About 20 years ago on one of the first web sites "prodigy" which I'm sure many of you remember, and many more don't. I started the C.C.L.M, the California Committee for the Legalization of Marijuana. I honestly believe I was one of the first, if not the first legalization sites on the web period. I don't smoke anymore but I'm still a die hard believer in legalization. It looks like 20 years later, California may in-fact do it this November. I could still write to this day a hundred page article on why it should be legalized, but I don't want to do that this time. I want to hear your honest opinions as to why or why not this is a good idea. Though I will throw out a few facts in the end , as to why this is in-fact a conspiracy. I will stick around and throw out facts and figures, but I honestly want each and every one of your ideas behind this. This quite frankly is the subject that started me on the road to being a conspiracy theorist. If you want to know why, ask me. This is one of the very few areas other than water purification, that I consider myself a "proffessional". So members, what are your thoughts? What are the negatives? What are the positives? I promise to reply to every single one of you.
Like I stated before, this could easily take 100 pages. Don't worry I won't do that here. I will simply state the most important bullet points, which are all very easily researchable, and proven true. I will try to keep this as short as possible, for the fact that I still want your opinions, and I don't want to skew the mix too much.
Ok, the simple fact is that marijuana prohibition was never about marijuana or its use, it was about hemp. (the same plant). It started in the 1930's when William Hearst of the Hearst newspaper group, the Hearst magazine group, and yes Hearst castle, saw an opportunity to shut down production of a major opposing industry "hemp".
Hearst began to run articles in his newspaper in the thirty's about African Americans that were getting high on marijuana and then raping white women. These articles started a national outrage which then began the prohibition of marijuana. Hence the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937.
You may ask, if it wasn't true, why would he publish it? The simple fact is Hearst had very powerful friends in many other industries that worked together as a group, and are still to this day the most powerful industries in the United States. The cotton industry, paper industry, and oil industry. Later on Big pharmecutical and even the soy industry got involved. This was a collective power grab, by several of the countries largest industries, to destroy an already profitable industry that they were aware could eventually replace each and every one of them.
Just a few facts:
You can get as much paper, or fiberboard, from one acre of hemp, as you can get from 30 acres of forestland.
You can get as much high quality fiber for clothing, rope, fabrics in general, from one acre of hemp, as you can get from 16 acres of cotton, and it is far easier to harvest.
Hemp oil is so easy to produce, it could easily replace every other form of oil in the world.
Hemp seed has been proven to be more beneficial to health than soy beans, and far easier to produce in virtually every climate in America.
We will now jump forward to "The Narcotic control act of 1956", This made marijuana a class 1 narcotic, right along side heroin. Why was this done?
In the early 1950's there were many studies done around the world that not only proved that certain canibinoids could deter or kill specific cancer cells. There were studies left and right on cannibinoids that proved many were more efficient than their current pharmecudical counterparts at treating specific diseases. Lots, and lots of them. This topic itself could take up 50 plus pages on it's own. I highly suggest you research this for yourself, it is fascinating. Though back to the subject. What was the purpose of this classification? No class 1 narcotic can be tested for medical applications. I know crazy right? It only gets worse. During the war on drugs in the early eighties, the United States made it virtually impossible for any country on the planet to have legalized marijuana, because they would then be cut off from trade with the U.S. As a drug sponsering country. The research from the countries that continued to do medical testing on marijuana have come up with thousands, yes thousands of medical benefits to marijuana. While we in the U.S. and the U.K. were watching infomercials that told us that "1 joint is as harmful as 20 ciggarettes". (which was later proven to be vise versa) other countries were testing marijuana to be used on cancer patients. Not only as an appetite increaser for those going through chemotherapy, but doing testing on the cannibinoids effect on the cancer cells themselves.
If I keep going I will be on the start to truly write the 100 pages so I will finish now with a few more facts.
Marijuana is one of the oldest plants on Earth, and fossilized remains have been found inside the dissolved digestive tracts of dinosaurs from atleat 65,000,000 years ago.
The declaration of independence is written on Hemp Paper.
The first American flag was made from hemp.
Most Bible's pre 1900 were written on hemp paper.
George Washington grew marijuana.
In a few American wars it was actually a law that American families had to by law grow hemp, to help out the military.
There is no known overdose limit on THC, the active ingredient in Marijuana.
Marijuana officially does not kill brain cells, review all the latest research.
So if you have any specific questions ask me. Though I hope you can now see how this one issue could have sent me down the road to being a conspiricy theorist.
-Dreamwalker
P.S. I know my spelling and grammar can be horrendous, just read it REAL FAST and you won't even notice.
