I was just thinking in a utopian manner about how to fix the problem and I saw a line.

It starts simply by my making a public offering of a day’s wage for anyone who wants to work for me. I can promise about double normal wage for an hour’s work. This work of course would be some kind of cleanup, permaculture, just helping out remove garbage or things like this.

It works, we write about it and publish some posts and for some stupid reason, people decide to start contributing. Some money comes in, more people get jobs and because there is no corruption and The ledger sheets always add up to exactly zero, people start to believe that we’re doing something good. They also start to believe that they should start doing these activities themselves.

Suddenly, people began to think of what the country would be like if it was run on a strictly agricultural and clean ecological basis. This thought went all the way to the top and a single semi-secret meeting, the question was asked: what is the simplest, easiest and most effective way to go this direction unilaterally.

What answer came back?

There was no actual vote about the legalization of marijuana. Votes are not really necessary in the Republic of Belarus. What was necessary was for the president to agree that doing something kind for the people who have been paying for his life and listening to his voice for two and a half decades might be enough karma to make the last years of his life worth living. But he did it. Just like that.

Immediately, and incredibly well-sponsored international coalition immediately formed to import 10 million kg of ready to use marijuana and 50 million seeds as a starter kit for self-sufficiency.

As an ironic twist of fate and despite all efforts of large European corporations to flood the market, at about the time that people were getting through their kilo, it seems local growers we’re doing enough of a business that no international sales were necessary. And, because marijuana is a gateway drug to agriculture, the general movement of the entire country started in that direction happily.

People stopped driving. People quit their jobs even if it was only to be a public servant that gets fed locally by his community. It seemed Belarusians were independent enough to know how to do all of the work that needed to be done. It also seemed that quality of life increased to the point that alcoholism ceased to be.

So, no more alcoholism and no more alcoholics, no more poverty and no more banking, no more fighting and no more wars, everybody gets to come home and everybody has a invested interest in their communities.

I think that’s called utopian thinking.