HEMP..............better known as Marijuana..............used to
be given out as a medicine..............
Marijuana
is a great danger to the oil, alcohol, tobacco industries, chemical
and pharmaceutical companies. They have suppressed the truth from
the people. If marijuana was utilized for its vast array of
commercial products, it would ruin their companies.
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Henry Ford’s first Model-T was built to RUN ON HEMP FUEL and the
car itself was CONSTRUCTED FROM HEMP !!! On his large estate, Ford
was photographed among his hemp fields. The car had hemp plastic
panels whose impact strength was 10 TIMES STRONGER THAN
STEEL!!!
The
facts cited here, are verifiable in the Encyclopedia
Britannica which was printed on hemp paper for 150 years
:
1)
All schoolbooks were made from hemp or flax paper.
2) It
was legal to pay taxes with hemp in America from 1631 until the
early 1800s.
3)
Refusing to grow hemp in America during the 17th and 18th centuries
was against the law!
4)
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and other
founding fathers grew hemp.
5)
For thousands of years, 90% of ships’ sails and rope were made of
hemp. The word ‘canvas’ is Dutch for cannabis.
6)
80% of all textiles, fabrics, clothes, linen, drapes, bed sheets,
etc., were made from hemp until the 1820s.
7)
The first crop grown in many states was hemp. Hemp was the largest
cash crop until the 20th century.
8) In
1916, the U.S. Government predicted that by the 1940s all paper
would come from hemp. Since 1 acre of hemp equals 4.1 acres of
trees, plans were in the works to implement such
programs.
9)
Quality paints and varnishes were made from hemp seed oil until
1937.
10)
In 1938, hemp was called ‘Billion-Dollar Crop.’ the first time a
cash crop had business potential to exceed a billion
dollars.
11)
Mechanical Engineering Magazine (Feb. 1938) published an
article entitled ‘The Most Profitable and Desirable Crop that Can
be Grown.’ It stated that if hemp would be the single largest
agricultural crop in the U.S. and the world.
12)
US Department of Agriculture in 1942 encouraged ‘patriotic American
farmers’ to grow 350,000 acres of hemp each year for the war
effort.
From
Popular Mechanics, February 1938:
“It
has a short growing season and can be grown in any state… Hemp can
add immeasurably to American agriculture and industry.”
In
the 1930s, innovations in farm machinery would have caused an
industrial revolution when applied to hemp. This single resource
could have created millions of new jobs generating thousands of
quality products.
Hemp,
if not made illegal, would have brought America out of the Great
Depression.
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The Hearst Paper Manufacturing Division owned vast acreage of
timberlands. The Hearst Company supplied most of the paper products
and stood to lose billions because of hemp.
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In 1937, DuPont patented the processes to make plastics from oil
and coal. Synthetics such as plastics, cellophane, celluloid,
methanol, nylon, rayon, Dacron, etc., could now be made from oil.
Natural hemp industrialization would have ruined DuPont.
Crude Oil can be replaced by Hemp Oil...............
Plastics made from Hemp is naturally
bio-degradeable..............
Hemp is of far better quality than wood and grows far
quicker...........a perfect source for paper.......
Hemp seeds are incredibly healthy to the
body................
Clothes made from Hemp are so durable, you can pass to your
children............