Every problem has a hemp solution


Jack Herer
Towards Our Greener Future - Hemptopia!

      

"Avoir de la corde-de-pendu dans sa poche" [Translated: "To have some hemp in your pocket"] - a popular French idiom meaning "to have luck on your side in the most adverse circumstances." - Anonymous - French phrase

 
the herb pantagruelion - rabelais
"May 12-13: Sowed Hemp at Muddy hole by Swamp. August 7: Began to separate the Male from the Female at Do - rather too late." - George Washington

 

"What was done with the seed saved from the India Hemp last summer? It ought, all of it, to have been sewn again; that not only a stock of seed sufficient for my own purposes might have been raised, but to have disseminated the seed to others; as it is more valuable than the common Hemp." - George Washington

 

The more I look into the detailed history of hemp in this country, the more I realize the basic question again boils down to destroying the economic base of all indigenous, good people in the world  - John

"Hemp is not illegal because of marijuana; marijuana is illegal because of hemp. In the same sense, marijuana is not illegal because it is dangerous; marijuana is dangerous because it is illegal!" - Glenwood Smith

The illegality of marijuana rests less on what it is than what it represents: nature, dissent, introspection. It's not marijuana the mildly psychotropic weed we condemn, but marijuana the nemesis of the state -- Ronald Reagan Jr., TV commentator

 

Hempseed contains 30% (by volume) oil. This oil has been used to make high-grade diesel fuel and aircraft engine and precision machine oil.

 

 

 

 

Thomas Jefferson, while envoy to France, went to great expense and even considerable risk to himself and his secret agents to procure particularly good hemp seeds smuggled illegally into Turkey from China. The Chinese Mandarins (political rulers) so valued their hemp seeds that they made their exportation a capital offense - Jack Herer

      

 The hemp plant is botanically quite advanced; some plants are male, some are female, and some are androgynous. Most species in the plant kingdom are merely androgynous  - United States Dispensatory  1851

      The Many Uses of Hemp

           

 

"Hemp for Victory"

 

Hemp seeds are highly nutritious. It has a higher quality protean that even soybeans. Number one in Linoleic Acid, and in the top five for Linolenic Acid to promote healing and well being.  More than a hundred years ago an Australian Famine caused starvation yet to be stopped by when marijuana. Gruel was originally made from hemp. The Buddha is said to have fasted for seven years eating just a hand full of seeds each day. The result was enlightenment

Clears radiation and heavy metals from polluted soil

 

A strong durable fiber for warm clothing, Washington's troops would not have survived the Valley Forge without it. After criminalization many immigrants were found to have hemp gardens from which they made clothes, in fact, the oldest known human artifact is a piece of hemp cloth found to date back more than 6,000 years.

                                              

 

 There is no record that the pilgrims brought marijuana with them to Plymouth, but the Jamestown settlers did bring the plant to Virginia in1611, and cultivated it for its fiber. Marijuana was introduced into New England in 1629. From then until after the Civil War, the marijuana plant was a major crop in North America, and played an important role in both colonial and national economic policy. In 1762, ‘Virginia awarded bounties for hemp culture and manufacture, and                                                                                                                                                                           

 

 

 

The most valuable of our crops, in quantity and value - Kentucky Hemp Farmer 1856

We must also staisfy the canary bird seed trade, and the Sherwin Williams Paint Company, which uses hemp seed oil for drying purposes. We are now working with the Department of Commerce in finding substitutes for the legitimate trade, and after that is accomplished, the path will be cleared for the treaties and for federal law.

The more I look into the detailed history of hemp in this country, the more I realize the basic question again boils down to destroying the economic base of all indigenous, good people in the world -- John Splitting-the-sky Hill, 1991

The best hemp and the best tobacco grow on the same kind of soil. The former article is of first necessity to the commerce and marine, in other words to the wealth and protection of the country. The latter, never useful and sometimes pernicious, derives its estimation from caprice.-- Thomas Jefferson, journal, March 16, 1791

Hempseed is used in all the Oriental nations and also part of Russia as food. It is grown in their fields and used as oatmeal. Millions of people every day are using hempseed in the Orient as food. They have been doing this for many generations, especially in periods of famine. -- US National Institute of Oilseed Products, 1937

Creates Biodegradable Plastic

 

Hemp: "To have some hemp in your pocket." To have luck on your side in the most adverse circumstances. The phrase is French ("Avoir de la corde-de-pendu dans sa poche"), referring to the popular notion that hemp brings good luck.

From the Brewer Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, originally published in 1895, reissued in 1993 by Wordsworth Editions

American farmers are promised a new cash crop with an annual value

of several hundred million dollars.... It is hemp. -- Popular Mechanics, 1938

 

Every tract of 10,000 acres which is devoted to hemp raising year by year is equivalent to a sustained pulp producing capacity of 40,500 acres of average wood-pulp lands.

