🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <3ojvhj$nid@d2.tufts.edu>, mmcgrath@diamond.tufts.edu (I'm so fucked up) writes:
|> Azeez Hayne (ahayne1@cc.swarthmore.edu) wrote:
|> : Well, as to why hemp is illegal in the US, hear goes:
|> 
|> : There was this really rich guy, his name escapes me at the moment. He 
|> : owned a newspaper and had made a huge investment in woodpulp paper 
|> : rather than hemp paper.
|> <deleted story >
|> well, to get the facts ironed out, the man was william randolph hearst, 
|> [blah blah blah]
|> 	so blame industrialist hearst and his chain of newspapers for the 
|> laws we now have.  a bunch of greedy industrialists criminalized one of 
|> the most benign plants known to man.

Oh gimme a break.

There are many countries where hemp is legal.

Do they make hemp paper, cloth, etc., there?

-dk