GOOD OLD HENRY FORD - THE REAL REASON THAT CANNABIS WAS OUTLAWED
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Henry Braun
April 10, 2016
As Henry Ford demonstrated in the 1920’s, cannabis-based automotive
plastics (which were fabricated from the highly-nutritious resins in the
seeds), were 10 times stronger than steel, while being completely non-toxic and
biodegradable. Ford also used cannabis-based hydrogen and ethanol that were
less than half the cost of gasoline, and images of Ford’s remarkable cannabis
cars being repeatedly banged with axes and hammers with no damage are provided
on YouTube and in a BBC documentary, “The True History of Marijuana” that is
posted online and on the home page of the BraunforPresident.US website.
This is the real reason why cannabis
was made illegal in 1937 by oil industry lobbyists headed by the oil baron
Andrew Mellon, who as Treasury Secretary established the Federal Narcotics
Bureau, which changed the scientific name of cannabis to an unknown slang term
“marihuana” (spelled with an “h”) so that cannabis could be removed from the
market with no recorded vote in either the House or Senate, and over the
objections of Henry Ford, whose “Chemergy” concept proved that small farmers
could grow all of the fuels, foods and medicines in the United States, rather
than making them from toxic, expensive and non-renewable oil and coal.
The American Medical Association
(AMA) also opposed the cannabis prohibition because of its listing in the
American Pharmacopoeia since 1851 as widespread universal medicinal herb that
was in use worldwide for thousands of years. Indeed, the scientific term
cannabis is derived from the ancient Greek word “Kannabis,” which was embraced
by the Athenians who developed the world’s first Democracy, whereas the
Spartans who discouraged the consumption of cannabis created a police state. In
the contentious Congressional testimony from the AMA’s distinguished
legislative liaison, Dr. William Woodward, he refused to use the new slang word
Marihuana because he characterized it as a “mongrel” term that had no place in
medical science. This is also why I refuse to use this DEA propaganda term,
which is similar to calling morphine "heroin."
Dr. Woodward’s complete testimony is
available online and on the papers section of the PhoenixProjectFoundation.US
website. But Dr. Woodward was not aware that another oil baron, John D.
Rockefeller, found he could increase his profit from a barrel of oil by over
1,000 percent by not just making plastics, but also the new toxic so-called
“medicines,” like aspirin and a vast array of new oil-based pharmaceutical
drugs, instead of gasoline.
Indeed, In 1988 after extensive
hearings on the toxicity of all drugs, including cannabis and prescription
drugs, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Administrative Law Judge Francis
L. Young declared that “cannabis (i.e., marijuana) in its natural form is one of
the safest therapeutically active substances known to man," and that while
nearly all prescription medicines have toxic, and potentially lethal side
effects, “marijuana is not such a substance.” Indeed, “There is no record in
the extensive medical literature describing a proven, documented
cannabis-induced fatality,” Judge Young acknowledges that “this is a remarkable
statement.” But he writes in his order that given the evidence presented on
over 5,000 years of human experience with cannabis, plus the fact that cannabis
is now used daily by an estimated fifty million Americans, “there are simply no
credible medical reports to suggest that consuming marijuana has caused a
single death.”
By contrast, the Centers for Disease
Control estimate that at least 12,000 people die each year from aspirin, a
commonly used over-the-counter medicine, and millions die each year from the
thousands of toxic and expensive prescription pain medications, when cannabis
has been the completely non-toxic and indeed highly-nutritious gold standard
for pain medications for thousands of years. For these and other reasons, the
editors of Scientific American in 2004 referred to the existing cannabis laws
as “absurd.” Yet all of the Republican and Democratic presidents, including Obama,
Bush, Clinton all remained silent on this issue that spend over a trillion
taxpayers dollars to kill and prosecute and imprison millions of otherwise
innocent American’s for the benefit of oil companies.
In 1997, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) after a comprehensive study of
the medical efficacy of cannabis therapeutics came to a conclusion that
cannabis is a safe and effective medicine, patients should have access, and the
government should expand avenues for research and drug development of the same.
However, the federal government paid a deaf ear to the findings and refused to
act on its recommendations. - See more at: http://medicalmarijuana.uslegal.com/medical-use-of-marijuana-history/#sthash.l2vokmFy.dpuf
This scientific and medical evidence
verifies that cannabis is not a dangerous or toxic drug at all, but according
to a paper published in the December 2004 issue of Scientific American, the
psychoactive THC in cannabis is, in fact, a 500-million year-old
neurotransmitter that switches on a two-way communication and feedback system
in the brain of all humans and other vertebrate animals, which has completely
redefined the science of neurology.
