Cannabis and the Federal Reserve System
It all started in the 1920’s with Yellow Journalism.
William Randolph Hearst, who arrived on the scene in 1887, was already in control of the headlines on a day-to-day basis because of his efficient business practice within the industry. He was able to produce his Newspapers at next to nothing by manufacturing the tree pulp used and controlling the channel of production down to his papers, the San Francisco Examiner, and eventually the New York Journal (Which became a leading Newspaper).
He teamed up with Henry Dupont to manufacture the ink used in the New York Journal and the partnership began to grow.
ALONG CAME HEMP
Hemp grows 4 times faster than the timber used for tree pulp by Hearst.
Hemp grows annually and can be grown more times
Hemp produces a better quality paper.
Hemp can be grown in any region of the United States.
Since Hemp grew so fast and it grew in every region, Hearst could not stop the middle class farmer from decentralizing the industry. Hearst knew that he could not provide the intellectual property to keep Hemp from destroying his industry and replacing it with middle class producers.
In other words he was afraid of the free market. He was afraid of us… he had to stop it!
Dupont and Hearst knew then that not many Americans understood the difference between Hemp and Cannabis. So they used it against the Americans by claiming Cannabis will make you rape and kill your sister if smoked, illustrating the dangers of inhaling by using grim reapers in their newspapers with joints. And people believed it!
Time and Time again they would use this propaganda through the New York Journal, claiming that Mexicans bringing Marijuana across the border would sleep with White Wives and take White Jobs. They were also saying this about Black Americans who took up smoking and started the Jazz movement.
Dupont’s banker was Andrew Mellon, Mellon bank of Pittsburgh (5th largest bank at the time). Andrew Mellon had a Nephew, Harry Anslinger. Andrew Mellon financially backed Anslinger and threw all of his weight into convincing the U.S. treasury that Marijuana is dangerous and it should be heavily regulated by way of taxation and prohibition.
The treasury could use a program that would generate that much income for the government so in June of 1930 the treasury gave birth to the Federal Bureau of Narcotics.
Ansligner hated Mexicans, Blacks, and Cannabis. He was on a mission to eliminate all of them. Immediately Ansliger waged war on Cannabis regurgitating claims made by Hearst in his Newspapers. (Success stories followed in the New York Journal).
Then, in 1937 Anslinger approached congress with intent to fully regulate all Cannabis. The entire meeting was comprised of Ansliger making emotional outbursts and attempting to offer evidence, all of which was newspaper clippings out of Hearst’s Newspapers.
With the exception of one congressman, all agreed and the act passed, Marijuana became criminal giving birth to the Drug War.
Not to mention Hearst, Dupont, and Mellon were all filthy rich now and had their hands in official pockets.
But the story doesn’t stop here. Andrew Mellon had to study the enemy, He saw what happened with Alcohol Prohibition and he knew it wouldn’t be long before the public caught on.
Mr. Mellon then financed Pharmaceutical companies through government grants and private equity to try to create a synthetic substitute for the over 60 different medicinal properties Cannabis contains. (They have yet to accomplish this goal)
If you look into the history you will find that fossil fuels would have never existed if it wasn’t for this intervention in the market place.
CANNABIS CAN SUPPLY THE ENTIRE NATION WITH ENERGY ON ONLY 1% OF U.S. LAND. ALL CARBON CLEAN.
(AND REMEMBER IT GROWS EVERYWHERE)
This is where the Federal Reserve comes in. The Federal Reserve System does not want to see the decentralization of resources towards localism because if that were to happen the Fed would lose a stronghold on the liquidity pools it artificially creates. It would also mean they couldn’t use the Carbon Tax to consolidate wealth across the world.
With Cannabis being legal and having over 25,000 uses there would be no way to compete against local and more sustainable banks.
So, the Federal Reserve uses banks like the Mellon to fund the DEA and keep money flowing and keep marijuana illegal. The Fed knows that with Cannabis being legal our GDP would boom but not in favor of large monopolies like the FED, but quite the contrary.
