The Marijuana Conspiracy

Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.

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

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, cocaine) 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.

By Doug Yurchey – Article from The Dot Connector