A man named Harry D. Anslinger wanted to be the head of his own agency.  There was another man named Andrew Mellon who was a big wallstreet banker with ties to the Morgans, Rockefellers, and Rothschilds.  Three of the biggest banking families back then and now.  These three families are part of the Power/Global Elite which many refer to them as, ...including the Warburgs. 

One man who first spread myths about marijuana is Harry J. Anslinger, a future Nephew-in-Law of Mellon was appointed director of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (predecessor of the Drug Enforcement Agency -DEA- of today). He was a man who hated jazz music and tried to get jazz musicians herded up into prison for smoking the sacred herb. The time dilation effect of THC probably helped introduce extra beats into jazz music. But Anslinger didn't like jazz and he hated marijuana even more.

At first, Anslinger declared marijuana caused users to go crazy and commit violent acts. As a result of his testimony, persons who used pot could use the insanity defense to get a less charge to murder. Later on, after doctors testified at a second hearing regarding marijuana, Anslinger recanted his earlier testimony, conceding the sacred herb probably didn't cause insanity or violent behavior, but added that it could lead to opium use. This is how the gateway myth originated.

In 1931, Anslinger got his job at the Bureau of Narcotics at the recommendation of a man named Mellon, who happened to be his wife's uncle. Mellon, also director and head of the Mellon Bank in Pittsburgh, was U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. He associated with other wealthy men such as William R. Hearst, Sr. and the DuPont brothers. Hearst owned a chain of newspapers across the U.S. as well as a large lumber company. These included newspapers in San Francisco, Chicago, Washington DC and New York. 

So here's where the two come together.  The DuPont family had just patented a paper making process using wood pulp some years earlier. As well, they had a new invention, a kind of synthetic cotton called nylon.  Hearst didn't want any competition from hemp in the process of making paper.  Because they were aware that one acre of hemp could produce 4 times as much paper as an acre of trees.

The DuPont Brothers didn't want any competition with their process of making paper from wood pulp as well as their new invention of nylon.  Many things can be produced from the fibers of hemp, ...including fabric.

So Hearst had articles printed in his newspapers that marijuana, ...the delicate part of cannabis sativa was an illicit drug that could cause crime as well as misbehavior in an average individual.  What was beyond their reach, ...which money could not buy, ...was the simple fact that cannabis is a plant.  They knew that you couldn't patent a plant.  So if they couldn't make money off it they were going to do everything in their power to spread false rumors amongst the public.

Even back then in history, we see that the Main Street Media as well as the people behind it that own them are the real criminals.  So before we step forward, let's look at some other facts and review what took place during that era of time.

February 1917: Henry Timken, the wealthy industrialist who invented the roller bearing, meets with inventor George Schlichten to discuss his brilliant yet simple new machine, the decorticator. Motivated by his desire to halt the destruction of forests for wood pulp, Schlichten spent 18 years and $400,000 developing the decorticator.

The decorticator was capable of stripping the fiber from any plant, leaving behind pulp -- making it the perfect tool to revolutionize the hemp fiber/paper industry in much the same way that Eli Lilly's cotton gin revolutionized the cotton industry during the 1820's.

After meeting with Schlichten, Timken views the decorticator as a revolutionary discovery that would improve conditions for mankind (with healthy profits for investors), and he promptly offers Schlichten 100 acres of fertile farmland to grow hemp for the purposes of testing the new machine.

At anemic 1917 hemp production levels, Schlichten estimated that the decorticator could produce 50,000 tons of paper for $25 per ton, ...50% less than the cost of newsprint.

1920 - 1940: Economic power in the United States begins to consolidate in the hands of a small number of steel, oil and munitions companies, laying the foundation of the national security state. DuPont becomes the U.S. government's primary manufacturer of munitions. DuPont later creates Rayon, the world's first synthetic fiber, from stabilized gun cotton.

1925: Concerned by the high number of "Goof Butts" (joints) being smoked by off-duty servicemen in Panama, the U.S. government sponsors the Panama Canal Zone Report. The report concludes that marijuana does not pose a problem, and recommends that no criminal penalties be applied to its use or sale.

1936 - 1938: William Randolph Hearst's newspaper empire fuels a tabloid journalism propaganda campaign against marijuana. Articles with headlines such as Marijuana Makes Fiends of Boys in 30 Days; Hasheesh Goads Users to Blood-Lust create terror of the killer weed from Mexico.

Through his relentless misinformation campaign, Hearst is credited with bringing the word marijuana into the English language. In addition to fueling racist attitudes toward Hispanics, Hearst papers run articles about marijuana-crazed Negroes raping white women and playing voodoo-satanic jazz music.

Driven insane by marijuana, these blacks, ...according to accounts in Hearst-owned newspapers, ...dared to step on white men's shadows, look white people directly in the eye for more than three seconds, and even laugh out loud at white people.

1936: DuPont obtains a patent license to manufacture synthetic plastic fibers from German industrial giant I.G. Farben Corporation. The patent license is obtained as part Germany's reparation payments to the United States after World War I.

