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jyl, sorry to accuse you of something you didn't do. Guess I just got confused and mixed it up with the PARF thread started by pmax.

Yes it is interesting. I had no idea about Rockefeller being involved. I had read a while back that petroleum jelly, a byproduct formed on nozzles of of oil well pumps, began to be used to cover open cuts and wounds. A Dutchman, Van Leywenhook? discovered by microoganisms a couple of centuries earlier but Cock, Cocke, or Cock linked bactieria with infection in late 1800s. So it does seem reasonable that Standard Oil may have steered things in the direction they wanted.

Not a user of cannibus, but have wondered why it had not been readily available for treatment of glaucoma, etc. In stead of Hearst, I though the banning of hemp was earlier. It seems that I read something of a push for long stand sea island cotton to be used for rope on sailing ships instead of hemp.