Yesterday, I had the opportunity to watch a wonderful documentary on Hemp called “the Hemp Revolution”. If you get an hour in a day, then I recommend that you check this documentary out as it explores many different angles of the hemp rise, fall, and potential rise again.
If you are interested in seeing the documentary in its entirety, then I am posted a link here for your view. Full Hemp Documentary, but here is a clip for you to get an overview here:
Hemp History
The use of hemp has been around for thousands of years. I know this may be hard to believe, but it is true. There have been documented evidence of the ancient Egyptians using the plant, the Chinese using it back in it’s Dynasty era, India has used it for thousands of years, the aboriginal Australians, South Americans, and even those in the Americas thousands of years ago.
Knowing that hemp has been used for food, clothing, canvases, fibers, oil, a smoking substance and more, leads us to wonder how and why did hemp all but disappear from the modern productive world? Well, this documentary goes into this as well, but we will leave that for later.
Just understand that hemp has not always been a damned drug in this world and we believe one day it will be back and thus will free the people from the entrapments of corporate greed. Cause once you understand how and why hemp was banned in the United States, the influence the United States has on the rest of the world, then you will get why this was a corporate decision and not the will of the people. But we will get into that in a moment.
The United States was founded on the backbone of the hemp movement. All paper during the founding of the country was created on hemp. In fact, the declaration of Independence was printed on 100% hemp paper.
Hemp, the Forest, and Paper
Hemp is critical to the forest because it has the capacity to save the forest from destruction of people. Each year, people consume billions of pounds of paper for reading, books, wrapping gifts and a myriad of other activities. But each one of these activities takes trees to create the paper used. These trees are being torn down day and day in the forest of the world. This may not seem like a big deal, but at the rate we are on today, this simply isn’t a sustainable future. Eventually, we will run out of trees to continue feeding our paper fetish.
Not to mention that the paper that are generated by wood has a lower quality of paper than compared to hemp. These papers need to be treated and infested with tons and tons of chemicals that treat the wood and turn it into useful paper. These chemicals run off into the water streams around the plants and infect the environment around it. The pollution from making paper is crazy and it makes no sense when there is an option that grows from the ground.
Hemp paper does not need any chemicals or pesticides to grow, unlike cotton. So hemp is great for the environment. And in paper production, the chemicals to make paper useful are not needed in hemp paper. It is just completely friendly to the environment.
More on Hemp
There are many, many more uses for hemp and the derivatives that it produces that it isn’t even funny. If people really want to make a difference in this world, then they have to wake up to the reality that this plant was put here by the Gods to help the people, not harm them.
But until hemp is legalized, we will smoke in protest. Smoke one to the greatness of the hemp plant!
