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bahfafah t1_j7ad6mb wrote

Reply to comment by NoSmoke7388 in Weekly History Questions Thread. by AutoModerator

Cotton. During the Depression southern farmers lobbied Congress to ban production of hemp to protect the cotton market from hemp competition.

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copacetic51 t1_j7anmzd wrote

Which is odd. Hemp is more productive and less demanding to grow than cotton.

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bahfafah t1_j7ctyno wrote

Exactly. Hence the fear of cotton growers and their congressional supporters

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copacetic51 t1_j7cuocw wrote

What puzzles me is why the cotton growers wouldn't have just switched to the better crop

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en43rs t1_j7kgpwf wrote

They had the field, the knowledge, the networks, the crops, so on. Changing crops is not as simple as clicking a button. It would require months if not years of work.

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