HEMP and PLASTICS!

This is an edited version of an earlier posted and emailed e-ssay addressing the untenable "plastics" industries ruining the planet, and the Alternative of Hemp and Marijuana as a possibly-even "Heaven-sent" salve for a great many of the current, apparent, disruptions-to-life, as exude from the oil and minerals juggernauts, etc.

It has an extra piece added to the conclusion, which though I say-so-myself, is a bit-of-a-pearler, and is worth re-reading for the possible Inspiration the reader may get.

This e-ssay began as a comment on a newspaper headline in the Sydney Morning Herald or The Australian on Wednesday 14th July '04, which said plastics corporations are bearing the brunt of the anti-plastic-bags campaigns raging here in Australia.
Typically, the e-ssay ended with my warping toward the FUNDAMENTAL issues of "plastics per se", which quite overwhelm the polluting-bags situation......
I've also converted it or incorporated it into an e-ssay around the campaign for legalisation of Cannabis, as an industrial, medicinal, psycho-therapeutic product, which, as I attempt to say herein, may very well be a significant panacea or Positive Shift to a more Wholistic Planet Overall.
Lastly, I give a plug for Macro-Justice, Land Rent-style.

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About 4 years ago, I remember re-firing the anti-plaky-bags campaign of the when? early '90s, in reflecting on the question of charging (in supermarkets etc) for them, in an article in a one-off pocket magazine for the Nimbin Environment Centre.
Since then, the national campaign has soared, I feel, what with the media, government and manufacturing industry's attention on the perceived problem of plaky-bag pollution in/on the environment.

That's Good, I guess.....

Howowowowe-e-e-ver....

It begs the more important and stark question of the downers of the ho-ho! gi-normously, gargantuously bigger problem of the plastics-industry in general, and the phenomenal amounts of pollution it creates over all? .......the Planet......

This begs asking the further question of whether the "plaky-bags" attention is but a distraction from the REAL issue of "macro-plastics-pollution"?

"Too big to tackle", aye?

Well, this is Politics-BIG-P: -

On the side of "over-consumption" of plastic-and-oil products (etc.,), stand(s) the psychopathic thief: the very centralising "factor" inherent throughout private corporate business models of such DEADLY industries - oil as well (haha!? Oil? Well?), and the psychopathic and paranoid need to keep 'safe' (from the Community) the inherited wealth, the unearned income (psychotically guarded) which goes to the progeny of such corporate 'players'.

Or in other words, government for the physically/militaristically strongest people - the 'selfish dynastic establishment', against the majority 80 percent of the Human population.

On the side of "Perennial Sustainability and a Balanced Planet" - in prudent words alone - (ie., not using "seductive" language, by force or sinister manipulation) :- we have, "The People".
The Majority - perhaps, in fact, 98 percent of us.

Such industries; plastics, oil, pharmaceuticals, mining, technology in general, (technology having most of it's roots in military weapons development), have carried us far, but bluntly, they haven't grown to such sizes by being Altruistic or Wholistic, or with anymore than an overgrown ability to create - yes - and collect, or personally accrue, material wealth.

All grew from individuals, becoming small teams - inventors - eeking-out a living.

Bill Gates gained his enormous wealth through the same process, though rocketed forth because of particular 'windows-of-opportunity" (sorry!) although he, I don't put in the same "downer" category of the DEADLY industries.

It's not a question of restricting the right to earn wealth, but that of simple, Ethical Limits.

Our technological boom, again from such industrial, financial might, to research discover and improve, has also taken us far.

ALL STRENGTH TO THE GEEKS!

However, in such "free markets"(?), especially when ENORMOUS profits are available, "EXCESS", to the point of being planetarily DEADLY, must be expected to stick its ugly head in almost all areas of big business and industry.

Thus, at some stage, moderating Governmentation is necessary.

But, keeping a "forward-looking" focus, an Industrial Cannabis or Hemp-based industry, or series-of, would have far-less restrictions in regard to environmental laws.

("H.E.M.P." is also the acronym for the HEMP or "Help End Marijuana Prohibition" Party, who stood candidates in the 2004 Australian Federal election in the electorate of "PAGE", around the Nimbin culdera in northern-east NSW, Australia, and won 24,000 votes in the "half senate" vote, by our honourable Local, Michael Balderstone.)


