”The Monsanto Mind”
From George Ure’s http://urbansurvival.com/week.htm

Coping: Liars, Liars, Pants on Smoke

I’ve been watching a story which is out there on the net now and getting traction fast – which proves, beyond a shadow of a doubt that a government near you is acting in a two-faced and dishonorable way with regards to medical uses of marijuana. Specifically I refer to US Patent Number 6630507.

For the sake of public awareness and discussion, let’s roll out the exact words of the patent abstract, shall we?

”Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism. This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and HIV dementia. Nonpsychoactive cannabinoids, such as cannabidoil, are particularly advantageous to use because they avoid toxicity that is encountered with psychoactive cannabinoids at high doses useful in the method of the present invention. A particular disclosed class of cannabinoids useful as neuroprotective antioxidants is formula (I) wherein the R group is independently selected from the group consisting…”

The patent, though I am not an attorney, merely a co-holder on a number of patents, does seem to have a couple of problems with it, which – if it were filed by an individual might be expected to have resulted in its immediately being laughed out of the patent application process. However, when the Original Assignee is the ”United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services” seems not to have happened.

Problem #1: Prior Art.

Any student who has looked at history of cannabis use is aware that:

Cannabinoids were a/the key component of marijuana smoke, and that…

Marijuana was smoked prior to the patent application and issuances which began with a series of patents from 1940.

I believe the record shows that humans have been using cannabis back to pre-stone age times, if you’ll pardon the bad pun.

Problem #2: Enforceability

The problem here is that cannabinoids and THC are the key ingredients of historical ”smoke.” I take, as an article of faith, that there would be no smoking of marijuana were it not for the presence – and documented results – from the active ingredients.

This is part and parcel of what I sometimes refer to the ”Monsanto Mind.” This is where an organization takes Life’s building blocks, and claims that a unique arrangement thereof represents art, and therefore is intellectual property subject to patent protects. The problem is, broadly, that all kinds of unique combinations of Life building blocks have been either a) previously tried by nature, which has been running ”what works best experiments for millennia, or b) have already been articulated by humans (perhaps under the influence of drugs) via such stories as unicorns, minotaur’s, and a variety of science-fiction accounts (which includes the whole field of cloning, and this, manipulation of Life’s building blocks should/oughta be in the public domain.

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Here’s a really interesting point to ponder: If the government owns the ”rights” to cannabinoids, does this mean that anyone who has ever nipped some ganj is guilty of patent infringement? Are medical weed puffers infringers who can be charged a use fee or royalties?

Was Kafka a dealer who went off the paranoid end in The Trial? The nice thing about great literature is that it often ”leaks the future” and while Jules Verne and H.G. Wells did fine on the technical side, Kafka’s plot summary of The Trial seems just the thing for the emergent police state flowering in the midst of our democratic republic:

”During the discussion it becomes clear how different this process is from regular legal proceedings – guilt is assumed, the bureaucracy running it is vast with many levels, and everything is secret, from the charge, to the rules of the court, to the authority behind the courts – even the identify of the judges at the higher levels. The attorney tells him that he can prepare a brief for K., but since the charge is unknown and the rules are unknown, it is difficult work. It also never may be read. Yet is is very important. The lawyer says that his most important task is to deal with powerful court officials behinds the scenes. As the talk, the lawyer reveals that the Chief Clerk of the Court has been sitting hidden in the darkness of a corner. ”

Makes me wonder if the cannabinoid patent(s) aren’t a kind of regulatory insurance policy. Even IF (through some miracle highly unlikely) a court of competent jurisdiction were to declare that use of anything naturally occurring could not be made illegal (a flimsy notion even in times of thought stampedes) is unacceptable.

Were such an accidental triumph of rationality to occur, all natural drug users could still be held jailed for patent violations! Jail, and prisons, are an industry and without drug crimes, drug lawyers, drug courts, drug agencies…..well, you see the problem, right? The whole economy would fail because somewhere over one million people depend on the unquestioned illegality of drugs for their livelihood!

What portion of police? What portion of lawyers, paralegals, undercover equipment manufacturers, drug testing labs, human resource seminars…the mind reels at the thought.

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Fortunately, I have a way we can sort this all out: I suggest we patent both hydrogen and deuterium and unique components of water.

To be sure, we all know that water already has a number of uses, and last time we checked, those uses, like the cannabinoids being used back into antiquity, have long and well-documented properties. Still, the issuance of a patent (filed 2001, granted 2003) to the US Government (assignee) when there is ample and overwhelming evidence of prior art/prior use, gives me me nearly total confidence that a patent for molecular elements within water, such as deuterium, could be obtained as well, since reality is not what’s before our eyes, only what is properly regulated and approved to be there.

Oh, we need to build mega-sized aquariums to round up all those infringing fish!

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All this aside, I guess we can sleep a lot better now knowing the government is protecting us from plants God/Universe created and put out there for whatever Higher Purpose there is…God was obviously wrong, government is always right which why this efficacious treatment of diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s isn’t permitted via a naturally occurring substance. I’d like to thank government for doing a fine job of patenting a useful substance and continuing to make it illegal thus extending the pain and suffering endured by sick humans when legalization of marijuana would reduce obstacles to, and the cost of, treatment.

But that’s what happens with a government becomes a corporation under 28 US Code §3002, 15. For that to be legit, there’d have to be an Act of Congress approving the corporation, but Ooops! Nope, none found…but my search must have missed something. Oh well…move along, nothing to see here. And whatever you do, don’t put on those ”corporate collusion” glasses when it comes to thinking about intellectual property…Life and everything in it is claimed.

With friends like this, who needs enemies?

Couple sites for occupymon$anto:

http://www.occupymonsanto360.org/
http://www.facebook.com/occupymonsanto

Couple things:

A handful of multinationals are attempting to use patents on life itself to monopolize the biosphere, video:
http://tv.globalresearch.ca/2012/02/open-seeds-biopiracy-and-patenting-life

http://www.trueactivist.com/hungary-destroys-all-monsanto-gmo-corn-fields/

Farmers Pigs All Sterile From GMO Corn ,Video:
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/1647/719/Farmers_Pigs_All_Sterile_From_GMO_Corn_,Video.html

India files biopiracy lawsuit against Monsanto, says biotech giant is stealing nature for corporate gain

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/033714_biopiracy_Monsanto.html#ixzz1ZJtzAE2p

Video covering haarp data

http://beforeitsnews.com/story/508/099/Illuminatis_Depopulation_Plan_Exposed_by_Japans_Princess_Nakamaru_and_Italian_Prince_Zagami.html

Stressed about radiation , monsanto, haarp, and tptb’s solution to human population.