Help Save the Earth, Time to Subsitute Hemp for Oil

I smoke dope because it makes me feel relaxed and horny.

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Contact your representatives, and urge them to support it! Hopefully with all of these Democrats in the House and Senate and Obama in the White House, Rep. Paul's hemp bill can finally get somewhere. The bill number is H.R.1866.

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Hemp makes a lovely soft fabric. The US Constitution is written on hemp (thanks, Terry).

I love the idea of hempcrete!

Democratize the corporations and take away their power to buy the bulk of our politicians and we just might have an outbreak of Common Sense.

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If what this article suggests is true, how is it that the petro-chemical industry is still going strong in France, the number one European producer of hemp?
The thousand and one usages you describe aren't financially viable when compared to the mighty petrochemical industry's cheap products.
Its tragic, but its reality.

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"The Emperor Wears No Clothes", the definitive work on industrial hemp. In it he claims, "Hemp can save the world". After further research on hemp's 25,000 uses that statement seems not only probable, but possible.

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at least for those of us who view cannabis as something other than an evil drug.
The Emperor Wears No Clothes....published years ago has been largely ignored by the mainstream....even ignored by NORML because of the 'counter culture' author Jack Herer.....
It is unfortunate that the public views the cannabis culture as something other than mainstream. The current drug laws have incarcerated someone out of nearly every family in the US and everyone is aware of the problems associated with drug abuse. Marijuana is classified along with the really dangerous substances and that has stood in the way of any serious debate about it becoming legalized.
We must overcome this "Anslinger" view and regard cannabis as it really is, an herb......

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Excellent article and some very valid points.

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As the philosopher Pogo once said:

"We have met the enemy, and he is us."

Chris Conrad is part of Oaksterdam, a groups that is behind the "tax and regulate" model of Marijuana Re-Legalization. His wife Miki recieves funds from Soros who is also very much behind the "tax and regulate" model.

Yet if Hemp (e.g., Cannabis or Marijuana) is to realize its full potential it must simply be legal for everyone to grow without any taxation or regulation.

We are at a crossroads in history right now. Do we allow the Multi-National Corporations to control every aspect of our lives or do we demand the full liberation of Cannabis?

Unfortunately if we want Cannabis Liberation we must recognize that the the moneyed drug reform organizations are currently a hinderance, not a ally. It is up to the grass roots to make sure that Marijuana, in all of its forms (e.g., Industrial, Agricultural, Medicinal and Recreational) is allowed to move forward without ANY taxation, regulation or other forms of government interference.

The moneyed groups (e.g., NORML, DPA, MPP etc.) do not support a "no tax, no regulate" model. Sorry, but facts are facts.

If you really want to see the "healing of all nations" then you need to get on board with the MERP Movement to completely Re-Legalize Mother Nature's favorite plant.

To join go to this link and get on the mailing list. The battle must be joined now for the sake of our children and their children's children.

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in fact, hemp is so good at bioremediation, or extracting heavy metals from contaminated soil, it's being grown near Chernobyl.

if the hemp draws the heavy metals up into the plant, does it 'digest' it? or does the heavy metals sit in the plant so when it's composted or burned the heavy metals are returned to either the soil (in a different location maybe) or left in the ash after being burned?
or, how would the plants be dealt with after growing in a toxic environment?

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You really want to see Marijuana Legal?

How to Make Marijuana Free and Legal for For All Adults Within A Year

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You can contact your elected officials all you want; they are unresponsive and in desperate need of brain surgery, or even better, brain transplant (remember that come next elections). You can already go to the appropriate retail stores and buy imported hemp-based products such as “Hemp Body Butter” sold by The Body Shop, other cosmetics and skin care products and Organic Hemp Plus Granola (USDA Organic!!!) at Trader Joe’s. In Europe hemp grows even in the wild and provides nutritious seed for wildlife. Someone should take this case to our Supreme Court; if it could benefit our country with a President and Vice President and with all the consequences we have seen during their 8 years in office, it might be able to put some sense in our legislators.

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It makes much more sense to drive America to bankruptcy and the human race towards extinction rather than take the chance that someone might smoke the stuff and get high. Get your priorities straight you ideal crazed lefties! Anything is better than reducing some billionaire's income - wise up or you'll end up in some private run-for-profit prison cell made just for the likes of you!

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That may be a little hyperbolic, but hemp certainly should be a part of creating a more sustainable human presence on the planet. We need to see more articles like this one and promote the topic of hemp into the public conversation. Criminalization of hemp has in fact been one of the more onerous crimes that corporate greed has brought been responsible for.

Anyone who has not taken the time to educate themselves on this topic ought to do so, and spread the information to others. More articles on this subject, please.

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(1) Stupid and ignorant
(2) They have an agenda (pro-oil, pro-cotton, pro-Monsanto, etc)
(3) Repug

Factual knowledge is important. If we can deal with #1, it's likely #2 and #3 will slither back into the gutter and the nation will progressively move forward.

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The comments linking hemp to cannabis show how uneducated the masses are. No wonder congress won't allow hemp as a viable solution.

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Because of the pathetic paranoid conservative puritanical hypocrisy we endure in this god-forsaken land, we will once again pass over a grand opportunity to not only push ourselves into a new wave of economic growth, but we will forego the amazing health benefits of hemp seeds, hemp oil (perfect ratio of essential Omega fatty acids for cellular respiration, the key to cancer prevention), let alone the ecological benefits referred to here which any moron can plainly see.

