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can hemp save the planet

Oct 23, 2008 7:24 pm Report Abuse

HEMP FACTS
1) Hemp is among the oldest industries on the planet, going back more than 10,000 years to the beginnings of pottery. The Columbia History of the World states that the oldest relic of human industry is a bit of hemp fabric dating back to approximately 8,000 BC.
2) Presidents Washington and Jefferson both grew hemp. Americans were legally bound to grow hemp during the Colonial Era and Early Republic. The federal government subsidized hemp during the Second World War and US farmers grew about a million acres of hemp as part of that program.
3) Hemp Seed is far more nutritious than even soybean, contains more essential fatty acids than any other source, is second only to soybeans in complete protein (but is more digestible by humans), is high in B-vitamins, and is 35% dietary fiber. Hemp seed is not psychoactive and cannot be used as a drug. See TestPledge.com
4) The bark of the hemp stalk contains bast fibers which are among the Earth's longest natural soft fibers and are also rich in cellulose; the cellulose and hemi-cellulose in its inner woody core are called hurds. Hemp stalk is not psychoactive. Hemp fiber is longer, stronger, more absorbent and more insulative than cotton fiber.
5) According to the Department of Energy, hemp as a biomass fuel producer requires the least specialized growing and processing procedures of all hemp products. The hydrocarbons in hemp can be processed into a wide range of biomass energy sources, from fuel pellets to liquid fuels and gas. Development of biofuels could significantly reduce our consumption of fossil fuels and nuclear power.
6) Hemp grows well without herbicides, fungicides, or pesticides. Almost half of the agricultural chemicals used on US crops are applied to cotton.
7) Hemp produces more pulp per acre than timber on a sustainable basis, and can be used for every quality of paper. Hemp paper manufacturing can reduce wastewater contamination. Hemp's low lignin content reduces the need for acids used in pulping, and it's creamy color lends itself to environmentally friendly bleaching instead of harsh chlorine compounds. Less bleaching results in less dioxin and fewer chemical byproducts.
8) Hemp fiber paper resists decomposition, and does not yellow with age when an acid-free process is used. Hemp paper more than 1,500 years old has been found. It can also be recycled more times.
9) Hemp fiberboard produced by Washington State University was found to be twice as strong as wood-based fiberboard.
10) Eco-friendly hemp can replace most toxic petrochemical products. Research is being done to use hemp in manufacturing biodegradable plastic products: plant-based cellophane, recycled plastic mixed with hemp for injection-molded products, and resins made from the oil, to name just a very few examples.
Hemp History
Hemp is among the oldest industries on the planet, going back more than 10,000 years to the beginnings of pottery. The Columbia History of the World states that the oldest relic of human industry is a bit of hemp fabric dating back to approximately 8,000 BC.
Presidents Washington and Jefferson both grew hemp. Americans were legally bound to grow hemp during the Colonial Era and Early Republic.
In 1937 Congress passed the Marihuana Tax Act which effectively began the era of hemp prohibition. The tax and licensing regulations of the act made hemp cultivation unfeasable for American farmers. The chief promoter of the Tax Act, Harry Anslinger, began promoting anti-marijuana legislation around the world. To learn more about hemp prohibition visit http://www.JackHerer.com or check out "The Emperor Wears No Clothes" by Jack Herer
Then came World War II. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor shut off foreign supplies of "manilla hemp" fiber from the Phillipines. The USDA produced a film called Hemp For Victory to encourage US farmers to grow hemp for the war effort. The US government formed War Hemp Industries and subsidized hemp cultivation. During the War and US farmers grew about a million acres of hemp across the midwest as part of that program.
After the war ended, the government quietly shut down all the hemp processing plants and the industry faded away again.
During the period from 1937 to the late 60's the US government understood and acknowledged that Industrial Hemp and marijuana were distinct varieties of the cannabis plant. Hemp is no longer recognized as distinct from marijuana since the passage of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) of 1970. This is despite the fact that a specific exemption for hemp was included in the CSA under the definition of marijuana.
The United States government has published numerous reports and other documents on hemp dating back to the beginnings of our country. Below is a list of some of the documents that have been discovered:
* 1797: SECRETARY OF WAR: U.S.S. CONSTITUTION'S HEMP
* 1810: JOHN QUINCY ADAMS - RUSSIAN HEMP CULTIVATION
* 1827: U.S. NAVY COMMISSIONER - WATER-ROTTED HEMP
* 1873: HEMP CULTURE IN JAPAN
* 1895: USDA - HEMP SEED
* 1899: USDA SECRETARY - HEMP
* 1901: USDA LYSTER DEWEY RE; HEMP & FLAX SEED
* 1901: USDA LYSTER DEWEY 13 PAGE ARTICLE ON HEMP
* 1903: USDA LYSTER DEWEY RE; PRINCIPAL COMMERCIAL PLANT FIBERS
* 1909: USDA SECRETARY - FIBER INVESTIGATIONS: HEMP/FLAX
* 1913: USDA LYSTER DEWEY - HEMP SOILS, YIELD, ECONOMICS
* 1913: USDA LYSTER DEWEY - TESTS FOR HEMP, LIST OF PRODUCTS
* 1916: USDA BULLETIN 404 - HEMP HURDS AS A PAPER MAKING MATERIAL
* 1917: USDA - HEMP SEED SUPPLY OF THE NATION
* 1917: USDA - CANNABIS
* 1927: USDA LYSTER DEWEY RE; HEMP VARIETIES
* 1931: USDA LYSTER DEWEY RE; HEMP FIBER LOSING GROUND
* 1943: USDA - HEMP FOR VICTORY - DOCUMENTARY FILM
* 1947: USDA - HEMP DAY LENGTH & FLOWERING
* 1956: USDA - MONOECIOUS HEMP BREEDING IN THE U.S.
These documentes and many more are published online by USA hemp historian extraordinaire, John E. Dvorak. His Digital Hemp History Library is the most complete source for historical hemp documents and data anwhere. To visit the Library click here.
You can also check out literary references to Industrial Hemp from Aesop's Fables to the present: http://www.ofields.com/OFIELDS_HEMP_HISTORY.html