Were the facts about Cannabis to "break-through" the (neoprene) mental bubbles that surround the CEOs, board, financiers, profit-rapists, politicians, etc., ie., those "in-the-pockets-of" the plastics, oil, uranium, coal, etc., industries, it may thus be accepted as viable AND TENABLE, on a scale similar to today's plastics and pharmaceuticals, no matter how large the Cannabis Corporation may grow.
According, in the first stages of Reform, to the corporate laws of the day.

("Can I work at the plant????")

However, such legal, political-nay-Cultural Reforms, I venture to say, mayhap be expected to succeed only when done in parallel with equally-proportioned, Cultural and Economic Reforms, in many other areas of life.
Perhaps in all other areas?

But, either way, re-introducing Hemp back into the Global Community in stages, beginning with Drug Law Reform alone, or at-once, in conjunction with the far-greater updating of Global Politico-Economic Laws - the prefered option today - the single act of adopting Hemp over plastics, oil etc., would have a powerful effect on reducing the need for the day's complex corporate and business-in general laws. I venture-to-say....

Need I mention the probable Attitudinal changes such lifting Reforms would Inspire?

This plastics-oil situation is obviously HUGE, and possessed of many factors.

If you close such industries - BANG! - tomorrow - UNEMPLOYED???!

Loose minds go into over-think and spew-forth incessant fear-based rumours and theories, as to the woes.

A Balanced mind, sees beyond the mental crap, and visualises Simple Solutions, though difficult to embrace with mere words.

Sadly, Attaining to the so-called "Simple Solutions" means divining "Best Practice" in all social and economic classes, as they exist.

This, in capitalism, necessitates identifying "corporate psychopathy", by breaking-down to the individual level, the psychopathic influences effecting them, thence where that person(s) influences and exert power over the group, company, industry and consequently, much of the economically powerful levels of society.

"Where lies the heart" of the unWise investor in industries of Planetary death?

Undoubtedly a corrupted state of heart brought upon them in no small part by their "carefree" unearned inheritance/opulence and the self-interested "peers" who come with it - shareholder, corporate board-member, CEO, sycophantic politician, academic, lawyer, doctor, professor, chemist, physicist, pharmacist. (All, it must be said, products of the 'mill-of-materialism' of a church education system gravely astray.)

So, "Where lies the heart" of the upholders of such filthy cultures, but for an exceedingly untenable, excessively "comfortable and relaxed" life?

At no matter what cost to WHAT???

Oh, Mother Earth and all Human Life on it!

To dispel these DEADLY lifestyles - cult-ures (materialism) - demands placing the transgressor's lives and thinking under the spotlight - picked apart, in public.

"Privacy"? Fuck it! They use privacy to deceive.

Who of them (those who 'steer' the national, planetary ship), profits most, in maintaining and "growing" such untenable industries?

CEOs, yes. Financiers, yes. Shareholders, yes.

Banks, etc., viable enterprises most, as an industry, but the next question is "Who chooses what to finance over what not to?" (When it's not the church....)

The board, their peers, their "Lifestyle".

Tenable or not?

The question becomes a dangerous one; "Have they the right to such opulent, unsustainable lifestyles?", while today, such over-consumption of unacceptable products of oil and plastic (keeping the focus on them, while aware that these questions can be applied to several other, unrelated industries) is known and seen by the majority of Human Beings - I venture to say - as fucked!

UNTENABLE!
PSYCHOPATHIC!
UNSUSTAINABLE!!!
(Hmmm? It's a windy day in the desert?!?!)

So!? - Tenable or not....?

NOT......

No-one is above the Law.

This however, asks us to widen our view to a "horizon-less future", by honing-in on some simple "True-facts" as they say, about WHICH Laws to Abide by, or "In".

Economic Facts, and, Personal Spiritual Facts.

Industrial Hemp, and medicinal and recreational Cannabis production and availability on any scale, "of a Certainty", would bring with it no blockage to the Effulgence of larger, much called-for Economic Facts, and, Personal Spiritual Facts.

These Facts are also Law, which NO-ONE is above. This is the Lore, and the Law of the Land.

