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Re: Marijuana [message #407614 is a reply to message #407612] Mon, 19 October 2009 10:15 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
GEORGE ZIMMER is currently offline  GEORGE ZIMMER
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reborn wrote on Mon, 19 October 2009 12:03

The US constitution was drafted on hemp paper.
George Washington grew hemp. Jefferson even smuggled hemp seeds out of China...
The first Bibles where on hemp paper.
You used to be able to pay taxes with hemp crops.
It used to be embraced, patriotic even to grow it...

The reason why it's now illegal?
Henry Ford designed the T model Ford to run on oil made from hemp.

That's right, the oil companies.

Pretty much this, and through some easy public manipulation, everyone decided it was terrible. Basically,

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/9800/1252972393703.jpg
describes the reason why.


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