“Would you like to be in charge of your own mind, of your own feelings, instead of them overcoming you? Overwhelming you all the time, so that a mere glance at another person’s face upsets you and throws you off for the next hour, a frown from someone; or even a smile from someone elates you for a little bit and then you go down again. This is your life. No, it’s not a life at all, it’s a very, very dreary, boring existence.
With the kind of self-exploration that we’re talking about now, everything can be different. But I better tell you something. You had better want it to be different.
If you’re satisfied with being unhappy, then I’m afraid you’re not going to be too excited about what we’re talking about. If you’re satisfied with going along the way you are with all your crying and all your tears and all your defeats, and loving that, if that is your love, I wouldn’t trade places with you for a billion dollars.
Well, maybe there’s someone watching and listening now who wants to be different, who wants to challenge the boundary lines of your own life, who wants to step beyond them and see what is there.
So that’s what we are going to do now.
We’re going to take some preliminary steps in self-exploration, inner- exploration. First of all, self-exploration starts with you, with you looking inside, noticing how you are – you can do that. Did it ever occur to you before that you can look inside yourself and see yourself as you are?
Well, let me tell you what will happen at first for a long time, so you won’t be discouraged, so you won’t think you are doing the wrong thing, but will understand eventually that you are doing the right thing. I want you to know that when you begin the exploration of your own inner self, that when you do that for a long, long time, you’re going to be very, very confused.
And also you are going to be surprised, you’re going to be shocked. You’re going to look in wonderment at what you see inside yourself, because you’re beginning to see yourself as you have actually been all your life – whereas you thought you were someone else. Whereas before you were living in dream land about what a marvelous human being you are and how much other people owed you, for example.
Do you have the courage and do you have the honesty – and do you have the decency, the simple decency to face the fact that you don’t understand yourself? That you don’t know how to behave yourself out in the world, and so you put on a bluff, and so you fake it, and so you pay the price for it.”
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“For it was a witty and a truthful rejoinder which was given by a captured pirate to Alexander the Great. The king asked the fellow, “What is your idea, in infesting the sea?” And the pirate answered, with uninhibited insolence, “The same as yours, in infesting the earth! But because I do it with a tiny craft, I’m called a pirate: because you have a mighty navy, you’re called an emperor.”
St. Augustine, City of God
These words written by St. Augustine encapsulate one of the most fundamental problems of political philosophy. Namely why governments are morally justified to take actions that no individual, or group of individuals, are permitted to take. Governments demand a portion of our income, decide what substances may be consumed, regulate and restrict voluntary transactions, spy on our communications, place limits on our speech, drop bombs on foreign countries, and in some cases conscript us to fight their wars. If we disobey, we risk being thrown in a cage, or in extreme cases killed. Or as the contemporary philosopher Michael Huemer writes:
“Acts that would be considered unjust or morally unacceptable when performed by nongovernmental agents will often be considered perfectly all right, even praiseworthy, when performed by government agents. Why do we accord this special moral status to governments, and are we justified in so doing? This is the problem of political authority.”
Michael Huemer, The Problem of Political Authority
In this video, relying on Huemer’s book The Problem of Political Authority, we show why political authority is illegitimate and cannot be morally justified. We then examine the cognitive biases that lead people to mistakenly believe that government agents should be allowed to operate outside the bounds of morality that confine the rest of us.
The most famous attempt to legitimize the power of the state is the social contract theory. This theory is based on the idea that there is a contractual relationship between the government and those governed which obligates the government to provide certain services, such as law and order, and the citizens to pay taxes and obey the law. This theory, however, is not grounded in reality. None of us have ever been presented with a contract requesting our consent, nor has any one signed one. It was not explicit contractual relations that gave rise to most modern states, but war and conquest.
To sidestep the problems with the original social contract theory, some political philosophers propose that it is implicit consent, rather than explicit, that grounds the social contract between citizen and state. Implicit consent is consent granted through one’s conduct, rather than through written or verbal communication.
Huemer suggests there are four main ways that we can grant implicit consent. Firstly, there is passive consent where “one expresses agreement to a proposal simply by refraining from opposing it.” (Michael Huemer, The Problem of Political Authority) Secondly, there is consent through acceptance of benefits, arising when “one commits oneself to accepting certain demands by soliciting or voluntarily accepting benefits to which those demands are known to be attached.” (Michael Huemer, The Problem of Political Authority) A third type is ‘consent through participation’ and occurs when one “implicitly consents to the rules governing a practice by voluntarily participating in the practice”(Michael Huemer, The Problem of Political Authority).
These first three forms of implicit consent fail to legitimize political authority as they violate a basic criterion for a valid contract. This criterion requires that each party have a reasonable way of rejecting the proposed agreement. If there is no way that one party can express dissent, then it is not a contractual relationship, but one of servitude or bondage. In the relationship between citizen and state none of these forms of implicit consent offers a way to signal rejection, or as Huemer explains:
“Almost everyone knows that the state will still impose the same laws and the same taxes on one, regardless of whether one objects to the government, accepts a government service, or participates in the political process. Therefore, one’s failure to object, one’s acceptance of government services, and even one’s participation in the political process cannot be taken to imply agreement. . .”
Michael Huemer, The Problem of Political Authority
Because of this problem with the first three forms of implicit consent many turn to a fourth alternative which is called ‘consent through presence’ and arises when one “indicates agreement to a proposal merely by remaining in some location” (Michael Huemer, The Problem of Political Authority). This form of implicit consent forms the basis of the often-heard response expressed to those who show skepticism of political authority: “If you don’t want to obey the government, you can leave”. Assuming we are not serving a prison sentence the option to leave is open to us. Is our continued presence, therefore, indicative of our implicit consent? While consent through presence does meet the criteria of offering a way to reject the supposed agreement between citizen and state, the way out it offers is unreasonable. For unless one assumes that the state owns all property in its territory, which would amount to full blown communism, then the idea that to reject the supposed contract that authorizes political authority we must give up something we own, is absurd, or as Huemer explains:
“If a board chairman cannot demand that board members pay him a dollar to express dissent from a proposed schedule change, how can someone be required to give up home and job and leave all friends and family behind to express disagreement with a contract [between citizen and state]?”
