By now, we all know why hemp is still illegal.
Long before we were born, primitive humans commonly used the versatile hemp plant for food, fiber and medicine, but then one day these humans unanimously agreed that anyone using the plant should be robbed, beaten and caged.
We are all aware of the reason that this plant was originally criminalized; because back when the media news was trustworthy and ‘real’, the public was told that the plant-- which the propagandists had named marijuana-- was a real danger to society.
The Real Danger
At this point, most of us realize that vast petroleum and pharmaceutical industries own and manage our governments, and that the lawmakers within those governments are nothing more than Public Relations specialists for those multi billion-dollar industries.
Even with that realization though, a deep sentimental attachment to the idea of a strong government which effectively regulates and controls those industrial giants will often keep the public dialogue skewed into just such a fantasy-- a more comfortable version of life than the actual reality-- so that this cognitive dissonance becomes a nice pillow for the sleepy heads of the modern humans.
What’s On TV
Everybody knows that the biggest media and news organizations are heavily sponsored and mostly funded by the pharmaceutical industry, with ads for drugs saturating the airwaves day and night. The daily news will feed itself with 24 depressing hours about war and misery, and without financing from those high-dollar pharmaceutical ads for anti-depressants which air between their endlessly depressing stories, the TV stations would be all but shuttered and bankrupted in a single day.
Most of us know that prohibition leads to organized crime, but if those same organized criminals are controlling the public dialogue through their own news media outlets-- since these criminals do so benefit from that prohibition of weed-- then we can still know deep inside that it’s all crooked, but we may eventually resign or learn to accept it through the repetitive daily programming.
Through this sophisticated psychological manipulation, the poisonous synthetic chemicals are sold, and as part of this business model, the TV dialogue invariably drifts into distraction, deception and outright lies. It is war propaganda, after all; it’s the Drug War.
Ask Your Government if Cannabis is Right For You
As this Drug War has raged on, and while the psychological manipulation of the group’s mind has effectively steered public opinion into prepared pastures of thought, some sections of the herd were given the chance to ‘legally’ graze on cannabis, but since cannabis was still illegal in the US Federal Law books, then restrictions, permissions and licenses would be required, void where prohibited, etc, etc.
The beneficial cannabis plant did seem to be changing in the mind of the public; instead of fearing the weed’s inherent robbing, beating and caging that had been the government’s business for so long, a citizen could now go to that same government and pay the same old black-market prices for the harmless weed, thanking the gangster politicians for the chance to peacefully pay the fees, taxes and fines that the still-illegal plant will now need so that it can be grown, guarded and distributed with typical governmental efficiency and care.
Getting Back to Hemp
To summarize the public perception of this absurd Drug War so far:
We know that the government is only the public relations department for the energy and pharmaceutical industry, yet we will ask that very same government for permission to do almost everything, including being allowed to use a harmless plant.
Cannabis is known to be illegal for outrageously stupid reasons, and yet remains criminalized for no apparent reason.
Following the chain of information then, we have a pharmaceutical/energy complex of industries using psychological tactics through the media to formulate the opinions of the public, while using an authoritative voice of governmental might to dictate how much, where and when a certain plant’s use will be allowed.
The result is a public that learns from that media that they have had a victory of some sort, with some states in the USA now allowing the recreational use of cannabis, and now legally satiated with the herbs, it seems the public never asks why the law still restricts or prohibits the commercial or private cultivation of hemp.
Why would the practically non-psychotropic variety of hemp be kept illegal, after all?
3D Printing, and Decentralized Building Material
There are ideas floating around the internet these days of 3D-printed houses and building materials, and they are the kinds of ideas that will likely change the way modern construction is approached in the future. An industry still in it’s infancy, the 3D printers of today may use a variety of different plastics or epoxies as a building material, but they don’t use hemp-based plastics, yet.
A look at the troubles, and benefits of unregulated hemp cultivation in a 3D future:
The trouble with having hemp growing freely everywhere would mean that the resource would become less valuable on the market.
