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Lowering Of Blood Pressure Achieved Through Use Of Hashish-like Drug.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/06/060620083025.htm
Marijuana was listed in the Pharmacopeia Brittanica as one of the most useful plants known to medical science right up until its prohibition by American politicians.
The reason it was suddenly banned? American timber mill owners were afraid that a new invention, the Decorticator, was going to bankrupt them by producing paper from hemp that was 10 times cheaper than timber pulp. Timber barons exerted enormous influence over the newspapers and politicians of the era.
They introduced the Marijuana Tax Act in 1937 under the pretense of stopping the narcotic. But really it was aimed at destroying the hemp industry. Then when war broke out they stopped fining farmers and started paying them to grow it. Until the war ended ofcourse. Then the fines came back.
Hemp fields were everywhere but even people living directly across the road from a Hemp field had never heard of 'Marijuana'. It began appearing in newspapers under such banners as "Teenager murders his family under the influence of Marijuana!"
All those headlines have since been proven false. Propaganda to develop public hatred towards this recreational drug. The word "Marijuana" actually comes from a small town somewhere in Mexico. Prior to the propaganda campaign led by FBI Agent Anslinger even, most Mexicans were unfamiliar with the word.
The original reason given for introducing the "Marijuana Tax Act"? Before voting on the legislation the members were told that the drug made people violent! Ten years later when the legislation came up for renewal with largely the same politicians voting on the issue? It was turning soldiers overseas into pacifists! A complete backflip on their original lie.
I don't deny that it can trigger Schitzophrenia in people prone to such mental illness. After 70 years and millions of dollars in Government research that's all they've found. Meanwhile the indisputably deadly tobacco and alcohol industries are thriving. Hypocrisy!