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Chapter
16
The
Emperor's New Clothes
Alternatives
to Prohibition
In conclusion, we
see that the government's case against marijuana is woven of transparent lies.
In this chapter, we bring to light some research that the government does not
like the people to know about. Then we talk about some realistic alternatives.
But first, a brief
fable:
The Story of the
Emperor's New Clothes
There once was a
very very vain and terrible King/Emperor who heavily taxed his subjects in order
to pay for his incredibly fine wardrobe made from the most expensive clothing.
One day, two
swindlers, representing themselves as great tailors from afar, arrived and
sought an audience with the Emperor. They told of an amazing new fabric they had
invented, made of a very expensive gold fiber that only the best, purest, and
wisest of people could see. Excited, the Emperor asked to see a sample, and the
men brought forth an empty spool. "Ah, isn't it lovely?" they asked
the Emperor.
The Emperor
agreed, afraid to admit that he did not see anything because that would mean he
was a dull and stupid person.
So, to test his
ministers, the Emperor brought them all in to get their opinions. Once the power
of the fabric was explained to them, all agreed that this was, indeed, the
finest and most beautiful cloth in the world.
The vain Emperor
ordered a new outfit be made for him, so the phony tailors took his
measurements. The Emperor ordered the gold from the treasury be given to the
supposed tailors to be spun into thread. They set about at once working day
after day, pretending to cut and sew, while the Emperor and his ministers
periodically came by to admire their handiwork and to pay the enormous bills the
merchants were running up in the course of their activities.
Finally, the big
day came when all the people in the land were ordered gathered to see the
Emperor's new outfit, which they had paid so much for and heard so much about.
When he nakedly
strode forth, all the people looked in disbelief and said nothing. Then they
sang the praises of the miraculous new cloth. "It's the most beautiful work
I've ever seen!" "Magnificent!" "I wish I had such lovely
fabric!" They all cheered, afraid of being denounced and called stupid and
impure if they did otherwise.
And the Emperor
proudly paraded in front of his subjects, secretly worried afraid that he would
lose the crown if the people knew that he, himself, could not see the cloth that
draped his body.
Until he passed
through the crowd, a small boy perched on his father's shoulder, in his
innocence cried out, "But the Emperor has nothing on!"
"Just hear
what the innocent says!" said the father. And each person whispered to
another what the child had said. The word spread throughout his subjects what
the little boy had said.
Then, everyone
knew that the Emperor and all his ministers had been tricked by swindlers. Now
his guards and ministers, as well as the people, realized that the swindlers had
not only tricked the Emperor, but he, the Emperor, had spent all their tax
money, wasted on this farce.
The Emperor heard
the people murmuring. He knew they were right, but he was too proud to admit he
was wrong and had been made the fool. So he drew himself up to his full height
and stared down at his guards, until he caught one guard's eye.
The guard, looking
around nervously, realizing this vain Emperor could have him imprisoned or even
beheaded, averted his eyes and looked down at the ground. Then another guard,
seeing that he wasn't laughing anymore, got scared and lowered his eyes to the
ground, too. Soon, all the guards, ministers, and even the children pretending
to carry his invisible train of gold cloth, were staring at the ground.
The people, seeing
the ministers and guards, who a moment ago were laughing at the Emperor with
them, now staring at the ground, quaking in their boots, stopped laughing and
quickly bowed their heads as well.
The little boy who
had first exclaimed that the Emperor was naked, seeing all the grown-ups around
him, and even his father, completely scared and subdued, bowed his head in fear!
Then the Emperor,
pulling himself up to his full height, announced to his subjects, as he marched
proudly through his kingdom, "Who is to say that these are not the very
finest clothes of all?" The Emperor held his head high and looked down his
nose at the crowd determined to save his royal face from public humiliation. The
Emperor continued his procession acting as though he were oblivious to his
nakedness, and his ministers held the train of his invisible cloak higher than
ever. The people looked on in disbelief and did nothing as the Emperor and his
ministers kept marching down the street parading their naked ignorance.
*
Paraphrased from Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tale.
The Moral of the
Story is:
We cannot simply
call the Emperor (U.S. government) on his (its) acts of deceit and manipulation
of fact. His guards (FBI, CIA, DEA, etc.) are far too powerful. His fear of
shameful discovery so great he ceaselessly uses his power (through funding much
of the United Nation's and the world's anti-drug crusades) to buy allegiance
through bribery and intimidation (foreign aid, arms sales, etc.).