This is why I always say...the day we legalize it is the day we end the FED!
More sources for Education:
http://dailypaul.com/node/114142
http://dailypaul.com/node/118353
Legalize Cannabis To Legalize Freedom! [15 comments]
http://www.dailypaul.com/node/124147
Why is hemp legalization absent from Liberty candidates platforms?
http://www.dailypaul.com/node/124226
Yes, End The Fed by ending illegal prohibition
and while we are at it, let us free Marc Emery from the DEA which had no jurisdiction over Canada, and shame on the Conservative government in Canada for caving to a foreign nation when the Justice Minister signed the Extradition on Thursday.
Free Hemp and Cannabis and free our economy and free the people once and for all!!!
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Just curious did you get my email?
Why is everyone racing each other to a stop light?
Why is everyone holding their bladder across 40 miles of empty desolate desert just to stop and pee in my driveway?
Yes!! Time to get started greening your desert!!
I did. The guy who invented the Pump had a brother I interviewed a few months back for a potential medical malpractice claim. I remember he was saying the Pump was terrific, but it works much better in the mountains. I think you are better off using a cache system closer to what they used in “Greening the Desert”. Of course you might need to rent a Bobcat to reach the depth you want but if you can make it work on a small piece of your land than it will retain moisture on its own after you are finished so your long-term costs will be reduced to nothing.
The role of a farmer, in Fukuoka's mind, is an observer, not an intervener, of the natural order in his/her particular landscape. How is that any different than Hayek in regards to Economics?
Thanks,just needed to know!
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Why is everyone racing each other to a stop light?
Why is everyone holding their bladder across 40 miles of empty desolate desert just to stop and pee in my driveway?
Here is the governments response to the information above
http://dailypaul.com/node/118353
The role of a farmer, in Fukuoka's mind, is an observer, not an intervener, of the natural order in his/her particular landscape. How is that any different than Hayek in regards to Economics?
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I hate hearing these stories.
I wish it could have just been criminalized cuz erybody was gettin high.
Then, it wouldn't been criminalized I guess.
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Very interesting article!
Very interesting article!
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Legalize Cannabis for the farmers
Cannabis can be used for so many things. It is not the same as marijuana, except that they are related in the plant kingdom. I've read that when the two varieties are grown together, industrial hemp takes out the psychotic properties of the marijuana. Pot growers don't want it around. From paper to clothing and durable handbags, to shoes and hats, health foods and jewelry, to building and industrial purposes, Cannabis is shown to be very useful and strong. I would not touch a joint, but I see the regulation of industrial hemp as detrimental to our economy. It could provide for many families and farmers. So much money and energy from our federal government has been pumped into the drug war and we have only seen MORE of the drug culture in this country, not less. Like typical government intervention and waste in other areas, here is yet another example of how large the governmental socialist octopus has become and how incredibly wasteful and useless it is at tackling the problem it was designed for. Let's go back to the Constitution folks! The Federal government needs to out of this arena too. We've got a lot of hacking away to do to get the monster back in its cage.
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Cannabis is a cure-all as a medicine because of the THC,
the drug “culture” I think you are referring to is the one derived through synthetic drugs for which generate more dead and addictive people than any natural plant.. even heroine. The culture around Marijuana/Cannabis is a much more healthy and vibrant culture that produces great education and efficient economical solutions.
The role of a farmer, in Fukuoka's mind, is an observer, not an intervener, of the natural order in his/her particular landscape. How is that any different than Hayek in regards to Economics?
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So, I, like many, have an instinctive rejection of the hemp thing because of the psycho-active properties and destructive effects.
Please don't try to convince me otherwise. As you would waste your time.
However, from reading this has shown me there are some serious reasons to grow it outside of getting high.
So, my questions are
- how different are hemp and cannabis?
- could we have a plant breeding program that would reduce the psychoactive chemicals to virtually none?
