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WHY MARIJUANA IS ILLEGAL
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HISTORY OF ILLEGALIZATION IN AMERIKKKA!
A lot
of people including pro-legalization activist don't like to hear what
I'm about to say: "The core
reason, (the Genesis) of "marijuana's illegality in
America" today is because of mid-evil European Christian Superstitions/beliefs about
"cannabis”, Industrial Conspiracies and outright "RACISM"; that
have been passed from continent to continent, pulpit to pulpit, generation to generation and eventually
being turned into laws that the U.S. Government forces everyone
(including other countries) to conform too. These laws are in reality nothing
but ridiculous beliefs, that even non-Christians are forced to follow in
a country that proclaims "RELIGIOUS FREEDOM". The
“marijuana prohibition” is proof that the principal of
“FREEDOM OF RELIGION” in FACTUALLY
DESPITE WHAT THE U.S.
1st AMENDMENT SAY’S, THIS IS A CHRISTIAN COUNTRY AND ONLY BELIEF’S AND
PRACTICES THAT CHRISTIAN POLITICANS APPROVE OF ARE LEGAL. ALL OTHERS ARE
BANNED, CLOAKED IN LAW. MEDEVIL
EUROPEAN CHRISTIAN SUPERSTITIONS The
Catholic Church was founded in the 3rd century AD in what was called the Council
of Nicaea which formed the development of the Catholic doctrine of the
TRINITY. This council consisted of religious persons from all over The
first ban on Marijuana was a "CHRISTIAN" religious ban, (A BULL). Today's
right wing fundamentalist Christian
conservatives (politicians), lead the charge in the witch hunt like The African continent is probably the zone showing the
widest prevalence of "marijuana use". When white men first went
to In south
central In
the year 1457, the Christian Council of Cardinals met in 80% of AFRICAN-AMERICANS still follow
the faith of CHRISTIANITY forced onto us thru slavery but those like myself who have chosen to follow traditional African based
faiths have found that our faiths are illegal to practice! Thus my troubles
with the law! Cannabis/hash
is still widely smoked in the middle-east and MODERN INDUSTRIAL CONSPIRACY/RACISM Shortly before marijuana was banned by The
Marijuana Tax Act of 1937, new technologies were developed that made hemp a
potential competitor with the newly-founded synthetic fiber and plastics
industries. Hemp's potential for producing paper also posed a threat to the
timber industry (see New Billion-Dollar Crop). Evidence suggests that
commercial investor's (Dupont-Mellon-Hearst) having much to lose from
hemp competition helped propagate reefer madness hysteria, and used their influence
to lobby for Marijuana Prohibition. It is not known for certain if special
interests conspired to destroy the hemp industry via Marijuana Prohibition,
but enough evidence exists that it is more than just a mere
possibility. After Alcohol Prohibition in the For whatever
reason, he disregarded an official report declaring that Marijuana
seemed to have no ill-effects. Ignoring the more obvious social
menaces of Cocaine and Heroin, Anslinger declared war on the
"powerful narcotic Marihuana". RACISM RACIST ADS (click-here) Marijuana was popularized in After Alcohol Prohibition ended in 1933,
funding for the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (now the Drug Enforcement Administration)
was reduced. The FBN's own director, Harry J. Anslinger, (nephew
of Mr. Mellon) then became a leading advocate of Marijuana Prohibition.
