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"When is the government going to learn that it can not
police drug abuse when it is a symptom of a
sick society?" -
Brian M. Levine MD
"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills
of society.
If we're looking for the
sources of our troubles,
we shouldn't test
people for drugs,
we should
test them for stupidity,
ignorance,
greed, and love
of power."
– P. J.
O'Rourke
According to the Journal of the American
Medical Association
700,000 people in America are admitted to emergency room care
for
adverse reactions to prescribed drugs every
year. (2006)
Between 1999 and 2004
unintentional overdoses of psychotherapeutic drugs including sleeping pills,
antidepressants and tranquilizers resulting in death grew 84%. From 1992 to
2003 those who admitted using prescription drugs to 'catch a buzz' nearly
doubled from 7.8 million to 15.1 million. Since 1990
prescription drug sales have increased by 500%. - Centers for Disease
Control
"If I had every problem the
TV ads say I do
- breathing, lifting,
walking, sitting, sleeping and my toes rotting off -
I'd welcome
death.
Al-Qa`ida? Bring it on.
It seems as if every time I turn on the TV these days, I see some
ad for some
drug I never heard of to treat some
disease I never heard of.
You
don't have a stomachache because you ate the chili-cheese fries at Johnny
Rockets, you have irritable
bowel syndrome, or IBS, or, as I call it, BS.
Which would also apply to the dreaded "social anxiety
disorder," or, as we used to call it, shyness. And we treated it with an
old home recipe - Scotch and water -
because it's not a disorder at all. It's normal to be anxious when you walk
into a room full of strangers.
Your wife doesn't get turned on? It
couldn't be because you're a snowman shaped sausage casing so full of
beer you sweat hops. It's because she has
"female sexual
dysfunction."
Short of breath? Well, you could lose 100 pounds, or
you could take this pill.
And
before they came up with "restless leg syndrome," did it even
exist?
Did you ever
hear someone say, "Sorry I couldn't make
the party, Bill, the old restless leg was acting up."
Next time you
have an uncontrollable urge to move your feet, maybe you should move your feet.
Your feet are trying to tell you the same thing your dog is trying to tell you
when he's been cooped up inside the house all day: "I want to go for a walk!"
The problem is, the profits are so
enormous for magic
pills that drug companies invent the
pill first and then conjure up something it
can treat.
The Coalition for
Healthcare Communication - which sounds a lot nicer than "the Pushers
Union" - says that alerting people to side effects "over warns"
consumers. So forget all that
mumbo-jumbo. Who are you going to trust, a
lot of small print or a talking bee?
Come on, take this
pill. It'll make a football go through a
tire swing. Side effects? You bleed from your pores, then explode and die.
And/or dry mouth.
Just in the last two years, the
drugs that have made the headlines under
the category "Prescription Medicines That Hurt People" have included Vioxx and
Ambien. And yet it was marijuana last
week that was declared by the Food and Drug
Administration to have no known medical
value.
Actually, what
marijuana has is no
known lobbying value.
And yes, back
in 1999, when Americans still
believed in
science, the National Academy of
Sciences' Institute of Medicine said what millions who simply have gotten
relief already known: that
marijuana is useful in treating
pain, nausea and AIDS-related
weight loss, and that lab rats exposed to it were more likely to forget the
maze and just kick it old school.
But the Food and Drug Administration, you see,
protects us from marijuana.
And the bribery doesn't stop with the Food and Drug Administration and Congress.
Doctors get whisked off to exotic locales for weekend "seminars," all
paid for, of course, by drug companies, and suddenly Monday morning everyone
needs OxyContin - which in reality is a powerful,
morphine type narcotic meant to be used only by those in severe physical
pain and, of course,
celebrities.
"Ask your doctor
if it's right for you" has become, "Tell your doctor to shut up and fork over
the pills."
Drug companies are pushers, and
Congress and the Food and Drug
Administration are the cop on the beat who's been paid off to look the
other way.
New
drugs used to have to go through a
rigorous process of clinical
testing.
Now they just give it to Courtney Love, and if she lives,
it's approved."
-Bill Maher, 4/27/06
Scientists from King's College at the University of
London determined in 2005 that people trying to juggle phone calls, e-mail and
other routine office distractions suffered a greater loss of IQ than someone
smoking marijuana.
"Cannabis will one day be seen as a wonder
drug. Like penicillin, herbal
marijuana is remarkably nontoxic, has
a wide range of therapeutic applications and would be quite inexpensive if it
were legal." - Lester Grinspoon, emeritus professor of
psychiatry Harvard Medical
School
"In strict medical terms, marijuana is far safer
than many foods we commonly consume. Marijuana in its natural form is one of
the safest therapeutically active substances known to man." - DEA
Administrative Law Judge Francis L. YoungMilton Friedman agreed in 2005 that the costs
of marijuana prohibition and the
potential revenue gains for the American
government if
marijuana was legalized and taxed
would save $7.7 billion in combined state and federal spending while taxation
would yield up to $6.2 billion a year. Milton
Friedman believed all drugs should be
legalized for both economic and
moral reasons.
"It's absolutely
disgraceful to think of picking up a 22-year-old
for smoking pot. More disgraceful is the denial of
marijuana for medical purposes. I've
long been in favor of legalizing all
drugs. Look at the factual consequences: The
harm done and the corruption
created by these laws
and the war on drugs." - Milton
Friedman
Our Marijuana Laws Destroy Lives: The Rachel Hoffman
Tragedy
Pot Dealer's Tragic Choice Ended in Death
"And I will raise up for them a plant of renown,
and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land."
- Ezekiel
34:29 - 21st Century King James Version
"Since 1971, marijuana has
been classified as a "Schedule I" narcotic, meaning it has no medical value.
