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This is the story of why hemp was banned, it made alcohol, threatened petroleum and saved trees..

* 1860. German inventor Nikolaus Otto uses ethyl alcohol as a fuel in an early internal combustion engine.
* 1862 and 1864, a tax on alcohol was passed in the U.S. to pay for the Civil War, increasing the price of ethanol to over $2.00 per gallon. This ultra high tax was forced to stay high.
* 1900. electric vehicles in America outsold all other types of cars. Then in the several years following 1900, sales of electric vehicles took a nosedive as a new internal combustion engine type of vehicle came to dominate the consumer market.
* A new product from petroleum, called kerosene, is taxed at 10 cents a gallon.
* 1906. Free Alcohol Hearings, House Ways & Means Committee, 59th Congress, Feb.-Mar.
* 1906. Launching of a Great Industry: The Making of Cheap Alcohol," New York Times, Nov. 25, 1906, Section III p. 3.
* 1907. Free alcohol hearings, U.S. Senate 1907, p. 320.
* 1907. The Use of Alcohol and Gasoline in Farm Engines, U.S.D.A. Farmers Bulletin No. 277, (Washington: GPO, 1907).
* 1909. U.S. Dept. of Interior, Robert M. Strong, "Commercial Deductions from Comparisons of Gasoline and Alcohol Tests on Internal Combustion Engines," U.S. Geological Survey, Bulletin 392, (Washington: GPO, 1909);
* 1918. Scientific American, "Alcohol as an Automobile Fuel," July 6, 1918
* 1920. Scientific American,"Shall the Corn Fields Run Our Cars: The possibilities of synthetic fuels and the source of the alcohol to make them, Sept. 18, 1920.

1920 ALCOHOL WAS A MAJOR FUEL THAT WAS REMOVE BY PROBATION, 1920 TO 1933.
THE PEOPLE STILL WANTED ALCOHOL FUEL.

1921 to 1932. 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 for 31 years, 1930 to 1962. His biggest contribution to the so-called "reefer madness" propaganda movement was the 1937 Marijuana Transfer Tax Act, which imposed strictures on the growing and use of the plant which rendered hemp effectively worthless by taxing it out of existence.
Meetings were held by these financial tycoons, Hurst (lumber), Hoover (oil) and Anslinger (narcotics) and 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: 'marijuana' and pushed it into the consciousness of America.

* 1925. When Henry Ford told a New York Times reporter that ethyl alcohol was "the fuel of the future" in 1925, he was expressing an opinion that was widely shared in the automotive industry. "The fuel of the future is going to come from fruit like that sumach out by the road, or from apples, weeds, sawdust -- almost anything," he said. "There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented. There's enough alcohol in one year's yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for a hundred years."
Ford recognized the utility of the hemp plant. He had constructed a car of resin stiffened hemp fiber, and even ran the car on ethanol made from hemp. Ford knew that hemp could produce vast economic resources if widely cultivated. On his large estate, Ford was photographed among his hemp fields.
Ford's optimistic appraisal of cellulose and crop based ethyl alcohol fuel can be read in several ways. First, it can be seen as an oblique jab at a competitor. General Motors had come to considerable grief that summer of 1925 over another octane boosting fuel called tetra-ethyl lead, and government officials had been quietly in touch with Ford engineers about alternatives to leaded gasoline additives. Secondly, by 1925 the American farms that Ford loved were facing an economic crisis that would later intensify with the depression. Although the causes of the crisis were complex, one possible solution was seen in creating new markets for farm products. With Ford's financial and political backing, the idea of opening up industrial markets for farmers would be translated into a broad movement for scientific research in agriculture that would be labelled "Farm Chemurgy."
* 1929. A media blitz of 'yellow journalism' raged in the late 1920s and 1930s. Hearst's newspapers ran stories emphasizing the horrors of marijuana with lies.
* 1932. E.I. Fulmer, R.M. Hixon, L.M.Christensen, W.F. Coover. A Preliminary Survey of the use of alcohol as a motor fuel in various countries: Prepared for the members of the Conference held Dec. 10, 1932, to discuss the utilization of agricultural surpluses," Dept. of Chemistry, Iowa State University Archives, Ames, Iowa.
* 1935. American Petroleum Industries Committee, "Economic and technical aspects of Alcohol-gasoline mixtures,"
* 1935. Oct. 15, American Petroleum Institute, "Analysis of Technical Aspects of Alcohol Gasoline Blends,"

THE GOVERNMENT DID NOT PASS THE ALCOHOL FUEL INCENTIVES WHEN PROBATION ENDED IN 1933 OR END THE UNFAIR HIGH TAX.
DOES THAT TACTIC SOUND FAMILIAR TODAY? (about.com goes right from steam to electric and gas cars completely skipping alcohol as fuel.)

* 1935. Quality paints and varnishes were made from hemp seed oil, 58,000 tons of hemp seeds were used in America for paint products in 1935. (Sherman Williams Paint Co. testimony before the U.S.Congress against the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act.)

