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Why hemp was banned

When studied, the history of hemp prohibition can only be deemed a disgrace, exposing, as it appears to turn out, some of the greatest villains ever to set foot upon the earth. Despite the anti-hemp propaganda of these individuals, the fact is that this versatile plant has been used in numerous cultures around the world since the dawn of civilization:

Hemp (cannabis) was also used for making cloth in temperate Europe, Since it was resistant to seawater, it was particularly useful for making sails. Hemp seeds occur in a few European sites from LBK [c. 5500 BCE] onward, and possible hemp cloth was found in a Late Neolithic French site; hemp textiles were certainly in production by the Iron Age in Thrace and Greece, (Jane McIntosh, Handbook of Life in Prehistoric Europe, Oxford University Press, 2009, p. 107)

It is also claimed that "Ötzi the Iceman," a 5,300-year-old mummy found frozen in the Swiss Alps, was discovered to be wearing clothing made of hemp, as well as carrying marijuana in his pouch.

Thousands of uses for amazing hemp

It is said that hemp has up to 50,000 uses, from fiber to fuel to food, but I'll just provide a taste here:

In modern times, hemp has been used for industrial purposes including paper, textiles, biodegradable plastics, construction, health food, fuel, and medical purposes with modest commercial success. In the past three years, commercial success of hemp food products has grown considerably.

Hemp is one of the faster growing biomasses known, producing up to 25 tonnes of dry matter per hectare per year, and one of the earliest domesticated plants known. For a crop, hemp is very environmentally friendly, as it requires few pesticides and no herbicides. ("Hemp," Wikipedia)

A partial list of hemp uses includes (there are many within each category):

food—seeds, oil, flour
medicine—salves, anti-nausea
toiletries—soap, shampoo, lotion
textiles—clothing, towels, bedding, canvas
household products—carpet, detergent, paint, toys
industrial products—paper, concrete, insulation, fuel, car parts

(It should be noted that medical marijuana is a different strain of cannabis that contains significant amounts of the active chemical THC, whereas industrial hemp contains negligible amounts and is not capable of getting anyone "high."

One highly important use of hemp has been in detoxifying nuclear waste, as demonstrated by experiments in the Ukraine, for example, on the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Moreover, hemp fuel could actually replace the dangerous and costly nuclear power industry.

Much of this information about the history and uses of hemp comes from the writings of, among many others, the late great Jack Herer, whose book The Emperor Wears No Clothes has become a classic, with hundreds of thousands of copies bought or given away over the past 25 years. Inspired by these writings, I myself have been a hemp activist for 20 years or so, after I learned about it while in Los Angeles—where I actually met Herer and several other major players in this important field. I once got a complaint for faxing a hemp factsheet to (other) law offices, while another time I stood up at presidential candidate Jerry Brown's press conference and asked the former California governor first about U.S. foreign policy and its repercussions, and then whether or not it was time to seriously consider hemp as a viable solution to many of the world's problems. That was in 1994, and there's a film of the exchange somewhere on Youtube, I'm told.

That title probably should say, "Why hemp could have saved the world all along," because the plant should never have been banned in the first place, and its prohibition has led to untold suffering around the globe. If we—the global human population—had been able to grow the miracle plant hemp (Cannabis genus) locally and to use it for local industries and businesses, including and especially for fuel, we would never have needed to be addicted to oil, for one, an addiction that is at the root of much misery. We would never have allowed ourselves to be lorded over by international oil-mongers whose crimes against humanity have become legion, including wholesale invasion of other lands and slaughter of countless people.

None of this oil-related horror—along with the deplorable degradation of the environment globally—would have occurred if hemp had not been prohibited but had been used wisely and intelligently as a major foundation of human society. Indeed, hemp-based economies could still save the human world, while hemp planting could go a massively long way in rescuing the natural world as well.

"Nobody likes unpleasant surprises, but when Allison Brooke Eastman’s fiancé found out four months ago just how high her student loan debt was, he had a particularly strong reaction: he broke off the engagement within three days.