That's the same category as heroin. And as if that's not goofy enough, that
also would suggest marijuana is more dangerous than crack cocaine, a Schedule
II drug that no one in the sane world describes as less dangerous than pot." -
Clarence Page
In 2008 more than 700,000 of the America's 20-million
cannabis users were arrested for marijuana possession. From 1998 to 2008 there
were 5,000,000 arrests on marijuana charges.
The Shafer Report,
commissioned by Richard Nixon and named after former Pennsylvania Governor
Raymond Shafer, concluded in 1972 that "neither the marijuana user nor the drug
itself can be said to constitute a danger to public safety" and urged the
government to stop penalizing pot smokers for personal use or
distribution.
"Drug offenders, most of them passive users or minor
dealers, are swamping our prisons. 47.5% of all the drug arrests in 2007 were
for marijuana offenses. Nearly 60% of the people in state prisons serving time
for a drug offense have no history of violence or of any significant selling
activity. Four out of five drug arrests were for possession of illegal
substances, while only one in five was for sales.Three-quarters of the drug
offenders in our state prisons were there for nonviolent or purely drug
offenses." - Senator Jim Webb (D-Va.)
"Marijuana makes up 60 to 70
percent of the Mexican drug trade and lifting prohibitions on it in the United
States would eradicate a major source of funds for the cartels."- Radley
Balko
"Prohibition is a drain on the public purse. Federal, state and
local governments spend roughly $44 billion per year to enforce drug
prohibition. These same governments forego roughly $33 billion per year in tax
revenue they could collect from legalized drugs, assuming these were taxed at
rates similar to those on alcohol and tobacco. Under prohibition, these
revenues accrue to traffickers as increased profits." - Harvard economist
Jeffrey Miron
The only true threat marijuana (cannabis, hemp, cannabis
sativa, cannabis indica, cannabis ruderalis) poses is a threat to the
oil,
alcohol,
tobacco,
chemical and
pharmaceutical
corporations.
Utilizing marijuana for a vast array of commercial products would
create a green economic revolution which would deprive these
oil,
alcohol,
tobacco,
chemical and
pharmaceutical
corporations of income!
(helping de-centralize power and possibly breaking
the back of the international criminal empire that conditions citizens to
lust for
money and power in shameless pursuit of
fulfillment of impossible
dreams!)
Cannabis ruderalis originated in the mountainous regions
northwest of the Himalayas in central Asia.
Cannabis sativa grows wild
in Europe, central Asia, and Asia Minor. Cannabis sativa introduced into
American agriculture grows wild in Kentucky, Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas as well
as other many other states.
Cannabis indica grows wild in India,
southeast Asia and the Himalayas.
Records of hemp farming date back 5000
years in China.
Hemp farming (and beer) helped raise the Pharohs
monuments in ancient Egypt.
When Nomadic tribes from central Asia and
Persia (Iran and Iraq), referred to in legend as "Aryans," overran virtually
the entire Mediterranean spreading out over the Caucasus and west into Europe
they brought cannabis, hemp, with them.
From 1631 to the early 1800's
it was legal to pay taxes with hemp.
From 1763 to 1769 it was against
the law in Virginia to refuse to grow hemp.
George Washington and
Thomas Jefferson grew hemp.
Benjamin Franklin owned one of the
first paper mills in America and it processed hemp.
The War of 1812 was
fought over hemp. Napoleon Bonaparte wanted to cut off Moscow's export of hemp
to England in an attempt to de-rig the English Navy. (Hemp sails and rigging
had to replaced every two years. Hemp sails and rigging cost five times the
wood in a newly commissioned ship!)
90% of all ships' sails and rope
were made from hemp for thousands of years. The word 'canvas' is Dutch for
cannabis.
80% of all textiles, fabrics, clothes, linen, drapes, bed
sheets, etc. were made from hemp until the 1820s with the introduction of the
cotton gin.
The first Bibles, maps, charts, Betsy Ross's flag, the
first drafts of the Declaration of
Independence and the Constitution of the
United States of America were made from hemp.
The first crop grown
in many states was hemp.
1850 was a peak year for Kentucky which
produced 40,000 tons.
Hemp was the largest cash crop until the 20th
century.
Until the 1880's all schoolbooks were made from hemp or flax.
In America during the late 1800s cannabis indica was used in treating
addiction. Opiate, chloral hydrate, and alcohol addicts were successfully
treated with potent cannabis extracts.
Rembrants, Gainsboroughs, Van
Goghs as well as most early canvas paintings were principally painted on hemp
linen.
In 1916, the federal government predicted that by the 1940s all
paper would come from hemp and that no more trees would need to be cut down.
Government studies report that 1 acre of hemp fiber equals 4.1 acres of tree
fiber.
Quality paints and varnishes were made from hemp seed oil
until 1937. 58,000 tons of hemp seeds were used in America for paint products
in 1935. - Sherman Williams Paint Comapany testimony before Congress against
the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act.
The first Model-T built
by Henry Ford ran on hemp oil gasoline and body
parts were constructed from hemp. Henry Ford created hemp plastic panels that
had an impact strength 10 times stronger than steel. Henry Ford grew his own hemp.
Hemp was the
first cash crop in America to exceed a billion dollars in value in a year.
United States Department of Agriculture Bulletin #404 concluded that
hemp produces 4 times as much pulp with at least 4 to 7 times less pollution
than wood pulp.
In 1942 the United States Department of Agriculture
produced a 14-minute film, 'Hemp for Victory', encouraging and instructing
'patriotic American farmers' to grow 350,000 acres of hemp each year for the
war effort.
