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Hemp for VICTORY-US Government asks farmers to grow it!

Gypsy Nirvana

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Hemp for Victory - Entire Film - US Government asks farmers to grow it

Produced by the US Government in 1942...Interesting to learn that Dupont Chemical funded the anti- hemp / marijuana effort. This is because they had patents on new synthetic fibers and Hemp had a new machine that would put them out of business if hemp were to be used for clothes.

Dupont also sold - and still does many of the chemicals to wood pulp producers... so we continue to cut down forests... when Hemp could save millions of trees, be used as an alternative bio fuel and the US could easily grow enough hemp to eliminate the need for oil.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p52Epx6lJes

*This is a 'MUST WATCH MOVIE'....
 

tleaf jr.

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Yes i have seen this vid...hell the sails ropes and clothes of the ship mates sailing to the new world were all made of hemp.. many farmers were encouraged to grow this strong fiber
 

Stoner4Life

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hemp has huge potential in the construction business, makes awesome fiberboard & plywood products & lots more that would reduce the destruction of forest lands. living in the north woods I get to see many logging trucks running the roads here, it borders on being sad.


 

Pinball Wizard

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My dad grew hemp during WWII. They planted it along the fence row; 10 feet out so that it did not interfere with the corn crop.

10 feet wide, 15 feet tall; as far as the eye could see..(taller than the corn which fed a lot people, made a lot of rope).
 

Gypsy Nirvana

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Many years ago Jack Herer told me about how cannabis had been demonized by the US government for the benefit of big corporations/businesses...

This wonderful plant, with so many uses, that has been so important to many civilizations thru thousands of years of history was banned because it threatened the profits of the lumber(paper), cotton, synthetic textiles, oil and pharmaceutical industries....and they did it specifically by concentrating their false propaganda on the drug cultivar varieties of cannabis.
 

Gypsy Nirvana

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Yup you nailed it don't forget good old tobacco

Yes, you are right, they didn't want anyone smoking anything but tobacco......another huge industry that stood to loose profits if people decided to smoke cannabis, instead of tobacco.
 

Aether

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Hemp for Victory - Entire Film - US Government asks farmers to grow it

Dupont also sold - and still does many of the chemicals to wood pulp producers... so we continue to cut down forests... when Hemp could save millions of trees, be used as an alternative bio fuel and the US could easily grow enough hemp to eliminate the need for oil.

That's an interesting documentary, thx!
Although there are downsides in hemp farming also, especially if grown for paper pulp or gasoline...well, atleast compared to some other biomaterials. Perennial willow (Salix) and eucalyptus tree are good alternatives to annual crops like hemp, because there are less need for inputs like fertilizers, agricultural deeds with machines...and that means less load for the environment!

But of course hemp fibre is important for specialty paper producers like smoking paper and condensator paper industries...

Hemp is also problematic when grown for gasoline because those crops could have been grown for high quality hemp protein food. There are better alternatives. Although there is an interesting application where hemp biodiesel is produced in a laboratory from a hemp seedcake with a help from a Himalayan yeast extract...
 

Gry

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Just did watch the film on Jack Herer in post # 11 by gypsy. An hour well spent.
 

Payaso

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Thanks for posting these videos Gypsy! Great stuff to watch on a cold rainy day.
 

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