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The legalization of Hemp would help America’s economy in many ways and can be manufactured
into more than 25,000 environmentally friendly products. Our government knows that Hemp
produces a much larger yield per acre than cotton and also requires low amounts of
pesticides. Parts of the hemp plant can also be utilized in the making of paper,
cosmetics, insulation, paints, clothing, oil, and animal feed. So why does the government
decide to not legalize hemp? Many people assume that hemp was made illegal through a
process involving scientific, medical, and government hearings; that it was to protect the
citizens from what was determined to be a dangerous drug. The actual story shows a
different picture. Those who voted on the legal fate of this plant never had the facts,
but were dependent on information supplied by those who had a specific agenda to deceive
lawmakers.
Marijuana/Hemp has been illegal for less than 1% of the time that it’s been in use. Its
known uses go back further than 7,000 B.C. and it was still legal less than 100 years ago.
The plant was well known from the early 1600’s, but did not reach public awareness as a
recreational drug until the early 1900’s. In Jamestown Colony, Virginia 1619 a local law
ordered residents to grow Hemp for the shortage of legal tender was short and hemp
was a way you could even pay your taxes. The government also knew that it could be grown
easily in almost any climate and any type of soil and the grower didn’t have to pay much
attention to it. The first state law to actually outlaw marijuana did not come around
until 1915 when Mormons returned from Mexico with marijuana and the church looked down
upon it greatly. Since Utah automatically enshrined church doctrine into law, the first
marijuana prohibition was enacted.
In 1930 the Federal Bureau of Narcotics was created and Harry J. Anslinger was named
director. Anslinger was “an extremely ambitious man, and he recognized the Bureau of
Narcotics as an amazing career opportunity”, he went off on a limb and even made up
propaganda so Americans would stand by him. But it gets much worse than you think. A man
by the name of Randolph Hearst, who owned a huge newspaper chain was off to help Anslinger
out. Hearst had invested heavily in timber to support his newspapers and knew that Hemp
could be of competition. So he started writing some of his own propaganda and throwing it
into newspapers such as the San Francisco Examiner: "By the tons it is coming into
this country -- the deadly, dreadful poison that racks and tears not only the body, but
the very heart and soul of every human being who once becomes a slave to it in any of its
cruel and devastating forms.... Marihuana is a short cut to the insane asylum. Smoke
marihuana cigarettes for a month and what was once your brain will be nothing but a
storehouse of horrid specters. Hasheesh makes a murderer who kills for the love of killing
out of the mildest mannered man who ever laughed at the idea that any habit could ever get
him.”(Hearst 3) Then a company named Dupont that had just patented Nylon found out about
the facts of Hemp and also didn’t want any form of competition. So Anslinger got Hearst,
Dupont and many other pharmaceutical companies to help him set up the Marijuana Tax Act of
1937. Anslinger went before congress and showed them stories from newspapers about
murderers being high on marijuana and through some more lies got marijuana to be illegal
on the federal level on August 2nd1937.
The hemp plant’s uses stretch on and on and the boom that our economy would get from it
would be quite drastic. One of the main things that would make the marijuana plant give
our economy a major boost is its use as a fuel replacement. Before the 1937 Marijuana Tax
Act, Henry Ford utilized hemp fuel for cars, and his first Model T was designed to run on
methanol petrol, produced from hemp seeds. Before 1937, race cars, military vehicles, U.S.
farmers, and auto drivers used a methanol based fuel. The plant marijuana is our solution
to a new fuel product, it can be made into ethanol and methanol fuels. These fuels allow a
more complete combustion of the fuel and provide a higher, lead free octane than the
fossil fuels that we use today. The plant marijuana when burned as a fuel source release
carbon dioxide into the atmosphere that was absorbed into the plant during its growing
season, but the plant produces enough oxygen during its growing season to later
counterbalance the carbon dioxide that will be released when it is burned. The fuel that
the marijuana plant produces is known as Biodiesel and its manufacturing costs are around
50 to 60 cents per gallon. Already sounds like the government is ripping you off, doesn’t
it? The fuel is so clean when it burns, it emits 90 percent fewer carcinogens than
gasoline fuels(Hemp seeds used as fuel website). So why aren’t there hundreds of
scientists experimenting with marijuana as an alternative to fossil fuels? That’s because
they would have to go through the Drug Enforcement Agency, just to plant a few hemp seeds.
And since the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act only 2 researchers of the hemp plant in the United
States have been given permission to plant hemp seeds for research purposes.
Hemp cloth is stronger, longer lasting, more resistant to mildew, and cheaper to produce
than cloth made of cotton. Industrial hemp can yield 4-8 dry tones to fiber per acre, this
is four times what an average forest can yield. Hemp is the biggest and best alternative
to trees, trees take approx. 20 years to mature while Industrial hemp only take 4 months.
Paper made from hemp lasts much longer than the 25-80 years that paper from wood pulp
produces. Thomas Jefferson grew hemp on his property and even drafted the Declaration of
Independence on hemp paper. A study going on in Kentucky right now shows that farmers in
Kentucky could earn $320 per acre of hemp used for straw, when
they were only making $220 per acre for grain production. But alas, it’s not as simple as
it may sound. We all know our government is about money so why should they be opposed to
legalizing hemp? Here’s your answer, In 1995 the DEA(Drug Enforcement Agency) stated that
they are “opposed to any consideration of hemp as a
legitimate fiber or pulp product,” and that anyone who still wishes to use hemp for
research purposes must sit down with White House anti-drug officials.
Legalizing Hemp would have a lot of long last effects on our economy, and it would make
such a huge difference in what’s going on now in the Hemp industry. As for America that is
nothing, so if Hemp was legalized it would bring in Hemp clothing, Seeds to season and eat
as food, Hemp seeds used as Biodiesel fuel and Hemp paper just to name a few things. But
it could also do a lot of good for the environment, it could even possibly put a stop to
timber production for paper. Hemp is the plant of the future, and we
need to take advantage of it now by legalizing it to be grown by farmer and even
individuals.
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