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20th Century and a third of today’s crop diversity could disappear by 2050. The global plant breeding market is dominated by multinationals like Monsanto. “They’re stealing Nature from us.” Straumieitis warns that the corporate plan is to genetically modify marijuana, establish patented GMO marijuana seeds and strains in the marketplace, and then use patent and trademark enforcement to attack marijuana seed breeders and rob us of our seeds. This is the exact model Monsanto has used to attack farmers worldwide, Straumietis says. “Take a look at what Monsanto did to Canadian farmer Percy Schmeiser,” Straumietis advises. Accompanying Monsanto’s agricultural monopoly strategy is their goal to increase pharmaceuticalisation and medical products monopolies, so growing your own medical marijuana will be banned, and you’ll be forced to buy “medical products” such as Sativex, he says. What can we do to stop these world- controlling elites? Straumietis suggests the following tactics: • Make marijuana seeds and store them properly. • Boycott General Hydroponics, Botanicare, Gavita, and any other company that does business with Scotts Miracle-Gro, Monsanto, or Bayer. • Don’t use RoundUp or any other product made by Bayer, Scotts Miracle-Gro, or Bayer. • Don’t use products containing GMOs. • Join with groups that oppose criminal corporations and GMOs. “Corporations and people with hundreds of billions of dollars know marijuana is a miracle plant. They want to come in and steal our plants, seeds, and industry from us,” Straumietis says. “We must stop them.” humansarefree.com/2017/05/bayer- monsanto-merger-will-steal.html