[biofuels-biz] Re: [biofuel] Petroleum's Role in Hemp Prohibition
I've heard it said that part of what makes U.S. paper currency unique is that hemp is used in the paper, but I'm not sure if this is true. Maybe the whole matter, the whole giant friggin hypocrisy of it all, makes me so upset that I decided to focus on less upsetting things like the needless throwing away of American Economy and Policy Independence to those who have zero interest in a sustainable future for any decent values, economies, societies, or whatever, particular to those whose focus is to prevent progress in energy technologies. I can understand that. All those people in jail for no good reason, being brutalized and criminalized, it's outrageous. It's also completely out of step - the other industrialized countries are moving in exactly the opposite direction. The industrial hemp prohibition is also out of step, and will see the US being left behind. Insane, really. One of the things I did with the energy issues is, corrolary to my treatment of it, examine how we criticize our Presidents, leaders, politicians, policy-makers. I explained that I thought there were better things to criticize about President Clinton than his sex life and alleged criminal behaviour, and that I thought it was a tragic (and indeed destructive) waste of the country's time to spend our valuable time during his administration playing get the President. I explained that if there were really folks who wanted to criticize his policies and ideas and whatever, that there were many other areas that much more cogent and effective criticism could be brought to bear, such as his National Energy Policies, or lack thereof. This was a compilation of some of my stuff, which had been written out a few times in months prior to March 2000: http://www.herecomesmongo.com/ae/03092000.html I failed to make sufficiently clear a few other related points. I think we all have a responsibility to offer cogent and intelligent criticism of our leaders if we are to offer criticism at all. Our leaders (who are also, in effect, our hired employees, where they are sort of CEOs and corporate officers and we are their board and their shareholders and customers) suffer when we fail to offer them the best possible criticisms of the jobs they are doing, because they can really improve their performance if the get top-notch criticism that really gets to the point and hits home. It's hard to improve yourself when the criticisms that you're getting are ankle-biting nonsense unworthy of consideration or time. It's easy to criticize the boss or the CEO when you're a peon, but how do you bring *valuable* criticism to everone's time? Effective and good criticism is not only well-intended and high-reaching, but I think it should incorporate some policy of actively trying to decide for oneself and define What is a good job rather than waiting, reacting to individuals' actions and then criticizing those actions. It is asking yourself: Ok, smartypants, you think you're so smart, what would *you* do if you were thus-and-such office-holder? It is, in the case of criticism of Presidents, understanding that a primary potentiality and power of the office is in simply having the Podium for four whole years, having the opportunity to exercise one's place at the Bullypulpit to bring attention to whatever issues one and one's team think are in need of attention. Failure to bring attention to other issues becomes, at that point, a sort of choice. If a critic defines an issue as important, and if a President fails to *discuss* an issue in four years of Office, then a very effective criticism can be brought to bear at that point, on the issue of failure to do or say a needed thing, rather than commission of some allegedly bad or illegal of half-baked act. An example of such a criticism of a failure-to-discuss, not a great example, but an example, would be that in the Debates of 92 or so, between nominee Clinton and President Bush Sr., (Perot may have been on stage also), President Bush Sr. said something about the Aids crisis, and it was a nice little statement that I think expressed desire to do something about a terrible problem, although it was in the context of running for office and not of exercising the already-gained powers, and President Clinton responded something like: That's a very nice sentiment, but it's too bad that in four years of office that's the most you've ever said on the issue and pretty much the first time you've ever bothered to voice such ideas. How right he was, and that President had previously served eight years in another administration which was also woefully silent compared to what it should have voiced. It was one of the few times in my life I somewhat felt like standing up and cheering in listening to public discourse. Mr. Clinton did go on to try to bring more attention to the AIDS crisis as President, I guess. He did not unfortunately go on to do say or do enough to discuss a wide variety of problems, though.
RE: [biofuel] Petroleum's Role in Hemp Prohibition
Also... Napoleon's invasion of Russa was an attempt to cut off America's hemp supply, thus crippling its' navy. At 11:20 AM 12/11/02 -0800, you wrote: Hemp is the term used for the male and marijuana is the term used to describe the female cannabis plant. There are many subspecies but, all females are psychoactive and all males are not. Did you know that hemp was directly responsible for the Roman Empire's success in conquering the world. Armor, clothing, shoes, tack for horses, cooking oil, etc. were all made from hemp. kris --- Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The hemp plant has no psychoactive properties. Cultivating hemp can help replenish spent soil. Hemp can grow almost anywhere, and requires far less pesticides than many other cash crops, such as cotton. Hemp can be used for fuel, fiber, food, medicine, and industry. Hemp seed is highly nutritious. Hemp fiber is durable and strong. Extractums made from hemp were a valued medicine for thousands of years, but prohibition in the 1930s ended all of that. Why was this valuable renewable resource prohibited? Evidence suggests a special-interest group that included the DuPont petrochemical company, Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon (Dupont's major financial backer), and the newspaper man William Randolph Hearst mounted a yellow journalism campaign against hemp. Hearst deliberately confused psychoactive marijuana with industrial hemp, one of humankind's oldest and most useful resources. DuPont and Hearst were heavily invested in timber and petroleum resources, and saw hemp as a threat to their empires. Petroleum companies also knew that petroleum emits noxious, toxic byproducts when incompletely burned, as in an auto engine. In 1937 DuPont, Mellen and Hearst were able to push a marijuana prohibition bill through Congress in less than three months, which destroyed the domestic hemp industry. From : Hemp Powered Car Tours US, Canada http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/2000/12/hemp/ __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.419 / Virus Database: 235 - Release Date: 11/13/02 Is My Medicine Legal Yet? http://florida.usmjparty.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [biofuel] Petroleum's Role in Hemp Prohibition