The benefit would be that hemp and hemp seed would be affordable and available to everyone who needed it.
The trouble with allowing homesteaders to cultivate hemp would be that they could independently fuel their homes for a year using hemp oil, even with just an acre of land, which would hurt the economy if everyone started doing it.
The benefit to homesteaders would be that they could grow hemp while their 3D printer prints a hemp thresher or two, and while independently fueling their home with a biodiesel generator running on hemp oil they could begin to print lumber, conduits, shelving and shower curtains using their own homemade goo, or just print an entire cabin made of hemp, colored with hemp-based paints.
The trouble with such on-site printing of houses, aside from adversely affecting the timber, transportation and petroleum industries, would be that individuals could even use hemp as a viable food source, and such a trend could potentially damage the current agricultural industry.
The benefit to humanity from the coming 3D world being made from sustainable, locally produced hemp materials would ultimately decentralize control over hemp and other less-abundant resources, making life more practical, clean and healthy for all involved.
Such freedom could even result in a hemp-based economy, wherein the resource, being so useful and so abundant, could serve as the financial worth of a community, while also showing the value of a given individual’s talents-- since there will be more free time with the house already built and all-- there will be new creations that had long been thwarted by the central power source and clocks of the petrol-pharmaceutical golem called ‘government’.
Conclusion
Everybody knows that cannabis and hemp could do wonders for the world, and that this is probably why it has been forbidden, and is still criminalized even in the US states where it’s deemed ‘legal’. Everybody knows, but few were really thinking about it until recently. Even fewer thought about industrial hemp, but with 3D printers getting larger and more sophisticated, the need for material could possibly be answered with locally refined hemp.
With the added philosophy of the decentralization of currencies, the decentralization of materials and resources should follow. 3D printers will probably not go away, and the idea of local printing of homes, furniture, and even solar panels is slowly making it’s way into the mind of the public. To do this, the builders of this new world are going to need a lot of available building material, and a decriminalized hemp plant may be the answer to that need in the near future.
Paul,
I find your article absolutely spectacular.
You've brilliantly torn the philosophical posterior of the powers that be a new nozzle to use for depositing their cheap substitute for truth.
Kudos. Fully upvoted and re-steemed.
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Thanks @creatr, it has to be done from time to time, and new nozzles r us!
Phenomenal writing! I'm excited to see where 3D printing takes us!
I am too, it's still new, and not talked about much, but it is going to be interesting when the technology goes molecular!
its new for consumers. first 3d printers are over 30 years old. they are nice though. i got a wahnao i3. if you can afford a ps4 you can afford a 3d printer.
Everyone knows weed was made illegal because jazz musicians were fucking all the white women. Nobody listens to jazz anymore so I don't know why it's still illegal.
:turns off jazz: It's true, that was one of the concerns that turned it into law, but it was fiction, utterly fabricated!
Muggles and snuggles!
XD
I love this! I wrote a book on the war on drugs (The War on Drugs: An Old Wives Tale) that was part memoir and part call to action - and in it I touched on the possible uses for hemp, but I hadn't even known about 3D printing using hemp plastics.
Phenomenal!
Even here in flyover country we are doing our best to fight for legalizing marijuana. It's an uphill battle, but it can be done.
It was when I noticed how much of the modern world is already being made of plastic from petroleum that made me think; maybe this is another reason that hemp is banned, it's competition for the petrol companies.
I do not doubt that for a second!
3D Printing and Marijuana. Throw in a little cryptocurrency and you have all my favorite topics!
haha well I mentioned it as a way to talk about decentralization, and they all together make a nice recipe!
Great article. Hemp is a wonderful plant with many uses. It would save people so much money...and pain. It's a fabulous medicinal plant.
It's new uses will keep being discovered I think, as if it doesn't already have enough uses.
Nature provides all we need, but of course that causes problems for those who wish to control us.
