Hemp paper versus newspaper...

[KanMan]

Hemp paper versus newspaper. All three items in the picture were put in the frame behind glass in the 1990's at the same time. One newspaper article, two business cards. One business card is made of hemp. Two cracks in the glass cross right over the Highwear Hemp business card boxed in red.

The picture says the rest....

Good Kannabis Growing!

 

[Guest]

What picture?

 

[KanMan]

Click the Gallery button...

Here it is anyway

Good Kannabis Growing!

 

[Guest]

Wow... That is pretty interesting!

 

[KanMan]

I thought it was so too. Thought it was worth sharing.

Good Kannabis Growing!

 

[I.M. Boggled]

Pot for Paper: The Hemp Movement

Pot for Paper: The Hemp Movement

The Argument for Hemp Paper...

Dave Seber, in an interview for H.T.magazine, indicates that being in the "lumber business for almost 15 years now...I have watched the forests being taken out here." Seber has been a redwood logger and is presently president of C&S Lumber, a Research & Development organization in Oregon dedicated to finding replacement fibers for wood.

"As I see it," Seber says "we've got 10 to 20 years, tops, before the entire ecosystem, as we know it, will collapse because of what they are doing in these forests."
He goes on to suggest that the "environmental threat" to forests will worsen if no alternate fiber to wood is found.
And, as you probably guessed, he thinks hemp is the answer.

Carol Moran heads a company called Living Tree Paper Company in Eugene, Oregon. She, according to an article in ENN Online, is convinced that hemp can "single-handedly stop worldwidedeforestation"
Her company's magazine is even printed on non-tree hemp paper.

Further, Mary Kane, publisher of HempWorld, a quarterly journal of the hemp movement says that "eventually the DEA will be forced to relinquish the ban on hemp farming.
It's a plant that can provide alternatives to anything synthetic."
She further states that "hemp can save the world but we have to give it a chance."

It does seem that hemp is making a comeback almost everywhere except the United States.

Canada has made experimental hemp cultivation a policy.

China is a leading country in the production of hemp and hemp products. South Africa is growing hemp, New Zealand is growing hemp, Switzerland is growing hemp, and on and on. Projects in Kentucky and California were politically strangled, and hemp cultivation in the U.S. is a long time in coming, if ever.

In summary, the hemp movement feel that hemp fiber is more durable than wood and can be recycled more frequently than tree fiber.

Hemp produces a highly nutritious seed crop that can be of comparable value to the fiber crop.

Agriculturally grown hemp would fit well with natural forests and tree plantations.

The Argument Against Hemp Paper...

Detractors of the agricultural production of annual fiber from hemp farms are just as vocal as farmed fiber advocates.
Their own reasoning is that hemp farming is very demanding on the environment and would negate any possible benefits ascribed to it.
It would be cost prohibitive when compared to silvicultural production of fiber.
[silvicultural=The care and cultivation of forest trees.'

Any annual crop demands a period of establishment and reestablishment, during which the site has to be intensely cultivated and treated for weeds and pests.
This has to be repeated until the crop is properly established and done on an annual basis for crops like flax, wheat, cotton, or hemp.
Most tree species, even if grown on a fast rotation, would mean less site disturbance and have much less need for chemicals; Trees are more forgiving of site preparation, chemical support, and revisits after planting.

Large areas of cultivated fields would be necessary. This would, in itself, mean clearing land of trees and would comprise the best land in terms of fertility and topography. Irrigation would be come necessary in some areas for best production. Tending hemp would be expensive and would compete for land and other resources.

Dr. Patrick Moore writing on the subject on his web site Greenspirit indicates that "at least twice as much nutrient must be available in an easily assimilable form as will finally be removed from the soil by the leaf-free harvest".
Hemp is a nutrient sponge.
Crop rotation and the added expense of stripping leaves and flowers would be the desired method of nutrient replacement.
All this adds to increased disturbance of the site, the addition of either manure crops or chemical nutrients, and an increase in per acre expense.

The last little kink in the use of hemp for fiber is a significant concern called cost. According to Austrialia's NAFI and Heike Von Der Lancken , [SIZE=4]"hemp pulp costs $2,500 per ton as compared to $400 per ton for typical bleached wood pulp." [/SIZE]This would create the need for another farm subsidy to make costs match.

Valerie Vantreese, University of Kentucky's Department of Agricultural Economics, has written a very concise abstract based on a paper called International Hemp: Global Markets and Prices .
In the abstract she suggests that world hemp production is "dramatically" down from the early 1980's and is dominated by low-cost producers; China, India, and Russia produce 70% of the world supply.

Multinational fiber companies (Weyerhauser, Masonite, International Paper) interested in hemp as a source are well prepared to go to those locations to do business if there is a profit to be made.

Market risk to the US farmer (if he were allowed to grow hemp) may be prohibitive because of these cheaper international growers.
http://forestry.about.com/cs/alternativeforest//a/hemp_vs_wood.htm


Excerpt Regarding hemp and Dupont:
Source:
"The Emperor Wears No Clothes" by Jack Herer

Dupont established itself as the world leader in synthetic fibres, with such new inventions as Nylon and Raylon, with the aid of the global outlawing of one of the most useful natural fibres, hemp.

This was achieved in the US by the1937 Marijuana Transfer (Tax) Act, which was passed in the same year DuPont patented both nylon and the polluting wood-pulp sulfide (sulfur dioxide) process used to make paper.

The Act was the result of political pressure and a sustained propaganda campaign by du Pont and logging and oil companies.

Americans were familiar with hemp, which was widely grown and used as fibre, oil and paper, the propagandists began circulating stories of the dangers of the drug "Marijuana".

