Qui Tacet Consentit
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He who is silent gives consent
Hemp for Victory Replace Petroleum Cannabis Sativa=Useful Plant
the herb pantagruelion - rabelais
Make the most of the Indian hemp seed, and sow it everywhere!
- George Washington - Note to the gardener at Mount Vernon, 1794
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
The Magic Weed
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The History and Uses Of Hemp
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Hempanol - Hempanol - Hempanol
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.
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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.
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 androngynous.
With all the problems in this country, what could the promise of
relegalization accomplish? Let's see. Maybe...
We'd be healthier...because the consumption of hemp oil products.
We'd be richer and freer. With the largest prison and jail pop on the
planet, legalization would free hundreds of thousands at a huge saving.
Safer, without the problems of the black market. More people are
arrested each and every year for pot than are for violent crimes.
Consider what police could do if they concentrated on real crimes?
Less pollution. By replacing petroleum products with Hempenol.
Happier
The Many Uses of Hemp
Did I write this a decade ago? You know the music.
I do have to add a Hempenol verse, now don't I.
"Keep The Mercedes"
I'd like to sing a song, of social and political import...
It goes something like this...........
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a legalized joint!
They say it's a bad thing, I don't see their point.
You made it to bless us, Please, may we anoint?
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a legalized joint?
Oh Lord, won't you help them get medical use,
For people that need it it's never abuse.
Arthritis to glaucoma, a fountain of youth.
Oh Lord won't you help us to get medical use?
Lord. Will you help us free brave men like Joe,
And Tom Brown and Michael,you know we miss them so.
They put them in prison, you said we should grow,
So Lord won't you help us free brave men like Joe.
And Lord, when will they learn the Drug War's a lie?
That all men are equal under your eye,
You judge them on character not if they get high.
So Lord, when will they see the Drug War's a lie!
Thank You, Thank You Very Much
Oops. After Congressed debated for a minute and a half and lynched Can-Hem-Mar in 1938, World War two brought the need to produce
Hemp for the War effort. That Hemp showed resilience and survives to this day as the famous ditch weed of the Midwest. The title shot of
the guvmint film shown farmers and the public shown is above
"Hemp for Victory" .
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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 Linoleic Acid to promote healing and well being. More ihan 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 forseven years eating just a hand full of seeds each day. The result was enlightenment.
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.
Historically China, Romania
and France have refused to cave in to Reefer
Madness and so have constantly grown Hemp. Ten years ago 18 country's
grew and today 38 nations produce Hemp products.
France exported Hemp for many years to the U.S., ironically, for paper for
Bibles. France has also pioneered Chanvre for housing. Hemp makes for
dandy bricks, while Africa has had aspirations for large houseing projects
with Hemp.
On the east coast hemp based linoleum floors can still be found, there is even anecdotal stories from Korea of hemp pots and pans used for cooking.
It really made my century when Dr. Bronners put hemp in it's immortal soap in 2000!
The most valuable of our crops, in quantity and value.
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.
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
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.
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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
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
Welcome to the tenth issue of The Vote Hemp Weekly News Update! A lot of major changes have happened in the past week, but will it be good for hemp? The lead story from North Dakota is Hemp-growing rules take step forward. Progress there has been slow, but steady. There is more good news as well. Roger Johnson, the Democratic candidate, has been re-elected as Agriculture Commissioner of North Dakota! Commissioner Johnson is also President Elect of the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA) for 2007. Interestingly enough Doug Goehring, the Republican candidate, also believes that farmers should be able to grow industrial hemp.
Considering that she only had six weeks to campaign and raise money, Republican Rep. Cynthia Thielen of Hawaii did extremely well to get 36% of the vote in her losing bid for the U.S. Senate. Cynthia was the sponsor of several successful hemp bills in the Hawaii legislature and has been a strong supporter of allowing U.S. farmers to grow hemp.
If you have been off in the Desolation Wilderness and have not heard the news the Democrats won the majority in both the U.S. House and Senate in last week's elections. They also won Governorships in 28 states.
In New Hampshire, where an industrial hemp farming bill has been pre-filed for 2007, Democrats regained control of the New Hampshire House for the first time since 1911. They also regained control of the Senate. We are hopeful that the new leadership will be supportive of industrial hemp farming legislation in New Hampshire.
Industrial hemp is an economic development and agricultural issue and we would not be where we are now without cooperation from all sides. Farmers, business people, and consumers in the U.S. should be able to profit from our large markets as well as the Canadians. The World-Spectator story below notes that 24,000 acres of industrial hemp was licensed in Canada in 2005. A draft Health Canada report shows an increase of over 100% in the 2006 growing season to just over 50,000 acres!
Will all of these changes will put Vote Hemp in a better position to try and pass pro-hemp legislation on the state and Federal level? We will need your help to continue our work and find out. Please make a contribution to Vote Hemp today to help us fix the situation here in the U.S.
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.
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.
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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.
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?
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.
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.
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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.
Hemp Is An Herb - Bush Is A Dope
