vicious cycle of lies backed with coercion goes around and around, it becomes more absurd, insane and evil.

However, most of the opposition to this is based on promoting impossible ideals that can never exist in the real world, and which have very little relationship to what already exists.

Since the fascist plutocracy owns and controls most of society, and needs to have more and more fascist police state powers, that is what is happening.

Since the lies can not be made to become true by being more coercively enforced, the entire system heads towards some kind of psychotic breakdown.

Since governments will not consider doing anything but use more coercion to back up their lies, it is impossible for them to do anything but make things worse, and thus for the vicious cycle to spin on and on, towards flying apart.

Since that is the way things are overall, the younger you are, the more you are being lied to, cheated, and robbed by the political system you were born into. Various tools of persecution, that started with sexism and racism, have evolved to become more and abstract and numerical, and less and less targeted against identifiable or visible minorities, but rather now systematically destroy the future of all poor youth everywhere, regardless of sex or race. It is now our future potential that is being killed by the established systems of debt controls. The tools of persecution developed in a political economy that depended upon racism and patriarchal control, which then evolved to become separated from their origins, and instead ended up driven by people counting their "profit" inside of a fundamentally fraudulent financial accounting system. All of the old insane lies have evolved to become more stylized by their repetition, and have drifted farther and farther away from reality, as these lies were kept on going by violence. The biggest lies are now very abstract and inhuman ways of doing arithmetic fundamentally based on fraudulent numbers. By those means, the triumph of huge lies has become extremely abstracted from the reality that started those dishonest systems going in the first place.

As Neolithic civilizations grew, their foundations of huge lies and lots of violence became the total context of the global civilization that we live in today. The original forms of slavery, justified with sexism and racism, and other kinds of religions and ideologies based on lies and coercions, evolved to become much more sophisticated, and way more abstract, social systems doing essentially the same things.

No reform of the mainstream system that compromises with its lies in order to be practical can ever actually work. Only a really radical breakthrough paradigm shift to the truth has the chance to change things to work.

The people who most need those kinds of paradigm shifts are also the people who are most able to make them, namely youth. Of course, nothing would be more difficult and dangerous than to begin to be successful in persuading youth to go through more of the paradigm shifts that would regard their elders as liars and hypocrites. Youth have the mental plasticity to accept new ideas, but also are the most vulnerable to being imprinted by the old ideas too.

A genuine paradigm shift accepts the fact that civilization is and must be some system of organized robbery, and then organizes resistance to try to change the rates of real robbery.

Against this are the established lies that rationalize the robberies, and assert there is no real robbery, and the lies promoted by the fake opposition groups that talk about the robbery, but then base their solutions on resorting to the impossible ideals that they will stop the robberies.

Unless the opposition starts to say that marijuana is good, and marijuana laws are evil, then nothing they propose to change will be enough to work. Saying that marijuana is no so bad, and should not be so illegal is a stupid approach that compromises with lies, and thus is a dead end bullshit solution to the problems of pot prohibition.

Pot prohibition has the inherent problem that it is attempting to continue to criminalize cannabis, when that plant has so many real benefits from its cultivation.

Pot prohibition works now only because of the history of dishonesty and violence that made the marijuana laws and enforced those laws.

Pot prohibition works because the victims continue to be too ignorant, too incompetent, or too intimidated to be able to stop it. The long history of dishonesty backed up with violence worked to suppress some people and make most survivors in that system adapt to believe in lies.

The bullies’ bullshit is built on dishonesty backed up with violence, and that reality keeps most people too ignorant and too afraid to effectively resist. Since there is a very long history of dishonesty and violence that is thousands of years old, and that established system of robbery controls almost everything that people need to live or make a living, it is not surprising that it continues to exist so easily.

Furthermore, since human animals fundamentally must act as real robbers in their environment, and groups of people must be organized groups of robbers, civilization can not be anything else but some system of organized robbery.

It is not surprising that the most socially “successful” opposition is controlled opposition sanctioned by the bullies’ bullshit view of the world. Any real opposition could barely survive the violence that was used to back up the dishonesty. After thousands of years of bullies building their bullshit that controls the world, that also almost totally controlled the opposition too.

A long history of racism and robbery gradually
transformed itself into being drug prohibition.

The war against some drugs has
been going on for generations ...

Stopping wars, after we have been deeply inside of them for generations, is extremely difficult and dangerous. Those wars were started with dishonesty backed up with violence, and those wars have been creating the established social conditions that surrounded us for generations.

Stopping a war is more than a cease fire, it also has to deal with the veterans, and numerous other analogous problems. Furthermore, since we still are vigorously aggravating these wars, and the dominant political parties intend to increasingly escalate the drug wars, rather than stop them, there is no way to even realistically imagine stopping them at any time in the foreseeable future.

Peace is a dynamic equilibrium ecology of the forces of war.

Peace can not be based on stopping robbery.

Peace is balancing of human ecology in working action.

Peace must be based on organized resistance to change the rates of robbery.

Real peace is a changing dynamic equilibrium of the forces of war.

War becomes noticeable when the rates of robbery become sufficiently unbalanced.

War and peace are not opposites.

Peace is the relative expression of balance inside the context of perpetual warfare.

Politics can not stop war, but can help to balance the rates of robbery towards the apparent harmony that appears as peace.

Since almost all of the opposition is still controlled opposition that mostly believes in the same old bullies’ bullshit view of the world, and relies on impossible ideals that can never work in the real world, but rather actually make the opposite happen, most of the resistance to the drug wars is based on bad ideas.

Most mainstream ideas like "harm reduction" suck.

Harm reduction presumes harm is primary.

Making harm reduction be primary is based on presuming that drugs are bad, instead of regarding all drugs as good tools, and only secondarily being concerned with possible misuses or abuses of drugs.

Drugs are tools, and tools are good.

Use or misuse of tools depends on purposes.

The purposes depend on the environment of the tool users.
& environment of the ancestors of the present tool users.

As long as we continue to primarily regard some drugs as bad, then all of our policies will be bad.

"Harm reduction" is mostly more bad neoprohibitionism.

Since drug prohibition had an irrational foundation built mainly on racism and political corruption, that built a regime of social control on huge lies, with extremely hypocritical contradictions between legal versus illegal "drugs," prohibition itself was the main factor that drove the misuse and abuse of drugs. In that context, harm reduction gets things backwards, since its ideas continue to be based on the insane notions that drugs are bad, instead of being based on the idea that drugs are good tools.

Harm reduction is something promoted by the mainstream marijuana movement, that compromises with the idea that "drugs" are bad, and that we should try to minimize the bad effects of drugs.

Radical marijuana promotes marijuana maximization.

The paradigm shift that is necessary is to see that all drugs are good, and we should maximize the good use of drugs as tools, while only secondarily, included in that, is the minimization of the bad effects of the misuse or abuse of those tools.

Good drug laws would be based on better purposes that come from a better understanding of the whole environment.

Drug prohibition was built on particular kinds of false fundamental dichotomies that are the same as most of the other basically insane ideas that our entire civilization was built upon.

Society is primarily controlled by lies and coercions, which probably can only be corrected by forces beyond human control forcing people to change. Catalysing those changes that will primarily be driven by forces beyond human control is perhaps marginally possible. Ending the drug wars should be seen in that real context.

