🚀 go-pugleaf

>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.

  Geez. Noone who's watched dope smokers passively goofing and yukking 
their way through life would call hemp the most "benign" plant known to 
man. I'd say that _basil_ is the most benign plant known to man (or woman 
for that matter). Hemp is probably slightly to the other side of 
belladonna. Also (if you know your history, which you apparently don't), 
the dope scare of the 20s was due more to widespread use of opiates in 
patent medicines (cough, colic and the like) than anything Hearst did. 
The "secret ingredient" in such medicines resulted in very widespread 
addiction in the U.S. population. Thus the general public probably knew 
more about real addiction and drug dependency than it does today. You'd 
probably be a lot better off if you smoked basil. More clearheaded, 
anyway.