Hi MM On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 02:16:42 +0900, you wrote: This isn't very authoritative - not much detail, no references to support it. Anyone know any more about this? Best Keith Short answer: I don't know any more about it, but do not dismiss it entirely out of hand, as a partial explanation. I doubt that it is the only reason Hemp is so irrationally criminalized in the U.S. Some very interesting papers around of the testimony that preceded the prohibition, mainly by the guy who'd run the alcohol prohibition program. Needed a new empire, I guess. His evidence is total BS. Sheer bureaucratic momentum explains a lot of things that look like conspiracies - you don't make a career out of solving problems, but you do make one out of maintaining them. But the petroleum and chemical interests were right in there too, in this case. Long Answer: Regardless of any given theory for the underlying real reasons Hemp is excluded from legalized commerce in the states, it's something that irks me. Yes, it's mindless. At best. When I was deciding as to which issues to really settle in on and research and focus on, in a narrower way, for things that would make for good discussion and activism (i.e., my hacking), opposing the Drug War was on my short list, but I ultimately chose some other areas. I think that U.S. exportation of our War On Drugs (i.e., our War on U.S. Citizens, Entrepeneurs and Citizens of other countries) is one of the most powerful examples anyone could name of horrific unjust slimy US Policy, not only domestic policy but Foreign as well. We have exported Hate, Destruction, Death, Black Marketeering, non-free markets (in any real sense) and anti-entrepeneurialism, while at the same time sending our dollars abroad to buy the drugs we preach must be stamped out. It is sickening to me that we have done this, helped bring Caponeism for example to Columbia and Baja California, and I can only console myself that it is not the only thing the U.S. has done, that my country has some good that it has done and tried to do, and that while the Drug War is one of the great-untalked-abouts and great-injustices, it is not the sole defining characteristic of my country. At least, that is my opinion. I am in a bit of a hurry today and hope that I am not putting things overly strongly. I agree, many agree - it would be very difficult to put it too strongly. The prevention of production and trade of Hemp is only perhaps the most obviously stupid thing here, because even if one things that bad drugs should be made illegal, the benefits of Hemp are so obvious, and the fact that it generally is not the same strain (I guess is more or less the right way to put it) as the plant which is grown for its narcotic effect, that there's sort of this dichotomy where everyone sort of agrees that even if we keep the drug war in place, the war on Hemp is in the eyes of some, less justifiable. They're two different things, you can't get off on industrial hemp. Not that I've tried, but that seems to be clearcut - it has no drug properties. I've heard it said that part of what makes U.S. paper currency unique is that hemp is used in the paper, but I'm not sure if this is true. Maybe the whole matter, the whole giant friggin hypocrisy of it all, makes me so upset that I decided to focus on less upsetting things like the needless throwing away of American Economy and Policy Independence to those who have zero interest in a sustainable future for any decent values, economies, societies, or whatever, particular to those whose focus is to prevent progress in energy technologies. I can understand that. All those people in jail for no good reason, being brutalized and criminalized, it's outrageous. It's also completely out of step - the other industrialized countries are moving in exactly the opposite direction. The industrial hemp prohibition is also out of step, and will see the US being left behind. Insane, really. DrugReporter News from the front lines of the drug war. http://alternet.org/issues/index.html?IssueAreaID=17 For the past 15 years, lawmakers have pursued tough-on-drugs policies in an effort to create a drug free America, plowing billions of dollars into prosecuting and imprisoning drug offenders. Is it working? Not according to many drug policy observers of each political stripe. Indeed, some claim the war on drugs has been a complete -- and extremely costly -- failure. They are part of a growing movement for reform that believes drug use can never be eradicated and advocates reducing the harm associated with abusing drugs rather than imprisoning the people who use them. Meanwhile, even after voters in a dozen states have cast their ballots in favor of reform, the steady accumulation of intrusive, drug-related legislation at the local and federal levels is having a chilling effect on our civil rights. The arm of the law now extends not only across our national borders, but into our
RE: [biofuel] Petroleum's Role in Hemp Prohibition
Hemp is the term used for the male and marijuana is the term used to describe the female cannabis plant. There are many subspecies but, all females are psychoactive and all males are not. Did you know that hemp was directly responsible for the Roman Empire's success in conquering the world. Armor, clothing, shoes, tack for horses, cooking oil, etc. were all made from hemp. kris I don't think this is right Kris. First, male plants are psychoactive, if less so. Second, industrial hemp is a different variety with very low THC content. Although often confused with marijuana, hemp is a distinct variety within the species: over the years, plant breeders have cultivated hemp varieties with increased stem fibre content and very low levels of delta 9-tetrahydro-cannabinol (THC), the psychoactive ingredient of its controversial cousin. http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/science/story/0,3605,488409,00.html Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Hemp hits its stride Considerable variation exists within hemp germplasm for levels of the psychoactive drug THC (De Meijer et al., 1992a). Although fiber hemp varieties generally contain much less THC than drug-types of Cannabis, a number of fiber hemp varieties have been developed that contain very low levels (less than 0.3%) of THC. Plants with less than 0.3% THC have been accepted by the EC as having no psychoactive properties, and approved varieties may be grown under the EC subsidy program. A list of low-THC varieties approved for use in the EC are included in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) list of cultivars (Anon., 1996). A new French cultivar has recently been developed which reportedly contains no THC (De Meijer, 1995). http://eesc.orst.edu/agcomwebfile/EdMat/SB681/whole2.html Feasibility of Industrial Hemp Production in the United States Pacific Northwest For comparison, cannabis from Thailand has a THC content of 14%. Some of the drug strains developed in Holland have twice that. Less than 0.3% just won't