Hemp

[Angelicpower]

HEMP AND HUMAN HISTORY

In 1937, the American economy was on the verge of a revolutionary transition into a new, agriculturally based energy era as the result of a breakthrough in agricultural technology. This innovation held the promise of reviving the failing national economy and propelling America and the world into a new era of prosperity. The development that was causing all the excitement was the invention of a mechanical method of processing hemp, a domesticated fibrous plant used as a raw material in numerous branches of industry since ancient times. Hemp is an essential human resource that has been used since at least 10,000 BC for a vast variety of essential life-support functions. This unique plant is technically named Cannabis sativa. It was commonly called “Indian hemp” in the 19th century, but is usually called “marijuana” today. This plant is the most efficient known source for cellulose, which makes up 77% of its mass. Hemp is the source of the strongest and most durable of vegetable fibers. Every part of the hemp plant — root, stalk, leaf, flower, seed, pollen, resin — has been used by humans since the dawn of history for industrial, medicinal, religious, and culinary purposes. A partial list of products that have been made from hemp would include: •food •shelter•clothing•medicines•fuel oils•alcohol fuels•paper•plastics•rope•rugs•canvas (the word “canvas” derives from cannabis, the botanical name for hemp). The shipping industry has used hemp since its earliest beginnings to make the sails, ropes, and sealants that made transportation and travel possible for the ancient world. As in other lands, the United States depended on hemp since Colonial times. Hemp was the single most essential American economic commodity from the time of the founding of the Jamestown colony through the early 20th century. Early Americans used hemp for lamp oil, paints and varnishes, and hundreds of other products. Colonists made their clothing from homespun hemp-cloth produced in community “spinning bees”. Hemp sails and ropes were used by the U.S. Navy from its inception and up to World War II. The famous U.S.S. Constitution (also known as “Old Ironsides”) used over 60 tons of hemp. The canvas coverings of the Conestoga wagons, the legendary flag stitched by Betsy Ross, the paper used for the first drafts of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, the pamphlets of Thomas Paine, the newspapers of Benjamin Franklin, and the saddlebags and blankets used by Paul Revere on his famous “midnight ride”...all were products made from the cannabis/hemp (marijuana) plant.

[N[U]TS]

Learn somthing new every day :corn

[Glowpole]

NOW THATS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT#@!@@##!@#! GANJA HAS MILLIONS OF USES EXCEPT 2 SMOKE IT AND SO **** YOU UNCLE SAM!@!


angelic you just got 50 rep points

[Bret]

You have only proved hemp has been used for other reasons other than to destory brain cells.
I don't know if you are trying to prove that hemp should be legalized, but if you're planning on making ropes I wouldn't consider hemp to be a strong enough product compair to what we can make now. The only useful purpose for hemp, now, would be paper use. But then you'd probably have pot heads trying to smoke paper. =\
Personally, I hope they never do make hemp legal and that they do keep it pushed down as far as it can go. Pot heads are worthless in this society, and if you don't believe me go to Burger King/Mcdonalds/Wend'ys or any other fast food restaurant and ask some 40 year old why he still works there. And just watch how that person handles him/her-self. Despite the fact their reaction time is slower than a 57k modem, they can't for the love of god progress up the ladder because of their poor logic and reasoning skills.

[N[U]TS]

Originally Posted by PauseBreak

You have only proved hemp has been used for other reasons other than to destory brain cells.
I don't know if you are trying to prove that hemp should be legalized, but if you're planning on making ropes I wouldn't consider hemp to be a strong enough product compair to what we can make now. The only useful purpose for hemp, now, would be paper use. But then you'd probably have pot heads trying to smoke paper. =\
Personally, I hope they never do make hemp legal and that they do keep it pushed down as far as it can go. Pot heads are worthless in this society, and if you don't believe me go to Burger King/Mcdonalds/Wend'ys or any other fast food restaurant and ask some 40 year old why he still works there. And just watch how that person handles him/her-self. Despite the fact their reaction time is slower than a 57k modem, they can't for the love of god progress up the ladder because of their poor logic and reasoning skills.

angelic is just stating a fact. if she ment anthing else by it well i presume she would have. smoking hemp is your own personal choice, personally i think they should just go ahead and legalize the damn stuff. crime rate might take a dip since most crime is based off of trying to get money to buy drugs etc.