Michael Huemer, The Problem of Political Authority
The inadequacies of implicit consent theories have led some to suggest that consent arises through the will of a majority. The problem with this theory is that to accept it, one must also accept the premise that the wants of a large group supersede those of smaller groups, as attaining unanimous consent to political authority would be impossible. Typically, however, it is not ethically permissible for a group of people, merely because of their numerical superiority, to impose their will on a smaller group. As an example, if we are out for dinner with 5 people, most of us would not accept the notion that if 4 of them agree that we should pay the whole bill this morally obligates us to do so. Nor would most of us accept the idea that the consensus of a majority group can strip a minority group of their rights, relegate them to concentration camps or send them to an early death. So how can the consensus of a majority grant government a special moral status to use violence to enforce its commands on individuals who dissent from their rule. Or as Huemer writes:
“Can the agreement only of a majority of society’s members – whether broad agreement to have a government or agreement to have specific policies or personnel – confer authority on government? At first glance, it is unclear how this might be thought to work. The opinions or decisions of a larger group of people do not normally suffice to impose obligations on a smaller group or an individual who does not agree with a larger group, nor do they typically justify coercive behavior on the part of the larger group.”
Michael Huemer, The Problem of Political Authority
If the consent of a majority can’t justify political authority, perhaps a consequentialist argument can. A consequentialist argument posits that the benefits that arise from granting government a special moral status are significant enough to warrant the costs of obedience. While consequentialist arguments are popular, they are also flawed. They require a subjective interpretation as to whether a government is in fact beneficial to a society, as there are no clear objective criteria that can measure the total costs and benefits of a government. Throughout history, furthermore, there are many examples of governments who operated in ways that were clearly a net negative for their society such as Communist China under Mao, Pol Pot’s Cambodia, Nazi Germany, or Soviet Union under Stalin – in these cases the consequentialist argument would not hold.
But even if one believes the benefits of one’s government clearly outweigh the costs of obedience, it is still not obvious how providing benefits justifies political authority. If providing benefits gives agents of the state a special moral status, should other individuals or groups be able to obtain this status if they provide significant benefits? It is doubtful that many people would be willing to grant a billionaire philanthropist, or a beneficial vigilante, a moral status similar to that of an agent of the state and so some may claim that only a government can obtain the elevated moral status of political authority. But such a response would be begging the question, or in other words, assuming what must be proven, and what must be proven in this case is why governments have a special moral status that enables them to do what is immoral or illegal for everyone else.
The major theories that have been used to justify political authority all suffer from major flaws. But the fact remains that most people believe in the legitimacy of political authority. Why is this? Huemer suggests that it is because we possess cognitive biases that predispose us to obey authority figures and to convince ourselves that the authority figures we obey are justified in the way they behave, even if their behaviour is immoral or harms us. Or as Huemer writes:
“I do not believe that the many who accept political authority have all made this mistake by chance. I believe that there are specific features of the human mind and of the situation most people find themselves in that contribute to a moral illusion of authority.”
Michael Huemer, The Problem of Political Authority
One cognitive bias that promotes belief in the legitimacy of political authority is the status quo bias. This bias, rooted in our preference for stability and fear of change, leads us to favour the established practices, norms, and customs of our society and to view them as moral, right, and good. The status quo bias helps explain why societies accept customs that to an outsider appear peculiar, immoral, or absurd. The strength of the status quo bias can also account for why so few of us question the legitimacy of political authority. All of us were born into societies where political authority is seen as legitimate, we are taught that obedience is moral, and so it seems normal to grant agents of the state a special moral status. Or as Huemer writes:
“What does [the status quo bias] tell us about the belief in political authority? Government is an extremely prominent and fundamental feature of the structure of our society. We know that people tend to have a powerful bias in favor of the existing arrangements of their own societies. It therefore stands to reason that, whether or not any government were legitimate, most of us would have a strong tendency to believe that some governments are legitimate, especially our own and others like it.”
Michael Huemer, The Problem of Political Authority
Stockholm Syndrome can also account for the widespread belief in the legitimacy of political authority. In 1973 a Swedish convict out on parole named Jan-Erik Olsson attempted to rob a bank in Stockholm and in the process held four bank employees hostage. The hostages were held for six days, but a strange thing occurred after they were released. None of them would testify against Olsson, instead they raised money for his defense. During their captivity these hostages developed warm emotional ties to their captor and so the term Stockholm Syndrome is now used to refer to the psychological phenomenon whereby individuals under the control of a powerful person, or group, develop positive feelings toward them, behave in ways that are pleasing to them, and sometimes goes as far as to defend their actions. It has been suggested Stockholm Syndrome is an unconscious defense mechanism that promotes survival. But whatever the cause, this psychological phenomenon can be extended from the dynamic of hostage and kidnapper, to the dynamic of citizen and state. Like the hostage, the well-being of citizens is increasingly dependent on their willingness to behave in ways that are pleasing to the government, or as Huemer writes:
“The general precursors for the development of Stockholm Syndrome are reasonably well satisfied in the case of citizens of modern states. It is therefore not surprising to find that citizens tend to identify with their governments, adopt their governments’ perspectives, and develop emotional attachments (often considered ‘patriotism’) to their governments. Just as Stockholm victims tend to deny or minimize their captors’ acts of coercion, many citizens tend to deny or minimize their government’s coercion.”
Michael Huemer, The Problem of Political Authority
A third psychological mechanism which promotes belief in the legitimacy of political authority is cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance is the uncomfortable psychological state that arises when two or more beliefs, values, or behaviours clash with each other. For example, if we harm another person, this may clash with the belief that we are a good person. As dissonance is an uncomfortable state, we tend to find ways to escape from it. In the example of harming an innocent person, we may tell ourselves that the other person is bad and deserving of our mistreatment. Obedience to political authority can trigger cognitive dissonance. For example, we are forced to pay taxes which fund immoral policies such as dropping bombs on innocent victims or imprisoning people for victimless drug crimes. To quell the dissonance between the belief that we would never knowingly support killing, or imprisoning, an innocent person and the awareness that our tax dollars fund these very acts, many rely on their belief in the legitimacy of political authority to quell their dissonance. Governments possess a special moral status, we tell ourselves, which makes us morally obligated to obey, even if this obedience sometimes makes others suffer. Or as Huemer explains:
“. . . [cognitive dissonance] generates a bias in favor of recognizing political authority. Almost all members of modern societies have frequently submitted to the demands of their governments, even when those demands required actions that they would otherwise be strongly disinclined to perform. For example, most have paid very large amounts of money to the state in satisfaction of its taxation demands. How do we explain to ourselves why we obey? We could explain our behavior by citing fear of punishment, habit, the drive toward social conformity, or a general emotional drive to obey whoever holds power. But none of those explanations is emotionally satisfying. Much more pleasing is the explanation that we obey because we are conscientious and caring citizens, and we thus make great sacrifices to do our duty and serve our society.”
