Posted by:
Wally Prince
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Date: September 25, 2018 12:11AM
D&C 89:10
"And again, verily I say unto you, all wholesome herbs God hath ordained for the constitution, nature, and use of man—"
It's very likely that medicinally valuable cannabis plants were prominent in the minds of the Mormons who first laid eyes on this "revelation" in D&C 89.
"In the U.S., cannabis was widely utilized as a patent medicine during the 19th and early 20th centuries, described in the United States Pharmacopoeia for the first time in 1850."
Source:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5312634/TBH, it's a no-brainer to figure out the real reason for the campaign to make not only medicinal cannabis illegal, but also the closely related hemp plants that were useful for thousands of industrial uses (ropes, plastics, fuel, building products, fabrics....).
The relatively new petroleum industry (owned by a relatively few people/corporations/financiers and backed by bought-and-paid-for politicians and the bought-and-paid-for media) was busy developing competing medicinal and industrial products based on petroleum, but requiring extensive and expensive processing, all of which could be patented. (The petro-chemical products typically had much worse side effects than hemp and cannabis-based products.)
Of course in order to make massive profits on the newly developing petro-chemical industry, these same movers and shakers had to get rid of the competition. The competition was a family of plants that couldn't be patented and that could be easily grown on family farms.
They succeeded. The "reefer madness" cover story that they used as a pretext did not even apply to industrial hemp crops, but, hey, they look similar so you don't want to get law enforcement officers confused, making it harder to enforce those all-important laws against a naturally growing plant that was perfectly legal throughout the history of humanity and was never seen as such a frightening threat to all that is good and holy...UNTIL...the advent of the petro-chemical industry.