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 From : Wontallahon                         1:204/666       Fri 14 Jan 94 05:39 
 To   : Mario Perez                                                             
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>> On your last statement, I would differ with you.  Marijuana is harmful,
>> and this is why there is prohibition.


   No, it's been outlawed because Dow Chemical had a lot of clorine
   bleach to sell.  The only main use for the otherwise poisonous
   and useless by-product of petroleum cracking is to bleach wood
   fiber for paper production.  However, the whole process was more
   expensive than to make paper from Cannabis Hemp.  It also produced
   an inferior paper product.  Therefore, Hemp had to go.  Dow enlisted
   the help of Hearst and his newspapers by offering him a piece of
   the paper profits (to this day, the majority of the Hearst Empire
   is based on Paper Profit) if he would bring the power of his media
   conglomerate to bear on the problem of outlawing Cannabis.  Reefer
   Madness was made with Hearst money.  His papers ran multiple stories
   about the "Perils of The Evil Weed" and His radio stations broadcast
   inumerable editorials about the menace to youth.  People are sheep,
   Cannabis Sativa was outlawed.  Dow made money, Hearst made money,
   Politicians made money.  "Justice" prevailed.

                                Have a nice Life

                                Wontallahon

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