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• NotSteve_@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  IIRC the US heavily pressured other countries with tariffs to also ban it

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  • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    good old imperialism. plus they are involved profit off of the illegal drug trade.

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• miked@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It goes farther back than that. DuPont and Hurst had a hand in making cannabis look bad.

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  • JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    And hemp makes for a garbage printing medium anyway

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• embed_me@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  India here, colonial penal code outlawed it but we’re too prudish to change it after independence

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  • Landless2029@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They outlawed it because hemp was a competitor or cotton I thought

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• dansemacabreingalone@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I thought it was about paper prices?

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  • FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yep, William Randolph Hearst fucked everything over for his textile businesses long before Nixon, but it is true that racism played a big factor, namely beginning to refer to it as marijuana instead of cannabis and linking that to those pesky Latinos

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