http://www.thehia.org/hempfacts.htm
this car was made from hemp and wheat by henrey ford in 1941


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mixjon82 Oct 23, 2008 7:28 pm
cough cough cough ....
bigpoppaboats Oct 23, 2008 7:32 pm
Legalize Today !!!!!
MVPCARDINAL Oct 23, 2008 7:34 pm
Intersesting. cough cough
kootenayslim Oct 23, 2008 7:37 pm
As long is there is oil hemp will be underutilized. Dupont chemicals pushed hard to ban hemp in order to push there products to the forefront. Hemp could save the planet hard to fathom isn't it?
BurlIves420 Oct 23, 2008 7:40 pm
Awesome post man
REGULATOR0 Oct 23, 2008 7:42 pm
the government thinks the war on drugs is a great way to spend YOUR money !
this war should definitely not include mariguana, but they make a LOT of money doing this, too bad they don't realize how much more they would make from the thousands of good things this plant has to offer ! nice blog and good day!
ACardExpert Oct 23, 2008 7:42 pm

u for got 1 thing hemp produce more oxygen to the wold then most other plants it also chews up more co2

keep on puffing i know i will

The9to5 Oct 23, 2008 7:44 pm
washington grew hemp...yes, george washington...for a little while there was actually a law that if you owned a certain amount of land a % of that land had to have hemp crop grown on it. the government was right a long time ago! lol.
Makwa Oct 23, 2008 7:49 pm

Amazing how a bit of hysteria from right-wingers can destroy such an important agricultural resource.

Get hemp back in production!!

(Great place to hide your crop)....

DragonChips Oct 23, 2008 8:03 pm

Well put and very informative Thanx Chilly.

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chinook298 Oct 23, 2008 8:08 pm

3 cheers for holland........... the place for hemp..............

JKravat Oct 23, 2008 8:42 pm

*Encore*

Hemp oil can also be used in internal combustion engines, as motor oil, and refined into fuel as well. I did my senior thesis on "Marijuana and its effects on society" back in 1971. I brought out many of these same issues more than 30 yrs ago. Of course I was just a crazy stoned out hippy who didn't know what he was talking about. My teacher was impressed though.

The Marijuana Stamp Act was basically passed in 1937 as an immigration issue. They could arrest Mexicans coming over the border taking American jobs in the fields, etc, as the nation was trying to come out of the Great Depression. They were infuriated and had to stop the immigration issue one way or the other. They knew they could do this and arrest many of the immigrants coming over the border by passing the Act.

skitmoney Oct 23, 2008 8:49 pm
im too stoned to read all this i wud be heere all day...but i like the sound of it...keep blazin big budz !!!!!!!!!
yumboltking Oct 23, 2008 9:02 pm

First we as a population need to start electing leaders with intelligence and vision instead of leaders full of ignorance and superstiton. Only then will positive change happen. We must evolve past out puritan right wing origins in order to improve our conditions. I as Freedom Fighter and Hemp activists have heard this before but am still amazed at the ignorance and superstiton that keeps this valuable resource untapped and those who advocate it defacto criminals.

FREE THE WEED AND ALL DRUG WAR PRISONERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

tim4u Oct 23, 2008 9:14 pm
long way to go,,,,as it will always be thought of as a gateway drug and attached to actual harmfull drugs.....cough,cough,,,,,,,,sob,,sob
CHILLYWILL420 Oct 23, 2008 10:10 pm

Im just putting this out there because people need to realize the economic crisis and what some ideas are there, help the U.s go green and spread the word, You have to tell someone cause most people are not aware of the benifits they think its just a drug. People were raised a certain way and the only way to change the views are by correct factual information please at least try to view this with an open mind and forget about the false information you have been givin

Chilly

CHILLYWILL420 Oct 23, 2008 11:28 pm
djgeter Oct 23, 2008 11:46 pm

awesome blog.

i knew some of that. now i know more, thanx.

now if only the northamerican government will wake up and smell the grass.

cozman Oct 23, 2008 11:55 pm
I did I paper on this back in the day aswell wooottttttt Got an A on it. The issue isnt that Hemps a bad thing its the 420 stoner that smoke the whole field at once KIdding. No tho hemp is a great thing and it got a million uses and it is a way to got green aswell. Vote for the green party when you vote next month

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