work. They're all called hemp, Cannabis sativa (a lot of quite different plants are also called hemp). Marijuana is the Mexican name, which few people in America knew at the time of Prohibition. The name marijuana was used in all the scare stories. Very few people realized that marijuana and hemp came from the same plant species; thus, virtually nobody knew that Marijuana Prohibition would destroy the hemp industry. Anyway campaigning in the US for industrial hemp legalization is not the same as campaigning for marijuana legalization and against the drug laws, separate issues, though they're not always kept separate, even by the campaigners. Best Keith --- Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The hemp plant has no psychoactive properties. Cultivating hemp can help replenish spent soil. Hemp can grow almost anywhere, and requires far less pesticides than many other cash crops, such as cotton. Hemp can be used for fuel, fiber, food, medicine, and industry. Hemp seed is highly nutritious. Hemp fiber is durable and strong. Extractums made from hemp were a valued medicine for thousands of years, but prohibition in the 1930s ended all of that. Why was this valuable renewable resource prohibited? Evidence suggests a special-interest group that included the DuPont petrochemical company, Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon (Dupont's major financial backer), and the newspaper man William Randolph Hearst mounted a yellow journalism campaign against hemp. Hearst deliberately confused psychoactive marijuana with industrial hemp, one of humankind's oldest and most useful resources. DuPont and Hearst were heavily invested in timber and petroleum resources, and saw hemp as a threat to their empires. Petroleum companies also knew that petroleum emits noxious, toxic byproducts when incompletely burned, as in an auto engine. In 1937 DuPont, Mellen and Hearst were able to push a marijuana prohibition bill through Congress in less than three months, which destroyed the domestic hemp industry. From : Hemp Powered Car Tours US, Canada http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/2000/12/hemp/ Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [biofuel] Petroleum's Role in Hemp Prohibition
I've heard it said that part of what makes U.S. paper currency unique is that hemp is used in the paper, but I'm not sure if this is true. Maybe the whole matter, the whole giant friggin hypocrisy of it all, makes me so upset that I decided to focus on less upsetting things like the needless throwing away of American Economy and Policy Independence to those who have zero interest in a sustainable future for any decent values, economies, societies, or whatever, particular to those whose focus is to prevent progress in energy technologies. I can understand that. All those people in jail for no good reason, being brutalized and criminalized, it's outrageous. It's also completely out of step - the other industrialized countries are moving in exactly the opposite direction. The industrial hemp prohibition is also out of step, and will see the US being left behind. Insane, really. One of the things I did with the energy issues is, corrolary to my treatment of it, examine how we criticize our Presidents, leaders, politicians, policy-makers. I explained that I thought there were better things to criticize about President Clinton than his sex life and alleged criminal behaviour, and that I thought it was a tragic (and indeed destructive) waste of the country's time to spend our valuable time during his administration playing get the President. I explained that if there were really folks who wanted to criticize his policies and ideas and whatever, that there were many other areas that much more cogent and effective criticism could be brought to bear, such as his National Energy Policies, or lack thereof. This was a compilation of some of my stuff, which had been written out a few times in months prior to March 2000: http://www.herecomesmongo.com/ae/03092000.html I failed to make sufficiently clear a few other related points. I think we all have a responsibility to offer cogent and intelligent criticism of our leaders if we are to offer criticism at all. Our leaders (who are also, in effect, our hired employees, where they are sort of CEOs and corporate officers and we are their board and their shareholders and customers) suffer when we fail to offer them the best possible criticisms of the jobs they are doing, because they can really improve their performance if the get top-notch criticism that really gets to the point and hits home. It's hard to improve yourself when the criticisms that you're getting are ankle-biting nonsense unworthy of consideration or time. It's easy to criticize the boss or the CEO when you're a peon, but how do you bring *valuable* criticism to everone's time? Effective and good criticism is not only well-intended and high-reaching, but I think it should incorporate some policy of actively trying to decide for oneself and define What is a good job rather than waiting, reacting to individuals' actions and then criticizing those actions. It is asking yourself: Ok, smartypants, you think you're so smart, what would *you* do if you were thus-and-such office-holder? It is, in the case of criticism of Presidents, understanding that a primary potentiality and power of the office is in simply having the Podium for four whole years, having the opportunity to exercise one's place at the Bullypulpit to bring attention to whatever issues one and one's team think are in need of attention. Failure to bring attention to other issues becomes, at that point, a sort of choice. If a critic defines an issue as important, and if a President fails to *discuss* an issue in four years of Office, then a very effective criticism can be brought to bear at that point, on the issue of failure to do or say a needed thing, rather than commission of some allegedly bad or illegal of half-baked act. An example of such a criticism of a failure-to-discuss, not a great example, but an example, would be that in the Debates of 92 or so, between nominee Clinton and President Bush Sr., (Perot may have been on stage also), President Bush Sr. said something about the Aids crisis, and it was a nice little statement that I think expressed desire to do something about a terrible problem, although it was in the context of running for office and not of exercising the already-gained powers, and President Clinton responded something like: That's a very nice sentiment, but it's too bad that in four years of office that's the most you've ever said on the issue and pretty much the first time you've ever bothered to voice such ideas. How right he was, and that President had previously served eight years in another administration which was also woefully silent compared to what it should have voiced. It was one of the few times in my life I somewhat felt like standing up and cheering in listening to public discourse. Mr. Clinton did go on to try to bring more attention to the AIDS crisis as President, I guess. He did not unfortunately go on to do say or do enough to discuss a wide variety of problems, though.
