"Hemp and the Rule of Law" on DVD!!

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Wow!
I viewed "Hemp and the rule of law" and I must say it is eye opening.
This is a very mainstream, science based exploration regarding the law and industrial hemp.
The DVD touches a bit on the many uses but assumes the viewer already knows. It mainly focuses on the insane laws against this minute THC level version of cannabis. From an economic and environmental standpoint this one plant has the ability to liberate us from our destructive path we are on as a country.
A lot of the infrastructure could remain in place, with minor retooling, such as the internal combustion engine, refineries, lumber mills, textile plants, etc. What changes is the feed stock. Instead of wood and petroleum they are replaced with hemp fiber. Hemp can replace virtually every thing made from plastic, wood, and petroleum plus it is biodegradable.

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SYNOPSIS:
Blending history with current events, "Hemp and the Rule of Law" traces the crop’s legendary past in U.S. agriculture and chronicles the politically-charged debate to return the crop to American farmers.
Thirty-one countries including Canada, England and the European Union now grow hemp. Although it has no psychoactive potential, hemp shares the same plant family as marijuana (cannabis). The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration makes no distinction between hemp and marijuana, and the United States remains the only industrialized country where farmers are not permitted to grow it.
"Hemp and the Rule of Law" addresses renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, national security, the War in Iraq, and examines hemp’s role in achieving a “green” industrial future.


SOME HIGHLIGHTS OF THE DOCUMENTARY INCLUDE:
• U.S. customs seizing a shipment of legal Canadian hemp birdseed at the U.S. border
• Woody Harrelson’s arrest for planting hemp seeds, and his subsequent legal battle to test Kentucky’s hemp laws
• The DEA’s failed legal attempt to ban the possession and sale of hemp foods.
• The DEA eradicating hemp planted on the Pine Ridge Reservation
• Mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia
• Kentucky tobacco growers lawsuit against the U.S. government for the right to grow hemp
• The first hemp research plot on U.S. soil in more than forty years (Hawaii)
• Hemp harvesting and processing
• Rare archival footage that depicts the early American hemp industry and the dramatic events of the 1930’s that began the demise of the crop on U.S. soil.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT “HEMP AND THE RULE OF LAW”:

“The best video treatment of this subject to date. Make the most of this video, show it everywhere”.
Dave West, Ph.D. Plant Breeder. Director, Hawaii Industrial Hemp Project

“The video is beautifully done. An excellent presentation of this important topic. This is a truly fine educational tool”. Gale Glenn, Vice Chair, North American Industrial Hemp Council

“A clear and concise synopsis of the history, benefits and future of industrial hemp”.
Candi Penn, Executive Director, Hemp Industries Association

“ It's a smart, clear, vivid, & balanced documentary that takes the industrial hemp debate out of the hands of the DEA, and the kind of video I'd feel comfortable showing my grandma”.
Christina Wulf, Virginia Forest Watch.

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1. Cool thanks...

I am thinking about doing a program at the library I work at regarding peak oil and the wonders of Hemp, to mitigate the effects of peak oil. If anyone in the area is interested in helping (read: not sure if I could be fired over this) then PM me and we can start work!

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2. You may want to contact...

The North American Industrial Hemp Council
http://www.naihc.org/

They might give you suggestions on a good DVD to show or material to help you with your specific fuel topic.

Here is a goog PDF from their site as a starting point:
http://www.ndu.edu/inss/DefHor/DH20/DH_20.pdf

Spread the news!

[Selteri]

3. Hemp is part of the sulution

It isn't just for making paper or food products.

It can be used for plastics, fuel, clothing..... the list goes on for a huge huge list.

The clean fuel we can get from it would allow America to become an oil producing nation, we'd literally be able to ensure that every country in the world can produce their own fuel and if there is a shortage, other countries can help make up the fuel shortage due to drought or the like.

The solutions stare us in the face, it is the person blinded by greed that ignores it.

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6. 10's...

of thousands of usages.
It's massive cellulose, lignin, and seed growth output could literally lead to a healing of the planet and it's peoples.

In the early 1900's a choice was made; either a plant based society or a petroleum based society, including wood.
A handful of power brokers, including William Randolph Hearst, decided for us and we are now stuck with the petroleum/wood world model and all it's environmental degradation and cancers.
The molecular basis for our society needs to revolve around cellulose and not petroleum and it's inherent disastrous effect.

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4. Hearst and Hemp

I remember reading that W. R. Hearst lobbied to outlaw hemp. He owned considerable forrests in the northwest and didn't want any competition for paper resources.

The hemp ban was briefly suspended during WWII because sisal for naval ropes was unavailable from Asia and a substitute was needed.

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5. Yes

He was a wicked man who made up stories in his newspaper. That is when they invented the name "marijuana" to prey on racial fears. Sicko.

Hemp history and the role it played through the ages was purposely left out of our school books by the government.