To: microgood
So, the oil industry feared competion from the narcotics industry.
Yes, yes, tell us more!
Your history is so much more interesting than our history.
To: muawiyah
So, the oil industry feared competion from the narcotics industry.
You did not know that? William Randolf Hearst cooperated with Anslinger, our first drug warrior, because he feared hemp would compete with his paper industry, but before that, when Ford made an automobile that ran on hemp oil and proposed hemp be used for fuel, he was convinced by the oil industry to oppose that and go with oil.
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