On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 12:16:30PM +0100, Kathryn Cassidy mentioned:
> The cannabis plant also has many other economic uses. Overall it's
> pretty bizarre that cannabis is illegal while tabacco and alcohol
> aren't.
It was made illegal because of those other economic uses. Hemp is an
excellent paper and clothing material. In the thirties & fourties, Du Pont
paid massive amounts of money to various government in helping sponsoring
anti-drug programmes, targetting cannabis specifically.
At the time, Hemp cloth was the biggest compeditor to Nylon.
Kate
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