I`d like to see an outfit collect the stocks of some of the medical gardens and make useful products from it;canvas,paper,Hemp oil , composit board, fuels,bio degradable plastics,paints,energy production,cloth,soap ,wax, ect. Maybe if they saw the whole picture they would see that it could generate jobs, industry,progress and a lot of new markets besides just medications.
Won't happen , too threatening to corporate interests , keep in mind the original genesis of the laws and how they came to be in place in the first place.
And those laws aren't with us because it's a *drug* , though of course that's how it was sold to the public at large , right down to the racial ovetones " drug of " Black Jazz Musicians etc.etc. , along with of course the " protect our daughters from the depraved drug addicts" schtick.
However in reality the whole reason that grass is illegal in the first place comes down to a matter of economics , bluntly speaking it was a joint effort by Dupont and Hearst because the industrial applications of hemp were going to impact their respective empires and decrease their bottom line.
And of course Hearst controlled the press organs , or the majority of them at that time............see any parallels with todays scenario?
Ask yourself *exactly* why it was that a historically raised crop that was once as large as corn , wheat or sorghum was completely abandoned as regards legal cultivation in this country. An entire *industry* disappeared.
Now look to what can be manufactured from hemp/cannabis but not from the three above or the other major crops dominant in this country , then look to who makes/made the money from the products that hemp stuff would end up in competition with , follow the money...always follow the money.
In the long run it's exactly the factor of the versatility of the Cannabis plant that was so threatening to the powers that be and produced the impetus to conduct the sordid campaign that eventually culminated in the current Federal law.
The whole way it came down is a prime example of the unholy marriage of politics and business in this country , a prime demonstration of crony capitalism writ large upon the pallette' of the public , sold to them via subtly ( and not so subtly at times) promoted mass-hysteria and fear.................make the Public *fear* something and it's easy to make it illegal.
Bottom line , the fact that grss gets you high has f***all to do with it , if you weren't able to make paper out of Hemp it would have never been made illegal in the first place............
