I learn something new today

[johan420 0]

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The building of early American colonies as well as the American Revolution would not have been possible if it were not for a very special plant. The Cannabis / Hemp plant was used throughout the world since the beginning of time for just about everything that mankind needed. Paper made from hemp was used for books, bibles, maps, and money. You can produce 4 times as much paper from an acre of hemp as you can from an acre of trees at 1/4 the cost, 1/5 the pollution, it is 10 times stronger and lasts up to 1000 years instead of only 50. And it can be recycled 4 times as many times as paper from wood pulp. The Constitution was printed on hemp paper as well as the first 3 drafts of the Declaration of Independence. Even great sailing ships like the U.S.S. Constitution were made primarily out of hemp. Hemp is the STRONGEST natural fiber on the planet. Hemp is 26 times stronger than cotton and 10 times longer lasting. The first Levi jeans were made out of hemp as well as all of the soldier's clothes for the Revolutionary War. It requires no chemicals to grow, has very few natural enemies, and grows in the widest variety of climates of any weed or plant. It is also the FASTEST GROWING plant on the planet, growing 4 times faster than corn. The seeds from the hemp plant provide the highest source of complete vegetable protein of any food source on earth. Even higher than soybeans. It has also been re-realized lately that the hemp seed is the highest source of Essential Fatty Acids in the world. ESSENTIAL, meaning :NECESSARY FOR LIFE, Fatty Acids are necessary for us and beneficial for cleaning the cholesterol out of the arteries naturally. All oils in the supermarket are bad since they are placed in clear plastic containers and exposed to direct sunlight. They become as bad as saturated fats, and end up CAUSING cholesterol buildup, leading to heart attacks, etc. Hemp seed oil can even be used as a machine-grade lubricant for engines and other machines replacing petroleum oil from the ground.
Henry Ford built his Ford Model-T using hemp to line the side panels. The impact strength was 10 times stronger than steel alone. This would eliminate many vehicular deaths today. The Model-T was also designed to run on hemp fuel which Henry Ford grew. This was displayed in Popular Mechanics in Feb. of 1938. Concentrated extracts of Cannabis from the flowers were the 2nd most used medicines in America for 150 years for over 100 separate medical illnesses. It is probably the best natural medicine for Glaucoma, stress, and controlling nausea, and works very well for arthritis , asthma, and epilepsy. It is estimated that Hemp would have at least 50,000 commercial uses if it were legal in America today.
The reason that Hemp is illegal in America today is because the main families in America (Masons), the Harrimans and Rockefellers (Standard Oil), the Whitneys (Eli Whitney-Cotton Gin), Dupont (Chemicals in wood pulp processing and cotton pesticides), and Hearst (Newspapers, Media) find it more profitable to sell us unnecessary chemicals, unneeded dug-up petroleum oil, immune system destroying pharmaceuticals, and axed up trees cut into real thin slices, all at over-inflated prices and at the expense of our health and living environment. For these companies, the real problem is that one cannot patent a natural plant. Almost everything produced in America by large corporations is exported for sale on the world markets. The total value of oil, petrochemicals, and pharmaceutical sales totals hundreds of billions of dollars. However, with the availability of over 50,000 new products and the necessity to manufacture them, America would be a much richer nation if the farmers and the average citizen were allowed to grow this valuable crop.

and im the one that thought this was only for putting in a pipe and smoke it..

[billvon 3,120]

>All oils in the supermarket are bad since they are placed in clear
>plastic containers and exposed to direct sunlight.

So the solution is to go to hemp oil. Which would then be sold in supermarkets in clear plastic bottles and . . . become bad?

Hemp is indeed pretty useful stuff, but nutty expositions on how it's better than sliced bread will not help get it into widespread usage.

[downwardspiral 0]

Yeah...its a poorly written piece.

Calfiornai just recently legalized the growth of hemp. Sometimes those Berkely hippies do us some good.

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[akarunway 1]

My new tennis shoes are all hemp and recycled tires. Cool. SimpleShoes.com I think. Outta Santa Monica, Ca. Got em overnighted for free. Expensive tho. They have some really cool shoes.

I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

[skybytch 273]

You smoke weed and you didn't already know this?

[Gene03 0]

Been reading Jack Herer's website?

This info has been around for a long time.
Some people are just coming around as to how useful this plant was/is.
Hemp seeds are grown in Canada as a food and mineral source and are available at most large health food stores. Or mail order online. Ever heard of gruel? It is hemp seeds simmered up as one would oatmeal.

You can smoke a field full of commercial hemp and all you would get is a headache and a sore throat. Little to no THC present.
As far as rancid oil; cold pressing, no filtering and brown glass jars prevent light based degradation and keep the natural anti-oxidants in the oil.

The problem is big money would not have control of it and farmers would reap most of the profits if managed properly, as it should be.

Imagine that, grown men afraid of a plant.

“The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec quotes (Polish writer, poet and satirist 1906-1966)

[Gene03 0]

Damn Bill, you might try thinking outside the box sometimes, you'd be amazed what you can find.

Have you tried adding ground charcoal to your garden yet?

“The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec quotes (Polish writer, poet and satirist 1906-1966)

[kelpdiver 2]

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Hemp is indeed pretty useful stuff, but nutty expositions on how it's better than sliced bread will not help get it into widespread usage.

But it's great entertainment.

[johan420 0]

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You smoke weed and you didn't already know this?

who says i smoke weed???? ((((DOUBLE BIG ROLLING EYES))))

[Royd 0]

How are you going to get all of those hemp harvesters off the couch after lunch break?

[johan420 0]

i wonder who`s the smoker here....((more rolling eyes))