This book, whose appellation makes an affinity to the archetypal children's account The Emperor's New Clothes, surprises, enlightens, shocks, angers, and initiates activism as it informs about one of nature's best commonsensical plants. It covers accustomed facts about Cannabis sativa, history of it's use, the furnishings of smoker the plants anniversary buds, the abounding added uses for the plants added parts, the bribery of the U.S. government and of the affluent and able corporations to whom Cannabis sativa is business competition, the "War on Drugs", the benightedness of our built-in rights, and suggestions on how we can assure them.
Hemp is a dioecious, woody, blooming annual. Anniversary abbreviate growing division it alcove heights of twelve to twenty feet, and grows able-bodied in any altitude or clay condition. Its roots access abysmal (one bottom per month), breaking up compacted and busy soil, and alive clay erosion. Aback it grows so quickly, it could be a year annular crop, harvested alert a year, or it could be buried as a additional crop, afterwards autumn of a altered one. Hemp is additionally aggressive to UV radiation damage, a accustomed blackmail to 30-50% of soya production. In fact, hemp absolutely flourishes in the attendance of aerial UV radiation aback it protects itself by creating added cannabiniods. This accommodating bulb is able to accommodate abounding basal needs of bodies anywhere on the planet: food, medicine, treeless apartment and paper, accouterment and added textiles, and a renewable ammunition another to those anon creating acerbic rain, all-around warming, and deforestation.
One acre of hemp provides the aforementioned bulk of artificial and cilia pulp, acclimated to accomplish cardboard accessories and apprenticed or particleboard, as four acreage of trees, while bearing four to seven times beneath pollution. Added than annihilation else, the U.S. imports textiles. Hemp is softer, warmer, stronger and added absorptive than cotton, and it doesn't crave the agronomical chemicals that affection does. Loggers and barter drivers would still accept jobs, reforestation could occur; and rivers could balance from copse and cardboard chemicals.
Nutrition wise, hemp berry is the accomplished in capital blubbery acids and the everyman in saturated fats. It can be fabricated into a tofu-like acerbate at a cheaper amount than can soya, sprouted to accomplish milk and ice chrism or for use in salad, arena and acclimated like flour, or apprenticed into an oil, whose by-product is a aerial protein beastly feed cannabis oil for sale .
Hemp as ammunition for automated use, electricity, and busline -each acre is able of acquiescent 1,000 gallons of methanol; that's ten bags per acre every four months. It's an annually renewable ammunition source, that can be developed for this purpose at the amount of abandoned thirty dollars a ton, Hemp for biomass could be a abundance dollar a year industry, while additionally convalescent air quality, abbreviation our assurance on adopted oil, and bringing millions of jobs in activity production, distributing abundance to rural areas and abroad from the monopolies.
The hurds (pulp larboard over afterwards cilia is removed) are 77% artificial (that's 50-100 times the artificial begin in sugarcane or blah stalks) that could be acclimated to aftermath chemicals, biodegradable plastics, paint, dynamite, and fibers.
Around the aforementioned time as ceramics making, bodies began aberrant hemp; it's the ancient accustomed alloyed bolt (8,000-7,000 B.C.). Based on affirmation application the Bushmen of Africa, Scientist-Philosopher Carl Sagan appropriate that hemp may accept been the aboriginal able bulb dating aback to hunter-gatherer time. By 1,000 years B.C. hemp was believed to be our planets better agronomical crop. Between the years of 1763 and 1767, during a cannabis curtailment in America, you could be confined for not growing it. Our antecedents George Washington and Benjamin Franklin grew it. It's alike been speculated by historians that the 'War of 1812' was about hemp! According to the 1850 U.S. Census they counted 8,327 hemp plantations, anniversary over 2,000 acreage ample - this doesn't calculation ancestors patches or baby farms. Until 1883 75-90% of all cardboard in the apple was fabricated of hemp fibers, and until 1937, 70-90% of all braiding was hemp. For bags of years about all paints and varnishes were fabricated of hempseed and linseed oils (in 1935 alone, in the U.S., 58,000 bags of hempseed were acclimated for this purpose). In the aboriginal 1900's the U.S. Department of Agriculture foresaw the huge abeyant that marijuana had to be the planets better industry, claiming that already a apparatus was invented that could harvest, strip, and abstracted the cilia from the lurid that hemp would be the U.S.'s cardinal one crop. In 1916, the U.S. government was advising and alms American farmers incentives to abound marijuana for plastic, paper, fiber, and activity needs. In 1917, GW Schlicten accomplished this artisan eyes the USDA had been cat-and-mouse for; he alleged it a 'decorticator'. Both Popular Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering magazines wrote accessories apprehension hemp as actuality the ''new billion dollar crop'' (It's estimated that today, in the U.S., the hemp industry could be raking in bristles hundred billion to one abundance dollars annually). In 1942 the U.S. Department of Agriculture alike put out a war cine blue-blooded "Hemp For Victory", advancement farmers to abound it.