Those American
citizens who would dare speak out against this tyranny are often slandered as
"druggies" or "dopers" and may be threatened with the loss
of their jobs, income, families, and property. To win, we must drive a stake
through the heart of (the U.S. government's/DEA's) lies, over and over and over
again by hammering at them relentlessly with hard-core facts to defeat the evil
of this hard-hearted Emperor (unjust cannabis laws) and even imprison these
perpetrators, if necessary, to set our people free!
The Logical
Analogy
We contend that
America's marijuana/hemp laws are like the Emperor's clothes! Like tyrants and
prohibitionists in the past, this Emperor relies on brute force, intimidation,
fear, and a police state to maintain his authoritarian, despotic reign while
draining the federal treasury and dismantling all vestiges of the Bill of Rights
while imprisoning innocent souls.
Our great country
was founded on the principles that each person has "inalienable
rights" to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," and
that each person has the responsibility of maintaining these rights by casting
her or his individual ballot.
It is a criminal
offense for officials or executives of the U.S. government to direct or conspire
to wage a deliberate campaign of misinformation, omission of fact, and outright
lies with our tax dollars.
On the subject of
cannabis, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, and now even Bill Clinton, have acted the
part of the Emperor. We might add that Nancy Reagan has acted the part of the
evil and ruthless Queen of Hearts in Lewis Carroll's Alice In Wonderland who
decreed, "Sentence now verdict later!"
Past and present
Drug Czars Carlton Turner, William Bennett, Bill Martinez, Lee Brown, and now
General Barry McCaffrey acting the parts of the Emperor's advisors, have all
upheld the fallacy of the "pure fabric that only the purest eyes may
see," woven for them originally by Anslinger/DuPont/Hearst and their
malevolent police-state bureaucrats. Now it is co-maintained by energy,
pharmaceutical, alcohol/beer companies, drug rehab professionals, drug testers,
police, prison guards, and prison builders all with enormous financial interests
and police-state motives.
When agents of the
U.S. government deliberately act or conspire this way be they President, Vice
President, National Drug Czar, head of the DEA, FBI, or CIA they should be
imprisoned. And in an honest American society, they would be held accountable
for the 14 million years they've already sentenced so many Americans for the
"crime" of pot.
Our Federal
bureaucracies and the U.S. Supreme Court are rapidly chipping away at our
freedoms as outlined in the Bill of Rights (written on hemp paper).
Hemp/marijuana has become their principal excuse for taking away our guaranteed
Constitutional rights more so than all other crimes, police actions,
insurgencies, strikes, uprisings, and wars in the last 200 years combined! And
the loss basic freedoms is even worse in our satellite Central and South
American countries, where their leaders have acted at America's official behest.
What does it mean
to drive a plant species to extinction? Who will forgive us if we allow these
greedy tyrants to destroy America and perhaps life on Earth?
At coffee shops
like the Bulldog Palace in Amsterdam, one can quietly ponder these issues as you
smoke your choice from a wide selection of marijuana and hashish samples.
In Conclusion:
Truth or
Consequences of Prohibition
When DuPont tells
you that they bring "Better Living Through Chemistry", they don't tell
you that it's only for 100 years, then the entire planet dies for their profit.
England and
Holland treat their substance abusers as human beings keeping them supplied with
enough affordable medicants so they don't disrupt the activities of others. Such
policies allow them to lead otherwise productive and normal lives. These
policies are now firmly established, effective, and popular in those countries.
In the mid-1900s, Switzerland began its own experiments in localized tolerance
of public drug use.
When the Swiss
tried, in 1997, to recriminalize cannabis with a ballot initiative, it lost by
79% of the vote!
So, why should
otherwise peaceful hemp/marijuana growers and users be labeled and persecuted as
lifetime criminals while 35% of all robberies and burglaries are committed by
heroin and alcohol addicts, 40-55% of murders, rapes, and highway fatalities are
alcohol related* and heroin is more available in jail than on the streets? Yet
cannabis users statistically have the same or lower incidents of crime and
violence as the non-cannabis-using population as a whole.
