"Not Guilty" in Medical Marijuana Trial..

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50. That is an excellent thing to hear about.

Alot of Oregon dems really rock.

Someone here on DU posted a photo of a set of clothes they had gotten at a thrift or antique store.

The clothes were from 1840 and due to hemp's natural resistance to pest like moths, they looked the way they did when first made. (Obviously very "period" and so nothing you could wear to anything but a costume party.)

But until that photo got posted, I never realized how intensely durable hemp was. No wonder the cotton industry wanted this substance to be banned. And of course the paper manufacturers agreed with the cotton folks.

Now, sailors face harm because nylon ropes and sails whip apart in the wind, sometimes dissolving within a month of being purchased and installed. While hemp ropes and hemp sails could withstand the salt water and the high winds for very long periods of time.