The case for cannabis
Date Submitted: 05/07/2004 01:09:00
The Case for Cannabis
What if there were a plant that could produce more than four times as much paper as a tree with 60-80% less chemicals, make a fabric stronger, lighter, and more resilient than cotton, require little or no pesticides to grow, replace every fossil fuel with a cleaner burning, renewable biomass, and relieve people with serious illnesses of at least some of their maladies? What if you were told that this plant
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