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1. Kevin Karhan :verified: (kkarhan@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 04:49:07 JST Kevin Karhan :verified:

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   @kingu true, true...

   The #Cannabis #prohibition was solely orchestrated in the #USA to protect #wood farmers and sawmiller's interests.

   People like #RandolphHearst that had significant stakes in that industry.

   Because #hemp is the better #fiber source for #paper just because one doesn't have to deal with a shitton of oily sludge known as #Lignin, which is basically a #biopolymer that makes wood #flexible yet strong...

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lignin

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   • Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think: (thatguyoverthere@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 04:53:18 JST Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think:

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     • 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮 :mikupat:
     @kkarhan @kingu
     
     > While Anslinger convalesced, others picked up the slack. The FBN chief had a strong ally in the press baron William Randolph Hearst, a megalomaniac obsessed with marijuana, whose newspaper chain stretched across the nation. With an instinctual grasp of mass psychology, Hearst used his media empire to influence public policy (as when he pushed the U.S. government into war with Spain in 1898). His contempt for facts, his penchant for fabricated stories and doctored photos, and the hysterical tone of his newspapers gave rise to the pejorative expression “yellow journalism.”
   • Kevin Karhan :verified: (kkarhan@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 05:18:48 JST Kevin Karhan :verified:

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     • Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think:
     • 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮 :mikupat:

     @thatguyoverthere @kingu Precisely!

     The #WarOnDrugs was started by liars and with lies!

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