Marijuana was the Mexican word for cannabis used for it's racist conations and as an excuse to prohibit hemp, despite the fact that hemp cultivated as a fibre crop is a strain that contains less than thirtieth of the amounts of psychoactive compounds than cannabis bred for it's high.

Hemp produces four times as much paper as trees per acre and does not require the sulfur-based acid chemicals used to break down the glue-like lignin that binds the fibers of wood pulp.

Hemp would be a much less damaging way of making many of du Pont's products, but without them profiting, as this plant grows easily without chemicals and could not be patented.
Back in 1935, more than 58,000 tons of hemp seed alone, were used just to make non-toxic paint paint and varnish.

Why was Cannabis made illegal (ICMAG Thread)
http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=15727

Hemp paper doesn't require toxic bleaching chemicals. It can be whitened with hydrogen peroxide, which doesn't poison waterways as chloride and bleach--the chemicals used in making wood pulp paper...

Paper made from hemp lasts hundreds of years longer than wood-pulp paper, which decomposes and yellows with age.
Hemp paper resists decomposition and does not yellow with age.

The Library of Congress found that, "While the hemp paper in volumes 300-400 years old is still strong, 97% of the books, printed between 1900 and 1937 on tree paper, will be useable for less than 50 years." Hemp paper can be recycled 7 to 8 times, compared with only 3 times for wood pulp paper.

The USDA reported in 1916 that an acre of hemp produced as much paper as four acres of trees annually, yet 70% of American forests have been destroyed since 1916.
Today, though, tree farming is much more efficient...Hybrid poplars...etc.
http://www.hemphasis.net/0102hemppaper.htm

I own several magazines from the 1890's that I bought off of Ebay that are still in good to excellent condition, obviously printed on hemp paper.

 

[Guest]

Actually, good old Wm. Randolph Hearst was the main instigator to outlaw HEMP. He was the one who basically started the disinformation surrounding Cannabis. Dupont, at the time did not have the clout, nor money to attempt it alone.

Hearst, always looking for another way to make a buck, was approached by Dupont regarding a new way to make paper. Hearst initially rejected the idea due to cost. However, Dupont, who's many ideas and inventions were being shot down one after another because Hemp was cheaper and more efficient, offered Hearst exclusive rights to the Wood pulp process. Both Hearst & Dupont knew that Hemp would have to be outlawed in order for Wood pulp or any of Dupont's synthetic applications to ever make any money. Hearst accepted Dupont's offer and built two pulp/paper mills using the new technology - one on each coast. He began using them to supply his many newspapers and magazines with the paper produced.

After a year or so of working the bugs out of the new process, he began his well-planned operation to make Hemp illegal. Because processed Hemp, used successfully for years, was cheaper to grow and more efficient - He had to ensure that the plant itself was outlawed. The only thing that wasn't cheaper or money saving about hemp was the fact that people smoked it to relieve stress or used it topically for pain relief.

Hearst and Dupont contacted the few Pharmaceutical companies in existence at the time - (who obviously wanted people to buy their chemical remedies vice using free herbal ones) and together they devised a plan...

Using the many publications Hearst owned and controlled, various articles solely designed to scare the public began making headlines and cover stories. These stories described the outrageous, macabre, and violent actions that people committed as a result of smoking cannabis. Always containing "eyewitnesses" or verification by either Local Law Enforcement agencies, Doctors and Elected Officials, the general public began demanding something be done to stop these crimes against humanity.

Hearst, Dupont and several other leading businessmen also began a massive lobbying and bribery campaign designed to bring Washington over to their side as well. Accordingly, there was very little governmental opposition to making Hemp a controlled substance and eventually outlawing it all together....

The rest as they say, is history.

 

[HairlessCaveApe]

Thanks Gunns. I never herd bout the newspaper part of the plot.

 

[I.M. Boggled]

Those Sly Dogs... (Snakes in the grass)...puttin' in the fix...

Those Sly Dogs... (Snakes in the grass)...puttin' in the fix...

THE ANSLINGER-MELLON CONNECTION
In 1931, Anslinger got his job at the Bureau of Narcotics at the recommendation of a man named Mellon, who happened to be his wife's uncle. Mellon, also director of the Mellon Bank, was U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.
They/ he associated with other wealthy men such as William Randolph Hearst, Sr. and the DuPont brothers.

Hearst owned a chain of newspapers across the U.S. as well as a large lumber company.
The DuPont family had just patented a paper making process using wood pulp some years earlier.
As well, they had a new invention, a kind of synthetic cotton called nylon...

Why was Cannabis made illegal (ICMAG Thread)
http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=15727

 

[bad wizard]

as far as the paper thing yes hemp has less acid and is naturally a better paper for documents and art prints since it last ... if our constitution were printed on even well made wood paper we would be looking at copies by this point cause it would be scraps by now.

And as far as those muckraking yellow journalist. the way i heard is down on the texas border the local whites noticed the indigenous population was prone to congregate and partake in a little reefer in the evenings. they wanted a reason to be able to harrasse these folks so they used their weed smoking against them. so the border towns were the first to pass town or county ordinances against weed to supress these people. to justify they printed stories of the dangerous effects of the plant on the psyche and the probability of loss of civillity. so the stuff proved popular . Hurst the oppurtunist kept the propaganda going for bussiness opp's as said above, and of course to sell papers. just like anti alcohol reform swept america by the horror stories of alcohol printed in pamplets in the beginning it proved popular so the mainstream picked up on it then you have phenomenon.hence the other prohibition.

We need a sweeping phenomenon of positive truth these days.

 

[I.M. Boggled]

We need a sweeping phenomenon of positive truth these days.

Amen.