A little bit of truth.what do you think?
Posted by EFPBlogger
Amy Nicole asked:
“Hemp/marijuana became illegal in the USA in 1937. This due to an extensive propaganda campaign by William Randolph Hearst and Lamont DuPont (of DuPont Company). Hearst supplied most of the US with paper made from wood pulp. Making paper from hemp, while much more efficient and eco-friendly, would have cost Hearst many millions. DuPont chemicals had patented the method of making synthetic nylon from coal and competition from the natural hemp products would have cost them much too. The popularity of the name marijuana also dates from this time and is also due to same propaganda from Hearst and DuPont. Marijuana is just the Spanish name for the English word hemp. Popularising usage of the name marijuana made the plant sound strange and foreign and thus easier to criminalise despite the fact that hemp had been cultivated in the USA for many decades previously. Indeed the US constitution was drafted on hemp paper.”
“Hemp/marijuana became illegal in the USA in 1937. This due to an extensive propaganda campaign by William Randolph Hearst and Lamont DuPont (of DuPont Company). Hearst supplied most of the US with paper made from wood pulp. Making paper from hemp, while much more efficient and eco-friendly, would have cost Hearst many millions. DuPont chemicals had patented the method of making synthetic nylon from coal and competition from the natural hemp products would have cost them much too. The popularity of the name marijuana also dates from this time and is also due to same propaganda from Hearst and DuPont. Marijuana is just the Spanish name for the English word hemp. Popularising usage of the name marijuana made the plant sound strange and foreign and thus easier to criminalise despite the fact that hemp had been cultivated in the USA for many decades previously. Indeed the US constitution was drafted on hemp paper.”
hahah on hemp paper? IRONY! lol :o)
NIKOLA
June 22nd, 2009 at 2:29 am
The us government.
June 22nd, 2009 at 11:33 pm
uhh yeaaah!!
June 24th, 2009 at 3:11 am
marijuana should be legal
June 29th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
The tax on the weed.
The world cant enforce the world cant enforce the tax on the governments around the governments around the weed.
The governments around the weed.