America, the dutiful slaves. Get a spine America. Demand change! Yeah, REAL CHANGE, not that phony balony BS the Obamaton is spewing. Have we seen any change? Will we? Not bloody likely. We must BE the change.

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I don't think our new secretary of agriculture, Tom Vilsack, is ever going to crawl out of Monsanto's pocket, and common sense apparently does not exist in our government today. I will however send him this article so he can promptly shred it . . .but maybe he'll read it first. I sent him a big packet of articles some time ago about the Marijuana Policy Project, etc. Gee, I wonder why he hasn't written back?

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The war against Marijuana, was initiated to outlaw Hemp in the first place!!! Marijuana was needed to replace alcohol on the black market, for the gangsters could keep their statice quo, and the oil industry needed Hemp outlawed to give them a monopoly!!! So America gave our nation to the beast by feeding the hate of the moral majority, with yellow journalism, funded by the oil corporations, and any and all other enterprises that gained market leverage because of Hemp's absence!!!
Protectionism replaced free enterprise, with propaganda, to create our corporate monopoly system, that has destroyed Americas sovereignty!!!

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How does the nitrogen utilization of hemp compare to corn, which is one of the most "nitrogen-hungry" of plants?
Nitrate toxicity in water and air is a growing problem in agricultural areas.
Other than that, it sounds like a good deal.

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Under our drug laws, even the growing of cannabis hemp -- the nonspyschoactive variety of the plant--is outlawed in order to enforce the marijuana laws.

Hemp has many economic uses. It contains the longest fiber in the plant kingdom and is one of the strongest and most durable. It can be used for commercial and industrial applications, including insulation, textiles, clothing, and rope. The fiber and pulp can be used to manufacture nondeteriorating paper using a relatively pollution-free process. The plant can also be used for biomass applications. Its seeds yield oil similar to linseed, which can be used in many commercial and industrial applications. In Eastern Europe and Central Asia, the seeds have been used for human consumption.

"Hemp. It's marijuana's nonspyschoactive sister," writes Ed Rosenthal. "You couldn't get a buzz if you smoked a bale of hemp, but it's still illegal to grow it in the United States." Industrial hemp is legally grown in over thirty countries. For thousands of years, people grew hemp and prospered. It flourishes without pesticides. Thomas Jefferson considered hemp so vital to America that he risked his life to smuggle hemp seeds out of France. George Washington grew hemp and instructed his caretaker at Mount Vernon: "Make the most of the hemp seed. Sow it everywhere."

Industrial hemp was first grown in Kentucky 250 years ago. It is currently grown in other countries across the globe, including France, England, Canada, Australia, China, Hungary and the Ukraine. Industrial hemp has virtually no THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana. It cannot be used as a drug. None of the countries that allow industrial hemp production have experienced any drug problems relating to the crop.

Using modern processing techniques, hemp can be used in place of petrochemicals. Instead of synthetic plastics made from oil, we can use natural fiber and processed bioplastic derivatives. Plastics and polyester rely on foreign oil, while cotton consumes enormous amounts of water, fertilizer, herbicides, and pesticides.

Industrial hemp is very clean, easy to grow and is one of the most environmentally sound sources of industrial fiber in the world. Environmentally friendly detergents, plastics, paints, varnishes, cosmetics, and textiles are already being made from it in Europe. Industrial hemp can meet our fiber needs while also revitalizing our struggling rural economies.

Hemp is already being used in place of trees for pressboard, particleboard, and core concrete construction molds. Paper made from hemp is acid-free, stronger and lasts far longer than paper made from trees. Hemp fabrics are far stronger and more resistant to mold than any other natural fiber. Builders in France and Germany use hemp for construction material, replacing drywall and plywood.

Hemp can be used to manufacture plastic plumbing pipe, replacing such toxic materials as polyvinyl chloride (PVC). Hemp fiber is already being used in place of glass fiber in surfboards and snowboards. Hemp could also provide the resin itself.

For ideological reasons, the federal government refuses to allow farmers to grow hemp despite the fact that industrial hemp is currently grown legally worldwide. The George W. Bush administration took anti-hemp policy to a new extreme, attempting unsuccessfully to ban the import of hemp foods and cosmetics. Erwin "Bud" Sholts, director of the Wisconsin Agriculture Department's marketing division, said hemp "is the most value-added, prolific fiber crop man can grow." Sholts acknowledged that hemp is an emotional issue, but points out that "other nations with drug laws as tough or tougher than ours have overcome this hurdle."

Anti-drug hysteria should not blind the public to the commercial and industrial applications of hemp.

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Yes, sheeple, there are such things as big CONSPIRACIES!!!

Severely corrupt governments + corporations are why so many people are suffering!!! There are abundant resources on this planet for EVERYONE to have clean water, food, shelter, decent jobs, medical care, etc.!!!

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I'm gonna keep this article and every time another energy crunch article comes up and hemp is not mentioned, I'm gonna bring up the points mentioned in this article. Not even the anti-hemp shills can say no. Just ask Tom McClintock and the conservatives in ND who pushed for legalizing the crop for industrial purposes. In fact, Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich are trying again to bring up the Hemp Farming Act to overturn the national ban on Cannabis. Obama is dead wrong to tell us that cannabis won't stimulate the economy. Had he read history and even paid attention to the actual Constitution, he would have realized the 26000 industrial uses and even realized that the Constitution was written on hemp paper which lasts far longer than wood-based paper.