A few years later, I.G. Farben manufactures deadly Zyklon-B gas, used in Nazi death camps to murder millions of Jews (along with many homosexuals and drug users). DuPont owned and financed approximately 30% of Hitler's I.G. Corps, the military-industrial backbone of the fascist Third Reich.

1937: The year the federal government outlawed cannabis.

-- DuPont patents petrochemical manufacturing processes for making plastics, as well as pollution-heavy sulfate/sulfite processes for producing wood pulp. For the next 50 years, these processes are
responsible for 80% of DuPont's industrial output.

--In it's 1937 Annual Report, DuPont informs stockholders that the company anticipates radical changes from the revenue raising power of government... converted into an instrument for forcing acceptance of sudden new ideas of industrial and social reorganization.

April 14, 1937: The Treasury Department secretly introduces its marijuana tax bill through the House Ways and Means Committee, bypassing more appropriate venues. Committee chairman Robert
L. Doughton, a key Congressional ally of DuPont, rubber-stamps the bill.

Spring 1937: Congress holds hearings on the
Marijuana Tax Act. Dr. James Woodward, representing the American Medical Association, testifies that the law could deny the world a potential medicine.

Cannabis was already prescribed for dozens of common ailments, and medical researchers were just beginning to explore the therapeutic benefits of the numerous active ingredients in marijuana. Woodward said that AMA doctors were wholly unaware that the killer weed from Mexico was actually cannabis. "We cannot understand yet, Mr. Chairman, why this bill should have been prepared in secret for two years without any intimation, even to the profession, that it was being prepared", Woodward testifies.

FBN (Federal Bureau of Narcotics) commissioner Harry Anslinger and the Ways and Means Committee quickly denounce Woodward and the AMA, which already had an adversarial relationship with the Roosevelt administration.

1937 - 1939: Under Harry Anslinger, the Federal Bureau of Narcotics prosecutes 3,000 doctors for illegally prescribing cannabis-derived medications. In 1939, the American Medical Association reached an agreement with Anslinger, and over the following decade, only three doctors are prosecuted.

February 1938: Popular Mechanics describes hemp as the new billion dollar crop. The article was actually written in the spring of 1937, before cannabis was criminalized. Also in February 1938, Mechanical Engineering calls hemp the most profitable and desirable crop that can be grown.

1941: Popular Mechanics introduces Henry Ford's plastic car, manufactured from and fueled by cannabis. Hoping to free his company from the grasp of the petroleum industry, Ford illegally grew cannabis for years after the federal ban.

1942: The Japanese invasion of the Philippines cuts off the U.S. supply of Manila hemp. The U.S. government immediately distributes 400,000 pounds of cannabis seeds to farmers from Wisconsin to Kentucky.

Just four short years after cannabis was outlawed as the assassin of youth, the government requires farmers to attend showings of the USDA pro-cannabis classic, "Hemp for Victory".

Also in 1942: Harry Anslinger is appointed to a top-secret committee charged with finding a truth serum for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), precursor of the Central Intelligence Agency (which, in later years, investigated the applications of psychedelic drugs for mind control purposes).

The group picks a cannabis-derived form of hashish oil as their truth serum of choice.  In 1943, the committee abandoned the idea because test subjects tended to laugh hysterically and get the munchies rather than spill the beans.

1943 - 1948: Harry Anslinger orders all Federal Bureau of Narcotics agents to conduct surveillance and keep files on marijuana crimes by jazz and swing musicians.

However, Anslinger orders his agents not to bust them immediately, ...he instead envisions a gigantic nationwide bust of all pot-smoking jazz and swing musicians, simultaneously.

FBN agents keep constant surveillance on various low life such as Thelonius Monk, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie and many more.

Luckily, the bust never goes down: Anslinger's slightly more sane superior at the Treasury Department, Assistant Secretary Foley, hears of the plan and writes to Anslinger, "Mr. Foley disapproves!"

Rather that making this a long post full of dates and what took place at the time, ...I'll give you a link which you can view yourself by going here.

So looking at history it's quite clear why this plant/herb is illegal.  Why the falsehoods and rumors have been spread through the decades from generation to generation. 

It's because of the greed for wealth from these people in high positions that started these false rumors.  If they couldn't make money on it, ...it wasn't going to be considered harmless.  More so, it would be considered against the law.  Meaning one could be arrested and prosecuted just for possessing it. 

Every 36 seconds, someone in the U.S. is arrested for a marijuana offense. 89% of these are for marijuana possession — not for sale or manufacture, but simple possession. This comes at a major cost to American taxpayers, between $10 and $14 billion annually by conservative estimates. Yet despite this investment in fighting marijuana, the United States has the world’s highest rates of marijuana use.

Our current marijuana laws are failing. It's time for a new approach – strict regulation similar to how alcohol and tobacco are controlled – to reduce the criminal market and lower teen use.

Numbers show that 41% of Americans now support making marijuana "legal," and 79% support making medical marijuana available to the seriously ill. By taking action on change.org and following this campaign, you can educate even more people about the failures of marijuana prohibition and the need for change.

Now here is an interesting video done by a couple of British gentlemen showing how THC effects the human body camparing it with driving a car.  The results are interesting compared to someone who's been drinking and then hits the road in a car.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3zou4F00Ic

...to be Continued