In 1937, Dupont patented the processes to make plastic and
plastic fibers from oil and coal. These process' had been taken from the
Germans as World War I war reparations. The DuPont 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 agricultural industrialization would have
ruined over 80% of Dupont business.
Andrew
Mellon became Herbert Hoover's Secretary of the Treasury and DuPont's primary
investor. Andrew Mellon appointed his future nephew-in-law, Harry J. Anslinger,
to head the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. Harry J.
Anslinger, head of the Drug Commission for 31 years, promoted the idea
that marihuana made users act extremely violent.
"Marihuana is the most
violence causing drug in the history of mankind." - Harry J. Anslinger
{"Through a report released in 1983 under the Freedom of Information
Act, it was discovered (after 40 years of secrecy) that Anslinger was appointed
in 1942 to a top-secret committee to create a "truth serum" for the Office of
Strategic Service (OSS), which evolved into the Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA). Anslinger and his spy group picked, as America's first truth serum,
"honey oil", a much purer, almost tasteless form of hash oil made from cannabis
sativa, to be administered in food to spies, saboteurs, military prisoners and
the like, to make them unwittingly "spill the truth." Fifteen months later
marijuana extracts were discontinued by Anslinger's group as America's first
truth serum because it was noted that they didn't work all the time. The people
being interrogated would often giggle or laugh hysterically at their captors,
get paranoid, or have insatiable desires for food (the munchies?). Also, the
reported noted that American OSS agents and other interrogation groups started
using the honey oil illegally themselves. In Anslinger's OSS group's final
report on marijuana as a truth serum, there was no mention of violence caused
by the drug! In fact, the opposite was indicated." - Jack Herer
In the
1950s, under the communist threat voiced by McCarthy, Harry J. Anslinger now
said the exact opposite. Marijuana will pacify you so much that soldiers would
not want to fight the communists. This extreme passivism was proved wrong
empirically in Vietnam.}
William Randolph Hearst and the Hearst Paper
Manufacturing Division of Kimberly Clark owned vast acreage of timberlands. The
Hearst Company supplied most paper products.
A media blitz of 'yellow
journalism' raged in the late 1920s and 1930s. William Randolph Hearst's
newspapers ran stories claiming "marihuana" use created everything from car
accidents to loose morality - white women would be seduced by "jazz and
darkies" - to mass murder.
Films like 'Reefer Madness' (1936),
'Marihuana: Assassin of Youth' (1935) and 'Marihuana: The Devil's Weed' (1936)
were propaganda designed by Hearst and DuPont corporations to con-vince the
American people that cannabis was evil and hemp should be outlawed simply to
increase tree fiber and plastic fiber sales. The plutocracy jumped on board
understanding that all the products derived from hemp could be replaced by
cheaper less-suitable products that promised windfall profits even while
destroying ecosystems. Marihuana was portrayed as a violent narcotic which
caused acts of shocking violence and incurable insanity with soul-destroying
effects.
On April 14, 1937, the prohibitive Marihuana Tax Law bill that
outlawed hemp was directly brought to the House Ways and Means Committee. The
Chairman of the Ways and Means, Robert Doughton a Dupont stockholder and a
close associate of DuPont, assured passage.
According to John J.
Coleman,"For a number of years Congress wanted to regulate marihuana but
members were concerned that the Constitution did not provide sufficient
authority to regulate a substance that could be - and was - grown and
distributed within states. Congress therefore settled on a "tax" act because
the Constitution provided the federal Congress with the unlimited power to levy
and collect taxes." Congress passed the tax act during a period of exponential
growth in the federal government as a part of its socialist/communist plans to
remake American social culture.
"I wish I could show you what a small
marihuana cigarette can do to one of our degenerate Spanish-speaking residents.
That's why our problem is so great; the greatest percentage of our population
is composed of Spanish speaking persons most of whom are low mentally, because
of social and racial conditions.(no racism here!)" -
Federal Bureau of Narcotics Commissioner Harry J. Anslinger testimony
before the House Ways and Means Committee
Dr. James Woodward, a
physician and attorney, testified too late on behalf of the American Medical
Association. Dr. James Woodward told the committee that the reason the AMA had
not denounced the Marihuana Tax Law sooner was that the Association had just
discovered that marihuana was hemp.
Index Of Pre-1937 MEDICAL CANNABIS MANUFACTURERS
"We
cannot understand yet, Mr. Chairman, why this bill should have been prepared in
secret for two years without any intimation, even to the profession, that it
was being prepared." - Dr. James Woodward
"Woodward and the AMA,
however, objected to Anslinger's characterization of cannabis as causing severe
psychiatric reactions. It was probably a reasonable criticism under the
circumstances. Anslinger, after all, was not trained in medicine or psychiatry,
yet he often used clinical descriptions of bizarre behavior that he attributed
to the use of drugs." - John J. Coleman
"The scheme of the Marihuana Tax
Act was threefold: a requirement that all manufacturers, importers, dealers,
and practitioners register and pay a special occupational tax; a requirement
that all transactions be accomplished through use of written order forms; and
the imposition of a tax on all transfers in the amount of $1 per ounce for
transfer to registered persons and a prohibitive $100 per ounce for transfers
to unregistered persons.
The seemingly bizarre legal formulation of this
tax measure was precipitated by the recognized need for the federal government
to take action forbidden to it under prevailing constitutional
doctrine.
Hearings on the proposed marihuana taxation were held before
the House Ways and Means Committee. During five mornings of testimony by FBN
officials, government witnesses, and industry representatives, the Bureau
presented the following four-fold argument: (1) marihuana was a disastrous
drug; (2) its use was increasing alarmingly and had generated public hysteria;
(3) state legislation was incapable of meeting the threat posed by the drug,
thus, federal action was required; and (4) the government might best act
through separate legislation rather than through an amendment to the Harrison
Act.