We should not attempt to stop the fascist plutocracy, but rather try to push it to go beyond where it otherwise would have stopped. The genuine solutions will be based on new systems of lies and coercions. They can not actually be based on stopping all lies and coercions.

The full scope of the paradigm shift to end pot prohibition has to face the deeper facts about how and why civilization is being controlled by dishonesty and violence, and work through that reality, not rely on impossible ideals that we could stop that.

The drug wars are components of the overall, almost inconceivably crazy and corrupt, global systems built by fascist warmongers.

We are now not even close to ending the drug wars, and therefore, before we even get close to any possible cease fire, there is more probably going to be a lot more blood on the ground.

Even more importantly, merely stopping the overt drug wars does nothing to prevent the root causes of that war from continuing to generate conflicts.

Peace processes that do not have a real ecology are always a fraud.

A superficial cessation of the drug wars would never become more than a cease fire, which would inevitably allow conflicts to grow until another war erupted.

As above, so below, and as within, so without.

The social pyramid systems that have been growing for tens of thousands of years rely on keeping wars going on both inside society and between societies.

The drugs wars inside societies help those who want to keep those societies in the same shape.

Fundamentally, our society runs a systematic war against consciousness whose purpose is to keep the majority of people too ignorant and afraid to be able to resist being controlled and exploited. By and large, that is relatively easy to do, and has been mostly successful.

That system is particularly interested in brainwashing youth, and would be particularly concerned by any real resistance that impaired its ability to continue to effectively brainwash youth.

It is the theme of our culture that the vast majority of people act like brain dead sheep that are being routinely fleeced, and are being set up to be slaughtered. These social facts about how citizens and taxpayers behave like incompetent idiots are insulated from the reality of that truth precisely because people have been successfully brainwashed to believe in the bullshit of bullies. The trajectory that these events are on results in the facts that the younger you are, the worse it will be. Youth are the easiest to brainwash to believe in impossible ideals.

The truth seems insulting to them, exactly because the truth is that they have been believing and behaving in ways that are controlled by their ignorance and fear.

Pot politics presents this precise problem, that people are trapped in the vicious cycles of huge lies, and more problems follow that they would rather continue to believe in huge lies because they automatically have assumed they were true, and often they would like to continue to believe they were true.

Cannabis culture has evolved as a slave society.

Like other slave societies, cannabis culture has tended to develop a perverse pride in stupid habits that they developed inside the context of adapting to survive inside of a slave society.

The modern world system is still similar to that in ancient Babylon.

The fundamental problems are all based on the way society was organized since Neolithic civilizations began.

Ancient slave drivers have developed sophisticated systems of slavery based on perfecting their abilities to brainwash people to believe in bullshit.

Some people, who have survived their history, have become the best at being dishonest and violent, and they have built and benefited from the social and political institutions that dominate the world today. They intend to propagate that system by indoctrinating young people to continue to believe in the bullies’ bullshit.

It is youth that most need to learn the truth that human animals fundamentally operate as robbers in their environment, and civilization must be some system of organized robbery. However, it is youth that are most lied to and are not being taught the truth about the real world.

The entire pyramid structure of Neolithic civilization is now the problem, not merely marijuana laws. Marijuana laws are agriculture driven insane by fascist plutocracy.

Pot prohibition was a product of the history of human ecology, and it can not be ended in any worthwhile way that does not change the parameters of our human ecology.

Marijuana laws are merely the most extreme example of how psychotically sick our society is becoming, with its social polarization and destruction of the natural world.

Marijuana laws are merely the most extreme example of how bad it eventually becomes to continue to control our culture with dishonesty backed up with violence.

Our insanity can be corrected by forces beyond human control, but it would be better to appreciate that, and catalyse those changes, rather than resist them.

Most of the progress in science and technology ended up being employed to keep a sophisticated system of slavery going and going, like it still is today on a global scale. However, these established systems of robbery were built on rotten foundations. Those systems went down their own path of least resistance, to be expedient in the ways that they employed dishonesty, and backed it up with violence.

Robbery, mainly manifesting as slavery, with racism as a rationalization, was the original source of the capacity for governments to decide to make drug use a crime. Sovereignty was based on robbery, with slavery being a strong expression of sovereignty. The notion that the sovereign owned the lives and liberty of the subjects extended to justifying criminalizing cannabis. Making the use of some drugs become a crime served the fascist plutocracy that controlled the government in ways that benefited from the consequences of making some drugs become criminal.

The drug wars fit into a global system of dishonesty and violence that benefits a few in the short-term, while harming many, many more in the longer term. The drug wars fit into the perfect hypocrisy that one of their main reasons is supposed to be to protect youth, while one of their main means is to lie to youth about drugs, and thereby create conditions that harm youth.

In the world as a whole, for every one person that is extremely wealthy, there are a million people that are extremely poor.

Social engineering has worked astronomically well to do what it was really designed to to, which is make rich people richer. However, that reality hidden itself behind bullshit about "truth, justice, freedom and democracy." Meanwhile, the most extreme central corruption to the monetary system has always dominated Canada. More than 99% of Canadians have always acted as incompetent idiots with respect to funding politics, and controlling the money and tax system.

Almost all of the opposition to that system is controlled opposition that refuses to become as sophisticated in their thinking as they need to be to revolutionize the global system of sophisticated slavery. Understanding the history of pot prohibition and the drug wars mainly requires understanding racism and robbery made possible by governments that were really fascist plutocracies.

That deeper understanding of pot prohibition history is the only hope for future pot politics to become better than providing more bullshit controlled opposition.

However, at the present time, there are no good reasons to believe that will actually happen. The mainstream of society has every advantage to be able to keep itself going in the short-term.

The mainstream marijuana movement, which is the most able and willing to compromise with the huge lies about marijuana in order to be "practical," appears as the dominant movement in our sub-society, and they tend to minimize the true nature of the problems of pot prohibition, rather than see those problems as superficial symptoms of extremely serious and systematic social sickness.

The problems in the pot politics, that a tiny minority of the people who make money from marijuana are the most interested and the most able to participate in the political process around pot, result in the situation we have now.

More radical truth does not make money for anybody now.

The police and organized crime make by far the most money from prohibition, and they do everything possible to keep the vicious cycle of pot prohibition going and getting worse. The vast majority of people making money from marijuana do nothing to try to legalize it, but rather everything they do drives their vicious cycles of dishonesty and violence to get worse.

The mainstream marijuana movement that makes money inside of the system, in the grey market that is growing around the black market, are the kinds of people who work within and take for granted the mainstream economic system. Those people tend to be interested in making money in the mainstream, including in the grey market businesses around marijuana, and a few of them use some of their money to engage in pot politics. Since they make their living by taking for granted, and taking advantage of the organized robbery that runs their commercial world, they do not have any interest beyond the superficial goal of legalizing marijuana to become a normal part of the mainstream of society.

The cannabis advocates in the mainstream marijuana movement who agree with hypocritical decriminalization or other kinds of fake legalization are clearly part of the problem, not part of the solution, although, of course, they tend to see themselves as heroic pot activists instead.

Understanding that pot prohibition is based on huge lies, and that is merely one aspect of an entire society based on huge lies, is the radical truth which is necessary to understand in order to understand why the mainstream of society is a integrated set of problems which requires real, radical, revolution to fix.

The deeper aspects of that change have to eschew impossible ideals, and work with more realistic ideals instead.