Hempmuseum Berlin

 

Hemp is the standard fiber of the world. It has great tensile strength and durability. It is used to produce more than 5,000 textile products, ranging from rope to fine laces, and the woody "hurds" remaining after the fiber has been removed contain more than seventy-seven percent cellulose, and can be used to produce more than 25,000 products, ranging from dynamite to Cellophane - Popular Mechanics, "Billion Dollar Crop," February 1938

                                                                                      

 What was done with the seed saved from the India Hemp last summer? It ought, all of it, to have been sewn again; that not only a stock of seed sufficient for my own purposes might have been raised, but to have disseminated the seed to others; as it is more valuable than the common Hemp

- George Washington: Writings of Washington, Vol. 35, pg. 72

Recent floods and dust storms have given warnings against the destruction of timber. Possibly, the hitherto waste products of flax and hemp may yet meet a good part of that need, especially in the plastics field which is growing by leaps and bounds

- Mechanical Engineering, February 1937

In January the American Farm Bureau, the largest  farm group, withdrew its support for research into hemp. Delegates cited law-enforcement concerns and said they didn't want to be linked with groups like the National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws

 

www.hempology.org

Hemp flourishes even to rankness,

we do not want for cordage.

Grasshoppers, however, are affected by feeding on marijuana. In Czechoslovakia I met an old hemp farmer who told me tales of grasshoppers that could jump to spectacular heights because of marijuana. -- Ronald K. Siegel, Ph.D.: Intoxication

Here the mighty hemp plant enters as saviour of the moor lands. It grows quick and large and helps to cultivate the land.

Just as in the days when Old Ironsides sailed the seas victorious with her hempen shrouds and hempen sails... HEMP FOR VICTORY!

True, the Founding Fathers had provided for a specific right to bear arms, but the only reason they'd nothing to say to about the right to plant seeds (was)... because it never would have occurred to them that any state might care to abridge that right. After all, they were writing on hemp paper.-- Michael Pollan, quoting California flower grower, Will Fulton. Harper's Magazine, April 1997

     

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A 44-gun frigate like our cherished 'Old Ironsides' took over 60 tons of hemp for rigging, including an anchor cable 25 inches in circumference. The Conestoga wagons and prairie schooners of pioneer days were covered with hemp canvas. Indeed the very word canvas comes from the Arabic word for hemp. In those days hemp was an important crop in Kentucky and Missouri.-- "Hemp For Victory," USDA film, 1942

  

                                       So, a Marihuana Tax Act was introduced and presently enacted as Federal law. And the foundation was thus laid for a racket that should quite eclipse even the billion-dollar illicit drug industry that the Harrison Act (as misinterpreted) developed and fostered. For the new drug has qualities that put it in a class by itself. For example: Marijuana, despite its high-sounding name, is merely a product of the familiar hemp plant - an agricultural product to which (according to statements made before the Congressional committee) upward of 10,000 acres of land in the United States are devoted.-- Doctor Henry Smith Williams, "Drug Addicts are Human Beings," 1938

Benjamin Franklin started one of America's first paper mills with cannabis. This allowed America to have a free colonial press without having to beg or justify paper and books from England.-- Jack Herer, "The Emperor Wears No Clothes"

 

Without this herb millers would not carry wheat to the mill, or carry flour away. Without it, how could advocates pleadings be brought to the sessions hall? How could plaster be carried to the workshop without it? Without it, how could water be drawn from the well? What would scribes, copyists, secretaries, and writers do without it? Would not official documents and rent-rolls disappear? Would not the noble art of printing perish? What would window screens be made of? How would church bells be rung?-- Francois Rabelais, "The Herb Pantagruelion," 1546

 

Cannabis was originally classified as a member of the nettle family (Urticaceae) and then of the mulberry family (Moraceae). It is now considered most closely related to the hop plant, and is thus a cousin of the fig tree  - Peter Stafford, "Psychedelics Encyclopedia," 1978

Hempseed I sow, Hempseed, grow.
He that is to marry me, Come after me and mow.

The seeds are chiefly used as a favorite food for birds. In fact, some birds consume them to excess, which should lead us to suspect that these seeds, although they cannot intoxicate us, have a narcotic effect on the feathered creatures, making them dream of a happy birdland where there are no gilded cages, and where men are gunless and women hatless. -- Victor Robinson, MD, Concerning Cannabis Indica, Ciba Symposium, 1946

Slave labor was used to a large extent in the manufacture of hemp, the Negroes being owned by the operator of the business or hired by him for a period of time. In either case the task work plan was used to promote diligence, and the slave who applied himself could earn in the 1850's two or three dollars per week which he was free to spend as he chose.

 We predict that the net effect of ending American hemp prohibition will be to generate "ripple effect" economics - a revitalized American agriculture, producing hemp as the raw material for a multitude of industries, creating millions of good jobs for skilled and semi-skilled professional workers throughout America. The resulting wealth will remain in local communities and with farmers, smaller businesses and entrepreneurs - Herer

           

 

 

 

Industrial Hemp Resources

The connection of hemp as a crop and marijuana seems to be exaggerated. The drug is usually produced from wild hemp or loco weed which can be found on vacant lots and along railroad tracks in every state   - Popular Mechanics, "Billion Dollar Crop," February 1938

      

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