Dexter+-+Policy+Hemp

= **__Hemp Policy__** =

**Contention 1 is Inherancy** **Growing Hemp in the United States is illegal.** Galya **__Martindale, 08,__** “Is Hemp The Answer To Our Energy Problems?” [|http://www.stateuniversity. com/blog/permalink/Is-Hemp- the-Answer-To-Our-Energy- Problems-.html] hemp has little in common with marijuana….. The European Union has subsidized hemp production since the 1990s **Thus the Plan: The United States federal government should legalize the growth of hemp for the production of biofuels. Ask and we’ll clarify.** **Contention 2: The Capitalist machine.** **The prohibition of hemp can only be called evil it perpetuates capitalism** **__C__**ampaign for the **__R__**estoration and **__R__**egulation of **__H__**emp **__2008__** “Why Should Farmers Grow Hemp?” http://www.crrh.org/. While marijuana is prohibited, industrial hemp will be economically prohibitive due to the artificial regulatory burdens imposed by the prohibition of marijuana…… In its place we have industries that give us processes and products that have led to unprecedented ecological crisis and worldwide destruction of the biological heritage that we should bequeath to our children, grandchildren and future generations. **Capitalism creates a standing reserve that reduces people to their production value. It is responsible for the Holocaust, Hiroshima, and inevitably extinction. All the negatives’s impacts are inevitable if we allow capitalism’s continued existence.** **Internationalist Perspective 2K** (Internationalist Perspective #36, spring 2000, [|__http://www.geocities.com/ wageslavex/capandgen.html__] ) Jxu __Mass death, and genocide, the deliberate and systematic extermination of whole groups of human beings, have become an integral part of the social landscape of capitalism……These are stata and classes whose material or mental conditions of life are linked to a past mode of production__, who exist economically or culturally in the past, even as they chronologically dwell in the present

**It should only follow that we have an ethico-political duty to confront the horrors of capitalism that comes before any other impacts** **__Zizek and Daly 2k4__** (Slavoj and Glyn, Conversations with Zizek pg 14-16) For Zizek it is imperative that we cut through this Gordian knot of postmodern protocol and recognize that our __ethico-political responsibility is to confront the constitutive violence of today's global capitalism and its obscene naturalization/anonymization of the millions who are subjugated by it throughout the world…….__While it is perfectly true that universalism can never become Universal (it will always require a hegemonic-particular embodiment in order to have any meaning), what is novel about Zizek's universalism is that it would not attempt to conceal this fact or to reduce the status of the abject Other to that of a "glitch" in an otherwise sound matrix **The root cause of warfare is resource scarcity generated by capitalist growth.** **__Trainer 96__** (Ted Trainer is a professor at the School of Social Work, University of Wales, “Towards a Sustainable Economy”, pg. 33-4) __The basic factor here is that capitalism inescapably involves expansion…. We must understand that the problem of world peace is part of the problem of global economic justice__. So long as we refuse to bring about a fairer distribution of the world's wealth, which means de-development on the part of the rich and over-developed countries, __we can only expect continued and accelerating conflict and violence.__ **Contention 2: Change we can believe in** **We** **must** **combine** **individual** **activism** **with** **political** **action** **to** **spur** **change** **and** **overcome** **capitalist** **societal** **control.** Daniel **__Stanaway__**. Department of Community, Agriculture, Recreation, and Resource Studies. Nov 20**__02__**. The Political Hemp. [|__http://www.carrs.msu.edu/ greenpieces/2003/Stanaway.pdf__] __This political battle is fought in the legislative branch__ of both Federal and State government. __……..The people are speaking it is time the government listened.__


 * The** **political** **passage** **of** **our** **critique** **is** **the** **only** **way** **to** **solve.** **We** **must** **abide** **by** **the** **rules** **of** **the** **game** **in** **order** **to** **beat** **it.**

Gilles **__Deleuze &__** Felix **__Guattari__**, writing in 19**__87__**. (A Thousand Plateaus. p160-1.)

__You have to keep enough of the organism for it to reform each dawn; and you have to keep small supplies of significance and subjectification, if only to turn them against their own systems when the circumstances demand it__, when things, persons, even situations force you to; and you have to keep small rations of subjectivity in sufficient quantity to enable you to respond to the dominant reality………….__It is only there that the BwO reveals itself for what it is: connection of desires, conjunction of flows, continuum of intensities. You have constructed your own little machine, ready when needed to be plugged into other collective machines.__ **Legalizing Hemp returns power to the people – it is essential to breaking down cartels and empowering the individual.**


 * __Nayar__,** staff writer for We Campaign, a branch of The Alliance for Climate Protection, June 15th 20**__08__** “A Peaceful Solution with Hemp” [|http://www.wecansolveit.org/ page/community/group/ HempForVictory]

Beyond any doubt or debate, __hemp can be used in over 25,000 useful and essential products__………….__The peaceful resolution, the peaceful revolution and the peaceful solution that can save America and the rest of the world may well pivot around the decriminalization of hemp.__

Dale R. **__Gown__**, lifelong student of philosophy, writer activist in the cause of human liberation and the global social revolution, 19**__91__** “BLOOM OR DOOM  : The Green Energy of Hemp Offers a Solution to Our Ecological Crisis”
 * legalization** **is** **the** **ultimate** **promotion** **of** **peace** **and** **prosperity**

Despite the concerted efforts of the world’s most powerful empire to eradicate it from the face of the Earth, the __cannabis plant is still with us………. The dark and deceptive era of prohibition must be curtailed so that future generations will be able to enjoy a clean environment and a society based on liberty and peace__. **The key factor is belief. Elite backlash and inevitability are just propaganda propagated by the dominant system. Every whisper of resistance ripples through multitudes.** **__Ainger et al ‘4__** (Activist collective, We Are Everywhere: The Irresistible Rise of Global Anticapitalism, [|http://artactivism.members.gn. apc.org/allpdfs/387-%5Bessay% 5DPower.pdf]) But __all gods have a secret vulnerability: they cease to exist when people no longer believe in them……__ As __we take away one pillar, others begin to wobble and the system trembles__.

**Suspension of Temporality**: **solvency is irrelevant – the plan is its own Truth with a capital T.** Slavoj **__Zizek__**, Senior Researcher, Institute for Social Studies, Ljubljana, 20**__04__**, __Revolution at the Gates__, p. 259-60 As Deleuze saw very clearly, __we cannot provide in advance an unambiguous criterion which will allow us to distinguish "false" violent outburst from the "miracle" of the authentic revolutionary breakthrough……..__ Revolution is experienced not as a present hardship we have to endure for the sake of the happiness and freedom of future generations, but as the present hardship over which this future happiness and freedom already cast their shadow – in it, __fight for freedom; we are already happy even as we fight for happiness,__ no matter how difficult the circumstances. Revolution is not a Merleau-Pontyan wager, an act suspended in the futur anterieur, to be legitimized or de-legitimized by the long-term outcome of present acts; **__it is__**, as it were**__, its own ontological proof, an immediate index of its own truth.__**