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The Marijuana Trick - The Real Reason Hemp is Illegal

- By Doug Yurchey, Tuesday, November 01, 2005

- - 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:

   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:

   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:

   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/is 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 their bullshit. We must begin utilizing hemp now! Time is running out! We need a clean energy source to save our lives and planet Earth. WE MUST 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 Nation-Less 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. The untold truth is that fossil fuels consumption is the direct link and help for maintaining, spreading and protecting TERRORISM, all over the world! Think about this next time pumping GAS into your SUVs at the pump!

   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. OVER A MILLION DEATHS EACH YEAR ARE CAUSED BY TOBACCO CONSUMPTION. AND HALF A MILLION DEATHS EACH YEAR ARE CAUSED BY ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION.

   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 GREEDY STUPID CRIMINAL BILLIONAIRES WANT TO REMAIN BILLIONAIRES AT ALL COSTS, TO HUMANITY AND EVEN THE ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH WE ALL LIVE!

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In The Absence of Sustainable And Environmentally Safe Hemp Production
- Plastic Particles Are Choking Earth's Oceans -

Plastic is creating an - Ocean Commotion - For years, the problem of plastics in the sea has been of plastics we could see. Six-pack rings strangled wildlife, old nets snared birds and other creatures, small bits and pieces clogged harbors, and garbage ruined our days at the beach. Scientists are more concerned about what is happening to these oceans of plastic. They say it's breaking down into microscopic fragments that are drowning the sea.

For all practical purposes plastics are permanent. Because these synthetic materials do not occur in nature, nature never evolved a process to biodegrade them into harmless compounds. Plastic particles don't disappear. Instead, they simply break apart under the influence of sunlight, water, and abrasion into smaller and smaller pieces. That piece of old Styrofoam that looks like it is decomposing isn't at all. It's simply falling apart into trillions and trillions of microscopic bits of Styrofoam.

And therein lies what researchers have now identified as a problem of unknown dimension: The world's oceans are filling with invisible bits of plastic. According to a study conducted at England's University of Plymouth and published in the May edition of the journal Science, the seven seas are swimming with polymer particles.

Scientists examined 20 sites around the British Isles and found microscopic bits of plastic contaminating almost every soil sample they obtained. From apparently clean beach sand to mud in tidal estuaries and sediments on sea floors some 30 feet beneath the surface, unseen bits of plastic were lurking everywhere.

The researchers looked for nine different kinds of plastic that were easy to chemically identify in minute amounts, including polyester, acrylic and nylon. What they found were polymer fibers as small as 20 microns in length. (- One micron is equal to 1,000,000th of one meter -). Smaller, fragments about 75% smaller than the smallest grains of beach sand. These fibers were embedded in sands and soils and even found inside sea plankton. (- Sea Planktons are microscopic organisms, including algae and protozoans, that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water, especially at or near the surface, and serve as food for fish and other larger organisms. -)

The scientists were also able to ascertain that the flood of plastics filling the seas has been increasing for at least 40 years. Since the 1960s, merchant ships have voluntarily trailed garbage can-sized filters behind them as they plied the ocean's waters. By comparing the current contents of these filters to those of archived filters, researchers were able to show that the number of invisible plastic pieces has tripled over the course of the last generation. Further, since the study's methods couldn't measure plastic fragments smaller than 20 microns, experts said the results, in all likelihood, underreported the actual amount of plastics microscopically drifting in ocean waters.

Currently, scientists aren't sure what all this means for the world and its wildlife, human included. The short answer might be nothing, but that's far from a certainty. As part of the project, researchers put some of the fragments in tanks containing tiny crustaceans, barnacles, and lugworms and found that they were readily eaten. Whether or not such materials accumulate in the food chain to eventually create some type of toxic effect remains to be seen, but previous research has shown that larger, one millimeter-sized pieces of plastic readily absorb toxins from ocean waters and can poison animals that ingest them.

The news that microscopic pieces of plastic are polluting the oceans is just part of a recent tide of discomforting news about the environment that covers 71% of the Earth's surface. According to recent reports from both the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy and the Pew Oceans Commission, the world's oceans are in poor health as a result of human pressures. Water quality is falling; coastal development pressures are increasing (some 37 million people have moved to U.S. shore regions in the last 30 years); populations of whales and large fish, like sharks and marlins, have declined by 90%; only 22% of smaller fisheries are being harvested sustainably; and invasive species are causing a number of negative effects.

