On 4/20/2014 2:27 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:

On 19 Apr 2014, at 20:50, meekerdb wrote:

On 4/19/2014 12:37 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote:
Then, the cultivation of industrial help -- which is not psychoactive -- was also made illegal. Industrial has a wide range of applications: paper, fabric, building material and cheap protein source, to name a few. It threatens several industries and it is not a narcotic. How do you explain that?

How do you explain that growth of industrial hemp was encouraged by the government up through World War 2? Did it not pose the same threats then?

Good question, but it seems to go in Telmo's direction. It shows that the banning of hemp was indeed purely irrational, and motivated by making easy money based on lies. it was only a way to impose oil and forest against a natural efficacious sustainable competitor.

It can't be both. Making easy money is quite rational. But I don't know who you think led the campaign to ban marijuana. It's my impression that it was a lot of self-righteous and fearful conservative Christians who did not stand to gain anything monetarily - anymore than they now stand to gain by preventing gay marriage. I don't see that going hemp was any threat to the oil industry or lumber?

Brent

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
"Everything List" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email 
to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com.
Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

Reply via email to