Wednesday July 2, 2008, 4:49 am

2. A NATURAL ENERGY POLICY
BY RICHARD M. DAVIS, CURATOR. U.S.A. HEMP MUSEUM, 1992 ELECTION

Something has happened on the alternative energy front that is so revolutionary that all people connected with or interested in improving the quality of life on our planet should be aware of it. A solar collector has been re-discovered (you probably think this is a joke). Once declared useless by our government in 1937, this collector is so powerful it could replace every type of fossil fuel energy product (oil, coal, and natural gas).

This solar collector is a green plant, one of the most advanced in the plant kingdom. It uses the evenly distributed light of the sun to grow biomass (biologically produced matter). This plant is the earth's number one biomass resource or fastest growing annual plant for agriculture on a worldwide basis, producing up to 14 tons per acre. This is the only biomass source available that is capable of producing all the energy needs of the U.S. and the world.



Henry Ford was an innovator in wood alcohol (methanol) made from hemp.

Bring our dollars home. We need to gain a vision of where we have to go to heal our home, stop the poisons, stop the wars, learn the natural ways, learn to love our common home and our sisters and brothers. We need local, family
Many technologies exist for converting biomass to different forms of energy.
What's needed to solve the problem of global warming is family owned hemp energy farms to lift us out of the death-like grip of big oil; and give promise to future generations of a renewable, sustainable energy source.
Fuel is not synonymous with petroleum, let's get over that.

New annually renewable biomass energy systems will create millions of new jobs.

In case you doubt the power of this miracle plant, consider what else it can do: Replace all wood pulp paper products with a far superior, dioxin-free paper. Provide the strongest textiles, ropes, fabrics, and fibers for clothing (it is softer than cotton); Provide time tested and safer medicines for a hundred or more different medical conditions; Provide high protein food stuffs (soybeans alone have a bit more protein) and high quality vegetable oil (with heart helping Omega 3 fatty acids like fish oil); Provide raw materials for plastics and building materials like composition board; Provide raw materials for 50,000 commercial uses that are economically viable and market competitive; And, oh yes, provide a safe, sane, non-violent recreational drug. For an energy policy we can live with and flourish with for years to come, think hemp. Think Cannabis sativa, the plant. Let's allow competition in the best free market sense. Put it out there, let it fly and be free. Free at last.

Back to energy. Why worry about energy? Let me get your attention: According to The Emperor, eighty per cent (80%) of the total dollar expense of living for each human being is energy cost. That means that 33 hours of each 40 hour work week goes to pay for energy costs in goods and services, whichever way (manufacturing, transportation, heating, cooking, lighting, etc) you purchase.

"Our current fossil energy sources also supply about 80% of the solid and airborne pollution which is slowly poisoning the planet. (See U.S. EPA report 1983-89 on coming world catastrophe from carbon dioxide imbalance caused by burning fossil fuels -(oil, coal, and natural gas) [now called the greenhouse effect]. The cheapest substitute for these expensive and wasteful energy methods is not wind or solar panels, nuclear; geothermal, and the like, but using the evenly distributed light of the sun to grow plant biomass."


GLOBAL WARMING: The Greenpeace Report. Edited by Jeremy Leggett. 1990.
"Forty-nine Nobel-prizewinning scientists have appealed to President Bush (Sr.) to curb greenhouse-gas emissions, professing that 'global warming has emerged as the most serious environmental threat of the 21st century.'"

A decade later another Bush President refuses to cooperate with global concern on global warming.

The American farmer has been displaced by the synthetic fossil fuel people, and we have all paid the price. Who do we want to give our energy dollars to?
We need an exportable, ecologically sound lifestyle to sell to the world. We are a world at need, for food, clean water, shelter, and energy (clean, renewable, natural, almost universal energy from hemp). George Bush had us fight an oil war at a cost of American lives, Iraqi lives, and $61 billion, to save a lifestyle (synthetic oil style) that is not only not exportable but rapidly ruining our country as well.

The Cannabis hemp/marijuana movement is not an undercurrent in this country; it is an undertow. We are going to flood the American people with American hemp history and pride in our connection with this plant. I want you to understand the hard truths that marijuana prohibition has obscured. This plant (or any plant) should never have been made illegal. Our first flag was made of Cannabis hemp/marijuana. Our constitution was written on hemp paper.