MR. OBAMA, TEAR DOWN THIS DRUG WAR WALL AND IMMEDIATELY REPLACE YOUR VP WHO'S A DRUG CZAR ! EITHER RESPECT MOTHER EARTH AND GOD BY GIVING THE POWERFUL PLANT OF PEACE, CANNABIS TO BE RETURNED TO LEGAL STATUS OR GET READY TO FACE THEIR WRATH COME 2012 !!

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LETS DO IT RIGHT NOW.

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Not only does the Drug Enforcement Agency control pain management but our food supply. We import hemp seeds from other countries to make healthy food items. Hemp seed contains more essential fatty acids than any other source and it is second only to soybeans in being a vegetable complete protein and more digestible too.
Hemp milk is made with IMPORTED hemp seed and is not for the thrifty shopper, in our supermarket it is $4.00 qt, so much for a free Capitalist society!!!

Re our competition the Chinese in 2007 planned for the next five years for hemp fiber to reach 1.5 million tons and for its consumption to reach 20% of cotton fiber consumption. You can trade with China's hemp fiber on line. So much for freedom in this good ole USA !!!

Our hard working farmers and the American consumer wait patiently[???] for our so-called elected leaders to face reality and come to their senses.

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While there are many industrial uses for pot fibers, as an energy source it will not fly. We need a scientific break through so we can convert cellulose into ethanol. In the mean time it would be worth it to make paper bags out of pot and get rid of all those plastic bags. We could smoke the buds and make paper bags out of the rest of the plant. You could get enough money off the buds to make the paper bags free.

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I use hemp as another source of protein and even love hemp shampoo. In fact, I sometimes think that like fruit and vegetables, if I hadn't taken hemp so often, I might not have made it alive in this dog-eat-dog world.

I was thinking of taking a little bit of hemp protein powder and blending it in with my garden soil on my topsy turvey since I don't have a garden. I wonder if that will yield even healthier vegetables.

And thank you for alerting the public to Ron Paul's valiant push to legalize industrial hemp. Like maxpayne said earlier, the chances of legalizing hemp are as good as passing single payer health care but it is time to call your representative and tell them to support HR 1866 and let your voices be heard loud and clear.

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As a Canadian, I am allowed to eat "Hemp Seed Hearts" - the shelled hemp seed. These little gems can be eaten raw in cereal, pancakes or yogurt, or cooked in many dishes such as frying them with hamburger. The oil can also be extracted and used in cooking or on salads, etc..

There is no THC content, by the way [sorry, but it isn't good to be high ALL day anyhow].

What they DO have is the most perfect blend of Omega 3, 6, and 9 Oils of any food on earth, including fish. They have lots of fibre too. Any healthy eating expert who does not mention Hemp Seed Hearts is being negligent.

Heart disease and cholesterol and many other health concerns will be reduced by eating hemp seed hearts. Perhaps the AMA knows that the medical industry would lose business if hemp hearts were legal in America.

[and no, I do not have any business interest in hemp seeds or hemp oils]

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A crop that would reduce the use of petroleum based products accross the board and thus shrink oil company profits. A plant that can provide pleasure, reduce pain and enhance many parts of everyday life and does not require a corporation to deliver it to the populace. How can this be legal in the land of the free and the home of the brave? Good God! can't you see how dangerous this is. There are billions of corporate profits at stake here. This must be stopped!!!!!
I still can't get my head wrapped around the fact that a country that calls itself free can make a PLANT illegal.

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I am a corn and soybean farmer in Nebraska. My dad (and many of his neighbors) grew hemp during World War II. At that time, farmers were encouraged to grow hemp as it was vital to the war effort.

I still have some brochures that the local county extension office produced to advise farmers on how to grow hemp.

Dad often mentioned how well hemp grew around here and how he couldn't understand how after the war it was suddenly banned.

Wild hemp still grows as a weed in ditches and waste places around here.

Hemp would be an ideal alternative cash crop option for where I live. My dad said that it grows so vigorously that it out-competes weeds so that no herbicides are needed. Also, in Nebraska we tend to get hot and dry in July and August. Corn and soybeans require irrigation at this time to produce maximum yields. Hemp, on the other hand, LOVES it when it is hot and dry. Not having to irrigate it unlike other crops would save vast amounts of water and energy resources.

Another advantage is that most of the equipment that farmers already use is readily adaptable to hemp culture. The planting machines and hay harvesting equipment that is already on the farms can be used for hemp production. Thus, farmers do not have to invest in any heavy capital outlays for new equipment.

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..de Jew bible and de owl bidness. Both arms need to be amputated from the American body politic.

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Hemp for fiber is great, but ultimately, we do not want to "substitute" anything for oil, we want to move away from the combustion model altogether. We need to stop oxidizing carbons (burning things) to get energy. Hydrocarbons like oil are bad for burning, but so are carbohydrates like hemp, or ethanol. Either way you are oxidizing carbon molecules for energy (converting O2 to CO2). Solar and wind capture existing energy without making more carbon dioxide.

