- Excerpt Regarding hemp and Dupont:
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- Dupont established itself as the world leader in synthetic
fibres, with such new inventions as Nylon and Raylon, with the aid of the
global outlawing of one of the most useful natural fibres, hemp. This was
achieved in the US by the1937 Marijuana Transfer (Tax) Act, which was passed
in the same year DuPont patented both nylon and the polluting wood-pulp
sulfide (sulfur dioxide) process used to make paper. The Act was the result
of political pressure and a sustained propaganda campaign by du Pont and
logging and oil companies.
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- Americans were familiar with hemp, which was widely grown
and used as fibre, oil and paper, the propagandists began circulating stories
of the dangers of the drug "Marijuana". Marijuana was the Mexican
word for cannabis used for it's racist conations and as an excuse to prohibit
hemp, despite the fact that hemp cultivated as a fibre crop is a strain
that contains less than thirtieth of the amounts of psychoactive compounds
than cannabis bred for it's high.
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- Hemp produces four times as much paper as trees and does
not require the sulfur-based acid chemicals used to break down the glue-like
lignin that binds the fibers of wood pulp. Hemp would be a much less damaging
way of making many of du Pont's products, but without them profiting, as
this plant grows easily without chemicals and could not be patented. Back
in 1935, more than 58,000 tons of hemp seed alone, were used just to make
non-toxic paint paint and varnish.
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- Source: "The Emperor Wears No Clothes" by Jack
Herer (There is acres of material on the internet about this topic)
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