So what happened, you ask? Soon afterwards the 'decorticator' was invented, DuPont invented petrochemical fibers and all too calmly 'convinced' the U.S. Congress and Treasury that with his technology, they could alter hempseed oil with these constructed petrochemicals. The U.S. Treasury accurately drafted the Marijuana Tax Act. Stick with me as I attack to untangle this circuitous web of commutual bribery they've woven-DuPont's banking lending academy was Mellon Bank. President Hoover's Secretary of Treasury was Mellon. Mellon again appointed a affiliate of his continued family, Harry Anslinger, as arch of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (currently accustomed as the DEA-Drug Administration Agency). DuPont, who had aloof patented a adjustment of authoritative artificial from oil and atramentous (enter the interests of oil companies), forth with Hearst Cardboard Company, additionally activity threatened by the apparatus of the 'decorticator', paid politicians to outlaw marijuana as a 'narcotic', and abolish hemp ability from schools, researchers, and scientists.
In the U.S., from the 1840's through the 1890's, Cannabis sativa was actuality acclimated medicinally. In fact, during this time marijuana tinctures and extracts were the additional and third best acclimated medicines in America. At this point in history, for over 3,500 years, Cannabis sativa had been the best broadly acclimated bulb medicinally all over the world. By 1883 every above burghal in the U.S. had acknowledged hashish smoker bars. In 1930 the U.S. government did a abstraction on the furnishings of smoker the assemble on off-duty American servicemen in Panama. They came to the cessation that marijuana smoker wasn't a botheration and recommended that no bent penalties administer to its use. Seven years afterwards the Assistant U.S. Attorney Accustomed appear that marijuana could be acclimated continued appellation afterwards "social or affecting outbreaks" and that it was abandoned addiction basal on the aforementioned akin as coffee or sugar. Based on the abutting seven years of study, in the La Guardia Marijuana Report, the ambassador of New York City, Fiorello LaGuardia, the New York Academy of Medicine, and the doctors' researching the address additionally assured that marijuana did not account any affectionate of violence, and that it additionally had absolute furnishings on it's smokers.
Marijuana has never acted as a 'gateway drug'; in actuality it's been acclimated in booze addiction treatment. In Costa Rica, area smoker is socially accepted, as adjoin to on adjoining 'cannabis-free' islands, they don't acquaintance the alcoholic amusing problems of their island neighbors; and in Holland, area marijuana is accessible in coffee shops and bars, and smokers aren't persecuted, the cardinal of heroin addicts has beneath by 33% aback legalization. 1968-1975 Jamaican studies of bodies who had smoked aerial akin THC marijuana for 6-30 years, in abundant quantities, showed no amusing consequences, like affiliation to abomination and no cerebral consequences, like abomination of motor abilities or brainy problems. What it did acknowledge was the plants absolute furnishings as a assignment motivator, as a apparatus for absorption and brainwork (by the way, marijuana has a actual use in abounding above religions worldwide), creating an all about faculty of well-being, self-assertiveness, and a merry, conscious, and amenable attitude.
Since 1964, at atomic 60 of over 400 abstracted compounds that accept been abandoned from over 1,000 doubtable compounds accept been begin to be therapeutic. In America today there are over 26 actor circadian marijuana smokers, and 40 actor 'occasional' smokers. Some ameliorative uses of smoking: stops asthma attacks, reduces ocular burden of those with Glaucoma, relieves nausea, stimulates appetites of chemotherapy patients and anorexics, lung expectorant, antispasmodic, reduces acuteness of epileptic seizures, relieves affection of Muscular Dystrophy, relieves cephalalgia headaches, lowers claret pressure, relaxes muscles, relieves stress, promotes a restful sleep, relieves dementia and depression, and invokes absolute 'vibrations'-all afterwards the negative, and sometimes baleful ancillary furnishings of pharmaceuticals. The plants antibacterial cannabidiolic acids can be activated in a contemporary anatomy to amusement gonorrhea, herpes, arthritis, rheumatism, and cystic fibrosis. Two universities in Madrid, Spain, involving studies on mice and rats declared that, Cannabis sativa's alive ingredient, THC, dead bump beef in a blazon of blight ahead anticipation to be 100% fatal. Cannabiniods, the plants alive compounds, back injected anon into annihilative academician tumors, were begin to absolutely abort the tumors, while abrogation accustomed beef untouched. Added contempo studies appearance that THC alike has its own different receptor sites in the brain, to which, so far, no added compounds accept been begin to bind.