- Would you support the latter, and the use of such a hemp?
Hemp For Victory
Hemp has nothing to do with the buds grown to produce THC. The government actually required farmers to get educated on HEMP to help with rope, parachute production, and more in WW2. The video they made is called Hemp For Victory and is now public domain.
Hemp for Victory
The government gave farmers seeds and helped them grow hemp for the war effort.
To answer your first question, they are the same species..
they simply carry different levels of terpeno-phenolic compounds (the stuff that gets you high). No Program would ever become successful at divorcing the two phenotypes because they will always change due to environmental factors and eventually CBD production will result, although it might not be at the high levels of THC seen today. So by legalizing cannabis, there will have to be a market for psychoactive plants to function since the THC is lowered naturally in the wild due to cross-pollination of the several non-THC and THC carrying phenotypes.
I do not think a breeding program would be an efficient control of THC production nor would I advocate it due to the over one-hundred different medicinal properties found in THC from this wonderful herb. The plant is not so much as a drug as a therapeutic cure for a range of various problems from Epilepsy, high blood pressure, and cancer, to abrasions, asthema, and stroke. I say this because there are little to no side effects when Cannabis is used in any form. THC is a bronchial expectorant so it will actually clean ones lungs as opposed to the popular stigma that it causes respiratory problems. Currently the government is trying to finance ways to synthesize these compounds so as to market them through a patentable manufacturing process. They are doing this through the University of Mississippi, and they won’t legalize it until they’re done. So basically, you can either support the corporate process of taking business from middle class farmers and medicinal herbalists or you can accept that THC is neither dangerous nor destructive in all its functions as it carries the components necessary to medically and economically decentralize wealth to the common man.
The role of a farmer, in Fukuoka's mind, is an observer, not an intervener, of the natural order in his/her particular landscape. How is that any different than Hayek in regards to Economics?
so i have a question for you
simply put, do you believe that your views substantiate the laws against grass?
in other words, since you claim (erroneously) that weed is destructive, does that make you right and me wrong?
do you deny my right to feel differently about this issue and do you support the government's stand that i should be prosecuted for such feelings and/or actions?
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Compare
It's important to compare the destructive effects of marijuana to the destructive effects of marijuana prohibition.
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You Would Need
to smoke a marijuana cigarette as large as a telephone pole to get high. Here is Ron Paul speaking the truth about hemp and how it doesn't get you high. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvJ2uLq295w
I am at a loss
to understand your saying marijuana doesn't get one high. I take it you mean that HEMP doesn't get you high.
If so, it would seem then that Hearst and Co. linked hemp with cannabis, to have them both banned, and you all are advocating the linking of the two to have them allowed.
Why not separate them?
Do they look identical or very similar?
Hemp doesn't get you high
Yes this is what I'm saying. Hemp actually makes it hard for people growing the cannabis that produces high amounts of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana. The hemp pollen fills the air and turns your nice buds into seedy trash. Like Ron Paul said, it would take a hemp joint the size of a telephone pole to be equivalent to a standard cannabis joint. The banning of hemp is a total fraud and the two should both be legal to grow in the land of the free.
Yes they look pretty much
Yes they look pretty much identical. Hemp does have THC in it ...just not as much.
Industrial hemp has no
Industrial hemp has no psycho-active properties as you put it. It is cannabis in it original form. The stuff with high THC content has been bred to have psycho-active properties for smoking etc. While they are of the same family they are quite different.
Even so what business is it of anyone's to tell anyone else they can or cant use or grow it for industrial use or medicinal use?
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What destructive effects?
What destructive effects?
Cannabis was the single most important industrial crop known to mankind till around 100 years ago. You should read a book or two.
Charming. I knew you couldn't
Charming.
I knew you couldn't resist.
When you link the two, you cut your own limb off. Too bad.
Otherwise it sounds like an important policy change.
huh?
I seriously know of no destructive properties of cannabis....so my question was serious. It is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man.
