Originally posted by St Udio
DuPont isn't that powerful...
Actually you are wrong, DuPont was/is that powerful. A gang of 3, dupont, hearst publishing and mellon bankers conspired to have hemp made illegal for
economic reasons having nothing to do with the intoxicating qualities of marijuana. It had primarily to do with hemp being in competition with man
made materials being produced by DuPont.
Around 1935 Dupont had patented a new synthetic fibre called Nylon...
a machine which had been invented in the early 1900's and perfected around 1937 was set to revolutionise the Hemp industry
In the late '30s hemp was shaping up to be 'the crop of the future' - and Mellon stood to lose millions because of his petro-chemical
investments.
Hearst had tooled up his paper mills to use wood-pulp as the raw material for the large scale manufacture of paper, no doubt a substantial
commitment and investment? It was clearly not in Hearst's interest to see the strongest traditional challenger as an alternative raw material for
paper, hemp, suddenly become much cheaper.
It is outrageous that the same lies about hemp/marijuana are naively accepted in the present day.
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