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A serious professional, [Laura] Kam [Founder and CEO of Kam Global Strategies, a Jerusalem-based public relations firm] has embarked on a very serious mission to make the State of Israel – where medical cannabis is legal and used therapeutically every day – the world’s center for research and further development of the plant. One thing she knows from the outset is that, for the moment at least, we need not worry about competition in this area from America.
“In the US, cannabis is regulated as a ‘Schedule 1 drug,’ akin to heroin, so there is virtually no research going on with it,” Kam says.
“No institution with ties to the federal government, such as the National Institutes of Health, will do any kind of research on cannabis. Israel has much more liberal cannabis research policies than the US, so investment money has been pouring into Israel for research.
Source: http://www.jpost.com/Metro/On-a-crusade-for-cannabis-456932
(Score: 2) by Ellis D. Tripp on Monday June 20 2016, @02:25AM
And DuPont (not Dow), with their new synthetic fiber called Nylon. Their woodpulp chemicals business surely played a part as well....
"Society is like stew. If you don't keep it stirred up, you end up with a lot of scum on the top!"--Edward Abbey
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 20 2016, @05:21AM
cotton farmers and the textile industry, which was built around selling overpriced and labor intensive cotton over the much easier to produce (but coarse and lower quality) hemp. Hemp's one major shortfall (and the reason hemp rope is unpopular) is that it wicks moisture towards the center of the strands instead of away from them, like cotton does.