The facts are in Jack Herer's book: The Emperor Wears No Clothes: Hemp and the Marijuana Conspiracy, [and Hemp: Lifeline to the Future, by Chris Conrad]. These books are required reading for every American to learn the lost history of hemp, hemp/marijuana prohibition, and how hemp can save the world from energy madness, if we can act immediately to put hemp back into the free market - your market. Then farmers can plant our nations fuel, fiber, paper, medicine, food, plastic and future. It is our choice. How long will we have to wait to establish a sane and survivable lifestyle, based on the natural cycles such as that of hemp.

This is the ecological truth: The sooner we act to end our synthetic society the less damage to earth. We Americans - 5% of the world population - in our drive for more "net worth" and "productivity" use 25% to 40% of the world's energy. As a country, we have been horribly deceived for the past 54 years. Long enough. Never again. The repression of information about hemp has cost the U.S. about 80% of our petroleum reserves by the year 2000. Add to that the 70% of our forests that did not have to be cut down for making paper. Add to that too many family farms gone. Add to that the 50,000 Americans and the 10,000 Canadians killed annually by acid rain from burning high-sulfur coal.

The world struggle for money is actually a struggle for energy, as it is through energy that we may produce food, shelter, transportation and entertainment. As we have seen with the Bush Administration, it is this struggle which often erupts into open war. Ultimately, whether from too much pollution, too many wars, too high a price, the world has no other rational environmental choice but to give up fossil fuels.

Because of the second prohibition that surrounds Cannabis hemp/marijuana, we are not told the truth even by our own U.S. Environmental Protection Agency scientists. Hemp is the home grown, annually renewable, CHEAPEST source of energy.


"Rather than as a crisis, the energy problem can be viewed as a challenge and opportunity." - 1983. California Agriculture.


"A co-generation system for converting walnut shells into energy was built by Diamond Walnut Growers to supply power for its Stockton plant. The cooperative also markets energy to local utility companies." - California Agriculture, University of California, 1983.

Wednesday July 2, 2008, 5:19 am

This is the ecological truth: The sooner we act to end our synthetic society the less damage to earth. We Americans - 5% of the world population - in our drive for more "net worth" and "productivity" use 25% to 40% of the world's energy. As a country, we have been horribly deceived for the past 54 years. Long enough. Never again. The repression of information about hemp has cost the U.S. about 80% of our petroleum reserves by the year 2000. Add to that the 70% of our forests that did not have to be cut down for making paper. Add to that too many family farms gone. Add to that the 50,000 Americans and the 10,000 Canadians killed annually by acid rain from burning high-sulfur coal.

The world struggle for money is actually a struggle for energy, as it is through energy that we may produce food, shelter, transportation and entertainment. As we have seen with the Bush Administration, it is this struggle which often erupts into open war. Ultimately, whether from too much pollution, too many wars, too high a price, the world has no other rational environmental choice but to give up fossil fuels.

Because of the second prohibition that surrounds Cannabis hemp/marijuana, we are not told the truth even by our own U.S. Environmental Protection Agency scientists. Hemp is the home grown, annually renewable, CHEAPEST source of energy.

Wednesday July 2, 2008, 5:48 am

The February 1938 issue of Popular Mechanics magazine heralded hemp as the "new billion-dollar crop," saying it had 25,000 uses. Today, it is a base element for textiles, paper, construction materials, car parts, food and body care products.

Wednesday July 2, 2008, 6:43 am

The Plant That Can Save Mother Earth - Is a ..

WEED !..Hugh Downs Commentary on Hemp

Wednesday July 2, 2008, 2:54 pm
Because it is so inexpensive and has so many uses, that is exactly why we will never get it legalized. It would put the big drug companies out of business, big oil companies. I think we should put our full weight against those who wish to keep this supressed. Think how much better off we would be in every aspect of our lives.

Saturday July 5, 2008, 9:30 am
Thanks for the post, Scott. This is fascinating information. We should all do some more reading on this topic. There was a program on years ago about the importance of hemp in the British Empire. Perhaps we should get back on the hemp bandwagon and not worry about people smoking it for fun.

Sunday July 6, 2008, 10:23 am
And not only does Hemp save our Earth,Hemp makes excellent T Shirts,like the Wake Up!Save Our Earth T Shirts.More to come..............you'll see.