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THE GREAT MARIJUANA CONSPIRACY
by Stephen H. Kawamoto
INTRODUCTION:
Marijuana is the anti-drug campaigners' whipping boy. Is marijuana truly the
gateway to hard drugs? Or, is its inclusion in most international drug laws and
conventions a means by which marijuana remains associated with dangerous drugs
and substances? This article will trace the history of marijuana and the law.
WHY MARIJUANA WAS CRIMINALIZED IN 1937
The reason for marijuana being criminalized in 1937 was to prevent people in the
hemp industry from becoming wealthy. Quite obviously, people representing
forestry, petrochemical and pharmaceutical industries feared the enormous
competition from the infant hemp industry. So they conspired to kill it by
taxing marijuana. Later, marijuana was criminalized through various drug laws
and conventions around the world.
THE ANSLINGER-MELLON CONNECTION
One man who first spread myths about marijuana is Harry J. Anslinger, who was
appointed director of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (predecessor
of the Drug Enforcement Agency -DEA- of today). He was a man who hated jazz
music and tried to get jazz musicians herded
up into prison for smoking the sacred herb. The time dilation effect of THC
probably helped introduce extra beats into jazz music. But Anslinger didn't like
jazz and he hated marijuana even more. At first, Anslinger declared marijuana
caused users to go crazy and commit violent acts. As a result of his testimony,
persons who used pot could use the insanity defense to get a less charge to
murder. Later on, after doctors testified at a second hearing regarding
marijuana, Anslinger recanted his earlier testimony, conceding the sacred herb
probably didn't cause insanity or violent behavior, but added that it could lead
to opium use. This is how the gateway myth originated.
In 1931, Anslinger got his job at the Bureau of Narcotics at the recommendation
of a man named Mellon, who happened to be his wife's uncle. Mellon, also
director of the Mellon Bank, was U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. He associated
with other wealthy men such as William R. Hearst, Sr. and the DuPont brothers.
Hearst owned a chain of newspapers across the U.S. as well as a large lumber
company. The DuPont family had just patented a paper making process using wood
pulp some years earlier. As well, they had a new invention, a kind of synthetic
cotton called nylon.
HEMP INDUSTRY BUSTS; ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO INDUSTRIES BOOM
Unfortunately, the infant hemp industry seemed to threaten these rich men's
monopoly in the pulp and paper industry. In fact, in 1937, Popular Science
predicted that hemp would become a billion dollar industry. With the passing of
the Marijuana Tax Act, the industry was suppressed, only to surface during World
War II when America's main supply of manila hemp was cut off after Japan
occupied the Philippines.
Since then, marijuana has endured a smear campaign originally instigated by
Hearst's newspapers and imitated by other newspaper chains around the world.
After hemp was banned in 1938, DuPont came out with nylon. It licensed out the
paper making process to Hearst so that wood-pulp could be easily made into cheap
paper. Meanwhile, the anti-pot propaganda demonized marijuana whilst the alcohol
and tobacco companies enjoyed wide advertising in the newspapers and on TV,
especially in the post-war boom that followed the war.
While propaganda was calling cannabis the great corrupter of youth, alcohol
consumption was leading to emotional and physical abuse in the home as well as
death. Alcoholism became the number two cause of death, after lung cancer, which
research eventually showed tobacco
consumption as the main culprit. So much for those advertisements in the
magazines, newspapers and on TV.
TODAY ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO USE DOWN BUT POT USE UP
Today, both alcohol and tobacco consumption is dropping, due to education about
the dangers of their use. Marijuana consumption peaked about twelve years ago,
but is now on the rise, especially
among today's youth. This is in spite of anti-pot propaganda. New studies have
completely overturned the gateway myth surrounding marijuana and indicate that
the sacred herb is less harmful than alcohol.
Yet, the news media would rather not publish such information, for fear of
advocating marijuana use. Instead, it continues to publish anti-drug propaganda,
calling it drug abuse education necessary to warn people of the dangers of drug
abuse. Such education, no matter how well intentioned, will not prevent
addiction, simply because until someone actually uses a controlled substance, it
is difficult to determine just who will become addicted to a dangerous drug.
There are indications that drug abusers fall into two classes of users: the
thrill seeker, and the person with low self-esteem, plagued by fears and
worries. Anti-drug propaganda so far has led to increases in experimental use
about today's youth. Thus such education as it is now taught leave much to be
desired.
Quite possibly, the best position of the newsmedia is to remain mum about the
matter since its reporting is peripheral and not an in-depth analysis of drug
abuse.
THE MARIJUANA CONSPIRACY TODAY
Today's marijuana conspiracy revolves around a UN convention on drug policy
signed by a few member nations of the UN in 1961. Most signing nations tend to
claim that they must honor the convention, despite provisions within that allow
them to opt out of it. The real reason most countries keep marijuana illegal is
due to American pressure rather than honoring a UN convention that is woefully
out of date.
