Well what a number Hearst Dupont and Anslinger have managed to perpetrate amongst
some of the blue rinse set.
Greed started the charade and ignorance continues to feed its black heart.
Cannabis until the late 19th century was the 3rd most prescribed drug in existance surpassed by only opium and alcohol.
Dosages of cannabis given daily to men women, pregnant women and children
historically are about the same amount an "addict" would use in a month so
where are all the babbling schizoids recorded in history?
Why is it that this mammoth universal use of huge amounts of cannabis by current standards did not send the whole world madder than the mad hatters tea party ???
Why is it that Amsterdam is not chock a block full of mental institutions given that the strongest synthesised pot in the world is served legally in coffee shops ??
Mental health should be the growth industry if the medical pundits are to be
believed.....
Let alone smoking weed we cannot even eat its derivatives unlike every other country in
the world except New Zealand.
Google the omega 3 and omega 6 oil symmetry that exists in hemp.
Look at the benefits (without smoking it) that arthritis patients that currently are
prescibed CELEBREX could look forward to.
Google the side effects of CELEBREX
Google the profits made from CELEBREX
I bet many take CELEBREX on this forum
Who would rather have some Hemp seeds on their cereal as opposed to taking
celebrex daily??
Why is that???
What is the big deal with the reinclusion of Hemp into our diet??
Whose ends are our (collective) political representatives really serving??
rhetorical question... the drug companies of course. The drugs that cannabis could safely replace really really really scares big pharma.
IMO a little bit like the way that linking tobacco with cancer led the tobacco companies to
enlist doctors and researchers "help" for decades to refute the claims.
Google the claims made by bought medical professionals re cigarette smoking in the
40's 50's and 60's. Some of their claims are reprehensible
http://www.ukcia.org/industrial/hemp/famine.html
Australian citizens have, throughout history, survived numerous droughts by reliance upon hemp to prevent starvation and malnutrition.
The seeds formed their source of protein and the leaves served as roughage (Frazier, 1972). The seeds can also be ground and mixed with water to from a highly nutritious gruel/porridge.
The plant has even been used in hospitals to replenish the under-nourished and for treatment of other various ailments. For more information of the healing properties of hemp, please visit Clearspring (www.clearspring.co.uk) for instance claim in an advertisement that :
'Hemp oil comes from one of the oldest cultivated plants and has followed civilizations as they moved around the globe. Jute and hemp fibres were the mainstay of many cultures (History) ... Since the 1930s, hemp oil has been regarded as a healing oil'.
Biona, suppliers of organic hemp seeds to Health food stores claim that their seeds are 'steamed to prevent germination ... without further concern from the authorities' and vouching that they are 'protecting the environment and protecting your health.' Biona highlight the the crop is also 'very fruitful'.
Hemp also grows well on marginal lands, being particularly suited to rural Third World countries suffering famine due to environmental and developmental problems.
So on one side we have Dupont inventing and using petrochemical plastic and on the other side we have Ford
experimenting with cellular plastic......... Dupont, Hearst and eventually Anslinger won out
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuPont
Automotive investments: 1914
In 1914, Pierre S. du Pont invested in the fledgling automobile industry, buying stock of General Motors (GM). The following year he was invited to sit on GM's board of directors and would eventually be appointed the company's chairman.
The DuPont company would assist the struggling automobile company further with a $25 million purchase of GM stock.
In 1920, Pierre S. du Pont was elected president of General Motors. Under du Pont's guidance, GM became the number one automobile company in the world.
However, in 1957, because of DuPont's influence within GM, further action under the Clayton Antitrust Act forced DuPont to divest itself of its shares of General Motors.
Major breakthroughs: 1920s-1930s
In the 1920s, DuPont continued its emphasis on materials science, hiring Wallace Carothers to work on polymers in 1928. Carothers invented neoprene, a synthetic rubber;[8] the first polyester superpolymer; and, in 1935, nylon. The invention of Teflon followed a few years later.
DuPont introduced phenothiazine as an insecticide in 1935.
http://www.hempplastic.com/henry.html
In the 1910s Henry Ford experimented with using agricultural materials in the manufacture of automobiles. Ford was partly motivated by a desire to find nonfood applications for agricultural surpluses, which existed then as they do now. He tried out many agricultural crops, including wheat
Henry Ford
In the 1910s Henry Ford experimented with using agricultural materials in the manufacture of automobiles. Ford was partly motivated by a desire to find nonfood applications for agricultural surpluses, which existed then as they do now. He tried out many agricultural crops, including wheat.
In the following few years, uses were found for soy oil in automobile paints and enamels, and in the production of glycerol for shock absorbers. Coil cases for the 1915 Model T Ford were made from a wheat gluten resin reinforced with asbestos fibres.
Eventually he focused on soybeans, and in the 1920s began promoting soybean products at every opportunity. He recruited Robert Boyer, a young chemist, to lead the research.
In the following few years, uses were found for soy oil in automobile paints and enamels, in rubber substitutes, and in the production of glycerol for shock absorbers. Viscous solutions of soy protein were extruded and "set" in formaldehyde bath to form fibers for upholstery cloth. But Ford's special interest was in converting soy meal into plastics.
Soy meal is what is left after soy-beans are crushed or ground into flakes and the soy oil extracted with a hydrocarbon solvent. Soy meal is about 50 percent protein and 50 percent carbohydrate- mainly cellulose.
The compositions of Ford's soy plastics, and the methods of their processing, evolved over time and varied according to the application.
In general the resin core was made of soy meal reacted with formaldehyde to produce cross-linked protein (reminiscent of casein plastics and animal horn), but for added strength and resistance to moisture, phenol or urea was cocondensed with the protein.
The resulting resin was part phenol formaldehyde (or urea formaldehyde) and part cross-linked soy protein; the soy meal was not merely a filler.
Ford, a master at generating publicity, exhibited the prototype with great fanfare in 1941. But then, by late 1941, Ford
no longer publicized the "plastic car".
The reasons for this are unknown, but his media contacts, the strength of the DuPont organisation and World War II are likely to have played a role.
Also, technology was not yet well developed and limited options. Plastics have become more common, but plastics from renewable resources got sidetracked.
This is where Hemp Plastics have continued with research projects and collaborations to re-visit and re-new the use of plant based plastics.
Henry Ford taking an axe to his hemp car in 1941
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naGAnhax-tI
