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RE: Welcome our First Freelance #KushSmokers Author! - Why I left academia to teach people about cannabis - By Emily Earlenbaugh, PhD (My First Steem Article!)
I want to talk about industrial cannabis. This plant is amazing. More food than corn and more fiber than cotton in the same acre. This plant is the true solar panel, which is exactly why TPTB do not want us to have it. I think pointing out the complete irrationality of the prohibition of industrial cannabis might be the key to getting folks who don't smoke to understand how much human effort is being wasted trying to stop people from allegedly abusing Marijuana. It makes as much sense as saying doctors can't sterilize instruments with alcohol because some people might drink too much.
Thank you for bringing this up. Industrial hemp is the reason cannabis was made illegal. You can get more oil out a acre of hemp, than a whole lifetime of an oil well.
I was a friend of the late, great Jack Herer. For more interesting facts about industrial hemp read his book , The Emperor Wears No Clothes. Here is a little known fact.
The first cannabis law in the United States was in the 1619. This was in the colony of Jamestown Virginia. The law was that every household MUST grow hemp!!!
Also had to do with the racist Attorney General Harry J. Anslinger who demonized marijuana as an evil drug that would cause POC to attack white women. This created a new class of criminals to feed into the prison-industrial complex where the last bastion of legal slavery still exists.