* 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.
* 1937. April 14 the prohibitive Marijuana Tax Law, or the bill that outlawed hemp, was directly brought to the House Ways and Means Committee. The Chairman of the U.S. Senate, Ways and Means Committee at the time was Robert Doughton a DuPont supporter. He insured that the bill would pass Congress.
* 1937. September, hemp became illegal. The most useful crop known became a drug and our planet has been suffering ever since. Congress had banned hemp because it was said to be the most violence-causing drug known. Harry Anslinger, head of the Drug Commission for 31 years, promoted the idea that marijuana made users act extremely violent. In the 1950s, under the Communist threat of McCarthyism, Anslinger would then say 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.

* 1938. Popular Mechanics, Feb., 1938. Hemp called 'Billion Dollar Crop.' It was the first time a cash crop had a business potential to exceed a billion dollars; It never made it.

* 2010. Today all the 'unfit to eat' GMO corn and soy can be made into alcohol, waste not, want not. It's gasoline that should be illegal in my opinion.

I BELIEVE WILLIAM RANDAL HURST THE NEWSPAPER BYRON BROUGHT ABOUT MAKING MARIJUANA ILLEGAL. He would stop the sale of alcohol which was made from hemp for the newly invented cars 1908-14 and guarantee his profit from his timberland. He did it by publishing lies, an easy thing to do when you own the countries major newspapers.

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 was a destroyer of nature for his own personal profit and stood to lose billions because of hemp.

Alcohol as fuel is not what the growing Standard Oil petroleum industry or it's related industries wanted, the petro-chemical companies helped ban hemp.

This National prohibition of alcohol started in 1920, the people ended it in 1933. The cars alcohol stations were gone and bankrupted and petroleum has never relinquished its grip on the market.

Because of the ban in the 1920's on both hemp and alcohol the car was never mass produced.

Later, in 1941 the Ford motor company produced an experimental automobile with a plastic body composed of 70% cellulose fibers from hemp. The car body could absorb blows 10 times as great as steel without denting, it was a car 30 percent lighter than metal cars. The car was designed to run on hemp fuel. On January 13, 1942, Henry Ford patented a plastic-bodied automobile 10 years before plastic was patented.

Why were Henry's plans delayed for more than a half century?

Ethanol has been known as a fuel for many decades. Indeed, when Henry Ford designed the Model T, it was his expectation that ethanol, made from renewable biological materials, would be a major automobile fuel. However, gasoline emerged as the dominant transportation fuel in the early twentieth century because of a growing supply of cheaper petroleum from oil field discoveries, and INTENSE LOBBYING BY PETROLEUM COMPANIES FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO MAINTAIN STEEP ALCOHOL TAXES. Many bills proposing a National energy program that made use of Americas vast agricultural resources (for fuel production) were killed by smear campaigns launched by vested petroleum interests. ONE NOTEWORTHY CLAIM PUT FORTH BY PETROL COMPANIES WAS THAT THE U.S. GOVERNMENT'S PLANS "ROBBED TAXPAYERS TO MAKE FARMERS RICH".

Gasoline had many disadvantages compared to alcohol as an automotive resource. The "new oil fuel" had a lower octane rating than ethanol, was much more toxic (particularly when blended with tetra-ethyl lead and other compounds to enhance octane), generally more dangerous, and contained threatening air pollutants. Petroleum was more likely to explode and burn accidentally, gum would form on storage surfaces and carbon deposits would form in combustion chambers of engines. Pipelines were needed for distribution from "area found" to "area needed". Petroleum was much more physically and chemically diverse than ethanol, necessitating complex refining procedures to ensure the manufacture of a consistent "gasoline" product.

However, despite these environmental flaws, fuels made from petroleum have dominated automobile transportation for the past 90 years. Until very recently, environmental concerns have been largely ignored. All of that is finally changing as consumers demand fuels such as ethanol, which are much better for the environment and human health.

Petroleum and lumber were behind prohibition which banned alcohol which banned hemp. Make hemp legal now, today. Save a tree, plant hemp. Don't elect a Senator or Congressman that won't support DECRIMINALIZING marijuana.

Just as a plus for reading all of this, here's a good page.
The Marijuana Conspiracy - The Real Reason why Hemp is Illegal.
http://www.world-mysteries.com/marijuana1.htm
www.hemporganic.com/whyhemp.html

Law makers just stop calling marijuana a drug, it never hurt anybody. With marijuana out of the drug war mix the public would be behind you. Don't buy Congress saying, 'we need to see more testing' it's been tested and approved by millions of people already and they say to DECRIMINALIZE marijuana. Making gas illegal would cause no insurmountable problems.

Startpage.com is the best search engine. Google and Bing did not have this information for me. Sorry Jchaplin, there is nothing to support that cannabis was first made illegal in Texas to as a reason to deport Mexican immigrants.



My Political View

I believe in the Constitution


EVERY CITIZEN NEEDS TO READ THIS AND THINK ABOUT WHAT THIS JOURNALIST HAS SCRIPTED IN THIS MESSAGE. READ IT AND THEN REALLY THINK ABOUT OUR CURRENT POLITICAL DEBACLE.

