POT IS ILLEGAL BECAUSE BILLIONAIRES WANT IT THAT WAY!!!
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.
In an era gone by, refusing to grow HEMP in the US was against the law.
People could pay their taxes in HEMP until the early 1800s.
We all know the founding fathers grew it!
In fine American fashion, Jefferson smuggled hemp seeds from China to France then to America.
Ben Franklin had a HEMP paper mill.
Only in the 1820’s did cotton begin to replace hemp textiles, 80% of which were HEMP based before that time.
The first Bibles, Charts and Maps were on HEMP paper, and the oldest known records of farming HEMP go back 5000 years to ancient China, but probably was a huge industry in Egypt thousands of years before that.
In 1916 the US government planned to stop cutting trees and plant HEMP, but soon after, HEMP was made illegal to grow…
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 80f 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: ‘marihuana’ and pushed it into the consciousness of America.
Original article is very good, but very long...