It’s probably very important that I be extremely clear about my position on this. I do NOT smoke, or grow, or condone marijuana use. It is NEVER allowed on my property. While I think it is stupid that it is illegal, I in no way am willing to have it on myself or my property, nor would I use it or condone it’s use while it remains illegal. It’s simply not at all worth the possible consequences. So if I am accused of it, or arrested for it, I assure you it is a complete and total fraud.
Taking into account the amount of money pharmaceutical companies make on their FDA approved drugs, and the corporate controls present with our elected officials, it’s very likely that the Missouri legislature will wait until Monsanto has an approved GMO Cannabis strain to destroy the real thing before they will actually come to terms with the fact that marijuana is quite helpful for many maladies and might actually benefit the health of people and the economy were it allowed to be used by adults without criminal penalties as a possibility. It would threaten the legalized pharmaceutical cartel and the confiscation of property cartels as well. Not to mention the prison cartel and probation funding mechanisms.
I have to say that it is encouraging to see the subject come up at the State level. Just the number of people in jail or prison for marijuana costs the citizens and the families of those people way more than it’s worth. If you commit a crime, you’ve hurt someone. If you ingest marijuana, you likely help yourself if you do it in moderation. Moderation is likely the critical issue here. It’s ridiculous that so much revenue and energy is spent combating a natural substance that doesn’t cause people to become violent or dangerous. I have never heard of anyone going on a rage and beating their wife or kid because they smoked marijuana. Have you?
Missouri lawmakers to consider legalizing medical marijuana
Posted on: 10:18 pm, February 23, 2014, by Tess Koppelman, updated on: 11:19pm, February 23, 2014
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Missouri Governor Jay Nixon told a national audience that the legislature would consider medical marijuana, but his words were met with mixed reaction here in Kansas City.
On Sunday morning’s CNN show State of the Union, Nixon said the bridge isn’t yet built for decriminalization, but lawmakers are open to medical marijuana.
“Medicinally I think folks are beginning to see there are things the medical community can help on,” Nixon said, “our legislature might consider that.”
“It is a step in the right direction, I’ll take it as a green light,” said Amber Iris Langston with Show Me Cannabis, an organization promoting marijuana legalization. “I don’t think Governor Nixon takes chances with his political support, so it’s a strong indication there’s support for medical marijuana in Missouri.”
While she’s pleased to see Nixon talking about medical marijuana, she’d also like to see support of bills that would decriminalize pot. Missouri has some of the toughest marijuana laws in the country, getting caught with a single gram could mean a year in jail.
“It’s a shame our politicians don’t have courage to stand forward on this issue and say this policy isn’t working, this policy is destructive to people in our communities,” she said.
Missouri lawmakers have introduced three bills this year: one for a medical marijuana pilot program, one legalizing recreational pot, and one that reduces penalties for possession.
Jackson County Legislator Bob Spence isn’t a fan of laws that decriminalize marijuana use.
“I think most, not all, but most who do hard drugs started with marijuana,” he said.
Spence has tried twice now to introduce a resolution encouraging lawmakers to “just say no” to any bill legalizing marijuana, even for medicinal use.
“Then every ailment known to mankind can be helped with marijuana, and it’s like legalizing it,” he said.
But his resolution ended up getting held over into committee. He says that basically means it’s killed.
“I was shocked; I was absolutely shocked, he said, “I don’t want to make it legal in this state because it makes it even more accessible. It’s in far too many places for our kids to get a hold of.”
Missouri isn’t the only state tackling this issue this year. Kansas is also considering a bill legalizing medical marijuana.
Truth Farmer 
Feb 25, 2014 @ 13:44:28
US Patent 6,630,507 Cannabinoids as Antioxidants and Neuroprotectants
http://uspatent6630507.com – See more at: http://www.naturalhealth365.com/politics_health/0909_cannabis_patent.html#sthash.sSvu6Y6m.dpuf
Got this from: US Government Has Patent on Cannabis http://www.naturalhealth365.com/politics_health/0909_cannabis_patent.html
Feb 25, 2014 @ 14:24:16
So they have already patented a derivative for known medical benefits. You cannot patent a plant that occurs naturally, so it is impossible for them to corner the market for the benefits unless they make it “patently” illegal to have the plant. The problem is that reality is now beginning to win out a little bit. Also, prohibition worked so well, and this is the same thing by a different name.
Thanks for posting that info. I had heard something about the patent, but didn’t look into it. I like the easy button!
Feb 25, 2014 @ 18:21:07
This will put things in better light.
The Marijuana Trick
Doug Yurchey – 2005
And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no
more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the reproach of
the heathen anymore. – Ezekiel 34:29 – Geneva Study Bible (A. D.
