[quote=4plexowner]Allan – I haven’t done any recent research on hemp so I’m fuzzy on the details – DuPont may have been one of the key instigators against hemp back in the 30’s
here’s Wikipedia’s entry:
“Hemp
It is often asserted in pro-cannabis publications that DuPont actively supported the criminalization of the production of hemp in the US in 1937 through private and government intermediates[/quote]
That’s probably not true. Don’t know about hemp paper, but hemp ropes had low durability, and hemp as a source of fiber for ropes was already obsolete by 1937.
