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                      Grow More Pot - By Jello Biafra

    Does anybody out there know that in the first time in American History the
US army was used in war operation against the American people? Right near
here, up in Humbold County, about 200 miles north of San Fransisco, right
near a town called Shelter Cove, get this, three to four hundred GI's
dressed and fully armed with the automatic rifles, armed for battle fanned
out for maneauvers in the woods backed up by a dozen BlackHawk attack
helicopters. The mountain people up there were frightened out of their
wits, they thought there was a war going on, especially the ones who had
soldiers kicking in the doors to their cabins and putting guns to their
heads in front of their children. Why? Who was the enemy in this war? Not
the communists! Not Saddam Hussein! Not EarthFirst, or even the spotted
owl! No, the enemy they called out the army to put down secretly, so as few
people outside of Humbold would get alarmed as possible, it wasn't even a
person! Or an army! Or a terrorist group! It was a plant. The marijuana
plant. And they actually did find a few for the GI's to pull up. And then
they had to fly in more from the government stash so the pile would look
big enough when they lit the bonfire for the network TV news cameras, so
they could say, "Yes! Another triumph in the drug war!" Drug war. War. The
American army sent to war against the American people. And we are supposed
to feel relieved and secure and protected. Protected from what? Alot of
people with more guts than I'll ever have risked their life and limb last
summer at the EarthFirst Redwood Summer Action up in Humbold County. They
were chaining themselves to Redwoods that were three times wider than they
were spread eagle, they were 800 years old, as the saws buzzed right over
their heads. They stood in the dirt as the bulldozers charged them and
stopped right at their toes. People waved clubs at them, charged them with
logging trucks, shotguns, you name it. All to try and save some of the last
unspoiled virgin forest we have left anywhere in this country from being
chopped down and made into toilet paper, TV Guides and the Weekly World
News. On the other side the loggers say, "What about our jobs? What about
our families? What about our lives? You needed wood and cardboard to make
those protest signs! We need fuel! We need paper! It's almost gone, where
are we gonna get more?" The answer for centuries has been right under our
nose... GROW MORE POT!
     If we're serious about saving the Earth, saving the ozone and our
freedom to go about saving the Earth and the ozone, we should start by
paying all those dirt-poor cocoa famers in South America, and out of work
loggers in Fortuna and Eureka, and midwest family farmers and rust belt
families too, to all get together and grow more pot!
    Why? Get ready for this. There is a book out, it is called "The Emperor
Wears No Clothes" the author's name is Jack Herrar. It's published by Queen
of Clubs. I think there's adds for it in High Times or, uh NORML, National
Organization for Reformation of Marijuana Laws, they could direct you to
one, I'm sure. And in this book, among other places, it is written, that
before the 20th century, the marijuana plant provided almost all the worlds
paper, all the worlds clothing and textiles and almost all the worlds rope.
According to none other than the US Department of Agriculture you can make
four times as much paper from an acre of marijuana-hemp plants as you can
from an acre of trees. And instead of chopping down all the redwoods in
Humbold county and turning Northern California, and Oregon and Washington
into Appiliacia or the Sahara Desert, if you do it with hemp plants you can
just grow another crop a few months later and make MORE paper. At one
quarter the cost of making the paper from wood pulp and only one fifth the
pollution. The ancient Romans knew this and grew it, Henry the VIII made
each farmer in old England grow their share. 'Cause they knew if you want
the strongest natural fiber there is you all gotta do your part for the
King and grow more pot! And we did too. Guess what Levi jeans were
originally made of? And guess what American flags used to be made out of?
And guess what the early drafts of the Declaration of Independance and the
Constitution were written on. And if thats too un-christian for you, guess
what Guttenburg and King James Bibles were made out of? Guess what you can use
to power a car? Can get at least four times as much cellulose to make gasohol
and methanol from hemp stems as you can from a corn stalk. Which along with
solar energy would be a  great way to avoid dying for oil in Saudi Arabia.
In the 20's and 30's most American cars and farm machinary had the option
of running on gas or on methanol, most racing cars still do run on methanol.
