ISSUE: Cannabis: Taxation and Regulation

THIS IS MY BODY; THIS IS MY BREATH

"Four score and seven years ago our fore fathers were looking for a new source of tax revenue . . . . --- Abraham Lincoln ?

If one holds the view that Legalized marijuana is akin to a can of beer, a pack of cigarettes or a one armed bandit then I suppose one would next consider taxing and regulating Cannabis like a vice,  Let's not forget that this view leads inevitably to the corporatizing and marketing of marijuana as well.  I happen to view  Cannabis as an item in an independent organic garden.

When ever appropriate, and even when not, I like to remind the world that I don't consider my Cannabis Use to be a Second Class effort of human intellectual and spiritual endeavor.  I consider it a First Class SKILL of which the non-users  are either incapable and/or incompetent.  {Prohibitionist nonusers usually have enslaved the survival of their Divinely Created bodies and minds to institutions which are designed to prohibit Cannabis Enlightenment --- institutions whose existance and/or scale the nonuser's prophets or forefathers never had relation.} I also consider legalization,  and the numerous other lifestyle issues which circulate around it (like Planets to the SUN) to be a first class (and international) Liberation Struggle. 

The Taxation and Regulation Route to Legalization will only lead to continued Second Class Status for (those who hold) the best ideas of our AGE.  The Power Structure would still have it that those who "invested" in the latest big screen television, rather than solar panels, are more solid citizens than those who use Cannabis.  The Power Structure still doesn't appreciate that the lowest "BUM" on the street has become a more responsible citizen by default than those who eat the world's resources as though those resources were infinite.  Why should we consider that American Taxation and Regulation will lead anywhere but to Corporate Ball Games sponsored by Chemical Riddled Regulated Budweizer Marijuana JOINTS, with all seeds controlled by Monsanto, taxed by and for the drone bombing of scrawny, ragged people, as we sitting fat and happy on a burning planet unheeding of animal extinctions? 

EVERYONE knows that freedom demands legalization of Marijuana --- EVERYONE excepting those who are regularly fear mongered on this and all Liberation issues and who fall upon their cowardice into illogic and status quo paralysis.  Legalize it.  Legalize it without preconditions.  Legalize it not with Taxation and Regulation but legalize it with APOLOGIES from the institutions !  And if Legalization with Apologies is too outrageous then Legalize it with REPARATIONS.

Brian Joyce

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