The same Law which aligns with Aboriginal Approaches to LAND TENURE.

Sustainability!

[Edit 23rd December 2004:] Today, it would seem that such a lifestyle on a global ‘mainstream’ scale is fantastical, unless a major shift in consciousness, on a massive scale takes place in the most, or over-industrialised western nations. Perhaps the Biblical Sword will swing and change their deceived Christian attitudes, for they themselves are clearly reluctant to break the ‘born-again’ spells keeping the US and Australia especially, so materialistic, or mammonic.

It’s also not too far stretched to say however, indeed, it may be Fact, that the larger proportion of Human Beings do still live a rudimentary, Agrarian, and thus perhaps more Environmentally Sound Indigenous lifestyle, so it could therefore be said that the global ‘mainstream’, as-in "the majority", DOES live within the Laws of Sustainability, in their Lore.

If so, its because of a combination of holding to known Traditions, Ancient proven Ways of satisfactorily and successfully weaving one’s life in with That of the Environment, with That of the Universe, and the crude earthly facts of being deprived of economic opportunities and freedom to seek after and partake of any better quality of Life, of being deprived of economic opportunities tempting us to be duped into partaking of the unsound technological revolution that’s exuding out-of the ‘modern’ and proudly decadent west.

Ancient Ways, which are that of Family, the Tribe and Community, including the world around, within and beyond, which are Means, Paths, Laws for weaving oneself into the ever-greater web of the Universe.

Ancient ways more each day proven to be most Wholistic, and thus Balanced, Transcendent and Peace-Inspiring.

For any number of People to change from the modern barge of western ‘technologisation’, to recognising the Human and Spiritual or Transcendent Truths contained in that ‘Luditish’ Agrarian Lifestyle, requires a biggish shift in looking at life.

In my forty years investigating mind altering drugs, of safe kinds, Cannabis, Marijuana, Ganga, is a Herb ideally suited to float the crisis-bearer across the field of mind, full of materialistic spells, in to, up to the state necessary for addressing and adopting the massive Economic, Social and Personal, Spiritual changes Humanity has soon to meet, face and Solve.

That Marijuana is a relaxant of what I’d loosely call a "Cosmic Order", where it enables the meeting of larger and oft’ Spiritual thoughts passively and warmly, that Natural Organically-grown Marijuana has medicinal properties chemical pharmacists dream about manufacturing in laboratories, that Industrial Hemp has so many Environmentally Sound properties as a plant and raw material to replace the many massive industrial polluters, that I could sit here and type ‘til dusk about the properties of Cannabis, indicates to me that Marijuana and its Industrial Hemp sister-plant is almost a necessity for the Human population in the 21st Century..

It’s also evident that a very large proportion of Cannabis smokers are Politically, Environmentally and to a generally significant degree Spiritually awake, in the sense that they are or have left the decadence of the western lifestyle ‘dream’ models (materialism) behind for the more rustic, exertive "Life-on-the-Land", in rural "Bush" regions, whether in the village, on a farmlet, bush block or functioning farm, having seen through the ever-thicker veil of advertised deceit which packages most everything the west wants us to buy-buy-buy.

By far the majority of them are conscious of the Economic options we all have soon to look at, both Locally and Globally, and I’d guess-a-hazard and say most smokers and imbibers are Politically Progressive to at least agreeing a new era is upon us, and that some medication as Cannabis might be Perfectly Valuable during any shifts in the dominant Social, Economic and Cosmic paradigms.

Indeed, I’d go further and put-it that most Progressives of today and of recent decades have had the political and other pernicious "scales fall from their eyes" through the partaking of a good Marijuana joint, somewhere back in the shady-rooms or feral-filled-forests of their socially and politically formative years.

So, there’s no option if Humanity is going to Progress above war.


LEGALISE MARIJUANA YESTERDAY!

(But NOW! would be Better!)


DECLARE WAR
ON THE WAR ON MARIJUANA!


True Progressives would Advocate to
LEGALISE ALL DRUGS

because they know

PROHIBITION KILLS!


Written by Max No Difference

Weblog: www.maxamovie.blogspot.com

Email: maxadiff@yahoo.com.au