RESEARCHED BY PETER KILLACKEY Written by John Jiggens

Sir Joseph Banks, 'the Father of Australia", the man who sent hemp seeds on the First Fleet and devised the scheme for a hemp colony, must be claimed as hemp's Australian Godfather. Marijuana prohibitionists, in their campaign of suppression of all uncomfortable truths about hemp, have suppressed the most uncomfortable truth of all: that white Australia began as a hemp colony. Picture: Joseph Banks poses proudly in his cloak of New Zealand hemp.

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