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Agricultural producers, under economic attack for generations in the United States, need to receive parity pricing for their produce in order to begin another round of the economic cycle without debt. Forcing agricultural producers into debt at the beginning of the economic cycle impoverishes everyone except the financial services industry parasites who profit at everyone else’s expense.
Marijuana, cannabis, hemp or whatever you call it may well be the last agricultural crop grown in the United States that is capable of providing enough income to be worthwhile growing. Profitable agriculture only appears possible outside of a legal system created to benefit a pathological elite, by definition an activity pursued only by outlaws.
This fact alone proves the lie to the political theater misrepresenting open markets and free trade. The only open markets and free trade possible today operates outside of the licensing, regulation and taxation of our pathocracy.
The free and independent culture surrounding marijuana agriculture, even as harassed and persecuted as it is, may be one of the last widespread autonomous agricultural activities available to Americans. Today parity pricing only exists outside of the law.
While many now seek to end the illogical criminalization of this most useful of all plants it seems few wish to look with open eyes at the likely outcome of their success. The price all will pay to end the justified fear of taking a few tokes will be the end of all profitable agriculture.
The growing plea for outrageous taxation levels on every step of bringing marijuana to a legalized market will end the financial incentive to grow it. We are witnessing widespread voluntary servitude for the illusionary benefit of reduced persecution.
Notice I said “reduced persecution” and not the end of persecution. Perhaps people have grown so used to their enslavement within the panopticon that they have grown numb to how modern society has become penal and coercive in nature.
Few seem to realize that licensing, regulation and taxation requires the increased intrusion of an increasingly militant and corrupt government in personal private affairs. The idea that the decriminalization of marijuana will somehow stop the police from “crawling up your ass” is far from realistic.
As it stands, only the complete collapse of our pathocracy will allow the fair pricing of agricultural products. Perhaps then people will learn to manage money as a common resource and public utility rather than the private monopoly money is today.
With decriminalization, marijuana cultivation will eventually come under the control of government subsidized agribusiness as all other commercial crops already have. The one commercial crop still supporting many rural communities will cease to be profitable.
This all comes from confusing the symptoms of unjust persecution with the cause of unjust persecution. The entire population of marijuana decriminalization activists have been tricked into petitioning their oppressors for more oppression.
The oppressors desired this outcome and manipulated events so that people will come to them of their own free will begging for more laws, more regulations, more licensing requirements and more taxes. The people they have tricked now look only to the small areas their attention has been directed to and are not aware of the greater game at play.
By terrorizing marijuana enthusiasts with militarized domestic law enforcement, those who created, empowered and armed marijuana eradication teams in the first place now weigh the various options for profit and control the marijuana enthusiasts themselves propose. Once a common cause among most who opposed our pathocracy, marijuana decriminalization has become a niche issue apart from greater issues of social injustice.
Why not advocate the return to parity for all agriculture products? This would only return our entire economy to profitability and limit the power of the central banks.
Why accept any measure of government control over what we choose to put in our bodies at all? This would only free communities of people from the onerous violent intrusion of domestic armed forces.
How can anyone believe that with decriminalization of marijuana under the hand of oppression nothing else will change? Transferring the wealth of original production from an underground economy to our pathocracy will only strengthen those who have oppressed and terrorized us while weakening those who resisted them.
We will not have more freedom. We will have less freedom.
The rich will become richer and the poor will become poorer as the door closes upon the last opportunity to sell an agricultural product at parity. After all of this I can only hope that at least you will still be able to get high from smoking it.
But do not count on it.
What do you think?
I surely don’t want state or feds to grow our medicine because they will do it the cheapest way and deliver the lowest quality. Doubtful they will go organic. They will use commercial oil based fertilizers which destroy the soil and use poisons to control bugs. Monsanto with their GMOs will probably be in charge. Now won’t that make our medicine poison like all their other medicines?
They’re already trying to limit local farmers and home gardeners with legislation in Congress right now:
http://willienelsonpri.com/peace/2695/save-local-food.html
Monsanto GMOs could ruin the genetics of local producers by allowing their inferior seed to pollinate high quality gardens. Pollen travels 2 miles. I feel the people who worked to grow superior organic medicine will be shut down.
Don’t just look at the symptom. Look at the cause. We need to see the big picture and understand if we change one thing everything else will change too. Government doesn’t want the us to be independent and free.
Please consider the downside of petitioning government for our inalienable right. We are asking the same people who created this system that restricts our rights to give us rights. Does this make sense to you? Why would they vote in favor of a measure that would limit their control? Remember it is their system. Why would they act in our best interests?
I want us to be able to grow, possess and acquire our own medicine from sources I trust. This government has not proven itself trustworthy.
Jay Greathouse Reply:
May 21st, 2009 at 10:33 pm
Liz, thanks for adding these points, all good. We need to watch everything the government does with the knowledge that their motives are often disguised. To think they only have our interests in mind seems overly naive to me.
Thanks for this great article Jay.
“Please consider the downside of petitioning government for our inalienable right. We are asking the same people who created this system that restricts our rights to give us rights. Does this make sense to you?”
Not a lick of sense does any of the drug policy make. They’ve made nature illegal and we are paying the price with our lives. Vote for change, get an IOU at best.
We are not naive. The government reports to the people, not the other way around. God’s laws were here way before modern government. Where is the love in the war on drugs?
You are absolutely right that the change we need to make is in how we approach our problems. We’re asking the wrong folks for our freedom.
We should be, as this article says, asking ourselves to grant our freedom and stop being naive.
Let science drive policy.
Jay Greathouse Reply:
May 21st, 2009 at 10:34 pm
Nayer, thank you for suggesting science to drive policy. It reminds me of the difference between science and ideology. Science looks at the world around us and tries to make sense of it by building temporary mental models, theories, subject to change.
Ideology starts with a mental model often based upon nothing more than venal desires then attempts to force reality into the constraints of a fantasy. Ideologists even use the armed forces and militarized domestic police agencies to enforce their delusions.
United States citizens have allowed ideologists to run things for way too long.
I also appreciate your point of view when you write “Vote for change, get an IOU at best.” That perfectly sums up my perspective as well.