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In article <Pine.ULT.3.91.950509194654.3033E-100000@twain.oit.umass.edu>, Sol Lightman <verdant@twain.oit.umass.edu> writes:
> 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.   
> Scoff all you want, hemp *really* is useful, and the emerging industries
> will prove you wrong.
> 
> Brian
> 

       Australia is waking up too. Trials are under way, albeit very limited.
       As a tree replacement for paper it would save the forests, as a cotton
       replacement for cloth it would go a long way to reducing insecticide
       pollution.

       Much of the US's 2nd world war military uniforms were hemp. Excellent
       quality.

       Rob.