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"In the stre is of America the children arc— auried, 15 <br /> Caught in an avalanche of weapons and drugs. <br /> They live and they die in the bowels of a business <br /> • That's disguised as a war between the 'Grips' <br /> and the "Bloods'. <br /> ...And there is a need to keep some things a secret, <br /> The C.I.A. deals protecting the source, <br /> The government policies directly connecting <br /> The drugs and our wars... <br /> ...Does the word 'justice' mean anything to you <br /> As the battlefield comes home <br /> And democracy falls through ?" <br /> Jackson Browne i9 <br /> Fear of drug abuse and crime has been used by American politicians for <br /> generations to hide the truth, that bogus protection by marauding "drug czars" <br /> is, in reality, perpetuating the symptoms of radical imbalance it claims to be <br /> solving. Recall that whatever negative associations people have had with <br /> 'marijuana' have all manifested in the context of the "drug war ". <br /> The New Slavers <br /> Desperate for an economic "fix ", American politiconomics has perverted <br /> man's law so that local, state and federal police and courts now serve as <br /> contract predators for the recently privatized U.S. prison franchise. People <br /> who recognize Naturally realistic (however "drug war " - inflated) values in <br /> Cannabis are brutally "harvested ", generating enormous profits for America's <br /> new involuntary servitude industry. 8. 39, 40, 43, 44, 45, 46,50 <br /> The government demanding willing support from me chooses to concoct <br /> economic stimuli by building expensive prisons, and victimizing its people. <br /> Expensive wars are staged by failing economies, desperate for an economic <br /> 'shot in the arm'. "Outlawing" free agriculture, franchising punishment, and <br /> contriving an endless global civil war, prohibition serves up mandatory <br /> minimum sentences which ensure a steady inventory of mostly gentle human <br /> beings, fed to an insatiable "tough on crime " - addicted society. Because of <br /> economic disparity, the vast majority of thousands killed or imprisoned as the <br /> result of Cannabis prohibition are young, ethnic minorities and women, <br /> unquestionably establishing devolution of human society into <br /> institutionalized bigotry. 4, 8,10, 19, 20, 39, 46, 50 <br /> Complex Problems, Simple Solution <br /> Symptoms of increasing global imbalance as apparently disparate as <br /> overcrowded prisons, chemical pollution, world hunger, cancer, spouse and <br /> child abuse, overpopulation, drunk driving, soil erosion and mental illness, <br /> can be meaningfully addressed by referring to Cannabis - inclusive solutions. <br /> That there are so many under - exploited Earth - healing benefits for growing <br /> the Cannabis plant, reveals the magnitude of extreme illogic that is required <br /> to maintain expensive and futile attempts to eradicate it. <br /> Governments lacking Natural credibility cannot claim to be compassionate. <br /> In the 1920's Cannabis was used to cure alcohol addiction. 53 It is well known <br /> today that women and children are abused much more often by so -called "real <br /> men ", violently drunk on alcohol, than by Naturally inclined people who use <br /> Cannabis to "mellow out ". That incontrovertible fact makes this a Women's <br /> and Children's Rights issue of primary global significance.24,25,43, <br />