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Hemp Past, Present and Future
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Richard Davis’ Hemp Museum has long been a champion of restoring Hemp as a useful economic agricultural product.
Hemp can actually be used in 25,000 potential products.
Hemp is the world’s strongest natural fiber. Hemp was the first crop ever cultivated for textile production. Hemp cloth is stronger, longer lasting, more mildew resistant and cheaper to produce than cotton cloth.
Hemp can be used to make virtually anything that is currently made of cotton, timber or petroleum.
Newspaper William Randolph Hearst owned millions of acres of timber land and led the crusade to ban hemp.
Pierre DuPont not only held the patent rights to the sulfuric acid wood pulp paper process but also patented nylon rope made from synthetic petrochemicals. Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon was DuPont’s backer.
William Randolph Hearst and Pierre DuPont both profited on war.
Hemp was criminalized to protect the big money interests in the timber, petrochemical and cotton industries.
Today industrial hemp is cultivated in Canada, China, Russia, Hungary, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Spain, England, Poland and many other Eastern European countries.
The same big money that is behind war is also behind the timber, petrochemical and cotton industries. I haven’t even mentioned the pharmaceutical industry yet.
The top 101 uses for Hemp are found in the food, healing, toiletries, textile, household and industrial categories. Hemp can be used in products ranging from dynamite to cellophane.
The many economic and environmental benefits of Hemp have been sacrificed for the profits of a few war mongers.
Hemp is a crop almost unimaginably useful that can be grown on marginal land under adverse conditions by small farmers everywhere. No wonder the powers that be have criminalized the plant.
Yes, Hemp is a plant.
The major thrust of the War on Drugs that has crippled our country and the world while damaging the public perception of law enforcement is all about a plant put on Earth by God.
Yes, it is all connected. The connections are explicit and well documented. We have no need to invoke a conspiracy theory when we have the facts.
Tags: Appropriate Technology, Arts, Environment, Peace
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March 17th, 2008 at 7:54 am
It is important that I speak to someone in your organization. I am a scientist, and a registered plant breeder of Industrial Hemp. We have some very interesting research results that may be of interest to your orgainzation.
I will be speaking in Chicago in late April at the World Congress on Bio-Processing and my topic is on Industrial Hemp as a Versitile Crop (Feedstoct for the emerging Bio-Economy). I recently returned from Europe where I spoke about my research at the Eurpean Industrial Hemp Association.
You may want to Google me to varify my background.
Try John Baker - Stonehedge or John Baker - Elorin
You have my e-mail above or you could call me at (613) 827-2690
I appreciate you comments above
Sincerely
John Baker M.Sc,P.Ag.
Founder and Chairman
Stonehedge Bio-Resources Inc.
Stirling, Ontario Canada.