1599)
Exactly where did the word “marijuana” come from? In the mid 1930s,
the M-word was created to tarnish the good image and phenomenal
history of the hemp plant… as you will read. The facts cited here,
with references, are generally verifiable in the Encyclopaedia
Britannica which was printed on hemp paper for 150 years:
* All schoolbooks were made from hemp or flax paper until the 1880s;
Hemp Paper Reconsidered, Jack Frazier, 1974.
* It was LEGAL TO PAY TAXES WITH HEMP in America from 1631 until the
early 1800s; L.A. Times, Aug. 12, 1981.
* REFUSING TO GROW HEMP in America during the 17th and 18th Centuries
WAS AGAINST THE LAW! You could be jailed in Virginia for refusing to
grow hemp from 1763 to 1769; Hemp in Colonial Virginia, G. M. Herdon.
* George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and other founding fathers GREW
HEMP; Washington and Jefferson Diaries. Jefferson smuggled hemp seeds
from China to France then to America.
* Benjamin Franklin owned one of the first paper mills in America and
it processed hemp. Also, the War of 1812 was fought over hemp.
Napoleon wanted to cut off Moscow’s export to England; Emperor Wears
No Clothes, Jack Herer.
* For thousands of years, 90% of all ships’ sails and rope were made
from hemp. The word ‘canvas’ is Dutch for hemp; Webster’s New World
Dictionary.
* 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 were made
from hemp; U..S. Government Archives.
* The first crop grown in many states was hemp. 1850 was a peak year
for Kentucky producing 40,000 tons. Hemp was the largest cash crop
until the 20th Century; State Archives.
* Oldest known records of hemp farming go back 5000 years in China,
although hemp industrialization probably goes back to ancient Egypt.
* Rembrandts, Gainsborough’s, Van Gogh’s as well as most early canvas
paintings were principally painted on hemp linen.
* In A. D. 1916, the U.S. Government predicted that by the 1940s all
paper would come from hemp and that no more trees need to be cut
down. Government studies report that 1 acre of hemp equals 4.1 acres
of trees. Plans were in the works to implement such programs;
Department of Agriculture
* 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 Co. testimony before
Congress against the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act.
* Henry Ford’s first Model-T was built to run on hemp gasoline and
the CAR ITSELF WAS CONTRUCTED FROM HEMP! On his large estate, Ford
was photographed among his hemp fields. The car, ‘grown from the
soil,’ had hemp plastic panels whose impact strength was 10 times
stronger than steel; Popular Mechanics, 1941.
* Hemp called ‘Billion Dollar Crop.’ It was the first time a cash
crop had a business potential to exceed a billion dollars; Popular
Mechanics, Feb., 1938.
* Mechanical Engineering Magazine (Feb. 1938) published an article
entitled ‘The Most Profitable and Desirable Crop that Can be Grown.’
It stated that if hemp was cultivated using 20th Century technology,
it would be the single largest agricultural crop in the U.S. and the
rest of the world.
The following information comes directly from the United States
Department of Agriculture’s 1942 14-minute film encouraging and
instructing ‘patriotic American farmers’ to grow 350,000 acres of
hemp each year for the war effort:
‘…(When) Grecian temples were new, hemp was already old in the
service of mankind. For thousands of years, even then, this plant had
been grown for cordage and cloth in China and elsewhere in the East.
For centuries prior to about 1850, all the ships that sailed the
western seas were rigged with hempen rope and sails. For the sailor,
no less than the hangman, hemp was indispensable…
…Now with Philippine and East Indian sources of hemp in the hands
of the Japanese…American hemp must meet the needs of our Army and
Navy as well as of our industries…
…the Navy’s rapidly dwindling reserves. When that is gone, American
hemp will go on duty again; hemp for mooring ships; hemp for tow
lines; hemp for tackle and gear; hemp for countless naval uses both
on ship and shore. Just as in the days when Old Ironsides sailed the
seas victorious with her hempen shrouds and hempen sails. Hemp for
victory!’
Certified proof from the Library of Congress; found by the research
of Jack Herer, refuting claims of other government agencies that the
1942 U.S.D.A. film ‘Hemp for Victory’ did not exist.
Hemp cultivation and production do not harm the environment. The
U.S.D.A. Bulletin #404 concluded that hemp produces 4 times as much
pulp as wood with at least 4 to 7 times less pollution.
>From Popular Mechanics, Feb.. 1938:
‘It has a short growing season…It can be grown in any state….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, 8 to
12 feet above the ground, chokes out weeds.
…hemp, this new crop can add immeasurably to American agriculture
and industry.’