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First lets clear our heads that our Governments are looking out for us healthwise...some are, but most are following the money trail...you'll notice more as the talk of a new national healthcare system bites the dust...once again!...Smoking a hemp plant is roughly equivilent to smoking your hemp made shirt,..I've seen the diff. between hemp and enjoyable pot...those in power,are not likely to allow hemp to be the new kid on the block because they can't make as much kickback as from from the lobbyists of oil companies,duponts ,Hearst industries,big Pharma...to name but a few....just think of all the starving out of work farmers and others who could make a living growing hemp to be used for so many things...our leaders are far worse than the Gangsters they condem...they get away w/murder in the name of ''their'' laws...when people start to wake up to all this...then perhaps you'll see change...but that's no gurantee either...we've first got to educate the people then scare the bureaucrats...then maybe something will get done....I've always found that large homemade signs hanging from overpass bridges are seen by so many...and billboards...It's the case of throw enough shit against the wall somethings bound to stick,...and prompt groups like NORML,and MPP and DRC,and soooo many others to get it out there...its even much more than legalizing pot to smoke...it's for the betterment of everyone!!....and I enjoy my pot, but I'd gladly give it up to legalize hemp and help the country,if not the world!..please excuse my typos..

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Go to Hemp 4 Fuel.com and read their "Why Hemp..?" Section as well as their main page lots of info in regard to the real benefits to growing industrial Hemp for Fuep we can get Cellulose Ethanol from it east 12-14 ft. stalks and it renews every 4 months and doesn't get anyone high...it is not marijuana it's Industrial Hemp we can get bio-diesel from it's seeds as well as even they say charcoal to burn to replace coal not to mention all the other products...

This would create a lot of new green jobs and that includes the refineries that would spring up regionally and refining our fuel regionally is good for National Security..!

We can enhance our energy independence and also our national security and help the economy by lifting this really stupid draconian regressive ban on Industrial Hemp...

Add that to wind and solar and we have a great start on a new intelligent future if someone could just convince Obama to join the 21st Century. and stop serving these 19th century robber barons he surrounds himself with..


http://hemp4fuel.com/


Grow Here, Grow Now..!

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Are they getting access to the Obama Administration?

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Cannabis agriculture produces copious quantities of atmospheric aerosols called "monoterpenes" that reflect solar radiation away from the Earth and seed cloud formation to protect the Earth from soalr radiation.

Google "Global Broiling" to find the California Cannabis Ministry blog that expands on this major threat to our immune systems, DNA, and normal physiological development.

Cannabis grown in rotation with other crops breaks the cycle of pests that otherwise grow unrestricted from year to year. Cannabis also yields pesticides to protect other crops from insects, making it possible to convert from chemical to organic agriculture.

Protein production from hemp seed could replace at least a portion of the beef protein, making methane production from cattle (25X more potent a greenhouse gas than CO2) less of a problem.

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I am 150% for legalizing marijuana. Of course hemp should be legal too, but it's not going to save the world. Hemp is produced in Canada, Russia, China, most industrialized nations. Hemp can be used for many things, including biofuels, but guess how much commercial production of hemp based biofuels is going on in the world? None. There is a lot of commercial production of biofuels going on, but no one is using hemp as the feedstock because there are plenty of cheaper feedstocks with much better per acre yields.

The thing about hemop is that although there are lots of things it can be used for, there is almost always something better and/or cheaper and more practicle to use. Hemp makes good paper, but is it a serious threat to paper made with wood pulp anywhere in the world, even in CHina or Russia where they have cheap labor? Heck no. If you buy hemp paper anywhere what you are going to get 99% of the time is wod pulp based paper with a littel bit of hemp in it, and it's going to cost more than plain old wood pulp based paper.

I'd love for hemp to be the wonderplant people paint it out to be, but it is just not. In many countries where they grow hemp, including Canada, they actually had to cut production because they had flooded the limited market and drove prices so low that farmers were losing money growing it. In some contires they actually subsidize hemp. Why would a wonderplant that can be used for anything need government subsidies?

Mostly hemp is used in novelty products people buy because they think it's cool to buy stuff with hemp in it. Usually these products are overpriced, or they only have a tiny bit of hemp in them. You pay for the novelty of having the hemp.

It's just not all it's cracked up to be, and I just hope people will look into this before they use it as their main argument for why marijuana should be legal. It's a terribly weak argument, one people can shoot full of holes. Don't make the "hemp will save the world" argument because it is bogus and will destroy your credibility. Throw in the fact that hemp is a useful crop our farmers ought to be able to grow, but don’t argue it will replace oil, replace wood pulp for paper, etc. If it was going to do all these things we’d already see it going on in countries where it is legal and our big corporations would be pushing like crazy for it to be legal here so they could make a killing from it too.

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Since the Roosevelt Administration renewed hemp production to assist in WW II, is it a leap of unreasonableness to suggest that Obama do the same to save trillions in petroleum import costs, which could be used to help finance a two front war?

Is it a far stretch to suggest that if decisionmakers endanger this society's security through massive deficits and debt service payments that limit the availability of funds for our domestic and foreign war effort that doing so is tantamount to treason?

Hemp was NOT banned in 1937 because it was a harmful drug. Hemp was banned because it was a competitive threat to the fossil fuel, wood products, and newly developed synthetic fiber industries that were patentable, were marketable through existing channels and, therefore, more profitable than hemp.

With wholesale oil cost escalating industrial hemp is now competitive and should be treated like ethanol for corn or other renewables since it has an almost zero carbon footprint.

