HEMP: The Authorative Historical Digital Record

Chapter 2

• Ships & Sailors
• Textiles & Fabrics
• Paper
• Rope, Twine, & Cordage
• Art Canvas
• Paints & Varnish
• Lighting Oil
• Biomass Energy
• Medicine
• Food Protein
• Building Materials & Housing
• Smoking, Leisure, & Creativity
• Economic Stability, Profitability, & Free Trade
• Plant Diagram
• The Challenge
• Footnotes
• When Hemp Saved Bush
• Ship Rigging
• The Greenhouse Effect and the Bureaucrat
• G.W. Schlichten and the Decordicator

    If all fossil fuels and their derivatives, as well as the deforestation of trees for paper, construction, and agriculture, were banned from use in order to save the planet and reverse the greenhouse effect:

    Then there is only one known annually renewable natural resource that is capable of providing the overall majority of the world’s paper, textiles, and food; meet all the world’s transportation, industrial, and home energy needs, while simultaneously reducing pollution, rebuilding the soil, and cleaning the atmosphere all at the same time…

    And that substance is—the same one that did it all before:

Cannabis Hemp…Marijuana!

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text from “The Emperor Wears No Clothes” © Jack Herer
CD-ROM and web presentation © Milo and MichaelM

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