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Herer reproduces New Billion-Dollar Crop as a central exhibit in his case for industrial hemp. Popular Mechanics’ own retrospective confirms that the article appeared in its February 1938 issue.
The reproduced text promoted mechanised processing and replacing imported materials. Its closing paragraphs also identified practical obstacles: farmers needed accessible processing machinery, processors needed enough nearby acreage, and federal rules required grower registration.
Those qualifications matter when reading Herer’s account of a lost industrial future. The article documents optimism and expected barriers. Its product counts and market forecasts are contemporary claims, not independently verified outcomes in this index.
The source available here is a later reproduction, checked alongside the publisher’s retrospective, rather than an inspected original magazine issue. It establishes no personal permission to grow cannabis and does not prove an industrial conspiracy behind the 1937 tax law.[1][2][3]
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References
- New Billion-Dollar CropIn Popular Mechanics · 1938 · February issue; reproduced text, PDF pp. 1–3 (not an original magazine scan)archived
- Popular Mechanics — Back When We Thought Hemp Would Be a Billion-Dollar Crop (publisher's retrospective, 20 April 2018)archived
- The Emperor Wears No Clothes (supplied EPUB, edition unspecified)Jack Herer · Chapter 3, New Billion-Dollar Crop; split_010.htm
Checked. The date and the event were compared with a source that was read.