Of course, a part of the original rational for criminalizing marijuana was greed, pure and simple.
You see the Navy was buying lines (i.e. ropes) for their ships made from hemp, like they had done for nearly two hundred years, but DuPont wanted to sell them lines made from a more modern material, like Nylon. However, the Navy wasn't interested, perhaps out of tradition as much as anything, but they were holding firm. Then about that same time someone got the bright idea to make the production and use of marijuana a federal crime, and with a bit of lobbying help by DuPont, they expanded this to include hemp production, a genetically related plant that contained very little THC, but since it was biologically related, that was good enough (BTW, despite the low levels of THC, this is still where the expression to 'smoke a rope' came from). Anyway, once the production of hemp was made illegal, along with marijuana itself, the Navy had no choice but to seek an alternative for hemp lines and there was DuPont, waiting with their coils of Nylon rope, just ready to do business.
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Yes, most people are totally unaware that Semite refers to a group linked by the origins and characteristics of their languages and not necessarily by their cultural or racial heritage (although there's a lot of overlap there as well).
And to many who have had issues with Israel, much of it has to do with the Zionist movement, that is the idea that somehow all of what has historically been referred to as Palestine should be part of modern Israel. This is what's led to the illegal seizure of villages, mostly in the West Bank, by Israelis settlers who destroy what's was there and build modern communities, not unlike what you'd find in many places in the US. In fact, I've seen some pictures of these settlements on TV, and I swear they look like the neighborhood where we live in here in SoCal, except of course, we don't have 10-foot high barbed wire fencing topped with concertina or armed guards at the gates to our community. Note that even some very conservative Jewish groups don't subscribe to Zionism or what has come from that belief.
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