WHY DO THEY NOT WANT US TO GROW CANNABIS?

Why do they not want us to grow Cannabis?

People have been asking me for decades whether ii believe that Cannabis will ever be legal and ii always say “NO”.

The absolute arrogance of our so called leaders, the people we look up to for protection. They capture the Holy Herb, declare it illegal for almost 100 years and then take it and alter it in laboratories to produce synthetic THC and CBD products to sell to us while the actual plant remains illegal even in the privacy of our homes.

Here in South Africa we are blessed to have a few high profile court cases in the High Court’s awaiting judgement. And while we wait for March 2018 for such outcomes ii highly suspect that we are really just waiting for our parliament to pass The Medical Innovation Bill which will basically give the plant to the pharmaceutical industry on a silver tray although ii am told that this bill is dead now so we shall see and also we look with interest to Canada as they too have taken Cannabis to the court room.

But what about the people who simply would not be able to legally afford these ‘legal Cannabis drugs’?

These are the same poor and downtrodden people who dwell in informal settlements and in the rural areas of our country. People such as myself. We have 17 million people on our social grant scheme so basically this medicine will really only be available to the stinking rich and the people who have medical insurance cover and of course those brave people who will continue to grow and take the risk of being imprisoned for cultivating their own medicine at home.

Africa Unite

As ii always say this is Africa…things will definitely have to work differently here and we will see how the highest Court of our land will handle the people’s request to grow Cannabis in the privacy of the home.  Already on 31 March 2017 Judge Dennis Davis of The Western Cape High Court has ruled that this aspect of our prohibition laws is unconstitutional and this ruling has now been to The Johannesburg Constitutional Court on 7 November and now we wait…

As Ras Garreth Prince has stated in court many times Cannabis was living on African soil long before the colonialists arrived and if anything this plant belongs to the Khoi San people and this is exactly why King Adam Kok V leader of the Griqua Nation and the Auni San People has put his own appeal in to the Constitutional Court to safe guard the plant for the people.

King Adam Kok V and his Chief Petrus Vaalbooi in the Johannesburg Constitutional Court 7 November 2017

Traditional Healers from all walks unite

We have another very powerful ally in our fight against Cannabis exclusion. The Traditional Healers Organisation (TH0).

The message is clear our Traditional Healers of South Africa want free access to Cannabis which they have also been using for generations to heal the nations.

Despite 23 years of democratic freedom in South Africa we still have an oppressed minority group in our country. Followers of Rastafari have been persecuted for generations for our religious and spiritual use of Cannabis which is our sacred sacrament.

Ask yourself why so many Rastafari Brothers are missing their middle teeth? Too many times in prison ii have personally seen how they grab my Brothers and smash their faces between the cell bars and this is how many of them have lost their teeth…for what ii ask you? For a plant? For praying to His Majesty? My first arrest for Cannabis and my faith was in 1981 at age 12 years.

This abuse continues in our land with around 1000 Cannabis arrests daily and this is why my most burning issue is the immediate release of all Cannabis inmates and in fact Ras Garreth Prince has asked the Constitutional Court for a moratorium on this matter.

Just before the 1994 elections the ANC targeted Rastafari for their votes and many false freedoms were promised in respect of our spiritual use of Cannabis.

The unity witnessed between the Traditional Healers and the Rastafari Community is a brilliant display of what we call “African Inity” in that both communities yearn for a deeper connection to their ancestral lineage and a desperate desire to observe cultural customs.

It is indeed an honour for me to be aligned with both groups as my Master Brother Judah who is a Xhosa insisted that ii walk the ‘twasa’ path with the Eastern Cape Sangomas instead of going up the mountain with the Sakmanne in Western Cape. To this day ii give thanks to The Most High for blessing me so high with this privilege.

This cultural fusion aims to re-establish the traditional philosophy of healing and preservation of indigenous knowledge especially in the rural areas and the townships and ghettos.

Together Rastafari Bush Doctors and Herbswomen, Sangomas, Inyangas and Igqirha’s we are all major players in the informal trade of medicinal plants throughout our country and millions of people depend upon our collective ancient healing knowledge. Wherever ii go in this country ii am asked for Cannabis from locals and tourists alike.

Such ancient traditional healing knowledge has always been underground and understudied. Generations of apprenticeship in learning from our Elders who in turn learnt from the ancient Khoi San practices which we all carry forward to this day.

Truly the medical world should respect us traditional healers for bring Cannabis Medicine to the people in the first place all the while being arrested for carrying out this ancestral duty.

So we must never overlook the strong ties of both socio-culturally distinct groups to the Khoi San people. What ii have learnt in my field training is that both Sangoma and Rastafari Bush Doctor/Herbswomen use divine powers to heal and this is how we are able to ‘see’ disease and this is also what makes us such powerful allies because we share an overstanding of the true meaning of the healing of the nations.

What is happening overseas right now?

