Ford used to make their body panels from compressed hemp fibre. The Oligarch Hearst was largely responsible for today's legal status, His big investment in timber plantations, to provide wood for his newspaper empire. He chose wood based paper over hemp paper and he paid to have cannabis outlawed to protect his interests.
Ford used to make their body panels from compressed hemp fibre. The Oligarch Hearst was largely responsible for today's legal status, His big investment in timber plantations, to provide wood for his newspaper empire. He chose wood based paper over hemp paper and he paid to have cannabis outlawed to protect his interests.
I also read that he owned approximately 70% of newspapers at the time.
It would have destroyed him completely. So he used the newspapers to create fear and hysteria over “marijuana”.
Had congress vote in the dead of night and while most were away on winter holiday.
BMW too. Saw it at the Hash, Hemp, and Marijuana Museum in Amsterdam