Michael Huemer, The Problem of Political Authority
When we recognize that features of the human mind predispose us to accept the legitimacy of political authority, and that the theories that attempt to justify this authority are weak, this should motivate us to take a more skeptical view of government. But even if the authority of the state is illegitimate it does not follow that disobeying all government laws is morally justified. Some laws correspond to moral principles that are independent of state authority, such as don’t cheat, steal, or kill and these laws should be obeyed regardless of the problem of political authority, or as Huemer explains:
“. . .there are some laws that you should obey for independent moral reasons. For instance, you should not rob other people. This is not because your doing so might destroy the government. It is because robbing other people would be an injustice to the specific people robbed. This is not an example of a political obligation; it is simply an example of a general moral obligation to other people.”
Michael Huemer, The Problem of Political Authority
But with that said skepticism of political authority is warranted and the more people who adopt this attitude the better. For as the history of the past several centuries clearly shows, obedience to government, not disobedience, has been the greater cause of death and destruction. Millions upon millions of people have died fighting statist wars and millions more were killed by those who obeyed the oppressive policies of totalitarian regimes. What we need today are more people who question political authority and who stand ready to disobey when politicians issue commands that are immoral or deleterious to a flourishing society. Defenders of the state will claim that this attitude will throw society into a state of chaos, but as Huemer notes:
“. . .the picture of ordinary people as perched on the verge of disorder, waiting for an excuse to run rampant in disregard of law and order, flies in the face of everything we know about the psychology of authority. . .the average human being is far more likely to commit serious crimes in the name of obedience to authority than he is to rashly disobey justified commands of an authority figure. Literally millions have died because of the widespread disposition to obey unjust commands. So even if my skepticism about authority goes too far, it will more likely serve as a valuable corrective to our excessive tendency to obey rather than posing a danger of destroying social order.”
Michael Huemer, The Problem of Political Authority
A top medical marijuana opponent in Nebraska has initiated a new legal challenge aiming to nullify two recent ballot initiatives to legalize and regulate marijuana in the state.
John Kuehn, a former state senator from Heartwell and a past State Board of Health member, filed a second lawsuit this year targeting the Nebraskans for Medical Cannabis campaign and Bob Evnen, the Secretary of State. The recent case comes after Kuehn lost a related lawsuit in late November, a decision he is currently appealing.
The new lawsuit also involves Governor Jim Pillen and argues that state cannabis legislation is unconstitutional and unenforceable. It further challenges the proposal to create a new agency to oversee cannabis regulation, claiming this approach is prohibited under the law.
According to the lawsuit, the measures created by activists have not undergone proper judicial scrutiny to ensure compliance with the Nebraska and U.S. Constitutions. Kuehn argues that action must be taken now to avoid wasting taxpayer money on what he describes as a doomed effort.
Nebraska law requires the governor to formally declare which ballot measures succeeded in the November 5 election. This includes Initiative Measures 438 and 437, which relate to medical cannabis. Kuehn’s lawsuit seeks to stop the governor from performing this duty.
Crista Eggers, a campaign manager and one of the ballot measures’ sponsors, noted the broad public support for regulated access to medical marijuana, citing overwhelming approval during last month’s vote. She pointed out that 48 states already permit some form of marijuana use, highlighting the state’s right to address its citizens’ needs. Eggers reiterated the campaign’s commitment to defending the state’s medical marijuana legislation to ensure access for patients.
Kuehn’s legal challenge, if successful, could set a precedent for questioning cannabis measures in other states. While the federal government is considering reclassifying cannabis to a less severe category, Kuehn has previously argued that these measures violate federal law.
His initial lawsuit, filed in September, claimed that the initiatives lacked sufficient valid signatures and included concerns of petition fraud. That case, however, was dismissed. Despite the setback, Kuehn has continued his efforts, filing the current lawsuit shortly after the Nebraska Canvassing Board certified the election results.
As it stands, Measures 437 and 438 would respectively allow up to five ounces of medical marijuana with a doctor’s recommendation and establish a regulatory commission by October 2025. Kuehn argues that the governor cannot allocate taxpayer resources to support what he views as federally illegal activity. The case has now moved to Judge Susan Strong, who will hear an initial request to block Governor Pillen from finalizing the measures.
Marijuana companies, such as Cresco Labs Inc. (CSE: CL) (OTCQX: CRLBF) from various jurisdictions will be watching how this latest legal challenge to the medical cannabis measures in Nebraska pans out.
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Organigram reported $247.2 million in gross revenue and $159.8 million in net revenue for fiscal year 2024, ended September 30, but a net loss of $45.4 million.
This represents an increase from $233.6 million in gross revenue for the previous fiscal year (which was 13 months), $161.6 million in net revenue, and a $248.6 million net loss. Organigram reports incurring $87.3 million in excise taxes in fiscal year 2024.
The company’s gross margins nearly doubled in the most recent fiscal year, from 16% to 30%, while operating expenses were down significantly.
The most significant growth in sales for Organigram in fiscal year 2024 were adult-use, recreational non-medical sales of cannabis flower and infused pre-rolls.
In that category, cannabis flower sales, net of excise duty, were $91.2 million, up from $82.1 million in the previous year. Vapes were $2.2 million, down from $3.8 million in 2023. Hash was relatively level at $11.3 million, compared to $11.2 million in 2023. Infused pre-rolls jumped significantly to $12.2 million from just $2.9 million the previous year. Edibles were $21.4 million, compared to $22.1 million in 2023. Ingestible oils and extracts were $4.7 million, up from $4.3 million.
On the medical use supply chain side, sales dropped from nearly $3 million in 2023 to $1.7 million in 2024, while sales of flower and oil on the international market dropped from $18.9 million in 2023 to $9.7 million in 2024. Wholesale and other sales were $5.4 million compared to $2.1 million in 2023.
Since Q4 2023, the amount of dried flower yield per plant in grams and flower harvested in kilograms has increased or stayed level, quarter over quarter.
Organigram’s net revenue in Q4 2024 was the highest the company has reported in the preceding eight quarters.
As of September 30, 2024, the company had unrestricted cash of $133,426, up from $51,757 at September 30, 2023. The company attributes the increase primarily to the proceeds from the follow-on British American Tobacco (BAT) investment and the offering of units that closed on April 2, 2024.
In December, following the end of the most recent fiscal reporting period, Organigram also acquired Motif which included a cash component of approximately $50 million and roughly $5 million in transaction costs. The funds to finance this acquisition were not drawn from the Jupiter Pool created by BAT.
The acquisition of Motif made Organigram the number-one LP in Canada in terms of market share. It also added two purpose-built facilities to its portfolio, focusing on cannabis extraction, processing, manufacturing, and distribution.
Organigram expects to close the third tranche from the follow-on BAT investment in the amount of $41.5 million on or about February 28, 2025.