In the 1930s, innovations in farm machinery would have caused an
industrial revolution when applied to hemp. This single resource
could have created millions of new jobs generating thousands of
quality products. Hemp, if not made illegal, would have brought
America out of the Great Depression.
William Randolph Hearst (Citizen Kane) and the Hearst Paper
Manufacturing Division of Kimberly Clark owned vast acreage of
timberlands. The Hearst Company supplied most paper products. Patty
Hearst’s grandfather, a destroyer of nature for his own personal
profit, stood to lose billions because of hemp.
In 1937, Dupont patented the processes to make plastics from oil and
coal. Dupont’s 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 industrialization would have ruined over 80%
of Dupont’s business.
THE TRICKS
Andrew Mellon became Hoover’s Secretary of the Treasury and Dupont’s
primary investor. He appointed his future nephew-in-law, Harry J.
Anslinger, to head the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous
Drugs.
Secret meetings were held by these financial tycoons. Hemp was
declared dangerous and a threat to their billion dollar enterprises.
For their dynasties to remain intact, hemp had to go. These men took
an obscure Mexican slang word: ‘marihuana’ and pushed it into the
consciousness of America.
MEDIA MANIPULATION
A media blitz of “yellow journalism” raged in the late 1920s and
1930s. Hearst’s newspapers ran stories emphasizing the horrors of
marihuana. The menace of marihuana made headlines. Readers learned
that it was responsible for everything from car accidents to loose
morality.
Films like ‘Reefer Madness’ (1936), ‘Marihuana: Assassin of Youth’
(1935) and ‘Marihuana: The Devil’s Weed’ (1936) were propaganda
designed by these industrialists to create an enemy. Their purpose
was to gain public support so that anti-marihuana laws could be
passed.
Examine the following quotes from ‘The Burning Question’ aka REEFER
MADNESS:
*a violent narcotic.
*acts of shocking violence.
*incurable insanity.
*soul-destroying effects.
*under the influence of the drug he killed his entire family with an
axe.
*more vicious, more deadly even than these soul-destroying drugs
(heroin, cocaine) is the menace of marihuana!
Reefer Madness did not end with the usual ‘the end.’ The film
concluded with these words plastered on the screen: TELL YOUR
CHILDREN.
In the 1930s, people were very naive; even to the point of ignorance.
The masses were like sheep waiting to be led by the few in power.
They did not challenge authority. If the news was in print or on the
radio, they believed it had to be true. They told their children and
their children grew up to be the parents of the baby-boomers.
On April 14, 1937, the Prohibitive Marihuana Tax Law or the bill that
outlawed hemp was directly brought to the House Ways and Means
Committee. This committee is the only one that can introduce a bill
to the House floor without it being debated by other committees. The
Chairman of the Ways and Means, Robert Doughton, was a Dupont
supporter. He insured that the bill would pass Congress.
Dr. James Woodward, a physician and attorney, testified too late on
behalf of the American Medical Association. He 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/is hemp.
Few people, at the time, realized that the deadly menace they had
been reading about on Hearst’s front pages was in fact passive hemp.
The AMA understood hemp to be a MEDICINE found in numerous healing
products sold over the last hundred years.
In September of 1937, hemp became illegal. The most useful crop known
became a drug and our planet has been suffering ever since.
Congress banned hemp because it was said to be the most violence-
causing drug known. Anslinger, head of the Drug Commission for 31
years, promoted the idea that marihuana made users act extremely
violent. In the 1950s, under the Communist threat of McCarthyism,
Anslinger now said the exact opposite. Marijuana will pacify you so
much that soldiers would not want to fight.
Today, our planet is in desperate trouble.. Earth is suffocating as
large tracts of rain forests disappear. Pollution, poisons and
chemicals are killing people. These great problems could be reversed
if we industrialized hemp. Natural biomass could provide all of the
planet’s energy needs that are currently supplied by fossil fuels. We
have consumed 80% of our oil and gas reserves. We need a renewable
resource. Hemp could be the solution to soaring gas prices.
THE WONDER PLANT
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. The plant grows
quickly to maturity in a season where trees take a lifetime.
ALL PLASTIC PRODUCTS SHOULD BE MADE FROM HEMP SEED OIL. Hempen
plastics are biodegradable! Over time, they would break down and not
harm the environment. Oil-based plastics, the ones we are very
familiar with, help ruin nature; they do not break down and will do
great harm in the future. The process to produce the vast array of
natural (hempen) plastics will not ruin the rivers as Dupont and
other petrochemical companies have done. Ecology does not fit in with
the plans of the Oil Industry and the political machine. Hemp
products are safe and natural.
