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DC:
They stopped singing acid rock >:D

Zuma:
Lol you guys are a hoot. O:)

This may be a tad off topic so to remove it is ok.  :)
I sent an email to some friends. They replied and I answered---

"I have a big pile of dogbane here and know where to find it.
Friday it is. Yes I can put a tarp on the upper deck.
I told everyone that.
Last dance for Mary Jane one more chance to ease the pain.
Someone at the door. later Zuma

Now since I had to run I didn't really finish the thought--- ???
"I see winter closing in"
Well the replies I got from that mail were quite similar to the ones here.
LOL Zuma

ekalavya:
So, was there real a time hemp fibres were illegal in the states or anywhere else?

I doubt this can be true , because it would make old clothes , old paper (once heard the constitution was written on paper made out of hemp fiber) , old ropes and a lot of other things illegal ...

also hemp fibre until now is not easy substituted by anything else .....

Seems however there was a time the US had to import hemp fibres , because laws prohibited growing
of the plant ...

An urban legend says the growing plastic industry was afraid of hemp .... however there is no way
plastic is anywhere a competition to hemp fibre ...
when used and manufactered the right way the hemp fibre makes the better bowstring

water proof is not a criteria at all ... as no English longbow archer would have substituted his
linen bowstring with something water proof like asbest(rock wool)

Pat B:
During WWII it was grown(by the Gov) all over the US to make rope for the war. I don't think hemp of any kind was made illegal until 1929.

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