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When you understand that hemp's industrial value was the reason it was made illegal 100 years ago, and that now we have an exorbitant amount of politicians who
by kakarot 8y ago
When you understand that hemp's industrial value was the reason it was made illegal 100 years ago, and that now we have an exorbitant amount of politicians who truly believe the ilk their own kind shoveled out a century ago as a smoke screen, such as how getting high is so dangerous, and how we need to imprison blacks and mexicans for trying to alleviate themselves of the pain of manual labor, then it starts to make more sense.
We're at a point where we can allow industries who have been silently increasing lobbying support for hemp legalization to begin to take advantage of its industrial applications while maintaining our system of slavery and socioeconomic subjugation.
- UI_at_80x24 8y ago>hemp's industrial value was the reason it was made illegal 100 years ago Do you have a source for this? I would like to investigate this angle further.
- robotbikes 8y agoJack Herer's book 'The Emperor Wears No Clothes' highlights this and is the source for a lot of the pro-hemp sentiment. It is also available online, here is a link to the chapter that highlights the paper industry lobbying to make hemp illegal - https://jackherer.com/emperor-3/chapter-4/ https://jackherer.com/emperor-3/chapter-4/
- smaddox 8y agoWow... That is pretty convincing and damning...
- kakarot 8y agoI second this book. Every single page is enlightening. It's a pity that some people relegate this to a "conspiracy" when the concerted effort to make cannabis illegal in the early 20th century was very open and well-documented.
- nashashmi 8y agoIt's a popular story in conspiracy circles. That various industries tried to ban hemp tp favor their own materials as a more performant substitute.
- wavefunction 8y agoIf the substitutes were more performant at acceptable costs then one might think they would have been adopted naturally.