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> * * The Marijuana Conspiracy - The Real Reason Hemp is Illegal
>
> * * by Doug Yurchey,
> * * June 18, 2005
>
> * * THE REAL REASON CANNABIS HAS BEEN OUTLAWED HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH
> ITS EFFECTS ON THE MIND AND BODY.
> * * MARIJUANA is DANGEROUS. Pot is NOT harmful to the human body or
> mind. Marijuana does NOT pose a threat to the general public. Marijuana
> is very much a danger to the oil companies, alcohol, tobacco industries
> and a large number of chemical corporations. Various big businesses,
> with plenty of dollars and influence, have suppressed the truth from the
> people.
>
> * * The truth is if marijuana was utilized for its vast array of
> commercial products, it would create an industrial atomic bomb!
> Entrepreneurs have not been educated on the product potential of pot.
> The super rich have conspired to spread misinformation about an
> extremely versatile plant that, if used properly, would ruin their
> companies.
>
> * * Where did the word 'marijuana' come from? In the mid 1930s, the M-
> word was created to tarnish the good image and phenomenal history of the
> hemp plant...as you will read. The facts cited here, with references,
> are generally verifiable in the Encyclopedia Britannica which was
> printed on hemp paper for 150 years:
>
> * * * * * All schoolbooks were made from hemp or flax paper until the
> 1880s (Hemp Paper Reconsidered, Jack Frazier, 1974).
> * * * * * It was LEGAL TO PAY TAXES WITH HEMP in America from 1631 until
> the early 1800s (LA Times, Aug. 12, 1981).
> * * * * * REFUSING TO GROW HEMP in America during the 17th and 18th
> Centuries WAS AGAINST THE LAW! You could be jailed in Virginia for
> refusing to grow hemp from 1763 to 1769 (Hemp in Colonial Virginia, G.
> M. Herdon).
> * * * * * George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and other founding fathers
> GREW Hemp (Washington and Jefferson Diaries).
> * * * * * Jefferson smuggled hemp seeds from China to France then to
> America.
> * * * * * Benjamin Franklin owned one of the first paper mills in
> America and it processed hemp.
> * * * * * Also, the War of 1812 was fought over hemp. Napoleon wanted to
> cut off Moscow's export to England (Emperor Wears No Clothes, Jack
> Herer).
> * * * * * For thousands of years, 90% of all ships' sails and rope were
> made from hemp.
> * * * * * The word 'canvas' is Dutch for cannabis (Webster's New World
> Dictionary).
> * * * * * 80% of all textiles, fabrics, clothes, linen, drapes, bed
> sheets, etc. were made from hemp until the 1820s with the introduction
> of the cotton gin.
> * * * * * The first Bibles, maps, charts, Betsy Ross's flag, the first
> drafts of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were made
> from hemp (U.S. Government Archives).
> * * * * * The first crop grown in many states was hemp. 1850 was a peak
> year for Kentucky producing 40,000 tons. Hemp was the largest cash crop
> until the 20th Century; State Archives.
> * * * * * Oldest known records of hemp farming go back 5000 years in
> China, although hemp industrialization probably goes back to ancient
> Egypt.
> * * * * * Rembrants, Gainsboroughs, Van Goghs as well as most early
> canvas paintings were principally painted on hemp linen.
> * * * * * In 1916, the U.S. Government predicted that by the 1940s all
> paper would come from hemp and that no more trees need to be cut down.
> Government studies report that 1 acre of hemp equals 4.1 acres of trees.
> Plans were in the works to implement such programs; Department of
> Agriculture
> * * * * * Quality paints and varnishes were made from hemp seed oil
> until 1937. 58,000 tons of hemp seeds were used in America for paint
> products in 1935; Sherman Williams Paint Co. testimony before Congress
> against the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act.
> * * * * * Henry Ford's first Model-T was built to run on hemp gasoline
> and the CAR ITSELF WAS CONTRUCTED FROM HEMP! On his large estate, Ford
> was photographed among his hemp fields. The car, 'grown from the soil,'
> had hemp plastic panels whose impact strength was 10 times stronger than
> steel; Popular Mechanics, 1941.
> * * * * * Hemp called 'Billion Dollar Crop.' It was the first time a
> cash crop had a business potential to exceed a billion dollars (Popular
> Mechanics, Feb., 1938).