In 1937 Anslinger testified before Congress in favor of Marijuana
Prohibition by saying: "Marijuana is the most violence causing drug in
the history of mankind." "Most marijuana smokers are Negroes,
Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing,
result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual
relations with Negroes." Marijuana Prohibition is founded on lies and
rooted in racism, prejudice, and ignorance. HARRY
ANSLINGER USED RACISM TO CONVINCE POLITICIANS THAT MARIJUANA WAS BAD, BY
ASSOCIATING its USE WITH MINORITIES. THE (MTA) WAS AS MUCH A JIM CROW LAW
AS OTHER DISENFRANCHISMENT LAWS WERE AT THE TIME ( SEGRATION-OPPRESSION)
Just as politicians believed Harry J. Anslinger to be a marijuana expert
in 1937, many people still believe law enforcement officials are marijuana
experts. In reality, law enforcement officials have no expert knowledge of
marijuana's medical or health effects, but they do represent an industry that
receives billions of tax dollars to enforce Marijuana Prohibition. Many law enforcement know the consequence's of
legalization - their jobs. It's no wonder they continue to spread
outright lie's about marijuana. Before the government began promoting reefer
madness hysteria during the 1930s, the word marijuana was a Mexican word that
was totally absent from the American vocabulary. In the 1930s, Americans knew
that hemp was a common, useful, and harmless crop. It is extremely unlikely
anyone would have believed hemp was dangerous, or would have believed stories
of hemp madness. Thus, the words marijuana and reefer were substituted for the
word hemp in order to frighten the public into supporting Hemp Prohibition.
Very few people realized that marijuana and hemp came from the same plant
species; thus, virtually nobody knew that Marijuana Prohibition would destroy
the hemp industry. Bolstering the theory that marijuana was banned
to destroy the hemp industry, two articles were written on the eve of
Marijuana Prohibition that claim hemp was on the verge of becoming a super
crop. These articles appeared in two well-respected magazines that are still
published today. The articles are: Flax and Hemp (Mechanical
Engineering, Feb. 1937) New Billion-Dollar Crop
(Popular Mechanics, Feb. 1938) This was the first time that billion dollar was
used to describe the value of a crop. These articles praise the usefulness
and potential of hemp by stating "hemp can be used to produce more than
25,000 products" and "hemp will prove, for both farmer and public,
the most profitable and desirable crop that can be grown." Marijuana
Prohibition took effect within one year after both these articles were
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Today the legal foundation of the government's fight
against the use of "MARIJUANA" and other substances is
through the ControlledSubstances Act ( CSA ). The act was established
by Title II of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of
1970, which regulates the manufacture and distribution of narcotics,
according to the United States Drug Enforcement Agency ( DEA ). "The CSA places all substances that
are regulated under existing federal law into one of five schedules. This placement is based on the substance's medicinal value, harmfulness and potential for abuse or addiction. Many people claim marijuana was placed in schedule 1 for political reasons. (SEE NIXON)
Schedule I is reserved for the most dangerous drugs that have no recognized medical use, while Schedule V is the classification used for the least dangerous drugs," according to the DEA," according to the administration. In 1985, the Pentagon spent approximately $40 million on interdiction, and by 1990, the General Accounting Office reported that the military's efforts have had no discernible impact on the flow of drugs, as reported by the Schaffer Library. The Office of National Drug Control predicts that although the Pentagon's efforts some 17 years ago showed no impact on the flow of drugs, the federal government will spend approximately $19.2 billion at a rate of about $609 per second on the war on drugs, with state and local governments spending at least another $20 billion.
