🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1995May9.200236.8208@kestrel.edu>,
king@ukulele.reasoning.com (Dick King) wrote:
> 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?

As a matter of fact, they do.

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John A. Stanley                      jstanley@gate.net