HOLY SMOKE DECISION DOES NOT DO ISSUE JUSTICE

My name is David Malmo-Levine. In 2003 I appeared self-represented at
the Supreme Court of Canada on "activist cannabis retail" charges
similar to those faced by the Holy Smoke staff. Currently I'm a herb
museum curator in Vancouver. I have been researching the history and
economics of cannabis since 1992.

I am an atheist, but I consider cannabis to be the "Tree of Life"
referred to in the first chapter of the Old Testament and the last
chapter of the New Testament, as well as the "kanneh-bosm" mentioned
in Exodus 30:23 in the Hebrew and Aramaic versions of the Old
Testament. Exodus 30:23 is part of the list of ingredients of the holy
anointing oil, where we get the words "Christ" and "Messiah" from -
the "anointed" one ... anointed with holy kannebosm oil. I believe
Moses and Jesus used cannabis for insight and for healing the blind
(those with glaucoma) the lepers (those with pruritus) and those
possessed by demons (epilepsy). Cannabis is a wonderful - almost
magical - medicine with the ability to replace many of the over the
counter drugs on the market today. To empower humanity with this
magical medicine was one of the ultimate goals of the Holy Smoke staff.

As well as being a wonderful medicine, cannabis is also the best
source of fuel in the plant kingdom. Did you know that you could
eventually crank out hemp ethanol for about 15 cents per litre? The
science to back that up is found in my article on hemp ethanol, found
online. Given Canada's consumption of oil rate is about 2 million
barrels per day, and the US consumption of oil rate is about 20
million barrels per day, hemp ethanol stands to be a major industry,
if ever the red tape around industrial hemp is removed. A legal hemp
ethanol industry would end oil wars, reverse climate change (through
carbon sequestration) and eliminate oil spills. What stands in the way
of using hemp ethanol is the war on cannabis and cannabis users that
creates the red tape around industrial hemp. Removing this red tape
and helping humanity evolve into sustainable beings is another goal of
the staff of Holy Smoke.

There are other economic reasons to re-legalize medicinal and social
cannabis. Globally, the tobacco industry is worth about $430 billion
dollars. Tobacco is grown in radioactive chemical fertilizers.
Canadians drink over 240 million litres of alcohol every year, and
those living in the US drink over 2.5 billion. 99% of all
"recreational"-drug-related deaths are due to alcohol and tobacco. The
global pharmaceutical industry is worth over $500 billion per year.
Over 100,000 US citizens die every year from synthetic drugs. We could
ease the burden on our health care system by getting people to switch
from deadly alcohol, tobacco and pills to cannabis - a herb that has
never killed anyone. We could save billions every year in health-care
costs. Not to mention the billions we waste in limited justice system
resources, and the billions of tax dollars currently uncollected. And
we could create hundreds of thousands of new jobs farming and
gardening. These are all worthy goals that would dramatically change
the quality of life of all Canadians for the better.

This is the holy mission that these men were on when they were
arrested - trying to set an example of how this harmless, helpful herb
could be fully taken advantage of. If they are punished, they will be
punished for trying to save their world from poisonous drugs and fuels
and trying to bring back the tree of life when the world needs it
most. To punish them now would be to harm the harmless, given the fact
that there are absolutely no victims from their crime. There are no
marijuana drunk tanks, no marijuana cancer wards and nobody
complaining of harm done to them.

Don't harm these harmless, helpful and holy people by taking away
their freedom.

David Malmo-Levine

Vancouver, B.C.