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holgermarkgraf (63)in #marihuana • 7 years ago (edited)

420 - World Cannabis Legalization Day!

Spread the word and tell the people!

Cannabis is not a drug it's the most potent medical and culturally important plant ever cultivated, that was prohibited by corrupt, moneygrubbing capitalists, who were only concerned with their shares on oil-processing industries like DuPont, pharmaceutical industries and many others and the paper industry as well.

I'm not a great pothead anymore, but ganja made me what I am today. Without my medications in the past I wouldn't be the great person, which I think I am and the creator of special content and mind-setting impulses of today. That's why I post this one with an introduceyourself tag.

Some background information:

Harry J. Anslinger & William Randolph Hearst

These two guys were mostl responsible for the prohibition of cannabis in 1937.
Anslinger was an ambitious government bureaucrat who, in 1930, became Director of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (the precursor to today’s Drug Enforcement Agency, or DEA). He was appointed by his wife’s uncle, Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon (of Mellon Bank, one of the most powerful financial institutions in the world at the time). Hearst was a publishing and timber mogul who owned major newspapers and popular magazines.

Hearst and Anslinger were supported by Lammot du Pont of the DuPont chemical company and a variety of pharmaceutical corporations, all of which had a financial interest in defeating hemp to promote their own products. For example, DuPont began selling rayon (the first man-made fiber) in 1924 and invented nylon, a synthetic competitor to hemp, in 1935. One reason pharmaceutical and petrochemical companies disliked cannabis was because people could grow it themselves.
Not to speak of the racist reasons, cannabis was disliked by the white, because it was the "drug" of the black, or afro-american people. Randolph Hearst used his chain of newspapers to aggravate racial tensions at every opportunity.

Surprisingly, Henry Ford’s first Model-T automobile was built using hemp plastic panels, not metal (which featured an impact strength 10 times greater than steel). Ford envisioned his car running on fuel made from hemp or other plants. These facts threatened DuPont’s petrochemical market share (driven by new synthetic products such as rayon, nylon, cellophane, and oil-based plastics) and Hearst’s huge timberland and mill empire.
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