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"Throughout Western Europe hemp was famed for its
healing properties.
Many considered the properties of hemp seed
magical.
Farmers fed hemp to livestock to encourage good health." -
Will Bolden1763 to
1769
It is against the law in Virginia to refuse to grow
hemp.
late 1700's
George Washington and
Thomas Jefferson are growing hemp.
Benjamin Franklin owns one of the
first hemp paper mills in
America.
late 1800s
Cannabis indica is used
in treating addiction.
Opiate,
chloral hydrate, and
alcohol
addicts are successfully treated
with potent cannabis extracts.
War of 1812
Napoleon Bonaparte attempts to
de-rig the English Navy by invading Russia to cut off the export of hemp to
England.
Hemp sails and rigging have to replaced every two years.
Hemp sails and rigging cost five times the wood in
a newly commissioned
ship!
90% of all ships' sails and rope are made from hemp for
thousands of years.
The word 'canvas' is Dutch for cannabis.
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 of the United States of
America were made from hemp.
Schoolbooks are made from hemp or
flax.
Rembrants, Gainsboroughs, Van Goghs as well as most early canvas
paintings were principally painted on hemp linen.
Hemp is the largest
cash crop until the cotton takes over in
1803.
1850 Kentucky produces 40,000 tons.
1908 The first Model-T built by
Henry Ford runs on hemp oil
gasoline and the body parts
are constructed from hemp.
Henry Ford creates hemp
plastic panels that have an impact strength 10 times stronger than
steel.
Henry Ford grows his own
hemp.
1916 United States Department of
Agriculture Bulletin #404 concluded that hemp produces 4 times as much pulp
with at least 4 to 7 times less pollution than wood pulp.
Hemp is the
first cash crop in America to exceed a billion dollars in value in a
year.
"Anslinger was not trained in medicine or
psychiatry yet he often used
clinical descriptions of bizarre behavior that he attributed to the use of
drugs." - John J. Coleman
1917 to
1928 Harry Jacob
Anslinger, widely credited for shaping international drug
policies, works for various military and police organizations.
Andrew William
Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury for
Herbert Hoover and the
primary DuPont investor, appoints
his nephew-in-law, Harry Jacob Anslinger, to head the Federal Bureau of
Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs.
The Federal Bureau of Narcotics,
like the Bureau of Prohibition, is under the auspices of the
Treasury Department as
the undeclared trade of
alcohol and drugs is considered a loss of revenue.
 
late 1920s early
1930s
Anslinger shifts
focus.
Although
Anslinger did not consider
cannabis a
serious threat to American society he was willing to help the oligarchs
attempt to replace natural substances
with a petrochemical monopoly.
DuPont petrochemical interests and
Hearst lumber
interests create the highly sensational media blitz of 'yellow journalism'
focusing on an anti-marijuana campaign to eliminate hemp as an industrial
competitor.
Hearst newspapers run stories claiming "marihuana", an
addictive narcotic causes shocking acts of violence, incurable insanity and
destroys morality.
White women would be seduced by "jazz and darkies"
to commit murder.
Few people, at the time, realized that the deadly
menace they had been reading about on William Randolph Hearst's front pages was
in fact hemp.
The American Medical Association understood
cannabis as a MEDICINE found in numerous
healing concoctions sold for over a hundred years.
early
1930s Members
of the League of Nations began implemented restrictions on
cannabis.
'Reefer Madness' (1936), 'Marihuana: Assassin of
Youth' (1935) and 'Marihuana: The Devil's Weed' (1936) are
propaganda
movies.
This iss industrial propaganda designed to
replace:
hemp fiber for paper with
tree fiber;
hemp fiber for clothing with
cotton fiber;
hemp fiber for rigging with
nylon;
natural healing
medicines with manufactured
petrochemicals.
1936 DuPont patents the
processes to make plastic and
plastic fibers from
oil and
coal.
These process' are taken from the
Germans as war reparations.
DuPont Annual Report urges
stockholders to invest in its new petrochemical division.
Synthetics such as plastics, cellophane, celluloid,
methanol,
nylon™, rayon™,
Dacron®, PVC ™, could be made from
oil.
Natural hemp
agricultural industrialization would have ruined over 80% of DuPont business.
William Randolph
Hearst and the Hearst Paper Manufacturing Division of Kimberly Clark owned
vast acreage of timberlands.
The Hearst Company supplied most wood pulp
paper products.