Ms. Eastman said she had told him early on in their relationship that she had over $100,000 of debt. But, she said, even she didn’t know what the true balance was; like a car buyer who focuses on only the monthly payment, she wrote 12 checks a year for about $1,100 each, the minimum possible. She didn’t focus on the bottom line, she said, because it was so profoundly depressing.

But as the couple got closer to their wedding day, she took out all the paperwork and it became clear that her total debt was actually about $170,000. “He accused me of lying,” said Ms. Eastman, 31, a San Francisco X-ray technician and part-time photographer who had run up much of the balance studying for a bachelor’s degree in photography. “But if I was lying, I was lying to myself, not to him. I didn’t really want to know the full amount.”

At a time when even people with no graduate degrees, like Ms. Eastman, often end up six figures in the hole and people getting married for the second time have loads of debt from their earlier lives, it should come as no surprise that debt can bust up engagements. Even when couples disclose their debt in detail, it poses a series of challenges."

ifyalways:
Ikomi
Gini mere dat your hot akara? O furu efu na ezi okwu ka i ji ya kwuo Feli ugwo?.
Anyway,mgbe o bula i di serious,u know where to get me,ukwu m no dia na eche gi.lolEgwuregwu with

agabaI23:
Bia O dika isigo ebe I na-agbo ncha puta? Ka nukwa gi aha m n'onu ozo, ma-akponye gi feli.
O dika ujo adigh atu gi? Eeenkwa! Nke m na-agaghi anu mmiri togbo iko, onwere onye m rara nwunye ya?
Okwa naani okwu akpu n'onu, okwu amu na otu?

agabaI23:
Ikomi i na-agba kititi maka ihuru ify, kedu if I na-acho?

ifyalways:
Ikomi 419,ano m ya.I ji ozi oma dabata? 
Nke a i na wink-i mu.ka m hapukwa icho crotchet m acho. 

ElRazur:
You posted a thread that was most likely closed by a antispam bot and you are moaning like a child?

ifyalways:
Ikomi

pres-elect:
Ikomi i wu uchu.
Ify m, dikwa kiaful maka ikomi nwere oria obiri-n'aja-ocha. And ara na akwukwu na emekwa ya kwa mgbe kwa mgbe.

Ify m o asampete nwayioma m. Akwa nwa.
Ima ihe mere threadia jiri pause-uo wu maka onye mmehie agaba419 ji aka mmehie ya mepeee ogbako Igbo a. Asi na owu onye eziomume dika m mepere threadia, ogaara aga nke oma.

ifyalways:
Ikomus 
Nyeghachi m ego m nyere gi for okpu nnabuenyi ebe obu na i biaghizi.I waited and waited . . . 
Else m ga emepere gi scamming thread.

pres-elect:
Ikomi I Nwaa anwaaa Nara m Ify, mu na gi ga anwu before Xmas ihea Wudi gini sef. Achuola m nwanyi afo iri onweghi nke m chutara, ya awuru ugbua Asa nwa biara hum nanya, Asa nwa kacha ndi Nile m churu na mbu, gi abia inara m ya, lekwa ka m gwa gi o, iwe bia m like this, obi ewurum oku, inwerike iye plantain n'elu obi. Dikwa kiaful

uchu

agabaI23:
^^^ Anyi emepere gi thread ka ndi na-enweghi aka olu bia kwugheriwe

agabaI23:
Achoro m ima?

agabaI23:
Business gi na ya gbakwaa oku.

ifyalways:
Ikomus
D only biz mu na gi puru ime wu na elu akwa. . .ma o buru na Darfur ga enye permission.

ifyalways:
Ikomus
E nyiri m gi mugu?Owu eziokwu na onye o bula bu potential mugu but Mba,a bughim Mugu.Inspired ma already na ego ya alala Fernadapo ,ihe nile wu to make sure na d girl and other inspiring scammers mata na u cant chop pesin money and go just free.If u dont pay,your image and your name wud be dented.