To combat this, both organizations have recommended a sweeping series of regulatory changes in the way the world's oceans are managed, and a dramatic increase in funding. For more information about these reports and their suggested plans for a rescue at sea, visit:
http://www.pewoceans.org/
http://www.oceancommission.gov/documents/prelimreport/welcome.html

Asthma Miasma: Have Phthalates Flung Dung At Our Kids' Lungs? Among the more eye-opening pieces of evidence that things are out of whack in today's world are the latest asthma statistics for kids. Between 1980 and 1994, the incidence of asthma among pre-school aged children rose 160%, more than twice the overall rate. Today, the disease is the leading chronic illness of childhood. Some nine million kids have the disease, or nearly one in 13. Together, they miss 14 million school days each year and need $3.2 billion of treatment. What's causing all this asthma has been a bit of mystery. Now scientists think they may have a clue. And it's a culprit called phthalates.

Dedicated Non-Toxic Times readers will recall that we've discussed phthalates in these pages before, and never in a positive light. A group of industrial compounds widely used in a variety of common products, there are about 7.6 billion pounds of phthalates produced throughout the world each year. The largest use of phthalates is as a plasticizer in polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and other soft plastic products. These materials rely on phthalates to keep them flexible. Without the addition of phthalate plasticizers, these otherwise pliant materials would be fairly stiff and difficult to use for their intended purposes. Consumer products that contain phthalate plasticizers include everything from siding and flooring to plastic food wrap and soft plastic toys.

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TODAY'S HEMP INDUSTRY

AUSTRALIA - Tasmania research trials began in 1995. Victoria commercial production since1998. New South Wales has research. In 2002 Queensland began production.

AUSTRIA - has a hemp industry including production of hempseed oil, medicinals and Hanf magazine.

CANADA - started to license research crops in 1994 on an experimental basis. In addition to crops for fibre, one seed crop was experimentally licensed in 1995. Many acres were planted in 1997. Licenses for commercial agriculture saw thousands of acres planted in 1998. 30,000 acres planted in 1999. In 2000, due to speculative investing,12,250 acres were sown. In 2001 ninety-two farmers grew 3,250 acres. A number of Canadian farmers are now growing organically certified hemp crops.

CHILE - has grown hemp in the recent past for seed oil production.

CHINA - is the largest exporter of hemp paper and textiles. The fabrics are of excellent quality. (ma)

DENMARK - planted its first modern hemp trials in 1997. Committed to utilizing organic methods.

ENGLAND - lifted hemp prohibition in 1993. Animal bedding, paper and textiles have been developed. A government grant was given to develop new markets for natural fibers. 4,000 acres were grown in 1994. Subsidies of $230 Eng. pounds per acre are given by the govt. for growing.

FINLAND - had a resurgence of hemp in 1995 with several small test plots. A seed variety for northern climates was developed: Finola, previously know by the breeder code 'FIN-314'. In 2003, Finola was accepted to the EU list of subsidized hemp cultivars. (hamppu)

FRANCE - harvested 10,000 tons in 1994. France is the main source of low-thc producing hempseed. (chanvre)

GERMANY - only banned hemp in 1982, but research began in 1992 and many technologies and products are being developed. Clothes and paper are being made from imported raw materials. Germany lifted the ban on growing hemp November, 1995. Mercedes and BMW use hemp fiber for composites. (hanf)

HUNGARY - is rebuilding their hemp industry, and is one of the biggest exporters of hemp cordage, rugs and hemp fabric to the U.S. They also export hemp seed and hemp paper. Fiberboard is also made. (kender)

INDIA - has large stands of naturalized Cannabis and uses it for cordage, textiles, and seed oil.

JAPAN - has a religious tradition requiring the Emperor wear hemp garments, so there is a small plot maintained for the imperial family only. They have a thriving retail market selling a variety of hemp products. (asa)

NETHERLANDS - is conducting a four years study to evaluate and test hemp for paper, and is developing processing equipment. Seed breeders are developing new strains of low-thc varieties. (hennep)

NEW ZEALAND - started hemp trials in 2001. Various cultivars are being planted in the North and South.