Marihuana Tax Act of 1937
"We cannot understand yet, Mr. Chairman, why this
bill should have been prepared in secret for two years without any intimation,
even to the profession, that it was being prepared." - Dr. James Woodward
"58,000 tons of hemp seeds were used in America for
paint products." - Sherwin-Williams testimony about the previous year
"Hemp was America's number one analgesic for 60
years before the discovery of aspirin around 1900.
From 1842 to 1900,
cannabis made up half of all medicine sold, with virtually no fear of its high.
There are more than 60 therapeutic compounds in cannabis that are
healing agents in medical and herbal treatments." - Jack HererAugust 2, 1937 The
Constitution did not provide sufficient authority to regulate a substance grown
and distributed throughout the states.
Congress settled on a "tax" act
because the Constitution provided Congress the unlimited power to levy and
collect taxes.
The bill that outlawed hemp was brought directly to the
House Ways and Means Committee.
Chairman of the Ways and
Means, Robert Doughton a DuPont stockholder and a close
associate of Mellon, assures passage.
"I wish I could show you what a
small marihuana cigarette can do to one of our
degenerate Spanish-speaking
residents.
That's why our problem is so great; the greatest
percentage of our population is composed of
Spanish speaking persons most of whom
are low mentally, because of social and racial conditions." -
Federal Bureau of Narcotics Commissioner Harry Jacob Anslinger testimony
before the House Ways and Means Committee
Dr. James Woodward
denounces the Marihuana Tax Law claiming fraud as the American
Medical Association had not been informed 'marihuana' was
cannabis.
"No definite scientific study of the effects of marihuana was
presented to substantiate the position that marihuana was a dangerous drug.
No synthesis of available scientific information was submitted nor was
there any statement by the Public Health Service.
Neither of the
government's own public health experts, Assistant Surgeon General, Dr. Walter
Treadway, and Dr. Lawrence Kolb, testified, nor did Drs. Walter Bromberg or JF
Siler who had recently published scientific articles on the effects of cannabis
in humans." - National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse
The most useful crop known to man becomes
a dangerous narcotic with the stroke of a pen (spellbinding).
The people and ecology of
the Earth have been suffering ever since.
The ecological damage
visited upon the Earth may be irreversible.
1942 US Department of Agriculture produces a 14-minute
film, 'Hemp for Victory', encouraging and instructing 'patriotic
American farmers' to grow 350,000 acres of hemp each year for the war
effort.
"Through a report released in 1983 under the Freedom of
Information Act, it was discovered (after 40 years of secrecy) that Anslinger
was appointed to a top-secret committee to create a "truth serum" for the
Office of Strategic Service (OSS),
which evolved into the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Anslinger and
his spy group picked, as America's first truth serum, "honey oil", a much
purer, almost tasteless form of hash oil made from
cannabis sativa, to be
administered in food to spies, saboteurs, military prisoners and the like, to
make them unwittingly "spill the truth."
Fifteen months later marijuana
extracts were discontinued by Anslinger's group as America's first truth serum
because it was noted that they didn't work all the time.
The people
being interrogated would often giggle or laugh hysterically at their captors,
get paranoid, or have insatiable desires for food.
Also, the report
noted that American OSS agents and other interrogation groups started using the
honey oil illegally themselves.
In Anslinger's OSS group's final report
on marijuana as a truth serum, there was no mention of violence caused by the
drug!
In fact, the opposite was indicated."
- Jack Herer
Mayor's Committee on Marihuana
New York Academy of Medicine
City of New York, 1944
1950s Under the
communist threat voiced by
Senator Joe
McCarthy, Harry J. Anslinger now says marijuana will pacify a soldier and
they would not want to fight the communists.
This extreme passivism was
proved wrong empirically in Vietnam.
1960s
Gateway theory takes hold when marijuana becomes the leading new recreational
drug surpassing tobacco even though there is no scientific evidence for the
theory that marijuana is a "gateway" drug.
The cannabis-using cultures
in Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America show no propensity for other
drugs.
In the eighties when cocaine abuse exploded marijuana
use declined.
'NOT linked to depression, lung cancer or asthma in later
life’
1972 The Shafer Report
commissioned by Richard Nixon
and named after former Pennsylvania Governor Raymond Shafer, concludes that
"neither the marijuana user nor the drug itself can be said to constitute a
danger to public safety" and urged the government to stop penalizing marijuana
smokers for personal use or distribution.
1974
California Governor
Ronald Reagan hires Robert G. Heath to asphyxiate Rhesus
monkeys.
Reports of the study are distributed through the hierarchy
of drug rehabilitation professionals and used to terrorize parent groups,
church organizations, etc., who redistribute it still further.
