Evaluation:
Published: 01.12.1996.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'The Case for Cannabis', 1.
  • Essays 'The Case for Cannabis', 2.
  • Essays 'The Case for Cannabis', 3.
Extract

What if there were a plant that could produce more than four times as much paper as a tree with 60-80% less chemicals, make a fabric stronger, lighter, and more resilient than cotton, require little or no pesticides to grow, replace every fossil fuel with a cleaner burning, renewable biomass, and relieve people with serious illnesses of at least some of their maladies? What if you were told that this plant does exist, but had been outlawed for nearly 80 years? What would you think? Well, such a plant does exist, and has been outlawed since 1937.

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