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Natural Vision
The word Canvas is derived from the word cannabis. Please
allow me to elucidate:
Canvas, noun, F. canevas, LL canabacius, hempen
cloth, L cannabis hemp....a strong cloth made of hemp.
Websters 1902.
Now think about that for a moment. Canvas. That means
rope, bags, sails, paper, shoes, flags, tents; even
the very first blue jeans were canvas for crying out loud!
I'm sure there were plenty of other things too. I can't
even imagine it, because I was not there, and because this
material has been Outlawed here in America throughout the
whole of my natural born life.
The forces behind hemps illegality were Wood-Pulp
Paper, and Petroleum Plastics. Big Paper attacked hemp
throughout the 1920's and 30's because a decorticator (Fibre
Separator) had been developed and patented in 1917 by George
W. Schlicten, and by the 20's it was beginning to make
wood-pulp paper unprofitable. Petroleum interests colluded
with paper interests because people like Henry Ford and
Edison and Others were inventing ways to make some very good
plastics and even combustible fuels from hemp.
So in a hush-hush, rush-rush kind of legislation, on
a hot summer night in 1937, hemp was effectively blacklisted
and banned, made illegal. There was no public outcry over
this because prohibition sentiment ran strong during this
time period, especially concerning alcohol, and this
sentiment had been given a real shot in the arm from a media
financed by Big Paper, and Petroleum interests. A well
planned and executed disinformation campaign portrayed the
flower of hemp, marijuana, as evil. The Hearst papers were
singularly guilty as they yellowed the world with stories of
black jazz musicians smoking the evil marijuana, then raping
white women. They were expert at fanning the fires of
racism, and this is the main reason behind much of the
racial strife in this country, to this day. Ill founded
notions are the literal foundation of society here, notions
based on malicious lies for the profit of a few elite
industrial operators. The truth is this: marijuana, the
flower of mountain grown hemp, is a natural pharmacological
agent, as is aspirin and numerous other curatives, and has
been known among doctors and healers throughout the world
for its psychoactive and medicinal properties for well over
three thousand years. The smearing of the hemp flower
ensured Big Papers lock on the profitability of its huge
virgin forest holdings in the west, and opened the door for
Petroleum Plastics monopolys.
Truly the beginning of a New World Order, based not on
hard work, enlightment, and innovation, but, rather, on
special interest manipulations, subterfuge, and outright
lies.
Since then we have seen gargantuan chunks of
manufacturing become controlled by petroleum plastics, and
Moved OUT of America. It has made manufacturing quick and
easy and cheap. And shoddy too. The death of Americas
awareness concerning the quality and origin of its consumer
goods is inexcusable, because it pertains directly to the
survival of our freedom. We are less free now than during
any other time in our history, and its not getting any
better. Our power as a people has been destroyed.
By disallowing hemp as a resource we have trashed the
environment with petroleum insecticides, shut off all
alternatives to cleaner fuels for our motorized society,
removed a major pain medication from the sick and injured,
thereby actually CREATING pain, and we have all but given
away the primest farmland in America. But there is hope,
and there are still warriors here, and though the burden is
large, three generations worth at least, the quest for
liberty and fairness has been carried on, and things are
swinging toward sanity again. We may still have time. Lets
hope, and work.
North Dakota, Virginia, and Hawaii are 3 of the
states who have enacted industrial hemp legislation this
year, allowing their farmers to once again produce this
prolific crop, and there are at least 9 more states with
legislation pending. Canadas first crop of industrial hemp
was harvested in 1998, and it was plentiful and healthy. It
will be used to produce good cloth and paper, as well as a
high grade oil from the seeds, alongwith supplying the raw
materials for experiments in ethanol production.
The Oglala Sioux are right now farming and harvesting
industrial hemp at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South
Dakota, giving courage and inspiration to other tribes
throughout the Great Plains. These Native Americans are
creating opportunity from their situation, and using their
sovereign status to their advantage. There is no reason
Florida should not be among the enlightened, and when I
visit my spirit-place, The Everglades, I realize that
really, it is way Past time for that.
A real advantage of hemp is that it needs no
chemicals to survive and thrive, and it grows well almost
everywhere. Hemp grows in excess of 30 feet tall, and for
sheer volume of product, and quality of fiber, is second to
none. In fact, Industrial Hemp is perhaps the most
efficient crop known, because of its very diverse overall
usefulness, and its exceptional energy return. When hemp is
harvested, we are literally harvesting the sun, as nearly
98% of the energy in, can be captured as energy out, and
that includes the awesome energies of the sun itself, which
of course fuels the plant as it grows. The light of the sun
is our free and clean energy, it is just up to us to take
advantage of it. It is the difference between stumbling
around in the dark, bumping into things, and seeing the
world in the sunshine, seeing the world with Natural Vision.
By Bill Gallagher
6/27/98 0138LThonotosassaFL33592
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