[quote=Eugene][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.[/quote]
Popular Science called it the “billion dollar crop” in 1935.
Actually, hemp had several thousand industrial uses at the time and rope was one of them. The main reason it is illegal is a myriad of corporate forces and the Federal Bureau of Narcotics was looking for additional funding and the primary smokers of marijuana were black and mexican. So,double score on that one.
Then came the propaganda, er, scientific studies that said white women would seek relations with black men and other dooseys like this,
Dr. A. E. Fossier wrote in the 1931 New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal: “Under the influence of hashish those fanatics would madly rush at their enemies, and ruthlessly massacre every one within their grasp.” Within a very short time, marijuana started being linked to violent behavior.,
So basically business as usual. Corporations get together with government and use the MSM to manipulate people into their free market.