“Fiscal 2024 was a transformative year where our entire team delivered on multiple fronts,” said Organigram’s CEO Beena Goldenberg. “We received significant funding from BAT when capital for the cannabis industry was scarce. We made smart, strategic investments, including into seed-based technology and automation, which is increasing efficiency. We have also expanded our international footprint through a $21 million investment in Sanity Group, a leading German cannabis company, as well as through several new supply agreements to provide products to patients in Australia and the UK. As we integrate recently-acquired Motif into the Organigram ecosystem, we head into Fiscal 2025 as Canada’s #1 LP and we are very excited for the next phase of our growth plans focused on efficiency, consumer-centric innovation, and international expansion.”
Organigram’s biggest brand, SHRED, brought in $225 million in annual retail sales as of the end of Q4 Fiscal 2024.
Organigram sells into four international medical supply markets: Australia, Germany, the UK, and Israel, and has completed an investment in a German cannabis leader, Sanity Group, to establish a foothold in the growing European cannabis market. The company has also completed strategic investments in two U.S.-based companies: OBX and Phylos.
Organigram also completed its EU-GMP audit in November 2024, and is awaiting the results.
A report of an independent registered public accounting firm, included in Ogranigram’s annual report, says the Moncton-based cannabis company has not maintained effective internal control over financial reporting as of September 30, 2024, based on criteria established in Internal Control-Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway (COSO.)
Some of my earliest memories are of hanging out with my mum in our garden. Together, we would plant seeds and watch the baby plants poke their heads above the soil—and I knew that life was good.
After moving to a city, I forgot about the real magic that takes place when food grows from the soil. I took my vegetables for granted, and life was busy. Who has space for growing food in a city, anyway?
In my 20s, I discovered microgreens at a farmers’ market. I was impressed that the ‘superfood’ baby salad leaves had been grown hydroponically on shelving units in an indoor ‘vertical farm.’ I fell in love with these tiny – and expensive – plants and set about growing them myself.
Before long, I had set up a business, rented a basement unit in central Bristol in the UK, and cycled around the city delivering microgreens to local restaurants. Urban farming had my heart – but I knew microgreens wouldn’t feed the world. And the mushrooms were calling me.
Why Grow Mushrooms?
Mushrooms have existed for over a billion years—long before plants and animals existed. They’re getting a lot of attention now—among foodies, health seekers, and ecologists alike—and this is good news. We need their help.
Fungi have been used as foods, medicines and spiritual tools for thousands of years. They can boost immunity, improve cognitive function and help heal our bodies and minds. They are also super-digestors that can clear up oil spills and harmful chemicals like pesticides. With millions of species still yet to be discovered, who knows what other magic there is in the Kingdom of Fungi?
Also, they’re delicious. And you can grow a lot of them in a tiny space.
Now, I teach other people to grow mushrooms at home, and I’ll tell you more about how to do it in future copies of Garden Culture Magazine. First, let’s look at how mushrooms are commonly cultivated indoors.
How to Grow Mushrooms at Home
Most mushrooms can be grown relatively easily at home with little equipment. Different species have varying appetites and specific preferences, but generally, most mushrooms are cultivated using the three stages below.
Making Mushroom “Seeds”
Mushrooms don’t have real seeds – but grow from mycelium – so this needs to be cultivated in a highly nutritious environment to act as ‘seeds’ for planting. A common way to do this is to inject spores into sterile grain – and store them in a warm, dark place for a few weeks until the grain turns white. At this stage, spores germinate and ‘colonise’ – so that each grain becomes filled with energised mycelium.
Then your ‘seeds’ are ready for stage 2…
Planting and Nurturing “Seeds” in “Soil”
When your grain is white, you can break it up and mix it with a ‘substrate’ (mushroom ‘soil’), which differs depending on the variety of mushrooms being grown. Examples of different ‘soils’ are straw, hardwood pellets (or actual logs), coconut coir, vermiculite and manure. The soil/seed mix is poured into a container like a lunchbox, tub or bag and left for a few more weeks until it has all turned into a white block.
Then, you’re ready for the exciting bit…
Growing – or “Fruiting” – Mushrooms!
Now is the moment to take your container out of its ‘underground’ phase and encourage it to push out some mushrooms! At this stage, you will effectively simulate Autumn/Fall by introducing light, slightly reducing the temperature, and increasing the humidity and fresh air inside your container. You can use ambient daylight (or LEDs), ‘waft’ fresh air into your containers, and humidify with a water mister.
Now, all that’s left is to harvest, preserve and enjoy. You can put your container back into fruiting conditions as they often produce multiple flushes of mushrooms.
Stay tuned for more specific guides from Alex in future issues of Garden Culture Magazine.
Alex has developed a step-by-step course that is available now on UDEMY.
Cannabis financing has long been viewed as a complex and daunting challenge, largely due to the industry’s unique regulatory framework, market volatility, and limited access to traditional financial services. Having said that, as the market matures, more and more financing options will make their way into boardroom discussions as real scenarios instead of abstract ideas.
Some of the traditional and reliable ways to infuse capital include debt financing, equity, and working capital loans. But how does one even know which of those are applicable and effective?
“An indicator that debt financing may be necessary is when a company, whose business valuation has been affected by market conditions, seeks to raise capital without issuing new shares in order to retain maximum ownership,” says Dominic Daigle, managing partner of Agile Solutions, a Canadian-based financing firm that raises funds in various sectors including cannabis. “In that instance, debt financing could be a good way to preserve ownership of the company.”
Daigle adds that in 2018, at the time of legalization in Canada, cannabis companies had incredibly high valuations, some in the hundreds of millions. Now, when looking at the market, the scenery is quite different with valuations at a sliver of what they once were. This is why equity financing can prove to be a challenge right now.
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“If you want to raise $5 million and your company is worth $10 million, you need to sell 50% of your company,” he says. “In 2018 if you were worth $100 million and you needed $5 million, you would just lose five percent.”
Another challenge in the In the Canadian cannabis sector lies in the fact that receivables often extend beyond 30 days, with some invoices taking up to 60 or even 90 days to be paid. This delay can strain a company’s cash flow, particularly for smaller producers and ancillary businesses that need consistent working capital to manage operating costs, payroll, and inventory.
If this sounds familiar, invoice factoring offers an effective solution by enabling businesses to sell their outstanding invoices to a third party at a discount. It provides immediate cash flow without waiting for customers to pay, ensuring smooth operations while mitigating the risk of late payments. This is especially beneficial in a sector where payment terms can vary significantly depending on the size and liquidity of the buyer.
