[geeks] oh, my freaking head!

[David Cantrell]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 03:54:33PM -0500, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 03:05:19PM -0500, John Duksta wrote:
> > According to 'The Emperor Wears No Clothes' by Jack Herer,
> > the reasons behind Cannibis prohibition in the US include:
> > 
> > - Paper manufacturers and Newspapers (Hearst) didn't want
> >   cheap hemp paper on the market.
> 
> Why would newspaper publishers care?

Hearst in particular owned both logging concessions and papers.  Hemp
would have destroyed his logging business.  So his news^Wpropaganda
papers came out against it.

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