[Angelicpower]

Originally Posted by PauseBreak

You have only proved hemp has been used for other reasons other than to destory brain cells.
I don't know if you are trying to prove that hemp should be legalized, but if you're planning on making ropes I wouldn't consider hemp to be a strong enough product compair to what we can make now. The only useful purpose for hemp, now, would be paper use. But then you'd probably have pot heads trying to smoke paper. =\
Personally, I hope they never do make hemp legal and that they do keep it pushed down as far as it can go. Pot heads are worthless in this society, and if you don't believe me go to Burger King/Mcdonalds/Wend'ys or any other fast food restaurant and ask some 40 year old why he still works there. And just watch how that person handles him/her-self. Despite the fact their reaction time is slower than a 57k modem, they can't for the love of god progress up the ladder because of their poor logic and reasoning skills.

You really have no idea how far marijuana users can go! There are doc's and nurse's who use marijuana as well as lawyers. There are even cops who smoke the wacky tobacky. Hemp was legal at one point, they even fined farmers if they didn't grow a certain amount of hemp!

[Glowpole]

Originally Posted by PauseBreak

You have only proved hemp has been used for other reasons other than to destory brain cells.
I don't know if you are trying to prove that hemp should be legalized, but if you're planning on making ropes I wouldn't consider hemp to be a strong enough product compair to what we can make now. The only useful purpose for hemp, now, would be paper use. But then you'd probably have pot heads trying to smoke paper. =\
Personally, I hope they never do make hemp legal and that they do keep it pushed down as far as it can go. Pot heads are worthless in this society, and if you don't believe me go to Burger King/Mcdonalds/Wend'ys or any other fast food restaurant and ask some 40 year old why he still works there. And just watch how that person handles him/her-self. Despite the fact their reaction time is slower than a 57k modem, they can't for the love of god progress up the ladder because of their poor logic and reasoning skills.

Di you know that amsterdamn has the second lowest crime/theft rate in the world...er...at least I think.


I mean everyone here really thinks I'm just a crazy dope head that put on this world for a few cheap laughs.
**** I can be civilized and go back to correct my grammer and make sure everything fits and blah blah blah...

Man I wish everyone could see my perpective..this would be alot easier explaining..everything in this world can be abused from drugs 2 candy 2 porn.

Everything that exsist can be abused in some ways or another. So why take away other peoples pleasures becuase of one dickhead who made a damn implant on everyone's head that pot is evil and it will make you go crazy and kill people.. spare me

[Zerglite]

Products with hemp are legal

but simply smoking joints shouldnt be legal, IMO.

EX.

http://www.australiangold.com/products/bearlylegal.asp

[Glowpole]

Yea I found out recently that hemp/thc was in suntain lotion....how bizarr

[SweatyOgre]