A possible reason why the U.S. seeks to control international drug policy may
have to do with the economic potential cannabis hemp represents. A single nation
with the right tools and the land can
grow hemp and supply raw material for paper making and textiles, as well as
replacements and substitutes for petrochemicals. Economic sustainability is
possible with hemp more so than with trees. Hemp produces 4.3 times more pulp
fiber per hectare. Hemp paper products can be recycled seven times while paper
made from wood-pulp can only be recycled three times. Hemp seed protein is very
nutritious. Fiberboard made from hemp fiber is more stronger than that made of
wood-chips. Thus, a cannabis hemp industry can revitalize any country that
starts one up, if the capital is there.
One problem with this scenario is marijuana. If cannabis hemp is legalized, then
marijuana would be too. This could affect the price of marijuana, perhaps
causing the price to drop to less than 20 percent of its current level. The drug
trafficking industry around marijuana could collapse if it were legalized. Lost
income from this black market could force organized crime to abandon marijuana
to independent growers not motivated by profit. As well, secret organizations
depending on the illegal drug trade would lose valuable income from marijuana,
were it to be legalized.
This is why the DEA demands the cannabis hemp industry develop a low-THC strain,
despite the fact that after about four generations, cannabis will produce higher
contents of THC. Keeping marijuana illegal not only profits organized crime; it
also profits the government. If Whitewater is anything, if Mena Arkansas really
let cocaine into the U.S., and if Montana is a drug trafficking conduit, then
surely the U.S. government is probably profiting from the illegal marijuana
trafficking business too.
IS THERE A CANADIAN MARIJUANA CONSPIRACY?
Yes! But this conspiracy isn't as corrupt as the one in the U.S. It's the reason
why, after months of undercover work, the RCMP in Vancouver only raided two
independent marijuana operations in late January 1996. Meanwhile, the major
marijuana drug lord continued business without interruption. He can afford to
remain in business, since "Mr.Big" has been in operation since 1966
and is probably one of the richest men in B.C. While it is uncertain if a
well-known biker gang that established itself in B.C. in Nanaimo, the Vancouver
East End and White Rock on July 3, 1983 is connected with "Mr.Big",
this biker gang's involvement in marijuana predates its arrival in B.C.
CONCLUSION: THE EFFECT OF LEGALIZATION ON THE POT CONSPIRACY
Marijuana legalization which comes part and parcel with cannabis hemp
legalization would not severely impair cultivation of cannabis for drug use.
While the hemp industry itself would have to establish itself after 73 years of
suppression, even legalized marijuana would not result in more than a reduction
from a torrent of hard drugs such as cocaine and heroin to a trickle of hard
earned cash. "Mr.Big" could probably declare his marijuana income with
impunity and not have to trade his pot for cocaine, heroin or U.S. cash. Taxes
on marijuana sales could fund not only restitution to victims of 73 years of
cultural genocide on the Canadian marijuana culture, it could also help
subsidize the growing hemp industry.
Twenty million hectares of Canadian farmland could see $15 billion of hemp
fiber. Marijuana even at $1 per gram could be worth $6 million (at 6 kilotonnes
per hectare). Even if 1 million hectares of B.C. cropland could be used, then
that would result in over $5 trillion of marijuana. Either way, cannabis hemp
could sustain a viable industry yearly. Wood is only sustainable in terms of
centuries. Eventually, cannabis hemp could augment pulp mills with even more
fiber. Pulp mills could be re-opened once cannabis hemp is legalized and goes
into full production.
In the end, cannabis hemp legalization could change the world economy
drastically. This might be why governments around the world are reluctant to
legalize cannabis hemp. The legalization of hemp could result in a few
billionaires coming from political backgrounds who could threaten the status quo
of today's billionaires. Cannabis legalization is a threat to the New World
Order because it represents a green industry that could help a nation to abandon
its dependence on a petroleum-based society that supplies the pharmaceutical and
plastics industries. Hemp legalization could change world economy at a rate
faster than any secret society of financial capitalists could
keep up.
In effect, it could strengthen each nation, making each one sovereign. And this,
more than anything is what the financial capitalists fear the most. For this
reason alone is why marijuana remains illegal under the drug laws of most
countries of the world. While the anti-drug proponents declare marijuana is
dangerous because it is a gateway drug, this is only a distraction from the true
reason.
Cannabis hemp could not only revitalize the world economy, it could liberate
each country of the world!
If you truly want to liberate the world from a petroleum-based society, legalize
cannabis hemp and decriminalize marijuana.
Address E-mail to: sage@vanbc.wimsey.com | sage@rainbow.descon.com
The truly poor cannot afford to get into debt and thus are debt-free.
Stephen H. Kawamoto <finger sage@vanbc.wimsey.com for PGP Public Key>
The
Great Marijuana Conspiracy!
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Medical Cannabis and Industrial Hemp Re-legalization
Recriminalization
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Governor
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A Citizen Petition in
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TRIALS
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Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church
GEORGE WASHINGTON GREW HEMP!!
Doreen
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Shooting
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Control Freaks,
Pushers, and a Nation of Junkies
The
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Dark
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The Story behind the Crack Epidemic
Hemp
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National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws
From this World...WALK TALL
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Journal
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Hungry
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Hemp
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War
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William
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PARANOIA's
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