I have thought for some time now that hemp is the real enemy of the government.. Pot is just the smoke screen that makes it almost make sense..
Pot was made illegal to stop hemp after all - I think that it is exactly the same today.. Hemp has the potential to overturn oil, steel, meat, pharma, etc.. more so than weed..
Hearst, DuPont, Anslinger, and Mellon were in it for the hemp ban - nothing directly to do with arresting mexicans and blacks, but i'm sure that made the insanity more palatable to uninformed law enforcement of the day..
WOW! I just read that and realized you're probably right... There is NO GOOD REASON why hemp should be banned, when the THC% is so very low (2-3%). So they can't really classify that as 'drug level'. Or can they? Even though the THC level is so very low, the CBD/CBN levels are high, and that IS notable indeed!
Check out U.S. Patent #6630507 titled Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants which is assigned to The United States of America, as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services.
This basically gives the U.S. Government a bonafide 'monopoly' on not only the single greatest 'source' of high CBD/CBN levels, but also a way to keep hemp from competing with the paper/textile/wood industries. Everyone knows hemp can be made into many things besides rope, but none more than the non-sustainable industries it threatens! I'm actually quite surprised that nobody has called the Government on that lie yet.
Here's how it works:
The U.S. Government has in
ALL of its branches,
an agency or department for "Fraud, Waste or Abuse". The idea is you use it as a 'sounding horn' for our own government doing things in a horrible, wasteful way and THEY have to investigate it!
Once you point out that hemp based-paper, for instance is more 'sustainable and available at a much lower cost for the government, than paper made from trees, which takes 20-30 years to grow...the game is over. You could actually charge the U.S. Government for violating thier own 'rules and regulations' and force them to consider using hemp based products, except that the industries threatened by it would have a major fit! Would at least force Hemp back into the public eye and awareness. I think the 'Hate for Hemp' issue existed long before Hearst, DuPont, Anslinger, and Mellon, though. Also ironic that the very first person arrested in the U.S. for selling Marijuana was arrested on Oct 2nd, 1937. That's the same day that the new 'Marijuana Tax Stamp' was enacted. More here:
The First Pot POW After a decade of
U.S. government scare propaganda that convinced Americans that crazed Mexicans, blacks and fans of jazz clubs were pushing marijuana "reefers" on school children and honest youths, turning them into raving murderers, politicians decided to act.
The U.S. Congress passed the
Marijuana Tax Stamp Act. Growing and selling marijuana were still legal, but only if you bought a $1 government stamp. And that stamp was not for sale.
On the day the Marijuana Tax Stamp Act was enacted -- Oct. 2, 1937 -- the FBI and Denver, Colo., police raided the Lexington Hotel and arrested Samuel R. Caldwell, 58, an unemployed labourer and Moses Baca, 26. On Oct. 5, Caldwell went into the history trivia books as
the first marijuana seller convicted under U.S. federal law. His customer, Baca, was found guilty of possession.
Caldwell's wares,
two marijuana cigarettes, deeply offended Judge Foster Symes, who said: "I consider marijuana the worst of all narcotics, far worse than the use of morphine or cocaine. Under its influence men become beasts. Marijuana destroys life itself. I have no sympathy with those who sell this weed. The government is going to enforce this new law to the letter."
Caldwell was sentenced to
four years of hard labour in Leavenworth Penitentiary, plus a $1,000 fine. Baca received 18 months incarceration. Both men served every day of their sentence. A year after Caldwell was released from prison, he died. (From
Cannabis News)
