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On Tue, 9 May 1995, Dick King wrote:

> Oh gimme a break.
> 
> There are many countries where hemp is legal.
> 
> Do they make hemp paper, cloth, etc., there?

In a word, yes.  Unfortunately, most of the countries with signifigant
levels of technology have put legal barriers in the way.  Recently
England and Canada lifted some of those barriers and a fledgling hemp
industry is emerging.  France and Holland have begun to merit the plant 
as well.  China's hemp papermaking technology is just now receiving
renewed attention.  In what used to be the USSR, it is being utilized 
albeit with rudimentary industrial facilities.

Scoff all you want, hemp *really* is useful, and the emerging industries
will prove you wrong.

Brian

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