The Hemp Conspiracy: Why U.S. Hemp Farming Was Banned
For thousands of years industrial hemp was a common staple. It fed us, clothed us, housed us, sailed our ships with hemp rope and sails, it was part of our livelihood.
Then, in the early 1900s, it was banned and pushed aside.
Why? Why did this wonderful, useful plant get labeled with a criminal stamp?
Around the turn of the 20th century companies like DuPont created chemicals that were used in processing of paper; DuPont also created chemicals used for pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers, which were used extensively by the cotton industry (cotton is MUCH more chemical and water intensive compared to hemp). While this was going on, William Randolph Hearst invested in timber and mills to produce the paper for his newspaper, which was the largest chain in the U.S. at the time. His investments in the timber industry were backed by Mellon Bank.
The U.S. Secretary of the Treasury at that time was Andrew Mellon, who happened to own Mellon Bank (and was one of the backers for DuPont as well). Mellon’s niece was married to Harry Anslinger who, incidentally, was connected to the alcohol prohibition campaign. He was out of a job (as were everyone else in that sector of the federal government) after the alcohol prohibition ended. To keep his family employed, Mellon created a new division of the federal government, the Bureau of Narcotics, and made Harry Anslinger the new head of that program.
Also during this time machinery was being developed to make hemp processing easier and more efficient. This was a threat to the paper, chemical, timber, and petroleum industries. Pharmaceutical companies were creating new medicines and drugs and were also threatened by the natural healing properties of the plant we know as hemp.
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Source: http://www.riseearth.com/2013/05/the-hemp-conspiracy-why-us-hemp-farming.html
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Thank you so much for this article. I was always aware of hemp as a medicine especially stroke sufferers. Now I can surf and find out about the other benefits. Thanks again.
Hemp was absolutely made illegal by lobbiest for DuPont and other chemical industries along with the cotton farmers who wanted all the government contracts for textiles. Everyone of the mega Corps of the day jumped on board. Cotton could not compete with homespun materials. Cotton has to many pests and agro needs that had to be produced by otherareas of industry. DuPont made money hand over fist with insecticides and synthetic textiles. Henry ford and other industrialists saw the market for machinery to harvest cotton and the war by government to be waged against their fellow americans and jumped on board. Oil and gas companies jumped on board seeing future market to supply companies like DuPont. The clothing industry did not want to compete with a population capable of producing its own garmets. Anyone who doesnt see that the politicians of that time were just as dirty as they are now are just willfully blind useful idiots. It’s a freaking plant! And government cannot control it. Our founders all used it, and centralized government fears free thinking people who can grow their own crops and not depend on them for hand outs.
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