* FBI
Statistics, 1993, 1996.
In fact, aside
from cannabis usage, take the mob and the dealers out of heroin and other drugs
and you reduce as much as 80% of non-alcohol related crime. As a direct example,
throughout the "Roaring Twenties" era of alcohol prohibition, the
murder rate rose consistently, then dropped every year for the next 10 following
prohibition's 1933 repeal.* * FBI Statistics.
Let's find another
way to deal with drug usage or be prepared for continued exponential erosion of
our freedoms, including the rigths of self-expression, public debate, and a free
press, including books and songs.
Accept the fact
that all drug-related crime ends if you treat addicts and users instead of
removing them from society. Help tem, educate and encourage them be financially
productive.
In 1999, the top
priority of the U.S. government, Newt Gingrich and most of the Republican Party
is to try to enact legislation that will automatically take away 100% of all
citizens' rights to privacy and freedom from unwarranted search as if the drug
war were a true state of emergency in order to further their fascistic, police,
and prison-state agenda.
High-Tech
Repression
In order for
America to be marijuana free, all of us, smokers and non-smokers alike, will
have to give up our Bill of Rights forever! You will have to conform to the
likes of Lyndon LaRouche, Jerry Falwell, Nancy Reagan, Edwin Meese, William
Bennett, Gen. Barry McCaffrey, and minds of that ridiculous ilk. Each, in their
smug ignorance, contributing to the permanent poisoning of the Earth while
trying with all their might to completely annihilate the one thing that can save
us: hemp.
The computer, that
great boon to humankind, will ironically allow the police to finish, today, the
job the Roman Catholic Church's Inquisition started (see Chapter 10: Dark Ages)
because the church could not stand the "commoners" laughing at them,
or knowing the secrets of, among other things, hygiene, astronomy, and hemp.
Using computers, the pot police can peer into an individual's family background,
his or her sales receipts, income taxes, and so forth to enable them to
blackmail and/or bribe Americans as well as detroy their politicians, judges,
and other VIPs by exposing issues like their private sex lives or personal drug
use.
For example, the
son of Clinton's former Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders, was systematically and
perpetually badgered, over six months, by his friend (who had been previously
busted and forced to work undercover for the DEA, specifically to set up young
Elders) to get him to purchase a small amount of cocaine for himself. Elder's
son, who had never been known to deal, consistently refused, but eventually gave
in to the friend's constant pressure.
The government
revealed the information about this transaction to no one for another six months
until they could use it to directly blackmail Surgeon General Elders into
recanting her soft stance on medical cannabis. Instead, refusing to be silenced,
Elders resigned. With such blatantly underhanded tactics, the DEA is daily
bringing us closer to Orwell's 1984 nightmare.
A postscript: as
of this writing, young Elders is still appealing his case on grounds of
entrapment.
Wasting our Tax
Money
Approximately 50%
of all drug enforcement money, federal and state, during the last 60 years has
been directed toward marijuana!
Some 70-80% of all
persons now in federal and state prisons in America wouldn't have been there as
criminals until just 60 or so years ago. In other words we, in our (Anslinger
and Hearst inspired) ignorance and prejudice, have placed approximately 800,000
of the 1.2 million people in American prisons (as of August 4, 1998) for crimes
that were, at worst, minor habits, up until the Harrison Act, 1914 (whereby the
U.S. Supreme Court in 1924 first ruled that drug addicts weren't sick, they were
instead vile criminals).
Eighty percent of
these government "War on Drugs" victims were not dealing. They have
been incarcerated for simple possession. And this does not include the quarter
of a million more in county jails.
Remember, just 20
years ago, in 1978, before the "War on Drugs," there were only 300,000
persons in American prisons for all crimes combined.
Some radio and
television preachers have added to the hysteria by calling rock music
"satanic and voodoo" and associating it with the drug culture. They
want to outlaw rock, burn albums and books, and lock up everyone who doesn't
agree with them. So does Carlton Turner. So does Lyndon LaRouche. So does
William Bennet. So does Lee Brown. So does General Barry McCaffrey.
During the last
three generations, Hearst's and Anslinger's propaganda and lies have been
relentlessly jammed down Americans' throats as unimpeachable gospel truth
resulting in the massive drain on taxpayer's money to build the government's
anti-drug machine (see "Fighting the Police State" in the Appendix of
the paper version of this book).