Unfortunately, millions of Americans still believe the lies spread about marijuana/hemp by Harry Anslinger,the Director of the original Federal Bureau of Narcotics, I.E Dupont, who had millions in synthetic patents, and Randolh Hearst, who had millions of acres of timber land to feed his newspaper empire.

On the eve of marijuana prohibition in the U.S., two articles about hemp appeared in major U.S. magazines. They were:

“The Most Profitable And Desireable Crop That Can Be Grown” From: Mechanical Engineering, February 26, 1937

“New Billion Dollar Crop” From: Popular Mechanics, February 1938

These articles reveal that hemp was on the verge of becoming a super crop because of new hemp processing technologies that were recently developed. Unfortunately, the potential of hemp was never reaped because of marijuana prohibition.

Hemp is legally grown for commercial use throughout much of Europe, India, China, Russia, Ukraine. In 1994 the Canadian government approved one experimental hemp field - its first legal hemp crop in 40 years. In 1995, there will be 11 government-approved hemp fields in Canada! If the U.S. does not legalize hemp for commercial use, a significant economic and environmental opportunity will be lost; the benefits will be reaped only by our economic competitors.

Literally millions of wild hemp plants grow throughout the entire Midwest today. Wild hemp, like hemp grown for commercial use, is USELESS as an intoxicant. It makes no sense to ban growing a plant that has enormous economic and environmental potential, grows naturally by the millions, and is impossible to exterminate. But yet, our draconian drug laws state that one acre of hemp grown on a person’s property can result in the owner being sentenced to DEATH! That’s correct, the DEATH PENALTY exists for growing one acre of nonintoxicating weeds!

U.S. Presidents and founding fathers George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew hemp, used hemp products, and were hemp advocates. Today’s political leaders—as well as the public that favors marijuana prohibition—would treat George Washington and Thomas Jefferson with disdain, brand them criminals, and throw them in prison!

FACT: NO TREE OR PLANT SPECIES ON EARTH HAS THE COMMERCIAL, ECONOMIC, AND ENVIRONMENTAL POTENTIAL OF HEMP. OVER 30,000 KNOWN PRODUCTS CAN BE PRODUCED FROM HEMP!

“Make the most of the hemp seed, sow it everywhere.” - George Washington, first president of the U.S. and a strong hemp advocate.

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The concept of BUSHWATER is to undertake a systematic clearance of biofuel deadwood and underbrush from drought-impacted zones (such as those which recently experienced billion-dollar fires in California and Australia) using unemployed, underemployed workers both from the US and from refugee and persecuted populations overseas.

As the name BUSHWATER implies, slender sticks, twigs, brush, stubble etc. would be picked up, clipped (with anvil pruner, ratchet pruner, handsaw and hatchet), bundled and carted to seasonally dry gullies, ravines, creekbeds etc.

No offense is meant to our former commander in chief, rather he might be an excellent selection to head the new agency overseeing this project. In July 2001, a wirephoto showed George W., hatchet in hand, with the headline: "Bush Takes a Whack at Forest Fires." In a later quote he chided those who carelessly allow "kindling" to accumulate on the land.

Deadwood and underbrush would be divided when harvested into categories:

* Strong firm roundwood (including logs and branches narrower than those usually harvested by big lumber companies) to be bundled and shipped to town for use in carpentry and manufacturing

* Weathered, rotted wood to be chipped and shredded, using machines designed to be transportable on a forklift-truck over up-to-four-foot-wide roadways built with scrap pallets, plywood etc. so they can be installed and used out in the forest near the streams to be treated

* Selected amounts of the above to be pulverized into woodflour (trade term for "sawdust"), also usable in composting

* Thin stock-- brush, stubble etc. bundled where harvested and delivered by lifttruck to stream bed

Stream beds would be filled starting with a foot or two of woodflour, which at time of infrequent rain will capture water which otherwise would have run off. Next above that, a layer of a foot or more of chips, shreds etc. to weigh down the powder and prevent it escaping downstream at rain time. Next above that, many feet hight of bundled brush. On top is a good place to lay a series of pallets, pave the surface with one or more layers of nailed-down plywood, and thus provide a roadway by which the lift truck can travel from the Camp Zero location, which would be wherever a streambed in the program intersects with a highway by which trucks can deliver the above cited equipment and take away lumber.

The water trapped in this way would remain in the uplands, evaporate there, and feed rainfall making those areas moist.

Now what you've been waiting for: GAIH (government-approved industrial hemp) would be seeded into the brushstructure, along with other notorious fast-growing invasive plants like WLLW (weepy long-leaf watertree), shaky quaky spadeleaf watertree (aspen, cottonwood etc.), ancient Chinese Jewtown watertree (ailanthus, or the Tree That Grew On Maxwell Stereet), tangy toke-leaf desert tree (eucalyptus) etc. A series of green mounds like fingers would creep over and reforest the West and every desert on planet.

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Sure, legalize hemp, and legalize marijuana while you are at it, but don't expect it to make a dent in our petroleum consumption.

For comparison and a sense of scale, if we took our entire U.S. corn crop and turned it into ethanol we would net about 8% of our gasoline demand - and we wouldn't have any corn to eat or export. We are mining the soil with our national corn crop anyway - it isn't sustainable.