“We know in the cannabis industry most provinces pay in more than 30 days,” says Daigle. “If your client is not paying you at the time of the order and you need to give payment terms, you should consider invoice factoring.”
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There is also the option of a straight working capital loan, which can be a vital financial tool for cannabis companies in Canada, providing the necessary funds to cover operational expenses, such as payroll, rent, inventory, and marketing, during periods of fluctuating revenue.
With the highly regulated nature of the cannabis industry and ongoing challenges like seasonal demand and competition from unlicensed markets, access to flexible financing ensures businesses can maintain steady growth and manage cash flow effectively.
“As a general guideline, the fastest type of loan we have successfully funded in the cannabis industry offers the opportunity to access one to two months of revenue, amortized over 12 months, without requiring collateral,” said Daigle. “Let’s say a company is making $1.2 million annually; we can secure them a loan of $100,000 to $200,000 in about 5 days.”
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Cannabis companies may want to consider seeking financing proactively, when their financial situation is stable, rather than waiting until cash flow issues arise.
Securing financing when a company is financially healthy allows for more favorable terms, greater lender confidence, and the ability to plan for growth opportunities without the pressure of an immediate cash crunch. Conversely, waiting until a company is struggling can limit financing options and result in higher interest rates or stricter terms, as lenders may perceive greater risk. This is especially important in the cannabis sector, where market volatility, delayed receivables, and regulatory changes can rapidly impact liquidity.
“The best time to get financing options is when you think you don’t need them,” says Daigle. “Don’t wait until you need it.”
Welcome to the wonderful world of cultivation. This Winter issue features several pro growers from the Canadian cannabis industry, including our Top Grower spotlights Gerrit Richards and Patrick Pagé, Rob Baldwin author of our cultivation column, Q&A subject Wade Forrest, and the LPs featured in the stories byAly K. Benson and Joe Navarro.
This season we bring you the winners of our fifth annual Top Grower Award. To celebrate, Top Grower sponsor CANNA provided two branded BMX bikes (ontop of their usual swag) and I couldn’t think of two more deserving lads. Congratulations Patrick and Gerrit!
Thank you Top Grower sponsor Biofloral, for supporting this contest and for providing an essential service to the domestic market – outfitting so many of our cultivators with top shelf supplies and guidance.
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I’d also like to thank our panel of judges. OG grower David Kjolberg has scored the contest candidates since its inception. Thank you to three-time returning judge and award-winning master grower Stacie Hollingworth, two-time judge and expert of the highest integrity, Av Singh, and first year judge and winner of our 2022 award, Alexandre Gauthier. I’m happy to close 2024 with a focus on the heart of this industry, the growers. To toast and take a closer look at how it is we all got here.
This year we highlight one standard and one micro-LP winner. Two men representing the Eastern and Western conferences, equally: an Anglophone from Quebec and a B.C. boy from Alberta. There’s a parallel between the two profiles, including how they got their start in cannabis, trimming at Aurora facilities, and meeting and working alongside their dedicated partners. They are the women who nominated them for this award, Beth Talbot and Mehgan Race Widdison, growers who go above and beyond in performance and attention to detail. If it wasn’t for them, we wouldn’t have gotten to hear these tales of dedication to soil biology and the evolution of a refined pallet, respectively.
I’m always inspired when I speak to young talent who have moved into serious leadership roles and are helping others along the way. This industry should be proud of the legacy knowledge it retained and the networks forged among growers of all ages and stages in their career development. To the folks who learn the ropes of a corporate environment even if it goes against their nature. It is a powerful thing, integrating a skill you didn’t know you were made for and then putting your own spin on it. Something perhaps I explored during my time as editor of Grow Opportunity magazine.
This is the 12th and final magazine I’ll be putting out for this beloved brand as I carry on the road of my own story.
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There is room for B2B storytelling in this space, and the people are still here to read long-form human interest piecesdespite constant inundation with bites of information. Thank you to the many folks of varying expertise I’ve spoken to and called upon over the last few years, to my colleagues at Annex Business Media for taking a chance on me, and above all, thank you to the sweet cannabis plant in all her otherworldly glory.
Thank you for inspiring in all of us the creative avenues that are the spice of this life – the titillations made bold enough to follow, and for fostering an interest in gardening that for some like me, provide a powerful bridge to stewardship of the natural world. To be frank, I’m still not entirely sure of my grasp on the nuts and bolts of cannabis as an industry, but I can be sure of my place in it.
Finally, Denis Gertler writes about potential growth opportunities in the sector using the blue ocean strategy analogy, supported by this Socrates quote: “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”While likened to business possibilities in cannabis, I just think they’re sound words to live by.
Psychedelics like LSD, psilocybin, ayahuasca, and MDMA have demonstrated potential in managing conditions like addiction, post-traumatic stress disorder, and depression. These drugs can give rise to profound experiences that, when paired with talk therapy, may bring about substantial therapeutic benefits.
This has grown the popularity of psychedelic-assisted therapy as more and more studies tout the benefits of this approach, particularly for patients with mental health conditions who’ve gained no benefit from traditional treatments.
Now new research by investigators at the University Medical Center Gröningen and the Champalimaud Foundation calls to attention gaps in how the psycho-therapeutic aspect of these therapies is described, possibly impeding their safety and effectiveness. For their research, the investigators systematically reviewed forty-five studies which involved more than 1400 participants to evaluate how well the psychological interventions were reported.
They found that psychological interventions varied extensively across studies and were poorly reported in most cases, with many lacking detailed data about the qualifications of therapists involved, specific methods used, and the therapy model setting. Important details like the number of therapy sessions, which is crucial for determining the amount of therapy required for effective treatment, was often disregarded.
While the quality of the therapist-patient relationship is known to influence the effectiveness of psychotherapy, other factors also play a crucial role in patient outcomes.
Carolina Seybert, the first author of the study, explained that measuring how closely therapists followed treatment protocols was necessary for ensuring effectiveness and safety. However, most studies didn’t track adherence as it was both time-consuming and costly, which made it hard for investigators to determine whether therapy was delivered as intended.
The investigators also found that unlike ayahuasca and psilocybin studies, MDMA research had higher reporting quality because they used one standardized manual for treatment.
In their report, the investigators explained that having clear guidelines could enhance how interventions were reported, noting that this would help other researchers to better understand which psychological interventions were most effective for certain mental conditions while also enabling them to deliver psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy in a way that enhanced its applicability in practical settings.
Seybert added that improving reporting standards would better guide professional boards and clinicians on the competencies, training, and experience required to deliver these treatments effectively and safely.