The mainstream marijuana movement is more of an aspect of that problem rather than a genuine solution to those problems. Being willing to compromise with lies is what a controlled opposition is willing to do. Most of the most famous pot activists now are people who are making their living in the grey market around marijuana, and who take for granted, and take as much personal advantage as possible, of the opportunities to make money from marijuana related businesses, and then use some of their money to subsidize their pot politics. They are the people that the news media are most interested in talking to. (That is hardly a surprise, since the mass media are one of the main manifestation of the vicious cycles of lies and power keeping our society going in the same patterns as it was.)

Isolating the marijuana problem from the context of the general problem that society is controlled by huge lies, fails to understand the real problem, and thus only proposes bullshit solutions, that are not working.

More radical truth is the only foundation that is worthy of acting upon.

More radical truth includes an appreciation of the fact that society is being controlled by lies and coercions. We may be forced to compromise with the force of that coercion, but we should not compromise with the lies.

Meaning depends on context, and the overall cultural context of cannabis gives cannabis its meaning.

The mainstream of society is made of the people who were able to accommodate themselves to live within that social system. The robbery and fraud is real, and is the way that the mainstream lives, but it is blinded to the truth about itself by the perfection of its lies about itself to itself.

The mainstream is the madness of militarism too triumphant.

That was enabled by its past successes at robbing other people and raping the planet, to be able to develop ways to rationalize doing that.

Society has naturally gone down the path of least resistance to end up being controlled by lies and coercions.

That short-term success inevitably leads to its own long-term failure. As we approach the possible collapses of systems based on lies, we will be more and more forced to adapt to the fact that no amount of coercion can ever make the lies become true. As it all gets worse and worse, we more and more should turn towards the radical truth and scientific revolution as the solutions. As exponential growth reaches natural limits, we approach the tipping point when that system can get so crazy that it collapses into chaos.

It is impossible to solve any future problems without a real and enduring industrial ecology that is based on all of our technology and science respecting the bigger laws of nature. Understanding how extremely far we are away from any such achievement, and why we are getting farther away from it faster and faster every moment of every day, can begin with understanding how cannabis became and continued to be criminalized. Unfortunately, this understanding tends to make it harder to believe there could be any better foreseeable future.

The more one knows, the greater the tragedy appears.

Since dishonesty backed up with violence works best in the short-term, there is nothing real to stop that from proceeding to create the future situation that will surround us.

The ability of lies and coercions to criminalize cannabis has perverted cannabis culture.

That is merely a small part of an integrated social system that shall go down its path of least resistance.

Everyone who is "practical" benefits in the short-term from working within the established systems that were built on the foundations of lies and coercions. In the longer term, those short-sighted "practical" people will invent new ways to be dishonest and violent, and try to continue to control society with lies and coercions.

However, they will not face the facts that they are inventing new lies and new kinds of coercion, therefore, they might not do a good enough job of doing that.

Without a series of political miracles, there is no way to stop that.

Such an improbable series of political miracles requires that the war against consciousness, that most people have been losing, is significantly reversed.

The more than 99% of Canadians that act like idiots
should begin to be competent by participating more.

The war against drugs was one of the aspects of the war against consciousness.

Pot prohibition is the single most significant particular way in which the war against consciousness is succeeding in keeping vicious cycles of dishonesty and violence going in the world. Enforcing the criminalization of the single best plant for people was the agricultural revolution in Neolithic civilization reaching the paradoxical point where the social pyramid system could have its pryamidion people able to direct governments all over the world to criminalize cannabis cultivation. The system that evolved to cope with agricultural potential, which was greatly amplified by the industrial revolution, is still based on huge lies, backed up with lots of violence, running overall systems of fraud and robbery. That overall power decided to enforce pot prohibition. A system originally made possible by the agricultural revolution of cultivating plants reached the point of criminalizing the cultivation of the single best plant for people on the planet.

Everything else awaits a paradigm change that is again like going down the rabbit hole to Wonderland, or up the tornado to Oz, or through the looking glass into a Bizarro Mirror world.

Enforcing huge lies against a plant symptomizes insanity.

Neolithic civilization overall has become quite insane!!!

Pot politics is merely the most extreme particular case of how bad it all is, and how pathetic are most of the efforts made by the controlled opposition forces to change things.

A victory in the battle to truly legalize marijuana would be a victory in the context of the war for greater consciousness through a greater use of information.

Once one goes through the process in pot politics,
it applies to other political issues in similar ways ...

The diminished use of information, due to the triumph of dishonesty backed up with violence, has resulted in a diminished consciousness. However, greater use of information, which is the operational definition of greater consciousness, should become a practically on all levels, not a practically within accepting currently established systems of lies and coercions.

Opposition to the artificial scarcity that has been created almost never is willing to face the facts about the natural scarcity that started that system going, and still has to be dealt with by any new system of artificial selection to internalize and more intelligently solve the chronic political problems that come from unavoidable natural laws that manifested in the form of natural selection.

Most human history has been a grand
conspiracy of dishonesty and violence.

However, some conspiracy theories seem silly and superficial views, that may well be partially true, but that nevertheless end up with more bullshit solutions.

It is not good enough to denounce the bullies’ bullshit that controls the world now, unless one goes beyond that to understand WHY that worked in the past.

It is very common to find good analysis of political problems followed by bullshit solutions.

What we should have is radical truth and scientific revolution.

What we mostly have instead is controlled opposition to the established system which compromises with lies and proposes "solutions" that are reactionary revolutions that are based on impossible ideals, including the impossible return to various old-fashioned systems of lies and coercion, that have been displaced by the currently established systems of lies and coercion.

Stopping the drugs wars has to fit into a larger understanding of stopping dishonesty and violence from controlling the world in sick, stupid, inefficient and ineffective ways. However, making less sick, less stupid, and more efficient and effective ways can not work unless it faces the facts about human societies going down the path of least resistance.

Facing of the truth and thinking logically is what is prevented by the established system of lies and coercion.

The controlled opposition will often appear to understand the truth, but only up until the point where they are revealed as reactionary revolutionaries, when they propose their various kinds of bullshit solutions.

Stopping the war campaign against cannabis should become the template for the pattern to inspire stopping many other wars and transforming politics into a new age of warfare that will solve our chronic political problems in less sick and less stupid ways, and that will work more efficiently and effectively to resolve the chronic political problems that must necessarily be resolved in some way.

The problem is that any realistic way to do that has to rely upon maintaining dynamic equilibria between different people’s powers of robbery. The real system is an organized system of robbery, and any better new system has to be a better organized system of robbery, using the powers of more people to participate.

What we have now is the absurd stalemate of an established system of robbery that has triumphed behind lies about itself, being opposed by controlled opposition that tends to claim that all robbery should stop, instead of enlightening more people how to better participate in balancing the ecology of the real robbery.

What has been built in the past is a stagnant system of established lies and coercions being opposed by reactionary revolutionaries that still believe in the same, or earlier versions, of the lies that the established systems hide behind.

The triumph of dishonesty backed up with violence was able to control the opposition so completely that the opposition promotes similar impossible ideals that the established system promotes. In consequence, we ended up with the endless decades of drug wars.

Of all these absurd and insane wars created by historical cycles of abuse, the war against pot is the most absurd and insane.

Pot prohibition is the single, simplest symbol of how conspiracies of dishonesty backed up with violence controls the world.

Since pot prohibition is a component in that overall system of fascist plutocracies that controls us, pot prohibition sits on the cusp of day dreams for a series of political miracles to change the world.

