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    Weird The Marijuana Conspiracy

    The reason hemp is illegal


    (Nothing to do with its effects on the mind and body)

    By Doug Yurchey
    - Article from The Dot Connector

    They say 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. 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! The super rich have conspired to spread misinformation about the 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. (Jack Frazier. Hemp Paper Reconsidered. 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 (G. M. Herdon. Hemp in Colonial Virginia).

    ✔ 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. (Jack Herer. Emperor Wears No Clothes.)

    ✔ 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.

    ✔ Rembrandt’s, Van Gogh’s, Gainsborough’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. (U.S. Department of Agriculture Archives.)

    ✔ 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 the U.S.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 constructed 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.)

    ✔ In 1938, hemp was 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, refutes 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 four times as much pulp with at least four to seven times less pollution.

    From Popular Mechanics, February 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.THE CONSPIRACY

    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.

    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: ‘marijuana’ 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 marijuana. The menace of marijuana made headlines. Readers learned that it was responsible for everything from car accidents to loose morality.

    Films like Reefer Madness (1936), Marijuana: Assassin of Youth (1935) and Marijuana: 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-marijuana 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, coca1ne) is the menace of marijuana!

    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 babyboomers.

    On April 14, 1937, the prohibitive Marijuana 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 U.S. Senate, Ways and Means Committee, at the time,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 Marijuana Tax Law sooner was that the Association had just discovered that marijuana 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. Harry Anslinger, head of the Drug Commission for 31 years, promoted the idea that marijuana made users act extremely violent. In the 1950s, under the Communist threat ofMcCarthyism, Anslinger then 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 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?

    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-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, 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.

    [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… you’d get something called the munchies and you’ll 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 one’s 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 sexuality. 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.

    p.s. 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.

    I enjoyed reading this

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    Default Re: The Marijuana Conspiracy

    Interesting read, but bollocks.

    Cannabis sativa is the industrial strain produced for hemp fibres. THC content is less than 0.3% which would not affect people. Grown under licence for fibre production.

    Recreational cannabis - Cannabis indica has very poor fibre strength so is almost useless on an industrial scale. This contains THC at between 6 & 20%. Grown illegally under hydroponic conditions for apathy production.

    Hence the dope market will not affect the industrial use of hemp.
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    Yep, and as for not being harmful to mind or body, long term use can be a contributing factor to developing paranoid schizophrenia in addition to a load of other complaints.

    As you say, interesting read though. Industrial Hemp is a product that has loads of potential uses for the future.

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    Default Re: The Marijuana Conspiracy

    Quote Originally Posted by rmj2663 View Post
    Interesting read, but bollocks.

    Cannabis sativa is the industrial strain produced for hemp fibres. THC content is less than 0.3% which would not affect people. Grown under licence for fibre production.

    Recreational cannabis - Cannabis indica has very poor fibre strength so is almost useless on an industrial scale. This contains THC at between 6 & 20%. Grown illegally under hydroponic conditions for apathy production.

    Hence the dope market will not affect the industrial use of hemp.
    did you make all that up ?
    you should google indica and sativa , the plant in the OPs pic is male , the male plant has very little thc
    the main difference you can see from my pic
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    Quote Originally Posted by greaseweasel View Post
    long term use can be a contributing factor to developing paranoid schizophrenia in addition to a load of other complaints.
    same could be said for breathing oxygen..


    Quote Originally Posted by plug1 View Post
    you should google indica and sativa
    I thought I was seriously misinformed for a moment there, wasn't gonna say owt until I saw your reply, but I knew both are used for THC content.
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    Default Re: The Marijuana Conspiracy

    with all the good thing's I hear about the feel good factor & benefits from smoking this
    it's a shame I puked every time I tried it

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    Quote Originally Posted by plug1 View Post

    did you make all that up ?
    you should google indica and sativa , the plant in the OPs pic is male , the male plant has very little thc
    the main difference you can see from my pic
    The OP has some very interesting facts. I enjoyed reading it, but it does get embroiled with the old stoners twist that brings hemp & marijuana together.

    Hemp (I may have confused the subspecies in my first post) really is piss poor for smoking - and as a multi-purpose cash crop it should be more widely cultivated. As for getting stoned by smoking hemp:-

    "Hemp plants are intentionally bred and cultivated to have a THC content lower than 2% (a very low amount). In addition, hemp plants are harvested when it is not the optimal time for THC production.
    After harvest the hemp plants are processed with no concern for preserving the little THC the hemp may contain. This further decreases potency. All in all, it is best for marijuana growers to stay away from hemp.
    Even if you could harvest 1000 pounds of hemp (at a time when the THC content was at a maximum 2%) and were able to extract all the THC, it would only amount to 20 pounds. In a real world situation, the amount you would actually get would be under 20 pounds." from http://www.a1b2c3.com/drugs/mjgrow9d.htm

    and

    http://www.hemp.com/
    The first paragraph reiterates the above. Comparing hemp to non-alcoholic beer for recreational use.
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    Default Re: The Marijuana Conspiracy

    Its the same thing mate .
    Hemp (from Old English hænep, see cannabis (etymology)) is the common name for plants of the entire genus Cannabis, although the term is often used to refer only to Cannabis strains cultivated for industrial (non-drug) use.

    The higher thc content you see in todays (drug) weed is the result of breeding diferent strains usuay many times .

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    On the original point . The only obvious conspirisy to keep it illegal would
    be to keep it valuble , if it was legalised it would be
    worthless as its very easy to grow .
    Its a simple fact that its less harmfull than alcohol ,both health wise and
    socialy . The medical benifits are well documented , where there is no medical
    benifits from alcohol.

    Most of the points made in the original post come from
    The Emperor Wears No Clothes by jack herer - if you google it there is a online version you can read.
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    Default Re: The Marijuana Conspiracy

    kinda echoes what I was gonna say earlier (but i changed my mind)

    ..people argue about it's legalisation but at the end of the day it's no more harmful then smoking or drinking, which is perfectly legal..

    it's down to tax I rekon, the goventment can't possibly tax it up to the hills unlike drinking and smoking. Personally I don't like what alcohol does to me, and its known to make people violent.. how much does the effect of binge drinking cos the tax payer, whereas I find that when people have a smoke it's generally indoors, they don't venture out and cause mischeif etc and end up flat out asleep (rather than unconcious)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Possy_99 View Post
    same could be said for breathing oxygen..
    Er, yeah

    Oxygen – biologically required for human survival vs THC – a recreational drug with side effects .

    Original comment wasn't meant as a dig, like I say, an interesting read .

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    no worries m8, just meant that nearly everything in life has its health implications, but I remember probably watchin a tv program or reading online that even breathing in does us damage - can't remember exactly how, but free radicals pop into mind (could be unrelated like..lol)

    and there are other drugs sold legally which cause alot more problems than cannabis
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    I know what you mean.

    The amount of things 'bad' for us, makes you realise its best just to get on and enjoy yourself as something will kill us eventually .

    Guess its everything in moderation as they say.

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