To: E. Pluribus Unum
The only problem is that another name for hemp is marijuana.
Which is why marijuana will never be legal. Fuel oil can be cheaply extracted from hemp seed. Hemp competes with both fuel and paper, and legal hemp threatens both of those industries.
It's not about dope, it's about protecting old industry from new competition.
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47 posted on
08/04/2005 8:25:39 AM PDT by
mugs99
To: mugs99
It's not about dope, it's about protecting old industry from new competition. Starting with William Randolph Hearst's campaign to criminalize hemp when a hemp gin was perfected that threatened his newsprint empire.
48 posted on
08/04/2005 8:42:02 AM PDT by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Drug prohibition laws spawned the runaway federal health care monopoly and fund terrorism.)
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