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The Billion Dollar Crop That Never Was

Psychonaut Bookworm, editorial draft on The Emperor Wears No Clothes

From RN Collins, selected work

The sources this item names, its long-form draft, and its record in the library's public provenance ledger.

The articleThe Billion Dollar Crop That Never Was psychonaut-bookworm.vercel.app

Research cited

  1. Popular Mechanics, New Billion-Dollar Crop (February 1938)
  2. Herer, The Emperor Wears No Clothes (1985)
  3. Wikipedia, Marihuana Tax Act of 1937
  4. Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, 50 Stat. 551 (approved August 2, 1937)
  5. U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Taxation of Marihuana, hearing on H.R. 6906 (July 12, 1937)
  6. U.S. Patent 2,130,948, Synthetic fiber (granted September 20, 1938)
  7. Science History Institute, Wallace Hume Carothers profile
  8. Wishnia, Debunking the Hemp Conspiracy Theory, AlterNet (2008)

Other sources

  1. The public provenance ledger for this corpus, which lists record writing/popular-mechanics-billion and the sources it was checked against psychonaut-bookworm.vercel.app

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