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Originally Posted by Beestie
The liquor industry is terrified of herb. Terrified.
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This is true, however, they are not the ones who stand to lose the most... the textile industry spends the most on keeping it illegal. They were the ones who played the race card to get it banned to begin with after an invention which was going to make paper and fabric faster easier and with 11% fewer chemicals than wood pulp and cotton. We can't be having that now, not when hemp can be grown three to four times a year on the same acre of land instead of once every five to ten years like pine or once a year like cotton and with less fertilizer, noooooooo. Ironically, textile grade hemp will not get you high. The big companies that paid to get it banned are still working at it, Kimberly Clark, Dow and two big lumber companies that I cannot remember the names of.
Some of the pharmaceuticals are not happy about some of the studies out of Europe either.
In 1934 the invention was featured in a popular science that stated hemp would be America's nest #1 cash crop... that is what set them off.
Oh, textile companies, liquor companies and drug dealers (the biggest being the CIA and FBI) of course.