Feds to Stop Blowing Money Raiding Cannabis Gardens

Eventually the hemp plant will be restored back to it's respectable natural spot in the world. It won't be feared or hated, or abused forever. Humanity will eventually return to reason and clear thinking on this issue and begin to embrace the plants many wonderful benefits. The hemp plant has been grotesquely abused for a long time, since around the 1930's. But it's not the kind of abuse some might think of. Cannabis has been abused by law makers who have fought the plant out of American society and then consequently by the "bad guys" who manufacture and deal the weed in violent, trouble causing types of ways.

So if hemp is so great then why is it illegal? Why the war on drugs? Money was of course the original motive for the prohibition/abuse of marijuana. William Randolph Hearst (the guy portrayed in "Citizen Cane" was both a politician and a big newspaper, timber and paper industry man). Jack Herer and others believe he intentionally created the marijuana prohibition to better his business. Hemp was about to be a billion dollar plant and would have hurt Hearst's timber, paper and newspaper businesses. Read more in Herer's book "The Emperor Wears No Clothes". Essentially, the corrupt politicians and business men who fallaciously convinced an entire nation of people that the hemp plant is inherently evil and causes murder, rape and psychosis caused the U.S. to lose a resource that could have had amazing positive benefits on our society's social, psychological, economical, environmental health. It is really a shame.

Here's where the story starts to turn around...fast forward to the U.S. in the year 2009...we've just seen a hopeful sign in that direction with the U.S. Government stating that they have stopped all federal drug raids. Cue wild applause. Much credit goes to our President who is a reasonable enough man to make such a decision.

So full on legalization shouldn't be too far behind. Of course it will be a matter of years and will involve some hard work on the part of the activists but I think there are signs that it will happen much sooner than we had been imagining.

There are more and more public figures showing tolerance for, love for or just the occasional appreciation for cannabis.

Last week Martha Stewart did an entire episode on pot. It was their "pot show", complete with brownies, pot plants and lots of jokes and puns made about pot (the weed kind) as well as pots to cook in and plant in. Martha is kind of a cool lady.

I've heard she doesn't care what people think of her and boy am I glad to find out that she is a kindred spirit at least when it comes to the issue of MaryJane. Glad she is using her place to promote the responsible, healthy, adult use of marijuana.