[Mb-civic] HISTORY OF HEMP

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MOST KNOW I DO NOT FEEL THE CONGNITIVE/'WILL' SLOWING EFFECTS OF THE  'HERB'  
ARE ENERGETICALLY HEALTHY, BUT THE HISTORY WAS INTERESTING.   AT OVER 1/2 
CENTURY OLD I CONTINUE TO BE SURPIRSED BY HOW POWER CORRUPTS IN  SUCH HEAVILY 
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 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 ensured 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!
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