Anonymous kicks off Operation Cannabis 420 campaign
First Netflix, now the drug war. Anonymous is taking absolutely no prisoners this week.
The hacktivist group has declared a new project: Operation Cannabis 420. The informal Internet collective has declared April 20, a traditional day of observance for those in the marijuana community, a day of action for all occupiers around the world and is launching a full campaign to educate the masses and (hopefully) end the war on drugs.
A press release put out today (April 9) highlights the myriad medicinal uses of cannabis and states, "Cannabis has been oppressed by the powers that be that are afraid of its true benefits, and these benefits do help all of mankind! So cannabis fits the criteria for Anonymous’ support."
And just what can you do? "We ask that all Anons and individuals please support the legalization efforts in any way possible! Even simply signing a petition or sharing info or even just having an open mind about the subject will help!" The group is also asking people to make their online social-media photos green on April 20 as a show of solidarity.
Anonymous and cannabis. It's like my two favourite things all rolled into one. If I didn't have a calendar, I'd swear it was Christmas.
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Malcolm Kyle
Apr 11, 2012 at 2:01am
Hemp is absolutely one of the most valuable resources yet waiting to be fully developed!
* Hemp can provide us with most of our needs; clean burning bio-fuels (due to the rapid growth cycle, requiring less land than corn); Hemp foods (arguably the most nutritious food-source on the planet and presently one of the hottest health food trends in North America); clothing fibers; healthy cooking oils; paper; building materials (from a musical instrument to the body of a stealth bomber) It's even stronger than cement at one sixth the weight. - You don't need fertilizers or chemicals to grow hemp. And there is absolutely no part of the hemp plant that cannot be easily utilized.
* While the United States is one of the few industrialized nations on the planet to prohibit it's farmers from growing Hemp, China has become the world’s largest producer (75% of world production) and the biggest exporter of hemp derived textile and paper products.
* World trade for hemp seed, hemp oil, hemp fiber, textiles and other products of this amazing resource are rapidly expanding. The United States, as a consumer but not a producer of hemp, is one of the very few nations not profiting - similar to what happened in soviet Russia, the apparatchiks of the DEA are dictating to US farmers what they may, or may not, grow.
“It is impolitic. The fact well established in the system of agriculture is that the best hemp and the best tobacco grow on the same kind of soil. The former article is of first necessity to the commerce and marine, in other words to the wealth and protection of the country. The latter, never useful and sometimes pernicious, derives its estimation from caprice, and its value from the taxes to which it was formerly exposed. The preference to be given will result from a comparison of them: Hemp employs in its rudest state more labor than tobacco, but being a material for manufactures of various sorts, becomes afterwards the means of support to numbers of people, hence it is to be preferred in a populous country."
— Thomas Jefferson, Farm Journal (16 March 1791)
“What was done with the seed saved from the India Hemp last summer? It ought, all of it, to have been sewn again; that not only a stock of seed sufficient for my own purposes might have been raised, but to have disseminated the seed to others; as it is more valuable than the common Hemp.”
— George Washington, Writings of Washington, Vol. 35, pg. 72
* Until the 1880s, 80% of all textiles and fabrics used for clothing, tents, bed sheets, rugs, drapes, quilts, towels, diapers, etc., and even the flag, "Old Glory," were principally made from hemp fibers. Additionally, hemp, due to its extreme durability and color-fastness, was used for 80% of all paper in the world, including Bibles, newspapers, maps, paper money, stocks and bonds, etc.
anna123456
Apr 11, 2012 at 4:08am
http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Stop_suppressing_possible_cures_for_can...
For anyone who cares about the medicinal benefits of this amazing plant, get signing and raise public awareness!
T. Gordon Anderson
Apr 12, 2012 at 9:20am
Please read my Cannabis Manifesto at Amazon - Kindle Store, and maybe I will get enough funds to actually make a dent in the "Everything For Billionaires" Corporate Media Gov. Complex.
Also it may be available as a file for free at my new site - chantstrancedance.com - but our boys in black are watching this sooooo closely - even at the Boci Ball Court! of all places to send terror goons! REally! See NowPublic story on "Fusion Centers" - Terror in our Heartland!