Why is Cannabis illegal?

There's this growing seed of consciousness.

And with this growing seed comes some questions...

Questions like...

How can we better serve our planet?
Can we do something to stop global warming?
How can we put an end to world suffering?
Why would a plant like Marijuana be illegal?

For the sake of humanity in general, I'm here to collaborate some interesting facts about something that may be the key to a revolution that is far past its due date...

That something is Marijuana.

Many people assume that marijuana was made illegal through some kind of process involving scientific, medical, and government hearings...

...that it was to protect the citizens from what was determined to be a dangerous drug.

The actual story shows a much different picture...and may turn out to be the opposite.

The people who voted on the legal fate of this plant never had the facts, but were fed information by a group of people who's plan was to deceive lawmakers. The very first federal vote to prohibit marijuana was based entirely on a documented lie on the floor of the Senate.

The background behind marijuana's criminalization has been tainted with:

• Fear
• Racism
• Protection of Corporate Profits
• Yellow Journalism
• Ignorant, Incompetent, and/or Corrupt Legislators
• Personal Career Advancement and Greed

Here are some of the true backings behind its criminalized history...

Brief Background:

For most of human history, marijuana has been completely legal.

It's not a recently discovered plant, nor is it a long-standing law.
Marijuana has been illegal for less than 1% of the time that it's been in use.
Its known uses go back further than 7,000 B.C. and it was legal
as recently as when Ronald Reagan was a boy.

The marijuana (hemp) plant, of course, has an incredible

number of uses. The earliest known woven fabric was

apparently of hemp, and over the centuries the plant

was used for food, incense, cloth, rope, and much more.

This adds to some of the confusion over its introduction in the United States, as the plant was well known from the early 1600's, but did not reach public awareness as a recreational drug until the early 1900's.

America's first marijuana law was enacted at Jamestown Colony, Virginia in 1619.

It was a law "ordering" all farmers to grow Indian hempseed.

There were several other "must grow" laws over the next 200 years (you could be jailed for not growing hemp during times of shortage in Virginia between 1763 and 1767), and during most of that time, hemp was legal tender (you could even pay your taxes with hemp -- try that today!) Hemp was such a critical crop for a number of purposes (including essential war requirements - rope, etc.) that the government went out of its way to encourage growth.

The United States Census of 1850 counted 8,327 hemp "plantations" (minimum 2,000-acre farm) growing cannabis hemp for cloth, canvas and even the cordage used for baling cotton.

Well with all that said I'm going to roll this video from the MPP

With all that said...
I'm off to write another blog
Thanx for tuning in!


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