And virtually
every state is in the midst of the biggest prison expansion ever in America's
and the world's history, while political vultures, concerned only for growth of
their prison-related industries and job security, demand that we build more
prisons and expand tax bases to pursue this "law and order" madness
against formerly misdemeanor or even non-existent offenses.
Double Standards
In the 1980s, when
U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist (now Chief Justice) was
"nodding off" in Court and sending other druggies to prison for their
habits he just kept feeding his "eight-a-day" Placidyl habit. This was
the equivalent in dollars, "high," and mental effect of a $70 to $125
a-day street abuser's heroin habit.
Placidyl, a cousin
of Quaaludes, is known as a "heavy down," popular on the streets for
imparting a very placid feeling in users.
The physical
dependency and mental effects of using the legal drugs Placidyl, Dilaudad,
Quaaludes, et al., are virtually the same as for the reviled barbiturates,
opium, morphine, and heroin. In essence, they disturb the body's
"endorphin" (pain-receptors and nullifiers) balance.
Rehnquist, who was
said to have used Placidyl far in excess of normal limits, did not rob liquor
stores, physically assault his fellow citizens, or commit any of the anti-social
behaviors attributed to "junkies."
His habit was
easily maintained because the Placidyl was both legally available and within his
normal income limits. Placidyl was also well labeled as to purity and frequency
of dosage, while persons with outlawed drug habits have to get by on a
"dime of tar" (a 10 dollar bag), the purity of which whether 5% or
95%Is unknown and dangerous estimate. The great majority of drug overdoses are
caused by unknown, unregulated, and unlabeled purity factor.
The government
also acknowledges that 90% or more of overdoses by illegal drugs would probably
be avoided with accurate labels and appropriate warnings.
Policies Based
on Ignorance
While researching
this book over the last 24 years, we talked with and questioned senators,
legislators, judges, police, DAs, scientists, historians, Nobel Prize winners,
dentists, and MDs. All knew little bits and pieces of the history and uses of
cannabis, but virtually no one knew any depth about marijuana in its 360-degree
entirety except long-term medical researchers, such as Ungerlieder, Mikuriya, et
al; and writers like Ed Rosenthal, Dean Latimer, and Dr. Michael Aldrich, et al.
For example, 15
years ago, at a large California NORML fundraiser in February 1983, we spoke
privately with then Senate Majority Whip Tom Rutherford, of New Mexico. He has
been a leading pro-marijuana politician for a decade and was, at that time,
probably the most knowledgeable elected government representative on the subject
of marijuana, in the United States. We asked him why the government didn't just
come out and legalize marijuana, especially with everything we knew medically,
industrially, and historically about cannabis.
We were shocked
when he replied that he was not aware of any argument in favor of the
legalization of marijuana, except to end the lunacy of criminalization for at
worst a minor act.
So, we
enthusiastically outlined the facts and entire history of hemp/marijuana to him,
figuring he must have heard some of it before. He sat literally in awe of what
he was hearing for the very first time. When we finished speaking, he said,
"If I had that knowledge outlined and documented for me as you just told
it, the government, police, and judicial system would be through persecuting
pot."
"But is it
true?" he added
This was in
February 1983 and here were America's top pro-pot politicians who literally
didn't know enough about hemp to fill a single page of a book, and some left
office in the Reagan "just say no" era before having learned enough to
publicly support hemp/marijuana.
But now, many do
know hemp is potentially the Earth's number-one crop and that the present laws
are unjustifiable, and that the government's position on pot is utterly false
and can't stand the simple light of truth.
What is the Law?
"All laws
which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at."
Spinoza, (c. 1660)
To control
marijuana is to give up our freedoms, for ourselves, our kids, and our kid's
kids, forever.
And that, my
friends, is called fascism; and simply put, if the laws on cannabis are not
overturned, and if present Earth-destructive practices, such as strip mining,
oil drilling, clear-cutting of trees, industrial pollution of waters, and use of
pesticides and herbicides are not discontinued, our planet will soon die at the
hands of these ignorant (not-knowing and/or evil) politicians who think they
have a right to pass more and more Draconian laws to fill more and bigger
prisons and jails with some of our most decent citizens. These same politicians
portray themselves as being motivated purely out of concern for children.
