A little bit of truth.what do you think?
Saturday, June 20th, 2009Amy 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
