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john.levin@paonline.com (John Levin) wrote:
>>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.
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>  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.


If marijuana is so harmful, why does it cure glaucoma and asthma? No one really 
advocated smoking it to my knowledge so far. We've just said it has uses that 
should be allowed and aren't because of ignorance. 
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