> * * * * * Mechanical Engineering Magazine (Feb. 1938) published an
> article entitled 'The Most Profitable and Desirable Crop that Can be
> Grown.' It stated that if hemp was cultivated using 20th Century
> technology, it would be the single largest agricultural crop in the U.S.
> and the rest of the world. The following information comes directly from
> the United States Department of Agriculture's 1942 14-minute film
> encouraging and instructing 'patriotic American farmers' to grow 350,000
> acres of hemp each year for the war effort:
>
> * * * * * * '...(When) Grecian temples were new, hemp was already old in
> the service of mankind. For thousands of years, even then, this plant
> had been grown for cordage and cloth in China and elsewhere in the East.
> For centuries prior to about 1850, all the ships that sailed the western
> seas were rigged with hempen rope and sails. For the sailor, no less
> than the hangman, hemp was indispensable...
>
> * * * * * * ...Now with Philippine and East Indian sources of hemp in
> the hands of the Japanese...American hemp must meet the needs of our
> Army and Navy as well as of our industries...
>
> * * * * * * ...the Navy's rapidly dwindling reserves. When that is gone,
> American hemp will go on duty again; hemp for mooring ships; hemp for
> tow lines; hemp for tackle and gear; hemp for countless naval uses both
> on ship and shore. Just as in the days when Old Ironsides sailed the
> seas victorious with her hempen shrouds and hempen sails. Hemp for
> victory!'
>
> * * Certified proof from the Library of Congress; found by the research
> of Jack Herer, refuting claims of other government agencies that the
> 1942 USDA film 'Hemp for Victory' did not exist. Hemp cultivation and
> production do not harm the environment. The USDA Bulletin #404 concluded
> that hemp produces 4 times as much pulp with at least 4 to 7 times less
> pollution. From Popular Mechanics, Feb. 1938:
>
> * * * * 'It has a short growing season...It can be grown in any
> state...The long roots penetrate and break the soil to leave it in
> perfect condition for the next year's crop. The dense shock of leaves, 8
> to 12 feet above the ground, chokes out weeds.
>
> * * * * ...hemp, this new crop can add immeasurably to American
> agriculture and industry.'
>
> * * In the 1930s, innovations in farm machinery would have caused an
> industrial revolution when applied to hemp. This single resource could
> have created millions of new jobs generating thousands of quality
> products. Hemp, if not made illegal, would have brought America out of
> the Great Depression.
>
> * * William Randolph Hearst (Citizen Kane) and the Hearst Paper
> Manufacturing Division of Kimberly Clark owned vast acreage of
> timberlands. The Hearst Company supplied most paper products. Patty
> Hearst's grandfather, a destroyer of nature for his own personal profit,
> stood to lose billions because of hemp.
>
> * * In 1937, Dupont patented the processes to make plastics from oil and
> coal. Dupont's Annual Report urged stockholders to invest in its new
> petrochemical division. Synthetics such as plastics, cellophane,
> celluloid, methanol, nylon, rayon, Dacron, etc., could now be made from
> oil. Natural hemp industrialization would have ruined over 80% of
> Dupont's business.
>
> * * THE CONSPIRACY
>
> * * Andrew Mellon became Hoover's Secretary of the Treasury and Dupont's
> primary investor. He appointed his future nephew-in-law, Harry J.
> Anslinger, to head the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs.
>
> * * Secret meetings were held by these financial tycoons. Hemp was
> declared dangerous and a threat to their billion dollar enterprises. For
> their dynasties to remain intact, hemp had to go. These men took an
> obscure Mexican slang word: 'marihuana' and pushed it into the
> consciousness of America.
>
> * * MEDIA MANIPULATION
>
> * * A media blitz of 'yellow journalism' raged in the late 1920s and
> 1930s. Hearst's newspapers ran stories emphasizing the horrors of
> marihuana. The menace of marihuana made headlines. Readers learned that
> it was responsible for everything from car accidents to loose morality.
>
> * * Films like 'Reefer Madness' (1936), 'Marihuana: Assassin of Youth'
> (1935) and 'Marihuana: The Devil's Weed' (1936) were propaganda designed
> by these industrialists to create an enemy. Their purpose was to gain
> public support so that anti-marihuana laws could be passed.
> * * Examine the following quotes from 'The Burning Question' aka REEFER
> MADNESS:
>
> * * * * * A violent narcotic.
> * * * * * Acts of shocking violence.
> * * * * * Incurable insanity.
> * * * * * Soul-destroying effects.