One of the study’s senior authors, Albert Oliveira-Maia, then noted that since reporting was already improving, regulatory authorities would have access to more data required to make informed decisions. The investigators’ findings were reported in the Lancet journal.
Entities like Mind Medicine Inc. (NASDAQ: MNMD) (NEO: MMED) (DE: MMQ) need to analyze these research finding closely and see whether any of the recommendations made can help them during their own psychedelic medicine development.
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A researcher with the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute and the University of British Columbia is recruiting people who use cannabis for medical purposes for a driving simulation study.
The study, which plans to begin recruiting for participation in early 2025, is being led by Dr. Jeff Brubacher, the director of the Vancouver General Hospital Emergency Medicine Research Program. Brubacher is also director of the Road Safety and Public Health Research Lab at the University of British Columbia (UBC), and professor in the UBC Department of Emergency Medicine.
The goal of the study is to look at two separate streams of medical cannabis users: Those who are just starting to use cannabis for medical purposes and those who have been using it for this purpose prior to the study.
In the first stream, those with no prior medical cannabis use will be tested before beginning their use of cannabis, then again after the onset of use after one month and four months.
Brubacher explains this will help provide a baseline of participants’ driving abilities, giving a better understanding of how cannabis use might impact them. While impairment from cannabis is one factor to consider, he also notes that some who are using cannabis for medical purposes are doing so to help transition away from opioids or benzodiazepines, which could mean impairment could potentially decrease following cannabis use.
“The question is, what happens to your driving after you start medical cannabis,” he explains. “Did you get better or did it get worse?”
The second stream of study participants will be recruited from people already using cannabis for medical purposes with authorization from a medical professional. Similarly, the goal with this cohort will be to measure the impact of cannabis use on their abilities to drive, as well as taking specific cognitive tests.
Cannabis users will be asked to abstain from taking any cannabis products the night prior to the study. On the day of the study, they will take the tests before using cannabis and then again after 30 minutes, two hours, four hours, and six hours.
“The question there is, after I take my regular cannabis, do I have some driving impairment or not,” said Brubacher. “And if I have it, when does it occur and how long does it last?”
Driving abilities will be monitored using the High Fidelity Driving Simulator, measuring for things such as speed, weaving, reaction time, and collisions. The study will be conducted at the Vancouver General Hospital campus in Vancouver.
In addition, researchers will take blood samples from participants to determine the level of detectable THC in their system. This will not only provide researchers with a correlation between participants’ results on the driving simulator but also give participants a better understanding of their blood/THC levels at any given time, especially after they have abstained overnight.
This is especially important, he notes, since THC can linger in the blood sometimes well after any impairing effects have passed. The allowable legal limit in Canada is less than 2 nanograms (ng) of THC per millilitre of blood.
“How many people are driving around with a THC level that is illegal—above 2 nanograms per millilitre for example— but are totally unimpaired?” he asked. “I think we have to look at that because it’s not fair or just for someone to be on prescribed medication and be at risk that if anything happens and they get tested, there could be legal implications. So I think knowing their THC levels when they’re not impaired will be interesting.”
The Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) is funding the research. It is seeking to recruit 360 medical cannabis users for the study, which is expected to take around three years.
Brubacher and his team are also working with Vancouver-area medical cannabis clinic Green, Leaf Medical Clinic to recruit participants for the study.
Working with the clinic’s medical director, Dr. Carolyn MacCallum’s patients who fit the parameters of the study will be given a chance to participate.
Fonda Betts, the clinic’s CEO, says she and her team are excited to be a part of the project and highlight the need for this type of research. While there has been similar research looking at non-medical cannabis users, building a set of data that looks at how cannabis use impacts driving abilities, if at all, is important.
“It’s a little different when you’re using it as a medical patient compared to recreational cannabis use. A medical patient is using it for symptom management, a better quality of life, whereas a recreational user may be used to being impaired, using cannabis to get high.”
The goal for a medical cannabis user under the guidance of a medical professional at Green Leaf is to achieve what she says is a goal of finding beneficial effects for the user before reaching a level that impairs the person.
“This study, I hope, will help show that medical cannabis will have little to no impact on driving abilities. That’s our hope. So if we can provide the data to support that, it can reassure patients, health care professionals, and the public that medical patients are using it safely.”
Those interested in taking part in the study can reach out here: [email protected].
In 2016, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruled that Canada discriminated against First Nations children by underfunding on-reserve child and family services and ignoring Jordan’s Principle. In February 2024, Canada offered $47.8 billion to address the issue where Chiefs at a Special Meeting of the Assembly of First Nations rejected the deal over concerns of structural flaws and lack of consultation in the negotiations. This matter has also been exposing the existing rift between the AFN as a corporate entity and the Chiefs in Assembly in regards to representation and legal jurisdiction.
More on this Issue:
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau takes questions at an Assembly of First Nations annual Special Assembly in Ottawa, Thursday December 5th 2024. Photo: Radio Canada, Marie-Laure Jossein
What I share here is not about the specifics of the back n forth bantering nor is this a critical analysis of the deal itself as these issues only keep us distracted, divided to remain under the subjugation of Canada’s Jurisdiction. What I am providing here is what Indigenous academics, advocates, activists and so called leaders are failing to address if we truly really being honest about the restoration of our jurisdiction and self determination.
Many Chiefs feels the AFN no longer represents them and is only an extension of Indigenous Services Canada. In 2020-2021 the AFN was funded $34 Million from Canada to administer programs for Indigenous Services Canada.
The Act Respecting First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Children, Youth and Families, was implemented on January 1, 2020 to address the overrepresentation of Indigenous children in “care” across the country. On February 9, 2024, the Supreme Court of Canada unanimously ruled that provisions within this act are constitutionally protected. The ruling affirmed that Indigenous peoples have an inherent right to jurisdiction of child and family services. As it appears our jurisdiction has been recognized and affirmed however the fact remains that we are still under Canada’s Jurisdiction.
It has always been our experience with our European guests that their languages are “forked-tongued” and used for deception. The use of the word “Inherent” is now being attached to “rights” and “jurisdiction” to deceive. The legal definition of a “person” means a corporation and not the living human being. The 1982 Constitution Act is in name only and is not a constitution; It is only an enactment of a foreign monarchy and government that had no legal authority to enact anything for a free and independent people. The 1982 Constitution Act is only a charter for a corporation.
Canada’s 1982 Constitution Act never defined Indigenous and Treaty Rights where these rights are being defined through Supreme Court decisions that rely on case law that set precedence for the Doctrine of Discovery. All Indigenous and Treaty Rights recognized by the Supreme Court and under Section 35 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms ultimately affirms Canada has jurisdiction over all Indians and Indian lands.
