I, Cannabis the Defendant, hopes that every member of the Jury understands that (1) no poor Confederates were welcome in Mexico City, Mexico, after the Civil War. (2) Those Confederates had an English language newspaper (THE TIMES) to defame my character with and ...
... (3) It would take those rich Confederate A-holes about 2-decades to clear away enough jungle from their lands to be able to cultivate cotton. Below is what Savannah, Georgia's newspaper said about Mexican Cotton Fields in 1890.
By now those rich Confederates living in Mexico City, Mexico, had been informed about the Commissioner of Agriculture's Report of substituting myself (Cannabis) for King Cotton. Damn it! I can grow over 20 feet tall and my fibers, if handled properly far out-values anything made from King Cotton.
As we review the newspaper article from Day 2 of Court ... I think the honorable Jurors can see just how much big investors had to lose on both sides of the U.S. Mexican border, if I, Cannabis, ever got a foothold on King Cotton's markets.