We are all caught up in the controversies over CLIMATE CHANGE and MARIJUANA. Would you believe the answer is the same for both issues?
Cannabis is the OLDEST CULTIVATED CROP KNOWN TO MAN! GOD created it! Until 1937, it was considered a VALUABLE farm resource in the United States. At the end of prohibition, law enforcement was faced with nothing to do, except the everyday, routine job of keeping the peace and occasional crime.
At the same time, powerful forces were at work to protect their self interests. Among those was a man whose company had just discovered NYLON through their CHEMICAL RESEARCH...E. I. DuPont. HEMP was the single source for ROPE prior to the introduction of Nylon. Another, whose company was developing new pain medications and whose research sought new cures for diseases through CHEMISTRY. This man was Eli Lilly. Others, including John D. Rockefeller, who controlled the paper printing industries, joined in the scam. These men, along with a group of politicians, connived a plan to protect industrial interests AND give law enforcement something solid to sink their teeth into....thus was born the ill-conceived MARIJUANA STAMP TAX ACT OF 1937 (Available for viewing on the U. S. Government's website). While this act created an intricate and unenforceable set of regulations, over the next few years accomplished what it set out to do...BAN MARIJUANA. It did not stop there. The result was that HEMP, the parent plant for marijuana, was banned from cultivation in the U.S.!
In the 1940's, a series of so-called "DOCUMENTARY" movies were made, expounding the EVILS OF MARIJUANA. The best known of these movies is "REEFER MADNESS" (Look it up on NETFLIX). This movie was based upon then popular presumptuous lies regarding marijuana use and its effects on humans. However, the hype behind the menace of marijuana was so great that the lie became fact, in most people's minds.
During WWII, in a desperate attempt to win the war, the U. S. Government organized a campaign called "HEMP FOR VICTORY". Within DAYS...HEMP was being grown and processed into ROPE, PAPER, CANVAS (Derived from the French word for cannabis), PLASTICS and many other products to help in the war effort. After the war was over, the ban was reinstated by the same politicians who led the war campaign!
Then, along came Nixon. The same Nixon who was President. The same Nixon that was so paranoid as to create the desire for political fodder that led to the break-in of the Democratic headquarters in the Watergate complex. Yes, THAT NIXON! What did HE do regarding marijuana? With the stroke of mere pen, HE PUT MARIJUANA ON THE LIST OF CLASS i NARCOTICS, which includes Heroin, Cocaine, etc. While OPIUM is on that list, OPIATES (derivatives) used in medicines by the PHARMACEUTICALS are NOT illegal...they just require a prescription from a licensed physician! Why? You figure it out!
Before I go further, keep in mind that BEFORE 1937, marijuana was taken for granted, used by Presidents, raised on farms for industrial products (including plastics for Henry Ford's Model T) and WAS NOT CONSIDERED TO BE A "PROBLEM". Sails and ropes for the USS CONSTITUTION were made from HEMP., as were those on every other sailing ship. Many other products were made from HEMP.
Now comes an EX U.S. VICE PRESIDENT who touts CARBON DIOXIDE as a menace to the future of our planet! Thus came the term "GLOBAL WARMING", based on old data and the opinions of a handful of scientists. Even the EPA has bought into this by deeming CO2 as "HARMFUL TO HUMANS"! What he fails to tell us is that all his predictions are not only subjective, but based on a computer model designed to exaggerate the results! Many scientists disagree with this premise, but whose findings are publicly denounced by Gore and his cronies as being "FLAWED SCIENCE"...the VERY ESSENCE of what THEIR CONCLUSIONS ARE BASED! Oh, and it is MAN MADE...ALL OUR FAULT!
This brings me to why I wrote this in the first place. HEMP produces MORE PRODUCT PER ACRE than TREES, or any other cultivatable plant known. PLANTS ABSORB CARBON DIOXIDE AND EMIT OXYGEN! HEMP can also be used for FOOD, CLOTH, ROPE, MEDICINE, PLASTICS, PAPER AND VARIOUS OTHER PRODUCTS... INCLUDING (READY FOR THIS?)...BIOFUELS!
HERE IS THE BOTTOM LINE: HEMP CAN SOLVE THE PERCEIVED PROBLEM OF "GLOBAL WARMING" AND PROVIDE MARIJUANA FOR USE AS A NATURAL ALTERNATIVE TO ADDICTIVE, POTENTIALLY DEADLY DRUGS FOR PAIN RELIEF AND EVEN HELP CURE NUMEROUS DISEASES! WOW!
This is MY OPINION, based on a couple of years of intense research. DO NOT SEND ME MESSAGES QUIBBLING WITH MY FACTS...I may have erred in minor details. However, just type "HEMP" into your search engine, and you will find more sources to research than you can digest in a year!
For now, I am a proponent for the legalization of MEDICINAL MARIJUANA USE and INDUSTRIAL HEMP CULTIVATION AND PRODUCTION. It is a sane approach to pain management and a NATURAL SOLUTION to many aspects of our lives from an environmental standpoint. HEMP production could help alleviate our high unemployment, help overcome our crop production deficit, our export deficit and would play a major part in the recovery of our economy.
THE NEED IS NOW! THE SOLUTION IS AT HAND! THE TIME IS NOW!
No comments:
Post a Comment