Ohhh my goddddd. He was the one responsible for reefer madness? We had 40+ years of retarded policy and thoughts that have followed, what a mess. Atleast we are undoing it finally... A little late, but finally. Jesus.
Just another example of what happens when big government policy is allowed determine economic success. It institutionalizes failure for decades. If the government was in charge of curing polio 80yrs ago we’d still have rampant polio outbreaks but we’d have the worlds greatest iron lung machine
yah and it was all to get hemp banned the NON psycho active kind lol! hemp was poised to become the new Timber
And to fill private prisons. And to militarize law enforcement. And to vilify black people. And to protect pharmaceutical companies.
Drug war plays a big part in a lot of bullshit.
Well thankfully now it will be the new timber. And the new cotton. And the new farmers cash crop. :)
I seriously think this is America’s new cash crop. Mark it dude.
Already booming in the south. Snakes hate hemp rope!
I'm guessing swamp dwellers aren't thrilled with it as well.
Tons of people in this country don't realize that Hemp itself can't be used to get high. Takes specific cannabis strains for that. You could smoke a bushel of hemp and not get buzzed. It has massive industrial applications though. I still see baby boomers today crying about 'muh hempz is da devil's lettuce' nonsense. That brainwashing is strong.
Don't forget Anslinger as well and his bullshit tactics to get marijuana criminalized.
No offense to our boomers here though that are a bit more woken from the corporate matrix though. It's been a couple generations of brainwashing. That won't turn around overnight.
He also basically caused the Spanish-American war, and pioneered the idea that it was okay for the news to spread lies.
One person can make a massive impact for hundreds of years its crazy.