And George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew cannabis on their
plantations, and smoked it too! In the 1760's in the American Colonies, you
could even be jailed for NOT growing pot. Because that was part of the key
to become economically independant from Britian. Hemp was legal tender in
America, substitute for money from 1630 clear up until the 1800's. And hemp
seeds are a great source of protein. Better than soy beans, and its cheaper
than soy beans, too. Or so says the US department of Agriculture. Marijuana
is legal for medical use in 34 states. Used to treat glaucoma and pain
caused by cancer. You can digest more protein out of a hemp seed than a
soy bean seed. It's even shown some signs of being able to combat herpes.
And guess what kind of a parachute Mr. Drug War Hoonta Man, himself George
Bush used when he bailed out of that bomber in World War II? Hemp was
illegal by then but farmers were briefly ordered to grow it again for the
war effort and all. And the US army had their own stash all along in the
colonies in the Phillipines.
    So... how did everything get turned around so damn bad? Doesn't it
strike you as a little dumb that we burn oil and choke ourselves and chop
down all our trees and ruin innocent peoples lives by branding them
criminals and throwing them in jails, or sending them off to drug camps, or
taking all their property and selling it before they are brought to trial?
In the process making crack or heroin easier and cheaper to get than pot.
Why do we do this when we don't have to? Meanwhile the police chief of LA,
Daryl Gates gets front page approval for telling a US Senate committee that
pot smokers should be shot on sight because smoking pot is treason, because
after all, it's illegal. Why was marijuana cracked down on? And why was it
done so violently.  Well? Ready? In 1936, Popular Mechanics magazine hailed
the invention of a new machine to process hemp predicting that
marijuana-hemp would once again become the worlds largest cash crop. This
did not sit at all well with people like Hearst Paper Manufacturing or
Kimberly-Clarke or other cutthroat multinationals who happen to have large
timber holdings. Didn't sit too well with tobacco barons, for obvious reasons.
And it sure as hell didnt sit too well with our old buddies. DuPont. Hemp
processing uses only one fifth the chemicals it takes to process wood pulp,
and DuPont had just patented a new wood pulp-sulfide process, and DuPont's
patented plastic fibers had just passed up hemp as the #2 fiber next to
cotton, and they wanted to keep it that way. And the last thing the big
drug companies wanted was to lose their share of the ever-lucrative disease
industry market to more affordable medicine made from marijuana or other
natural ingrediants, because, check this out: you can't own and make money
off a patent for medicine in this country unless the medicine has chemicals
in it. If there's all-natural ingrediants you cant patent it. Maybe thats
why we dont have a cure for cancer or aids. Or why the health food store I
go to keeps getting harrassed by federal authorities for selling herbal
medicines. Meanwhile, guess who owns Congress? So, marijuana was outlawed
in 1937. And they fanned the racism fires, playing the racism card just as
they do when they want to crack down on rock-n-roll or rap or hip-hop or
something like that. They said that smoking marijuana might cause you to
fall under the influence of listening to jazz. And I believe it was even
said on the floor of congress that marijuana had to be banned because
smoking it might make a black man look at a white woman twice. And lets not
forget that US Treasury Dept. funded documentary film called "Reefer
Madness". So marijuana was outlawed as devil weed in 1937. Only 53 years
ago it was legal. Need I say more on why our beloved fearless leaders go
out of their way to censor our access to information so damn much. Can you
imagine the mass-outrage if this kind of stuff ever really got out? And
people knew that this  big drug problem they keep reading about and hearing
about is being caused by the government themselves. And people knew how easily
each one of us individually could turn our ecological and human crisis around
without having to resort to Nazi bullshit like oil wars and drug wars. Just by
saying "No" to George Bush. And people knew that the very companies that
provide us with such crucial convienences as Kleenex, paper towels and junk
mail have systematically and brutally re-arranged every single one of our
lives so that we are literally wiping our ass with our own future. And it
doesnt have to be this way! I mean I'll tell ya, I do feel kinda funny saying
all this, cause I used to be a pothead and I hate smoking the stuff and the
whole low-energy stoner, dead-head vibe that comes with it. But, you dont
need to smoke pot to realize that the real drug problem is not the drugs.
And we can help solve our drug problems, crime problems, environmental
problems, even our racial problems if we say "no" to George Bush and get
 together and grow more pot!