MEDICINES SHOULD BE MADE FROM HEMP. We should go back to the days
when the AMA supported hemp cures. ‘Medical Marijuana’ is given out
legally to only a handful of people while the rest of us are forced
into a system that relies on chemicals. Hemp is only healthy for the
human body.
WORLD HUNGER COULD END. A large variety of food products can be
generated from hemp. The seeds contain one of the highest sources of
protein in nature. ALSO: They have two essential fatty acids that
clean your body of cholesterol. These essential fatty acids are not
found anywhere else in nature! Consuming hemp seeds is the best thing
you could do for your body. Eat uncooked hemp seeds.
CLOTHES SHOULD BE MADE FROM HEMP. Hemp clothing is extremely strong
and durable over time. You could hand clothing, made from hemp, down
to your grandchildren. Today, there are American companies that make
hemp clothing; usually 50% hemp. Hemp fabrics should be everywhere.
Instead, they are almost underground. Superior hemp products are not
allowed to advertise on fascist television. Kentucky, once the top
hemp producing state, made it ILLEGAL TO WEAR hemp clothing! Can you
imagine being thrown into jail for wearing quality jeans?
The world is crazy…but that does not mean you have to join the
insanity. Get together. Spread the news. Tell people, and that
includes your children, the truth.. Use hemp products. Eliminate the
word “marijuana”. Realize the history that created it. Make it
politically incorrect to say or print the M-word. Fight against the
propaganda (designed to favor the agenda of the super rich) and the
bullshit. Hemp must be utilized in the future. We need a clean
energy source to save our planet. INDUSTRIALIZE HEMP!
The liquor, tobacco and oil companies fund more than a million
dollars a day to Partnership for a Drug-Free America and other
similar agencies. We have all seen their commercials. Now, their
motto is: ‘It’s more dangerous than we thought.’ Lies from the
powerful corporations, that began with Hearst, are still alive and
well today..
The brainwashing continues. Now, the commercials say: If you buy a
joint, you contribute to murders and gang wars. The latest anti-hemp
commercials say: If you buy a joint…you are promoting TERRORISM!
The new enemy (terrorism) has paved the road to brainwash you any way
THEY see fit.
There is only one enemy; the “friendly” people you pay your taxes to:
the war-makers and nature destroyers. With your funding, they are
killing the world right in front of your eyes. HALF A MILLION DEATHS
EACH YEAR ARE CAUSED BY TOBACCO. HALF A MILLION DEATHS EACH YEAR ARE
CAUSED BY ALCOHOL.
Ingesting THC, hemp’s active agent, has a positive effect; relieving
asthma and glaucoma. A joint tends to alleviate the nausea caused by
chemotherapy. You are able to eat on hemp. This is a healthy state
of being.
The hemp plant is an ALIEN plant. There is physical evidence that
hemp is not like any other plant on this planet. One could conclude
that it was brought here for the benefit of humanity. Hemp is the
ONLY plant where the males appear one way and the females appear very
different, physically! No one ever speaks of males and females in
regard to the plant kingdom because plants do not show their sexes;
except for hemp. To determine what sex a certain, normal, Earthly
plant is: You have to look internally, at its DNA. A male blade of
grass (physically) looks exactly like a female blade of grass. The
hemp plant has an intense sexuality.
HEMP IS AND WAS MADE ILLEGAL BECAUSE MILLIONAIRES WANT TO BECOME
BILLIONAIRES!
Feb 26, 2014 @ 08:59:38
Last year there was a bill in regular session to allow Missouri to grow hemp. Totally different from the heavier THC containing cannabis sativa. I agree that hemp is a wonderful plant and it is idiotic that it is illegal to grow that. However, you couldn’t get a buzz off industrial hemp if you smoked your brains out and the hemp plant doesn’t have as much benefit for pain relief (if what I have read is true) as does the higher THC content cannabis.
The same issue applies though. Control something positive and make it illegal to the detriment of the general public and to line the pockets of a few.
Thank you for that very instructive post! I really appreciate it. 🙂
Feb 25, 2014 @ 21:10:08
They mean that MO will turn another right into a permission. A huge money making permission that they can change at any time.
It is clear to me, at least, that what we ingest is without a doubt an inalienable right, and if something is a right the legislature can not legislate on it because that by itself infringes upon that right.
Aug 21, 2017 @ 23:16:10
There is finally a full legalization petition drive in Missouri, if it passes it will be the most legitimate legalization in the country. See their facebook page for more information: https://www.facebook.com/groups/Showmesignatures/
Go to http://www.janemerry.com if you wish to become a petitioner, the petition is downloadable and a few simple rules to fill it out correctly. Thanks for your interest, together we can overcome 80 years of cannabis injustice.