Originally Posted by Angelicpower

HEMP AND HUMAN HISTORY

In 1937, the American economy was on the verge of a revolutionary transition into a new, agriculturally based energy era as the result of a breakthrough in agricultural technology. This innovation held the promise of reviving the failing national economy and propelling America and the world into a new era of prosperity. The development that was causing all the excitement was the invention of a mechanical method of processing hemp, a domesticated fibrous plant used as a raw material in numerous branches of industry since ancient times. Hemp is an essential human resource that has been used since at least 10,000 BC for a vast variety of essential life-support functions. This unique plant is technically named Cannabis sativa. It was commonly called “Indian hemp” in the 19th century, but is usually called “marijuana” today. This plant is the most efficient known source for cellulose, which makes up 77% of its mass. Hemp is the source of the strongest and most durable of vegetable fibers. Every part of the hemp plant — root, stalk, leaf, flower, seed, pollen, resin — has been used by humans since the dawn of history for industrial, medicinal, religious, and culinary purposes. A partial list of products that have been made from hemp would include: •food •shelter•clothing•medicines•fuel oils•alcohol fuels•paper•plastics•rope•rugs•canvas (the word “canvas” derives from cannabis, the botanical name for hemp). The shipping industry has used hemp since its earliest beginnings to make the sails, ropes, and sealants that made transportation and travel possible for the ancient world. As in other lands, the United States depended on hemp since Colonial times. Hemp was the single most essential American economic commodity from the time of the founding of the Jamestown colony through the early 20th century. Early Americans used hemp for lamp oil, paints and varnishes, and hundreds of other products. Colonists made their clothing from homespun hemp-cloth produced in community “spinning bees”. Hemp sails and ropes were used by the U.S. Navy from its inception and up to World War II. The famous U.S.S. Constitution (also known as “Old Ironsides”) used over 60 tons of hemp. The canvas coverings of the Conestoga wagons, the legendary flag stitched by Betsy Ross, the paper used for the first drafts of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, the pamphlets of Thomas Paine, the newspapers of Benjamin Franklin, and the saddlebags and blankets used by Paul Revere on his famous “midnight ride”...all were products made from the cannabis/hemp (marijuana) plant.

I just read that while high, and it blew my ****ing mind.

[Ashigaru]

This **** belongs in the asylum. Nice copy and paste :frustrate

[_CM]

you lost me at "American economy"

[Tipsy]

Originally Posted by Angelicpower

Hemp was the single most essential American economic commodity from the time of the founding of the Jamestown colony through the early 20th century.

I have to disagree with your article on this point. Hemp being the most important economic commodity since colonial times? I'm going to have to go with tobacco for the 'colonial times' part. Tobacco caused an economic surge in the whole Chesapeake area, this led to more and more people wanting to farm it, causing a quickened pace in moving westward, which created a labor shortage leading to the importation of massive numbers of indentured servants, eventually leading to slavery when prices went down and indentured servants became harder to manage. I don't know about you, but this seems to effect the colonial American economy quite a bit more than hemp did.

I am in no way denying that hemp has been used and will be used with very positive effects on the society around it economically, but whoever wrote that article is greatly over exaggerating the importance of hemp. Single most essential? There have been multiple other products which have caused much more help to the American economy over different period of times than hemp, the most obvious example I just wrote about.

Single most essential American economic commodity since the founding of Jamestown? I think not.

[Angelicpower]

1619 A. D. In James town Colony, Virginia farmers were ordered by law to grow Indian Hemp.
1631 A. D. In Massachusetts farmers were ordered by law to grow Indian Hemp.
1632 A. D. In Connecticut farmers were ordered by law to grow Indian Hemp.
1763 - 1767 A. D. In Virginia you could be jailed, if you were a farmer, for not growing hemp during times of shortage (sounds like hemp was pretty important with all these laws to grow it)
1850 A. D. The U.S. census counted 8,327 hemp plantations that had at least 2000 acres of land or more.
1902 A. D. "In Nebraska, where the [hemp] industry is being established, a new and important step has been taken in cutting the crop with an ordinary mowing machine. A simple attachment which bends the stalks over in the direction in which the machine is going facilitates the cutting... The cost of cutting hemp in this manner is 50 cents per acre, as compared with $3 to $4 per acre, the rates paid for cutting by hand in Kentucky." USDA. 1902.
1942 A. D. The U. S. government distributes 400,000 lb.. (pounds) of cannabis hemp seed to American farmers from Wisconsin to Kentucky.
Hemp for Victory - 1942 Long ago when these ancient Grecian temples were new, hemp was already old in the service of mankind. For thousands of years, even then, this plant had been grown for cordage and cloth in China and elsewhere in the East. For centuries prior to about 1850 all the ships that sailed the western seas were rigged with hempen rope and sails. For the sailor, no less than the hangman hemp was indispensable.
1942-1946 A. D. American farmers produced 42,000 tons of hemp fiber per year.

