Video: Cannabis banned by oil tycoons
2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55
In the eighteenth century USA, the cultivation of cannabis was compulsory. From 1763 to 1769, for refusing to cultivate this crop, one could even end up in prison. Until the early 19th century, hemp was allowed to pay taxes in the United States.
By the end of the 19th century, the Russian Empire was the main exporter of hemp in the world. 40% of hemp production in Europe was in Russia. It is safe to say that the well-being of the whole state was supported by hemp.
What else is our country called? Endowed Russia! And, by the way, it’s as low as possible - hemp fabric.
The USSR also considered hemp as one of the main crops. Her crops in 1936 (680 thousand hectares) accounted for no less than four-fifths of the world's hemp area. And by party decisions at the highest level, peasants were provided with special benefits and advantages for sowing hemp on estates, backyards and floodplain lands.
Hemp's status as the main agricultural crop in the USSR was immortalized in 1954 in the famous Friendship of Peoples fountain at the Exhibition of Economic Achievements in Moscow.
The badge “to the master of hemp growing” is not a meme made in Photoshop for fun, but a real artifact of those years. And the phrase "hemp harvester" then did not cause a silly giggle.
However, already in 1961, the USSR ratified the UN Convention "On Narcotic Drugs", according to which cannabis, along with heroin, was declared a dangerous drug that had no practical value, and which was prescribed to be destroyed in every possible way. What happened?
Let's rewind a little and be transported to America again. In 1916, the US parliament expressed the opinion that by 1940 all paper products would be made from hemp, so cutting down trees would no longer be necessary, because 1 hectare of hemp is equivalent in productivity to 4 hectares of forest. Such news could not please the moneybags who got rich from deforestation and the production of paper from wood. But there were also much more powerful forces.
At the time, the Dupont heirs patented a number of manufacturing processes that heralded the advent and dawn of the Fossil Energy Era.
At the annual report, the chairman urged shareholders, about which a little later, to invest in the new division "petrochemistry" all available funds. They decided to produce synthetic materials such as plastics, cellophane, celluloid, methanol, nylon, viscose from oil, gas and other hydrocarbons. Industrialization in agriculture, innovation in the production of hemp would destroy the lion's share, more than 80% of DuPont's business.
And now the shareholders. During these years, a certain Andrew Mellon became the Secretary of the State Treasury and the main investor of the DuPont company. But this difficult man was still the owner of the 6th largest bank in the country and the largest shareholder of Gulf Oil (Gulf Oil) - which in turn was one of the Seven Sisters - a conglomerate of oil companies that held the lion's share of the world's oil reserves.
Andrew Mellon appoints his nephew Harry Anslinger as head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs.
It is known that a number of confidential meetings were held by this handful of financial magnates. The American media tycoon William Hirst was involved in the criminal gang, who bought paper for his newspapers from Dupont, who extracted pulp from wood, and also invested his money in the Dupont enterprises.
Together they organized a black PR campaign: formally - against marijuana, but in fact - against hemp competitors.
Her main thesis was that cannabis use is a major drug problem and that marijuana caused extreme violence in people.
The oligarchs succeeded in passing the Marijuana Tax Act in the US Congress. This law even banned the medical use of marijuana, and he forced cannabis growers to pay such exorbitant taxes that they simply closed their unprofitable businesses.
Further, the aforementioned Harry Anslinger, the head of the US Federal Bureau of Drug Enforcement, wearing a mask of an outrageous dogmatist and racist, declared cannabis a "weapon of the communists" hemp.
Now it is fashionable to call such an influence lobbying, but to put it bluntly, several wealthy conspirators behind the scenes banned the whole world from using one of the main and useful plants on the planet.
So, on March 30, 1961, in New York, most of the UN member states signed the "Single Convention on Narcotic Substances", which, in particular, ordered to establish the strictest control over the cultivation of dangerous drug-containing plants: opium poppy, coca and cannabis. By the way, interestingly, cannabis, being a universal remedy, was included in the list of "drugs with no medical use", in contrast to opiates, which are still widely used in medicine.
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