The 1914 10 Dollar Bill was printed on Hemp Paper and the picture on the back displays farmers plowing hemp
1914 series $10 bill of a hemp harvest that is printed 'right on the money' This paper was also made of hemp.
The first Federal Reserve Bank notes were issued in 1914.
This $10 bill bears the signature of Andrew Mellon, the Secretary of the Treasury under multiple presidential administrations.
Mellon was also the head of several oil companies and banks.
Mellon was the uncle of Harry Anslinger, the first leader of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 1931-1961.
Anslinger was the main cheerleader of the Reefer Madness misinformation campaign and the primary person responsible for marijuana prohibition.
The back was designed by Clair Aubrey Huston; Farming, a scene in Manchester Township, York County, Pennsylvania,
was engraved by Marcus W Baldwin- Industry, a mill in Joliet, Illinois, was engraved by HL Chorlton.
The first day of issue was November 16, 1914.
Note that Pennsylvania produced hemp through the 1900s, and the crop depicted on the currency is too tall to be
wheat or flax, so it's rather obvious that it's hemp.
Secretary of treasury, Andrew Mellon (signed at the bottom right) was the head of Standard Oil,
what is today Exxon Mobil and the world's largest oil company and secretary to 5 US Presidents.
His nephew was Harry Anslinger (father of Cannabis and Hemp Prohibition), head of the Beraeu of Federal Narcotics, started in 1931
The conspiracy theory of why hemp was criminalized with marijuana goes a little something like this.
Prior to the 1800s, it was prevalent to see hemp products as mainly paper and textiles. After the invention of the
cotton gin, hemp became a forgotten fiber because cotton was much more comfortable and cheaper to produce for textiles.
In the early 1900s, George Schlichten introduced the Hemp Decorticator. This invention was going to revolutionize
the hemp industry, making it much easier to process. Soon after that negative propaganda skyrocketed about the cannabis plant.
W.R Hearst fabricated stories in his newspapers about this new drug called "marihuana" which was causing blacks and Mexicans
to rape and kill white women. Before his articles, marijuana was never used as slang for cannabis Hearst intentionally
did this to demonize this plant with a new name. This led to a propaganda movie in 1936 called Reefer Madness,
which portrays cannabis as the most dangerous drug in the world.
So, why such an extreme effort to criminalize the cannabis plant? Not only did W.R Hearst own the largest newspaper
company at the time, but he also owned many acres of forest that was used to create his papers.
W.R Hearst was the Grandfather of Patty Hearst
He wasn't the only one trying to protect his interests. In the 1920s, DuPont invested heavily in synthetic fibers
and also saw hemp as a threat. Not to mention, DuPont produced chemicals for processing timber into paper.
Things got even worse in the early 1930s after Harry J. Anslinger was appointed the first commissioner of the
Federal Bureau of Narcotics, which is known today as the DEA. Anslinger targeted minorities and supported Hearst's
outrageous stories about cannabis. After nearly a decade of negative stories about cannabis and minorities,
Anslinger proposed the Marijuana Tax Act to Congress, which was passed on August 2, 1937.
The Act did not itself criminalize the possession or usage of hemp, marijuana, or cannabis.
But included penalty and enforcement provisions to which marijuana, cannabis, or hemp handlers were subject to.
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