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The DuPont Chemical company and banker Andrew Mellon should be familiar to all cannabis history buffs - they (along with W.R. Hearst) engineered the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937. (84) Mellon was head of the Treasury at the time (he was in charge of the creation of the Tax Stamp). Mellon also was DuPont's chief financial backer. Mellon is connected to Rockefeller through their mutual interest in Gulf oil. (85)

J.P. Morgan

Morgan, Mellon & Rockefeller, 1922

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Mellon, Rockefeller, and Rockefeller's main banker J. P. Morgan dominated the New York economic hierarchy and were known to have been close long before Mellon introduced the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937. (86) Rockefeller and Morgan have sat on the elite "Committee of the 300" social club with Mellon and DuPont. (87) This close relationship between Rockefeller and Mellon has continued - Rockefeller's Chevron bought Mellon's Gulf in 1984. (88)

Back in 1937, Farben owned some of DuPont (89). Farben also owned some of the Alluminum Company of America (90) - now known as Alcoa - a company primarily owned by Mellon. (91) The Mellons, Morgans and DuPonts have been a close-knit financial axis for generations. In 1936, they attempted to finance a coup d'etat in America. The plot was foiled by retired Marine Corps commandant Smedley Butler whom they had approached as a potential front man, offering to make him the "American Mussolini." He snitched them out to F.D.R. Though congressional hearings were held, nobody hung, and some of the testimony was suppressed for years. (92)

Smedley Butler

In 1943, antitrust activists indicted I.G. Farben and Du Pont for "having engaged in a world-wide cartel conspiracy" to restrain the production and distribution of titanium, an important war material. (93)