My understanding is that William Randolph Hearst drove the anti-hemp paranoia in his newspapers in the 1930's because the use of it threatened his forestry holdings or some such. --- Ron Nossaman <RNossaman@cox.net> wrote: > > >You can smoke it if you like, but there's not > enough 'goodies' in it to give > >you much of any buzz. Not in the type used to grow > hemp, there isn't. > > Right. An acre of industrial hemp can produce up to > ten tons of biomass in > four months, from which anything from methane, > alcohol, or a fuel > comparable to gasoline can be made. Burns clean - no > acid rain, no foreign > oil. The seeds have the highest fatty acid content > of any other plant, make > an fine quality oil, and are an excellent protein > source. It's pretty good > stuff. > > > >We can't grow the stuff because of > governmental/bureaucratic paranoia. > >That's all. > > > >Del > > Right again, that's "all". > > Ron N > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com
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