RE: [biofuel] Petroleum's Role in Hemp Prohibition
The hemp plant has no psychoactive properties. Cultivating hemp can help replenish spent soil. Hemp can grow almost anywhere, and requires far less pesticides than many other cash crops, such as cotton. Hemp can be used for fuel, fiber, food, medicine, and industry. Hemp seed is highly nutritious. Hemp fiber is durable and strong. Extractums made from hemp were a valued medicine for thousands of years, but prohibition in the 1930s ended all of that. Why was this valuable renewable resource prohibited? Evidence suggests a special-interest group that included the DuPont petrochemical company, Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon (Dupont's major financial backer), and the newspaper man William Randolph Hearst mounted a yellow journalism campaign against hemp. Hearst deliberately confused psychoactive marijuana with industrial hemp, one of humankind's oldest and most useful resources. DuPont and Hearst were heavily invested in timber and petroleum resources, and saw hemp as a threat to their empires. Petroleum companies also knew that petroleum emits noxious, toxic byproducts when incompletely burned, as in an auto engine. In 1937 DuPont, Mellen and Hearst were able to push a marijuana prohibition bill through Congress in less than three months, which destroyed the domestic hemp industry. From : Hemp Powered Car Tours US, Canada http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/2000/12/hemp/ Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [biofuel] Petroleum's Role in Hemp Prohibition
This is about all I can find, no direct link. (Reefer Madness is a seriously funny movie, in an unfunny sort of way. I saw it long ago at a late-night special at the Electric Cinema Club in London's Portobello Road, amid a highly appreciative packed house that wasn't exactly at ground level.) Diesel's Humanitarian Vision: Diesel originally thought that the diesel engine, (readily adaptable in size and utilizing locally available fuels) would enable independent craftsmen and artisans to endure the powered competition of large industries that then virtually monopolized the predominant power source-the oversized, expensive, fuel-wasting steam engine. During 1885 Diesel set up his first shop-laboratory in Paris and began his 13-year ordeal of creating his distinctive engine.. At Augsburg, on August 10, 1893, Diesel's prime model, a single 10-foot iron cylinder with a flywheel at its base, ran on its own power for the first time. Diesel spent two more years at improvements and on the last day of 1896 demonstrated another model with the spectacular, if theoretical, mechanical efficiency of 75.6 percent, in contrast to the then-prevailing efficiency of the steam engine of 10 percent or less. Although commercial manufacture was delayed another year and even then begun at a snail's pace, by 1898 Diesel was a millionaire from franchise fees in great part international. His engines were used to power pipelines, electric and water plants, automobiles and trucks, and marine craft, and soon after were used in applications including mines, oil fields, factories, and transoceanic shipping.2 DuPont, Mellon, and Hearst: Diesel expected that his engine would be powered by vegetable oils (including hemp) and seed oils. At the 1900 World's Fair, Diesel ran his engines on peanut oil. Later, George Schlichten invented a hemp 'decorticating' machine that stood poised to revolutionize paper making. Henry Ford demonstrated that cars can be made of, and run on, hemp. Evidence suggests a special-interest group that included the DuPont petrochemical company, Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon (Dupont's major financial backer), and the newspaper man William Randolph Hearst mounted a yellow journalism campaign against hemp. Hearst deliberately confused psychoactive marijuana with industrial hemp, one of humankind's oldest and most useful resources. DuPont and Hearst were heavily invested in timber and petroleum resources, and saw hemp as a threat to their empires. Petroleum companies also knew that petroleum emits noxious, toxic byproducts when incompletely burned, as in an auto engine. Pollution was important to Diesel and he saw his engine as a solution to the inefficient, highly polluting engines of his time. In 1937 DuPont, Mellen and Hearst were able to push a marijuana prohibition bill through Congress in less than three months, which destroyed the domestic hemp industry. http://www.hempcar.org/diesel.shtml For the first 162 years of America's existence, marijuana was totally legal and hemp was a common crop. But during the 1930s, the U.S. government and the media began spreading outrageous lies about marijuana, which led to its prohibition. Some headlines made about marijuana in the 1930s were: Marijuana: The assassin of youth. Marijuana: The devil's weed with roots in hell. Marijuana makes fiends of boys in 30 days. If the hideous monster Frankenstein came face to face with the monster marijuana, he would drop dead of fright. In 1936, the liquor industry funded the infamous movie titled Reefer Madness. This movie depicts a man going insane from smoking marijuana, and then killing his entire family with an ax. This campaign of lies, as well as other evidence, have led many to believe there may have been a hidden agenda behind Marijuana Prohibition. Shortly before marijuana was banned by The Marijuana Tax Act of 1937, new technologies were developed that made hemp a potential competitor with the newly-founded synthetic fiber and plastics industries. Hemp's potential for producing paper also posed a threat to the timber industry (see New Billion-Dollar Crop). Evidence suggests that commercial interests having much to lose from hemp competition helped propagate reefer madness hysteria, and used their influence to lobby for Marijuana Prohibition. It is not known for certain if special interests conspired to destroy the hemp industry via Marijuana Prohibition, but enough evidence exists to raise the possibility. After Alcohol Prohibition ended in 1933, funding for the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (now the Drug Enforcement Administration) was reduced. The FBN's own director, Harry J. Anslinger, then became a leading advocate of Marijuana Prohibition. In 1937 Anslinger testified before Congress in favor of Marijuana Prohibition by saying: Marijuana is the most violence causing drug in the history of mankind. Most marijuana smokers are Negroes, Hispanics,
RE: [biofuel] Petroleum's Role in Hemp Prohibition
