The Oldest, Most Costly, Destructive Fake News Story of the Century...and People Still Believe It!

Who doesn’t recognize the leaves of this beautiful plant?

The history of Hemp, marijuana (or cannabis/THC) stems back over THOUSANDS of years and is widely recognized as one of the most useful plants on earth. Yet it was made illegal in the United States in the early 20th century, NOT because our benevolent overlords cared about us and wanted to protect our health, but for political and economic reasons.

If it was really a matter concern for the health and well-being of the citizenry, the facts offer no refuge for those who view Cannabis as a dangerous substance worth banning since in 2015, according to the CDC, alcohol killed 80,000 people; tobacco killed 480,000 people and cannabis…well, it didn’t kill anybody.

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And we won’t even discuss in detail the fact that over 250,000 people die each hear from medical errors, which, according to the CDC’s official list, would rank just behind heart disease and cancer, which each took about 600,000 lives in 2014, and in front of respiratory disease, which caused about 150,000 deaths.

And, to add insult to injury, while most people are familiar with 8675309, made famous in that song to Jenny in 1981, they’ve probably never heard of the other seven digit number that unexpectedly surfaced in 2003; 6,630,507.

This is the U.S. Patent Number that was granted to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. U.S. Patent No. 6,630,507 covers the potential use of non-psychoactive cannabinoids — chemical compounds found within the plant species cannabis sativa — to protect the brain from damage or degeneration caused by certain diseases.

Of course this highlights the hypocrisy of Federal control freaks who, on the one hand say that, there is ‘no accepted medical use’ for cannabis” and should therefore remain illegal as a Schedule 1 drug like Heroin, under federal law;  And yet here you have the very same government owning a patent for the very same plant, saying it contains antioxidants and neuroprotectants that are useful in the treatment of a wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases.  The cannabinoids, they admit in patent 6630507, are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic episodes, like stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and dementia.

In spite of all the good things it can do for the body, not to mention the multitude of practical uses for the non-THC hemp plant in general, our friendly neighbor hood, psychopathic, control-freak overlords have made one of the most valuable plants on the planet ILLEGAL.  In most places in America, if you own it, sell it, use it or just have it in your possession, the violent agents of the state will make sure you are fined, arrested and caged.  And you believers in government want to continue pretending that “government” serves as a benefit to society?  Explain that logic to me.

But how the heck did a plant that has so many positive benefits and uses come to be illegal?

Propaganda my friends.  Pure government propaganda based on lies and slander.  Most of you probably know the story, but its always worth revisiting the insanity, irrationality, immorality and outright deception of the superstitions religion known as government.

During the 1920s, many anti-marijuana campaigns were conducted to raise awareness about the many harmful effects the drug caused. These campaigns included radical claims stating that marijuana turned users into killers and drug addicts. They were all obviously fake, made up in an attempt to get rid of Mexican immigrants.

A story from the New York Times in 1927 read, “A widow and her four children have been driven insane by eating the Marihuana plant, according to doctors, who say that there is no hope of saving the children’s lives and that the mother will be insane for the rest of her life.”  It was clear the newspapers and tabloids were building a campaign against the plant, and much of it has been said to be based on racist ideologies against Mexican immigrants.

The “war against marijuana” arguably began in 1930, where a new division in the Treasury Department was established — the Federal Bureau of Narcotics — and Harry J. Anslinger was named director. This, if anything, marked the beginning of the all-out war against marijuana.

Anslinger realized that opiates and cocaine would not be enough to build his new agency, so he turned towards marijuana and worked relentlessly to make it illegal on a federal level. Some anti-marijuana quotes from Anslinger’s agency read:

    “There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos, and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz, and swing, result from marijuana use. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers, and any others.”

    “…the primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races.”

    “Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death.”

    “Reefer makes darkies think they’re as good as white men.”

    “Marihuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing”

    “You smoke a joint and you’re likely to kill your brother.”

    “Marijuana is the most violence-causing drug in the history of mankind.”

Yes, every single one of these claims is outrageous, but the strategy worked.

(Harry Anslinger got some additional help from William Randolph Hearst, owner of a huge chain of newspapers. Hearst had lots of reasons to help. First, he hated Mexicans. Second, he had invested heavily in the timber industry to support his newspaper chain and didn’t want to see the development of hemp paper in competition. Third, he had lost 800,000 acres of timberland to Pancho Villa and blamed Mexicans. Fourth, telling lurid lies about Mexicans [and the devil marijuana weed causing violence] sold newspapers, making him rich.)

The two were then supported by the Dupont chemical company and various pharmaceutical companies in the effort to outlaw cannabis. Pharmaceutical companies were on board with the idea because they could not standardize cannabis dosages, and people could grow it themselves. They knew how versatile the plant was in treating a wide range of medical conditions and that meant a potentially massive loss of profits.

We all know that the war on marijuana intensified in the 1970s, when the Controlled Substances Act was passed.  Shortly after, Nixon declared the beginning of what now has been a 46 year war on human beings.  Yes, they call it a war on drugs…but it’s really a war on people who have neither harmed nor threatened to harm anyone.  

Now what most people don’t know is that these political parasites knew they were lying by declaring a war on people.  How do we know this??

John Ehrlichman, White House Domestic Affairs Advisor during the Nixon era, Told Dan Baum in the April 2016 issue of Harpers Magazine,

“The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

Nixon’s invention of the war on drugs as a political tool was cynical, but every president since — Democrat and Republican alike — has found it equally useful for one reason or another. Meanwhile, the growing cost of the drug war is now impossible to ignore: billions of dollars wasted, bloodshed in Latin America and on the streets of our own cities, and millions of lives destroyed by draconian punishment that doesn’t end at the prison gate; one of every eight black men has been disenfranchised because of a felony conviction.

As long ago as 1949, H. L. Mencken identified in Americans “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy,” an astute articulation of our weirdly Puritan need to criminalize people’s inclination to adjust how they feel. The desire for altered states of consciousness creates a market, and in suppressing that market the insane agents of government have created a class of bad guys — pushers, gangbangers, smugglers, killers. Addiction is a hideous condition, but it’s rare. Most of what we hate and fear about drugs — the violence, the overdoses, the criminality — derives from prohibition implemented by government, not drugs injested by individuals. And there will be no victory in this war on drugs; even the Drug Enforcement Administration concedes that the drugs it fights are becoming cheaper and more easily available.

The drug war is a scam to villanize individuals who have neither harmed nor threatened to harm anyone and to fill the coffers of state agents so they can use confiscated resources to remove the liberties of more people, and fill the cells of the prison industrial complex.

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