Whatever you want to grow - hemp, soybeans, corn, switchgrass, algae - there just isn't enough land, water, and nutrient flow to replace the 20 million barrels of oil we consume every day. It's a basic problem of biosphere capacity.

The problem will solve itself, but not in a nice way. In the future we'll be spending a lot of time walking.

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is it really the world best fuel and food? I remain skeptical

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All the products made from oil were already being made with hemp. In fact hemp has a longer more important role in American History than oil ever could.

Hemp shirts sold for 12 cents in the old days,cotton was almost $20. Most fine lace was made from hemp. Every rope that was used on the newly formed Navy in the 1700's was made from hemp. As were the sails,crew uniforms and cooking flour. Every sailor from Spanish times on had a vial of hemp seeds around his neck. Why? So if they should become stranded on some island they could grow the clothes,food and sails they would need to rescue themselves or survive until a ship passed by. Try and survive with a vial of oil around your neck.

The Declaration of Independance copies that were handed out to those who supported the Revolution were made from hemp paper. Which by the way still look as fresh today as they did when printed in the 1770's. Try that with the New York Times,that rag would fall apart after ten years.

Oil from hemp lit every home for hundreds of years. Later it becamwe the fuel of choice for Diesel's new engine. Henery Ford developed a car made from hemp plastic, running on hemp oil and could take a 100 mph crash, can you Hybrid do that? probably not.

There are a lot of misinformed people that will tell you the hemp movement is pushing pot as a 'miracle product'. Sorry folks we're just filling in the blanks in your history. We have no need to lie to you,that's the government's job. We have nothing to gain by lyimng to you. We do however have a Planet to re-gain if we pass the legalization of hemp for all it's uses.

We gain cleaner air, less field runoffs into ground water, longer lasting clothes,which if you're one of the worker bees, is a good value. We gain a better bio fuel for diesel running cars and trucks, a healthier flour, an excellent pacifier of angry moods which will greatly reduce police calls for 'Domestic Disturbances' and just maybe we'll get back some of that long cherished but mostly resigned to 'folklore'...FREEDOM

Can oil do that?? So far all I've seen is greedy bastards getting fantastically wealthy,the air,water and land being poisoned. Clothing created that make folks have allergic reactions,healthcare products that do the same
and the slow motion death of every living thing
from the use of oil and all it's by-products.

maybe a math equation would get the point across better, so here goes;

OIL = DEATH or HEMP = LIFE

Choose wisely,the life you save or end may be your grandchildren's!!

Jeffrey7
OTMegazine.com

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I'm not sure why I was attacked below, but there is a big difference between industrial hemp and taxing and regulating adult use of marijuana. I have never advocated any extraordinary taxes on hemp and even opposed THC limits, although IMHO a 1% THC cap in the flower would be acceptable if that will get hemp growing here again. The grant my wife, Mikki Norris, took from Soros was for Human Rights and the Drug War to help convince the UN to recognize the Human Rights of all drug users. That campaign began in 1995 and the UN adopted such a stance this year; HRDW has nothing to do with hemp other than that it advocates full global access to hemp agriculture as a fundamental human right to economic self-determination. Mikki and I also publish the West Coast Leaf newspaper, which is fully behind hemp and runs articles about it in each issue.

FYI, Jack Herer's book The Emperor Wears No Clothes was out of print in 1990 when I helped revive it by designing, editing and collaborating in its rewrite including the "Many Uses of Hemp" page that was originally one of my Business Alliance for Commerce in Hemp -- BACH -- handouts. (BTW, NORML gave Herer a lifetime achievement award, has featured him as a speaker, and has honored his book -- although Jack rarely shares that credit with those of us who made it happen.) I wrote Hemp: Lifeline to the Future and Hemp for Health, both of which advocate for industrial hemp to be fully developed. I was a co-founder and first President of the Hemp Industries Assn. I designed and curated the Hash, Marihuana and Hemp Museum in Amsterdam to represent hemp interests. I devised a "hemp sustainability" economic proposal that was considered by government officials in Haiti, Jamaica and Cuba, but all three declined to implement it due to fears of a US invasion if they did so. Only the most profound ignorance of my activities would explain the comment posted below, yet I've worked with Bruce Cain, so ignorance is not an excuse. Maybe he should have gotten some sleep before posting his remarks.

No, the "enemy within" isn't activists not signing on to other people's campaigns; it's posting unwarranted attacks against colleagues and allies in such a way as to undermine their work, weaken our community, and and thereby lend suport to cannabis prohibitionists.

To reiterate, I have formed organizations, campaigned, written books, lobbied and worked on ballot measures to fully restore hemp. In my opinion, marijuana use by adults should be regulated in a manner similar to but less stringent than the controls on alcohol. I don't mind when my work is overlooked, but don't post any more falsehoods about me or my wife, please. Thanks. -- Chris Conrad

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the cotton, chemical (especially DuPont who had just come out with products like nylon & rayon that were in direct competition with hemp textiles), and the logging/timber industries (hemp is far superior to cutting down trees for paper & 'wood' products).

For all of you on Facebook (or other 'social' sites) I would suggest you add this article to your homepage. I did yesterday, and already have over a half-dozen comments...all positive. Make your time spent on the net count for something by spreading useful information.

Most people in this country are ignorant about hemp because of the massive & sustained disinformation campaign by corporate interests going back about 70 years. The reaction from most people, when I start listing the merits of industrial hemp is, "WOW! I didn't know that." Without information activism goes off half-cocked. It's a game of numbers, and the truth will free us, so educate, educate, educate!