Meanwhile, they promote the massive ongoing environmental poisoning of these
same children every day!
But to truly
understand why tens of millions of decent Americans are scared silly of pot
after 60 years of disinformation that continues to this day, consider the
mentality and character of former Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates
(1978-1992), who has admitted to helping direct a program of squashing accurate
hemp information and ordering the arrest and harassment of California Marijuana
Initiative workers for doing their civic and Constitutional duty to collect
petition signatures.
In September 1983,
on television and through a police spokesman, Gates called hemp reform advocates
"well-intentioned but terribly naive regarding marijuana and [they] really
don't know much about it."
In January, 1984,
Gates was asked by a parent at a San Fernando Valley, CA, public school,
"What can I do if I find out my child has used marijuana?" He replied,
"It's too late. Once they've smoked one marijuana cigarette, they are lost
to us forever!"*
* These
exact words were also used by LA County D.A. Ira Reiner in his 1990 campaign for
State Attorney General. He lost.
A few months
later, the then-California attorney general, John Van de Kamp, suppressed the
August 17, 1990, report by his own advisory panel that called for hemp
re-legalization. Gates testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on
September 5, 1990, that "casual drug users should be taken out and
shot." He held to this position for almost a week, until public outcry for
his dismissal* forced him to modify his comment to a call for stricter
penalties. Former Drug Czar William Bennett said, "I have no problem with
beheading marijuana users, only legal ones (in beheading them)" and one
Mississippi legislator said in 1998 that marijuana punishment should include
severing of hands, arms, feet, and legs (seriously!).
A few months
later, on March 3, 1991, the world was shocked to learn that Gates' officers
were indeed capable of such brutal and heinous behavior when the video of Los
Angeles police officers savagely beating a defenseless Rodney King (accused of
speeding abd evading capture) was revealed to the world. A urine test later
revealed traces of THC. Gates continued to back his officers in the beating,
through the time of the riots.
* Reiner
was almost the only official to publicly support Gates.
In July of 1998,
Drug Czar Barry McCaffrey, on a fact-finding mission to Europe, added insult to
ignorance by proclaiming to a Stockholm audience, "The murder rate in
Holland [where "soft" drugs are treated as a legal product] is double
that in the United States.That's drugs." Actually, the American murder rate
is 8.2 per 100,000. The Dutch murder rate is 1.7 per 100,000, less than
one-fourth that of the U.S.
This was only the
latest in McCaffrey's continuing stream of ludicrous misinformation. In December
1996, for example, he had been quoted in the media as saying, "There's not
one shred of evidence that marijuana has medicinal value"
Conclusion
On the basis of
the information provided in this book, we demand an end to the enforcement of
these prohibition laws. All laws regarding the cultivation of the plant must be
stricken from the books, including the UN's Single Convention Treaty of 1961, at
which Anslinger represented the United States. Although he was forced to retire
by an angry President Kennedy for, among other things, his antics at the
Convention, Anslinger's legacy of lies and deceit lives on in 1999.
Our government
owes an apology to all persons who spent jail or prison time for cannabis (14
million years in aggregate so far), had to go through the courts, had their
education, families, and professions torn apart, and their lives, wealth, and
health often destroyed.
We also owe an
apology to honest-but-ignorant teachers, police, and judges for our lack of
courage to speak up and educate them. But there is no apologizing for the
profit-minded corporate and government leaders who have acted illegally to
censor and refute the undeniable truth of hemp.
What Justice
Demands
Justice demands
nothing less than the lifting of all penalties (criminal and civil) and removal
of all restraints upon the cultivation and use of both smoking and non-smoking
uses of this, our most remarkable plant.
Prisoners being
held for the peaceful possession, sale, transport, or cultivation of cannabis
hemp must be released immediately. Money and property seized must be returned.
Criminal records must be wiped clean, amnesty granted, and some sort of
reparations paid for time served. These cannabis prisoners are the real victims
of this monstrous crime called the "War on Drugs."
In the end, half
measures will not be acceptable.
In the meantime,
we must begin with a moratorium on hemp/marijuana law enforcement. And we most
move swiftly to restore and expand the national archives and historical record
on hemp and its multiplicity of valuable uses.
