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Hemp Prohibition was created in 1937, not to protect society from the "evils of the drug Marijuana," as the Federal government claimed, but as an act of deliberate economic and industrial sabotage against the re-emerging Industrial Hemp Industry.

Industrial hemp does not contribute to the greenhouse effect and is a renewable living resource. The growing plants absorb as much CO2 as will later be released when oil or other plant matter is burnt. Unlike fossil fuels, (oil, coal, gas), or nuclear fuels, hemp has provided us with raw materials for thousands of years, without ever changing our climate and without producing waste that remains radioactive for millions of years.

During the Second World War, the U.S. federal government faced an extreme economic emergency when its supply of hemp was cut off by the Japanese. The government responded to the emergency by suspending marijuana prohibition***. Patriotic American farmers were encouraged to apply for a license to grow hemp. They responded enthusiastically and grew 375,000 acres of hemp in 1943.

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