The Leaf THE LEAF May-June 2019 | Page 16

Bayer Monsanto Merger Will Steal the Marijuana Industry By “Humans are Free” July 2015 Big Buds reports: Monsanto makes poisons, GMOs, and other products proven to harm people and the environment. Monsanto has a deep business partnership with Scotts Miracle-Gro, a convicted corporate criminal– and Scott’s Miracle-Gro is trying to take over the marijuana industry. Marijuana industry insiders believe that the international corporation will destroy the industry, genetically modify the seeds and rob people of the diversity and natural benefits of cannabis. Besides the health fears associated with GMOs, the company also plans to supply the necessary chemicals and fertilisers to attack marijuana seed breeders in the same way that Monsanto used RoundUp to attack farmers worldwide. Bayer’s history includes making chemical weapons, providing material support (as part of the Farben group) for Hitler’s genocidal war crimes, using slave labour, and creating toxic and deadly products. Bayer was the first company to mass produce and mass market heroin worldwide. Monsanto's legacy of death has brought them the name "the most evil company in the world." They have similarly made or contributed to the making of harmful products including saccharin, PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls), nuclear weapons, polystyrene, DDT, Agent Orange, RoundUp (glyphosate), bovine growth hormone (rGBH), Aspartame, GMOs, and dioxin. Read: Bayer and US Govt. Knowingly Gave HIV to Thousands of Children and the FDA Covered It Up In the past two years, a Scotts Miracle-Gro front group purchased General Hydroponics, Botanicare, and Gavita. Scotts Miracle-Gro CEO Jim Hagadorn says he intends to spend as much as HALF A BILLION DOLLARS to buy out the cannabis industry. Major hydroponics nutrients, lighting, soil, and other grow equipment manufacturers report they’ve also been offered takeover bids by Scotts Miracle-Gro or its “Hawthorne” front company. One major hydroponics lighting manufacturer told BigBudsMag.com that Scotts Miracle- Gro wanted to buy most of their bulbs and sell them at Home Depot and other discount stores. “They indicated they want to bypass hydroponics retail stores,” the hydroponics lighting rep told us. “When we said we won’t get in bed with them to hurt the hydro industry, they said, ‘Well, we could just buy your whole company like we did with Gavita and do whatever we want.’” Maximum Yield Magazine, which bans marijuana hydroponics nutrients company Advanced Nutrients from its indoor gardening expo events, welcomed a Monsanto affiliate into its Boston gardening expo several years ago. This despite the fact that Monsanto and Scotts Miracle-Gro have long been partners with the DEA to produce poisons used in the wars against marijuana and coca plants.