i understand hemp is the highest quality natural fiber. made all the rope used in ww2. then after ww2 the plant was banned because pot smokers?
Look up a guy named
Randolph HearstHemp was a threat to big business
oil
newspapers
logging industry
anti-imigrant
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Hearst collaborated with Harry J. Anslinger to ban hemp due to the threat that the burgeoning hemp paper industry posed to his major investment and market share in the paper milling industry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Randolph_HearstThis post was edited by Mondain on Apr 23 2026 11:00pm