Unless you're willing to spend at least fifteen minutes seeing and hearing the message in this video, don't waste your time reading any further.   Why?  First, because we are going to show you the connections among several things that, at first glance, appear to be complexly unrelated.   Second, this video is the product of years of study and research, and you can't get a education in a thirty-second sound bite.

For years, the marijuana controversy has been overwhelmed by deception, intentional misinformation, half truths, and outright lies.   This video is designed to:  a)   provide as much truth as possible about marijuana,  b)   examine, side by side, both sides of each aspect of this controversy and  c)   let you make up your own mind about what's fact and what's fiction regarding marijuana.      

Dopamine Addicts     Dopamine Addicts

Brain and behavior scientists are finding out things about brain chemistry that, when placed into the context of our collective social behavior, indicate that the world is being run by dopamine addicts.

a)   You don't need to take drugs in order to be a drug addict.   It's the brain's natural chemical, dopamine, that actually produces the euphoric feeling and not cocaine, or heroin, or any other pleasure-enhancing drug.

b)   Making money and using cocaine both stimulate the release of dopamine into the pleasure centers of the brain.

c)   Dopamine highs are also produced in numerous non-drug-related ways – by making large amounts of money, -- by gambling – by facing danger – by sex, work, food, or any of a number of physical activities.

d)   People can become addicted to just about anything.

The men who hold the real power in the world today are addicted to the dopamine that is produced in their brains when they engage in Making Large Amounts of Money, when they engage in High-Stakes / High-Risk Gambling, and when they expose themselves to The Thrill of Danger.

A classic and well-documented example of this comes to us from the Enron Financial Scandal and an examination of its former CEO, Jeffrey Skilling.   The Evidence tells us that Skilling was at the affect of all three of these addictions.

It's our financial system that is broken and not the people who run it.   There are no bad guy and no victims!   We'd be wise to eliminate -- self-pity – finger pointing – blaming – resentment – complaining – and fighting.   In terms of producing a desired result, cooperation is at least ten times more productive than fighting. 

Our financial problems are actually quite easily corrected using three, simple and interrelated techniques.   The problem is that the money/dopamine addicts are fighting tooth and nail to prevent these three steps from becoming physical reality.   a)  Legalizing marijuana, which is the first step in a long chain of self expanding events.    b) Partnering updated and revised versions of the traditional non-profit foundation with existing and with newly-created for-profit corporations, and  c)  Replacing many profit making corporations with non-profit foundations and then directing the profits to fund city, county, and state governments. 

Taking action is urgent because human-caused Climate Change has triggered the release of the 10,000 billion tons of methane presently frozen in the Arctic Circle.   Each year, the amount of this gas being released is increasing.   Unless this self-expanding cycle is reversed within the next five years, the rate of release will escalate very rapidly to the level where it will become un-stoppable. The environment will be drastically altered.