Hemp/Cannabis

It is possible to grow hemp with less than 0.3% THC (the intoxicating part of the plant) and so the argument against not growing it because it can be used as a drug is already by this fact simply ludicrous and it is possible for this hemp to be put to a lot of different uses, including consumption (extremely good for the body), textiles, paper, a chipboard type material and a multitude of other uses, including making hemp oil, and it is believed that the diesel engine was originally designed to run off hemp oil. So already we have a renewable energy source for machinery and do not need to bleed the earth dry of the ancient fuel of oil, every time we burn some oil we are burning the past, it has taken hundreds of thousands of years for that oil to form and we burn it in a matter of seconds as if it was always there and always will be, for it won’t, but that matters not, we do not even need it at all.
Hemp has been used and was in use for hundreds of years before the fairly recent laws were passed, and they started in America, and one of the original reasons it was outlawed is because when the powers that be saw its use increase (the actual cannabis plant with a THC level that intoxicates) they sold the law under the lie that it increased crime and suchlike and they even used racism to sell the lie as well. Racism was an accepted protocol back then with a lot of segregation and suchlike, well to get the mass population’s consent (manufactured consent) the media sold the idea that it was bad for the black community because it would make a black man do such terrible things like look a white man in the eye. An absurd notion in today’s times, but true of then, but why on earth is this plant still illegal when the foundations of it’s illegality were based on such flimsy notions.
It is illegal because it helps facilitate free thinking, increases creativity and these traits lead to something the authorities do not want, a person who operates with more of his right hemisphere of his brain is dangerous to the authorities. He is likely to rebel from the status quo and is likely to question more, but in no way should this idea of rebellion be associated with a reactionary, he will go along with society and the authorities if they are right because sometimes they are, whereas the reactionary will be more likely to oppose all the time.
People who smoke cannabis are less likely to be violent or commit crimes when compared to excessive legal alcohol use. It is also well known that a lot of the music we listen to was written when under the influence of this plant and expression through art is one of the most positive outcomes of use of cannabis. Mainstream media will have you believe however that this plant is a drug, and can cause mental health issues, and they will often sell the idea that when someone becomes inflicted with mental health issues and then commit’s a serious crime, that the person was under the influence of cannabis, these may well be true statements, but the greatest lies are often told through omission, and so what ‘they’ will probably fail to mention is whatever else was in the persons system, maybe alcohol, maybe, cocaine or amphetamine, because sometimes these things will go hand in hand, often an argument used against the legalization. It is true that cannabis use can be used as a gateway ‘drug’ to harder drugs, but it’s only in a minority of situations when this occurs, as is the situation with regards to people who become afflicted with mental health problems, and so say for instance 1 in a 100 people who smoke cannabis end up using harder drugs, should that mean the other 99 people should suffer and not use it because of the minority, and the same with mental health issues, maybe 1 in a 100 people may have an adverse reaction, but then if cannabis makes some people have problems, then the best advice is that they stop smoking it, why should the other 99 people who not only enjoy this plant but also benefit from it have to stop smoking it too? They shouldn’t, but this plant will never be legal, but that does not mean that the common sense of those that police the public can not come into fruition, sure a lot of police will turn a blind eye, perhaps those that use it themselves are more likely to do this, but it should be more mainstream, more across the board. However police like any other institution will have their own set of conditioning going on, so it will be often impressed into the minds of police that cannabis is a bad thing and if they catch people with it, it will be a good thing for them (the police) and a bad thing for those caught with it, often, especially in the USA having very strong sentences for something that is perhaps extremely harmless on it’s own for personal use. And so it’s the police that need to become more aware than trying to get authorities to legalize it, the police should have the ability to question their beliefs (given them by their institutions) and find out from other sources what it’s really like and maybe find about the music artists they like and find out if they are known cannabis users, and ask themselves would they arrest their favourite singer and then have them locked away and then be denied a great next album of theirs.
However the cannabis debate plays out, the growing of crops with a low THC level should be pushed frantically, it is a renewable source and would help save the planet tremendously.