But by removing cannabis from the
so-called free market, two of the largest elements of the American economy that
used to be made by farmers (i.e. energy and medicines), would soon be provided
by what was evolving into the Oil Industrial Complex, which has also acquired
the controlling interests in the chemical, agricultural and news corporations,
as well as the major Wall Street banks, which allows them to bribe key members
of both political parties. But by lobbyists replacing the Cannabis Economy with
the Oil Economy, the only planet in the Universe that is known to sustain life,
is rapidly becoming uninhabitable in one-generation. The Earth is dying and the
unnecessary use of oil and other toxic products are the cause.
The global ocean ecological systems
are now over 90% dead, and the remaining fish are so contaminated with chemical
poisons, plastics and radiological isotopes they are unfit to eat. Even worse,
most of the over 100,000 oil-based chemical poisons now arrive in the wind and
rain. This means there is no pure water in any American stream or river, from
sea to contaminated sea. And while the contaminated air in China is terrible,
it will soon be swept up into the Earth’s atmosphere where the poisons will be
diffused worldwide in a matter of days. Even water that is distilled for
supermarkets is placed into toxic plastic bottles that leach their chemical
poisons from the oil-based plastic bottle, instead of a non-toxic plastic Henry
Ford was using to make cars.
Thus cannabis was made illegal because
it was a fundamental threat to the economic survival of the multi-trillion
dollar oil, plastics and pharmaceutical corporations that are now killing
millions of Americans with their toxic fuels, plastics and so-called medicines,
which are collectively making the Earth uninhabitable. And my mission as a
presidential candidate is to inform the American people about this tragic
Orwellian deception, while there is hopefully still time to hire millions of
Americans immediately to return the USA to a solar hydrogen cannabis energy,
economic and agricultural systems by 2020, which are sustainable because they
are pollution-free and inexhaustible. - Henry Braun
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Medical use of Marijuana-History
The Chinese were the first among those who used marijuana for medicinal purposes. By 1850, Cannabis was a part of the American pharmacopoeia. Marijuana was listed as a useful drug for the treatment of numerous afflictions such as neuralgia, tetanus, typhus, cholera, rabies, anthrax, leprosy, tonsillitis, dysentery, insanity, and excessive menstrual and uterine bleedings. It was used as a popular medicine until the time the Marihuana Tax Act was passed in 1937. Marihuana continues to be available by prescription in the Netherlands, Canada, Spain, and Italy.
An unexpected prohibition on the use of medical marihuana was made in 1937 when U.S. passed the first federal law against cannabis. Dr. William C. Woodward, a representative of the American Medical Association (AMA) raised objections against the Bill. He testified on behalf of the AMA that the Act was to curtail the medicinal uses of Marijuana, and passing of the Bill will deprive US citizens benefits of a drug of substantial value. However, the Act was passed in 1937, and Marijuana was removed from US Pharmacopoeia in 1941. The debates relating to the passing of the Boggs Act, 1951 created a notion that the use of Marijuana led to the use of harder drugs. Penalties for Marihuana were increased with the Narcotic Control Act, 1951. The Controlled Substances Act, 1970 classified drugs into five schedules. Schedule I substances are said to have highest potential for abuse, no medical value, and are considered not to be safe for use even under medical supervision. Marijuana is classified as a Schedule I drug.[1]
In 1976, the federal government created a special federal program known as the Investigational New Drug (IND) compassionate access research program to allow patients to receive up to nine pounds of cannabis from the government each year. However, the access to the program was closed in June 1991 when the Public Health Service announced that the program would be suspended because it undermined federal prohibition. Despite this successful medical program and centuries of documented safe use, cannabis is still classified in America as a Schedule I substance.
In 1996, patients and advocates turned to the state level for access to marijuana for medical purposes. Voter initiatives in California and Arizona allowed legal use of cannabis with a doctor’s recommendation. Subsequently, similar initiatives were passed in Alaska, Colorado, Maine, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, and Washington D.C. The legislatures of Hawaii, Maryland, New Mexico Rhode Island, and Vermont have also acted on behalf of their citizens, and every legislative session sees more bills introduced at the state level across the country.[2]
In 1997, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) after a comprehensive study of the medical efficacy of cannabis therapeutics came to a conclusion that cannabis is a safe and effective medicine, patients should have access, and the government should expand avenues for research and drug development of the same. However, the federal government paid a deaf ear to the findings and refused to act on its recommendations.
State laws legalizing medical marijuana was passed from the year 1996. California was the first to pass a law favoring medical use of marijuana. Following this, Alaska, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, Michigan, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island, New Mexico, Washington, and Vermont also passed favorable laws.
[1] Medical Marijuana Law, Richard Glen Boire, Kevin Feeney
[2] http://www.safeaccessnow.org/section.php?id=175
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