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> > > http://www.world-mysteries.com/marijuana1.htm
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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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> > > It's amazing what you can do. If...
> > > * * you put your mind to it.
> >
> > Start raising more locally and crush the Mexican drug business
> > marijuana
> > and;
> HEMP FOR VICTORY;
> George Washington raised large quantities of hemp. So did Thomas
> Jefferson, James Madison and virtually every other 1700s American
> farmer.
>
> Indeed, in the Age of Obama, this old news has a new meaning. It is
> time to end Hemp/Marijuana Prohibition. With Bush gone and a new
> generation taking charge, we may finally have a chance to do it. Our
> nation's famous Founders are our key allies.
>
> Since 1937 the US has suffered through a period of hemp persecution
> that all the Founders -- from Washington to Franklin, from Adams to
> Madison -- would have deemed absolutely insane.
>
> In his farm journal of August 7, 1765, Washington notes that he "began
> to separate (sic) the male from the female hemp...rather too late." An
> astute agronomist, Washington could only have been seeking a crop with
> stronger "medicinal" qualities. Founders who smoked bales of tobacco
> and consumed oceans of beer (Washington was young America's leading
> brewer) could not have missed the recreational properties of a crop
> well known for five millennia.
>
> As for industrial hemp, growing it has actually been mandatory at
> various times in our history. Most recently Kansas was virtually
> carpeted with it as part of the effort to win World War Two.
>
> For more than 5,000 years, dating back at least to ancient China, hemp
> has been used for paper, rope, sails, cloth, clothing, fuel, food, and
> much more. Today the rich oil in hemp seeds should be a staple of our
> conversion to clean, green bio-diesel fuels. Its stems and leaves
> could be a core crop for making cellulosic ethanol. Re-legalized hemp
> cultivation could quickly become a multi-billion-dollar bonanza for
> American farmers, just as it was immensely profitable for George
> Washington and his cohorts.
>
> Hemp is great for the environment because it is a hardy perennial. It
> needs no annual re-seeding, no plowing, no fertilizer, no pesticides,
> no herbicides. Its seeds are loved by birds of all varieties, and are
> so full of vitamins and protein they comprise a pure, clean supplement
> for the modern human diet.
>
> An acre of hemp produces five times as much paper as an acre of trees.
> The product is more durable and easier to manufacture. At least one
> draft each of the Declaration of Independence and US Constitution were
> written on it.
>
> Hemp growing is legal in Canada, Germany and China, among other
> places, where it is productive and profitable. Desperate for income,
> farmers in the Dakotas and elsewhere throughout the Great Plains have
> been organizing to get this time-honored plant re-legalized.
>
> They have America's Founders on their side. Washington, Adams,
> Jefferson, Madison and the entire early American farm community --
> about 90% of the populace back then -- would be astonished to hear
> that industrial hemp or its smokable sister are illegal.
>
> With the coming of a president who has admitted to smoking marijuana
> and liking it, it's time to link Number 44 with Numbers one through
> four, and beyond.
>
> With our economy on the ropes, there are billions of dollars to be
> made from growing industrial hemp, and from taxing legalized
> marijuana.
>
> Barack Obama should take a hint from
> our First President by kicking off a national campaign to end
> Prohibition and re-legalize both hemp and marijuana. It's time to
> honor our ancestors.
>
> Harvey Wasserman
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>
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