1980 NORML receives - after six years of requests and suing
the government - an accurate accounting of the research procedures used in the
Robert G. Heath's report:
Rhesus monkeys were strapped into a chair and
then strapped into gas masks and given the equivalent of 63 Colombian strength
joints in "five minutes, thru the gas masks" losing no smoke.
The monkeys inhale large amounts of carbon monoxide
due to the burning of 63 joints in five minutes.
Carbon monoxide kills brain cells and is given
off by any burning object.
The Heath Monkey study is actually a study in
animal asphyxiation and carbon monoxide
poisoning.
Much larger monkey studies, one by Dr. William Slikker of
the National Center for Toxicological Research and the other by Charles
Rebert and Gordon Pryor of SRI International, found no evidence of physical
alteration in the brains of monkeys exposed to daily doses of cannabis for up
to a year.
Human studies of heavy cannabis users in Jamaica and Costa
Rica found no evidence of
abnormalities in brain physiology.
1978 300,000 people are in American prisons
for all crimes combined.
Five times more tax is being spent on building
schools than on building prisons.
1992 to 2003
Those who admit using PHRMA to
'catch a buzz' nearly doubles from 7.8 million to 15.1
million.
1999 to 2004 Unintentional overdoses
of psychotherapeutic chemicals including sleeping pills, antiDepressants and
antiPyschotics resulting in death grows 84%.
2005
Scientists from King's College at the University of London determine that
people trying to juggle phone calls, e-mail and other routine office
distractions suffered a greater loss
of IQ than someone smoking cannabis.
2006
700,000 people in America are admitted to
emergency room care for adverse reactions to
prescribed drugs according to the
Journal of the American Medical
Association.
"If I had every problem the television ads say I do
- breathing, lifting, walking, sitting, sleeping and my toes rotting off -
I'd welcome death. Drug
companies are pushers, and Congress and the
FDA are the cop on the beat who's
been paid off to look the other way. Is there anything more laughable than the
thought that the FDA is
protecting anything but the profit margins of
pharmaceutical companies?"
- Bill Maher, 4/27/06
2007 There are almost 2
million people in prison, 800,000 in jail and the penal system supports 300,000
jail guards.
Federal and state spending for new schools has dwindled to
less than one-fifth that of prison building expenditures.
"Drug
offenders, most of them passive users or minor dealers, are swamping our
prisons. 47.5% of all the drug arrests in 2007 were for marijuana offenses.
Nearly 60% of the people in state prisons serving time for a drug offense have
no history of violence or of any significant selling activity. Four out of five
drug arrests were for possession of illegal substances, while only one in five
was for sales. Three-quarters of the drug offenders in our state prisons were
there for nonviolent or purely drug offenses." - Senator Jim Webb
(D-Va.)
2008 American College of
Physicians calls for rigorous scientific evaluation of the potential
therapeutic benefits of medical marijuana and an evidence-based review of
marijuana's status as a Schedule
I controlled substance.
More than 700,000 of the America's
20-million cannabis users are arrested for marijuana possession. Between 1998
to 2008 there are over 5,000,000 arrests on 'marijuana'
charges.
November 10, 2009
American Medical Association urges the federal government to reconsider
its classification of marijuana as a dangerous drug with no accepted medical
use.
The California Medical Association passed resolutions that
declared the criminalization of marijuana a failed public health policy and
called on the organization to take part in the debate on changing current
policy.
The ingestion of cannabis has the following
positive effects:
relieves
asthma; relieves glaucoma;
reduces many types of tumors; is the best treatment for many types of
epilepsy; the best muscle
relaxant, back spasm medicine and general antispasmodic medication;
cannabidiols have
antibiotic uses; as a topical analgesic in the treatment of arthritis,
herpes, cystic fibrosis and
rheumatism; the
best natural expectorant; lowers blood pressure,
dilates the arteries and reduces body temperature an average of one-half
degree, thereby relieving stress and
migraine; and
alleviating nausea while increasing appetite.
Cannabidiol from cannabis
sativa is the best treatment for other neurological disorders such as
Parkinson’s and
Alzheimer’s
diseases.
National Institute of Mental Health
reports that cannabis smoke is the only medicine known on Earth that can fully
stop the brain
damage after a stroke occurs:
(1) by causing the arteries to enlarge
and allowing virtually any clot to flow harmlessly through the brain and
(2) by stopping the production of glutamate, which poisons and kills
brain cells after the blood clot is in place.
One
puff of 'ditch weed' from Iowa will stop the aftereffects of 95% of all
strokes, virtually
ending paralysis, speech loss and coma resulting from
strokes.
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