-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.netspace.net.au/~mrg/hempcon.html During my research in June1996, I was reading a book titled, 'Hemp - Lifeline to the Future', by Chris Conrad, and I was overwhelmed by the sheer number of commercial and industrial applications of hemp. These applications included textiles, paper, valuable Medicines, food for humans and animals, fuel, and an untapped resource of biomass energy. We have a planet with dwindling, limited resources, and we are still gouging out mines and bores for energy supplies which are killing us. Car fumes daily poison the air for Billions of people in cities each day. The EPA found that up to half of all toxic related cancer deaths are from automobile emissions. A different fuel, such as octane boosting, naturally anti-freezing "ethanol", reduces carbon dioxide emissions by 30%, can be produced from a hemp crop. People with hemp crops would have growing oil wells. Sounds fantastic doesn't it. It doesn't sound good for everybody though. Think of the money that a petrochemical company could stand to lose, if we stopped using all of their synthetic products, and thoughtfully replaced them with natural hemp alternatives. The first disaster occurred in the United States of America, on the 2nd August, 1937, where a tax act was passed on hemp production. This law made the commercial and industrial applications of hemp virtually impossible. This required citizens to pay $1000 tax on each pound of hemp purchased. This tax act was no ordinary event. It was a masterminded scheme developed to protect certain industries from what would have been an early death. Four individuals have been credited in a number of resources as key conspirators against hemp. Each of the four had a significant vested interest in the demise of hemp, and it's commercial applications. Harry Jacob Anslinger, headed the Federal Bureau of Narcotics from the 1930's to the 1960's, and played a key role in destroying the name and real potential of hemp. Anslinger created his own brand of "Reefer Madness" propaganda, which played off the fears of the uneducated American population. Making casual links between Heroin and Marijuana use, between those 'filthy dope smoking Mexicans' and excessive violent behavior and crime, Anslinger was able to generate a snowball of paranoia. Once the ball was rolling, he was soon granted more manpower and more money, allowing him to cause more damage. Andrew Mellon, Harry Jacob Anslinger's uncle, owned Gulf Oil, which made him the richest man in the U.S. Mellon owned large areas of woodlands which were being transformed into wood pulp to make paper for the Randolf Hearst newspaper chain. Mellon lost some of his valuable woodland to Poncho Villa, a Mexican General. This could explain some of the anti-Mexican sentiments arising in Hearst's headlines and articles. Mexicans, African Americans, and Asians were popular scapegoats for white America's miseries, such as unemployment, violence, crime, and narcotic trade. Lammant Du Pont, owner of a the large petrochemical company DU PONT, the inventors of the synthetic fabric "nylon", would have had considerable difficulty trying to compete with hemp's superior quality and strength fabric, it's potential for fuel and energy resources, and many other applications which would have been front line competitors with Du Pont's synthetic products. Anslinger, Mellon, Hearst and Du Pont achieved the ultimate American dream by aiding in eliminating the opposition, allowing vested interests to be realized in the form of a high profit margin for all involved. Such attitudes are still reflected in contempory politics, by politicians like Bill Clinton. Whose attitudes are vastly different to earlier American Presidents, like George Washington, who made it law that everyone must grow hemp. George understood the value of hemp, he knew hemp-cloth would keep people warm throughout the cold winter, its seeds were nutritious, and it's medicine was effective, and it's economical status valuable. Matt Gardiner / Hemp Conspiracy images / Curriculum Vitae DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. 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