[Tipsy]

None of that even outweighs what my original post even said. Apparently I’m going to have to go look up exact numbers instead of using memory. Let’s go back to my last post:

Originally Posted by Tipsy

Tobacco caused an economic surge in the whole Chesapeake area

“It was the "staple" of the Chesapeake colonies in a broader sense than any other staple the world has known. For, in the ancient province, all the processes of government society and domestic life began and ended with tobacco

They began to plant it in every available clearing, from fields to the forts and streets of Jamestown, and eventually to much of Tidewater Virginia. "Dominating the Virginia economy after 1622, tobacco remained the staple of the Chesapeake colonies, and its phenomenal rise is one of the most remarkable aspects of our colonial history.

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As gold and silver became scarce, and the use of wampum was terminated because of its complications, the Chesapeake colonies were able to rely on tobacco as a means of currency. Tobacco was the safest and most stable currency that the Chesapeake colonies had or could have, and it always had a value in exchange for gold.

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Tobacco also affected the government as all laws were made more or less with reference to it: to protect it, and to maintain its value in price, so that many of the civil and some of the criminal processes, were affected by it…

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Certainly the success of tobacco cultivation brought economic prosperity to the Chesapeake colonies. Without tobacco, it can be argued, the colonists might have been left to subsistence farming and had little if any opportunity for economic growth independent of England.

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Until 1883, tobacco excise tax accounted for one third of internal revenue collected by the United States government.”

So it dominated the economy, became the currency, was a dominant force in making multiple laws, and even saved the colony. Anything compare to this alone from your post?

Originally Posted by Tipsy

this led to more and more people wanting to farm

“As the tobacco colonies' populations increased, so did their production of tobacco. With the rise in production of the staple crop, exports to England rose drastically. Imports of tobacco into England increased from 60,000 pounds in 1622 to 500,000 pounds in 1628, and to 1,500,000 pounds in 1639. By the end of the seventeenth century, England was importing more than 20,000,000 pounds of colonial tobacco per year.”

Originally Posted by Tipsy

causing a quickened pace in moving westward

“The notion that "America was built on tobacco" is quite accurate; and the initial colonial expansion, fueled by the desire to increase tobacco production, caused the first colonial conflicts with Native Americans.”

Originally Posted by Tipsy

which created a labor shortage leading to the importation of massive numbers of indentured servants, eventually leading to slavery when prices went down and indentured servants became harder to manage.

“With the success of tobacco planting, African Slavery was legalized in Virginia and Maryland, becoming the foundation of the Southern agrarian economy.

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Although the number of African American slaves grew slowly at first, by the 1680s they had become essential to the economy of Virginia. During the 17th and 18th centuries, African American slaves lived in all of England’s North American colonies. Before Great Britain prohibited its subjects from participating in the slave trade, between 600,000 and 650,000 Africans had been forcibly transported to North America.

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“…slave labor accounted for 80% of the labor in Virginia”

So, being responsible for introducing a labor force of roughly 600,000 slaves (combined with the already brought 100,000 indentured servants) which accounted for 80% of the labor in Virginia, do you still believe hemp was more important?

I have seen nothing that you have said that has outweighed the importance of hemp over tobacco in the colonies. I have done nothing except stood by the exact lines I used in my last post. I was able to condense this entire post into what was one four line sentence, but since you insisted I pointed out the documented facts behind them. This alone should disprove the statement I originally quoted saying that “Hemp was the single most essential American economic commodity from the time of the founding of the Jamestown colony through the early 20th century.”

I regret having to make such a long post to prove such a simple point.

[Angelicpower]

I am not trying to debate anything here..just stating facts about something alot know nothing of. Most think that hemp and pot have been illegal always in this country..but not so. They were forced to growit at a point and fined if not growing enough. Making it illegal was based off of all lies!

