"It's a huge threat, not just to pharma and booze but to manufacturers of synthetic materials, cotton growers, the timber industry, and others."
No doubt. Many people don't realize that the push to make hemp illegal came from big industry, not some temperance movement. >From Wiki: Hemp paper threatened DuPont's monopoly on the necessary chemicals for manufacturing paper from trees, and hemp fiber cloth would compete with Nylon, a synthetic fibre, which was patented in 1938, the year hemp was made illegal. In pro-cannabis publications, it often is asserted that DuPont actively supported the criminalization of the production of hemp in the US in 1937 through private and government intermediaries and that this was done to eliminate hemp as a source of fiberone of DuPont's biggest markets at the time. DuPont denies allegations that it influenced hemp regulation. Then there were the lumber barons who sold the wood who did not want a quickly renewable source for paper, and so on. J - Ive pledged that I will not sign health insurance reform as badly as I think its necessary, I wont sign it if that reform adds even one dime to our deficit. - Barrack ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:330854 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
