The Study of the Hemp Fiber by the US's Largest Chemical Company, DuPont, Produced and Patented the First Synthetic Fiber, Rayon, their Plastics, (Celluloid, Acetate, etc.) and the duplication of these fibers produced Nylon, the Strongest Synthetic Fiber. DuPont also Produced the Chemicals that makeup Synthetic Varnishes and Paints, and the Chemicals used in the Wood- Paper Process. "The Chemist has Aided in Conserving Nature by developing Synthetic products to supplement or Wholly Replace Natural products, said Lammont DuPont, company president".
"After the 1937 Marijuana Tax law, new DuPont “plastic fibers,” under license since 1936 from the German company I.G. Farben (patent surrenders were part of Germany’s World War I reparation payments to America), replaced natural HEMPEN fibers. (Some 30% of I.G. Farben, under HITLER ( http://t.co/vjNmlgQ ) was owned and financed by America’s DuPont). DuPont also introduced Nylon (invented in 1935) to the market after they’d patented it in 1938".
In 1938, Popular Mechanics described Hemp as the "New Billion Dollar Crop"
The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, was a "Significant Bill on the path that led to the Criminalization of Cannabis." DuPont patented Nylon, Strongest Synthetic Fiber (Hemp is the Strongest Natural Fiber) including Petroleum- based Plastics (Hemp will make Non-Toxic and Biodegradable Plastics) the Chemicals used to make Varnish and Paint (Hemp will make Non-Toxic, Varnish, Paints, etc.) and the Chemical process of making Paper from Wood (Hemp will make Paper and Building materials).
Curious, how DuPont was able to research and synthetically duplicate the hemp fibers and in the same year, it became illegal to grow hemp. During this time, hemp production was on it’s way to a very lucrative market and in order for DuPont to continue his ultimate success, he would have to block the rights of American farmers to grow hemp and deny the people the opportunity for research. Prosperity and small business would have flourished throughout the US and the world, but this would have left, less money and power for the world’s largest Chemical Company, DuPont. Too convenient for DuPont, why not classify cannabis species of hemp into the cannabis species known as marijuana because of the similar leaf shape and the THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocanabinol, the active ingredient in marijuana) likeness which tied everything together, but the percentage of THC in hemp is basically non-existent compared to marijuana. In recent times, the cultivation of hemp is in the hands of the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration).
Hemp also threatened the corporate interests of William Randolph Hearst. Hearst owned vast timber acreage and competition from the hemp industry would have cost him millions, leading his paper manufacturing business out the door. Because of DuPont’s patent for the chemicals used for the wood-paper process, meant he would make money from Hearst and Hearst would continue to make money by saving his Tree-Killing Business. Hearst's newspaper (yellow journalism) helped out with the hemp and marijuana mix-up, advertising untruths while demonizing marijuana as a violent drug. The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, was introduced to U.S. Congress by the commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, Harry Anslinger. The Act placed an "extremely high tax on marijuana and made it effectively impossible to grow Industrial Hemp". The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, also included that hemp farmers and merchants in the United States, be subject to "penalty provisions and elaborate rules of enforcement" for cultivation and manufacture of marijuana, cannabis or Hemp. A fine administered by the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 could be around “2,000 dollars and five years imprisonment". This fine was absolutely ridiculous. http://hempstheticket.blogspot.com/2011/01/valuable-and-environmentally-friendly.html
During WWII, the Japanese cut off U.S. sources of “Manila Hemp” (not true hemp), so the U.S. Army and U.S Department of Agriculture promoted a film called “Hemp for Victory” to help win the war. Because of needed supplies for the war efforts, hemp was grown commercially, facilitated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, despite escalating interference from the government. And in the 1950's, hemp had been "effectively prohibited" around the end of WWII. While Congress expressly expected the continued production of industrial hemp, the Federal Bureau of Narcotics mixed in hemp with marijuana. The DEA was the following federal agency to continue this charade. In the Controlled Substance Act of 1970, marijuana and hemp were included once again as a narcotic.
The Creation of DuPont’s Petro-chemically-based Fibers, which are a Synthetic Copy of Hemp Fibers, led to the development of Toxic, Non-biodegradable, Petroleum-based Plastics (Hemp Plastics are Biodegradable and Non-Toxic). Petrochemicals used for Paints and Varnish, etc. (Hemp can be used to make Non-Toxic Paints and Varnish, etc.) We are world based on Petrochemical Activity. The Chemicals that are required for the Wood- Paper process (Hemp Paper does Not require harsh Chemicals and Saves Trees) has led to the Destruction of Trees. This is the Environmental Catastrophe that We Face Right Now.
The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, since when did Industrial Hemp become Marijuana?
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