Charley Reese has been a journalist for 49 years.
*545 PEOPLE *By Charlie Reese

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

Have you ever wondered why, *if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?*
Have you ever wondered why, *if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?*

You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does.
You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.
You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.
You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.
You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices
545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.
I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.
I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority.
They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.

Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.
What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.

The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes.
Who is the speaker of the House? Nancy Pelosi
She is the leader of the majority party. She and fellow House members, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million can not replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.
If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.
If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red .
If the Army & Marines are in IRAQ , it's because they want them in IRAQ.
If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.

There are no insolvable government problems.
Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.

Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible. They, and they alone, have the power.
They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses.
Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees.
We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!

Charlie Reese is a former columnist of theOrlando Sentinel Newspaper.
What you do with this article now that you have read it is up to you, though you appear to have several choices.
1. You can send this to everyone in your address book, and hope "they" do something about it.
2. You can agree to "vote against" everyone that is currently in office, knowing that the process will take several years.
3. You can decide to "run for office" yourself and agree to do the job properly.
4. Lastly, you can sit back and do nothing, or re-elect the current bunch.




This video is most important, it tells how and why we are taxed so much and get so little from money the Federal Goverment, State Goverment and City Goverment take in and make with our money and how rich these agencies really are. Sixty trillion dollars is being held off the books by various state and local governments in the US...

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/512.html
The government take-over of the US economy
This video was originally produced on January 8, 2000 by Walter Burien.
The government, at all levels, is running a very simple financial con game.
If something produces revenue - like bridges, highways, ports, or successful investments etc - that revenue goes into off budget slush funds.
If it costs money, it's charged to the public via taxes.
This is being done at all levels of government - including state, county, city, and school districts.
The total "off budget" funds held by the various governments amount to trillions of dollars.

The real accounting is contained in what's called Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports (CAFR) which are not only not made available to the public, their very existence is never mentioned by the news media.
Why?
Trillions of dollars pays for a lot of corruption.

Every time an elected official stands before you and tells you the government is out of money and they have to raise taxes, he or she is lying through their teeth



July 30, 2010 by Chip Wood
There is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING IN THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION that requires - or even justifies - the so-called separation of church and state. I'll go even further. Our Founding Fathers never wanted to see any such thing. And they would be appalled to see how the courts in this country have deliberately twisted, distorted and abused the wonderful document they created to strip all vestiges of religious belief from our public life.

There is a verse in the North West ordinance that goes; The superintendent of schools shall bring up our children in God, religion and prayer, so much for the implied intent as ruled by Judge Blackman in the 1947 court case to remove prayer from our schools. Now if some lawyer would pursue that course we could bring America back to Christianity.

It will take a little while to get us back to the way it was about expressing religion, but now that we know why religion was striped from schools etc. we will do something about it. The muslims are a small but very vocal minority and they are effecting the courts, I understand now that they are anonymously behind this trend. From now on, any time religion is trampled on by a neighborhood, city, state or federal group I will demand to know the names involved. If they have any connection to muslims (not capitalized because I don't respect them) I will root them out and expose them. Secondly, we should vote for judges and not except them to be appointed. Their term limit should be two years and removing them of their position should be the publics right.

Today we can't trust newspapers to be unbiased, today they are owned by corporations and hell bent on a corporate Fascist country. They are told what news to report and given the words to print. We must take our newspapers back and hire back the investigating journalists. Start by ending your subscriptions to the "primary" local newspapers and help the independent newspapers grow.

It was never thought that a state would secede from the union but the possibility was always there. Now that a muslim leaning president who lied to get there has Congress and the Senate doing his bidding, they, the president, Congress and Senate who no longer follow the Constitution must be removed.


Did you know that there are over 80 members of Congress who are SELF- PROCLAIMED Socialists, Communists or Socialist Sympathizers?

Did you know that 70 of these members of Congress actually hold (or have held) membership in the Democratic Socialists of America... the American arm of Socialists International?

Did you know that 11 of the 20 standing committees in the House of Representatives are chaired by members of this radical group?

Did you know that up until the time she assumed the Office of Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi was the chairman of this group and did you know that, up until the time he assumed (some say usurped) the office of President of the United States, Barack Obama was a member of this radical group?

It's not a conspiracy theory... in fact, it's not even an open secret. The plain and simple fact of the matter is that this radical group of Representatives and Senators have caucused openly in the United States Congress since 1991... but the Mainstream Media has never bothered to tell you about this group.

For the first time in American history, we have a man in the White House who consciously and brazenly disregards his oath of office to protect and defend the Constitution. Remember what this prez did to Ill. he made it a crime to protect yourself, he had a law passed that if you stopped a crminal from doing his dirty deed then you go to jail. Now he has taken AZ defense away from them. In his first two speaches he came out and said that America is no longer a Christian nation and that any who believes in Christ is a moron.