Well in America the arrogance has matured to a whole new level with the DEA (Federal Law) having now rescheduled the synthetic THC product Dronabinol. 

This is the same man-made THC medicine which is already on South African soil and has been for some time.

So this product has now been rescheduled to Schedule II and they snuck this little law through the day before Thanksgiving last week when everyone was too distracted with eating and shopping the next day to even notice.  

Remember ii always tell you “Sin gets its power from the law” (1 Corinthians 15 verse 56).  This is what these people do they keep the people distracted and pass their evil laws and this is exactly what they will try to do everywhere to keep this plant away from the people.

Take note of their wording of total control in this statement:

“[I]t should be noted as a preliminary matter that any form of dronabinol other than in an FDA-approved drug product remains a schedule I controlled substance, and those who handle such material remain subject to the regulatory controls, and administrative, civil, and criminal sanctions, applicable to schedule I controlled substances set forth in the CSA and DEA regulations.”

Honestly sometimes ii simply can’t find the words to describe how ii feel for the actions of these people. So the plant and any other Cannabis medicine not made by Babylon remains Schedule 1 meaning ‘extremely dangerous with no medicinal value’ and illegal.

This kind of law gives the pharmaceutical industry total freedom to control pricing for their privately authorised brand of THC and ii understand that the pricing will be anything from $1000 to $2000 dollars per monthly prescriptions.

The average person in South Africa would not even be able to afford R2000 per month.

Even though they received criticism which highlighted the hypocrisy of legalising synthetic THC to be prescribed by doctors while ordinary people will stand the risk of being thrown into prison for trying to grow and produce their own medicine at home…they still passed the bill anyway.

Do you accept the gluttonous greed of your government to infringe on your right to decide what you put into your body?

Do you accept being forced to consume a dangerous man made version of a perfectly natural plant which you can grow for free in your backyard?

Laws like this also totally overlook the numerous studies which have been conducted world-wide even in the US at some highly respected institutions which prove that whole herbal Cannabis does in fact have medicinal value.

The pharmaceutical industry is notorious for putting profit above patient care.  They are also notorious for bribing doctors in exchange for prescriptions to increase sales.  They intentionally withhold vital product information from doctors, patients and insurers.

So the intention seems set to legalize the chemical components of Cannabis before the actual plant if ever to ensure they capture the entire market and secure sales.

So what about the actual plant?

Man-made synthetic THC and CBD products are referred to as ‘drugs’ and the whole herbal natural plant which grows in the ground is a herb.

There are a lot of scientists, especially those who actually discovered THC and CBD, who do not wholly approve of ‘single-Cannabinoid’ drugs and instead conform to the “Entourage Effect” which concerns the full spectrum of Cannabis extract from whole herbal plant material.

It has already been proven over and over that the various Cannabinoids, terpenes and other chemical components of the Cannabis plant work together in a natural synergy which complements and enhances all the actions and effects of the different chemical elements. It is also a scientific fact that a lot of the components of Cannabis would not occur or would cease to exist in the absence of some of the more well- known Cannabinoids for example THC and CBD.

So while we are awaiting the commercial debut of Cannabis drugs we must accept that none of these products contain the full plant profile and to be honest ii highly doubt that any of these so called approved synthetic Cannabis products even came from plant material in the first place.

As it stands now in the US we are reading reports that ‘big pharma’ stand to lose in excess of $4 billion which is nothing compared to say Pfizer’s already $53 billion stake in the Cannabis Medicine industry.

So these people live in famine fear that Cannabis Medicine will overtake opiates, anti-depressants, anti-epileptics…well all of their conventional treatments really…so the very last thing they can afford is for people to now start producing their own Cannabis Medicine and the only way to secure this is by lobbying for unfair Cannabis laws like the ones which persecute people for growing the plant in their backyard.

They also do not want the people to consume the natural plant because it works differently on our THC Receptors than their synthetic man-made THC products.

The natural herb will not only heal you without any side effects but it will also open your chakras and open all three of your eyes to the deceit on the planet. This is how the plant works and this is a definite ‘no-no’ for the people who are trying to control all of us by dumbing us down with their fake foods, water, vaccines and medications which have dangerous and often deathly side effects. But these are all legal and we are encouraged to consume as much as possible.

But it seems that under no circumstances will they allow us to grow our own because truly without prejudice or admission of ingratitude a limit of say 2 or 3 plants per household is simply not going to help anyone to make a decent amount of medicine and they know this very well. Make no mistake.

My chemistry studies reveal that since the 1960's scientists have been converting CBD from Hemp into THC in their labs so as far as ii can see scientists and corporations like Monsanto have plans to produce synthetic Cannabis medicine without even growing a plant and charging top premium to further control the pharmaceutical industry and they will be allowed to this through the law.

Money is their god and for me personally Cannabis is the feminine face of God highlighting the protecting and nurturing character of the Holy Herb and the only laws which ii will follow are the laws of His Majesty.

Grow Your Own ~ Heal Your Self