We could put all our farmers back to work
tomorrow.
The
Marijuana Trick - The Real Reason Hemp is
Illegal
by Doug Yurchey,
2005
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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 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-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!