Ben van Kerkwyk

You harvest the stalks.

You run it through the decorticator.

So in 19-whatever it was, 1930-something, cover of Popular Science magazine, hemp the new billion-dollar crop because of this invention.

So this invention was going to – because hemp makes superior clothes.

I have a hemp jujitsu gi that I got from this company called Datsura.

It's fucking indestructible.

My cotton geese, they rip apart all the time.

They're good for a year or two and then they tear and you got to buy a new one or you just show up at class with a fucked up gee, which a lot of people do.

Hemp geese are way better.

They're just far superior.

Hemp paper, you grab it, you pull it, you tear it.

You're like, this is crazy.

It's so much stronger than regular paper.

It's a superior product.

So William Randolph Hearst, who didn't just own Hearst Publications, he didn't just own this news empire.

He also owned paper mills.

So he also owned forests that he was growing trees in.

He recognized this threat from this new industry.

And so to combat that threat, he starts putting out propaganda pieces.

And then they coined the term marijuana.