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“The stout crew-cut figure riding in the Rolls-Royce was a mystery to those who knew him. A spy by profession, he lived a life of intrigue and adventure befitting his chosen career. Born dirt poor in Kentucky, he served with the OSS (the CIA’s predecessor) during the Second World War and went on to make a fortune as a uranium entrepreneur. His prestigious government and business connections read like a Who’s Who of the power elite in North America. His name was Captain Alfred M. Hubbard. His friends called him “Cappy,” and he was known as the “Johnny Appleseed of LSD.” The blustery, rum-drinking Hubbard is widely credited with being the first person to emphasize LSD’s potential as a visionary or transcendental drug. His faith in the LSD revelation was such that he made it his life’s mission to turn on as many men and women as possible. “Most people are walking in their sleep,” he said. “Turn them around, start them in the opposite direction and they wouldn’t even know the difference.” But there was a quick way to remedy that–give them a good dose of LSD and “let them see themselves for what they are.” That Hubbard, of all people, should have emerged as the first genuine LSD apostle is all the more curious in light of his longstanding affiliation with the cloak-and-dagger trade. Indeed, he was no run-of-the-mill spook. As a high-level OSS officer, the Captain directed an extremely sensitive covert operation that involved smuggling weapons and war material to Great Britain prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. In pitch darkness he sailed ships without lights up the coast to Vancouver, where they were refitted and used as destroyers by the British navy. He also flew planes to the border, took them apart, towed the pieces into Canada, and sent them to England. These activities began with the quiet approval of President Roosevelt…”
“Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators. Your wealth has beenstripped of you by unjust men … The government of Iraq , and the future of your country, will soon belong to you. … We willend a brutal regime … so that Iraqis can live in security.²General F. S. Maude, commander of the British forces, to the people of Mesopotamia , 1917
“CaribWorldNews, KINGSTON, Jamaica, Mon. March 3, 2008: Jamaica’s new Bruce Golding administration may consider legalizing ganja, a top government official said Friday.
Deputy Prime Minister Kenneth Baugh revealed that a seven-member government commission has been researching possible changes to the anti-drug laws pertaining to marijuana-related cases.`We have discussed it, and we are preparing a report to present to the prime minister,` said Deputy Prime Minister Kenneth Baugh.
The move comes five years following the 2003 commission report that recommended legalizing pot in small amounts for personal use. Members of the almost 700,000 strong Rastafarian movement has long lobbied for the legalization.
But such a move could mean loss of Jamaica’s U.S. anti-drug certification. On Friday, the U.S.` latest drug report again claimed that Jamaica is the largest producer of marijuana in the Caribbean and a major transit point for drugs entering the U.S. – CaribWorldNews.com”
So in Jamaica there are 700,000 Rastafarians who hold the cannabis plant to be sacred, but our government does not think their faith is legitimate and therefore does not see a contradiction between our Constitution and our laws; our government also fails to recognize that our unenforcible laws are the reason Jamaica has become a major exporter of cannabis to the U.S. I just wonder, is the official opinion of our government that these people are all godless heathens who are worshipping the devil inside of a plant?
What should we tell our schoolchildren who study Hinduism, Buddhism or one of the many other faiths known to worship this plant? Godless heathens, every last one of them; freedom of religion obviously was not meant for people who believe such things. Alcohol is a necessary part of our culture, it is constantly celebrated while it leads to the destruction of countless young lives; but of course we all know that “God made beer because he loves us and wants us to be happy.” (Benjamin Franklin) Incidentally, Benjamin Franklin got his start with a printing press that relied on hemp paper; this was the start of the free press which today continues to ignore the plight of this ever-important plant. Why is it that we are so afraid of a plant which has been celebrated by most successful societies of the past? How can we justify telling people in other countries, much less our own, what they can or cannot worship? Should we be planning a tea party?
