The real reason Cannabis has been outlawed

[fire_mat99]

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.


http://www.world-mysteries.com/marijuana1.htm

[fire_mat99]

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?

More info at http://www.world-mysteries.com/marijuana1.htm

[P.O.U.M]

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.

No... Business has nothing to do with this. It's the "moral" Republicans and their stubborn refusal on change or accepting thing's that are differen't.

Pot became outlawed by a fanatic prohibitionist. Who created such cinematic gems as "Reefer Madness". Which villanized pot and the people who use it. Unfortunately we still live under the same archaic laws.

I'll talk to a friend later and get the name of the documentary that talks about this.

In the state of California, there will be a vote (forgot when) on the legalization of marijuana. We already have legalization of "medical marijuana". Which in California, legally gives you the right to have up to one ounce of marijuana and two (I think it's two) plant's for "medicinal use." And medical cards are very easy to get.

[P.O.U.M]

The name of the documentary is called Grass.

The film does not go into the use of marijuana. It's focus is the US' war on marijuana and how it started.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0214730/

[fire_mat99]

I should say has of now 2009  the main reason it is still Illegal is it is viewed has vice. Now there may still be some business that want it to still keep it Illegal .

But here is the kicker heroin and cocaine was legal in the US before the Harrison Act, 1914: .The US was very libertarian the free-market ,small goverment  ,small police ,small army ,no bailouts ,no business in government ,separation church and state.

The 1919 to 1933  Prohibition was wave in US on vice any thing to do with vice .From that point on business and the church played a big role in goverment.After ww2 the US had big army and become super power .Alot of people say the US is so big and powerful and big army and big super power and tell other countries what to do much like the USSR  this was not the case before. It was the neoconservatives thinking and thought after ww2 and  was the birth of big super power and army .The US took the side line before ww2 and hate wars very bad , did not want a big army and that change after ww2.

The 60's and 70's was the sex revolution and big conflits of old views and new views .You dare not cought before the 60's in blue jeans or t-shirt other than working on the farm , blue ripped jeans was a no no  ,no girl would wear jeans or pants ,,no girl would look or dress like a man ,sexism was big ,jeans and other casual wear was considered rebelious and not acceptable.

The 80's and 90's was change of divorce and  common-law that was not acceptable before.President Richard Nixon in 1969 made a campaign to be tough on crime ,war on drugs and this was birth of the prisons and cops .In much the same way the US was weak and did not like wars or have big army to ww2 .

Now do to President Richard Nixon we have moe people in jail or prison than any other country.Than Bush came along and we have more business in goverment  ,wars  ,conflits .big army  ,big police so on.

Thoese neoconservatives putting congressman and senators on wall street and church in goverment and claim they have high moral but brake every card the church teaches.

In 30 years the US has had only 3 terrorists attack and yet they claim it is happing every day , they claim there is robbery ,B&E or car theft on your street every weak  ,they claim other countries want to do harm to the US.This all a war like mind Nazi Germany use and now the US is using it for police state and for business and control.

[Universal]

What a load of poop on the US part for saying terrorism is happening everyday ( I live in the US); I hate my country for all it does.

Also, for the pot part, it is not just moral parts, but business alike. They are both intertwined within my country's political and economic system.
I do believe that pot could create an "economic atomic bomb" and help stimulate the US and other countries economies. But be lucky that pot is not legal in the US because EVERYONE loves money in the US, and any rich person can just as well trow away a couple billion to create a new branch of pot medications for the working class. So either way, pot should be grown for medical purposes, but we would have to have a socialized, planned economy in order for it to benefit the working class.

[fire_mat99]

What a load of poop on the US part for saying terrorism is happening everyday ( I live in the US); I hate my country for all it does.

Also, for the pot part, it is not just moral parts, but business alike. They are both intertwined within my country's political and economic system.
I do believe that pot could create an "economic atomic bomb" and help stimulate the US and other countries economies. But be lucky that pot is not legal in the US because EVERYONE loves money in the US, and any rich person can just as well trow away a couple billion to create a new branch of pot medications for the working class. So either way, pot should be grown for medical purposes, but we would have to have a socialized, planned economy in order for it to benefit the working class.

The drug war and prison industrial complex got stared by Richard Nixon that  made a campaign on the war on drugs and made a officially declared a "war on drugs and tough  drug laws.Do to  Richard Nixon we have a exploding population of people in prison do to the war on drugs.The prison industrial complex got worse over time of tough laws and the 3 stike laws.In some cities and growing problem is a degenerating US society of only cops and gangs .The lack of good pay ,lack of jobs ,the psychological effect of being in prison has created a underclass.In places of the death penalty and 3 stike laws  still have very high crime rates.Many young people feel no hope and lack of good pay or jobs and feel the only job is being in gang or law enforcement or military.Many war veteran had a high rate of homeless after the war , having a hard time getting a job and other veteran dealing with the psychological effect of the war.Many people from the gulf war got sick and the government covered it up to not cover their healthcare.Many people from the war that is going on now or the war in 90's got into law enforcement .Alot of people and growing in law enforcement have done time in the army.

Everday there is factories and businesses in the US closing up and moving to China and India for cheaper labor and no work benefits !!All thanks to globalization.Well the US economy is going to a service sector based economy.The problem is there is only so many jobs in the  service sector based economy.

Lack of jobs , low pay ,no benefits  ,no hope   , on your own is the byproduct of crime or gangs. Well the government will not help you the gang organization will and support you and take you out of poverty with a catch you do what the leader of  the gang organization tells you like stealing , robbery, car theft,murder an B&E so on.

The 60' and 70 was the sex culture shock.Many people tell me the prison industrial complex is companies who do businesses with prisons making uniforms for inmates  ,uniforms for prison guards , toilts  ,the beds ,food ,jail bars , bed sheets ,phones in prisons ,cameras ,technology and other stuff in prisons and construction companies building prison that some how got big and got congressman  to pass tough laws .Much like the military industrial  complex of companies who do businesses  making tanks, trucks, jeeps, food ,clothing and uniforms  ,guns ,planes ,ships ,bullets  so on that some how got big and got congressman to be war happy.

Keep in mind the US was late to inter ww2 and hated wars before and only after ww2 the US got very war happy .No way if there was ww3 like ww2 the US would be late they would be the first to be there now.The US hated big goverment and high spending before ww2 and now spend money like the  money is coming from the sky.But ask your self where is all this goverment spending going? And ask your self why after ww2 the US got so war happy.

[Christopher Hill]

In reality most of it came from competition between paper made from wood and paper made from hemp (Which was easier to produce but more widely so not as easy to manipulate) It really seems hypocritical to me that the "Just say no" campaign was started by First Lady Reagen and supported by the President while Reagen himself used Marijuana both when he was in the movies as well as later on to slow the progression of his mental illness.