The
Real Reason Hemp is Illegal
by
Doug Yurchey, 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
THE REAL REASON
CANNABIS HAS BEEN OUTLAWED HAS NOTHING
TO DO WITH ITS EFFECTS ON THE MIND
AND BODY.
MARIJUANA/Cannabis is not DANGEROUS. Pot is NOT
harmful (it is NOT pot! It's Medicine) 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 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 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.
* 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 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 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 CONSPIRACY
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.
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incurable insanity.
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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 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. 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 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!
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.