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Chris Conrad and Mikki have spent huge amounts of time, money and energy collecting data and writing about information not seen by the status weird, taught from censored school books and "programmed" TV. And it is true Soros plays in the filthy system. But he plays on the side of Ganja in a very crooked system many it seems have no clue about. Take on the fascist and the elected lobbyists. Its a rigged system and any realities about Hemp and Ganja that happen, during the Ganjawar, under combat conditions. Then so be it, just let it be. Laws already prohibit taxing vegetables, including tobacco. Turning it into a product makes its tax worthy. It will not effect single growers or should it effect farmers. Barley and Hops aren't taxed.

Walters, Limpbog and O'Really lie, flat out bold face and without apology because its the ends justifying the means in their world. Those who will not read have nothing over those who can not read. Oaksterdam or Oklahoma? When the war is over, the price will settle down to a commodity price. But don't throw the baby out with the bath water. Pioneers like Jack Herer, Bill Conde and Chris Conrad deserve nothing but respect. Soros and the other two wealthy game players no doubt have different intentions than most of us working stiffs. But damn, ammo's ammo. It's like bitching about clean air and water. Duh! Now as far as Hemp, not included in the 1937 Tax Act, lumped in by Ricardo Mouse Nexxon, Liberty Killer.

OK kiddies one more time. Repeat after me.... Anything and I do mean anyfuckingthing made from nasty sulfur emitting fossil fools crud oil hydrocarbons can be made out of nice friendly homegrown carbohydrates. Giving staples to poor Mexicans who won't have to scare the Loe Dobbs ditto isolationists. Or supplement the Indians and reduce the addictions providing treatment. No need for family farmers to sell out to developers or go bankrupt. No need to kill America with Monsanto and Dupont poisons.

Biomass using the vegetable matter converting it into alcohol, not corn the least producing biomass, sabotage plan. 90% of the "stills" operating in the 20's produced auto and tractor fuel. Not booze. Booze Prohibition was basically fabricated by Rockefeller, financing the temperance league with a $5 million contribution. Coincidence or darn lucky it paved the way for no viable alternative to gasoline and diesel. Oil plants like Hemp seed, peanuts safflower etc. are bio-diesel and Willie Nelson is trying to localize the truckers using it in Texas of all places.

Most of the imported crud is for plastic we trash. Clothing and flags that melt. Pesticides for cotton. An Island is forming in the ocean from all of the years of dumping and not dealing with it. More scams for profit, but don't get me started. So simply put, we can grow biodegradable cellophane plastic and use it for pesticides and paint bases. Hemp is the major threat because of its versatility. Not only essential fatty acids Omega 3, 6 and 9 in the seed, the oil content for food grade use, skin care or lubricants and a great furniture polish. Then the different fibers and source of cellulose for paper. Plywood and beams stronger than trees, and a greater yield. Clothing, softer with greater tensile strength than cotton and without the 90 million pounds of poisons sprayed onto pregnant women and kids.

So much for hypocrite clinic bombers, they're more abortionists and have killed more babies than Roe V Wade. Ever tempting Nature with idiotic remedies to rid the planet of this vital competition to a few of the real Fascist, totally paying for private PDFA propaganda groups and freaks like Calvina and the access to drug worriers selected for their connections with the card board frankenfoods or plastic clothing. Greed and Enron ethics run the Ganjawar fraud.

Ganja/Hemp

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Ganja/Hemp

arno the corporatist

pesticideabortionists

The growers are the real public servants and taking the risk in spite of Oblamo's backing off there is always a Jerry Brownose lurking to cash in and exploit. If a relaxed atmosphere Like Oakland can take place, more power to them. Like the not warring Kerlikowske office poster says...

WE ARE AT WAR. ARE YOU DOING ALL YOU CAN?

Prohibit Elected Lobbyists and Yellow Journalism

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Hemp Video made in the Netherlands

Ore. Hemp Bill Clears Hurdle
By Mitch Lies, Capital Press June 18, 2009 Salem

A bill allowing production and possession of industrial hemp on Oregon farms has cleared the Legislature's budget-writing committee and was on the Senate floor at press deadline.

Bill sponsor Sen. Floyd Prozanski, D-Eugene, said he believes the bill will pass both chambers.

Further, Prozanski said he believes the Obama administration is poised to remove federal roadblocks to hemp production. continued...

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... Corporations have bee enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed."
-- Abraham Lincoln, November 12, 1864

The Elkhorn Manifesto
SHADOW OF THE SWASTIKA

Ford And Diesel Never Intended Cars To Use Gasoline
Henry Ford's first Model-T was built to run on hemp gasoline and the CAR ITSELF WAS CONSTRUCTED FROM HEMP! On his large estate, Ford was photographed among his hemp fields. The car, 'grown from the soil,' had hemp plastic panels whose impact strength was 10 times stronger than steel; Popular Mechanics, 1941.

Nixon lied to schedule Ganja #1

Chemical Cotton vs Organic Hemp 11/01/01

Cannabis Vs Trees

Hemp Car.org

Henry Ford's Hemp Car

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Note. Compassionate Use Act not the MMJ Act

9/26/07 arno215 112x460

HS 11362.5. (a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the Compassionate Use Act of 1996.

