P
is for paranoia and fear of persecution. This prevents cannabis
users and non-users with a huge barrier to overcome before they can
publicly speak out against prohibition. Users fear raids from the
police and arrest, loss of employment and even imprisonment. Many
professional people such as Doctors, Teachers, Lawyers, Probation
Officers, Social Workers etc, although privately supporting
legalisation or some lesser form of change in law, are afraid of
persecution from people in power and the press. MP's of all parties
can be silenced and pressurised to change their statements, by the
Party Whips. Many Doctors quietly advise patients that cannabis is
of possible benefit to them but will not make a public statement on
the issue. If you are one of those professionals please speak out
and help call an end to the suffering caused to hundreds of thousands
of citizens of the UK, every year, under the inefficient and
expensive attempts at suppressing freedom of choice, in general,
cannabis in particular. If you are a user, fear not, for to express
an opinion on the law is not an offense and does not indicate that
you are a user. Many non-users advocate legalisation too.
I
is for indifference and for ignorance. Many non-users and people who
are stigmatised or victimised by society through illness, poverty,
lifestyle, belief or riches and power, remain unconcerned or unaware
of the disastrous social and environmental effects of prohibition.
These people need to be awoken. Many of them are on drugs - heroin
addicts, alcoholics, Valium addicts, alcoholics and at all rungs of
the social ladder; they just don't care. But others do care, they
just either don't know or don't know what they can do. It is up to
activists to educate and guide these people to the postbox and the
ballot boxes. Then, when they do care, we need to reassure them to
avoid them slipping into the description of P.
G
is
for greed. These are the highly profit-motivated suppliers of
illegal cannabis, often of dubious quality, and those directors (and
their minions) of the multinational corporations that profit by
billions from their environmentally damaging synthetic and dangerous
alternatives. These include petroleum companies who risk losses if
hemp seed oil becomes widely available; pharmaceutical companies who
would lose out if people take less of their synthetic drugs and more
home grown cannabis and including those that now make massive;
profits from cannabis products such as “Sativex”; producers of
plastics and synthetic materials - products that could be replaced
locally from locally grown cannabis; nuclear fuel and fossil fuel
companies whose products could also be replaced by locally grown
cannabis, far more efficiently and cheaply than for all modern fuels;
timber companies who fear that cannabis would replace wood as a
material for furnishing as well as paper and packing materials;
breweries and tobacco companies who fear that the use of home grown
cannabis would decrease the sales of their highly dangerous legal
drugs; national and international criminal and terrorist
organisations who profit from illegal cannabis, possibly even the
secret services of certain countries (not yours, of course); police,
solicitors, barristers, judges and prison staff, with all the
associated industry at colossal public expense, who may be out of a
job is 250,000 less people are searched and 100,000 less prosecuted,
annually.
S
is for squabblers and for separation.. Those people who continually
insist upon arguing over matters of minor or academic differences
which distract from the general cause of delay action towards the
consensus aim of legalisation. Such arguments are divisive and
unproductive, often originating from personal grievances. Some times
such arguments are introduced by insincere campaigners, even
infiltrators from corners supporting prohibition, whose aim is to
suppress by division and mistrust. Other times the arguments may be
prolonged by sincere people. When the squabble, due to personal
grievances, interferes with actions of the general movement for
legalisation, or any particular event or group, then the squabblers
become enemies of the movement.
Don't
be any part of PIGS. Wake up, learn, act, cooperate, become involved
in this movement which is all about freedom of choice, lifestyle and
religion. It is about the very rights granted by the United Nations
Charters. Prohibition of cannabis is a prolonged attempt at
mis-education and tyrannical control, and must be resisted by the
masses.
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