Post by xtra on Aug 6, 2009 10:55:14 GMT -6
Hemp is illegal because billionaires want to remain billionaires
The Real Reason Hemp is Illegal
by Doug Yurchey
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And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more
consumed with hunger in the land.
-- Ezekiel 34/29
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 Encyclopaedia 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 hemp; 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.
* Rembrandts, Gainsborough's, Van Gogh's 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 as wood 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 TRICKS
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 axe.
*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 hemp 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 hemp 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. Hemp 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
hemp 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 hemp, 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 bull****. 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-hemp 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.
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.
The hemp plant is an ALIEN plant. There is physical evidence that hemp 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 hemp. 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 sexuality.
HEMP IS ILLEGAL BECAUSE BILLIONAIRES WANT TO REMAIN BILLIONAIRES!
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ANDREW MELLON, founder of the Gulf Oil Corporation,
knew that cannabis
hemp was an alternative industrial raw material for the production of
thousands of products, including fuel and plastics, which, if allowed to
compete in the free-market, would threaten the future profits of the oil
companies.
As Secretary of the Treasury he created the Federal Bureau of
Narcotics, and appointed his own future nephew-in-law, Harry Anslinger, as director. Anslinger would later use the sensational, and totally fabricated, articles published by Hearst, to push the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 through Congress, which successfully destroyed the rebirth of the cannabis hemp industry.
A prominent member of one Congressional subcommittee who voted in favor of
this bill was Joseph Guffey of Pennsylvania, an oil tycoon and former
business partner of Andrew Mellon in the Spindletop oil fields in Texas.
THE DU PONT CHEMICAL CORPORATION, which owned the patents on synthetic petrochemicals and industrial processes that
promised billions of dollars in
future profits from the sale of wood pulp paper, lead additives for
gasoline, synthetic fibers and plastics, if hemp could be suppressed. At the
time, Du Pont family influence in both government and the private sector was unmatched, according to historians and journalists.
This publication, however, reveals documented historical evidence that the
suppression of the hemp industry was only one key part of a much larger
conspiracy in the 1930s, not only by the three corporate interests named
above, but by many others, as well.
Congressional records, FBI reports and investigations by the Justice
Department, during the 1930s and 1940s, have
already documented evidence of
this wider plot. A list of the corporations named include DuPont, Standard
Oil, and General Motors, all of which were proven to be conspiring with Nazi industrial cartels to eliminate competition world-wide and divide among themselves the Earth's industrial resources and commercial markets, for profitable exploitation.
This conspiracy succeeded. It is now obvious that this lack of serious
competition in the industrial raw materials market caused our present - and totally contrived - addiction to petrochemicals. Its success is directly
responsible for the most troubling problems we now face in the 1990s;
serious damage to our environment, concentration of economic and political power into fewer and fewer hands, and the weakening of the rights of individuals and states to determine their own futures.
It is more and more evident that, given the historical record, the structure
of the Elite was built upon the Foundation of Marijuana
Prohibition, and only the relegalization of free-market hemp competition can save us.