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[Otto]

"Why was this valuable renewable resource prohibited? Evidence suggests a
special-interest group that included the DuPont petrochemical company,
Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon (Dupont's major financial backer),
and the newspaper man William Randolph Hearst mounted a yellow journalism
campaign against hemp. Hearst deliberately confused psychoactive marijuana
with industrial hemp, one of humankind's oldest and most useful resources.
DuPont and Hearst were heavily invested in timber and petroleum resources,
and saw hemp as a threat to their empires. Petroleum companies also knew
that petroleum emits noxious, toxic byproducts when incompletely burned, as
in an auto engine. In 1937 DuPont, Mellen and Hearst were able to push a
"marijuana" prohibition bill through Congress in less than three months,
which destroyed the domestic hemp industry."

I can only recommend again Jack Herer's book "The Emperor Wears No Clothes"
about this, which is, at least partly, online at
http://www.jackherer.com/chapters.html. The German version includes valuable
information about hemp-growing nazi-Germany.

If there has been one real conspiracy in the last one hundred years it has
been the DuPont-Mellon-Hearst conspiracy against hemp.

Otto

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