I seem to recall something about DuPont helping to launch the anti marijuana campaign because it did not want help competing with it’s new nylon, especially rope.
In the mid-Atlantic, there has been a lot of move to protest a Liquid Natural Gas exporting facility at Cove Point, MD. It seems to me that the big effort to stop that began right after Putin took over the Crimea and began the rebellion in the Ukraine with threats to cut off their fuel for the winter. The push was especially strong with certain very far left groups there, although they got a little distracted with Ferguson.
Meant to write HEMP not HELP.
Potheads love to invent history, part of their paranoia. Synthetic rope rolled in bigtime just before and during WWII because the natural fiber source was the Philippines, which was in Japan’s hands starting in the early ‘40s.