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Re: WHY aren't we using biomass (yet)??

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From: Tao Nelson
Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 00:00
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: 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 


WHAT THE FUCK'S THAT GOT TO DO WITH HEMP ?!?!!

please excuse me shouting, but hemp is not, and never was an opiate.
prohibition was, and still is, purely ecconomical and political.  
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From: tnelson2@metz.une.edu.au (Tao Nelson)
Subject: Re: WHY aren't we using biomass (yet)??
Date: 1995/05/19
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