No definite scientific study of the effects of marihuana was
presented to substantiate the position that marihuana was a dangerous drug. No
synthesis of available scientific information was submitted nor was there any
statement by the Public Health Service. Neither of the government's own public
health experts, Assistant Surgeon General, Dr. Walter Treadway, and Dr.
Lawrence Kolb, testified, nor did Drs. Walter Bromberg or J. F. Siler who had
recently published scientific articles on the effects of cannabis in humans." -
National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse
{This
marks the begining of the period in which doctors came to believe that
pharmaceutical concoctions could cure all the ills of humanity. Once the
doctors fell for the pharmaceutical marketing machine the people joined the
march - goose stepping into place.}
"Marijuana was America's
number-one analgesic for 60 years before the rediscovery of aspirin around
1900. From 1842 to 1900, cannabis made up half of all medicine sold, with
virtually no fear of its high. There are more than 60 therapeutic compounds in
cannabis that are healing agents in medical and herbal treatments." - Jack
Herer
Few people, at the time, realized that the deadly menace they had
been reading about on William Randolph Hearst's front pages was in fact passive
hemp. The American Medical Association understood cannabis to be a
MEDICINE found in numerous healing products sold over the last hundred years
throughout America.
The American Medical
Association on November 10, 2009 urged the federal government to reconsider
its classification of marijuana as a dangerous drug with no accepted medical
use.
In 2008 the American College of Physicians called for
rigorous scientific evaluation of the potential therapeutic benefits of medical
marijuana and an evidence-based review of marijuana's status as a Schedule I
controlled substance.
The California Medical Association passed
resolutions that declared the criminalization of marijuana a failed public
health policy and called on the organization to take part in the debate on
changing current policy.
In September of 1937, hemp became
illegal. The most useful crop known became a dangerous narcotic. And the people
and ecology of the Earth has been suffering ever since.
The ecological
damage visited upon the Earth and its inhabitants may be irreversible..
Earth is suffocating as large tracts of rain forests disappear.
Pollution, poisons and chemicals are destroying ecosystems, killing
people and animals - fish, fowl and furred.
These great problems could
be reversed if we industrialized hemp agriculture and replaced fossil fuel
based products with products derived from hemp.
{"From
the farmers' point of view, cannabis is an easy crop to grow and will yield
from three to six tons per acre on nearly any land including marginal lands.
Cannabis has a short growing season, so that it can be planted after other
crops are in. Cannabis can be grown in any state of the union. The long roots
penetrate and break the soil to leave it in perfect condition for the next
year's crop. The dense shock of leaves, eight to twelve feet about the ground,
chokes out weeds. Two successive crops are enough to reclaim land that has been
abandoned because of Canadian thistles or quack grass." - Jack
Herer}
Natural biomass could provide much of the Earth's energy
needs currently being supplied by fossil fuels.
Humans have consumed
80% of the Earth's oil and gas reserves. We need a renewable resource. Hemp
could be the solution to soaring gas prices.
Hemp has a higher quality
fiber than wood fiber. Far fewer caustic chemicals are required to make paper
from hemp than from trees.
Hemp paper does not turn yellow and is very
durable. Books last for centuries rather than decades.
(Books printed on wood cellulose acid paper must
be frequently replaced - after all knowledge is power!)
Hemp
grows quickly to maturity in a season where trees take a lifetime.
Hempen plastics are biodegradable! Oil-based plastics do not break
down!
Medicine can be made from cannabis as it was before being
outlawed! (No need of anti-depressants or sleep aids!)
The hemp seed
contains one of the highest sources of protein in nature as well as two
essential fatty acids, not found anywhere else in nature, that clean your body
of cholesterol! (No need of Lipitor, Crestor or Zocor.)
Hemp clothing is
extremely strong and durable! (That could hurt the clothing
industry!)
The liquor,
chemicalized tobacco and oil companies (hypocrites!)
fund a Partnership for a Drug-Free America and other similar agencies.
The latest anti-cannabis commercials say: 'If you buy a joint...you are
promoting terrorism!' (What they are really funding is a Partnership for an
America free of all drugs but theirs!)
In
the entire history of the human race, not one death can be attributed to
cannabis. Chemicalized tobacco killed 5.4 million people
in 2008. About 85,000 deaths - injuries, homicides, suicides and a range of
diseases - in America in 2008 were linked to drinking alcohol.
Ingesting hemp has a positive effect - relieving asthma;
relieving glaucoma; reducing many types of tumors; is the best treatment for
many types of epilepsy; the best muscle relaxant, back spasm medicine and
general antispasmodic medication; cannabidiols have antibiotic uses; as a
topical analgesic in the treatment of arthritis, herpes, cystic fibrosis and
rheumatism; the best natural expectorant; lowers blood pressure, dilates the
arteries and reduces body temperature an average of one-half degree, thereby
relieving stress and migraine headaches; and alleviating nausea while
increasing appetite. Cannabidiol, cannabis sativa, is the best treatment for
other neurological disorders, such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s
diseases. The National Institute of Mental Health reported that marijuana smoke
is the only medicine we currently know of on Earth that can fully stop the
brain damage after a stroke occurs, (1) by causing the arteries to enlarge and
allowing virtually any clot to flow harmlessly through the brain and (2) by
stopping the production of glutamate, which poisons and kills brain cells after
the blood clot is in place. One puff of 'ditch weed' from Iowa will stop the
aftereffects of 95% of all strokes, virtually ending paralysis, speech loss and
coma resulting from strokes.(Unfortunately this also reduces medical services
income thus the endless hate and propaganda filled with
vitriol!)