> * * * * * Under the influence of the drug he killed his entire family
> with an ax.
> * * * * * More vicious, more deadly even than these soul-destroying
> drugs (heroin, cocaine) is the menace of marihuana!
>
> * * Reefer Madness did not end with the usual 'The End.' The film
> concluded with these words plastered on the screen: TELL YOUR CHILDREN.
>
> * * In the 1930s, people were very naive; even to the point of
> ignorance. The masses were like sheep waiting to be led by the few in
> power. They did not challenge authority. If the news was in print or on
> the radio, they believed it had to be true. They told their children and
> their children grew up to be the parents of the baby-boomers
>
> * * On April 14, 1937, the Prohibitive Marihuana Tax Law or the bill
> that outlawed hemp was directly brought to the House Ways and Means
> Committee. This committee is the only one that can introduce a bill to
> the House floor without it being debated by other committees. The
> Chairman of the Ways and Means, Robert Doughton, was a Dupont supporter.
> He insured that the bill would pass Congress.
>
> * * Dr. James Woodward, a physician and attorney, testified too late on
> behalf of the American Medical Association. He told the committee that
> the reason the AMA had not denounced the Marihuana Tax Law sooner was
> that the Association had just discovered that marihuana was hemp.
>
> * * Few people, at the time, realized that the deadly menace they had
> been reading about on Hearst's front pages was in fact passive hemp. The
> AMA understood cannabis to be a MEDICINE found in numerous healing
> products sold over the last hundred years.
>
> * * In September of 1937, hemp became illegal. The most useful crop
> known became a drug and our planet has been suffering ever since.
> Congress banned hemp because it was said to be the most violence causing
> drug known. Anslinger, head of the Drug Commission for 31 years,
> promoted the idea that marihuana made users act extremely violent. In
> the 1950s, under the Communist threat of McCarthyism, Anslinger now said
> the exact opposite. Marijuana will pacify you so much that soldiers
> would not want to fight.
>
> * * Today, our planet is in desperate trouble. Earth is suffocating as
> large tracts of rain forests disappear. Pollution, poisons and chemicals
> are killing people. These great problems could be reversed if we
> industrialized hemp. Natural biomass could provide all of the planet's
> energy needs that are currently supplied by fossil fuels. We have
> consumed 80% of our oil and gas reserves. We need a renewable resource.
> Hemp could be the solution to soaring gas prices.
>
> * * THE WONDER PLANT
>
> * * Hemp has a higher quality fiber than wood fiber. Far fewer caustic
> chemicals are required to make paper from hemp than from trees. Hemp
> paper does not turn yellow and is very durable. The plant grows quickly
> to maturity in a season where trees take a lifetime.
>
> * * ALL PLASTIC PRODUCTS SHOULD BE MADE FROM HEMP SEED OIL. Hempen
> plastics are biodegradable! Over time, they would break down and not
> harm the environment. Oil-based plastics, the ones we are very familiar
> with, help ruin nature; they do not break down and will do great harm in
> the future. The process to produce the vast array of natural (hempen)
> plastics will not ruin the rivers as Dupont and other petrochemical
> companies have done. Ecology does not fit in with the plans of the Oil
> Industry and the political machine. Hemp products are safe and natural.
>
> * * MEDICINES SHOULD BE MADE FROM HEMP. We should go back to the days
> when the AMA supported cannabis cures. 'Medical Marijuana' is given out
> legally to only a handful of people while the rest of us are forced into
> a system that relies on chemicals. Pot is only healthy for the human
> body.
>
> * * WORLD HUNGER COULD END. A large variety of food products can be
> generated from hemp. The seeds contain one of the highest sources of
> protein in nature. ALSO: They have two essential fatty acids that clean
> your body of cholesterol. These essential fatty acids are not found
> anywhere else in nature! Consuming pot seeds is the best thing you could
> do for your body. Eat uncooked hemp seeds.
>
> * * CLOTHES SHOULD BE MADE FROM HEMP. Hemp clothing is extremely strong
> and durable over time. You could hand clothing, made from pot, down to
> your grandchildren. Today, there are American companies that make hemp
> clothing; usually 50% hemp. Hemp fabrics should be everywhere. Instead,
> they are almost underground. Superior hemp products are not allowed to
> advertise on fascist television. Kentucky, once the top hemp producing
> state, made it ILLEGAL TO WEAR hemp clothing! Can you imagine being
> thrown into jail for wearing quality jeans?
