According to the U.S. department of agriculture you can make 4 times as much paper with hemp as you can with the same land area of trees, and you can grow another crop when you're done. Plus it only uses 1/5 the chemicals and is ¼ the cost of paper made from trees. In fact, before the 20th century the marijuana plant provided almost all the worlds paper, clothing, textiles, and rope. Guess what Levis and guess jeans were originally made from. Guess what

early drafts of the declaration of independence and the U.S. constitution were written on. And guess what the American flag, Guttenberg and King James bibles were made of.

in fact, marijuana can actually be used to power a car. You can make 4 times as much cellulose to make gasohol or methanol from hemp stems as you can from corn stalks. A

The 1999 budget for drug enforcement is 8.8 billion dollars. Is this where you really want you're tax dollars going. Other anti-drug programs are also being given billions of

or friends. The stupid thing is that if the government legalized marijuana than there wouldn't be a black market for them and all the violence would stop. The same thing happened back when alcohol was made illegal. It's true that some people drink or smoke too much but they are going to get the alcohol or pot from an illegal source if they can't find a legal one, and because of the economic principal of supply and demand there will always be a source to get something if the demand is great enough. Also if the government legalized pot they could make sure that people only took it in moderation.

rapists and murderers. And what ends up happening is everybody ends up serving shorter prison

The reason that it was made illegal might surprise you. In 1936 Popular Mechanics reported on the invention of a new machine to process

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