Cannabinoids naturally occur in every living animal
on the planet above hydra and mollusks, with the exception of insects.
Contrary to
propaganda cannabinoids increase
brain function and thus awareness as the human brain is
designed with cannabinoid receptors -
cannabinoids which are only found in quantity in cannabis. (Remember God designed
humans!)
If you do not believe this then let me ask:
Why has cannabis been banned from all competitive sports as a
performance enhancing drug?
In 2005 the United States State Department
estimated that American cannibis cultivation was 10,000 metric tons or 22
million pounds. In 2006 it was estimated that the cash value of the cannibis
crop was $35.8 billion which exceeded the cash value of corn, soybeans and
hay.
In California in 2006 they only had to uproot 1.7
million plants found in 447 raids in 34 counties.
In California in 2007
they only had to uproot 1.8 million plants.
In California in 2008 they
only had to uproot 1.9 million plants, 70% grown on public lands.
In
California in 2009 they only had to uproot 4.4 million plants, mostly grown by
Mexican cartels.
SHINTOISM (Japan) - Cannabis was used
for the binding together of married couples, to drive away evil spirits, and
was thought to create laughter and happiness in marriage.
HINDUISM
(India) - The God Shiva is said "to have brought cannabis from the Himalayas
for human enjoyment and enlightenment." The Sadhu Priests travel throughout
India and the world sharing "chillum" pipes filled with cannabis, sometimes
blended with other substances. In the Bhagavad-Gita, Krishna states, "I am the
healing herb" (Ch.9:16), while the Bhagarat-Purana Fifth Canto describes
hashish in explicitly sexual terms.
BUDDHISM (Tibet, India and China) -
from the 5th century B.C. on ritually used cannabis; initiation rites and
mystical experiences were (are ) common in many Chinese Buddhist Sects. Some
Tibetan Buddhists and lamas (priests) consider cannabis their most holy plant.
Many Buddhist traditions, writings, and beliefs indicate that "Siddhartha" (the
Buddha) himself, used and ate nothing but hemp and its seeds for six years
prior to announcing (discovering) his truths and becoming the Buddha (Four
Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path).
Regarding the ZOROASTRIANS or Magi
(Persia, circa 8th to 7th Centuries B.C. to 3rd to 4th Centuries A.D.), it is
widely believed by many Christian scholars, commentators, etc., that the three
"Magi" or Wise Men who attended the birth of Christ were cult references to the
Zoroastrians. The Zoroastrian religion was based (at least on the surface) on
the entire cannabis plant, the chief religious sacrament of its priest class,
and its most important medicine, (e.g., obstetrics, incense rites, anointing
and christening oils), as well as lighting or fire oils in their secular world.
The word "magic" is generally considered derived from the Zoroastrians "Magi."
The ESSENES (ancient Israeli sect of extreme Hebrewites, approx. 200
B.C. to 73 A.D.) used hemp medicinally, as did the:
THERAPUTEA (Egypt),
from whom we get the term "therapeutic." Both are believed by some scholars to
be disciples of, or in a brotherhood with, the priests/magicians of the
Zoroastrians.
EARLY JEWS As part of their holy Friday night services in
the Temple of Solomon, 60-80,000men ritually passed around and inhaled 20,000
incense burners filled with kanabosom (cannabis), before returning home for the
largest meal of the week (munchies?).
SUFIS OF ISLAM (Middle East) -
Moslem "mystical" priests who have taught, used and extolled cannabis for
divine revelation, insight and oneness with Allah, for at least the last 1,000
years. Many Moslem and world scholars believe the mysticism of the Sufi Priests
was actually that of the Zoroastrians who survived Moslem conquests of the 7th
and 8th Centuries A.D. and subsequent conversion (change your religion and give
up liquor or be beheaded).
COPTIC CHRISTIAN (Egypt/Ethiopia) - Some
sects believe the sacred "green herb of the field" in the Bible and the
Biblical secret incenses, sweet incenses and anointing oils to be cannabis.
The BANTUS (Africa) - had secret Dagga Cults,* societies which
restricted cannabis use to the ruling men. The Pygmies, Zulus and Hottentots
all found it an indispensable medication for cramps, epilepsy and gout, and as
a religious sacrament.
*These "Dagga" cults believed Holy Cannabis was
brought to Earth by the Gods, in particular from the "Two Dog Star" system that
we call Sirius A and B. "Dagga" literally means "cannabis." Interestingly, the
surviving Indo-European word for the plant can also be read as "canna," "reed"
and "bi," "two," as well as "canna," as in canine; and "bis," meaning two (bi)
"Two Dogs."
The RASTAFARIANS (Jamaica and elsewhere) are a contemporary
religious sect that uses "ganja" as its sacred sacrament to communicate with
God (Jah).
"And the Earth brought forth grass and herb-yielding seed
after its kind and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself after its
kind: and God saw that it was good." Genesis: Chapt. 1: Verse 12
"God
makes the Earth yield healing herbs, which the prudent man should not neglect."
Sirach: 38:4
"Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; That
which cometh out of the mouth defileth a man." Jesus, quoted: Matt.
15:11.
"In later times, some shall…speak lies in
hypocrisy…commanding to abstain from that which God hath created to be
received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth." Paul: 1
Tim. 4:1
Many historical biblical scholars believe that
Jesus of Nazareth was an Essene or
alined with the Essenes. Josephus identified the Essenes as one of the three
major Jewish sects - the Pharisees and the Sadducees being the other two at
that period of time.
