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Old 07-11-2011, 11:45 AM
 
Location: By the sea, by the sea, by the beautiful sea
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They have to say that...drugs are big money to the government.
Can't have pot becoming legal now can we ?
We will just as soon as the marijuana lobby is as well funded as the alcohol, tobacco, and Big Pharma lobbies.
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Old 07-11-2011, 11:45 AM
 
Location: A great city, by a Great Lake!
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Pot is NOT harmful to the human body or mind. Marijuana does NOT pose a threat to the general public. Marijuana is very much a danger to the oil companies, alcohol, tobacco industries and a large number of chemical corporations. Various big businesses, with plenty of dollars and influence, have suppressed the truth from the people.

The truth is if marijuana was utilized for its vast array of commercial products, it would create an industrial atomic bomb! Entrepreneurs have not been educated on the product potential of pot. The super rich have conspired to spread misinformation about an extremely versatile plant that, if used properly, would ruin their companies.

Where did the word 'marijuana' come from? In the mid 1930s, the M-word was created to tarnish the good image and phenomenal history of the hemp plant........................




Hemp called 'Billion Dollar Crop.' It was the first time a cash crop had a business potential to exceed a billion dollars; Popular Mechanics, Feb., 1938.

Mechanical Engineering Magazine (Feb. 1938) published an article entitled 'The Most Profitable and Desirable Crop that Can be Grown.' It stated that if hemp was cultivated using 20th Century technology, it would be the single largest agricultural crop in the U.S. and the rest of the world.



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.


Andrew Mellon became 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.


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.

In September of 1937, hemp became illegal. The most useful crop known became a drug and our planet has been suffering ever since.

Pot is ILLEGAL because LIBERAL BILLIONAIRES want to remain billioniares

Good post! In reference to your paragraph in which I have bolded...IMO if these companies and the people that ran them were smart enough they would get in on it and enhance their business! At any rate, this country is broke! We can no longer afford to contine this BS war on drugs, and continue to incarcerate people because of a natural GOD-given plant!
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Old 07-11-2011, 11:53 AM
 
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Pot is NOT harmful to the human body or mind. Marijuana does NOT pose a threat to the general public. Marijuana is very much a danger to the oil companies, alcohol, tobacco industries and a large number of chemical corporations. Various big businesses, with plenty of dollars and influence, have suppressed the truth from the people.

The truth is if marijuana was utilized for its vast array of commercial products, it would create an industrial atomic bomb! Entrepreneurs have not been educated on the product potential of pot. The super rich have conspired to spread misinformation about an extremely versatile plant that, if used properly, would ruin their companies.

Where did the word 'marijuana' come from? In the mid 1930s, the M-word was created to tarnish the good image and phenomenal history of the hemp plant........................




Hemp called 'Billion Dollar Crop.' It was the first time a cash crop had a business potential to exceed a billion dollars; Popular Mechanics, Feb., 1938.

Mechanical Engineering Magazine (Feb. 1938) published an article entitled 'The Most Profitable and Desirable Crop that Can be Grown.' It stated that if hemp was cultivated using 20th Century technology, it would be the single largest agricultural crop in the U.S. and the rest of the world.



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.


Andrew Mellon became 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.


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.

In September of 1937, hemp became illegal. The most useful crop known became a drug and our planet has been suffering ever since.

Pot is ILLEGAL because LIBERAL BILLIONAIRES want to remain billioniares
Great post. However, I wasn't aware that only liberals are billionaires.
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Old 07-11-2011, 11:55 AM
 
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Good, patriotic, obedient Americans will accept the decision and remain quiet.
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Old 07-11-2011, 11:55 AM
 
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Great post. However, I wasn't aware that only liberals are billionaires.
didnt say ONLY liberals were billionaires

but the liberal controlled congress of 1937, and the fascist liberal known as FDR certainly did make hemp illegal

hearst was a liberal

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Old 07-11-2011, 11:59 AM
 
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PSP: Feds say marijuana has no medical purpose - Medical marijuana ruling (http://specials.msn.com/A-List/Lifestyle/Medical-marijuana-ruling.aspx?cp-documentid=29429076 - broken link)





The Obama Administration has reversed it's previous position concerning States Regulating Marijuana. This is another step in the process to justify raids against suppliers and dispensaries.

Montana has already experienced the Federal Thugs banging on their doors, I'm wondering how long until we see this in Colorado.

Of course blind supporters of Obama will keep spinning lies and deceit to justify and hide the unbridled ambition of this guy.
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Old 07-11-2011, 12:01 PM
 
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PSP: Feds say marijuana has no medical purpose - Medical marijuana ruling (http://specials.msn.com/A-List/Lifestyle/Medical-marijuana-ruling.aspx?cp-documentid=29429076 - broken link)


Well, obviously it does not. There is nothing in pot that you can't get from other medication. Except the intoxicating effects of course, which is the only people people defend it.
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Old 07-11-2011, 12:01 PM
 
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didnt say ONLY liberals were billionaires

but the liberal controlled congress of 1937, and the fascist liberal known as FDR certainly did make hemp illegal
OK, but the insinuation that it's liberals behind the reasons it's illegal today was there.
This is not a liberals VS conservatives fight, it's a Billionaires VS the rest of America fight, obviously. As long as they can keep us squabbling amongst ourselves, & controlling the Fear Factor (The EVIL marijuana ) they will continue to laugh all the way to the bank!
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Old 07-11-2011, 12:03 PM
 
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Well, obviously it does not. There is nothing in pot that you can't get from other medication. Except the intoxicating effects of course, which is the only people people defend it.
Have anything factual to support that? For instance, why is it we hear so many chemo patients state marijuana both gives them an appetite and calms nausea like no other medication?
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Old 07-11-2011, 12:07 PM
 
Location: California
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Good, patriotic, obedient Americans will accept the decision and remain quiet.
I don't see a big problem, the people who want to smoke weed already do, it's such a non issue, I can buy weed anytime I want to.
Most people just don't care.
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