Unfortunately, the past success of lies and coercion has built the system that surrounds us. Most of our legislation was created by professional liars. Much of our law is their legalized lies.

There is robbery by legalized lies.

There already is, and must be,
some system of death control.

The history of death controls
is a history of real robbery.

The most extreme robbery is to kill:

to take away another’s life by force.

That is the robbery called murder.

Within systems of organized robbery,
are systems of organized murder ...

The control of death,
made possible robbery,
& real robbery evolved
into sophisticated fraud.

That made the monetary and taxation systems.

Death controls evolved into debt controls.

Marijuana laws match money laws.

Both resulted from triumphs of huge lies,
backed up with the governmental coercions.

A real fascist plutocracy
is controlling society by
controlling its accounting.

The political process was funded
by a tiny minority of the rich,
and they got what they wanted
from their political parties,
which was a crazy, corrupt,
system of legalized lies,
that would nonetheless
be enforced by law.

The ulterior purposes were the real purposes.

The ulterior purposes have been fulfilled.

The stated purposes have totally failed.

This is typical throughout all politics.

What was really intended actually happens.

The stated lies and hypocrisy for prohibition totally failed, and instead caused their opposite to actually happen more and more, because the real truth for why there was a prohibition was never stated, and was never the true primary intention of those who made the original prohibition laws.

There was a constellation of interests, wherein racism and profit coincided, which led to discrediting and destroying natural products, with the most extreme example of this being pot prohibition.

There was an astonishing ratcheting effect of lies from one person being repeated as the truth by other people, going around and around in ever worse vicious cycles. The news media and police and politicians have always been major contributors to that process.

Now that vicious cycle has become a process where governments are constantly attempting to back up their dishonesty with more and more violence. That system seems to have no long-term future, except to eventually fly apart into some sort of psychotic breakdown.

When that happens, there probably will be a continuing tragedy that most practical people then will merely invent new ways to continue to control governments by adapting their dishonesty and violence to those new circumstances. It would take a series of political miracles for anything else to happen. In the case of pot prohibition, we can predict that, when marijuana is eventually "decriminalized" or "legalized," it will be ““legalized”” in the worst possible ways.

We will not likely see the kind of political miracles that would be based on breakthroughs to the truth about marijuana, but rather a continuing compromise with the lies about marijuana. A fake controlled opposition will more likely succeed with their bad legalization, than a radical opposition will succeed with a truly good legalization. This dismal outcome will, of course, be integrated into the dismal outcomes in the rest of the political and social systems.

Our only genuine hopes depend on winning more battles in the war against consciousness, so that society switches paradigms towards more radical truth and more scientific revolution.

However, all of the glorious potential of improving civilization with better science and technology will probably be undermined and eroded by the new ways that lies and coercions will triumph. The scientific community is notorious naive when it comes to political reality. The transnational scientific community should be leaders in promoting radical truth and scientific revolution in society, but instead they tend to be mostly controlled opposition that believes in bullshit, and gets paid to work on making dishonesty and violence work better, rather than resists the triumph of lies and coercion.

The established systems of lies and coercion are already built and running automatically, to continue to win their war against consciousness. Deliberate ignorance prevents a greater use of information.

Controlled opposition groups are compromising with lies too much to really do any better, and the controlled opposition groups are mostly various kinds reactionary revolutionaries whose efforts to stop the established lies and coercion systems will only make things get worse, not better.

The path of least resistance is to maximize short-term benefits, regardless of long-term costs. That path is for dishonesty and violence to evolve new and improved technological ways to control society, that will eventually make everything worse.

The transnational scientific community, which includes all of the engineers and technicians, which more and more includes all of the police and armed forces, are serving increasingly insane systems of social robbery. They are doing better and better jobs of being dishonest and violent, but they are trapped within the context of serving purposes and end goals that are absurd, insane and evil. They are the ones who most need to wake up and respect the radical truth and the need for scientific revolution, for the sake of their own long-term survival.

Of course, at the present time, this seems another irrational hope for a series of political miracles.

What we are getting now is more and more triumph of the global fascist plutocracy, which is able to turn all of its bad consequences into excuses to make things even worse. Instead of a genuine global government that helps resolve global problems, we are getting a "new world order" of more and more triumph of the globalization of the triumph of dishonesty backed up with violence, creating a nightmare future.

The apparent false dichotomy battle is between the established systems of lies and coercions versus the controlled opposition systems of reactionary revolutionaries promoting bullshit solutions.

The government of the U.S.A. has become the biggest example of that system, and the government of Canada necessarily exists as a small component of that overall global system.

The establishment and the reactionary revolutionaries dominate the political space. Big powers, and the controlled opposition to those powers, are the dominant social forces. Radical truth directed towards scientific revolution barely exists as a phenomenon in the social sphere at the present time.

The manifestation of the mainstream marijuana movement characterizes the nature of these kinds of political problems. The established system is based on huge lies about marijuana, backed up with violence. The controlled opposition to that established system compromises with those lies, and promotes various kinds of reactionary revolutions, which are bullshit solutions to these political problems.

The influence of the U.S.A. is conflated with the issues inside Canada.

These factors have tended to feedback into themselves. The U.S.A. law enforcement statements were quoted as the truth in Canada. Most of the news media lap that up like obedient dogs.

(After all, disobedient slaves are considered criminals. Even after slaves are "free," the masters will not hire, or will fire, those who do not agree with their masters, and so on and so forth.)

In general, the political process in Canada has been fundamentally similar to the political process in the U.S.A., except that the history of the U.S.A. has been more hardball, with much more violence and dishonesty than was normal in Canada.

Fraudulent forces are clearly dominating the U.S.A. government. The government of the U.S.A. is clearly becoming more and more fascist. Drug prohibition, that evolved from racism, is one of the major manifestations of that fascist plutocracy that controls the U.S.A..

In the real world, there has been nothing which could stop the triumph of dishonesty backed up with violence, that has made a complete mockery of any true democracy.

The U.S.A. both takes away the right of prisoners to vote and many American states permanently take away the right to vote from people who have been in jail.

Millions of Americans are denied their right to vote because they have been the victims of drug prohibition. Of course, these laws started to stop blacks from voting. Again and again, there are isomorphic analogies between racism and slavery, and drug prohibitions.

The United States of American seems to hold the world record for the highest per capita incarceration of citizens anywhere in the world, at any time in history. It is part of the overall pattern that the U.S.A. has 5% of the world’s population, while having 25% of the world’s prisoners, and having 50% of the world’s military budgets. It is part of the pattern of fascist plutocracy in a vicious spiral of needing more fascist police state powers, that pot prohibition is getting worse and worse.

Fortunately, the Canadian voting rights situation is the opposite of what has happened in the USA. Since Canadians still retain their right to vote while in jail, it would not be as easy to build a concentration camp culture in Canada as it is becoming in the U.S.A..

As in every other way, the Conservative Party Canadian government wants to change Canadian laws to become more like the American, in particular, to stop our prisoners from voting, but since that would take tricky constitutional law to do that, it is difficult for our government to do. In every way, the Conservatives are interested in driving more globalization and Americanization of Canada, so that Canadian fascist plutocracy becomes more like the global and American fascist plutocracy. Canada would have to become much, much worse than it is mow for Canada to become like the USA or world patterns are. Canada is headed towards being more of a fascist plutocracy, with a fascist police state, but Canada would have a long way to go to become the same as the established patterns of social facts already existing in the USA or globally.