* has been recommended by a physician

* person's health would benefit

* or any other illness for which marijuana provides relief.

* no physician in this state shall be punished,

* Illegal possession and cultivation of marijuana,
shall not apply to a patient, or to a patient's primary caregiver

* upon the written or oral recommendation or approval of a physician

* The department shall establish and maintain a voluntary program for the issuance of identification cards to qualified patients who satisfy the requirements of this article and voluntarily apply to the identification card program.

* "Qualified patient" means a person who is entitled to the protections of Section 11362.5, but who does not have an identification card issued pursuant to this article.

* It shall not be necessary for a person to obtain an identification card in order to claim the protections of Section 11362.5.

* A qualified patient or a person with an identification card

* Any individual who provides assistance

* A designated primary caregiver who transports, processes, administers, delivers, or gives away marijuana for medical purposes

* (a) Subject to the requirements of this article, the individuals specified in subdivision (b) shall not be subject, on that sole basis, to criminal liability.

Politicians and Cops are not necessary!

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the sunshine,
with delicate
rays and the
sound of a
light breeze:
and this is
my care, when
everything
shines and the
night fades
away.

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yeh i wish we could use hemp to bad we have to fight a drug war. all the hemp products thats you get which are marvelous by the way are from canada they legalized hemp not marijuana and they can make all the products there and ship them to us; charge a hell of alot because people want them and we cant use hemp here --this may sound confuzing but we can all learn great things from the canadians

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A French company has the patent on the approved seed stock for low-THC hemp cultivated by law in the EU and Canada. The French produced this cultivar by breeding out the flowers. It is an unstable variety of hemp, and it's progeny naturally have a higher level of THC, so farmers have to continue to buy the seed for future production from the French company rather than being able to produce their own (ala Monsanto).

Since the flowers of the cannabis plant are the most abundant site of production of THC, when they bred out the flowers they also bred out the THC. However, since the flowers are also where the seeds for the plant come from, the low-THC, almost flowerless plants don't produce nearly as much seed as higher-THC varieties. Low-THC hemp also produces half as much fiber as higher-THC varieties.

By breeding out the THC and flowers, these low-THC plants have bred out most seed production. No flowers, no THC, but no seeds too.

Hempseed is clearly the most productive source of plant oil and protein. While low-THC hemp only produces an average of 600 pounds of hempseed per acre, a study from Notre Dame University published in The Midlands Naturalist of wild hemp in central Illinois showed that feral hemp produces 8,000 of hempseed per acre. It is clear that if cannabis hemp were allowed to be bred for the best seed production varieties, hemp is capable of producing much more than 8,000 pounds per acre.

Cannabis seed is 30 percent oil by weight. When one cold-presses 8,000 pounds of hempseed, the result is over 300 gallons of oil and three tons of residual hempseed protein.

Currently, the most productive seed oil production species are soybeans, sunflower seeds and rapeseed/canola, each of which is capable of producing 100-120 gallons of plant oil per acre. Hempseed can produce at least 300 gallons per acre. Hempseed is the most productive source of plant oil.

The byproducts of producing 300 gallons of hempseed oil per acre are 3 tons of high-protein hemp meal from the seed, and 10 tons of hemp bast fiber and 25-30 tons of hemp hurd fiber, from the stalks and stems. The bast fiber of hemp is akin to the bark of a tree, while the hurd fiber is from the inner woody core of the hempstalk.

Hemp bast fiber has been used for at least over 12,000 years for cordage and cloth. Ancient pottery fragments from China have hemp fiber embedded in them. Hemp bast fiber has long been cultivated for canvas, rope, lace and linen. By law, all tobacco cigarettes must be rolled in paper made from hemp or flax fiber, and about half of all the world's tobacco cigarettes are made with hemp bast fiber paper.

Hempseed protein has more digestible protein than any other plant source, with an EFA (essential fatty acid) profile that, according to Dr. Urdo Erasmus' book, 'Fats That Heal, Fats That Kill', hempseed protein is nature's most perfectly balanced source of protein for human health.

According to the US Dept. of Agriculture's Bulletin 404, hemp hurd produces more than 4 times more paper per acre than the most productive tree species.

USDA Bulletin 404 was published in 1916, which not so coincidentally is the time when the first anti-marijuana laws began to be promulgated.

Hempseed is the best, most productive source of bio-diesel fuel. Is it any wonder that the petrochemical industries whipped up the anti-marijuana scare?

If we replace these destructive petrochemical alternatives with alternatives from hemp, hemp will feed and save the world!. The sooner we act to restore hemp, the better for life of Earth!

Paul Stanford
www.hemp.org

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This last statement in the article says it all.

This country has not been forward thinking since the Reagan "feel good" about ourselves, "yea Amerikkka" years.

Good luck with any progress in a religious, corporate oligarchy. Bam-Bam has not made one progressive decision yet, and is just a pimp for the corporations and the backward thinking religious.

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point of information. Canadian industry, which is seed/grain focussed, has relied on Finnish/Siberian, Ukrainian and domestically-bred cultivars. Yields have ranged up to 2000 lbs, under super optimal conditions; 1200 lbs on good land in a well designed rotation is not unheard of.

Canada has several breeding programs in place accessing diverse genetics drawn from across the world. over the mid term, you'll see more consistent higher yields.

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I have hopes this may happen some day. We just may have to wait for certain things to die first.

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