You must have a real problem with barley too....because alcohol is a poison and is proven to be very destructive.
Question. Have you ever read into the history of how cannabis became illegal in this country? (It's a very interesting story and kinda strange that we didn't need a Constitutional amendment for its prohibition like alcohol)
Harm of dope
I wish I could take the time to gather all the stuff on the harm of dope.
Just Google "how marijuana effects the brain" and then the same for genetics. There's lots of stuff.
I took marijuana long ago when I was a teenager. I know it is a destructive, evil thing, from my personal experience.
You took marijuana?
First of all, you do not TAKE marijuana. You might ingest it or inhale it, but not take it. And congratulations on accepting the myriad of propaganda on the internet by Googling "how marijuana effects the brain".
My personal experience was vastly different than yours. I competed at the international level in sports, (and no I am not Michael Phelps, who by the way could still win a gold medal after a few bong rips) was a national champion in university, was active on the 1984 Olympic Committee, built a highly successful multi-million dollar business, have several degrees, have raised tens of millions of dollars for charity, coached thousands of young people in youth sports, serve on the Board of Directors for major foundations, and continue to accomplish amazing things in my life. And oh by the way, ingested a lot of pot. And I know hundreds of people in high level management of corporations, CEO's and business owners, doctor and lawyers, etc. who STILL incorporate marijuana into their daily lives.
You unfortunately are extremely misinformed and it is tragically sad that your personal experience as a teenager left you dopey. Perhaps you should have kept TAKING marijuana!
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or google: cannabis monkeys suffocation brain damage
And you'll find the studies that show it dangerous...lied! [source]:"For many years there has been a study that is used by the medical marijuana prohibitionists about marijuana killing brain cells. It is the Heath/Tulane University study, in which Rhesus monkeys had been strapped into chairs and pumped the equivalent of 63 Colombian strength joints in five minutes, through gas masks, loosing[sic] no air and having none provided. Doctor Heath correctly identified that the monkeys died from dead brain cells. What he did not identify was that the monkeys dead brain cells were due to suffocation. Three to five minutes of oxygen deprivation causes brain damage".
I don't touch the stuff, but what honorable scientist would willingly come to this conclusion? Force is at work here, unjustly.
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OMG!
...you are right, Michael Clown. Have you seen your brain on drugs? It looks just like an egg frying in a pan!
It is so scary.
"I know it is a destructive, evil thing, from my own personal experience"...hmmmm
OK. That's your viewpoint and I respect that. My viewpoint is, "I know it is a beautiful, insightful thing, from my own personal experience".
So, back to my question. Do you deny me my right because you disagree with me?
ps
if you don't mind, i'll pass up the google to all of the falsified governmental data concerning pot...its still the hearst machine kicking out lies
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I have read many many studies
I have read many many studies on the effects of cannabis on the brain....some are negative and some are positive but none are conclusive.
I doubt your experiences as a teenager reflect 100% of everyone else's experiences with cannabis. I have also experimented with cannabis and I find nothing destructive or evil about the experience. From what I've seen throughout my life is that Alcohol and Pharmicudical drugs are FAR more dangerous then cannabis, but I would NEVER recommend making them illegal. I don't really see why anyone would care what someone else puts into their own body....but I am a libertarian not some fascist authoritarian tool.
take your own advice
http://www.drugpolicy.org/marijuana/factsmyths/#moremythshtt...
Think about why you think the way that you do. Think about this article and how the history of propaganda against this plant has caused faulty education and research, and censorship of anything that doesn't follow that agenda.
And keep in mind, what is not your pleasure is a pleasure and often aid to very many productive, intelligent human beings, and this has been the case throughout our entire history.
Also, a gift from the internet to you---the most comprehensive, informational psychoactive database on the internet. www.erowid.org
I'm assuming your experience is limited...and all I can say is, for many the first experiences are awkward. If a blind man woke up and could see tomorrow, it would be a bit awkward for him as well. It is just a new sense of perception.