So many plants can be used medicinally and are far safer than the artificial chemical drugs that Big Pharma are churning out...but hey it's all about business. They prescribe one drug that requires several other drugs to counteract the side-effects. Kerching! But these drugs don't actually treat the problem...they just "manage" it...for a while until something stronger is needed when the body becomes used to the drug.
They don't burn us at the stake anymore, but prosecute us instead for daring to want a better quality of life.
Yes a plant like cannabis can do all the things that their drugs do, but better. The plant should be cheap too, but that doesn't look like a possibility with all of the money that can be made.
Execellant post!
Thanks!
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Great article. Hemp is a great renewable resource. Strongest natural fiber.
Great points!
Thanks
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No doubt-- food, fiber and fuel, of course it's forbidden!
Thank you, I appreciate it.
Phenomenal writing!
I appreciate it!
Great writing and very insightful realization to Yet Another! potential use for hemp. Better future ahead :)
Thanks! It can happen, when the market arises, hemp could step in, then 3D printable blueprints for all of the machinery needed to refine the hemp could be downloaded right into the machine, and, and... yes, better future indeed!
An astonishingly wonderful post, makes me sad my VP is so depleted. Max upvote, resteemed, and followed.
Looking forward to more reason, snark, and great ideas!
Thank you, I'm glad that you like the snark especially! I appreciate it.
I'm all for 3D printing but why borrow trouble with hemp? Has hemp even been USED in 3D printing yet?
I have these troublesome ideas it seems; imagining using hemp instead of petroleum. Next I'll want a 3D printed hemp machine gun, for all kinds of trouble!
yup..you potheads are just asking for trouble..that's why I don't take you serious.
as long as we're imagining...imagine a 3D printer that draws it's feedstock from polluted water. Lotsa chemicals floating around in there..that's why it's called polluted.
(hint: they're doing it in the lab as we speak...it's possible. All else is engineering and economics)
haha that's wise, to not take me seriously.
no personal offense...but I worked with some potheads back in the day.
I don't EVER want to do that again.
Unreliable doesn't BEGIN to describe them...and DANGEROUS as hell.
Don't worry, you won't have to work with such people; us dangerous unreliable potheads don't work anyway. You're safe!
yup I are.
I'm retired.
it all traces back to MONEY! Yes our politicians are puppets for big pharma oil and the banks. They OWN our country. Hemp has countless uses and is given to us by God. The powers that be fear losing power. That simple. Think of the countless folks who could be helped and the advancements we could make. Think of how many have suffered or even had a shorter life because of these restriction. Can someone say lawsuit? I think of the tobacco companies and the money that was paid for their injustice. Perhaps there is a suit waiting in the wings. It saddens me. My own mom could benefit if it were legal. Well written article my friend. Thanks.
Yes I have numerous friends and family who are gone, but could have benefitted from the plant's medicine. haha a lawsuit is funny to think about, that would be devastating to what's left of the credibility and money of the .gov for certain!
Hay u just got the real problem and it's an issue not start this time, it was from the very beginning and all these parties and political leaders have just collecting funds from this big market players no Matt what would be the on empact on the society.
And it's interesting that everyone seems to know it, yet it goes on year after year. I actually used to think that my own generation would change things, but it didn't happen. Not yet!
It's not happening because new generation learn from there previous generation and because it's a given to them . So it's not as easy till we alll do focus in redesigning the whole system from very beginning that from our education system.
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I appreciate your comment, thank you.
Every empire falls, and I think it's high time for the current regime to take a bow. They've been on their twilight for quite some time now, and with a wider appreciation for sustainability sweeping the world, their grip on big market is loosening. The sheep feeds their lust for power, but they can only siphon so much. They're afraid of hemp because it's the epitome of sustainability. More and more people are accepting its benefits for a variety of things every day. I do strongly believe that we will see the rise of a more sustainable way of living in our lifetime.