The accounts of Josephus and Philo state that the
Essenes led a strictly celibate and communal life - often compared by scholars
to later Christian monastic living - although Josephus speaks also of another
"rank of Essenes" that did get married. According to Josephus, they had customs
and observances such as collective ownership, elected a leader to attend to the
interests of them all whose orders they obeyed, were forbidden from swearing
oaths and sacrificing animals, controlled their temper and served as channels
of peace, carried weapons only as protection against robbers, had no slaves but
served each other and, as a result of communal ownership, did not engage in
trading.
Both Josephus and Philo have lengthy accounts of their
communal meetings, meals and religious celebrations.
According to the
Dead Sea Scrolls the Essenes' community school at Qumran was called "Yahad"
(meaning "unity") in order to differentiate themselves from the rest of the
Jews who are repeatedly labeled "The Breakers of the Covenant".
The
online jewishencyclopedia defines Essenes as "A branch of the Pharisees who
conformed to the most rigid rules of Levitical purity while aspiring to the
highest degree of holiness. They lived solely by the work of their hands and in
a state of communism, devoted their time to study and devotion and to the
practice of benevolence, and refrained as far as feasible from conjugal
intercourse and sensual pleasures, in order to be initiated into the highest
mysteries of heaven."
cannabis usersBarack Obama - president of the
united states
Bill Clinton - president of the united states (but he did not
inhale)
Michael Phelps - won a record eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing
Olympics
the CIA and drugs
"The CIA's a bureaucracy which feeds on itself, and
those involved are constantly sitting around thinking up schemes for [foreign]
intervention which will win them promotions and justify further additions to
the staff. It self-generates interventions that otherwise never would be
thought of, let alone authorized." - Senator Frank Church
A pattern has
become apparent in regimes installed or supported by the CIA. Nearly every
regime seems to derive a portion of its cash flow from the distribution of
narcotics. There is always someone very close the installed puppet, a relative,
that seems to heavily involved in a narcotics supply network. In China Chiang
Kai-shek and his brother-in-law T.V. Soong; in Mexico Luis Echeverría
Álvarez and his brother-in-law Rubén Zuno Arce; in Iran Mohammad
Reza Shah Pahlavi and his twin sister Ashraf Pahlavi; in Vietnam Ngô
dình Diem and his brother Ngô dình Nhu; in Afghanistan
Hamid Karzai and his brother Ahmed Wali Karzai. In the absence of a popular
base for externally installed puppets external funds are needed for political
repression. The American presence in Afghanistan was weakened initially by its
dependence on a drug-trafficking Tajik-Uzbek minority coalition - the Northern
Alliance. The CIA's principal ally was Ahmad Shah Massoud of the Northern
Alliance was a drug trafficker.
"Since 2002, the prosecution of the war
in Afghanistan ‘at all levels' has been based on an implied strategy of
attrition via clearing operations virtually identical to those pursued in
Vietnam. In Vietnam, they were dubbed "search and destroy missions;" in
Afghanistan they are called "clearing operations" and "compound searches," but
the purpose is the same, to find easily replaced weapons or clear a tiny,
arbitrarily chosen patch of worthless ground for a short period, and then turn
it over to indigenous security forces who can't hold it, and then go do it
again somewhere else." - Thomas Johnson
When the CIA began supporting
the Laotian Phoumi Nosavan in 1959 they saw opium traffic as an alternative
source of income for Phoumi Nosavan's government. This decision ultimately led
to the growth of northwest Laos as one of the largest heroin-producing centers
in the world in the late 1960s. The CIA not only supported General Ouan
Rattikone (Phoumi's successor) and his drug-funded army, it supplied airplanes
for opium transportation and intervened militarily with air support in a battle
over a contested opium caravan in Laos. Conversely, when the US withdrew from
Laos in the 1970s, opium production plummeted, from an estimated 200 tons in
1975 to 30 tons in 1984. A Senate staff report has estimated "that $500 billion
to $1 trillion in criminal proceeds are laundered through banks worldwide each
year, with about half of that amount moved through United States banks." The
London Independent reported in 2004 that drug trafficking constitutes "the
third biggest global commodity in cash terms after oil and the arms trade."
Washington and the mass media have portrayed the U.S. in the forefront of the
struggle against narco trafficking, drug laundering and political corruption:
the image is of clean white hands fighting dirty money from the Third world (or
the ex-Communist countries). The truth is exactly the opposite. U.S. banks have
developed a highly elaborate set of policies for transferring illicit funds to
the U.S., investing those funds in legitimate businesses or U.S. government
bonds and legitimating them. The U.S. Congress has held numerous hearings,
provided detailed exposés of the illicit practices of the banks, passed
several laws and called for stiffer enforcement by any number of public
regulators and private bankers. Yet the biggest banks continue their practices,
the sums of dirty money grows exponentially, because both the State and the
banks have neither the will nor the interest to put an end to the practices
that provide high profits and buttress an otherwise fragile empire. In the wake
of the 2008 economic crisis, this analysis found support from the claim of
Antonio Maria Costa, head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, that "Drugs
money worth billions of dollars kept the financial system afloat at the height
of the global crisis." According to the London Observer, Costa said he has seen
evidence that the proceeds of organised crime were "the only liquid investment
capital" available to some banks on the brink of collapse last year. He said
that a majority of the $352bn (£216bn) of drugs profits was absorbed into
the economic system as a result... Costa said evidence that illegal money was
being absorbed into the financial system was first drawn to his attention by
intelligence agencies and prosecutors around 18 months ago. "In many instances,
the money from drugs was the only liquid investment capital. In the second half
of 2008, liquidity was the banking system's main problem and hence liquid
capital became an important factor," he said. As I have observed elsewhere
about the U.S. campaign against the FARC and cocaine in Colombia, the aim of
all U.S. anti drug campaigns abroad has never been the hopeless ideal of
eradication. The aim of all such campaigns has been to alter market share: to
target specific enemies and thus ensure that the drug traffic remains under the
control of those traffickers who are allies of the state security apparatus
and/or the CIA. This was notably true of Laos" - Peter Dale Scott
the Golden Triangle
Following the
effective suppression of the heroin trade in America during World War II and
the subsequent decision to stamp out opium growing by Turkey — which had
been one of the main sources of raw opium — organized crime in both
America and Europe collaborated in a wide-ranging conspiracy to establish new
centers of opium production, heroin refining and distribution in Southeast
Asia; these collaborations were greatly facilitated by the Central Intelligence
Agency and by the unstable political situation created by the ongoing Vietnam
War. During the First Indochina War (1947-1954), the French SDECE military
intelligence agency was in need of money for its covert operations. Its
officers contacted opium producers in the Golden Triangle, and set up an
international system of smuggling, the French Connection, aided by intelligence
and other aid from SDECE. The "French Connection" conspiracy arose from an
alliance between the Corsican Mafia, who had an historical presence in South
Vietnam dating back to the French occupation, and leading members of the
American and Sicilian Mafia, under the leadership of Lucky Luciano, who had
been imprisoned in the U.S. during World War II for racketeering, but was asked
to provide assistance to American military intelligence about Axis infiltration
of the waterfront in American ports (which was effectively controlled by the
Mafia), as well as assisting Allied forces in their invasion of Sicily and
Italy. He reportedly used his contacts in the Sicilian Mafia to assist U.S.
