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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 Moscows export to England; Emperor Wears No Clothes, Jack Herer.

* For thousands of years, 90f all ships sails and rope were made from
hemp. The word canvas is Dutch for cannabis; Websters New World
Dictionary.

* 80f 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 Rosss 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 Fords 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 Agricultures 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 Navys 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 years 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 Hearsts 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.
Duponts 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 80f Duponts business.

THE CONSPIRACY

Andrew Mellon became Hoovers Secretary of the Treasury and Duponts 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.
Hearsts 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 Devils 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 Hearsts 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 planets energy needs that
are currently supplied by fossil fuels. We have consumed 80f 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 50emp. 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: Its 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, hemps 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...youd get something
called the munchies and youll 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 ones 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!

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

ps: I think the word DRUGS should not be used as an umbrella-word 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.