Canada’s recognition of First Nations inherent right to self government in regards to jurisdiction of child and family services is no different then First Nations inherent right to jurisdiction of policing services; We are only in control of the apprehending and still remain under Canada’s jurisdiction as “Indians” and the legal person.
The followings laws shows how the birth certificate holds us in servitude to the State and extinguishes our human rights in exchange for benefits of corporate personhood.
The Jurisdiction of the Birth Certificate
When we are born we are of a sovereign status under natural law with the standing of a living human being with fundamental rights and freedoms of a human being. We are Nationals of the land we are born on and have a birth right to the land and the wealth created from the land to sustain our life. We extinguish these rights when we become, the legal person, a corporation through the birth certificate, in exchange for limited benefits and privileges of a citizen of a corporate state.
All Nation States are under the jurisdiction of International Law. International Law is also known as maritime law or the law of water; This is the law of commerce and shipping that governs ships, corporations, trade, contracts and all courts. Each Nation State incorporates this law into their legal codes and enactments and then deceptively calls it Statutory Jurisdiction. This Statutory Jurisdiction then incorporates common law and case law.
Why do Parents get paid (child tax benefit) to care for their own children? Children are chattel and belong to the State once they are registered through birth certificate. Parents are only caregivers of the governments property. This also why authorities can legally apprehend children; It is not out of love or care but to ensure the child is looked after just enough to attend the state run indoctrination centre’s called Schools to ensure they become a tax paying economic slave.
The Certificate of Live Birth recognizes you as a living human being. The Birth Certificate creates and registers the Legal Person, a Corporation. This is not you but if you choose to live your life in this contract you become a Debtor, Roman Slave of the State.
The Birth Certificate is a contract, a trust and a security, when we operate as the legal person we accept and have compelled performance, responsibilities as a citizen to carry out in this contract. As we navigate in this jurisdiction we are made to accept more contracts for other privileges and benefits such as the Indian status, social insurance program, drivers licence. The aspect of the trust relationship through the birth certificate is the state acts as the Executor and Beneficiary and we are the Trustee aka the Debtor. As a security our birth certificate represents our life’s labour in taxes and our right to the wealth of our land, this is then securitized, monetized and used as a bond for leverage by the state on the international trade market.
Here are the laws of how this is done:
Unum Sanctum:
In 1302 Pope Boniface issued his infamous, Unam Sanctam, claiming the Roman Catholic’s rule over the whole planet and where the Pope is effectively “King of the world.”
1455 Romanus Pontifex:
This Papal Bull created the first Crown and conveyed the right of use of the land as Real Property where all land is claimed as “crown land.” This Crown is represented by the 1st Cestui Que Vie Trust created when a child is born, deprives them of all their beneficial entitlements and rights to the land at birth.
1481 Aeterni Regis:
This Papal Bull created what is known as the “Crown of Aragon”, later known as the Crown of Spain and represents the highest sovereign and highest steward of all Roman Slaves. This 2nd Crown is represented by the 2nd cestui Que Vie Trust created when a child is born the sale of the birth certificate as a bond is sold to the private central bank of the nation, depriving them of ownership of their flesh and condemning them to perpetual servitude as a Roman person, a Catholic or slave.
1542 Convocation:
This 3rd Crown is represented by the 3rd cestui Que Vie Trust created when a child is baptized to a Parish the Registrar is gifted the title of the child’s soul. Thus, without legal title over one’s own soul, a man or woman may be “legally” denied a right to stand as a living being, but may be treated as a creature and thing without legally possessing a soul. Today Hospitals and Birth Certificates are the “baptism” and handing over of the sole/soul to the Crown.
1493 Inter Caetera:
Pope Alexander VI issues a papal bull or decree, “Inter Caetera,” in which he authorizes Spain and Portugal to colonize the Americas and its Native peoples as subjects. This Papal Bull has been dubbed the “Doctrine of Discovery.”
Reconciliation is not a word randomly chosen to represent the movement towards addressing the genocide of church and state. Reconciliation is a Catholic Ritual which is to “come back under god”. In the Catholic Cult the Pope represents God on Earth. Reconciliation is also referred to as the Sacrament of Penance. “Penance” means self punishment, the Sacrament of Penance is also entrenched and the foundation of how both Banking and Courts operate. This is all under International Law, the Jurisdiction of the Holy See, Rome.
1582 Inter gravissimas
(English: “Among the most serious…”) was a papal bull issued by Pope Gregory XIII on 24 February 1582. The document reformed the Julian calendar. The reform came to be regarded as a new calendar in its own right and came to be called the Gregorian calendar, which is
used in most countries today.
Name and date of birth in the copyrighted timeline calendar, when we use that name within that copyrighted timeline we are subjected to a commercial system, designed to own the
characters born to it.
Pope Gregory is the author of a specific literary work and his literary property is all the persons who use the names born into the copyrighted calendar. The Vatican has a legitimate claim on all the production and activity that we create when using the name born into the copyrighted timeline that has been in existence since 1582.
1666 Cestui Que Vie Act:
A United Kingdom Act of Parliament that solidifies these Trusts into U.K Law. This Act proclaims there is a remedy to take yourself out of such Trust aka State Owned Enterprise (birth certificate) to prove you are a living being and not lost at sea. The Act says if action is filed to show that the supposed dead man is proved to be alive, then the Title is revisited and profits with interest is issued to a persons estate.
The Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Trusts:
This International Treaty is ratified by 14 countries including Canada and imposes one law that governs all Trusts and Estates. This includes the Trust created when we are born which represents our Inherent Rights as beneficiaries to the wealth created from the land we are born to. Through this Treaty this Trust is created and handed over to the State by Birth Certificate where we become Chattel and Traded in Commerce under Maritime Admiralty Law throughout our life.
International Recognition of Trusts Act:
Every Nation State that is a signatory to the Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Trusts must implement it via their own enactment to enforce in their States or Provinces. The
International Recognition of Trust Act is Ontario’s Enactment. This ensure the Provinces enact
such Statutes where Citizens become a Trustee/Debtor of their own Express Trust via the Birth Certificate Scheme which creates us as Chattel and our Trust Estate as a Security and Bond to be traded unlimitedly within International Commerce.
Loan and Trust Corporations Act:
This is an Ontario Enactment where Section 174 (2), (3) allows the Registrar General to give a
Trustee Company your Estate to act as an Executor and obtain Probate.
The Birth Certificate
The following is how we hand over our rights to the State and enter the world of the Doctrine of Deception:
Vital Statistics Act:
Statement of Live Birth
• A Person who attends the birth of a child in Ontario must give a notice of the birth, The
Parent(s) then must provide a Surname. This creates the Statement of Live Birth and is a
permanent legal record that declares you as a living being.