Hemp is the term used for the male and marijuana is the term used to describe the female cannabis plant. There are many subspecies but, all females are psychoactive and all males are not. Did you know that hemp was directly responsible for the Roman Empire's success in conquering the world. Armor, clothing, shoes, tack for horses, cooking oil, etc. were all made from hemp. kris --- Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The hemp plant has no psychoactive properties. Cultivating hemp can help replenish spent soil. Hemp can grow almost anywhere, and requires far less pesticides than many other cash crops, such as cotton. Hemp can be used for fuel, fiber, food, medicine, and industry. Hemp seed is highly nutritious. Hemp fiber is durable and strong. Extractums made from hemp were a valued medicine for thousands of years, but prohibition in the 1930s ended all of that. Why was this valuable renewable resource prohibited? Evidence suggests a special-interest group that included the DuPont petrochemical company, Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon (Dupont's major financial backer), and the newspaper man William Randolph Hearst mounted a yellow journalism campaign against hemp. Hearst deliberately confused psychoactive marijuana with industrial hemp, one of humankind's oldest and most useful resources. DuPont and Hearst were heavily invested in timber and petroleum resources, and saw hemp as a threat to their empires. Petroleum companies also knew that petroleum emits noxious, toxic byproducts when incompletely burned, as in an auto engine. In 1937 DuPont, Mellen and Hearst were able to push a marijuana prohibition bill through Congress in less than three months, which destroyed the domestic hemp industry. From : Hemp Powered Car Tours US, Canada http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/2000/12/hemp/ __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [biofuel] Petroleum's Role in Hemp Prohibition
I remember reading Diesels original goal was an engine to run on powdered coal. Kirk I think so. He couldn't get it to work right though IIRC. I'm trying to find out more about the relationship between hemp fuel and the crackdown on cannabis. Keith -Original Message- From: Keith Addison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 10:17 AM To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: [biofuel] Petroleum's Role in Hemp Prohibition This isn't very authoritative - not much detail, no references to support it. Anyone know any more about this? Best Keith http://crrh.org/cannabis/biodiesel.html Biodiesel We believe that the main reason hemp is illegal today is because of biodiesel's potential. The first diesel engines (by Rudolph Diesel in 1894) were invented to run on hempseed oil; petroleum wasn't synthesized to mimic hempseed oil for over a decade. Therefore hempseed oil was the primary fuel for automobiles for over 30 years after the invention of the first internal combustion engine. Entry into the biodiesel market has very low capital entry requirements and is, therefore, not centralized. Among the benefits of using biodiesel: Start an economic boom! Use vegetable seed oil (biodiesel). Run any diesel engine with no engine conversion at all. Make biodiesel from hemp, soybean, rapeseed/canola and safflower seed oil Save family farms. Return economic control to the people! Naturally decentralize wealth. Stop global warming. Stop A lot of toxic pollution. Create a useful byproduct: food. Petroleum is Out of Balance; Biodiesel is Sustainable and In Balance. In comparison, petroleum is capital intensive and, therefore, centralized. To maintain market share, the petroleum industries wanted to prohibit hemp. See a video in Hemp TV showing lies they used to protect petroleum and other capital intensive industries. http://crrh.org/cannabis/petroleum.html CRRH: Petroleum is capital intensive and pollutes. Use vegetable oil, biodeisel! Petroleum is Capital Intensive It takes Hundreds of Millions of Dollars to Locate and Pump Petroleum out of the Earth. It takes Tens of Billions of Dollars to Build and Operate a Facility to Refine Petroleum. Facts about Oil Refineries and Your Health: * Oil refineries dump thousands of pounds of toxic chemicals into communities every day! * Many toxic chemicals released by refineries into the environment cause cancer, birth defects, and serious health problems. * Odors from refineries can be more than a nuisance, such as hydrogen sulfide, which can cause serious health impacts or death. * Leaks in equipment, oil spills and flares can dump dangerous pollution anywhere. We don't have to use petroleum. Biodiesel is the solution! Brought to you by the Campaign for the Restoration and Regulation of Hemp (CRRH), working to restore the plant that produces more fiber, protein and oil than any other plant on our planet. Petroleum's Role in Hemp Prohibition Popularizing an obscure Mexican slang word, these powerful interests -- including William Randolph Hearst (the namesake of yellow journalism), who had bought up entire forests for his vast chain of newspapers -- orchestrated a nationwide campaign that played on racism and wildly lurid and inaccurate reports in order to prohibit hemp. They said that a deadly new drug called marijuana caused users to go insane and uncontrollably kill their family and friends. We call that misinformation campaign Reefer Madness (click here to see a Hemp TV clip from the movie), after a 1938 movie popularizing this hoax. The basis of marijuana prohibition is filled with lies and overt racism. Everyone knew what hemp was, but very few understood that marijuana was hemp when it was prohibited in 1937. Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [biofuel] Petroleum's Role in Hemp Prohibition