What You Can Do
We think, now that
you've had a good look at our side and the government's sideof this story (both
as we see it and as the media projects it), you'll want to join us in putting
this issue onto the ballots and into the legislatures of this country, where
everyone can express their opinions in the straight-forward manner set forth in
our United States' and individual state constitutions.
Teach hemp to
everyone; talk about it all the time. Look for hemp products, ask for hemp buy
hemp. Defend hemp. And use the information and suggestions included in the
Appendix at the end of the paper version of this book. Purchase copies of the
paper version of this book and the CD-ROM for you local public and school
libraries.
At the risk of
repetition, let us once more state in the strongest possible terms, that
cannabis hemp indeed the plant we denigrate with the slang name marijuana will
become known to future generations, as it was known to past generations for
millenia, as the number-one annually renewable, fully sustainable, non
pesticide-requiring, and most abundant source of paper/fiber/fuel on the face of
the earth; with more overall uses than any other known plant.
In other words,
cannabis hemp is the greatest plant on earth!
Write to your
elected officials and the news media, to help create a more conscious political
leadership and favorable news coverage on marijuana and hemp. Give credit for
good votes and coverage, and complain about bad. Register and run for office.
And always vote!!
Demand that our
prisoners of conscience be freed, rewarded, and honored. They deserve to be
welcomed home as heroes, and as P.O.W.s in this "War on Drugs," to
receive veteran's benefits and rights not the DEA or police.
Think of this:
If these outlaw
citizens had not defend the government and preserved the hempseed, our
government and its prohibitionist policies would have eradicated this plant from
our Earth.
So, the heroes of
this war are not William Bennett, Nancy Reagan, Bill Clinton, General Barry
McCaffrey, the DEA, or DARE, but those who de÷ed them. These true heroes must
have their lives and property returned. For defying these tyrannical laws, they
must be remembered by each of us for all time. For they saved the seed that's
going to save the planet!
Hemp for Victory!
Let our people go.
Let our people grow. And never allow our politicians again impose such fanatical
prohibition laws against any natural substance in its natural form. We almost
lost the seed and knowledge to save the planet.
Democracy doesn't
work ever unless it is honest.
And if the
suppression of hemp is just one example of the many lies which American
police/bureaucrats and prison guards have been blackmailing their theoretical
bosses elected politicians and the public we are in big trouble!
We have reviewed
this "drug war" against cannabis hemp/marijuana as thoroughly as we
possibly could, and what we have seen sickens us. And only those with this
knowledge of hemp, whose doors of perception have been cleansed, can kick the
scumbags out and reclaim our freedoms, our planet, and our life-sustaining
environment.
We therefore agree
with the little boy from Hans Christian Andersens's tale who, while watching the
parade pass by, shouted with courageous innocence:
"The
Emperor wears no clothes."
What do your
own eyes see?
What are you
going to do about it?!
MY PARTNER
CAPTAIN ED'S FAVORITE THEME WAS AN ORGANIZATION CALLED VOTE:
Victory Over
The Enemy
AND THE ENEMY
IS THE UNREGISTERED VOTER
REGISTER and
VOTE!
The
Smithsonian's Suppression of Facts About Cannabis Hemp
It should be noted
that, even though 50-80% of all their displayed fibers for paper and cloth from
their "Life in America: 1780s to the 1800s" exhibit and "American
Maritime Exhibit, 1492-1850" were made of hemp, the Smithsonian Institution
has removed all mention of cannabis hemp as it was used in paper, textiles,
ropes, and sails, referring to it only as "other fibers" while cotton,
wool, flax, sisal, jute, Manila hemp, etc. are specifically mentioned. Cotton
was less than 1% of all fibers prior to 1800. Hemp was about 80% of all fibers.
Museum curator
Arkadero's response when questioned on this topic was that, "Children don't
need to know about hemp anymore, it confuses them," and the director of the
Smithsonian said that even though hemp was the primary fiber, "We are not a
fiber museum."
He did not mention
how they had determined that children do need to know about the minor fiber
crops in American history.
Were children's
innocent questions about hemp and marijuana making the Smithsonian tour guides
uncomfortable?
And in a June 20,
1989, letter, Institution secretary Robert McCormic Adams wrote that, "We
do not see a cataloging of fibers in early America as part of our task," in
presenting these exhibits.
