Hippie To Hip...

[greenbuddha]

Hemp can be used for a load of things... food, oil, paper, you name it... we've used it before for these things and if we got back to it we'd be a lot better off.

 

http://cannabisnews....read25589.shtml

[rambozo420]

I can't understand why it was outlawed in the first place.This cat covers quite a bit

[+Silverblue]

Someone had told me hemp was banned because the textile industry didn't want the competition. It makes sense, though we know it has other uses, sails were made of it, and that may be where it began. I've seen clothing made of it too. One time I had a book that listed many uses for it. Mainilla envelopes are made of it, too. I used to have paper made of it.

 

Silverblue

[bobandtorey]

I can't understand why it was outlawed in the first place.This cat covers quite a bit

 

 

thanks that was a great video

[+Dizledot]

A little Hemp history;

the full story can be found here;

http://www.thehempire.com/index.php/cannabis/cannabis_hemp/why_cannabis_is_illegal

In the USA vast quantities of cannabis were being grown for fibre, as well as being used medicinally, religiously and socially, without problem. However, pharmaceutical companies were patenting new drugs. Petrochemical companies were preparing to monopolise the fuel supplies and replace natural hemp products by synthetics such as plastics and nylon, as well as take control of the paper industry, and supply vast amounts of chemical fertilisers and pesticides to less sturdy crops such as cotton and tobacco. There was huge pressure to outlaw cannabis hemp and tycoons such as William Hearst (newspapers and timber), companies such as DuPont, and public servants such as Anslinger, worked together on a campaign which was to convince the public that smoking 'marijuana' (a racialist term they used to avoid associating it with the friendly cannabis plant), was likely to cause 'reefer madness' and lead to rape and murder. Anslinger told of plots by 'ginger haired niggers' to undermine society by spreading the cannabis 'addiction'. In the USA the Marijuana Transfer Tax banned cannabis as a crop.

 

This was pushed through the legislative processes quickly and without the knowledge of the American Medical Association which had long recognised cannabis as a medicine. In fact the only people who were able to attempt to oppose the law were the seed companies, which is why cannabis seed remained legal as bird food. Anslinger went on to control the attempts at eradicating hemp until he was eventually sacked by President John Kennedy, who was said to have used cannabis to ease back pains.

 

However, during the time World War II broke out, American policy had to change in order to produce the necessary fibre for war. 'Reefer Madness' was rapidly, but temporarily, dropped in favour of a 'Hemp for Victory' campaign and farmers were required to grow cannabis. After the war Anslinger continued to publicly campaign that cannabis drove people crazy and made them violent, right up until the Vietnam War when he then blamed cannabis for pacifying American troops.

 

The world-wide campaign against cannabis continues until the present day. Further International Treaties, such as the UN Single Drugs Convention of 1961, officially denied that cannabis had any therapeutic proprieties and classified it alongside highly addictive, toxic and dangerous drugs. Further changes in national laws, including, in Britain, the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, increased penalties, withdrew cannabis as a medicine, and banned its cultivation for any reason.

 

 

[Sledge]

Rambozo nice video/song. Had to lololol listening to and watching that video.

Check it out your avatar seems to be keeping perfect beat to the song lol.

Happy 420 everyone!