I remember reading Diesels original goal was an engine to run on powdered coal. Kirk -Original Message- From: Keith Addison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 10:17 AM To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: [biofuel] Petroleum's Role in Hemp Prohibition This isn't very authoritative - not much detail, no references to support it. Anyone know any more about this? Best Keith http://crrh.org/cannabis/biodiesel.html Biodiesel We believe that the main reason hemp is illegal today is because of biodiesel's potential. The first diesel engines (by Rudolph Diesel in 1894) were invented to run on hempseed oil; petroleum wasn't synthesized to mimic hempseed oil for over a decade. Therefore hempseed oil was the primary fuel for automobiles for over 30 years after the invention of the first internal combustion engine. Entry into the biodiesel market has very low capital entry requirements and is, therefore, not centralized. Among the benefits of using biodiesel: Start an economic boom! Use vegetable seed oil (biodiesel). Run any diesel engine with no engine conversion at all. Make biodiesel from hemp, soybean, rapeseed/canola and safflower seed oil Save family farms. Return economic control to the people! Naturally decentralize wealth. Stop global warming. Stop A lot of toxic pollution. Create a useful byproduct: food. Petroleum is Out of Balance; Biodiesel is Sustainable and In Balance. In comparison, petroleum is capital intensive and, therefore, centralized. To maintain market share, the petroleum industries wanted to prohibit hemp. See a video in Hemp TV showing lies they used to protect petroleum and other capital intensive industries. http://crrh.org/cannabis/petroleum.html CRRH: Petroleum is capital intensive and pollutes. Use vegetable oil, biodeisel! Petroleum is Capital Intensive It takes Hundreds of Millions of Dollars to Locate and Pump Petroleum out of the Earth. It takes Tens of Billions of Dollars to Build and Operate a Facility to Refine Petroleum. Facts about Oil Refineries and Your Health: * Oil refineries dump thousands of pounds of toxic chemicals into communities every day! * Many toxic chemicals released by refineries into the environment cause cancer, birth defects, and serious health problems. * Odors from refineries can be more than a nuisance, such as hydrogen sulfide, which can cause serious health impacts or death. * Leaks in equipment, oil spills and flares can dump dangerous pollution anywhere. We don't have to use petroleum. Biodiesel is the solution! Brought to you by the Campaign for the Restoration and Regulation of Hemp (CRRH), working to restore the plant that produces more fiber, protein and oil than any other plant on our planet. Petroleum's Role in Hemp Prohibition Popularizing an obscure Mexican slang word, these powerful interests -- including William Randolph Hearst (the namesake of yellow journalism), who had bought up entire forests for his vast chain of newspapers -- orchestrated a nationwide campaign that played on racism and wildly lurid and inaccurate reports in order to prohibit hemp. They said that a deadly new drug called marijuana caused users to go insane and uncontrollably kill their family and friends. We call that misinformation campaign Reefer Madness (click here to see a Hemp TV clip from the movie), after a 1938 movie popularizing this hoax. The basis of marijuana prohibition is filled with lies and overt racism. Everyone knew what hemp was, but very few understood that marijuana was hemp when it was prohibited in 1937. Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.423 / Virus Database: 238 - Release Date: 11/25/2002 Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [biofuel] Petroleum's Role in Hemp Prohibition
Anslinger was financed by the Brewers Association of America. They financed Reefer Madness I think. DuPont and another was in there for paint oils as I recall. Then fiber. Hemp pants wear like iron. Kirk -Original Message- From: Keith Addison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 10:58 AM To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [biofuel] Petroleum's Role in Hemp Prohibition I remember reading Diesels original goal was an engine to run on powdered coal. Kirk I think so. He couldn't get it to work right though IIRC. I'm trying to find out more about the relationship between hemp fuel and the crackdown on cannabis. Keith -Original Message- From: Keith Addison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 10:17 AM To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: [biofuel] Petroleum's Role in Hemp Prohibition This isn't very authoritative - not much detail, no references to support it. Anyone know any more about this? Best Keith http://crrh.org/cannabis/biodiesel.html Biodiesel We believe that the main reason hemp is illegal today is because of biodiesel's potential. The first diesel engines (by Rudolph Diesel in 1894) were invented to run on hempseed oil; petroleum wasn't synthesized to mimic hempseed oil for over a decade. Therefore hempseed oil was the primary fuel for automobiles for over 30 years after the invention of the first internal combustion engine. Entry into the biodiesel market has very low capital entry requirements and is, therefore, not centralized. Among the benefits of using biodiesel: Start an economic boom! Use vegetable seed oil (biodiesel). Run any diesel engine with no engine conversion at all. Make biodiesel from hemp, soybean, rapeseed/canola and safflower seed oil Save family farms. Return economic control to the people! Naturally decentralize wealth. Stop global warming. Stop A lot of toxic pollution. Create a useful byproduct: food. Petroleum is Out of Balance; Biodiesel is Sustainable and In Balance. In comparison, petroleum is capital intensive and, therefore, centralized. To maintain market share, the petroleum industries wanted to prohibit hemp. See a video in Hemp TV showing lies they used to protect petroleum and other capital intensive industries. http://crrh.org/cannabis/petroleum.html CRRH: Petroleum is capital intensive and pollutes. Use vegetable oil, biodeisel! Petroleum is Capital Intensive It takes Hundreds of Millions of Dollars to Locate and Pump Petroleum out of the Earth. It takes Tens of Billions of Dollars to Build and Operate a Facility to Refine Petroleum. Facts about Oil Refineries and Your Health: * Oil refineries dump thousands of pounds of toxic chemicals into communities every day! * Many toxic chemicals released by refineries into the environment cause cancer, birth defects, and serious health problems. * Odors from refineries can be more than a nuisance, such as hydrogen sulfide, which can cause serious health impacts or death. * Leaks in equipment, oil spills and flares can dump dangerous pollution anywhere. We don't have to use petroleum. Biodiesel is the solution! Brought to you by the Campaign for the Restoration and Regulation of Hemp (CRRH), working to restore the plant that produces more fiber, protein and oil than any other plant on our planet. Petroleum's Role in Hemp Prohibition Popularizing an obscure Mexican slang word, these powerful interests -- including William Randolph Hearst (the namesake of yellow journalism), who had bought up entire forests for his vast chain of newspapers -- orchestrated a nationwide campaign that played on racism and wildly lurid and inaccurate reports in order to prohibit hemp. They said that a deadly new drug called marijuana caused users to go insane and uncontrollably kill their family and friends. We call that misinformation campaign Reefer Madness (click here to see a Hemp TV clip from the movie), after a 1938 movie popularizing this hoax. The basis of marijuana prohibition is filled with lies and overt racism. Everyone knew what hemp was, but very few understood that marijuana was hemp when it was prohibited in 1937. Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.423 / Virus Database: 238 - Release Date: 11/25/2002 Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [biofuel] Petroleum's Role in Hemp Prohibition
