ORIGINAL NAME OF MARIJUANA WAS HEMP

Perhaps the most discouraging aspect of your whole article on
marijuana is that the original name and use of the plant is never
mentioned. The plant originally was named hemp, was used in early
America for a multitude of purposes also is a million-dollar
industry, excluding pot and medicinal uses.

The name was changed and a huge disinformation campaign was
successfully mounted by the chemical cartels, and now we have one of
the most profitable industries in the United States shut down (and
very unjustly criminalized) on account of it.

David E. Gregory

Belgrade