Poo transplants

[Huhuh]

Soooo much money are being made every single hour from pharmaceutical companies. Weed is actually magical, it can be used for a number of cures, it can be used as fuel as well as clothing materials. But it's illegal. That, my friends, is insane.

Don't blame the pharmaceutical companies; they just happen to profit from the circumstances. Blame the forestry and oil companies of the late 1800s/early 1900s.

Hemp (a plant similar to cannabis, but with a whole lot less thc) was used in many industries due to its many uses (clothing, sails, canvas, paper, and fuels to name a few) and low requirements (grows 4 times the amount of raw material in one year than wood does in 20, requires half the amount of water to grow as cotton and doesn't require pesticides). This was hurting the business of those who wanted cars to run on oil and paper to be made from wood, so they teamed up with a newspaper to besmirch hemp.

Seeing as it looked like cannabis, it was very easy to confuse the public by associating it with drug habit and even started calling it "dope" (a term used for narcotics such as morphine, which had a much more damaging effect on society).

Hemp was legalised during WWII in order to make rope for ships and quickly made illegal again once the war was over.

Pharmaceutical companies are unlikely to have had a hand in the downfall of hemp as it wasn't directly competing with their products at the time. They're not exactly going to go on a costly crusade to legalise a product that could now compete with their products though, it's just bad for business (they are out to make money, just like any company is, after all).

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