How Marijuana Will Save The World
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"Way at the back of a clean white hall, the screams of a patient strapped down in his bed mix with the smell of the newest defecation that wafts and permeates the complex. Right next to this patient’s particular room is my own room, Room 409. I get milk at every meal, and the lack of mirrors prevents me from having any real face-to-face time with my self. It seems as if only the guy checking my heartbeat, blood pressure, and temperature considers me to be “normal” in a system that, for me at least, is anything but. I can see the minutes of my life pouring out through my nose: my chest inflates and collapses with each specific moment as I count my pulse to measure the time. The cracked ceiling above me, the only canvas available on which to paint my thoughts, has been thoroughly surveyed and mapped accordingly; my dreams provide the only locations I am allowed to enjoy the physical activity of excavating their decadent mountain-tops and budding valleys. Although the first few seconds of my stay were spent exploring the facility, the possible alternatives to what I could do have since shrunk drastically, until my itinerary now somewhat resembles that of an inmate in some Orwellian nightmare: eat, sleep, take prescribed medication..."
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Marijuana. That utterly feared word. Conjuring up images of licentiousness, promiscuity, lethargic dissent, and reckless abandon. Never mind the hypocrisy of an imposed authority employing millions to wipe out alternative power structures, conquering and displacing countless natives, and justifying the suppression of civil rights for everyone but a selected few. Never mind that DEA raids on Cannabis Clubs continue even after a president, partially elected on comprehensive drug reform, stated that measures would be taken to end all attempts to close down legal dispensaries. And never mind the fact that virtually every study available depicts the plant not only as a harmless weed, but potentially the saving grace of an economy poised on the brink of collapse. It is in this climate that a beautifully short novella has come out. "How Marijuana Will Save the World," a satirical compilation of reflections on oppression, traces the Author's journey through psychological collapse at the hands of a political elite. Integrating philosophical treatises on time, ecological responsibility, magic, poetry, liberation theology, and archetypal psychology, communities of intergenerational burners will finally have a common vanguard to rally behind. In the vein of One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, "How Marijuana Will Save the World" provides the next step in evolutionary leadership for the 21st century, proposing a new framework for how we may combat those most regressive forces to finally enjoy, and share, the beauty of the cosmos, detailed in this short paperback or E-Book.
About the Author
What is perhaps one of the most interesting ways to spend time, or kill it, depending on your point of view I suppose, is to engage in the intercourse of human dialogue in order to fully behold the conversation of which it births. I myself have often become a participant in the connection that permeates the interaction for which I hold myself in total reverence, lest I miss those crucial moments that come and are gone in the blink of an eye: flashes of original brilliance that escape in the rapidity of a child's first fleeting steps for example. The manifestation of such individuality, born and reborn through every word spoken and tangent traversed, leads not only to the joining of specific horizons but the reuniting of souls, whether they have met before or not. It is true then, that benches are certainly the factories for this sort of social production. So then, the stories that follow this introduction come to you not from myself, but from those you will probably never know, produced on benches the world over. Do not be disappointed; this is not sad, but happy! That you shall acquire a new sense of awareness, though perhaps not directly, is a fantastic construction that would not otherwise have been made known to you, had it not been for an acute desire for understanding and knowledge (mine, and so yours by default). It is thus that I shall reveal the world as it was revealed to me by those who dwell within its boundaries: the recognition of the people of the world; and likewise, the world of its people...