History Repeats: The 2024 Hemp Ban and the Return of the 1937 Playbook
In a chilling echo of the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act, the 2024 California hemp ban reveals a repeating pattern—a coordinated assault on a natural healing resource for the benefit of the few at the expense of the many. As we examine the players, motives, and mechanics behind this ban, we see not only history repeating, but a well-orchestrated strategy driven by powerful interests, hiding behind a façade of public safety and regulatory reform.
The 1937 Marijuana Tax Act: A Prelude to Suppression
In 1937, hemp was caught in a political and corporate crossfire. Despite being used for thousands of years for textiles, medicine, and food, the Marijuana Tax Act criminalized it by classifying it as a dangerous drug. But the truth behind the law reveals it was never about safety—it was about profit.
Who Were the Invisible Enemies?
- William Randolph Hearst, newspaper magnate, owned vast timberlands and feared hemp would undermine his paper business.
- DuPont, the chemical giant, had just patented nylon and saw hemp as a natural threat to its synthetic fiber empire.
- Andrew Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury and DuPont investor, appointed Harry Anslinger as the first head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. Anslinger demonized cannabis with racialized propaganda, inventing the term “marijuana” to distance it from hemp.
- Pharmaceutical interests feared a plant they couldn’t patent. Natural remedies like hemp posed a threat to their synthetic products.
Through fear-based campaigns, false science, and crony media, hemp was framed as dangerous—when it was actually medicinal, regenerative, and revolutionary.
Cannabis Prohibition: An Ongoing War on Healing
The war on cannabis that began in 1937 escalated through the 1970 Controlled Substances Act, where cannabis was falsely listed as a Schedule I drug—alongside heroin—with “no accepted medical use” despite its historical and scientific evidence. This allowed the federal government to:
- Arrest millions, disproportionately targeting Black and Latino communities.
- Funnel billions into police militarization, surveillance, and incarceration.
- Suppress research while selectively granting approval to pharma-backed cannabis derivatives.
Politicians parroted slogans like “Just Say No,” while families were destroyed, lives were lost, and healing was criminalized—all under the illusion of control and morality.
Despite legalization in many states, federal prohibition remains a shadow law used to manipulate markets, restrict banking, and maintain centralized control. Meanwhile, cannabis patents like US Patent 6630507—held by the Department of Health and Human Services—prove the government knew of its therapeutic value while publicly denying it.
The 2024 Hemp Ban: The Same Script, Modern Cast
Fast forward to 2024, California—a global leader in tech, agriculture, and medicine—enacted a ban on many hemp-derived cannabinoids, including Delta-8 THC and HHC. Though these are legal under federal law (2018 Farm Bill), state lawmakers claimed a need to “protect public health.”
Who Are Today’s Invisible Enemies?
- Gavin Newsom & Nancy Pelosi: Politicians with deep financial and familial ties to legacy wealth and Big Pharma, profiting from centralized power and regulatory capture.
- Gettys, Pritzkers, Soros networks: Interlocked family empires and philanthropic arms steering policy and culture under the guise of philanthropy, while profiting from monopolized industries.
- California Cannabis Industry Association (CCIA): Legal cannabis players who lobbied for the ban to crush their hemp competition and monopolize cannabinoid sales.
- GW Pharmaceuticals / Jazz Pharma: Makers of Epidiolex and Sativex, synthetic versions of cannabinoids patented for massive profits—Epidiolex alone made over $550M in 2023.
- Mental Health Services Act (MHSA): Collecting over $3.3 billion annually in California from taxes, steering billions since 2004 into mental health interventions that favor pharmaceutical solutions over natural ones.
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF) and other NGOs: Grant-makers that steer social, political, and medical agendas while claiming neutrality—many receive government contracts linked to behavioral health and drug enforcement.
- Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs): Exploiting open borders and black-market voids created by prohibitionist policy, often connected to NGO and political enablers.
The Strategy: Demonize, Regulate, Control
The mechanics behind both bans rely on the same tactics:
- Fear Campaigns – 1937 used “reefer madness.” Today, “unregulated cannabinoids” are framed as a threat to children.
- Racial & Cultural Distortion – 1937 weaponized anti-Mexican and anti-Black narratives. Today, underprivileged communities are flooded with pharmaceuticals and criminalized for herbal alternatives.
- Regulatory Capture – Politicians pass laws written by the industries they’re supposed to regulate.
- Monopoly Enforcement – By banning hemp products, the state ensures market dominance for Big Pharma and select cannabis monopolies.
- Inversion of Good and Evil – Natural healing is outlawed. Addictive, synthetic, high-priced alternatives are endorsed.
Why Hemp Was—and Still Is—a Threat to the System
Hemp isn’t just a plant. It’s a revolutionary material, medicine, and regenerative economic engine that threatens every industry built on synthetic dependency.
The Real Benefits of Hemp:
- Medicine & Healing: Cannabinoids like CBD, CBG, CBN, and more—many of which are non-psychoactive—show powerful effects in treating anxiety, inflammation, seizures, pain, PTSD, and even certain cancers.