forces by gathering intelligence and identifying both fascist collaborators and
Socialist/Communist elements in the Italian resistance movement, who were then
systematically eliminated. In return for his assistance, Luciano was covertly
permitted to run his crime operations from prison, and at the end of the war he
was deported back to Sicily, where he immediately began a major expansion of
his drug operations, forging alliances with Corsican Mafia members in South
Vietnam and organized crime figures in other countries, including Australia.
"American involvement had gone far beyond coincidental complicity;
embassies had covered up involvement by client governments, CIA contract
airlines had carried opium, and individual CIA agents had winked at the opium
traffic. As an indirect consequence of American involvement in the Golden
Triangle until 1972, opium production steadily increased. Southeast Asia's
Golden Triangle grew 70 percent of the world's illicit opium, supplied an
estimated 30 percent of America's heroin, and was capable of supplying the
United States with unlimited quantities of heroin for generations to come." -
Alfred W. McCoy
The CIA recruited drug lords in Burma in 1950 in
operations against China and was involved in drug trafficking from 1965 to 1975
in Laos and through the 1980s in Afghanistan, supporting for example the drug
and warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, leader of the Hezbi-i Islami guerilla group.
CIA controlled banks have been involved with money laundering activities.
Castle Bank was replaced by the Nugan Hand Bank, who had as legal council
William Colby, retired head of the CIA.
"The boom in the Pakistan drug
trade was financed by BCCI."- Alfred W. McCoy
a group of Nicaraguan exiles set up a cocaine ring
in CaliforniaA group of Nicaraguan exiles set up a cocaine ring in
California, establishing ties with the black street gangs of South Central Los
Angeles who manufactured crack out of shipments of powder cocaine. The profits
made by the Nicaraguan exiles was funneled back to the Contra army - created in
the late 1970s by the Central Intelligence Agency, with the mission of
sabotaging the Sandinista revolution that had evicted Anastasio Somoza and his
corrupt clique in 1979. "For the better part of a decade, a San Francisco Bay
Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to the Crips and Bloods street gangs of Los
Angeles and funneled millions in drug profits to a Latin American guerrilla
army run by the CIA." - Gary Webb That San Francisco drug ring was headed by a
Nicaraguan exile named Norwin Meneses Cantarero, who served "as the head of
security and intelligence" for the leading organization in the Contra
coalition, the FDN or Fuerza Democratico Nicaraguense. The FDN was headed by
Enrique Bermudez and Adolfo Calero, who had been installed in those positions
under the oversight of the CIA. Meneses came from a family intimately linked to
the Somoza dictatorship. One brother had been chief of police in Managua. Two
other brothers were generals in the force most loyal to Somoza, the National
Guard. While his brothers were assisting Somoza in the political dictatorship
that darkened Nicaragua for many decades, Norwin Meneses applied his energies
mostly to straightforwardly criminal enterprises in the civil sector. He ran a
car theft ring and was also one of the top drug traffickers in Nicaragua, where
he was known as El Rey del Drogas (the king of drugs). Meneses worked with the
approval of the Somoza clan, which duly received its rake-off. In 1977, Norwin
Meneses felt it necessary to register his disquiet at a Nicaraguan customs
probe into his smuggling of high-end North American cars from the US into
Nicaragua. The Meneses gang murdered the chief of customs. Owing to Norwin's
powerful family, the case was never prosecuted. The US Drug Enforcement Agency
and other agencies had been keeping files on Meneses since at least 1974. Yet
he was granted political refugee status in July 1979, when he and other members
of Somoza's elite fled to the US. Meneses landed in San Francisco as part of
what became known locally as the Nicaraguan "gold rush." Here he lost no time
in rebuilding his criminal enterprises in stolen cars and drugs. Meneses's
contact in Los Angeles was another Nicaraguan exile, Oscar Danilo Blandon.
