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Cannabis

Arwinnick

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6. K&R

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Fri May 15, 2015, 03:20 PM

May 2015

Who lobbied the senators and congressmen? None other then WRHearst,whom just bought up most of pulp paper company's in the USA to be used by his newspaper empire..Hemp fibers were used as paper until the banning by congress.

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