MARIJUANA is DANGEROUS. Pot is NOT harmful to the human body or mind. Marijuana does NOT pose a threat to the general public. Marijuana is very much a danger to the oil companies, alcohol, tobacco industries and a large number of chemical corporations. Various big businesses, with plenty of dollars and influence, have suppressed the truth from the people. The truth is if marijuana was utilized for its vast array of commercial products, it would create an industrial atomic bomb! Entrepreneurs have not been educated on the product potential of pot. The super rich have conspired to spread misinformation about an extremely versatile plant that, if used properly, would ruin their companies. Where did the word 'marijuana' come from? In the mid 1930s, the M-word was created to tarnish the good image and phenomenal history of the hemp plant...as you will read. The facts cited here, with references, are generally verifiable in the Encyclopedia Britannica which was printed on hemp paper for 150 years:
* All schoolbooks were made from hemp or flax paper until the 1880s; Hemp Paper Reconsidered, Jack Frazier, 1974.
* It was LEGAL TO PAY TAXES WITH HEMP in America from 1631 until the early 1800s; LA Times, Aug. 12, 1981.
* REFUSING TO GROW HEMP in America during the 17th and 18th Centuries WAS AGAINST THE LAW! You could be jailed in Virginia for refusing to grow hemp from 1763 to 1769; Hemp in Colonial Virginia, G. M. Herdon.
* George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and other founding fathers GREW HEMP; Washington and Jefferson Diaries. Jefferson smuggled hemp seeds from China to France then to America.
* Benjamin Franklin owned one of the first paper mills in America and it processed hemp. Also, the War of 1812 was fought over hemp. Napoleon wanted to cut off Moscow's export to England; Emperor Wears No Clothes, Jack Herer.
* For thousands of years, 90% of all ships' sails and rope were made from hemp. The word 'canvas' is Dutch for cannabis; Webster's New World Dictionary.
* 80% of all textiles, fabrics, clothes, linen, drapes, bed sheets, etc. were made from hemp until the 1820s with the introduction of the cotton gin.
* The first Bibles, maps, charts, Betsy Ross's flag, the first drafts of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were made from hemp; U.S. Government Archives.
* The first crop grown in many states was hemp. 1850 was a peak year for Kentucky producing 40,000 tons. Hemp was the largest cash crop until the 20th Century; State Archives.
* Oldest known records of hemp farming go back 5000 years in China, although hemp industrialization probably goes back to ancient Egypt.
* Rembrants, Gainsboroughs, Van Goghs as well as most early canvas paintings were principally painted on hemp linen.
* In 1916, the U.S. Government predicted that by the 1940s all paper would come from hemp and that no more trees need to be cut down. Government studies report that 1 acre of hemp equals 4.1 acres of trees. Plans were in the works to implement such programs; Department of Agriculture
* Quality paints and varnishes were made from hemp seed oil until 1937. 58,000 tons of hemp seeds were used in America for paint products in 1935; Sherman Williams Paint Co. testimony before Congress against the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act.
* Henry Ford's first Model-T was built to run on hemp gasoline and the CAR ITSELF WAS CONTRUCTED FROM HEMP! On his large estate, Ford was photographed among his hemp fields. The car, 'grown from the soil,' had hemp plastic panels whose impact strength was 10 times stronger than steel; Popular Mechanics, 1941.
* Hemp called 'Billion Dollar Crop.' It was the first time a cash crop had a business potential to exceed a billion dollars; Popular Mechanics, Feb., 1938.
* Mechanical Engineering Magazine (Feb. 1938) published an article entitled 'The Most Profitable and Desirable Crop that Can be Grown.' It stated that if hemp was cultivated using 20th Century technology, it would be the single largest agricultural crop in the U.S. and the rest of the world.
The following information comes directly from the United States Department of Agriculture's 1942 14-minute film encouraging and instructing 'patriotic American farmers' to grow 350,000 acres of hemp each year for the war effort '(When) Grecian temples were new, hemp was already old in the service of mankind. For thousands of years, even then, this plant had been grown for cordage and cloth in China and elsewhere in the East. For centuries prior to about 1850, all the ships that sailed the western seas were rigged with hempen rope and sails. For the sailor, no less than the hangman, hemp was indispensable.....Now with Philippine and East Indian sources of hemp in the hands of the Japanese...American hemp must meet the needs of our Army and Navy as well as of our industries....the Navy's rapidly dwindling reserves. When that is gone, American hemp will go on duty again; hemp for mooring ships; hemp for tow lines; hemp for tackle and gear; hemp for countless naval uses both on ship and shore. Just as in the days when Old Ironsides sailed the seas victorious with her hempen shrouds and hempen sails. Hemp for victory!' Certified proof from the Library of Congress; found by the research of Jack Herer, refuting claims of other government agencies that the 1942 USDA film 'Hemp for Victory' did not exist. Hemp cultivation and production do not harm the environment. The USDA Bulletin #404 concluded that hemp produces 4 times as much pulp with at least 4 to 7 times less pollution. From Popular Mechanics, Feb. 1938: 'It has a short growing season...It can be grown in any state...The long roots penetrate and break the soil to leave it in perfect condition for the next year's crop. The dense shock of leaves, 8 to 12 feet above the ground, chokes out weeds...hemp, this new crop 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. William Randolph Hearst (Citizen Kane) and the Hearst Paper Manufacturing Division of Kimberly Clark owned vast acreage of timberlands. The Hearst Company supplied most paper products. Patty Hearst's grandfather, a destroyer of nature for his own personal profit, stood to lose billions because of hemp. In 1937, Dupont patented the processes to make plastics from oil and coal. Dupont's Annual Report urged stockholders to invest in its new petrochemical division. Synthetics such as plastics, cellophane, celluloid, methanol, nylon, rayon, Dacron, etc., could now be made from oil. Natural hemp industrialization would have ruined over 80% of Dupont's business.