Since Canadian laws limit the amount of money that can be contributed and spent by political parties, we are a little less vulnerable to corruption of our political process by money than the American system is now.

However, our improved election finance laws are belatedly like closing the barn door after our horse has already run away. Of course, the current Conservative government wants to make cannabis become more criminal, and wants to take away the rights of prisoners in Canada to be able to vote. Our Conservative Party wants to make our current system become more of what it already was. That system was built by dishonesty backed up with violence, and, in many ways, our Conservative Party government wants to use more violence to back up more dishonesty. Since fascist plutocracy is the easy path of least resistance and least morality for a society to devolve towards, that is the path we are on now, and the controlled, but fragmented, opposition in Canada does not seem remotely close to being able to organize more effective resistance to stop that happening.

The Canadian political process has some slight theoretical chance that our historically established system could be changed. (The current party leader of the Marijuana Party is only in that office because we won significant court cases about elections laws in the past. That was the modest series of political miracles that made it work barely enough to be able to have the Marijuana Party barely survive, and the current leader hold that office now.)

However, at present, it does not seem likely that Canada will realize that potential, but rather, our present government will try to wipe it out. But nevertheless, any theoretical possibility for democracy to ever really work any better seems much less real in the U.S.A. than in Canada.

The government of the U.S.A. continues to be the single greatest obstacle to legalizing marijuana in Canada and around the world. The current Canadian government wants to move closer to being like the U.S.A. is now, and increase the frequency of all the kinds of dishonesty and violence in Canada that is now common in the U.S.A., as well as globally. The short-term future is probably going to continue to be more and more triumph for the established and entrenched systems of dishonesty, backed up with violence, that already control almost the whole world.

The government of the U.S.A. represents the triumph of dishonesty and violence, and, even worse, all of their allies and rivals are merely smaller versions of the same kind of social systems controlled by dishonesty and violence.

Understanding why and how dishonesty and violence controls our world, and therefore how extremely difficult it is to make things better, is the central issue in understanding pot politics, and necessary to understand why ending pot prohibition is both so necessary and so difficult.

The war against some drugs is a necessary part inside the societies that are also engaged in other wars outside of that society. There is a total, global system of dishonesty and violence, within which exists pot prohibition.

The problem is that, in each short-term increment, dishonesty backed up with violence wins, but, in the long-term, that whole system becomes unsustainable.

People inside the system make it work, but the system as a whole will fail, although it will take a long time for all the consequences of running a society based on lies to accumulate to the point where the system can no longer survive.

Just like, in the short-term, slavery and racism worked to benefit a few, even though it harmed many more, pot prohibition continues because it helps those few to continue to run their systems.

Just like a pendulum pushed so far from equilibrium will return to balance, but then become even more unbalanced again in the opposite direction, we can have no reasonable hope for the long-term future of our society in general, nor for pot prohibition in particular.

It seems impossible to imagine any practical solutions to stop these kinds of things from going down their own path of least resistance. A cheerful irrational hope seems the best we can do.

Those who have a superficial understanding of pot prohibition, and argue for legalizing marijuana to make it become "normal" in our society, seem unaware of the depth of these real political problems. The effects of the long history of slavery and racism are not going to suddenly stop, and the effects of decades of pot prohibition can not suddenly stop either.

Those who have a superficial understanding of pot prohibition think that making marijuana "legal" is enough. Unfortunately, that is like thinking that ending slavery is enough.

In the real world, after understanding history, ending slavery, or ending pot prohibition, is merely the beginning.

Furthermore, there are always chronic political problems that perpetually need to be resolved.

Human beings must fundamentally act as robbers in their environment, and always have the potential to reproduce at an unsustainable exponential rate.

The elite did not create these basic difficulties, but merely evolved the most expedient historical solutions to those problems.

Almost everything in our social structures were selected to be the way they are now by the long history of dishonesty and violence controlling what happened in the short-term.

Understanding that the world is still now really a vast sophisticated system of slavery, with pot prohibition being the salient symbol of that fact, is still not enough to fix it, unless we understand why and how some system of slavery does, and must necessarily, exist.

There ARE chronic political problems inherent in the nature of life.

There always is some overall context of real natural scarcity. However, our social systems that evolved our human ecology to cope with those natural facts have gotten into vicious cycles where they made and maintained their own artificial scarcities, because scarcity was what created them in the first place, and scarcity is what they are adapted to.

To say that the world should not go down the path of least resistance is a typical kind of least resistance statement to say.

Unless we face the facts about natural laws, and realistically work to make civilization become a better organized system of robbery, we will be ineffective, or make things worse instead.

If we start talking about how we will totally end the robbery and slavery, then we merely are other kinds of liars and hypocrites, that will either be ineffective, or make things worse instead.

The lies and hypocrisy, the bullies’ bullshit, so totally dominates public discourse that it is practically impossible to have any rational debate. Almost everything in our standard rhetoric about "freedom and democracy" is nonsense poetry that has no real roots in human ecology and evolution, except by the default of necessity. The real world is being run by the biggest bullies with the best bullshit.

Pot prohibition exists in the real context of our human ecology, and must be changed in that real context. However, human ecology itself exists almost totally in the context of social stories that are lies and hypocrisy that deny and suppress the truth about themselves.

Ending pot prohibition in a way that is more than pointless requires changing human ecology, which requires more conscious truth about human ecology.

The evolution of our consciousness about ourselves is extremely difficult and dangerous, because our real human ecology is currently controlled by dishonesty backed up with violence.

That is a reason why all of our human sciences are so far behind our physical and biological sciences. Human sciences have to cope with the fact that they are being controlled by dishonesty backed up with violence. That makes scientific progress in these areas become problematic and paradoxical almost to the point of being practically impossible.

Pot prohibition is an extreme example of the way that dishonesty backed up with violence was triumphant and continues to control cannabis culture, and perverted it so badly.

Worthwhile ways to end pot prohibition are with a simultaneous breakthrough to change our consciousness about our human ecology.

Most of those who protest and oppose pot prohibition do so within the overall context of believing in the bullies’ bullshit view of the world. They do not perceive nor want to understand human ecology and evolution. They tend to promote impossible ideals that could never really exist, and therefore, they actually continue to make the opposite happen in the real world.

Most of both the abusers and the abused are still operating within the same set of impossible ideals which are the bullies’ bullshit view of the world.

Many of the abusers know that their ideals are lies and hypocrisy, and many of the abused have internalized the bullies’ bullshit view of the world, so that they base their protests upon belief in the impossible goals of making impossible ideals become real.

The history of pot prohibition is as much about the triumph of the brainwashing of those who oppose it, as it is about the triumph of the lies and coercion of those who promoted pot prohibition. Indeed, the greatest on-going success of pot prohibition is the way in which it has created a cannabis culture in its own image. Since the mainstream marijuana movements are attempting to pander to the mass media for attention, the mass media has been able to select the representative "leaders" of the mainstream marijuana movements that most believe in the bullies’ bullshit world views.

It is vital to real change for the opposition to be aware of the degree to which it is controlled opposition. Being conscious of being controlled opposition is the first step to stop being as controlled an opposition. The more one apes the mainstream of society, while supposedly protesting, the more one actually is controlled opposition that does not propose to change anything that really needs to be changed.

