Legalize IT. Prohibition is the real crime.
1 acre of Hemp/Cannibus can replace 4.1 acres of trees for making Paper. Stop Cutting Trees down for paper
Cannibus/Hemp was outlawed in the USA by the 1937 marijuana tax act. Most people in 1937 had never heard of marijuana. They didn't know it was the same plant they had growing in their own Hemp Patch.
In 1937 marijuana was a slang mexican word.
Anybody that wants to learn alot about Cannibus/Hemp/Marijuana should read a book by
Jack Herer called
"The Emperor Wears No Clothes" This book is full of facts about how marijuana became illegal and all the uses and good that could come from legalizing it.
Did you people know that you can power a car from Hemp seed oil?
Did you people know that Hemp fiber is one of the strongest natural fibers on Earth? It is something like 2x as absorbant and 4x stronger than cotton and doesn't take pesticides to grow where as cotton makes up like 40-60 percent of pesticide use in the USA.
Did you know that Congress had secret meatings with Dupont Chemical Company and Hearst Paper Manufacturing on making Marijuana illegal. Dupont wanted it illegal so their brand new synthetic fiber "Nylon" would have less competition and Hearst Paper wanted it illegal because a new machine had just been invented that would make paper production alot cheaper from hemp than wood pulp.
Edit--->I should clarify that this machine was used for harvesting Hemp in the fields not for making the paper.
In I think Feb. of 1937 Popular Science magazine refered to Hemp as a new
Billion dollar crop because of this machine. It is the first time that any crop was refered as a Billion dollar crop. Marijuana became illegal later that same year.
I could go on for hours and I want to catch a buzz so I will just tell you to go read this book.
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