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Hi Tom,
Mary-Jane plant being a 'common' or slang name for the narcotic marijuana which came from an obscure
Mexican slang word: 'marihuana'. Which is cousin plant of Cannabis sativa Industrial Hemp Plant.
The name marijuana given to this innocent and very diverse Hemp Plant was deliberately fed to the public back in the 1930s because
it was in direct competition to Hearst Paper Mill and William Randolph Hearst could not have that he would loose money or even worse, paper as we know and use it today.
One prominent business owner William Randolph Hearst caused through skulduggery to incite the public into believing Industrial Hemp was a dangerous drug!
This is damage that media can publicize and change the course..
"Hemp, if not made illegal, would have brought America out of
the Great Depression."
There are prominant people who do not want their country to come out of poverty, wars, shortages etc because they make money from the misery of others..
(I have recopied the history article below)
...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
Andrew Mellon became
Hoover's Secretary of the Treasury and Dupont's primary investor. He
appointed his future nephew-in-law, Harry J. Anslinger, to head the
Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs.
Secret
meetings were held by these financial tycoons. Hemp was declared
dangerous and a threat to their billion dollar enterprises. For their
dynasties to remain intact, hemp had to go. These men took an obscure
Mexican slang word: 'marihuana' and pushed it into the consciousness of
America.
MEDIA MANIPULATION
A media blitz of
"yellow journalism" raged in the late 1920s and 1930s. Hearst's
newspapers ran stories emphasizing the horrors of marihuana. The menace
of marihuana made headlines. Readers learned that it was responsible
for everything from car accidents to loose morality.
Films
like 'Reefer Madness' (1936), 'Marihuana: Assassin of Youth' (1935) and
'Marihuana: The Devil's Weed' (1936) were propaganda designed by these
industrialists to create an enemy. Their purpose was to gain public
support so that anti-marihuana laws could be passed.
Examine the following quotes from 'The Burning Question' aka REEFER MADNESS:
*a violent narcotic.
*acts of shocking violence.
*incurable insanity.
*soul-destroying effects.
*under the influence of the drug he killed his entire family with an axe.
*more vicious, more deadly even than these soul-destroying drugs (heroin, cocaine) is the menace of marihuana!
Reefer
Madness did not end with the usual 'the end.' The film concluded with
these words plastered on the screen: TELL YOUR CHILDREN.
In
the 1930s, people were very naive; even to the point of ignorance. The
masses were like sheep waiting to be led by the few in power. They did
not challenge authority. If the news was in print or on the radio, they
believed it had to be true. They told their children and their children
grew up to be the parents of the baby-boomers.
On April 14,
1937, the Prohibitive Marihuana Tax Law or the bill that outlawed hemp
was directly brought to the House Ways and Means Committee. This
committee is the only one that can introduce a bill to the House floor
without it being debated by other committees. The Chairman of the Ways
and Means, Robert Doughton, was a Dupont supporter. He insured that the
bill would pass Congress.
Dr. James Woodward, a physician and
attorney, testified too late on behalf of the American Medical
Association. He told the committee that the reason the AMA had not
denounced the Marihuana Tax Law sooner was that the Association had
just discovered that marihuana was/is hemp.
Few people, at the
time, realized that the deadly menace they had been reading about on
Hearst's front pages was in fact passive hemp. The AMA understood hemp
to be a MEDICINE found in numerous healing products sold over the last
hundred years.
In September of 1937, hemp became illegal. The
most useful crop known became a drug and our planet has been suffering
ever since.
Congress banned hemp because it was said to be the
most violence-causing drug known. Anslinger, head of the Drug
Commission for 31 years, promoted the idea that marihuana made users
act extremely violent. In the 1950s, under the Communist threat of
McCarthyism, Anslinger now said the exact opposite. Marijuana will
pacify you so much that soldiers would not want to fight.
Today,
our planet is in desperate trouble. Earth is suffocating as large
tracts of rain forests disappear. Pollution, poisons and chemicals are
killing people. These great problems could be reversed if we
industrialized hemp. Natural biomass could provide all of the planet's
energy needs that are currently supplied by fossil fuels. We have
consumed 80% of our oil and gas reserves. We need a renewable
resource.. Hemp could be the solution to soaring gas prices.
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