Drugs and Slavery

    1. Drugs and Slavery   Time 2008-05-29 18:42
  • It's actually H.L. Mencken (not H.R.). I'm bad with names. Anyways... here's RAW:Deforestation... According to Popular Mechanics, February 1938, a new invention would soon make it possible to end the cutting of trees to produce paper for our books, offices and newspapers. Popular Mechanics was so enthusiastic about this invention that they predicted farmers would earn billions of dollars a year making paper this way and would never cut down another tree. As you look around at our devestated forestlands, you might ask yourself, what the hell happened in the past 50 years? Where did the wonderful invention go? Well, kiddies, the wonderful invention was a device that made it possible to harvest hemp more cheaply than ever before. Hemp was the chief ingredient in paper throughout most of history (our Declaration of Independence was written on it, for instance) and paper made of hemp lasted a good long time compared to paper made of wood pulp. Ever notice how 19th or 18th century books or even 17th century books like the original folio of Shakespeare's plays, printed on hemp, are still around, while modern books printed on wood pulp fall apart in only decades? Our books continue to rot away quickly, and our forests continue to be destroyed because the U.S. Government declared war on hemp. They had found out that some people smoke it and get happy. Puritanism, to quote H.L. Mencken, is "the haunting fear that somebody, somewhere, might be having a good time."http://www.rawilson.com/m2k.html
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