I'm currently constructing a website to address this very issuewith so much documentation, your head will spin But in short...yes, Rudolph Diesel had hempseed oil in mind when developing his engine As an aside, Henry Ford also was a big supporter of hemp- biodeisel. In 1940 he constructed an entire automobile(save for engine and chasis) from hemp plastics and ran it on hemp fuel... At 10:59 AM 12/10/02 -0700, kirk wrote: I remember reading Diesels original goal was an engine to run on powdered coal. Kirk -Original Message- From: Keith Addison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 10:17 AM To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: [biofuel] Petroleum's Role in Hemp Prohibition This isn't very authoritative - not much detail, no references to support it. Anyone know any more about this? Best Keith http://crrh.org/cannabis/biodiesel.html Biodiesel We believe that the main reason hemp is illegal today is because of biodiesel's potential. The first diesel engines (by Rudolph Diesel in 1894) were invented to run on hempseed oil; petroleum wasn't synthesized to mimic hempseed oil for over a decade. Therefore hempseed oil was the primary fuel for automobiles for over 30 years after the invention of the first internal combustion engine. Entry into the biodiesel market has very low capital entry requirements and is, therefore, not centralized. Among the benefits of using biodiesel: Start an economic boom! Use vegetable seed oil (biodiesel). Run any diesel engine with no engine conversion at all. Make biodiesel from hemp, soybean, rapeseed/canola and safflower seed oil Save family farms. Return economic control to the people! Naturally decentralize wealth. Stop global warming. Stop A lot of toxic pollution. Create a useful byproduct: food. Petroleum is Out of Balance; Biodiesel is Sustainable and In Balance. In comparison, petroleum is capital intensive and, therefore, centralized. To maintain market share, the petroleum industries wanted to prohibit hemp. See a video in Hemp TV showing lies they used to protect petroleum and other capital intensive industries. http://crrh.org/cannabis/petroleum.html CRRH: Petroleum is capital intensive and pollutes. Use vegetable oil, biodeisel! Petroleum is Capital Intensive It takes Hundreds of Millions of Dollars to Locate and Pump Petroleum out of the Earth. It takes Tens of Billions of Dollars to Build and Operate a Facility to Refine Petroleum. Facts about Oil Refineries and Your Health: * Oil refineries dump thousands of pounds of toxic chemicals into communities every day! * Many toxic chemicals released by refineries into the environment cause cancer, birth defects, and serious health problems. * Odors from refineries can be more than a nuisance, such as hydrogen sulfide, which can cause serious health impacts or death. * Leaks in equipment, oil spills and flares can dump dangerous pollution anywhere. We don't have to use petroleum. Biodiesel is the solution! Brought to you by the Campaign for the Restoration and Regulation of Hemp (CRRH), working to restore the plant that produces more fiber, protein and oil than any other plant on our planet. Petroleum's Role in Hemp Prohibition Popularizing an obscure Mexican slang word, these powerful interests -- including William Randolph Hearst (the namesake of yellow journalism), who had bought up entire forests for his vast chain of newspapers -- orchestrated a nationwide campaign that played on racism and wildly lurid and inaccurate reports in order to prohibit hemp. They said that a deadly new drug called marijuana caused users to go insane and uncontrollably kill their family and friends. We call that misinformation campaign Reefer Madness (click here to see a Hemp TV clip from the movie), after a 1938 movie popularizing this hoax. The basis of marijuana prohibition is filled with lies and overt racism. Everyone knew what hemp was, but very few understood that marijuana was hemp when it was prohibited in 1937. Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.423 / Virus Database: 238 - Release Date: 11/25/2002 Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.419 / Virus Database: 235 - Release Date:
RE: [biofuel] Petroleum's Role in Hemp Prohibition
I've read that when Diesel invented his engine, his intent was to use SVO as fuel. I also read that Rockefeller, Getty, and the boys were having a hard time getting farmers to sign oil leases, because the farmers could make more money from hemp. I'm sorry that I don't remember the sources, I'll try to find some references on the Web. kris __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [biofuel] Petroleum's Role in Hemp Prohibition
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 02:16:42 +0900, you wrote: This isn't very authoritative - not much detail, no references to support it. Anyone know any more about this? Best Keith Short answer: I don't know any more about it, but do not dismiss it entirely out of hand, as a partial explanation. I doubt that it is the only reason Hemp is so irrationally criminalized in the U.S. Long Answer: Regardless of any given theory for the underlying real reasons Hemp is excluded from legalized commerce in the states, it's something that irks me. When I was deciding as to which issues to really settle in on and research and focus on, in a narrower way, for things that would make for good discussion and activism (i.e., my hacking), opposing the Drug War was on my short list, but I ultimately chose some other areas. I think that U.S. exportation of our War On Drugs (i.e., our War on U.S. Citizens, Entrepeneurs and Citizens of other countries) is one of the most powerful examples anyone could name of horrific unjust slimy US Policy, not only domestic policy but Foreign as well. We have exported Hate, Destruction, Death, Black Marketeering, non-free markets (in any real sense) and anti-entrepeneurialism, while at the same time sending our dollars abroad to buy the drugs we preach must be stamped out. It is sickening to me that we