REPEATING REAL CONTEXT OF PROHIBITION:

The reality is that dishonesty and violence does, and must necessarily, control the world, and that governments are, and must necessarily be, the biggest and best organized gangs of criminals, that have the power to legalize their own crimes, because there are no other powers that can stop them. That reality is denied by both the governments and most of those who protest what those governments are doing. Most of our important laws are based on legalized lies. The banks, and the corporations that have grown up around those banks, are the biggest of the legalized lies that control our society through the systems of frauds and robberies which are organized by the money laws. However, the simplest salient symbol of those legalized lies are marijuana laws.

The only possible way forward is to become more conscious of what human ecology and evolution really are, and make a greater use of information within that reality. However, that seems to require a series of political miracles.

This sort of "series of political miracles" amounts to more people participating in their hard bargaining to better balance the forces of robbery.

The more there is dishonesty and violence to prop up the bullies’ bullshit view of the world, and permit those bullies to get away with their ridiculous rhetoric about "freedom and democracy," then the worse it gets. Those who oppose that by falling back on similar rhetoric are not much better.

However, instead of more people participating in real democracy, which democratizes the power to rob, there are less and less people participating, and the established robbery systems are more and more marginalizing them.

The greatest triumph of the greatest robbers was their lies which concealed their robbery and controlled the opposition to base their protests on impossible ideals of stopping robbery, instead of realistic ideals of better balancing the robbery.

Ending the drug wars, and especially ending pot prohibition, is a small facet of the overall problem of making democracy really work to make a greater use of information. However, any greater use of information has to make a greater use of truth, not a greater use of lies, or else it is a failure. Ultimately, the basic essential policies are about death controls. Since killing is the most extreme form of robbery, it is death control that is fundamental to all social and political controls. Since the people who were the best at death control were also the best at being dishonest about that, those social facts are both plainly obvious, while, at the same time, the most deeply buried under bullshit.

We can not escape from the ultimate paradox that everything human beings know must be some relative illusion, and thus lies. We can not change the fundamental laws of nature. Perhaps those laws of nature themselves can evolve, but there is no evidence that human beings can command the laws of nature to change.

Human beings necessarily act like robbers in their environment.

We could evolve some new ages of warfare, but we can not stop our lives from being based on perpetual warfare robbing resources. We could change the ways and the rates that these robberies could be done, but we can not stop them from being done in some way or another, in order that we can survive.

We rob resources to feed ourselves, and enable us to reproduce. These fundamental facts of life generate the chronic political problems that are being resolved by the established systems.

Genuinely good governments are better
organized systems of frauds and robbery.

Beginning with the bullshit
that denies that reality is
sure to mislead everything.

We had a long history of racism and political corruption that found expedient ways to enable some people to rob others, and to enable some people to reproduce while others were prevented from doing so. However, that long history of racism and political corruption was based on huge lies, backed up with violence, that gradually, generation after generation, degenerates and degenerates in more crazy corruption, due to the inherent paradoxes of the triumph of lies controlling civilizations.

In the vicious cycles of these problems,
the "solutions" are always more bullshit,
based on making impossible ideals real.

The reality of dishonesty and violence
serving systems of fraud and robberies
is what is underlying the whole system.

The success of the lies and coercions that made pot prohibition is an overwhelming fact, especially as it exists now almost everywhere in the world, and particularly in North America, which is of most relevance to us here, and which has most driven the rest of the world to adopt similar pot prohibition policies.

We need a truly greater use of information, and the higher consciousness of more real democracy, which requires more real participation in resolving the chronic political problems in better ways.

The paradigm shift in pot politics is to understand we have been looking through a looking glass at a Bizarro Mirror World, where the truth about cannabis, and the lies in marijuana laws, got to become as totally backwards as it was possible to get.

Furthermore, that paradigm shift in pot politics to see that marijuana is good, and the government is evil, is what is necessary to understanding everything else in politics as well.

The bullies’ bullshit IS backwards!

Ideally, we should strive to democratize death controls, which would enable us to democratize the debt controls. That is the really necessary context in which democracy should end pot prohibition.

The main obstacle to that is the entrenched system of dishonesty backed up with violence that is greater in the U.S.A. than anywhere else in the world. It is not an accident that the USA military is bigger than all of the other countries combined. The USA is the most committed to death control, and lies the most about what it is really doing. The paradoxical irony developing from a sublime point of view is that the government of the USA is, by far, the biggest terrorist organization in the world, and its war against terror was started with huge lies, for ulterior purposes.

There are deep reasons why the war against some drugs prepared the way for the war against some terrorists. Both were started with huge lies, and both drive vicious spirals of making things worse. Both make private profits for the warmongers, and both make the overall social situation get sicker and sicker.

The history of pot prohibition in the U.S.A. is much more extreme than in Canada, and will therefore probably devolve in a much worse way in the U.S.A. than in Canada.

There has been a history of the Americanization of Canada in many ways, including Canada imitating the American style wars against some drugs, with that drug war overwhelmingly being against people who cultivated or possessed cannabis.

When the paradox of failure from too much
"success" occurs, then it will occur in
the U.S.A. more than anywhere else.

U.S.A. marijuana laws were first used to
attack Mexicans, then used against Blacks.

In the U.S.A., El Paso, Texas, in 1914, had one of the first laws against marijuana.

Mostly in the U.S.A., (but which also was influential in Canada by being quoted as the truth) there was a propaganda campaign, funded behind the scenes by some big businesses, to paint pot as a dangerous addictive narcotic that caused criminal insanity and fatalities.

The only thing that most Canadians knew about marijuana was what various mass media, such as MacLeans magazine, had told them, which was the racism of Emily Murphy.

The main motivation for the Canadian marijuana laws apparently was the result of the obviously racist attacks on Chinese Canadians. That is the motivation that is supported by an abundance of evidence, if one does enough research into the entire cultural background of that period of history.

By a process analogous to parallax,
one looks at the facts around 1923
against the background of racism, &
constellations of prohibition facts.

The most probable theory for why
cannabis was criminalized in 1923
was due to persecution of Chinese.

Before and during 1923, a lot of other bad laws were enacted against all the Chinese in Canada, especially the Chinese exclusion laws, or what they called the 43 humiliations, since the Chinese were the only people that were explicitly excluded from Canada.

The parallax process of looking at the known pot prohibition facts in the context of all the background cultural facts, can infer what was probably going on, which was racism against Chinese Canadians motivated making cannabis become criminal in Canada in 1923.

The devil is often in the details.

It is fudging it to say we know.

There is really no evidence why.

The circumstantial evidence
says it was racism & sexism.

It is generally believed by those who study the 1920’s, as a kind of a conspiracy theory with no smoking gun, that the Canadian government was induced to add cannabis to the schedule of narcotic drugs because of Emily Murphy.

Hence, Canada’s marijuana law was literally Murphy’s law.

Since it was controlled by dishonesty backed
up with violence, it makes perfect sense that
everything that could go wrong did go wrong.

All of Murphy’s recommendations for punishments were adopted, but none of her recommendations for treatment were used. That is still the same today, where 95% of Canadian drug prohibition budget is spent on punishment, and 5% is spent on treatment. Considering that 75% of the drug prohibition budget is spent on pot prohibition, and "treatment" for marijuana abuse is the silliest of all the drug treatment programs, Murphy’s law is surely having a field day now.

