Federal prohibition was the long pole in the economic tent shielding the pharmas, alcohol, tobacco and paper/textile companies from Cannabis’ potentially huge contribution to human well-being and corresponding cut of their markets. Those potential contributions are now slated to happen on not just the health and socio-economic fronts, but also informing the environmental debacle we now find ourselves in. It’s a good crop.
Cannabis prohibition pretty much constitutes Federally-sponsored book-banning. There was little hope for anything coming out of the Mississippi ditch weed scientists were forced work with. That paper stock requirement Hearst had for his newspapers at the turn of the last century will be on the down-slope going forward, regardless.