have done this, helped bring Caponeism for example to Columbia and Baja California, and I can only console myself that it is not the only thing the U.S. has done, that my country has some good that it has done and tried to do, and that while the Drug War is one of the great-untalked-abouts and great-injustices, it is not the sole defining characteristic of my country. At least, that is my opinion. I am in a bit of a hurry today and hope that I am not putting things overly strongly. The prevention of production and trade of Hemp is only perhaps the most obviously stupid thing here, because even if one things that bad drugs should be made illegal, the benefits of Hemp are so obvious, and the fact that it generally is not the same strain (I guess is more or less the right way to put it) as the plant which is grown for its narcotic effect, that there's sort of this dichotomy where everyone sort of agrees that even if we keep the drug war in place, the war on Hemp is in the eyes of some, less justifiable. I've heard it said that part of what makes U.S. paper currency unique is that hemp is used in the paper, but I'm not sure if this is true. Maybe the whole matter, the whole giant friggin hypocrisy of it all, makes me so upset that I decided to focus on less upsetting things like the needless throwing away of American Economy and Policy Independence to those who have zero interest in a sustainable future for any decent values, economies, societies, or whatever, particular to those whose focus is to prevent progress in energy technologies. Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [biofuel] Petroleum's Role in Hemp Prohibition
yes, diesel used peanut oil. Steve Spence Subscribe to the Renewable Energy Newsletter Discussion Boards. Read about Sustainable Technology: http://www.green-trust.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Kris Book [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 2:26 PM Subject: RE: [biofuel] Petroleum's Role in Hemp Prohibition I've read that when Diesel invented his engine, his intent was to use SVO as fuel. I also read that Rockefeller, Getty, and the boys were having a hard time getting farmers to sign oil leases, because the farmers could make more money from hemp. I'm sorry that I don't remember the sources, I'll try to find some references on the Web. kris __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [biofuel] Petroleum's Role in Hemp Prohibition
powdered coal was his original intent. it was publicly run at the worlds fair on peanut oil. I have found no evidence that hemp was ever considered, especially considering the low oil content of hemp. Steve Spence Subscribe to the Renewable Energy Newsletter Discussion Boards. Read about Sustainable Technology: http://www.green-trust.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 12:59 PM Subject: RE: [biofuel] Petroleum's Role in Hemp Prohibition I remember reading Diesels original goal was an engine to run on powdered coal. Kirk -Original Message- From: Keith Addison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 10:17 AM To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: [biofuel] Petroleum's Role in Hemp Prohibition This isn't very authoritative - not much detail, no references to support it. Anyone know any more about this? Best Keith http://crrh.org/cannabis/biodiesel.html Biodiesel We believe that the main reason hemp is illegal today is because of biodiesel's potential. The first diesel engines (by Rudolph Diesel in 1894) were invented to run on hempseed oil; petroleum wasn't synthesized to mimic hempseed oil for over a decade. Therefore hempseed oil was the primary fuel for automobiles for over 30 years after the invention of the first internal combustion engine. Entry into the biodiesel market has very low capital entry requirements and is, therefore, not centralized. Among the benefits of using biodiesel: Start an economic boom! Use vegetable seed oil (biodiesel). Run any diesel engine with no engine conversion at all. Make biodiesel from hemp, soybean, rapeseed/canola and safflower seed oil Save family farms. Return economic control to the people! Naturally decentralize wealth. Stop global warming. Stop A lot of toxic pollution. Create a useful byproduct: food. Petroleum is Out of Balance; Biodiesel is Sustainable and In Balance. In comparison, petroleum is capital intensive and, therefore, centralized. To maintain market share, the petroleum industries wanted to prohibit hemp. See a video in Hemp TV showing lies they used to protect petroleum and other capital intensive industries. http://crrh.org/cannabis/petroleum.html CRRH: Petroleum is capital intensive and pollutes. Use vegetable oil, biodeisel! Petroleum is Capital Intensive It takes Hundreds of Millions of Dollars to Locate and Pump Petroleum out of the Earth. It takes Tens of Billions of Dollars to Build and Operate a Facility to Refine Petroleum. Facts about Oil Refineries and Your Health: * Oil refineries dump thousands of pounds of toxic chemicals into communities every day! * Many toxic chemicals released by refineries into the environment cause cancer, birth defects, and serious health problems. * Odors from refineries can be more than a nuisance, such as hydrogen sulfide, which can cause serious health impacts or death. * Leaks in equipment, oil spills and flares can dump dangerous pollution anywhere. We don't have to use petroleum. Biodiesel is the solution! Brought to you by the Campaign for the Restoration and Regulation of Hemp (CRRH), working to restore the plant that produces more fiber, protein and oil than any other plant on our planet. Petroleum's Role in Hemp Prohibition Popularizing an obscure Mexican slang word, these powerful interests -- including William Randolph Hearst (the namesake of yellow journalism), who had bought up entire forests for his vast chain of newspapers -- orchestrated a nationwide campaign that played on racism and wildly lurid and inaccurate reports in order to prohibit hemp. They said that a deadly new drug called marijuana caused users to go insane and uncontrollably kill their family and friends. We call that misinformation campaign Reefer Madness (click here to see a Hemp TV clip from the movie), after a 1938 movie popularizing this hoax. The basis of marijuana prohibition is filled with lies and overt racism. Everyone knew what hemp was, but very few understood that marijuana was hemp when it was prohibited in 1937. Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.423 / Virus Database: 238 - Release Date: 11/25/2002 Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject
