Kathryn Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 Due to some very heavy lobbying by a paper manufacturer and a textile (?) manufacturer, it was made illegal to grow hemp in the US sometime in the 50's or 60's? But before that, hemp was grown here. In fact, Benjamin Franklin and Georges Washinston REQUIRED farmers to grow it because of its usefullness. The "hemp farms will be a smoke screen for illegal cannabis growth" spiel is bogus! The real reason the government doesn't want it grown is to protect big US business, IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sinisterkungfu Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 Due to some very heavy lobbying by a paper manufacturer and a textile (?) manufacturer, it was made illegal to grow hemp in the US sometime in the 50's or 60's? But before that, hemp was grown here. In fact, Benjamin Franklin and Georges Washinston REQUIRED farmers to grow it because of its usefullness. The "hemp farms will be a smoke screen for illegal cannabis growth" spiel is bogus! The real reason the government doesn't want it grown is to protect big US business, IMO. it was actually like the 30's thanks to everyone's favorite newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offense74 Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 If you're in Europe, here's some variations of hemp:Hemp at detoxyourworldHemp protein is very expensive though. It should be cheaper than both soy and pea IMO, if they would just legalise it.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylie Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 Due to some very heavy lobbying by a paper manufacturer and a textile (?) manufacturer, it was made illegal to grow hemp in the US sometime in the 50's or 60's? But before that, hemp was grown here. In fact, Benjamin Franklin and Georges Washinston REQUIRED farmers to grow it because of its usefullness. The "hemp farms will be a smoke screen for illegal cannabis growth" spiel is bogus! The real reason the government doesn't want it grown is to protect big US business, IMO. here's a link...tho the opinions of this organization are not necessarily my opinions. apparently some hemp is grown in hawaii, montana, north dakota and minnesota. they may just be test plots for ongoing studies tho. http://www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=3395 "The Montana Legislature approved Senate Bill 261 recognizing industrial hemp having no more than 0.3 percent THC as an "agricultural crop." This legislation also establishes licensing procedures to allow local farmers to grow hemp commercially. An amendment to the bill requests the federal government to issue a "waiver that will allow this act to be effective without federal preemption." ...of course this tells us nothing about whether the federal government approved it and it is already an established law. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 The "hemp farms will be a smoke screen for illegal cannabis growth" spiel is bogus! The real reason the government doesn't want it grown is to protect big US business, IMO. I think you are right on the mark. Hemp (Cannabis sativa) is truly a miraculous plant which literally has thousands of uses. It's true that in the U.S. it was once illegal to not grow hemp and it was the primary agricultural product in the original Jamestown colony. Henry Ford recognized its potential as a fuel source, for auto manufacture, in paints, oils, etc. The U.S. Constitution, the Magna Carta and the Declaration of Independance were all written on paper made from hemp. In the 1930's Popular Science predicted a huge boom in hemp and its applications to technology and food science, proclaiming 3000 uses for it. In the 1940s the U.S. Defense Dept. deemed hemp so important to the WWII cause that it made a film titled "Hemp for Victory!" Hemp is very easy to grow, can be easily grown with minimal if any herbicide/pesticide use and is quite possibly the most nutritious food on the planet with a perfect 1:4 ratio of omega 3 to 6 fatty acid ratio. It's wholesale introduction into western agriculture would create a HUGE paradigm shift in agribusiness that would ripple down and change the face of several industries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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