It’s a plant and like any other plant it grows wheresoever it can; in the juicy, piney mountains of the north, to the wet and humid ghats in the south. And no matter who you are, for example, let’s just say if you were all the governments of the first world, and second world and the third world combined, it’d be, plainly, a pretty stupid and retarded to say that growing a plant is illegal; passing ‘legal’ judgements as if we humans have sole proprietary rights over lands, nature and photosynthesis.
So be prepared to be told that cabbages and cauliflowers are illegal from tomorrow? May be, a few years later, they’ll ban a mountain for growing a tad too tall.
Well, why don’t we ban earthquakes then? Things sure seem that they can, very much be controlled. No?

But sadly, the lack of nature in our lives, has eventually lead to this detachment from all of the goodness around, and got us living amongst stress, urban wilderness driven by the predatory instinct called capitalism and competition, a world thriving on ‘prescribed’ drugs, and illusions of choices; such unexplainable affinities that, kind of, continuously, keeps the world wired.
The Great Legalization Movement is an attempt at getting it all unwound.
On 14th November, 1985(what a cruel thing to do on a Children’s day), which is like just 30 years ago, the government of India banned this plant, for reasons only known to itself(and perhaps maybe, Uncle Sam), and since then, the plant, just like that, became illegal.

So, let’s pause and re-evaluate the fact that before 1985, for thousands of years, weed or marijuana or ganja, growing it, consuming it for physical problems and mental pleasures all was all perfectly fine and legal.
But well, enlightenment dawned upon the governments so suddenly that the plant was decided to be weeded out of the peoples’ system. So much for upholding cultures and traditions.

At this point, we would all request you to visit http://www.glm-india.com/educate/ and keep it open in the tab, and go read it right away/ or when you are done reading this blog. It’s imperative that you visit the website and irrespective of your decision of voting for it or not, read the educate me section, so as to at least know the plant.
The plant causes a lot of hysteria in our societies, people react as if we are talking about cocaine or AIDS when you mention it. It’s perhaps, the result of continuous and rigorous brainwashing efforts carried out by the establishments that the plant is being received in such a negative light in the mainstream worlds.

It’s imperative to realize that the source of the plant is no different from the wooden chair that you are sitting on or the tulsi tea that you drink or the peas that you cook or the Pudin Hara that you consume for acidic stomachs.  It’s the same, primary carbon, oxygen and hydrogen atoms.

Think about the farmers who’s lands have been ravaged by the establishments for promoting nature, think about fuels that cause no harm to the environment(McKenna does say that ultimately we all are destined to leave the plant, but we gotta stop harming it whilst we are here, no?), think about materials as strong as concrete but not as wastage oriented as concrete, think about plastic that can disappear in a few months.

From a very plausible cure for cancer to relieving stress, to better control over blood pressure and diabetes to dealing with people of special needs, to skin rashes to anger issues, to unlocking the portals in brains, opening small windows and letting the light in, to which, millions of people in the world would nod their heads to; yet none of it is good for human beings, we are told. We are told and taught to be okay with popping pills of antibiotics and painkillers along with their side effects, for everything and anything, consciously and unconsciously, being made to kill our own selves.

“Never think that this movement doesn’t affect you. It affects you and everything and everyone around around you in ways that you cannot even imagine(anyway, control over imagination is the favourite tool of the system, aint it?).
You can understand everything at www.glm-india.com/educate

This is a democratic country. Use your voice once in a while. For the right kinda reasons.
Vote so that you can put an end to destruction of forests.
Vote so that you are making the best medicine available to everyone, which includes yourself, your family, friends and loved ones. Your vote can save the lives of millions of dying farmers. They can grow this super economical crop, in any part of the country with minimal requirements.
Vote for better sustainable products and also a better place to live in! Seriously, speak up! Now

Otherwise our massive needs of consumption and a bad corrupted system which regulates it is going to eat up our world as we know it! “said Viki Vaurora, founder of the movement.

Back in 2014, he took half a kilo of good quality weed, and extracted THC out of it, to help out Leela, a cancer patient, who was at the brink of death, orally administering the THC rich cannabis oil into her system, who was so beaten and bruised to the edge of her life with continuous chemotheraphy and other prescribed drugs, that she couldn’t even eat. A few months later, she was diagnosed cancer free, by the same doctors who had told her that there wasnt a chance of she  being alive.(However, sadly, her cancer resurfaced a few months later and unavailability of the medicine cost her, her life. That exactly is what we are trying to deal with and eradicate via this moment.)
In 2015, Viki, along with Rick Simpson planned a series of conferences across the nation to bring on this educational wave about the plant. The conference in Bangalore was exceptional.
Because of the same reason, the other conferences in Mumbai and Delhi got shut down.

What we want to do is start a dialogue. We don’t expect people to sit down tomorrow and legalize it right away (which we also know is a far-fetched idea, considering the amount of money that a lot of blood sucking leeches across the world stand to lose).
What we are calling out for us due research, what we are calling out for is lesser pain in all of our lives; what we are calling out for is better mental health for people, without having to make rounds of clinics.

The Great Legalization movement is moving to the Supreme Court this September, filing in a Public Interest Litigation, also, popularly known as PIL, to make the plant legal. And we would all want you to pitch in, participate. Here’s how.
1. Educate yourself about the plant and its benefits @ www.glm-india.com/educate
2. Vote for legalization; to vote visit www.glm-india.com/vote
3. Educate everyone around you and send us as many votes as possible.
[We would like to stress on the part that one shouldn’t vote about things that one isn’t informed about. So please do spend enough time on the website]
The important thing to do is to educate the people around you with facts and information about the benefits of the plant.

All you have to do is click a picture and send it to us at vote@glm-india.com
Please help localise your Great Legalisation Movement .
There are a lot of people out there who are costing others an opportunity of better health and living standards out there, because well, that will hurt their pockets.

Capitalism is not our friend, and plants aren’t out enemies.

We owe each other, being nice to each other.
Let’s roll, then.

[All pictures courtesy GLM facebook page. Here’s the https://www.facebook.com/GLM.India.2014/?fref=ts]