It is often smoked for its pleasure giving effects of euphoria, but this is not its only use. ... During this time, Dupont Chemicals, Hearst Paper and Timber, and a number of other large companies developed a way to make whiter paper out of trees. In 1936, a very short time after tree paper patents had gone through and production had started, the hemp "decorticating" machine was invented. This advancement threatened to put all of the tree-paper companies out of business because hemp-paper is cheaper to make. A huge sum of capital was tied up in making tree pulp paper and shipping it for sa...

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Legalization would abstract the money from the drug traffickers and into our economy most defiantly giving it a major boost. ... Hemp requires forty percent fewer chemicals to produce paper and over a time span of twenty years, one acre of hemp can produce four times as much pulp versus an acre of trees (NORML 4). Hence, the production of hemp would save trees while promoting cleaner air. ... Supporters and psychologists alike feel ecstasy gives the user a way of self-help. ...

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We have grown up learning that marijuana is a terrible drug, and that using it gives us brain damage, kill all of our brain cells, and makes us lose our memory. ... The pulp fibers of marijuana can be used for making paper, which would reduce the amount of trees that are cut down. One acre of hemp will make the same amount and quality of paper as 4 acres of 20 yr old trees without the need for chlorine in the bleaching process and, creating no toxic dioxin pollutants. ... I think it is senseless that are constantly cutting down trees and destroying rain forests when there is anot...

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Marijuana is a mood altering or "psychoactive" drug, it is also known as weed, trees, pot and many more nicknames.... The blood vessels in the user's eyes will probably enlarge, giving the person a "blood shot" appearance. ...

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Marijuana is a mood altering or "psychoactive" drug, it is also known as weed, trees, pot and many more nicknames.... The blood vessels in the user's eyes will probably enlarge, giving the person a "blood shot" appearance. ...

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