Have you read "The Emperor Wears No Clothes" by Jack Herer?
"If all fossil fuels and their derivatives, as well as trees for paper and construction were banned in order to save the planet, reverse the Greenhouse Effect and stop deforestation...
Then there is only one known annually renewable natural resource that is capable of providing the overall majority of the world?s paper and textiles; meeting all of the world?s transportation, industrial and home energy needs; simultaneously reducing pollution, rebuilding the soil, and cleaning the atmosphere all at the same time?
And that substance is?the same one that did it all before?
Cannabis Hemp?Marijuana!"
iT goes on to talk about the material's sustainability and how hemp textiles and clothes could easily last long enough to pass on to your grandchildren!
I had no idea! Imagine it used for upholstered furniture. You can also make strong pressed ply and particleboard type materials enough for it. Strong enough to use as beams for architecture and bridges. You can make paints and PVC pipe as well. Entire buildings and furniture pieces can be made of it and be made to last.
Its says that 50 percent of the world's chemicals are used for cotton. While marijuana plants are virtually free of pest enemies and grows so fast it doesn't need chemical help to harvest quickly. It's only enemy is the US government!
The marijuana legalization...
The marijuana legalization movement used this book as their bible back in the 80's and early 90's when they were on their hemp for "food, fuel and fiber" campaign.
When they realized they were making more headway on the medical marijuana front, they pretty much abandoned this credo. Still, though, its an interesting (if not one sided) read.
The plant, hemp,
versus the 'recreations pharmaceutical' plant, marijuana, is a very very useful plant. It was heavily used in earlier days. It's too bad that our gov't has chosen to only see the drug side of the plant and ignore its many many other very useful qualities.
I hope to see it back soon, the case for legalizing the 'drug' part of it is growing stronger, which bodes well for the plant to resurge as a raw construction material. As a bonafide 'greenie' I'd love to see that happen...
Yeah, I tend to think too...
Yeah, I tend to think too that the enemy may not be exactly who you would think. Not that the enemy couldn't be the US government, but I sense the major money and the interests involved probably makes it way more complicated than it seems it should be.
Just as
we have General Motors (and some friends in the fuel and rubber industries) to thank for the dismantling of America's thriving inter- and intra-urban railways in the 'twenties and 'thirties, so too are there forces in the alcohol business who have fought the legalization of marijuana. Or so I've been told. . .
Flag-waving patriots (or is that Constitution-waving) love to talk about American business' supposed dependence on competition -- but hey, if you can eliminate the competition, so much the better -- for you !
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