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Make It Right: A 5-7-5 Haiku and Senryu Collection, interspersed with supporting facts
by
Kathleen Spalding
The Founding Fathers
gave us tools to make things right,
stop power’s abuse.
Votes, petitions, and
jury nullification
protect our nation.
Blind eyes turn away
from inconvenient truths (and
the life and the way?)
Marijuana is
non-psychoactive hemp for
paper, food, and fuel.
Hemp produces 4 times the cellulose per acre as trees. Hemp seeds are high in protein and essential fatty acids. The first diesel engine was designed to run on hemp oil.
Marijuana is
one of mankind’s oldest drugs,
efficacy proved.
The use of cannabis for purposes of healing predates recorded history. The earliest written reference is found in the 15th century BC Chinese Pharmacopeia, the Rh-Ya. -- NIDA
Marijuana is
the recreational high
that cannot kill you.
“A smoker would theoretically have to consume nearly 1,500 pounds of marijuana within about fifteen minutes to induce a lethal response,” Judge Francis Young.
Marijuana has
a scandalous history:
manipulation,
racial suppression,
fact deprived population.
Propaganda won.
"You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the [Vietnam] war or black...[but those populations could be arrested for marijuana possession]" -- John Ehrlichman (President Nixon's aid)
Prohibition is
founded on corporate greed
and sustained by lies.
[In the late 1930s] Virtually no one in America other than a handful of rich industrialists [DuPont, Hearst, Mellon] and their hired cops knew that their chief potential competitor – hemp – was being outlawed under the name “marijuana.” -- Chapter 4, The Emperor Wears No Clothes by Jack Herer
Government destroys
families, ecology
for profit and lies.
"...Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did." -- John Ehrlichman (President Nixon’s aid)
FORTY THOUSAND jailed
THREE QUARTERS OF A MILLION
arrested per year
Nearly two-thirds of private prison contracts mandate that state and local governments maintain a certain occupancy rate – usually 90 percent – or require taxpayers to pay for empty beds. - The Washington Post April 28. 2015
for a substance less
dangerous than alcohol
or tobacco.
Excessive alcohol use - approx. 88,000 deaths per year; cigarette smoking - over 480,000 deaths per year, in the U.S. -- CDC. No death from overdose of marijuana has been reported. -- DEA
Tax dollars wasted:
EIGHT BILLION ANNUALLY
to enforce bad laws
based on lies and greed.
Witness the consequences:
Deforestation,
Global Warming and
Fossil Fuel Economy,
Increased Poverty,
which could disappear,
because marijuana is
raw material
for our daily needs:
a hardy annual plant
that grows everywhere.
Carbon negative,
soil enhancing, nitrogen
fixing, annual plant.
Part of God’s green earth.
Society’s cornerstone
of forgotten worth.
We can make it right!
Peacefully stop injustice
halt power's abuse
with votes, petitions,
jury nullification -
Founding Father's tools.
Amazingly enough, under the 2018 United States farm bill, commodity hemp production was federally legalized! Great job, lobbyists and voters! And this year, during the 2020 vice presidential debate, Kamala Harris said that if elected, she and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden “will decriminalize marijuana, and we will expunge the records of those who have been convicted of marijuana.”
So get out there and exercise your right to vote this November, especially if there is a marijuana initiative on your ballot!
Even if you think there's not much of a choice, please VOTE for the people who pander to your interests. You will make a statement, and who knows, they might actually follow through if they get to D.C.!
by
Kathleen Spalding
The Founding Fathers
gave us tools to make things right,
stop power’s abuse.
Votes, petitions, and
jury nullification
protect our nation.
Blind eyes turn away
from inconvenient truths (and
the life and the way?)
Marijuana is
non-psychoactive hemp for
paper, food, and fuel.
Hemp produces 4 times the cellulose per acre as trees. Hemp seeds are high in protein and essential fatty acids. The first diesel engine was designed to run on hemp oil.
Marijuana is
one of mankind’s oldest drugs,
efficacy proved.
The use of cannabis for purposes of healing predates recorded history. The earliest written reference is found in the 15th century BC Chinese Pharmacopeia, the Rh-Ya. -- NIDA
Marijuana is
the recreational high
that cannot kill you.
“A smoker would theoretically have to consume nearly 1,500 pounds of marijuana within about fifteen minutes to induce a lethal response,” Judge Francis Young.
Marijuana has
a scandalous history:
manipulation,
racial suppression,
fact deprived population.
Propaganda won.
"You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the [Vietnam] war or black...[but those populations could be arrested for marijuana possession]" -- John Ehrlichman (President Nixon's aid)
Prohibition is
founded on corporate greed
and sustained by lies.
[In the late 1930s] Virtually no one in America other than a handful of rich industrialists [DuPont, Hearst, Mellon] and their hired cops knew that their chief potential competitor – hemp – was being outlawed under the name “marijuana.” -- Chapter 4, The Emperor Wears No Clothes by Jack Herer
Government destroys
families, ecology
for profit and lies.
"...Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did." -- John Ehrlichman (President Nixon’s aid)
FORTY THOUSAND jailed
THREE QUARTERS OF A MILLION
arrested per year
Nearly two-thirds of private prison contracts mandate that state and local governments maintain a certain occupancy rate – usually 90 percent – or require taxpayers to pay for empty beds. - The Washington Post April 28. 2015
for a substance less
dangerous than alcohol
or tobacco.
Excessive alcohol use - approx. 88,000 deaths per year; cigarette smoking - over 480,000 deaths per year, in the U.S. -- CDC. No death from overdose of marijuana has been reported. -- DEA
Tax dollars wasted:
EIGHT BILLION ANNUALLY
to enforce bad laws
based on lies and greed.
Witness the consequences:
Deforestation,
Global Warming and
Fossil Fuel Economy,
Increased Poverty,
which could disappear,
because marijuana is
raw material
for our daily needs:
a hardy annual plant
that grows everywhere.
Carbon negative,
soil enhancing, nitrogen
fixing, annual plant.
Part of God’s green earth.
Society’s cornerstone
of forgotten worth.
We can make it right!
Peacefully stop injustice
halt power's abuse
with votes, petitions,
jury nullification -
Founding Father's tools.
Amazingly enough, under the 2018 United States farm bill, commodity hemp production was federally legalized! Great job, lobbyists and voters! And this year, during the 2020 vice presidential debate, Kamala Harris said that if elected, she and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden “will decriminalize marijuana, and we will expunge the records of those who have been convicted of marijuana.”
So get out there and exercise your right to vote this November, especially if there is a marijuana initiative on your ballot!
Even if you think there's not much of a choice, please VOTE for the people who pander to your interests. You will make a statement, and who knows, they might actually follow through if they get to D.C.!