ifyalways:
Ikomus 
Just be kiaful
Ohsis or whatever shes called is the most hypocritical fella on NL.quote me anywhere !
As if she can afford to dash someone 100N,o si from nowhere daputa na ako June 12.
Nwa agboghobia kara obi rie okpurukpu ego onye ozo ha otu a,onye elu kpo ya ka e mezie udo,oju,onye ala kpo ya,oju.MMadu di ndu kporo onwe ya a christian mother a bia ihe odi intrested in awuru aha di girl Inspired postu-ru.If at all no owu ezigbo mmadu,she could have called or contacted her thief god-daughter and talk sense into her head then plead with inspired to take off the whole thing.
bleeping hypocritical goats,im not suprised though,i know her all along.Ihe o na amachaghari na NL no be for me,my eye dey see pass all her show.
Ikomus,Ikomus 
Zere oku,ekwensu na ndi otu ya nile 
Agaba is just sex-starved.Felimbombo gara leave. 
@Grafikdon,anya na ibe ya.O dika i gara regos? 

ifyalways:
Ndi Igbo

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-505977.928.html

Unu lekwa nwanne anyi nwanyi,ebe o tere onwe ya pooti na ihu.
O nwere onye Mbaise no ebe a,lenu foto ya,onye nuru ya gwa ibe ya.Ndi nwere mmadu na USA beware,make your brother no go carry dis one come as wife.Heard shes on world tour with D STOLEN MONEY . . .onye o bula beware.
Ikomi,Presido.Darfur,Romeo,unu nakwa acho okuko igbo . . beware of NNEKA ANYAWU!!!

Beaf:
Ok, Iran's nuclear reactor started some day's ago. Abi di 8 days nefa finis since last week?

Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan has signed into law a new agency that will take over bad debts from the banking system.

The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (Amcon) will attempt to draw the poison out of the country's banks, after a $4bn (£2.6bn) rescue of the nine biggest banks last year.

The banks will be able to replace dud loans with government-guaranteed bonds.

A leader and key staff for Amcon have yet to be appointed.

"The establishment of Amcon is a reflection of the government's commitment to safeguard the interests of depositors, creditors and other stakeholders in the Nigerian financial system, and in doing so rejuvenate the domestic economy," said the president.

The Nigerian government is treading a well worn path, with many governments having set up similar government-backed "bad" banks to help clean up their banking systems.

It is hoped that, with toxic debts off their balance sheets, the Nigerian bank will be able to attract new investors in the private market, and will be better placed to recommence fresh lending to support the economy.

Markets will be keen to discover who will run the agency, as well as the total size of bad debts it will go on to buy from the banks, and what valuation it puts on those debts.

snowdrops:
how can one go about investing in the far east markets?

neily:
I don't believe we Nigerians have a low IQ. These scientists are racists. Which diseases are they talking about?

ChinenyeN:
No. I'm not from Abayi. I'm from Akhuma Imo.

davidylan:
lol i know. If the US government implemented the policies the likes of Tayo-D are crying out for he'd still be in Lagos today.

Negro_Ntns:
Tayo, what did you major in? Please dont tell me economics or pol. science. . .and it had better not be international relations!

*Hauwa*:
yeah why not. you know if ya chesty stones are hard, strong and cute don't follow the ban.
but if it has nursed 5 kids please please heed to the ban.

tpiah:
everybody wants to rule the world

JeSoul:
The middle east does not sell America oil because they like America. They sell us oil because they like our money.

davidylan:
and somebody needs to remind America that muslims have NEVER and will NEVER be of any benefit to America and seek her downfall.

BOMANY:

Perhaps he was talking about Mars

Kobojunkie:
Labeled . . . Saying . . . it is the same thing. The Media is NOT responsible for the views of some of our African brothers and Sisters who have chosen to claim this a "VICTORY" for Africa. So, again, no need to be DISHONEST in this. I have yet to see this advertised anywhere by the media as an AFRICAN thing. I, however, have seen interviews of Africans from Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria etc all somehow claiming this to be for ALL OF AFRICA. Make the distinction please.

There is really no need to continue to try to THROW the media or west under the bus to make some moot point even in this.

By the way, attacking my moniker only helps shoot down your argument the more. If you are confident enough, you would not need to take such cheap shots at me, you do know that, right?