Growing hemp was encouraged during WWII to provide fiber for the manufacture of manilla rope. At the edge of the small town where I grew up there was a mill where they processed the hemp fibers. After the war the buildings were used for canning vegetables, but were referred to by the locals as the "hemp mill" well into the late 1950's.
-p P. J. Alling wrote: > I wasn't going to comment, but Cocaine was made illegal much earlier in > 1914 by the Harrison Act., and hemp was banned, (in all but name), by > the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937, pushed by the BATF, though a number of > states banned it earlier, Utah being the first in 1915.. J. Edger had > little or nothing to do with it. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> In a message dated 5/8/2007 6:54:00 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> "Everything not prohibited is mandatory!" The only reason drugs were >> made illegal in the US is because good old J Edgar Hoover blackmailed >> them into making them illegal so he would not have to disband the FBI >> when prohibition was ended. Orwell had no imagination. >> >> >> ========== >> Think that's it? I've often wondered by whom and when some drugs were made >> illegal. Since many like the cocaine in coke, opium in laudanum, etc. were >> legal for a long, long time. >> >> Marnie aka Doe >> >> --------------------------------------------- >> Warning: I am now filtering my email, so you may be censored. >> >> >> >> >> ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. >> >> > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
