Rx for America

1. First, we must admit that we have a problem, and a major one at that. In fact, the more one examines this problem, the uglier it gets. The American Cosmos might collapse, and my typing right now could be a waste of my time, but you gotta have faith sometimes.

2. The next most important step, beyond everything else, is we must ensure that all Americas have clean fresh water. Even if this means building desalinization plants along the coast and piping fresh water inland, so be it. Life will be bad if we run out of clean water, let's prevent that from happening first.

3. It would be most advantageous to use vacant real estate and parks as gardening areas to grow fruits and vegetables. Next to water, access to food will be the most important demand of civil society. Without food and water, only chaos grows.

4. We should learn how to grow our own fuel. This is not all that difficult, and there are a wide variety of plants to choose from. The best biofuel plants would grow fast, require little water or fertilizer, and if possible, draw nutrients from deep within the soil via long taproots, and then deposit those nutrients on the top soil via composted leaf remains. This is the ideal plant, and it actually exists, but it is currently illegal to grow in the U.S.

5. Equip trucks, tractors, and automobiles with engines that run on the biodiesel and green ethanols produced from the above ideal biofuel plants.

6. Establish economies and markets that promote the scientific and medical uses of natural plants (but we have to legalize them first).

7. Encourage Americans to work with the neighbors to build community gardens, and community composting parks. Encourage the spread of botanical knowledge, so that more citizens can be take more responsibility for their lives.

8. Reduce government spending by reducing the number of incarcerated nonviolent plant-related "drug" abusers. Reduce the number of "crimes" by reforming bad laws, thus avoiding the latent criminalization of a significant minority of Americans who's only crime was smoking the flowers of a plant that God made by mistake

9. Remove the driving impetus for the escalating increase of civil violence in Mexico. Narco-trafficers are waging war against the Mexican government. The Narco-trafficers get their money to buy guns by selling illegal drugs, and then they buy the guns in America, before taking them back to Mexico to shoot Mexican police. Part of admitting we have a problem is biting the bullet to say "we don't know what we're doing here, and we're in trouble." Making "drugs" and "plants" illegal only benefits governments and organized crime (the narco-trafficers). It would be hard for the narco trafficers to make money to buy guns to wage war on the mexican police if their "drugs" could be prescribed by a doctor and bought at Walgreens or grown at home as the plant God intended.

10. Legalize Cannabis sativa, Cannabis indica, and Cannabis ruderalis. If a single bullet started World War 1, imagine what a plant can do.