THE GATEWAY DRUG

[chuckfinlay]

Obviosly the 'gateway' drug isn't true, unless you're a stupid, dropkick junkie who has nothing better to do than go on to further drugs?

[Nooby]

HI Merl1n,

 

I've fact checked a lot of the stuff on that blog and so far I haven't been able to fault it. I don't really push blogs but this is THE one that should open people's eyes to the real history of the world over the last few hundred years. The cannabis sham is merely one of many others, but along the same lines is what went on with alcohol prohibition.

 

1919-1933: UNITED STATES. A temperance movement had existed in the United States during the 1800s and early 1900s, led by women's and Protestant church groups, urging the banning of alcoholic beverages. But it is not until 1919 that the boys in the back room, most importantly robber baron John D. Rockefeller, suddenly decide that the prohibition of alcohol is essential for the social good of America. The basis of the Rockefeller fortune is, in fact, bootleg liquor and the idea that the murderous Rockefeller gave a rat's ass about the welfare of the peons in the U.S. is so laughable that there must be more to the story, right?

 

And so there is. Among the countless little-known facts in American history is that Prohibition, which came into full legal effect in 1920, banned not only beverage alcohol but also effectively stopped the use of ethanol as a motor fuel. By the second decade of the twentieth century, the boom in car, truck, bus and tractor sales was well underway and the enormous future growth of the motor vehicle industry was obvious. The demand for fuel for all these vehicles would grow exponentially and, since Rockefeller had gained control of two thirds of the world's oil supplies, he stood to make an unimaginable fortune and to gain equally unimaginable power from it.

But there was a cloud on Rockefeller's horizon. At the same time, another industry was growing rapidly in the United States, the manufacture of ethanol by American farmers. Usually made from grain, although many other farm products can be used, ethanol is a clean burning, infinitely renewable resource. The internal combustion engine, invented by Nikolaus August Otto, was conceived to run on ethanol, not gasoline. Ford's Model T came with a carburetor which could easily accomodate both gasoline and ethanol.

 

By 1920, ethanol represented a real threat to Rockefeller's oil empire. The one thing Rockefeller dreaded above all else was true free enterprise and competition but because there were so many small scale manufacturers and sellers of ethanol, getting rid of them was much more difficult than simply destroying or absorbing a competing oil company, something which Rockefeller did on a regular basis. But, as though by magic, Prohibition gets rid of almost every competitor at a single stroke and the fuel market belongs to Rockefeller. By 1933, ethanol production in the U.S. has been, for all practical purposes, completely destroyed and long forgotten. America has become a junkie always after the next fix of petroleum, usually from Rockefeller, no matter how many people have to be killed around the world to get it. It is now safe to end Prohibition and so John D. Rockefeller, ever the humanitarian, writes to the New York Times, expressing his heartfelt concern over the evils of Prohibition and urging its repeal. And so it goes.

 

1920s-1950s: UNITED STATES. In the long and dismal history of frauds committed by American corporations against the American people, one of the most damaging is perpetrated by Nazi armaments maker General Motors Corporation (GM) in collusion with the Rockefellers' Nazi fuel supplier Standard Oil and Firestone, Phillips Petroleum and Mack Truck. In a massive and well-financed conspiracy to destroy electrically-powered public transit throughout the United States, GM runs tame candidates in municipal elections and bribes other politicians. The corrupt politicians then vote for the buyout of their municipal streetcar systems by a holding company, National City Lines (NCL) jointly owned by GM, Standard Oil and Firestone.

 

By 1941, NCL has gotten into its clutches the municipal transit systems of eighty three American cities including New York, Los Angeles and Philadelphia. NCL removes the rolling stock, tears up the tracks and, most importantly, breaks up the rights of way, making it virtually impossible ever to rebuild the systems. In total, the GM/Standard/Firestone conspiracy destroys more than one hundred streetcar systems in the U.S. The number of streetcars in operation fell from 73,000 to 18,000. The conspiracy forcibly increases bus and automobile sales, fuel consumption and tire sales by destroying safer, cleaner, more economical and sustainable alternatives. The long term negative effects of this conspiracy of some of America's most ruthless corporations are literally beyond calculation. The forced switch from environmentally-friendly public transit to the private car and diesel buses results in squandering irreplaceable petroleum resources and all the murder and mayhem which has gone to secure or steal oil around the world. The conspiracy has resulted in vastly increased pollution and, ultimately, in climatic change. The engineered obsession with the private car has led to millions of excess deaths and injuries in automobile accidents, hundreds of billions of dollars in debt for Americans and a catastrophic change in the way American cities have developed, with the devastation of urban neighborhoods, the destruction of urban small business and countless other economic and sociological effects.

 

Where attempts have been made to restore light rail systems in urban areas, costs to taxpayers have run into billions of dollars. As worldwide oil production diminishes and the private passenger car becomes hopelessly uneconomic to run, doubtless taxpayers will be called upon to pay trillions to reconstruct the systems destroyed by the conspirators. Let's try to guess who will be making hundreds of billions rebuilding it all.

 

Ultimately, GM is found guilty of conspiracy and is fined the stupendous sum of $5000. A handful of guilty executives is fined $1 each.

[merl1n]

Hi Nooby,

I don't disagree with any of it. We need people to question governments and policy but there are too many sheep amongst us. It answers a lot of questions around how huge multinational companies got so huge, but this is getting way off topic of a Gateway Drug. It does show how inept and complicit governments were in banning alcohol and hence its illeagal distribution, which does show a correlation with other illegal substances ie cocaine and the CIA. Also this can be seen by way of the pharma companies etc are gaining patents on diseases and links in your own DNA, a patent over a cell in every individual person on earth because they found what this particular gene does . And with no doubt will be applying for patents over certain cannabanoids if they can Have a look at Sativex or Marinol

 

As for DuPont, the company obtained the patent for Nylon in 1938. The technology may have come from somewhere else but DuPont obtained the american patent and named it Nylon after New York. But still this has very little to do with cannabis being a gateway drug.

 

 

Merl1n

[Nooby]

Kind of, sure.

 

Who promotes or funds people who promote the huge number of cannabis lies, including the gateway theory?

[buzz lighthead]

Well, I have found it apparent that there IS a possible gateway effect for some people.

Imagine you buy off your local black market merchant, who has "connections". One day he informs you that hes fresh outta ganj, but he's got some blow you might enjoy... Now of course your true pothead will decline and go elsewhere, but there may be a few who give it a go. This decision may or may not lead to further hard drug usage.

However it's a situation created BY prohibition, and is certainly not prevented under the current status quo.

 

Throw that at the next person who tries the Gateway arguement!

[vertexx]

Good one, Buzz !