the truth about marijuana

Illegal plants!

Legalize marijuana! Yes or no? There is no right answer to the question. The question itself is wrong. What we should ask to ourselves is: what happened to cannabis, or Indian hemp? What happened to it? Hemp (cannabis, marijuana) was an amazing plant, used all over the world for more than five thousand years. It used to grow at any latitude. We used to make everything with it: clothes, ropes, furniture, paper … The constitution of the United States of America is made out of it. Henry Ford, one of the greatest entrepreneur of the century, in 1930 created the ford T. It came out in different versions, and one of them was entirely made of hemp (cannabis, marijuana). Everything: body, tires and interiors. It was cheaper than the average car, but stronger and durable (If you tried to hit the body with a hammer, it will bounce off of it). It was the first “green” car … fully recyclable and fueled with ethanol. How is it possible that such a plant suddenly disappear from the face of the earth? …. The answer is oil (petrol). In 1935 Hearst, Dunlop, and Du Pont realize that they can replace hemp with nylon, rubber and plastic (all made with oil). They decided to start a campaign against marijuana. With the help of Hearst, that owned most of the press, they start to call cannabis a “drug”. The campaign was massive. The slogans were heavy and misleading, like: “marijuana, the plant with the roots in hell”, “Marijuana drives people crazy in 30 days”, “blacks and Mexicans smoke marijuana”,…etc. Hearst and Rockefeller made a public statement: Why destroy nature using hemp, when we could protect it using oil! They had to push it to the extreme, because they did not need to put the consuming of marijuana illegal, they needed to make the plant illegal in order to make their profit. In 1938 the congress finally pass a law (unique as much as crazy) that makes a plant, illegal (when drinking was illegal they didn`t put the vineyards out of law!). Today, because of them, cannabis is illegal all over the world. Pollution is highest than ever (thanks to the sub-products of oil), and many wars have been fought for the control of oil fields.