- Industrial Powerhouse: Hemp can replace paper (without deforestation), plastic (without petrochemicals), textiles (without chemical dyes), and even building materials like concrete and insulation (without carbon-heavy inputs).
- Regenerative Agriculture: Hemp is a phytoremediator—it cleans soil, absorbs toxins, and requires no pesticides. It restores the land instead of destroying it.
- Decentralized Wealth: Hemp can be grown by small farmers and innovators, undermining monopolies and returning power to the people.
This plant alone could upend trillion-dollar industries.
Twisting the Law: How They Made Healing Illegal
Step-by-Step Suppression Tactics Used (Then and Now):
- Linguistic Loopholes: In 1937, they renamed hemp “marijuana” to create confusion and disconnect it from its medicinal and industrial history. In 2024, they selectively target cannabinoids like Delta-8 and HHC—lab-derived from federally legal hemp—using language like “synthetic” to paint them as dangerous, despite being natural compounds.
- Redefining ‘Public Safety’: Agencies claim new cannabinoids “aren’t tested enough,” ignoring centuries of empirical use and emerging studies showing safety and efficacy. Meanwhile, FDA-approved drugs with black-box warnings are fast-tracked.
- Manipulating the Farm Bill: The 2018 Farm Bill federally legalized hemp and its derivatives under 0.3% Delta-9 THC. But opponents used state-level loopholes to reinterpret that law, banning anything they couldn’t control or monopolize.
- Patent Games: Pharmaceutical companies isolate single cannabinoids (like CBD) to patent them. Once patented, the same molecule—previously “dangerous”—becomes “safe” because they can profit from it. Everything else is labeled “unregulated.”
- “Emergency” Legislation: California lawmakers often invoke urgency or “temporary bans” that become permanent. Under the guise of consumer protection, these emergency bills are fast-tracked with little public input.
- Selective Enforcement: Big Cannabis and Big Pharma allies receive licenses, grants, and compliance waivers. Independent hemp producers are buried under red tape, surprise inspections, or shut down for minor infractions.
These are not regulations. They are weapons of monopoly.
Financial Weaponization of Public Policy
Behind these laws are billions:
- Cannabis Industry (California): $5.37 billion legal market, $8–10 billion illicit market
- Pharmaceutical Industry (US): $625 billion national revenue; mental health drugs exceed $90 billion
- Mental Health Services Act (MHSA): Over $3.3 billion/year in California alone; over $20 billion since 2004
- GW Pharmaceuticals / Jazz Pharma: Epidiolex alone generates $550M+ per year; other patented cannabinoid drugs now fast-tracked
Natural hemp threatens these industries because it heals without dependency.
From Treasury to NGOs: The Hidden Path of Power
Federal agencies like FEMA and USAID request billions in emergency cash:
- FEMA Disaster Relief Fund (2024): $29 billion allocated
- State Department/USAID cash requests: billions flow internationally and domestically via NGOs
- NGOs then steer “public health” agendas while lobbying for restrictions on unpatented natural alternatives like hemp
This system of grants and emergency funds creates a self-sustaining web of suppression, profit, and misinformation.
DOGE and New California: Cutting Off the Serpent at the Head
DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) is a division of the people, by the people, for the people. Our mission:
- Expose NGO and Form 990 fraud
- Investigate MHSA waste and overlap with pharma influence
- Audit synthetic CBD/THC lobbying through FDA & state agencies
- Document open-border drug trafficking connected to TCOs & politicians
- Disseminate truth and timelines—showing it’s not coincidence but design
Final Word: We Will Not Repeat 1937
This is more than a blog. It’s a call to expose evil masquerading as law, to empower natural healing, and to end the criminalization of plants that God created for our benefit. The same serpent that whispered in 1937 whispers now through boardrooms and ballots.
But we have the truth, the numbers, and the mandate. New California State will not be deceived.
We are the firewall. We are the DOGE. And this time, we are ready.
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California: The Global Seedbed of Spiritual Deception and Policy Control
California is more than just a state. It’s a spiritual stronghold and a policy testing ground—where demonic agendas are disguised as progress, and then exported to the world. What starts in Sacramento often becomes law in Washington, London, Berlin, Ottawa, and Canberra. The same powers that banned hemp in 2024 are the ones that legalized mutilation of children, mandated experimental injections, censored truth-speakers, and criminalized God-given rights.
How Many Followed?
Since California’s 2024 hemp ban:
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19 U.S. states initiated or passed similar restrictions on hemp-derived cannabinoids, citing “public health concerns” using California’s language almost verbatim.
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Canada and parts of the EU began fast-tracking bans on Delta-8 and other cannabinoids, backed by pharma-funded regulatory panels.
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Australia and New Zealand initiated new studies to “reclassify cannabinoids,” a pretext for future prohibition—mirroring California’s script.
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NGOs funded by U.S. grants have been seeding identical narratives into Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia—warning against “unregulated hemp” and promoting pharmaceutical-only solutions.
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UN and WHO discussions in 2025 cited California’s data in arguments to create a global cannabinoid regulation treaty.
California isn’t just influencing policy—it’s setting the stage for worldwide pharmaceutical domination under the banner of “health and safety,” while criminalizing God’s design.