Facts:
Hemp was the most valuable crop in the world up to the 1890's, it was able to supply a fabric which was soft, light durable. It made the sails on ships. It obviously fell in value with engine powered ships. It was course, thus afterwards took some refining to make it into clothes, as well as refinement bringing new products such as hemp oil and paper, but they did get there around the 1920's... but there was a synthetic competitor called Nylon.
Conspiracy:
The patent of Nylon was owned by the DuPont family.
A major player in the prohibition was a guy called Federal Narcotic guy called Aslinger, and was married into the Mellon family. I believe the head of the Mellon family was big in oil as well as the banker to the DuPont family.
Note: I last had a toke in 2004.
Hemp was the most valuable crop in the world up to the 1890's, it was able to supply a fabric which was soft, light durable. It made the sails on ships. It obviously fell in value with engine powered ships. It was course, thus afterwards took some refining to make it into clothes, as well as refinement bringing new products such as hemp oil and paper, but they did get there around the 1920's... but there was a synthetic competitor called Nylon.
Conspiracy:
The patent of Nylon was owned by the DuPont family.
A major player in the prohibition was a guy called Federal Narcotic guy called Aslinger, and was married into the Mellon family. I believe the head of the Mellon family was big in oil as well as the banker to the DuPont family.
Note: I last had a toke in 2004.