• When we are born an Express Trust is created in which is not disclosed. Our Parent(s) are
the Trustor/Settlor and sign this Trust over to the State by the Vital Statistics Act; Section 5,
Safekeeping of registrations where the Registrar General becomes the Trustee/Debtor of
the Express Trust. We as the live being still are the Beneficiary/Creditor of this Trust.
The Birth Certificate
•The Vital Statistics Act says the Parent(s) shall certify the Childs Birth. The Registrar
General then takes the given name put’s it together with the surname which is then put in
all capitals, certified and registered and securitized to create the artificial legal person. The
State then issues the Birth Certificate. What appears to be your name on the Birth
Certificate is not a name but a sign, it is a foreign debased dog-latin, a counterfeit
grammatical language and owned by the State
• The State own’s the legal person, corporation, a non-living entity. We are not the entity on
the Birth Certificate.
• Through registering a child with a Birth Certificate, the Parent(s) surrenders the child’s birth
right to the land and wealth created from the land and hands those rights over to the State in Trust in exchange for benefits and privileges of becoming a citizen.
• The child now a citizen has been removed as beneficiary within the Express Trust and goes
on to live life acting as the entity on the birth certificate as a Trustee/Debtor.
• The Parent(s) and Child are not made aware of this Trust and if they the child does not
claim this Trust in Seven Years after turning the age of majority then they are determined by the State to be “Lost at Sea” or Dead in which the State claims the Estate Trust and does with it as it pleases.
• This Trust represents the living beings birth right to the wealth created from the lands and
this Birth Certificate has a CUSIP number used to monetize the Birth Certificate by putting
an estimated value of what the Legal Person Corporation will make within it’s lifetime where
and an accreditation account is attached to the CUSIP number on the Birth Certificate
which the State uses as a Security and Bond on the Stock Exchange.
• Every time we are charged with an offence and go through court the CUSIP number on our
Birth Certificate and the Court; Judges, Crown Attorney makes money off the Court Case
and charges your accreditation account on your Birth Certificate.
How the State Steals Our Birth Right
Declarations of Death Act:
The Declaration of Death Act is Ontario’s legislation by which Judge’s have jurisdiction to make an order declaring that an individual is dead. It answers the questions of who can apply, who needs to know, and what evidence you must show before the applicant can obtain a Declaration of Death.
• If We as a beneficiary then fail to prove ourselves to be alive in regards to our Express Trust up to seven years after becoming the age of majority; The State as a Trustee not hearing from the beneficiary then takes steps to make notice of our death through the Declaration of Death Act.
• Section 1 of the Declaration of Death Act says, an “interested person” means any person
who is or would be affected by an order declaring that an individual is dead, including, (a) a
person named as executor or estate trustee in the individual’s will. An “interested person” is
the State, Registrar General and or a Trust Corporation it has named to be an Executor of
the Estate.
• The Executor then follows provision, Order Re declaration of death
2 (1) An interested person may apply to the Superior Court of Justice, with notice to any other interested persons of whom the applicant is aware, for an order under subsection (3) Power of court
(3) The court may make an order declaring that an individual has died if the court is satisfied that either subsection (4) or (5) applies. (Not heard of in seven years)
• Now the State can benefit from the accreditation system attached to the CUSIP on your
Birth Certificate in which represents a persons share in the wealth being created from their
birth right to the resources of their Country.
• We now only are the Debtor/Trustee’s and only have benefits of a legal persons and not
rights and obligated to hand our wages over to the state in servitude and any other taxes
they see fit as they are now the Beneficiary’s of everyones Trust.
Further Enactments of the Legal Fiction Enslavement:
To further ensure people surrender their status as a Living Being, Corporate State’s further
impose Enactments to designate People as a Legal Person. Through the designations of being a Resident of a Town, City Municipality; an Employee through the following enactment’s is how the State holds you in servitude by accepting these Benefits of Citizenship of their Corporation:
Social Insurance and Income Tax Entrapment
• To legally work one has to register for a Social Insurance Number under the Employment
Insurance Act and Income Tax Act in which a Birth Certificate is also required.
• Income Tax Act (R.S.C., 1985, c.1) 2. (1) An income tax shall be paid, as required by this
Act on the taxable income for each taxation year of every person resident in Canada at any
time in the year.
• Every Person with a SIN Number is an Officer of of the Corporation, the Government of
Canada or their Nation STATE they are resident of.
The Municipal Act, Municipal Act, 2001, S.O. 2001, C.25
“Municipality” means a geographic area whose inhabitants are incorporated. Municipality, includes the corporation of a city, town, village, county, townships, parish or other territorial or local division or a province, the inhabitants of which are incorporated
Stay tuned for upcoming series on this particular step which deserves its own document. This step shares on how to File a Constitutional Question or Human Rights Complaint. This step is necessary to get out of the legal person and walk the court which is obligated by law to turn the court from statutory jurisdiction to inherent jurisdiction to deal with the live human being rather then the legal person which has no human rights.
The Birth Certificate is also a Security, I am still researching the last bit of understanding in Trust Law where we need to reclaim our securities and declare ourselves as alive with the State. I will share this in a later series also as this deserves its own document to explain as well.
We need to Reconstitute our Common Law of the Land representative of our Constitution; the Creation Teachings, Clan System and Confederacies. Remove the law of water from the law of the land.
We need to create our own ‘Vital Statistics Act”, create our own Birth Certificates and Registry of our own Nation and get out of this international legal system, which is only a jurisdiction that creates a roman slave an economic slave that extinguishes our human rights for privileges on a citizenship.
Bring a Class Action Suite against the Roman Catholic Church and the Pope through
International Criminal Court and International Court of Justice. (Yet the Pope and Vatican Inc can’t be held accountable to such international court, which tells you something.) We must delegitimize the Roman Catholic Church and Christianity as a Religion and as the fraud it is. It’s Papal Bulls have no effect over the World only those who wish to belong as officers of this corporation.
Help the so called Canadian Citizen reclaim their Sovereignty and establish a proper Constitution and create new needed Treaties as the historic ones have been extinguished via 1931 Statute of Westminster.
Most importantly we need o raise our youth with our rites of passage ceremonies; Berry Fast, and Fasting for example which teaching self discipline at ages of puberty. We need to install our culture where young adults learn the responsibilities and consequences of sexual relationships and being responsible for creating life. Yes we have a history but it is not our story. At sometime we need to grow from our intergenerational trauma and become responsible for ourselves. If we can’t take care of our own children first as parents, families, community we are not Sovereign or a Nation.
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