ulti-million dollar deal with a timber holding company and newspaper chain owned by Willian Randolph Hearst. Hearst knew that he could drive other papers out of competition with this new advantage he held, but hemp paper threatened to ruin his diabolical scheme. Back to DuPont, the owner of DuPont Industries had also been working with petroleum products, a process of!
             making plastics from it was developed and patented by his company. Then, in 1937, DuPont also patented a nylon rope made from petrochemicals. Andrew Mellon, an oil and timber Baron, was partner and president of the Mellon Bank and also was DuPont's chief financial backer in his petroleum projects. DuPont and Mellon knew that hemp oil could be easily made into a biomass fuel and plastic substitute and so worked in whichever way they could to stop its growing use in plastics. In 1930, nine years after President Warren Harding made Andrew Mellon Secretary of the Treasury, he created the Federal Bureau of Narcotics(the DEA's precursor) and seated Harry Anslinger(his nephew-in-law), as its
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