Hemp is not illegal because of marijuana but the other way around
My plan focuses not on drawing attention to why marijuana should be legal but the motives for why it was outlawed in the first place.
Since it is the same kinds of political personalities that wanted it removed from the market who also don’t want it to return, exposing their true motives against it will weaken their position significantly right now because of issues they’re supporting now that ultimately lead back to the marijuana question.
Their hatred of marijuana originated with their secret opposition to industrial hemp, not because smoking marijuana gets a person high.
The government claims hemp is illegal because it would make it hard to find marijuana crops if it were legal to grow it because hemp and marijuana look alike.
The truth is that the first model T Fords came with small distilleries that could be set up at home to make ethanol for fuel because there wasn’t a lot of gasoline stations around back then. And the first diesel engines were designed for burning fuel made from hemp seeds.
In fact before Henry Ford designed an assembly line so he could produce cars cheap enough for the average paid worker to be able to afford to buy, cars were expected to only be purchased by wealthy people.
Since the oil industry had only invested in the slow growth of their gasoline industry to meet the demands of a niche market,
they were at risk of not being able to catch up with the market for ethanol since it doesn’t require large investments or complex infrastructures that are time consuming to build in order to produce it. So when Ford came out with cars designed for using gasoline or ethanol and a plan to make our nation energy independent making fuel with hemp because it grows easily in wasteland not suitable for food crops, Washington went into overdrive coming up with the first campaigns against smoking marijuana while outlawing liquor at the same time. This meant it was illegal to produce ethanol for fuel anymore but the excuse given was to stop Americans from drinking it, just like it was said about stopping us from smoking marijuana.
Then once the oil industry got better positioned to sell gasoline cheaply enough so it wasn’t feasible to use ethanol for fuel anymore, prohibition was repealed but the campaign against marijuana continued because hemp was still a threat to gasoline’s future because ethanol and diesel fuel can potentially be produced cheaper or at a competitive price with gasoline. But they could never outlaw either one on the merits of the real reason they were against it so they focused on the effects of marijuana with producing movies like Refer Madness to scare Americans into supporting a war on drugs to save their children from being driven insane by smoking it. But there was no need to rally against drinking alcohol anymore because it didn’t threaten the oil industry as long as hemp was on the way out.
The oil industry has it foot in a noose
Today the oil industry is more vulnerable that ever with gasoline prices being so high that there are many competitive technologies coming out to support domestic fuel supplies that can replace foreign oil imports. But hemp is still being outlawed because the DEA says it would not be able to crack down on marijuana grown in hemp fields because they wouldn’t be able to distinguish it from the hemp. But that is not the true reason why marijuana laws never come up for repeal even after the old arguments against it don’t hold up to scientific scrutiny anymore and public support for allowing its restricted use is at all time highs.
The issue is and has always been that the bigoted arguments against marijuana were only ever dreamed up in order to lay the foundation for outlawing hemp so it could not used to compete with fossil fuels. And with all the things we know about the many positive benefits of marijuana as compared to the way it has been portrayed by politicians who have as secret agenda to protect big oil profits, it’s ludicrous for anyone to still believe their arguments are sincere. But public opinion is very hard to sway. So there needs to be a way to draw attention to the overall story of why marijuana was outlawed so Americans not only get a sense that their leaders don’t care if there are safe ways to use marijuana that alleviate the symptoms of many deadly diseases but because they want us to forever be dependant on having to buy gasoline at whatever prices the oil industry can game the market into charging us for it.
Ethanol is being used now
If you are an educated consumer, you would be interrupting me to tell me that ethanol is being used to make us less dependant on foreign oil right now and Bush is a big supporter of it. My answer to your query however would be that yes they are adding ethanol to gasoline right now at a rate of 10 percent. But it’s not the same ethanol Henry Ford was planning on using to make us energy independent.
What were adding to gasoline is anhydrous ethanol, ethanol that has been distilled three time to get all the water out of it so it can be mixed with gasoline. But it wasn’t designed to be a fuel. It was mandated to be added to gasoline as an oxygenate in the Clean Air Act of 1990. That’s why the EPA regulates it, not the Energy Department. It is not supposed to provide power in the form of mileage but cause high emissions of volatile organic compounds, VOC’s. In fact in many vehicles, it costs more mileage than it puts out where it has no fuel benefit at all with even having a negative impact on many engine ignition systems. Ethanol dissolves smog
VOC’s mixed with smog from diesel engines and coal burning to form low level ozone. Low level ozone is less visible than the old brown gray smog that used to hang over US metropolitan regions of the country. MTBE, another oxygenate that was replaced by anhydrous ethanol, got rid of the smog replacing it with low level ozone.
Since low level ozone forming pollutants weren’t regulated the same as nitrogen oxide in 1990, even though it is worse for the environment and human health, oxygenates brought many regions who couldn’t live up to the EPA’s air quality standards for nitrogen oxides into compliance with federal regulations. This saved many industries from having to invest in becoming more efficient at creating less pollution.
