Now that America is preparing for a five to ten year recession,
and states like California and Florida cannot even afford to keep
their parks open, we need to ask ourselves: how do we get money
so that we may pay our bills?
The Inevitable Legalization of Cannabis
Columbia ships cocaine to America through Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. It's true. Planes fly coke from Columbia, make a stop at the negative star hotel, and off to Alberto Gonzales and the Miami cops for drug flipping. Like flipping houses, except instead of poor people living in nice houses temporarily before foreclosure, cocaine lives in poor people's bodies temporarily before paranoia and psychosis.
Mexico is able to produce massive amounts of marijuana. The drug trade to the US is worth $250 billion per year, and growing steadily. Marijuana is a very well established remedy for nausea as well as an urgently needed pain reliever for cancer, glaucoma, arthritis, even muscle stiffness. The fiber-content variety of hemp is viable for making biodegradable containers, clothing, rope, etc. As a weed, hemp grows quicker than trees could be replaced, and would add tens of billions of dollars trade-value.
Now that the drug war in Mexico will soon drive its way from southern Texas all the way to Canada via the Trans-Texas Corridor (to be replete with RDIF scans and tolls disrupting local populace currency exchange) the number of lives lost to street warlords will increase dramatically. Around 2200 people officially are murdered in Mexico every year as a result of increased volatility in black market competition. As the death toll rises, and bleeds onto US soil, the recognition that lives must be saved will become a predominant demarcation of those sensitive to the obvious.
To legalize a 300-500 billion dollar commodity in the States would bring about a new consensus on Freedom of Trade, For example, before prohibition, the percentage of family farmers in America was probably around 25%. Now only 1-2 percent of farmers are family-oriented farmers, as opposed to employees of international corporations that may one day soon be sold over to Chinese owners (and we all know how China feels about drugs, don't we?)
Now that farmland is becoming valuable as a result of the doomed ethanol revolution (soon to be replaced by oligarch water privatization in the search for hydrogen fuel), the opportunity for family-farming sounds like a productive answer for the economic well-being of American families. But that will not happen, because international corporations that may soon be owned by China would be giving up power to engage competently in class war, and would rather have you ignore the current consumer crisis.
However, once the violence roots up the Mississippi and takes hold in a down-turned economy, more and more people will recognize the needless bloodshed has manifested from the war on drugs. And when enough people have been hurt or killed, we will demand that marijuana be legalized so that farmers may recognize the prevailing idea of the freedom to farm. Freedom long ago had prevailed as an idea of the common good, however prohibition caused needless violence to spread vehemently across the United States. When prohibition was repealed, marijuana was kept illegal, and the productivity of that commodity was shifted elsewhere, obviously. Now we import marijuana and amphetamines from Mexico, and cocaine from Columbia. The trade in these drugs will soon be worth 500 billion dollars per year.
California is at least ten billion dollars in debt, and Florida is in the same rank hole. Chicago has been unhinged, taking most of Illinois with it. Throw Detroit and Flint in the mix or maybe Montgomery New York as a joke, and what we got here is a steep economic decline that will last for a decade. We are about to double our trade deficit to $400 billion dollars per year, when what is needed in order to bring back three million lost manufacturing jobs is to halve our current two hundred billion dollar deficit.
The Freedom to Farm must be the basis of every democratic economy that wishes to thrive without class war. If we, as a people, are withheld by our own government from the pursuit of happiness, then we will, sooner or later, manifest and complete that goal ourselves. When we finally do legalize cannabis and hemp, we will be the recipients of an economic boon that will not only calm urban sprawl (through migration from city centers to rural areas) and bring commodity productivity toward consumer empowerment (actual free trade, not corporate welfare), but the CIA control over the class war will be nipped in the bud, and tens of thousands of people who will most surely die in the next (thirty) years
will have their lives saved.
Also, ten of billions of dollars may be reaped over the years in property tax, putting states like Florida and California in newly heralded positions of economic prosperity, rather than grid-locked ghetto ghost gamblers. The time of America's collapse as empire has begun. It is the anti-philosophical tale of the spiral from democracy to oligarchy. As we begin to disintegrate as a world power, more and more people will demand that those in power recognize the obvious: pursuit of happiness does not existat this time in America for ninety percent of us. The other ten percent: what in high holy hell in your right mind do you think you have done for any of us?
To be sure, these issues will contrast themselves as sure as in every private office in America, "el vino did flow". And when cannabis and hemp are finally legal to farm again, freedoms of a culture lost may be regained overnight, or at least over much discourse, meals, and possibly a puff or two on the ol' pipe at sunset.
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Legalization of Cannabis and Hemp:
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Cannabis Trade-Value/Year in US: 250 billion - 500 billion per year (within twenty years)
Hemp Trade-Value/Year in US: Tens of billions per year
Lives Saved from removing Black Market: >2000 per year and growing
Patients aided against pain and loss of appetite: millions
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The sound of music that we hear
The blend of colors in the air
All cities, mountains disappear from view
All truth and beauty near to me and you
With you through the fields
With you through the fields
With you through the fields
The fields of joy
---lenny kravitz, fields of joy
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andrew damisch