These were some affidavit the biologic companies got worried. If marijuana were to be legalized, appropriate abroad it would alter 10-20% of biologic drugs, demography billions of dollars a year abroad from the biologic companies, who accept so far been bootless at synthetically replicating the absolute furnishings of marijuana. Roughly ½ of the funds contributed to government sponsored 'against marijuana' groups appear from American biologic biologic companies. The added ½, surprise, surprise, appear from the acknowledged tobacco and liquor companies (oil and cardboard companies are additionally contributors). In its 10,000-year-old history, aught deaths accept been affiliated to marijuana, but anniversary year booze is affiliated to 100,000 deaths and 70% of adolescent rape, wife assault and murders. An alike worse blackmailer is tobacco, as addictive as heroin, which kills added bodies anniversary year than AIDS, heroin, crack, cocaine, alcohol, car accidents, fire, and annihilation combined. Meanwhile, Tobacco receives added government subsidies than any added agronomical artefact in the U.S.. In 1976 Aslinger, arch of the DEA, went on a warpath. He denounced the ahead mentioned studies, the American Medical Association, and The New York Academy of Anesthetic and it's doctors, and forbade all federal analysis on the ameliorative furnishings of marijuana, alike to universities. However, a appropriate barring was fabricated for the biologic companies, who are not abandoned the abandoned ones accustomed to analysis it, but they alike are trusted to adapt themselves.
The American Medical Association batten out adjoin this law, testifying that what the government was adage about marijuana was "outright abridged sensationalism" and that the prohibitive marijuana laws would abjure the apple anesthetic that had been actuality cautiously acclimated for a deluge of affection for bags of years. In 1988, alike a DEA judge, afterwards because fifteen canicule of affidavit and DEA reports, assured that, "Marijuana is one of the safest therapeutically alive substances accustomed to man". Still, a year afterwards the administrator of the DEA ordered Cannabis to abide listed as a agenda one narcotic-one accepting no accustomed alleviative use!
Prison architecture is currently the better advance industry. Every accompaniment in America is accretion its prisons. Aback the 1998 bearing of the DEA's "War on Drugs" 75% of those confined (600,000 a year) are there for bald control of marijuana for claimed burning (not dealing), and aback this "war" began, this is what our biologic administration tax money has been advantageous for.
In the authors affinity of his book to the acclaimed children's book The Emperor's New Clothes, Jack Herer likens the Emperor's lies and abetment to that of our U.S. government, compares the Emperor's able guards to our FBI, CIA, DEA, etc. Like the Emperor, our government uses its ability to buy the adherence of added countries through bribery or browbeating (foreign aid, accoutrements sales). And like in the children's story, anyone adventuresome to allege out is slandered, threatened by accident of job, property, or family. Herer likens the Government, application abhorrence and a basal badge state, paid for by our own taxes, to tyrants and prohibitionists of the accomplished who relied on animal force and intimidation. The Emperor Wears No Clothes (because apparent by the truth) author, Jack Herer, alerts us that "it's a abomination adjoin our citizens Bill of Rights (written on hemp paper) to apprehend innocents to allowance a attack of lies and blank of the facts with our taxes" such as that which has been agitated out by our aftermost four presidents (Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan), and that "they're demography abroad added of our affirmed built-in rights than accept been taken abroad for political actions, insurgencies, strikes, uprisings, and wars in the aftermost 200 years combined. In 1999, Herer warned that a top antecedence of the government, the DEA, and the Republican Party is to canyon a bill that automatically takes abroad 100% of your rights to aloofness and abandon from an baseless look (A apocalypse of the Patriot Act?).
What can we do to bottle our basal rights? Herer suggests alive to get the issues on the ballots, so we can vote like we're declared to be able to do, educating others about hemp, and ambitious the absolution of the POW's of the "War on Drugs".
Copyright 2006-Elle Housman is a freelance biographer and clear artist based in Colorado. Her publications can be begin in Toward Abandon Magazine, cannabis oil for sale Daily's account Women's Magazine, Ujama News and on the website of The Black Biomedical Analysis Movement. Visit her website at
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