I'm not sure what the awakening giant that is humanity will do first when it gets an eye full of this setup we've allowed to manage us into depravity, but I have long envisioned a sort of fractal organization of society being recognized, where countless communities of families-- already basically able to get along with one another-- would work repairing cells in the body of humanity like probiotics, eliminating cancers and such. Now there's a new word for that fractal society; decentralization. If it begins with currencies, then we won't need banks, because we will finally have each other, and begin to built something nice that is from the imagination of us all. Each community will probably have those who don't care about such things, but the ones who create for the benefit of all have always outnumbered those who create nothing, else we wouldn't have even gotten this far in progress probably.
ONe thing that baffles me about the whole hemp thing is that they say that we are responsible to the destruction of the environment, they guilt trip us and raise taxes to save the trees, which they cut down with no remorse to make paper. They manipulate people into believing we are at fault when THEY are making all the decisions. And yet, Hemp is easily grown, regrows quickly when it's cut, and can be used to make paper at large quantities and can be used to make plastic, and can be used to make all sorts of other things and is biodegradable and they illegalise it.
They are not trying to save the world, they are trying to have excuses to tax us even more and to control us even more, to put inmore laws that people will blindly accept because of their manipulative lies and concepts.
If we could use Hemp, then the world would be better off, and they would be worse off, that is why they make it illegal.
'I've got one that can see!' Indeed, THEY lived, while we slept, but the cannabis is out of the bag now, and a high society might not be the best answer, but some pretty deep revelations can come to those who imbibe in the stuff on occasion, and deep revelations are what the world needs now.
I lived near a gigantic forest of pines that were grown specifically for paper production. The argument about wasting trees to make paper was invariably met with the fact that these farms were replanted and regrown for paper, and that no other trees were in danger of being cut and 'wasted'. However, what didn't get mentioned was that before those millions of acres of paper trees were planted-- creating a desert of pines where little else can grow-- there was once a lot of nice hardwoods and diversity of life in those same millions of acres, but those who profit try to make the ecology of it just, or they just-ify it with such reasoning.
LEL Love me some Rowdy Roddy Piper 'They Live' reference!
Wow, yeah, makes me think of that disney film when I was a kid, Ferngully, about the ferns being cut and the fairies in that area were trying to stop it, or something like that. Whether you believe in faery life or not, animal life exists and plant life exists and it's all being taken for granted.
I don't smoke weed, because I don't vibrate well with that plant, but I vibrate with other plants and herbs that can help open the third eye, which leads to further awakening. It doesn't matter how you awaken. Awakening is necessary, awakening is happening to many. The problem is there is so much out there trying to keep everyone in a sleep state, it's tough to awaken and many won't talk about it because so many sleepwalkers judge. But more and more people will awaken. Domino effect.
Fantastic article mate. We need to get back to our gardening, as you have put it before. I hadn't considered the possibilities of building using hemp and 3d printers. It's been a litttle while now since I visited this subject but even as a traditional building material, it's benefits are greater than our modern use of concrete, as far as I am aware and as well as the jazz reference from your commentor below, I understand that it was in greater part due to the cotton industry that cannabis and hemp were made illegal. Really need to revisit the subject to refresh my memory.
Very well done my friend. :)
Hope you are well.
Yeah I skirted around the actual reasons that the plant was originally outlawed, using my 'everybody knows' theme to get to the current and future possibilities. Recently I read that the term 'marijuana' was actually the name of a completely different plant before the industries saw the need to eliminate both industrial hemp and the psychotropic cannabis from the competition. "Marijuana" is apparently some kind of other harmless Mexican plant that had a wicked sounding name, while the nice sounding 'cannabis' that used to appear on cough syrups and medicines of all kinds had to go!
The usual story about industrial hemp's initial demonization was that some giant newspaper or magazine publisher had just purchased a lot of timberland for paper production, and (I forget his name) decided to start publishing the stories about the horrors of 'marijuana', so that the public would demand a solution through some decisive governmental action.
William Randolph Hearst, was the 'yellow journalist' in question, and he wasn't alone, but in cahoots with Standard Oil, and they destroyed the electric car industry, Hemp, and American freedom for vast profits.
Harry J. Anslinger rots in a special hell today.