Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 Opposed by the AMA (American Medical Association)

1936 – 1938: William Randolph Hearst’s newspaper empire fuels a tabloid journalism propaganda campaign against marijuana. Articles with headlines such as Marihuana Makes Fiends of Boys in 30 Days; Hasheesh Goads Users to Blood-Lust create terror of the killer weed from Mexico.

Through his relentless misinformation campaign, Hearst is credited with bringing the word marijuana into the English language. In addition to fueling racist attitudes toward Hispanics, Hearst papers run articles about marijuana-crazed negroes raping white women and playing voodoo-satanic jazz music.

Driven insane by marijuana, these blacks — according to accounts in Hearst-owned newspapers — dared to step on white men’s shadows, look white people directly in the eye for more than three seconds, and even laugh out loud at white people. For shame!

1936: DuPont obtains a patent license to manufacture synthetic plastic fibers from German industrial giant I.G. Farben Corporation. The patent license is obtained as part Germany’s reparation payments to the United States after World War I.

A few years later, I.G. Farben manufactures deadly Zyklon-B gas, used in Nazi death camps to murder millions of Jews (along with many homosexuals and drug users). DuPont owned and financed approximately 30% of Hitler’s I.G. Corps, the military-industrial backbone of the fascist Third Reich.

1937: The year the federal government outlawed cannabis.

— DuPont patents petrochemical manufacturing processes for making plastics, as well as pollution-heavy sulfate/sulfite processes for producing wood pulp. For the next 50 years, these processes are responsible for 80% of DuPont’s industrial output.

–In its 1937 Annual Report, DuPont informs stockholders that the company anticipates radical changes from the revenue raising power of government… converted into an instrument for forcing acceptance of sudden new ideas of industrial and social reorganization.

March 29, 1937: The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously upholds the National Firearms Act.

April 14, 1937: The Treasury Department secretly introduces its marihuana tax bill through the House Ways and Means Committee, bypassing more appropriate venues. Committee chairman Robert L. Doughton, a key Congressional ally of DuPont, rubber-stamps the bill.

Spring 1937: Congress holds hearings on the Marijuana Tax Act. Dr. James Woodward, representing the American Medical Association, testifies that the law could deny the world a potential medicine.

Cannabis was already prescribed for dozens of common ailments, and medical researchers were just beginning to explore the therapeutic benefits of the numerous active ingredients in marijuana. Woodward said that AMA doctors were wholly unaware that the killer weed from Mexico was actually cannabis. We cannot understand yet, Mr. Chairman, why this bill should have been prepared in secret for two years without any intimation, even to the profession, that it was being prepared, Woodward testifies.

FBN commissioner Harry Anslinger and the Ways and Means Committee quickly denounce Woodward and the AMA, which already had an adversarial relationship with the Roosevelt administration.

December 1937: The Marijuana Tax Act is signed into law, initiating 60 years of cannabis prohibition and annihilating a multi-billion dollar industry. DuPont and other synthetic materials manufacturers reap vast profits by filling the void conveniently left by the criminalization of industrial hemp.

1937 – 1939: Under Harry Anslinger, the Federal Bureau of Narcotics prosecutes 3,000 doctors for illegally prescribing cannabis-derived medications. In 1939, the American Medical Association reached an agreement with Anslinger, and over the following decade, only three doctors are prosecuted.

February 1938: Popular Mechanics describes hemp as the new billion dollar crop. The article was actually written in the spring of 1937, before cannabis was criminalized. Also in February 1938, Mechanical Engineering calls hemp the most profitable and desirable crop that can be grown.

1941: Popular Mechanics introduces Henry Ford’s plastic car, manufactured from and fueled by cannabis. Hoping to free his company from the grasp of the petroleum industry, Ford illegally grew cannabis for years after the federal ban.

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12 Comments

  1. TheWildCardA on July 27, 2019 at 7:25 pm

    she was doing so well untill she mentioned religion 



  2. silljos1 on July 27, 2019 at 7:33 pm

    The constitution wasn’t written on hemp paper. It was parchment, made from treated animal skin.



  3. bud jones on July 27, 2019 at 7:45 pm

    @Armornone there is proof cannabis kills cancer cells on my page if you want to look. thanks.



  4. Healthy Living and Other Things on July 27, 2019 at 7:48 pm

    I was diagnosed with MS in 2006, when my twins were 5 months old. I and my family were devastated, of course. Since that time I have been injecting myself with a drug called Copaxone. Also, in 2008, the epilepsy I had as a child came back and I think the two illnesses are connected. My friend who is taking hemp oil for the cancer in her body has told me that cannibis (hemp oil) is a cure for MS and epilepsy. Have people with MS been cured? I have been looking for a cure since 2006.



  5. Bart Janse on July 27, 2019 at 7:49 pm

    Sativa better than indica, just stay vegetarian. Furthermore no genetical manipulation. Sometimes you have to stop with any drug. All in due time



  6. Electricspaceodyssey on July 27, 2019 at 7:56 pm

    Its theorized cannabis evolved from Hops in Kazakhstan in the mountain ranges to better survive the higher radiation from the sun,etc – humans and other vertebrates since the sea squirt (who evolved the encocannabinoid receptor system to regulate how much water gets in and out of its siphon) have had the ability to get intoxicated from the flowering tops of high potency (primary unbred female) hemp plants since then it was only a matter of time til creatures of the linage crossed paths with hemp



  7. Rick Kaiser on July 27, 2019 at 7:58 pm

    MARIJUANA is a gift from the powers that be to this world’s many ills. Pharmacologically manufactured medical ingredients are nothing more than synthetics and are themselves not worthy their branding names.



  8. VeryIritical on July 27, 2019 at 8:06 pm

    Keep up the good work HaightAshbury. You are doing the right thing. Never never never give up!
    No one has a right to tell you what you can or cannot put in your body. ESPECIALLY not the government.



  9. bjorn joseph on July 27, 2019 at 8:07 pm

    works better than all the anxiety and anti depressants the va gives me



  10. Bart Janse on July 27, 2019 at 8:11 pm

    Very objective



  11. drvn8 on July 27, 2019 at 8:12 pm

    i find it very ironic that at 5:10 an attempt is made to link indian hemp with a swastika, all the while dupont company was doing big business with i.g. farben.



  12. Electricspaceodyssey on July 27, 2019 at 8:13 pm

    You have naturally occuring cannabinoid receptor sites between most brain cells and through out the body, you produce naturally occurin cannabis type compounds (cannabinoids) called anadamide (thats also in breast milk) and this regulates much about you from bone density to reproductive systems, etc. the lack o receptor sites int he medulla oblongata and the mesocorticolimbic pathway means you can never overdose or become physically addicted to cannabis.