POLAND - currently grows hemp for fabric and cordage and manufactures hemp particle board. They have demonstrated the benefits of using hemp to cleanse soils contaminated by heavy metals. (konopij)

ROMANIA - was the largest commercial producer of hemp in Europe in the late 80's and early 90's. Total acreage in 1993 was 40,000 acres. Some of it is exported to Hungary for processing. They also export to Western Europe and the United States. (cinepa)

RUSSIA - maintains the largest hemp germ plasm collection in the world at the N.I. Vavilov Scientific Research Institute of Plant Industry (VIR) in Saint Petersburg. They are in need of funds. (konoplya)

SLOVENIA - grows hemp and manufactures currency paper.

SPAIN - grows and exports hemp pulp for paper and produces rope and textiles. (cañamo)

SWITZERLAND - is a producer of hemp and hosts one of the largest hemp events: Cannatrade.

EGYPT, KOREA, PORTUGAL, THAILAND, and the UKRAINE also produce hemp.

USA - The United States - granted the first hemp permit in over 40 years to Hawaii for an experimental quarter acre plot in 1999. The license has been renewed since. Importers and manufacturers have thrived using imported raw materials. Twenty-two states in the United States have introduced legislation. VT, HI, ND, MT, MN, IL, VA, NM, CA, AR, KY, MD, WV have passed legislation for support, research, or cultivation. The National Conference of State Legislators has endorsed industrial hemp production for years.

Get on the - HEMP WAGON - and support the idea by forcing your local, state and federal government officials to do the right thing for a change, and legalize HEMP.

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More Facts About Hemp

1 - ) Hemp is among the oldest industries on the planet, going back more than 10,000 years to the beginnings of pottery. The Columbia History of the World states that the oldest relic of human industry is a bit of hemp fabric dating back to approximately 8,000 BC.

2 - ) Presidents Washington and Jefferson both grew hemp. Americans were legally bound to grow hemp during the Colonial Era and Early Republic. The federal government subsidized hemp during the Second World War and US farmers grew about a million acres of hemp as part of that program.

3 - ) Hemp Seed is far more nutritious than even soybean, contains more essential fatty acids than any other source, is second only to soybeans in complete protein (but is more digestible by humans), is high in B-vitamins, and is 35% dietary fiber. Hemp seed is not psychoactive and cannot be used as a drug. See TestPledge.com

4 - ) The bark of the hemp stalk contains bast fibers, which are among the Earth's longest natural soft fibers and are also rich in cellulose; the cellulose and hemi-cellulose in its inner woody core are called hurds. Hemp stalk is not psychoactive. Hemp fiber is longer, stronger, more absorbent and more insulative than cotton fiber.

5 - ) According to the Department of Energy, hemp as a biomass fuel producer requires the least specialized growing and processing procedures of all hemp products. The hydrocarbons in hemp can be processed into a wide range of biomass energy sources, from fuel pellets to liquid fuels and gas. Development of biofuels could significantly reduce our consumption of fossil fuels and nuclear power.

6 - ) Hemp grows well without herbicides, fungicides, or pesticides. Almost half of the agricultural chemicals used on US crops are applied to cotton.

7 - ) Hemp produces more pulp per acre than timber on a sustainable basis, and can be used for every quality of paper. Hemp paper manufacturing can reduce wastewater contamination. Hemp's low lignin content reduces the need for acids used in pulping, and it's creamy color lends itself to environmentally friendly bleaching instead of harsh chlorine compounds. Less bleaching results in less dioxin and fewer chemical byproducts.

8 - ) Hemp fiber paper resists decomposition, and does not yellow with age when an acid-free process is used. Hemp paper more than 1,500 years old has been found. It can also be recycled more times.

9 - ) Hemp fiberboard produced by Washington State University was found to be twice as strong as wood-based fiberboard.

10 - ) Eco-friendly hemp can replace most toxic petrochemical products. Research is being done to use hemp in manufacturing biodegradable plastic products: plant-based cellophane, recycled plastic mixed with hemp for injection-molded products, and resins made from the oil, to name just a very few examples.

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