See No Hemp, Hear No Hemp, Speak No Hemp, Part I

[Phred42]

See No Hemp, Hear No Hemp, Speak No Hemp, Part I
http://www.opednews.com/articles/See-No-Hemp-Hear-No-Hemp-by-Rand-Clifford-080808-668.html

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....nothing like hemp offers so much in reducing Big Oil and their Empire of CorpoGov and Industrial Military Complex and Global Predatory Capitalism. This is the real reason hemp farming remains banned in America.... Regional economies, wealth enriching its actual producers, healing of the planet’s life-support systems—even if we find the spirit, do we still have time?

[nc4bo]

1. It's ridiculous what the corps have been allowed to get away with.

When are people going to realize they don't give a crap about anything other than their dirty profits.

There's a Community Blog on Obama's website, I think the name is:

Industrial Hemp Advocates for Obama

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/group/IndustrialHempAdvocatesforObama

[pleah]

2. K&R

[Gold Metal Flake]

3. K&R

The rediculous prohibition of hemp will not stand. It will fall in five years, my prediction. There is more and more pressure from many directions. State economies will suffer and begin to see the money in this easily grown fiberous weed. Harvesting of hemp can be justified for fabric, paper as well as oil, and it's too easy and to prolific to ignore in a world of shrinking traditional resources.

It's gonna happen if we all keep pushing for it.

Now, if only we had a supply of good hemp seed to throw out of our windows when driving all across this nation...

[iamthebandfanman]

4. industrial hemp

could have saved my family business(textile factory).

[ensho]

5. true - the oil,gas and car barons hate hemp

the earth NEEDS hemp

[dysfunctional press]

6. henry ford didn't.

http://freetheplant.net/



Henry Ford and his Resin Stiffened, Hemp Fiber Car that ran on ethanol produced from hemp.
(in the photo, he's hitting it with an axe to demonstrate it's strength and resiliency)

Biomass, ethanol alternatives to gasoline, and especially Homegrown Biodiesel Fuel.

We believe that the main reason hemp is illegal today is because of biomass potential. The first diesel engines (by Rudolph Diesel in 1894) were invented to run on hempseed oil; petroleum wasn't synthesized to mimic hempseed oil for over a decade thereafter. Hempseed oil was the primary fuel for automobiles for over 30 years after the invention of the first internal combustion engines.

Diesel expected that his engine would be powered by vegetable oils (including hemp) and seed oils. At the 1900 World's Fair, Diesel ran his engines on peanut oil. Later, George Schlichten invented a hemp 'decorticating' machine that stood poised to revolutionize paper making. Henry Ford demonstrated that cars can be made of, and run on, hemp. Ford recognized the utility of the hemp plant. He constructed a car of resin stiffened hemp fiber, and even ran the car on ethanol made from hemp. Ford knew that hemp could produce vast economic resources if widely cultivated.

Evidence suggests a special-interest group that included the DuPont petrochemical company, Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon (Dupont's major financial backer), and the newspaper man William Randolph Hearst mounted a yellow journalism campaign against hemp. Hearst deliberately confused psychoactive marijuana with industrial hemp, one of humankind's oldest and most useful resources. DuPont and Hearst were heavily invested in timber and petroleum resources, and saw hemp as a threat to their empires. Petroleum companies also knew that petroleum emits noxious, toxic byproducts when incompletely burned, as in an auto engine. Pollution was important to Diesel and he saw his engine as a solution to the inefficient, highly polluting engines of his time. In 1937 DuPont, Mellon and Hearst were able to push a "marijuana" prohibition bill through Congress in less than three months, which destroyed the domestic hemp industry.

The Virginia Law Review analysis of the 1937 hearings on the Marijuana Tax Act described them as "a near comic example of dereliction of legislative responsibility" and "a case study in legislative carelessness." It noted that "no primary empirical evidence was presented about the effects of the drug...(only) hearsay and emotional pleas from the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and a few state law enforcement agents." The law "was tied neither to scientific study nor the law enforcement need." The legislative review concluded that Congress has been "hoodwinked."...

[ensho]

7. didn't know that about Ford - knew they hard talked him but didn't

know he had a car, etc. using hemp, before they hard talked him. thanks for info

[Patchuli]

9. Guess you know why

he got "hard talked" huh?

Hemp could indeed save the planet. I am wearing my lovely hemp sandals as we speak. Durable, beautiful, gentle on my feet! Hemp and silk blend is also one of the most beautiful and durable fabrics I've ever seen! Strong as iron and shines with an iridescent sheen!

[Wizard777]

15. The biggest environmental crime ever commited was the outlawing of Hemp at the advent of the Auto.

The plant loves CO2 and will reward you with a nice sticky bud.

[Patchuli]

18. Hemp will return

because we need it! It fries me though, how much you have to pay for it as it is grown out of the U.S. I hate the corporations...

[Wizard777]

17. The resin was made from Soy. Ford tried to hire George Washington Carver

But he was too dedicated to his studies and teaching. So he turned him down. That picture is from a film that demonstrated the durability of soy based plastic developed by George Washington Carver. I wouldn't put it past Carver to use Hemp fiber for a 100% agricultural fiberglass. They still use soy based plastics in cars to this very day.

[tridim]

8. You know what bugs me? Everybody knows cannabis is an amazing crop.

We've all seen these articles published year after year that say as much. Industry knows it's great, farmers know it's easy to grow and our government knows it could solve major problems with no ramp-up.

Yet nothing ever changes. It's still as illegal as crack. Why?

[Patchuli]

10. There is a bill before Congress now

to decriminalize cannabis for personal use! GO POT!

[tridim]

11. It's certainly a good first step

http://www.atlantaprogressivenews.com/news/0362.html

(APN) ATLANTA – A resolution before US Congress that would decriminalize marijuana possession and use for responsible adults now has six co-sponsors, including crucial support from members of the Congressional Black Caucus, Atlanta Progressive News has learned.

US Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), sponsor of HR 5843, held a press conference July 30, 2008, in Washington, D.C., with fellow lawmakers and advocates from organizations working to reform U.S. drug laws, in order to speak on the legislation.

...

US Rep. Clay told The Hill newspaper that when US Rep. Frank asked him to co-sponsor the bill, he was not aware it was to decriminalize marijuana, but thought it was to allow medical marijuana. However, he said he has received such enthusiastic support from constituents he decided to remain a co-sponsor.

"I don’t think it is the government’s business to tell you how to spend your leisure time," Frank said.

...

[dysfunctional press]

12. making industrial hemp legal nationwide would be even more important than legalizing pot...

and there's absolutely no defensible reason for it to remain illegal to cultivate.

[Hatchling]

13. I was asked to sign a petition mandating bio fuel for the next ballot.

I told the petition guy I wouldn't sign such a petition until hemp was made legal and then launched into a 20 minute sermon as to why hemp should be legal and why it was made illegal. Poor guy.

He also tried very insistently to convince me to change my registration to Republican. When I refused that he tried to convince me by saying he would give me a form I could send in to change it back to Democrat. WTF?

[Uncle Joe]

14. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Phred.

[FormerOstrich]

16. I am kicking as many quality posts as I can

if nothing else but to make sure GD is something other than JE.

:kick:

[The Bakery Wagon]

19. Hemp for Victory!

The US Government wants YOU to grow hemp! In 1942...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne9UF-pFhJY