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Emperor - Chapter 16

The Emperor's New Clothes - Alternatives to Prohibition In conclusion, we see that the government’s case against... more

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The Official Story - Debunking "Gutter Science"

After 15 days of taking testimony and more than a year's legal deliberation, DEA Administrative Law Judge Francis L. Young formally urged the DEA to allow doctors to prescribe marijuana. In a September 1988 judgment, he ruled: "The evidence in this record clearly shows that marijuana has been accepted as capable of relieving the distress of great numbers of very ill people, and doing so with safety under medical supervision . . . It would be unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious for the DEA to continue to stand between those sufferers and the benefits of this substance in light of the evidence in this record. 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."

Yet former DEA Administrator John Lawn, his successor, Robert Bonner, and current DEA Administrator John Constantine - non-doctors all! - have refused to comply and have continued to deprive persons of medical cannabis, according to their own personal discretion.

Wasting Time, Wasting Lives

More than 100 years have passed since the 1894 British Raj commission study of hashish smokers in India reported cannabis use was harmless and even helpful. Numerous studies since have all agreed: The most prominent being Siler, LaGuardia, Nixon's Shafer Commission, Canada's LeDain Commission, and the California Research Advisory Commission.

Concurrently, American presidents have praised hemp, the USDA amassed volumes of data showing its value as a natural resource, and in 1942 the Roosevelt administration even made Hemp for Victory, a film glorifying our patriotic hemp farmers. That same year, Germany produced The Humorous Hemp Primer, a comic book, written in rhyme, extolling hemp's virtues. (See appendix I of the paper version of this book.)

Yet even the humane use of hemp for medicine is now denied. Asked in late 1989 about the DEA's failure to implement his decision quoted above, Judge Young responded that administrator John Lawn was being given time to comply.

More than a year after that ruling, Lawn officially refused to reschedule cannabis, again classing it as a Schedule I "dangerous" drug that is not even allowed to be used as medicine.

Decrying this needless suffering of helpless Americans, the National Organization to Reform Marijuana Laws (NORML) and the Family Council on Drug Awareness quickly demanded Lawn's resignation. His successors, Bonner, and now Constantine, retain the same policy.

What hypocrisy allows public officials to scoff at the facts and deny the truth? How do they rationalize their atrocities? How? They invent their own experts.The Official Story - Debunking "Gutter Science" After 15 days of taking testimony and more than a year's legal... more

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Emperor - Chapter 14

More than Seventy Years of Suppression & Repression 1937: Hemp banned. Only an estimated 60,000 Americans smoke... more

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Emperor - Chapter 13

PREJUDICE: Marijuana and the Jim Crow Laws Since the abolition of slavery, racism and bigotry have generally had to manifest... more

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Emperor - Chapter 12

Cannabis Drug Use in 19th Century America Although by 1839, cannabis hemp products for fiber, paper, nautical use, lamp oil,... more

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Emperor - Chapter 11

The (HEMP) War of 1812 United States vs. Great Britain Napoleon Invades Russia... This is a piece of history that you... more

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Emperor - Chapter 10

Myth, Magic & Medicine: A Look at the Sociology of Cannabis Use Throughout World History Contrary to popular... more

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Emperor - Chapter 9

ECONOMICS: Energy, Environment and Commerce We have explained what hemp has historically meant to this country’s economy.... more

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Emperor - Chapter 8

Cannabis Hempseed as a Basic World Food In 1937, Ralph Loziers, general counsel of the National Institute of Oilseed Products,... more

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Emperor - Chapter 7

Therapeutic Use of Cannabis There are more than 60 therapeutic compounds in cannabis that are healing agents in medical and... more

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Emperor - Chapter 6

The Body of Medical Literature on Cannabis Medicine Our authority here is the ‘Body of Literature,’ starting with... more

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Emperor - Chapter 5

Marijuana Prohibition

Anslinger got his marijuana law…

“Should we believe self-serving, ever-growing drug enforcement/drug treatment bureaucrats, whose pay and advancement depends on finding more and more people to arrest and ‘treat’?

“More Americans die in just one day in prisons, penitentiaries, jails and stockades than have ever died from marijuana throughout history. Who are they protecting? From what?”

—Fred Oerther, MD, Portland, Oregon

Moving to Crush Dissent

After the 1938-1944 New York City ”LaGuardia Marijuana Report” refuted his argument, by reporting that marijuana caused no violence at all and citing other positive results, Harry J. Anslinger, in public tirade after tirade, denounced Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, the New York Academy of Medicine and the doctors who researched the report.

Anslinger proclaimed that these doctors would never again do marijuana experiments or research without his personal permission, or be sent to jail!

