 | HempTV | US Government's Operation Green Merchant, Oct. 26, 1989
12 min
26 Oct, 1989
Several news clips from US national and Seattle, Washington area TV stations on the October 26, 1989 US federal sting on horticulture stores called Operation Green Merchant. The clips from NBC & ABC national reports, and Seattle area news shows are all from the day of the federal raid, which signaled a move by US president George Bush the 1st to attack US horticulture equipment suppliers to move on domestic US indoor marijuana cultivation using tough new federal mandatory minimum prison sentences ranging from 10 years to life without parole. 13 minutes. |
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| HempTV | Up Front, from Spokane WA on Marijuana Legalization (Jan. 1986)
57 min
14 Jan, 1986
TV show is from Spokane, Washington's KHQ-TV show "Up Front" called, "Marijuana Legalization: A Step Forward or a Step Back," where a local studio audience examines the then upcoming November 1986 Oregon vote on the OMI (Oregon Mariijuana Initiative) which would have legalized private adult marijuana possession, use and cultivation. A drug warrior from Colorado takes on OMI's John Sajo. 58 minutes. |
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| HempTV | Hemp for Victory; 1942 US Dept. of Agriculture
14 min
26 Jun, 1942
This 1942 re-discovered classic was made by the USDA to teach farmers how to grow hemp for fiber again, after it had been prohibited in the decade prior, but World War II cut off foreign sources of fiber and the US had to turn back to industrial hemp. |
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| HempTV | Assassin of Youth (1937)
0 min
26 Jun, 1937
"Assassin of Youth," a 1937 propaganda misinformation film that was made to help convince the public to prohibit cannabis. The film purports to show how marijuana ruins the lifes of several people. 80 minutes. |
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 | HempTV | Reefer Madness
1 hr 6 min
16 Feb, 1937
This 1938 classic shows how cannabis was vilified and first criminalized through a misinformation campaign. The film depicts people using marijuana and going insane and killing their friends due to the effects of "reefers." |
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