But a trillion dollars was invested in building refineries to produce MTBE while now hundreds of billions are going to produce ethanol, a great deal more than it would have taken to clean up the industries creating the smog. Oxygenates prove to worsen air quality
As ethanol was slated to replace MTBE in the spring of 2006, California took the EPA to court to prove that oxygenates actually worsen air quality in an effort to get out of using them. But Bush stepped in declaring the oxygenate requirement was not longer mandated for air quality but to make us less dependent on foreign oil. The reason he did this is complicated.
CO2 not related to climate change
What we’ve been told historically is the cause weather pattern changes that we call global warming is carbon dioxide coming from fossil fuel burning. But a little harder look at the author of this CO2 theory, James Hansen of NASA, Al Gores Chief climate change advisor for “An Inconvenient Truth,” uncovers that he has an alternative theory he published in 2000 titled “Global warming in the twenty-first century: An alternative scenario.” In it he claims CO2 plays no role in climate change but is instead caused by low level ozone and its precursor forming pollutants, methane, and their effects on atmospheric water vapor as they combine in the sun’s ultra violet rays.
Weather pattern changes we’ve all witnessed in recent years have convinced most of us that global warming is real. They began in 1992-1993 when MTBE use began and have worsened since ethanol replaced it because the hundreds of ethanol refineries in the Midwest give off huge amounts of VOC and nitrogen oxide emissions while also feeding the pollutants the water vapor the need to be most destructive as they distill water our of ethanol to make it anhydrous. James Hansen plagiarized his alternate theory on climate change
A closer look at NASA and their views on climate change will uncover that another climatologist who works out of the same office as James Hansen was awarded recognition as among the top fifty scientist in the country by Scientific American in 2004, the first time a NASA scientist ever received this prestigious award. Professor Drew Shindell has been working on science that proves low level ozone effects regional weather patterns on a global scale since the eighties. That’s when Hansen started talking about CO2 causing global warming.
Let me clarify what Professor Shindell says. His science proves that low level ozone forming pollutants interaction with water vapor in the suns rays cause weather pattern changes in the regions they are emitted as they are released into the atmosphere. So we are causing climate change today with what we pollute today.
Washington starts to hide from reality
When the truth started to surface the MTBE’s effect of causing high levels of low level ozone was causing the drought of 1999, it caught everyone in Washington off guard. Since everyone, both Democrats and Republicans alike supported oxygenate mandates from the beginning after Ken Lay of Enron passed out millions of dollars nationwide to lobby for how good it would be for the country, no one, not even environmentalist wanted to see the truth surface.
Since weather pattern changes caused by MTBE had wreaked havoc for a lot of areas of the country and even around the world wherever MTBE was being used, on top of a trillion dollar federally secured loan taken out to build refineries to produce it, the lawsuits that could come from the truth coming looked like they could come in faster than anyone could ever have to ability to pay off. So everyone who should have been the voice of concern for what was happening began to lie. In fact the EPA and Dick Cheney recently got caught orchestrating an effort to misinform Californians about low level ozone’s effects on climate change, health, and the environment because it harms plants as well as wildlife. But still the cover up goes on. Why not go back to Henry Ford’s plan
Although hydrous ethanol can be used with no loss of mileage or emission problems while new technology allows that it can added to gasoline with the same positive results, if this were done, two things would happen. It would become popular knowledge that hydrous ethanol can be used as fuel without distilling it three times to make it anhydrous. This makes for higher yields at lower costs while the resulting fuel is relatively safe to handle as compared to the highly volatile corrosive anhydrous ethanol. It also takes less corn to make more ethanol while actually getting back an energy benefit to relieve our dependency on foreign oil while straining food markets and our economy much less.
This would open doors for small companies to produce hydrous ethanol from many the feedstock’s other than corn that are available at the local levels while even the individual could produce it for their own use in the backyard fuel which undercut the control the oil industry is addicted to having over our future. It’s is not us that are addicted to oil. It’s the oil industry that’s addicted to having us in their pocket.
Ending ethanol use ends global warming
The other problem is the reason our leaders risked replacing MTBE with ethanol, which has the potential of letting the hydrous ethanol genie out of the bottle it’s been held in since the 1920’s, is that if they stopped using oxygenates altogether, weather patterns would have returned to normal and global warming would have ended which would have pointed a finger directly at the cause. It’s a delicate walk for them to come out of this with us still dependant on fossil fuels but the Republican Party’s new election platform to put an end to ethanol mandates and subsidies is a move in the direction of getting away with it.