>
> * * The world is crazy... but that does not mean you have to join the
> insanity. Get together. Spread the news. Tell people, and that includes
> your children, the truth. Use hemp products. Eliminate the word
> 'marijuana'. Realize the history that created it. Make it politically
> incorrect to say or print the M-word. Fight against the propaganda
> (designed to favor the agenda of the super rich) and the bullshit. Hemp
> must be utilized in the future. We need a clean energy source to save
> our planet. INDUSTRIALIZE HEMP!
>
> * * The liquor, tobacco and oil companies fund more than a million
> dollars a day to Partnership for a Drug-Free America and other similar
> agencies. We have all seen their commercials. Now, their motto is: ?It's
> more dangerous than we thought?. Lies from the powerful corporations,
> that began with Hearst, are still alive and well today.
>
> * * The brainwashing continues. Now, the commercials say: If you buy a
> joint, you contribute to murders and gang wars. The latest anti-pot
> commercials say: If you buy a joint... you are promoting TERRORISM! The
> new enemy (terrorism) has paved the road to brainwash you any way THEY
> see fit.
>
> * * There is only one enemy; the friendly people you pay your taxes to;
> the war-makers and nature destroyers. With your funding, they are
> killing the world right in front of your eyes. HALF A MILLION DEATHS
> EACH YEAR ARE CAUSED BY TOBACCO. HALF A MILLION DEATHS EACH YEAR ARE
> CAUSED BY ALCOHOL. NO ONE HAS EVER, EVER DIED FROM SMOKING POT!! In the
> entire history of the human race, not one death can be attributed to
> cannabis. Our society has outlawed grass but condones the use of the
> KILLERS: TOBACCO and ALCOHOL. Hemp should be declassified and placed in
> DRUG stores to relieve stress. Hardening and constriction of the
> arteries are bad; but hemp usage actually enlarges the arteries...which
> is a healthy condition. We have been so conditioned to think that:
> Smoking is harmful. That is NOT the case for passive pot. Ingesting THC,
> hemp's active agent, has a positive effect; relieving asthma and
> glaucoma. A joint tends to alleviate the nausea caused by chemotherapy.
> You are able to eat on hemp. This is a healthy state of being.
>
> * * * * (One personal note: During the pregnancy of my wife, she was
> having some difficulty gaining weight. We were in the hospital. A nurse
> called us to one side and said: ?Off the record, if you smoke
> pot...you'd get something called the munchies and you?ll gain weight.' I
> swear that is a true story).
>
> * * The stereotype for a pothead is similar to a drunk, bubble-brain.
> Yet, the truth is one?s creative abilities can be enhanced under its
> influence. The perception of time slightly slows and one can become more
> sensitive. You can more appreciate all arts; be closer to nature and
> generally FEEL more under the influence of cannabis. It is, in fact, the
> exact opposite state of mind and body as the drunken state. You can be
> more aware with pot.
>
> * * The pot plant is an ALIEN plant. There is physical evidence that
> cannabis is not like any other plant on this planet. One could conclude
> that it was brought here for the benefit of humanity. Hemp is the ONLY
> plant where the males appear one way and the females appear very
> different, physically! No one ever speaks of males and females in regard
> to the plant kingdom because plants do not show their sexes; except for
> cannabis. To determine what sex a certain, normal, Earthly plant is: You
> have to look internally, at its DNA. A male blade of grass (physically)
> looks exactly like a female blade of grass. The hemp plant has an
> intense sexuallity. Growers know to kill the males before they fertilize
> the females. Yes, folks... The most potent pot comes from 'horny
> females.'
>
> * * The reason this amazing, very sophisticated, ET plant from the
> future is illegal has nothing to do with how it physically affects us?
>
> * * ? POT IS ILLEGAL BECAUSE BILLIONAIRES WANT TO REMAIN BILLIONAIRES!
>
> * * PS: I think the word ?DRUGS? should not be used as an umbrellaword
> that covers all chemical agents. Drugs have come to be known as
> something BAD. Are you aware there are LEGAL drugstores?! Yep, in every
> city. Unbelievable. Each so-called drug should be considered
> individually. Cannabis is a medicine and not a drug. We should DARE to
> speak the TRUTH no matter what the law is.
>
> * * Comments and questions are welcome:
> * * Copyright 2005 by Doug Yurchey
>
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