Michael Regilio

It is really tacky. And because of whatever agreement they have with the state, the film about him that they play you there calls him like this great man. And then you look into him and you're like, I think you're using that word subjectively. Okay.

Gotcha. And so Willie Randolph Hearst owned most of the newspapers and paper mills at that time, and he viewed cannabis as competition. The U.S. Secretary of Treasury, Andrew Mellon, that name sounds very familiar to me as well. Yeah. Carnegie Mellon. So Mellon was heavily invested in the DuPont company and feared cannabis costing him money.

Gotcha. And so Willie Randolph Hearst owned most of the newspapers and paper mills at that time, and he viewed cannabis as competition. The U.S. Secretary of Treasury, Andrew Mellon, that name sounds very familiar to me as well. Yeah. Carnegie Mellon. So Mellon was heavily invested in the DuPont company and feared cannabis costing him money.

Gotcha. And so Willie Randolph Hearst owned most of the newspapers and paper mills at that time, and he viewed cannabis as competition. The U.S. Secretary of Treasury, Andrew Mellon, that name sounds very familiar to me as well. Yeah. Carnegie Mellon. So Mellon was heavily invested in the DuPont company and feared cannabis costing him money.

But they were in luck because Mellon's son-in-law was none other than Anslinger. So Mellon was able to get Anslinger easily appointed to the new Federal Bureau of Narcotics, which developed the Marijuana Tax Act.

But they were in luck because Mellon's son-in-law was none other than Anslinger. So Mellon was able to get Anslinger easily appointed to the new Federal Bureau of Narcotics, which developed the Marijuana Tax Act.

But they were in luck because Mellon's son-in-law was none other than Anslinger. So Mellon was able to get Anslinger easily appointed to the new Federal Bureau of Narcotics, which developed the Marijuana Tax Act.

Pretty much. So Hearst, Mellon, Anslinger and the DuPonts had a lot of reasons to hate cannabis. And a lot of those reasons were, like you said, financial.

Pretty much. So Hearst, Mellon, Anslinger and the DuPonts had a lot of reasons to hate cannabis. And a lot of those reasons were, like you said, financial.

Pretty much. So Hearst, Mellon, Anslinger and the DuPonts had a lot of reasons to hate cannabis. And a lot of those reasons were, like you said, financial.

Right. Reefer madness. Business as usual is what we should call that kind of reefer madness. Except Henry Ford. But he was in the minority. DuPont was the number one shareholder in Ford's major competitor, General Motors. Even the Rockefeller family of Standard Oil viewed cannabis-sourced ethanol as competition.

Right. Reefer madness. Business as usual is what we should call that kind of reefer madness. Except Henry Ford. But he was in the minority. DuPont was the number one shareholder in Ford's major competitor, General Motors. Even the Rockefeller family of Standard Oil viewed cannabis-sourced ethanol as competition.

Right. Reefer madness. Business as usual is what we should call that kind of reefer madness. Except Henry Ford. But he was in the minority. DuPont was the number one shareholder in Ford's major competitor, General Motors. Even the Rockefeller family of Standard Oil viewed cannabis-sourced ethanol as competition.

Henry Ford's first Model T used cannabis to make the acrylic skin, upholstery, and ran on cannabis-based ethanol. Were it not for the Marijuana Tax Act, we would today at the very least be seeing a line of Ford cars run on biofuel.

Henry Ford's first Model T used cannabis to make the acrylic skin, upholstery, and ran on cannabis-based ethanol. Were it not for the Marijuana Tax Act, we would today at the very least be seeing a line of Ford cars run on biofuel.

Henry Ford's first Model T used cannabis to make the acrylic skin, upholstery, and ran on cannabis-based ethanol. Were it not for the Marijuana Tax Act, we would today at the very least be seeing a line of Ford cars run on biofuel.

Instead of tapping into oil wells, we would have been growing plants which breathe in CO2 and breathe out oxygen.

Instead of tapping into oil wells, we would have been growing plants which breathe in CO2 and breathe out oxygen.

Instead of tapping into oil wells, we would have been growing plants which breathe in CO2 and breathe out oxygen.

The other opposition to the legislation was from William Woodward from the American Medical Association.