They claim they want to allow the markets to decide what Americans want to fuel their engines with. This is coming out as the story about how Dick Cheney used his office to cover up low level ozone’s effects on climate change. They say he did this to protect Bush’s legacy of making the US less dependant on foreign oil by supporting ethanol. But even a quick glance at the issue would bare out the fact that anhydrous ethanol made from corn takes more energy to produce that it gives back in fuel power. That is before discovering all the other pitfalls with using anhydrous ethanol for fuel.
So we’re expected to believe Bush is ignorant of these simple ethanol facts while Cheney is willing to do anything, even break the law, to support him on it even though we know the oil industry does not want to compete with ethanol and these guys are oil men. But then the Republicans as well as Democrats supported his going in this direction where now Republicans are seemingly leaving him hung out to dry while Obama is stuck on the wrong side of the issue that Republicans have made a center of upcoming presidential debates.
Ending government sponsorship ends ethanol
Without ethanol subsidies and mandates, the industry would die, that is the anhydrous ethanol industry. As long as the subsidies and mandates remain in tact, it guarantees investors will be able to sell anhydrous ethanol and make a profit. Without them, it has no competitive edge, in fact it is an absurd product to use as fuel. With regulations to support the industry in place, there is little incentive for producers to look for a better ways to represent their product. In fact with the EPA is going out of its way to accommodate heavy polluting ethanol refineries to not upgrade their equipment while hiding the truth about its effects air quality when mixed with gasoline, the industry has gotten so spoiled that they pay millions of dollars to lobbyists to create a political climate around their product that protects it from even constructive criticism.
If the bottom fell out of government support for anhydrous ethanol, the industry would quickly discover how beneficial hydrous ethanol can be not only for consumers but for their profit margins. But if the truth about it effects on weather pattern come out at the same time all its other pitfalls surface, which you can bet will happen as the price of oil goes back down below 80 dollars a barrel making gasoline hard to compete against, no one is going to want to hear about ethanol ever again, neither anhydrous or hydrous, unless of course they are educated about the difference between the two before Americans turn soar on the word ethanol forever. Presidential election divisions over ethanol and upcoming debates
With McCain being against ethanol and Obam a strong supporter of it, if McCain wins the election and starts to drill more oil here at home while we’re already starting to buy more efficient cars and trucks, the issue of oil will become something no one wants to talk about again until we run into another energy crisis.
If this anti-ethanol/MTBE cover-up works, by the time the news about ethanol causing drought and flooding dies down, a great deal of distance will have been put between the initial problem of MTBE causing destructive weather pattern changes and the resolution of replacing it with ethanol so it can be the fall guy so the oil industry isn’t held accountable for what MTBE did will have been created. Since no one in Washington or the environmentalist community will ever stand behind an effort to drag MTBE through the mud behind ethanol while they will all be claiming that American has learned its energy and environmental lessons of the century from ethanol, America will move on having kept is dirtiest secrets from ever being made public in a big enough way for any justice to have to be served over it.
Strategy
All it would take is for a serious lobbyist group in Washington DC to better understand these issues so they can spread the story around enough for our political leaders to know their scheme is becoming transparent enough for the truth behind the lies they’re telling the American people to come out in a public way.
All I want is cleaner air. I drank well water polluted with MTBE that made me sensitive to breathing it in the heavily polluted region of Northern Virginia where I live. I fought to get rid of MTBE. Now ethanol makes me sick. From what I’ve read, medical marijuana would probably help me sometimes if I used it in very small doses. But I have learned a lot about medicinal herbs and do well as long as I am careful.
I just want this to end. Then of course I will want justice but not in the form of a lawsuit. I want to see the truth come out where everyone can see it with the people who did this facing the kind of reaction to it they deserve. A lot of people did this and a lot of people deserve to pay for it. Millions of people have gone to prison around lies told about smoking marijuana. I’ve never heard anyone on the other side of this immoral persecution of innocence say that we ought to be able to come up with a way for a few people take the fall for everyone who ever got high. So why should they be allowed to pin this on Bush or a handful of politicians and government agency heads when they are all taking part in perhaps the biggest crime of all time.
They say the rule of law is what’s important and everyone who breaks it has to go to jail. So all of them should be made to follow in the footsteps of their own campaigns against others. They would be the first ones to quote the bible saying to “do unto other as you would have them do unto you” when it best suits their agenda. I think it’s time they be made to eat those words themselves for a few years. Like I’ve always thought, you cannot deter crime by giving a poor man a warm cell and three meals a day. But lock up a crooked rich man and his kind will stop breaking the law.
Of course it’s unrealistic to think anyone in Washington is ever going to support having themselves investigated in a way that puts them all in prison. But if pressed to the wall, we ought to able to get them to stop locking people up for getting high to feel better in a country where it’s leaders pollute our environment and destroy our economy to hide the fact that they’re purposely causing global warming to protect a handful of rich people from MTBE lawsuits. I mean this has to be a joke right. And I can’t use a mind altering substance to forget about it for a little while without going to prison. I must be dreaming. This cannot be the United Sates of America
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