In the early 60s cannabis was once again popularized by
poetic non-conformist beatniks (hippies). Pot helped to open the eyes of the
youth and change the values of a whole generation of flower children that
questioned the value of dis-crimination, war and the sanity of global
pollution. In response President Nixon declared a Drug War upon the flower
children, anti-war movement and the Civil-rights movements because of their
threatening tendencies toward peace, equality and their ubiquitous
sacramental incense, marijuana. —
ONCE-SECRET NIXON TAPES SHOW WHY
THE
Thirty years ago the This newly revealed information comes from declassified tapes of Oval Office conversations from 1971 and 1972, which show Nixon's aggressive anti-drug stance putting him directly at odds against many of his close advisors. Transcripts of the tape, and a report based on them, are available at: http://www.csdp.org/ Congress, when it passed the Controlled Substances Act in 1970, temporarily labeled marijuana a "Schedule I substance" -- a flatly illegal drug with no approved medical purposes. But Congress acknowledged that it did not know enough about marijuana to permanently relegate it to Schedule I, and so they created a presidential commission to review the research and recommend a long-term strategy. President Nixon got to appoint the bulk of the commissioners. Not surprisingly, he loaded it with drug warriors. Nixon appointed
Raymond Shafer, former Republican Governor of The Shafer Commission -- officially known as the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse -- took its job seriously. They launched fifty research projects, polled the public and members of the criminal justice community, and took thousands of pages of testimony. Their work is still the most comprehensive review of marijuana ever conducted by the federal government. After reviewing all the evidence, these drug warriors were forced to come to a different conclusion than they had at first expected. Rather than harshly condemning marijuana, they started talking about legalization. When Nixon heard such talk, he quickly denounced the Commission -- months before it issued its report.
During their meeting, Shafer reassured the President that he would not support "legalization," even though there were some on the Commission who did. He told Nixon they were looking for a unanimous recommendation. Nixon warned Shafer that he "had very strong feelings" on marijuana. Nixon and Shafer also discussed Shafer's potential appointment to a federal judgeship. But in the end, the Shafer Commission issued a report that tried to correct the "extensive degree of misinformation," to "demythologize" and "desymbolize" marijuana. They reported finding that marijuana did not cause crime or aggression, lead to harder drug use or create significant biochemical, mental or physical abnormalities. They concluded: "Marihuana's relative potential for harm to the vast majority of individual users and its actual impact on society does not justify a social policy designed to seek out and firmly punish those who use it." The most important recommendation of the Commission was the decriminalization of possession or non-profit transfer of marijuana. Decriminalization meant there would be no punishment -- criminal or civil - -- under state or federal law. Nixon reacted strongly to the report. In a recorded conversation on March 21, the day before the Commission released its report, Nixon said, "We need, and I use the word 'all out war,' on all fronts ... we have to attack on all fronts." Nixon and his advisors went on to plan a speech about why he opposed marijuana legalization, and proposed that he do "a drug thing every week" during the 1972 presidential election year. Nixon wanted a "Goddamn strong statement about marijuana ... that just tears the ass out of them." Shafer was never appointed to the federal court. Nixon's private comments about marijuana showed he was the epitome of misinformation and prejudice. He believed marijuana led to hard drugs, despite the evidence to the contrary. He saw marijuana as tied to "radical demonstrators." He believed that "the Jews," especially "Jewish psychiatrists" were behind advocacy for legalization, asking advisor Bob Haldeman, "What the Christ is the matter with the Jews, Bob?" He made a bizarre distinction between marijuana and alcohol, saying people use marijuana "to get high" while "a person drinks to have fun." He also saw marijuana as part of the culture war that was destroying the United States, and claimed that Communists were using it as a weapon. "Homosexuality, dope, immorality in general," Nixon fumed. "These are the enemies of strong societies. That's why the Communists and the left-wingers are pushing the stuff, they're trying to destroy us." His approach drug education was just a simplistic: "Enforce the law. You've got to scare them." Unfortunately, Nixon did more than just "scare them," whoever they were. His marijuana war rhetoric led to a dramatic increase in arrests. One year after his "all out war" comments, marijuana arrests jumped to 420,700 a year -- a full 128,000 more than the year before. Since then, nearly 15 million people have been arrested for marijuana offenses. For thirty years, the It did not have to be this way. At the same time that the Shafer
Commission issued its report, the Bain Commission in It is not too late for the Where will we be in another thirty years if we don't change course and make peace in the marijuana war? Now that we know the war's roots are rotten -- and after we've lived through the decades of damage and failure it has produced -- we should face the facts. The thirty-year- old recommendations of the Shafer Commission are a good place to start. Kevin Zeese is the president of Common Sense for Drug Policy http://www.csdp.org/ |
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