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| The corporate plot to destroy the competition and the environment |
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| During the 1930's, machinery was developed for separating hemp fiber from the stalk, thus making widespread industrial use feasible. Hemp's future looked promising, but this was not to be. DuPont and others had just obtained patents for making nylon from coal, plastic from oil, and paper from trees. Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon (an oil baron) was DuPont's chief financial backer. the Hearst newspaper empire owned enormous timber tracts. The oil, synthetic fiber, timber, and cotton industries stood to lose billions of dollars if hemp was not outlawed. Secret meetings were held. Treasury Secretary Mellon appointed his nephew-in-law, Harry Anslinger, to head the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. Hearst newspaper introduced the word "marijuana" into the language and inflammed the public with outrageous stories of drug-related violence. The strategy worked, and in 1937 Congress outlawed hemp by imposing a prohibitive tax. As a model of deception and orchestrated media manipulation, the anti-hemp crusade constitutes one of the greatest hoaxes ever perpetrated on the American people. Few public-relations campaigns in history can match its success in eradicating competition while transforming citizens into unknowing pawns of big business. Industrial hemp is worthless as marijuana since its THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) content is so low. Industrial hemp contains no psycho-active effects. Major polluters such as DuPont, Monsanto, Dow Chemical, and Standard oil are protected from competition by the marijuana laws. The major considerations blocking hemp's utilization are not agricultural or botanical but political. |
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