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The Cannabis Man Fights On

by Open-Publishing - Tuesday 4 April 2006

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So what exactly is it about cannabis that frightens governments so much?
Now isn’t that a question that great swathes of the world’s population would like an answer to?
Let’s face it, many, many people turn to cannabis at one point or another in their lives. We all know that just about ever pop musician in the world has a relationship with this plant, that’s not mention at least one member of the Royal Family in Britain and people on probably every street in the nation not to mention in many boardrooms and almost certainly there are people representing us in parliaments around the world who have had more than a passing acquaintance with the stuff.
So what’s the big deal?
It couldn’t be that this particular plant makes you think for yourself? Or that it makes the rather ridiculous way the world is ordered seem totally obvious? Or that the sensible approach to the issue would involve them admitting that they really messed up badly for decades?
Let’s take a brief look at the plant here: Most people seem to encounter cannabis as a soapy brown resin which, quite frankly, means that those same folks probably wouldn’t recognise a plant if they fell over one. They also, probably, wouldn’t recognise what the plant can actually do. ‘Brown’ (a simple label for resin) is not - I repeat NOT - what cannabis is about. Cannabis is a plant not a lump of something that represents a minor stoned feeling. The plant does not do stoned, it does high - and that’s a very different thing. It doesn’t create a sluggish feeling to be slept off, rather it changes perceptions in subtle ways that can actually, against all publicity to the contrary, increase an individuals productivity.
No, I’m not totally nuts, I stand by the last sentence.
So what is different about a few green buds compared to a lump of brown? Well, I suppose the first major difference features in the quality of the product. Brown is padded out with many things, most of them on the far side of unpleasant. It stands to reason really - if you choose to place any substance exclusively into the hands of criminals they might attempt to maximise their profits... and all to the detriment of the population who still smoke it anyway.
Green on the other hand can arrive with provenance. It’s a plant, you can see it’s a plant, you can smell it’s a plant and if you want you can taste it’s a plant.
Brown is smoked or baked in a variety of imaginative confections by those who use it.
Green can be drunk as tea, made into wine, rubbed on as an ointment as well as being cooked or smoked and each method varies the efficacy of the drug.
The day will come when honesty enters the public debate about this amazing plant. Then we will look back and consider all of our politicians to have been fools. We will be right then, just as we are right now and maybe, just maybe our prisons won’t be full of gardeners and those who rob and steal to feed a habit that could be handled so much better with enormous benefits for any society that has the guts to confront this issue in a grown up manner.
In the meantime there is the Cannabis Man who is in the last days of his preparations to stand up for the truth - the good and the bad about one of God’s great creations.
Tomorrow we will outline the ways this plant will benefit the first nation to grow up enough to take advantage of the possibilities offered. Then we will explore uses from pain relief, muscular control and perhaps most surprisingly of all, weight loss as well as industrial applications, tax raising possibilities and crime reduction...
Stay tuned because the Cannabis Man is coming and they’re not going to be able to stop him.

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