> The so-called war on drugs is the greatest crock of shit in history …
But, a very profitable one, indeed!
How many people in the world know that marijuana is illegal in the US today due to a conspiracy between:

1> Harry Anslinger (the drug czar of the day
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Anslinger),

2> duPont (of Dupont Chemical Company
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuPont
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuPont#Hemp), and

3> William Randolph Hearst, the newspaper tycoon
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Randolph_Hearst)

who published many of the stories that Anslinger fabricated, in his yellow journalism newspapers, thus aiding the anti-marijuana movement that eventually led to its prohibition in the 1937 Marihuana Tax Act. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marihuana_Tax_Act)

Detailed history of this conspiracy is given in:
The Emperor Wears No Clothes: The Authoritative Historical Record of Cannabis and the Conspiracy Against Marijuana by Jack Herer. (http://tinyurl.com/2mumcy)

So, why this major conspiracy against a harmless plant?
The same reason that explains all the government’s seemingly senseless acts: MONEY!

Hemp was a major commercial product that made possible the Europeans’ invasion, conquering, economic rape, and slavery necessary to dominate the “New World”, as it made possible and supported the existence of the sailing ships that facilitated that invasion, occupation, and colonization.

Hemp was used for the ships’ sails, rigging, clothing, paper, twine, oil, etc, or else the sailing ships never could have existed, at least until cotton was developed and commercialized on a huge scale, some 300 years after hemp ruled the seas.

So, as hemp threatened Hearst’s economic interests in pine forests he owned to produce paper pulp, and hemp threatened duPont’s economic interests in petroleum feedstock for chemical production, it was demonized by Hearst widely publishing Anslinger’s false stories in his yellow rags, andAnslinger’s then taking these false newspaper clippings to Congress to “prove” that marijuana was destroying US society.

Conveniently, a film full of lies, Reefer Madness, was released in 1936, one year before the Tax Act, just in time to be further manipulated into an anti-marijuana propaganda film.
http://tinyurl.com/86fqw
> The war on drugs is just a front for our government to make more money and to keep the people who they are supposed to serve blind to the real goings on.
In addition, it creates millions of “criminals” that have clogged the penal system to the point that real criminals are released on to the streets just to make room for the dopers.
It also created the illusion that there is a “drug problem” in the US that further ‘justifies’ the ongoing erosion of our liberties.
All the while, the medical system is the Number One Killer in the US!

Garry Null: Death by Medicine
http://tinyurl.com/2637v
> It isn’t hard to see that the leaders of our nation are bedfellows with every drug cartel in South America.
Dope, Inc. : The Book That Drove Henry Kissinger Crazy
http://tinyurl.com/26ogky, a great one if you can find it!

Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond
http://tinyurl.com/2xkhm8
a humorous story of how the US Government dumped industrial quantities of LSD on the streets in the ’60’s in an failed attempt to distract the student anti-war protests by tripping everyone out.

PS: this little essay is dedicated to D. Billz, who gave my site a mention recently.

Laurie

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Scientifically-credible info on human diet:
http://ecologos.org/ttdd.html
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