Blandon had left Managua in June 1979, a month before Meneses, on the eve of
Somoza's downfall. The son of a Managua slumlord, Blandon had earned a master's
degree in marketing from the University of Bogota in Colombia and had headed
Somoza's agricultural export program. Agricultural exports were an important
component of the country's mainly ranching- and coffee-based economy, with the
Somoza family itself owning no less than a quarter of the nation's agricultural
land. In his position as head of the export program, Blandon had developed
close ties to the US Department of Commerce and the US State Department. He
secured $27 million in USAID funding and was well known to the US military and
the Central Intelligence Agency, both of which had a commanding presence in
Somoza's Nicaragua. (Somoza had sent his officer corps for training in the US,
and the CIA station chief was the most powerful foreigner in Managua.)
Blandon's wife, Chepita, also came from a powerful clan, the Murillo family.
One of her relatives was the mayor of Managua. Like many other Somoza
supporters, both the Blandon and Murillo families lost most of their fortunes
in the 1979 revolution and burned with the desire to evict the popular
government headed by the Sandinista commanders. Blandon and his wife settled in
Los Angeles, where he started a used-car business. He also began to involve
himself in Nicaraguan emigre politics. Testifying on February 3, 1994 as a
government witness before a federal grand jury investigating the Meneses
family's drug ring in San Francisco, Blandon said he drove to San Francisco for
several meetings with Norwin Meneses "to start the movement, the Contra
revolution." Blandon had known the Meneses family in Nicaragua. In fact,
Blandon said, his mother shared Meneses's last name of Cantarero, "so we are
related." He said he and Meneses "met with the politics people," but couldn't
find a way to raise big sums of cash. In the spring of 1981, Blandon got a
phone call from an old friend and business associate from Managua named Donald
Barrios. Barrios, then living in Miami, was moving in high-level Nicaraguan
emigre circles. This group included General Gustavo Medina, once an important
intelligence officer in Somoza's National Guard, a position in which he had
long-standing ties to the CIA. Blandon later testified that Barrios "started
telling me we had to raise some money and send it to Honduras." Barrios
instructed Blandon to go to Los Angeles International Airport to meet Meneses.
Blandon and Meneses then flew to Honduras and, in the capital city of
Tegucigalpa, met with Enrique Bermudez, former National Guardsman and military
commander of the FDN. In Somoza's final days, President Jimmy Carter had made a
last-ditch effort to maintain a US-backed regime in Nicaragua even if Somoza
should be forced to quit. The plan was to preserve the bloodthirsty National
Guard as the custodian of US interests. When this plan failed and the
Sandinistas swept to power, Carter ordered the initial organization of what
later became known as the Contras, operating out of Honduras. The CIA mustered
Argentinian officers fresh from their own death squad campaigns, and these men
began to organize the exiled National Guardsmen into a military force. Bermudez
was key to this CIA-organized operation from the start. He had been a colonel
in the National Guard, had trained at the US National Defense College outside
Washington, D.C., and had served from 1976 to July 1979 as Somoza's military
attache in Washington. Furnished with $300,000 in CIA money, Bermudez took
command of the fledgling Contra force in Honduras. In the summer of 1981, at
the dawn of the Reagan administration, Bermudez held a press conference in
Honduras. In language drafted by his CIA handlers, Bermudez announced the
formation of the FDN and his own position as commander of its military wing.
The CIA script later installed Adolfo Calero, formerly the Coca-Cola
concessionaire in Managua, as the FDN's civilian head, operating mainly out of
the United States, where he was under tight CIA supervision. Blandon and
Meneses arrived to meet Bermudez at a moment of financial strain for the Contra
army, then in formation. The CIA had provided seed money, but it wasn't until
November 23, 1981 that Reagan approved National Security Directive 17, which
provided a budget of $19.3 million for the Contras, via the CIA. The Contras,
Bermudez said, needed money urgently, and, Blandon later testified to a US
federal grand jury, it was at this meeting that the need for drug money to
finance the Contras was proposed. "There's a saying," Blandon testified, "that
`the ends justify the means.' And that's what Mr. Bermudez told us in
Honduras." Bermudez was not repelled by the moral implications of drug
smuggling. In fact, evidence gathered during congressional hearings in the
mid-1980s suggests that Bermudez himself had previously had a hand in the drug
trade. "Bermudez was the target of a government-sponsored drug sting
operation," said Senator John Kerry, who chaired a committee that investigated
charges of Contra cocaine smuggling. "He has been involved in drug running."
Kerry charged that the CIA had protected Bermudez from arrest. "The law
enforcement officials know that the sting was called back in the interest of
protecting the Contras," Kerry concluded.
CIA and Contras cocaine
trafficking in the US Released on April 13, 1989, the Kerry Committee report
concluded that members of the U.S. State Department "who provided support for
the Contras were involved in drug trafficking...and elements of the Contras
themselves knowingly received financial and material assistance from drug
traffickers." In 1996 Gary Webb wrote a series of articles published in the San
Jose Mercury News, which investigated Nicaraguans linked to the CIA-backed
Contras who had allegedly smuggled cocaine into the U.S. which was then
distributed as crack cocaine into Los Angeles and funneled profits to the
Contras. According to Webb, the CIA was aware of the cocaine transactions and
the large shipments of drugs into the U.S. by the Contra personnel and directly
aided drug dealers to raise money for the Contras. In 1996 CIA Director John M.
Deutch went to Los Angeles to refute the allegations raised by the Gary Webb
articles, and was famously confronted by former LAPD officer Michael Ruppert,
who said he had witnessed it occurring. Venezuelan National Guard Affair In
November 1993, Judge Robert C. Bonner, the former head of the DEA, appeared on
60 Minutes and alleged that the CIA had permitted literally a ton of cocaine to
enter the United States. In November 1996 a Miami jury indicted former
Venezuelan anti-narcotics chief and CIA asset, General Ramon Guillen Davila,
who "led a CIA counter-narcotics program that put a ton of cocaine on U.S.
streets in 1990."
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