Most of the so-called "treatment" is a token that itself is mostly another form of the lies and hypocrisy derived from a prohibitionist state. In the U.S.A. their "treatment" has become a form of punishment. Those who will not agree to "treatment" get even more criminally punished. (Those who can not afford to pay for, or have their treatment paid for, end up being more criminally punished instead.) That is how the U.S.A. manages to generate their statistics about how bad marijuana is, and how many people need "treatment" for their marijuana abuse. The entire edifice is built on lies and coercions, and their "treatment" regimes are part of that overall program of deceit and destruction. (These regimes of "treatments" are less available to poorer people, who often also tend to not be white people.) That system beats people into submission, who then are rewarded for grovelling before that system, in front of the people who make their living from keeping that system going. People who make their living from subjecting other people to these kinds of indignities are obnoxiously self-righteous about doing that. Those are the kinds of professional liars and hypocrites that talk about how bad marijuana is, and continue to make their living by forcing other people into situations where they are better off agreeing to those lies, or else become subjected to even worse punishments.

Emily Murphy was the first female judge in the British Empire, and her efforts, more than anything else, led to criminalizing cannabis in Canada in 1923.

Emily Murphy was a kind of living instrument who worked for the fascist plutocracy to help forge pot prohibition as another tool of persecution. The "reefer madness" lies about cannabis were presented as facts. Later, those "reefer madness" lies would be repeated ... when in 1938 all cultivation of cannabis was criminalized. The ’reefer madness" lies that demonized marijuana presented it as being almost as bad as murder, since marijuana was asserted to be a narcotic, that was fatal in overdose, and addictive, and tending to drive criminal insanity to death. Those "reefer madness" lies originated the scheduling of cannabis as an illegal drug.

"Reefer madness" lies about "marijuana."

The drug wars were started when blatant racism was taken for granted.

To a degree, the drug wars started as ways to attack certain groups, with an excuse to defend doing that.

Drug wars were started with a kind of "false flag."

Marijuana was demonized with "reefer madness" lies.

Later, the pot prohibition would make smaller lies.

However, to start with, demonizing "marijuana"
was to assert "reefer madness" lies about it
being literally almost as bad as murder!!!

Huge lies about marijuana was asserted as facts.

Those huge lies became the basis of the law, & that was possible in a greater social context: false flag attacks are normal in our history.

Civilization is being controlled by huge lies.

Including inside that are lies about cannabis.

Of course, there was a detailed history about the sufficient popularization of the "reefer madness" lies that marijuana was a narcotic drug that was fatal in overdose, and it would addict users to drive them criminally insane, before it killed them. There was an entire cultural context in Canada, through which times pot prohibition evolved.

Emily Murphy was one of these kinds of self-righteous people who rationalized that they were doing good by punishing other people who had done nothing really wrong.

Canadian marijuana law started as Murphy’s law.

There is no official record why the government added cannabis indica to the opium act schedule. However, an abundance of historical evidence of the history of those times is available to peruse. Murphy, in her book the Black Candle, and sometimes writing under the pen name of Janey Canuck, such as in MacLean’s magazine, popularized the "reefer madness" view directed especially at Chinese-Canadians, as the government very explicitly did during those times.

It makes perfect sense that everything she suggested to hurt other people became part of the law, while nothing she suggested to help other people ever became part of the law. Marijuana laws were tools of persecution that were really designed to hurt vulnerable social groups, and everything claimed about how those laws were going to help people were lies and hypocrisy.

Cannabis was false flag attacked by "reefer madness" lies about "marijuana."

Of course, the drug laws were more than 95% punishment, while less than 5% treatment, and were always even worse than that as one goes back in history.

The original 1923 laws permitted the lash for the crime of possessing cannabis. Your back could be whipped if you had a bag of pot. That was what the legislation allowed back then. There was a group of men (judges) that could order other men to be whipped. A women joined that group of judges, and persuaded the men who ordered the using of whips to be prepared to whip those who possessed cannabis.

It has mellowed since 1923.

Yet, a real historical fact,
about being whipped for pot,
as was provided by that law ...
exists as a point to contemplate.

From being "treated" for pot addiction,
by being whipped, lashed, on the back,
now we have to pay monetary fines, or
be forced to stay in jail for a while.

That is progress in pot history, I guess.

Crazy "language" justified
being lashed for marijuana.

The original 1923 law was written
with such grossly disproportional
punishments for pot as to become
absurd, insane and very evil ...

Pot prohibition is based on huge lies.

Yet, those lies had power to prevail.

Since almost all of the so-called "treatments" are merely punishments by other euphemistic names, drug prohibition in general, and particularly pot prohibition, are almost 100% punishment, whose real purpose is to act as an excuse to punish. This could only exist in a society that was used to a long history of prejudices such as racism and sexism.

Racism and sexism where the hot button mix
exploited by the experts and media to sell
pot prohibition to people and politicians.

Racism and sexism were used
to sell old pot prohibition.

That worked.

Emily Murphy is one of the sublimely paradoxical figures in Canadian history because she was so extremely prejudiced, and yet is famous as a fighter against prejudice. Emily Murphy was a rather over-the-top manifestation of the phenomenon of controlled opposition working within the system.

Emily Murphy is famous and respected for her role in the campaign for women’s rights in Canada, however, as the first female judge in the British Empire, she also is an example of the general rule that these women had to be twice as tough as an average man in order to be considered equal. Judged from within her times, Murphy was simply being a tougher racist than any man available to do that job at that time. It is not fair to judge Murphy with today’s morality, since, according to the morality of her times her racism was well-respected and proper.

In the real world, controlled opposition is the only kind that is allowed and can survive ... the only issue is how controlled it really is. Emily Murphy managed to simultaneously do more to advance racism and pot prohibition, while she, at the same time, attacked and decreased sexism, as much as anyone else in her period of Canadian history. While legal regimes against racism and sexism now exist, their spawn of regimes to wage drug wars has morphed and grown. False flag attacks against some drugs got the drug wars going. The "reefer madness" lies about "marijuana" got cannabis criminalized.

Pot prohibition was Murphy’s law popularized:

Tell the biggest lies that the best plant for people
is almost as bad as murder and outlaw growing it!

Emily Murphy, writing under the pen name of Janey Canuck, played a significant role in popularizing the racial prejudices that drove pot prohibition, and a lot of other racist laws that were passed during the same period of Canadian history. The real background issues were ones about human ecology and evolution, but they were never allowed to be examined by any other standards than with the extreme prejudice that controlled the Canadian culture of those days.

In the reality of the global situation back then, it is plainly obvious that, if excuses had not been invented to stop immigration from Asia, then colonies of settlement in the British Empire, like Canada, would have been overwhelmed by Asians.

But for the racism that stopped it from happening,
British Columbia may have been Chinese Columbia.

Drug prohibition became, and still mostly is, a cleverly coded way to achieve the objectives of racism, without being overtly racist. Governments could operate tools of persecution that worked well, but did not have to be defended with overtly racist reasons, but could be defended with dishonesty about “narcotic” drugs instead.

Brazen false flags attack by demonizing marijuana
succeeded, decade after decade, via driving wars.

These laws started in the context
of taking for granted socialized
racism and sexism, directing it
against the "abuse of drugs."

Political economy and human ecology problems
due to the racist and sexist social reality,
could be resolved with force used against
the vulnerable social groups targeted,
(with the justification by drug laws).

