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[quote:orly:MV8zMDQzMjlfNTI0MzE1NF9ERURCMERCNg==] [quote:Anonymous Coward 126953] If you can talk about it all day I can be a great reader because I know very little about HEMP as you do. Why do you think that a FREE people in the US would allow their government to make it ILLEGAL? And, what can US Citizens do to put an end to such insanity? [/quote] The history of why it is illegal is a bit flimsy. One, it became illegal when marijuana did, its the same plant. Hemp was used all the time before it was made illegal. It was manditory for most land owners to grow a certian amount of hemp. Hemp and marijuana became illegal most due to the fact that the people of the time were scared of mexicans. Mexicans were coming to the US just like now and working, they would relax at the end of the day with the a smoke, a joint. With enough propaganda, people soon came to believe the marijuana was evil and would make sane people go ape shit crazy and become murderous. Boom, its illegal. Thats the story most people agree with. I'm not sure. Maybe the textile companies back then also had a hand in it since hemp can be easily made into paper, cloth, rope, just about anything including lumber. I like to argue in favor for Hemp as an argricultural commidity, to get away form the whole "drug" arguement but it always comes up and that is the only reason the government has not made it legal to grow hemp. Companies can order hemp in big bails, already processed, but you cannot possess it as a plant. There are several groups out there who lobby for the legalization of hemp. But with all the man made substitutes out there, it will take a lot more people to get hemp legalized. [/quote]
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