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 Guess what Levis and guess jeans were originally made from.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. According

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

A hemp seeds have more digestible protein than soybeans and are cheaper. So we could feed starving people in third world countries because it has enough protein to live off of and is cheaper and healthier than meat. And for medical purposes not only does it help glaucoma and AIDS but it also has shown signs of combating herpes.

MY name is Torrey Brooks email me at tbrooks72@aol.com

I would like to add that I personally don't use drugs but I think that they should be legal.

marijuana would again become the worlds largest cash crop. The paper and cloth companies didn't like this and neither did the pharmaceutical companies because you can't patent medicine unless it has chemicals in it. So in 1937 marijuana was outlawed.

or friends. The stupid thing is that if the government legalized marijuana than there wouldn't be a black market for

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