"At times
this focus does lead curators to mention fabrics such as linen, wool or
others."
He returned copies
of this book and the U.S. government's own 1942 pro-marijuana film, Hemp for
Victory to us, apparently without reviewing any of the information.
SOME OF THE
SOURCE MATERIALS IN
THE BACK OF THE BOOK:
Reign of
Law: A Tale of the Kentucky Hemp Fields, 1900
Schlichten/Scripps
letters
Movie review
of "Hemp for Victory," 1988
Documentation
of authenticity for "Hemp for Victory"
U.S. History
entwined with Hemp; USDA Yearbooks
USDA
Bulletin No. 404, 1916
American
Midland Naturalist (excerpt)
HEMP,
Farmer's Bulletin No. 1935, 1943
"Humorous
Hemp Primer" German comic book
Isochanvre:
Nature as Architect
"Making
Fossils of Fossil Fuels" Utne Reader, 1991
"Reconsider
Hemp," Pulp and Paper Magazine, 1991, 1993
"Marijuana
Tax Act of 1937," House Hearings
The
Hemperor's Classic Clip Collection, 1985-1998
"The
Weed" (Gene Krupa) Time Magazine article, 1943
"From
Test Tube to You," Popular Mechanics, 1939
American
Peoples Encyclopedia (1953) DuPont history
"Pinch
Hitters for Defense" Popular Mechanics, 1941
"Ford
Tells of Stronger Cars" Popular Science, 1941
Science
Newsletter, "Hemp Grown in U.S. as War Cuts Imports," "Marijuana
Found Useful in Mental Ills"
"War
Booms Hemp Industry," Newsweek, 1942
"Can We
Have Rope Without Dope?" Popular Science, 1943
"Hemp
Quota Cut," Business Week, 1944
"Hemp
Slows Up," Business Week, 1944
"Army
Study of Marihuana Smokers..." Newsweek, 1945
"Marijuana
and Mentality," Newsweek, 1946
"Marihuana"
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"Radioactivity:
The New-Found Danger in Cigarettes," 1986
Diazepines
(Valium): #1 in Abuse
Drug
Charges, 1990
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America,
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New Tax Hits Potent Weed," Newsweek, 1937
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"Bush
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"The
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Ecology
cover-story collage
Authorities
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Greenhouse
Effect articles
"Urge
Production of Dioxin-Free Paper from Hemp," 1990
Hemp for
Fuel, 1989
Summaries of
Research Papers on Hemp
"Authorities
Examine Pot Claims," Athens News, 1989
"July
Sets Record for Heat," Los Angeles Times, 1998
Cotton Vital
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"How
our Heads of State Got High," High Times, April 1980
"Iran
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"Paul's
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Police
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Security
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HR 4079 and
Its Parellels with Nazi Germany
"U.S.
Jails More People..." Bakersfield Californian, 1991
"The
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"Pro-Pot
Police Teacher," Oklahoma City Times, 1975
"Teens
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"Herer
Promotes Hemp Plant," Wall Street Journal, 1991
"Nancy
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"Court
Gives CIA Power..." Oregonian, 1985
Doonesbury,
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"Voices
for Legalization," High Times, 1990
"Why
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"Chemicals
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"Fat
Solubility Scare - Nahas," High Times, April 1982
Trial by
Jury: Cherished Heritage
"Collective Conscience Breeds Dutch Tolerance," 1989
DuPont Annual Report, 1937
Dana Beal's Coverage of DuPont Story
Seizure & Forfeiture Laws: Take Hands Off My Assets, 1989
Drug Legalization: Interest Rises in Prestigious Circles, 1989
Administrative Judge Urges Medicinal Use of Marijuana, 1988
Glaucoma and AIDS victims legal cannabis articles
"Science and the Citizen," Scientific American, 1990
"Response to Rosenthal," by Lynn Osburn, 1995
"Energy Farming," Chapter from Eco-Hemp, 1994
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Orange County Register, 1994
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1990
Letter from Tipper; Hemp Stamps
The Brawley Report, 1998
Various press reports, 1998
ALL SOURCE MATERIALS ARE IN THEIR ENTIRETY AND VERY
READABLE AND MOSTLY IN THEIR ORIGINAL FORM, PICTURES INCLUDED.
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