He then used the full power of the United States government, illegally, to halt virtually all research into marijuana while he blackmailed the American Medical Association (AMA)* into denouncing the New York Academy of Medicine and its doctors for the research they had done.

*Why, you ask, was the AMA now on Anslinger’s side in 1944-45, after being against the Marijuana Tax Act in 1937? Answer: Since Anslinger’s FBN was responsible for prosecuting doctors who prescribed narcotic drugs for what he, Anslinger, deemed illegal purposes, they (the FBN) had prosecuted more than 3,000 AMA doctors for illegal prescriptions through 1939. In 1939, the AMA made specific peace with Anslinger on marijuana. The results: Only three doctors were prosecuted for illegal drugs of any sort from 1939 to 1949.

To refute the LaGuardia report, the AMA, at Anslinger’s personal request, conducted a 1944-45 study; “of the experimental group 34 were negroes and one was white” (for statistical control) who smoked marijuana, became disrespectful of white soldiers and officers in the segregated military. (See Appendix, “Army Study of Marijuana,” Newsweek, Jan. 15, 1945.)

This technique of biasing the outcome of a study is known among researchers as “gutter science.” Marijuana Prohibition Anslinger got his marijuana law… “Should we believe self-serving, ever-growing drug... more

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Emperor - Chapter 4

The Last Days of LEGAL CANNABIS As you now know, the industrial revolution of the 19th century was a setback for hemp in World... more

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Emperor - Chapter 3

February 1938 - Popular Mechanics Magazine: “NEW BILLION-DOLLAR CROP” February 1938 - Mechanical Engineering... more

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Emperor - Chapter 2

A Brief Summary of the Uses of Hemp Our Challenge to the World: Try to Prove Us Wrong If all fossil fuels and their... more

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Emperor - Chapter 1

Overview of the History of Cannabis Hemp For the Purpose of Clarity in this Book: Explanations or documentations marked... more

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Nutritional Authority David Wolfe Shares Important Diet Information

"For example, hemp protein; it’s a complete protein source. It contains the sulphur (sulfur) bearing amino acids, which... more

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Law enforcement forces pot indoors

From April to October, while N.C. farmers are planting, tending and harvesting their crops, hundreds of law enforcement officers engage in the annual ritual of weed-pulling.

The Marijuana Eradication Program is a joint effort that uses federal funds, state-owned aircraft and county sheriff's officers to find and destroy marijuana plants. After more than three decades, investigators say, the program has helped bring about a change in the industry: Local growers have begun to move their operations indoors, hidden from aerial spotters, leaving only tiny plots for pilots to search for in the verdant landscape.

When spotters do find a large crop, usually divided into parcels over several acres where the landowners are unaware of their presence, investigators think the plants are often being tended as part of an organized criminal effort.

“The trend has been toward smaller patches and better concealment, and there's a tremendous trend toward indoor growing,” said Durb Turner, special agent in charge of the air wing of North Carolina's State Bureau of Investigation.

Pilots for the SBI, the N.C. Highway Patrol and the N.C. National Guard try to fly in each of the state's 100 counties at least once during the growing season. Marine Patrol aircraft also help. They scan places where investigators have found pot in the past, and those where their detective work suggests it might be growing now. It's an old-fashioned form of sleuthing that works best against a low-tech criminal.

“The easiest time to find it is when they first set the seedlings out in the spring,” said Franklin County Sheriff's Detective William Mitchell, one of many local narcotics officers who have attended a state-sponsored “spotters school.”

“(Growers) just go out and clear a space and put the seedlings in the ground,” Mitchell said. “All you got to do is go up and look for the dots.”

It's a bit more challenging in late July, when the trees are full, milkweed is as tall as a house and a marijuana plant blends more easily with surrounding foliage.

Thirty years ago, Turner says, the biggest plots were usually planted by local growers. Some of those growers aged out of the business or just got tired of worrying they might get caught and lose their investment, Turner says. Some still raise a few plants, scattered from place to place over a broad area.

They have been followed, Turner thinks, by growers who have moved their production indoors, setting up elaborate greenhouse systems where high-quality plants can be raised year-round.

Investigators say those are more difficult to find. When plants are spotted outside on private property, law officers can move in immediately. But to raid a house, a search warrant is needed, and it's more difficult to establish the probable cause a judge or magistrate would require.

After news of a big Harnett County bust traveled across the country, Sheriff Larry Rollins says, he was inundated with calls and e-mail from people questioning the value of putting so many resources to work on investigations that rarely result in arrests. When charges are made, they are usually for manufacturing or trafficking marijuana. Even then, police say, the courts treat the charges lightly.From April to October, while N.C. farmers are planting, tending and harvesting their crops, hundreds of law enforcement officers... more