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<br /> Date: March 21, 2007 <br /> <br /> From: Deborah Spence ,•~J!~(! P~ 1' <br /> <br /> To: Hawaii County Council <br /> RE: Deny Budget for "Green Harvest" THE WAR ON GOOD PEOPLE <br /> Aloha Elected Officials, <br /> This is a history lesson about how industrial hemp came to be <br /> called marijuana and then became "reefer madness". <br /> My reference is the book 'The Emperor Wears No Clothes' by <br /> Jack Herer published in 1985 and is now in its 12th Edition. <br /> The CONSPIRACY AGAINST MARIJUANA <br /> 25 CHAPTER 4 THE LAST DAYS OF LEGAL CANNABIS <br /> Breakthrough in Papermaking - A Plan to Save Our Forests <br /> Conservation & Source Reduction - Conspiracy vs. Competition <br /> "Social Reorganization" - Hearst's Disinformation <br /> Bigotry & Apartheid -Marijuana Tax <br /> " Did anyone ask the AMA ? " -Others Spoke Out <br /> Protecting Special Interests -Self Perpetuating Lies <br /> THE PROHIBITIVE MARIJUANA TAX <br /> In the secret Treasury Department meetings conducted <br /> between 1935 1937, prohibitive tax laws were drafted and strategies <br /> plotted. "Marijuana" was not banned outright; the law called for a <br /> °occupational excise tax upon dealers, and a transfer tax upon <br /> dealings in marijuana." <br /> Importers, manufactures, sellers and distributors were <br /> required to register with Secretary of the Treasury and pay the <br /> occupational tax. Transfers were taxed at $1 an ounce; $100 an <br /> ounce if the dealer was unregistered. The new tax doubled the price <br /> of the legal "raw drug" cannabis which at the time sold for one dollar <br /> an ounce. The year was 1937. New York State had exactly one <br /> narcotics officer. j q ~ ~ S <br /> Comm. No, <br /> Ref. To: Fre~ <br /> Ref. Uate 1 2~OT <br /> <br />