THE CONSPIRACY
Andrew Mellon became Hoover's Secretary of the Treasury and Dupont's primary investor. He appointed his future nephew-in-law, Harry J. Anslinger, to head the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. Secret meetings were held by these financial tycoons. Hemp was declared dangerous and a threat to their billion dollar enterprises. For their dynasties to remain intact, hemp had to go. These men took an obscure Mexican slang word: 'marihuana' and pushed it into the consciousness of America.

[Tacitus]

Just a mostly random question, but who here either doesn't give a crap about any of it, would die a happy (wo)man if they never heard the words hemp, marijuana, or pot again, or alternately, is too high to know what I just said?

[Angelicpower]

Originally Posted by Tacitus

Just a mostly random question, but who here either doesn't give a crap about any of it, would die a happy (wo)man if they never heard the words hemp, marijuana, or pot again, or alternately, is too high to know what I just said?

LOL..too high

[Tacitus]

High on life, I presume.

I mean no offense, but I've read maybe 5% of this thread. If a thread has any focus on the topic of marijuana, hemp, pot, or anything similar, I post what I did, and move on. I've simply seen far too many topics here and especially on other forums I go to to care anymore. Didn't care much in the first place, so it should give you an idea of how fond I am of any related topic when its been beat into my head and left it a bloody pulp.

I am sooooo glad my Poli Sci teacher banned discussion of it in class. First thing he said when he walked into the classroom the first day, "Anyone who wants to say anything at all about marijuana, leave my class, becauyse you will fail." Someone actually left and hasn't been back.

EDIT: And OMG I've been on this forum 3 years longer than you...it makes me want to cry....

[Angelicpower]

Originally Posted by Tacitus

High on life, I presume.

I mean no offense, but I've read maybe 5% of this thread. If a thread has any focus on the topic of marijuana, hemp, pot, or anything similar, I post what I did, and move on. I've simply seen far too many topics here and especially on other forums I go to to care anymore. Didn't care much in the first place, so it should give you an idea of how fond I am of any related topic when its been beat into my head and left it a bloody pulp.

I am sooooo glad my Poli Sci teacher banned discussion of it in class. First thing he said when he walked into the classroom the first day, "Anyone who wants to say anything at all about marijuana, leave my class, becauyse you will fail." Someone actually left and hasn't been back.

EDIT: And OMG I've been on this forum 3 years longer than you...it makes me want to cry....

I would have left also..freedom to speak about any topic you want. That teacher is banning kids from learning and writing about a part of American History that most people have no knowledge of. They certainly didn't teach me about this in school..I had to research and learn on my own.