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Subject: [ctrl] The Marijuana Trick
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The Marijuana Trick
Doug Yurchey – 2005
And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be
no more consumed with hunger in the land. – Ezekiel 34/29
Where did the word 'marijuana' come from? In the mid 1930s, the M-
word was created to tarnish the good image and phenomenal history
of the hemp plant...as you will read. The facts cited here, with
references, are generally verifiable in the Encyclopaedia
Britannica which was printed on hemp paper for 150 years:
* All schoolbooks were made from hemp or flax paper until the
1880s; Hemp Paper Reconsidered, Jack Frazier, 1974.
* It was LEGAL TO PAY TAXES WITH HEMP in America from 1631 until
the early 1800s; LA Times, Aug. 12, 1981.
* REFUSING TO GROW HEMP in America during the 17th and 18th
Centuries WAS AGAINST THE LAW! You could be jailed in Virginia for
refusing to grow hemp from 1763 to 1769; Hemp in Colonial Virginia,
G. M. Herdon.
* George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and other founding fathers
GREW HEMP; Washington and Jefferson Diaries. Jefferson smuggled
hemp seeds from China to France then to America.
* Benjamin Franklin owned one of the first paper mills in America
and it processed hemp. Also, the War of 1812 was fought over hemp.
Napoleon wanted to cut off Moscow's export to England; Emperor
Wears No Clothes, Jack Herer.
* For thousands of years, 90% of all ships' sails and rope were
made from hemp. The word 'canvas' is Dutch for hemp; Webster's New
World Dictionary.
* 80% of all textiles, fabrics, clothes, linen, drapes, bed sheets,
etc. were made from hemp until the 1820s with the introduction of
the cotton gin.
* The first Bibles, maps, charts, Betsy Ross's flag, the first
drafts of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were
made from hemp; U.S. Government Archives.
* The first crop grown in many states was hemp. 1850 was a peak
year for Kentucky producing 40,000 tons. Hemp was the largest cash
crop until the 20th Century; State Archives.
* Oldest known records of hemp farming go back 5000 years in China,
although hemp industrialization probably goes back to ancient Egypt.
* Rembrandts, Gainsborough’s, Van Gogh’s as well as most early
canvas paintings were principally painted on hemp linen.
* In 1916, the U.S. Government predicted that by the 1940s all
paper would come from hemp and that no more trees need to be cut
down. Government studies report that 1 acre of hemp equals 4.1
acres of trees. Plans were in the works to implement such programs;
Department of Agriculture
* Quality paints and varnishes were made from hemp seed oil until
1937. 58,000 tons of hemp seeds were used in America for paint
products in 1935; Sherman Williams Paint Co. testimony before
Congress against the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act.
* Henry Ford's first Model-T was built to run on hemp gasoline and
the CAR ITSELF WAS CONTRUCTED FROM HEMP! On his large estate, Ford
was photographed among his hemp fields. The car, 'grown from the
soil,' had hemp plastic panels whose impact strength was 10 times
stronger than steel; Popular Mechanics, 1941.
* Hemp called 'Billion Dollar Crop.' It was the first time a cash
crop had a business potential to exceed a billion dollars; Popular
Mechanics, Feb., 1938.
* Mechanical Engineering Magazine (Feb. 1938) published an article
entitled 'The Most Profitable and Desirable Crop that Can be
Grown.' It stated that if hemp was cultivated using 20th Century
technology, it would be the single largest agricultural crop in the
U.S. and the rest of the world.
The following information comes directly from the United States
Department of Agriculture's 1942 14-minute film encouraging and
instructing 'patriotic American farmers' to grow 350,000 acres of
hemp each year for the war effort:
'...(When) Grecian temples were new, hemp was already old in the
service of mankind. For thousands of years, even then, this plant
had been grown for cordage and cloth in China and elsewhere in the
East. For centuries prior to about 1850, all the ships that sailed
the western seas were rigged with hempen rope and sails. For the
sailor, no less than the hangman, hemp was indispensable...
...Now with Philippine and East Indian sources of hemp in the hands
of the Japanese...American hemp must meet the needs of our Army and
Navy as well as of our industries...
...the Navy's rapidly dwindling reserves. When that is gone,
American hemp will go on duty again; hemp for mooring ships; hemp
for tow lines; hemp for tackle and gear; hemp for countless naval
uses both on ship and shore. Just as in the days when Old Ironsides
sailed the seas victorious with her hempen shrouds and hempen
sails. Hemp for victory!'
Certified proof from the Library of Congress; found by the research
of Jack Herer, refuting claims of other government agencies that
the 1942 USDA film 'Hemp for Victory' did not exist.
Hemp cultivation and production do not harm the environment. The
USDA Bulletin #404 concluded that hemp produces 4 times as much
pulp as wood with at least 4 to 7 times less pollution.
From Popular Mechanics, Feb. 1938:
'It has a short growing season...It can be grown in any state...The
long roots penetrate and break the soil to leave it in perfect
condition for the next year's crop. The dense shock of leaves, 8 to
12 feet above the ground, chokes out weeds.
...hemp, this new crop can add immeasurably to American agriculture
and industry.'
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.
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 80% of Dupont's business.
THE TRICKS
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