This is especially clear if one follows the political career of MacKenzie King, Canada’s longest-serving Prime Minister. MacKenzie King had solved the problem of unwanted Asians by inventing the Canadian anti-opium laws, in 1908, and later, in 1923, the anti-marijuana laws were added on, as an extra.

To fully understand the whole truth about marijuana law, one has to look at all of Canadian history in a radically different way.

MacKenzie King built his political career on being a drug expert. What he was really expert at was being a liar and hypocrite, who deliberately used deceit to obtain political objectives.

It is normal for civilizations to run on systems of organized lies, operating organized robbery. Of course, our Prime Ministers actually were doing that. Drug wars were wars started by false flag attacks against substances that were going to be demonized as extremely dangerous drugs. "Reefer madness" lies about "marijuana" were used to justify criminalizing all cannabis.

What is both extraordinary and banal at the same time is the way that dishonesty backed up with violence could set up and run the system that exists now. The most successful politicians are always going to be the most skillful liars and the most sincere sounding hypocrites. They are popular, and thus gain power, by appealing to the systems of prejudice that people at that time believe in.

Murphy’s writings contained many extremely racist statements, that, during her times, were quite respectable things to say.

In particular, the most extreme of Emily Murphy’s statements were about how degrading it was for white women to have sexual relations with Chinese men.

Throughout the early 1920 - 1940 campaign to make cannabis criminal, both in Canada, and in the U.S.A., the emotional hot button that the propagandists pushed hardest was that coloured men were going to use marijuana to seduce white women.

While it may be true that marijuana might make sex more enjoyable, it is a shallow view of politics to think that this fear of marijuana being used by coloured men to seduce white women was the major reason why marijuana laws were passed.

Perusal of Murphy’s statements, and many similar public statements by others, takes a lot of reading between the lines to fully understand.

The prohibitionists did not really care that much about some white women being degraded by coloured men, so much as the prohibitionists wanted to be able to persecute and destroy coloured men.

Being able to persecute & destroy some coloured men
made it more possible to control other coloured men.

Furthermore, in order to truly understand the process that produced prohibition, one has to follow the flow of money that funded this kind of campaign.

The issue was not about saving white women from degradation, but rather who would bother to fund the campaign against marijuana, because in some precessional ways they would profit from it.

There is no doubt that racism and sexism originally generated the hottest of the sensational arguments against some drugs, but they were not truly the main reasons for the prohibition.

Many social forces acted in the 1920s & 1930s.

Now too, there are many causal factors.

It makes perfect sense that scientific revolution and paradigm shifts are extremely unpopular at their beginning, and therefore, the more radical marijuana approach is not going to be successful within the mainstream of society in the foreseeable future.

It makes sense that people interested in short-term success are going to believe that the marijuana movement should go mainstream. It is predictable that they will personally become more successful doing that.

However, radical marijuana is based on paradigm shifts that are regarded as vitally necessary to understand why the mainstream is the problem itself, and that making marijuana become a normal part of that mainstream is a dead end.

The mainstream marijuana movement is willing to compromise in their view about the past regarding pot politics, because it is willing to compromise with the mainstream attitudes.

Radical marijuana is less willing to compromise with what it regards as the huge lies which are at the foundation of everything the mainstream society is.

In this context, the radical marijuana position is extremely tenuous. Not only is the established system against it, but also, the mainstream marijuana movements are also against radical marijuana too.

In this context, the bare survival of
Radical Marijuana is difficult enough.

When the Canadian cannabis community began to seriously split apart in 2004, the mainstream marijuana movements’ people decided to take their influence and their funding into the different mainstream political parties that they decided to join.

I would not have been able to become “leader” of Parti Marijuana Party unless that had happened. When the mainstream marijuana movements’ people switched to the bigger mainstream political parties, what was left was the radical rump of marijuana militants that did not want to go mainstream.

The marijuana militants are the most marginalized of the cannabis advocates, and the least willing to participate inside of the mainstream systems of money and power.

The radical marijuana militants have attitudes that regard the mainstream society as systems of lies and coercions that have become insane, and are therefore headed for psychotic breakdowns.

A crucial factor to understand politics is the history of the funding of the political process. There has been a dynamic positive feedback between death control and debt control, creating vicious cycles of power and money, that are the underlying current that flows through the mainstream.

I have spent most of my political career working on court cases against the government about the issues of the funding of the political process. That was what resulted in me treading water as the "leader" of Parti Marijuana Party. However, I regard myself as an "unleader in retreat." My court cases were political experiments that revealed how bad things really were.

The more I have learned, the worse it has always gotten.

I have no practical ways to actually resist the lies and violence that controls the civilization that surrounds me. In truth, I can only retreat. I have no way to go forward that I am aware of, and I do not want to lie to myself and others by pretending things will get better, when everything I know as real facts indicates that things are getting worse and worse, faster and faster.

At the present time, a vote for
Radical Marijuana is worth zero.

I am running the party on almost empty.

Everything Parti Marijuana Party is doing
can obviously be done much, much better.

However, given the predicament of Radical Marijuana,
merely surviving, and keeping the party registered,
is all that I might do under current conditions ...

The real problem is a propaganda war ...

It always takes money to fight that war,
to attempt to repeat the truth as loudly,
and as many times, as lies are repeated.

However, the elections laws were deliberately
changed in 2004 in ways that wiped out most
previous abilities we had to raise our funds,
& made sure that the millions of dollars in
new funding for big parties would be denied
to the smaller registered political parties.

In that context, the truth has never made any difference,
while the fascist plutocracy has overwhelming advantages.

The history of pot prohibition and the funding of the political processes give no reasonable hopes for the future, and provide no grounds to believe that bothering to write essays like this will ever make any significant difference to the vicious spiral of huge lies, backed by lots of violence, that have always controlled things in the past.

Going with the mainstream is an easier ride.

Radical marijuana rides on rough revolutions.

However, fascist plutocracy,
& its evil pot prohibition, will
automatically get lots worse,
and there is really not much
I can actually do but wait,
and watch that process ...

Paradigm shifts often take generations.

The more one learns about the real history of pot prohibition, and the way it was integrated into the fascist plutocracy, then the less possible it becomes to have any reasonable hopes for the future.

One can expect that if marijuana was ever "decriminalized" or "legalized" that will be done in the worst possible ways.

As far as I know, there is nothing that works, since the real systems are already so completely crazy and corrupt that there are no practical ways to prevent them from getting worse. Canada is already a fake democracy, that is actually a fascist plutocracy, and the fascist warmongers have the easy job of going with the established flows, to make things get worse and worse.

Evidence and logical arguments mean nothing to systems based on lies and violence. The only thing that seems able to change one system of lies and coercions is another system of lies and coercions. The only people who are making a real difference are the gangs of organized criminals who effectively operate the same way as the government does, using dishonesty, backed up with violence, to resist the laws which are created that opportunity by the law first beginning to be based on dishonesty, backed up with violence.

It has become all too clear during the history of pot prohibition that more truth about cannabis was irrelevant.

The real systems are based on dishonesty and violence, and that drives a spiral of more dishonesty and violence, which are the only ways that things are actually changed, but are thereby changed to become even worse.

Pot prohibition has always been psychotic.

& Pot prohibition has mostly gotten worse.

Promoting more "radical truth" is the only
path toward an intellectual integrity which
faces all the facts about what went wrong.