Dec 02 2008
The Bobo says - Show Us ‘Them Guys’ was Down Wit Hemp
We Were in the Bobo Carnival of Politics - here’s the poop; and our retort follows.
Here we are - once again. Considering it was Thanksgiving Week - we still had a pretty good turnout with the submissions. I’m thinking this will probably be what it will be like through to the rest of the year as well given this being the holiday season and all! Hopefully, we’ll pick back up again after January. Also, you’ll notice a common theme in the majority of these posts (bailouts, personal responsibility, and the economy).
Democrats
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posted at BadGalsRadio Daily Blog, saying, “We are suggesting that the President Elect Barack Obama consider the most viable instant economic options available; including the industrialization of hemp and hemp products. if it was good enough for the founding fathers and he’s a constitutionalist he will recognize the relationship and put america back on the right economic trail.”
Welcome to the Carnival Ausetkmt. BTW - what prompted this latest round of pro-hemp articles on the blogosphere? Yours is about the 10th I’ve seen this week. Irregardless of what started it - I would have to agree with this post. Yes, there are some of us out here on the right that do know the difference between agricultural hemp and recreational marijuana. I don’t know the history - perhaps you can fill us in - what prompted the country to move away from hemp products? It is indeed a durable plant and can be used in a variety of manners. However, I don’t think this is the savior of our economic woes. Additionally, you stated that our forefathers were “users.” Are you referring to the hemp or the marijuana? If you’re talking about MJ - it would be great if you could provide some documented testimony.
Since I am a loyal constitutional conservative, and I read the founding fathers regularly - I have never come across anything that even hinted that any of those guys would sneak out behind Constitution Hall to take in a few tokes!
Well Now Mr Bobo Clown, we’d like to say Thank Ya Thank Ya Thank Ya for recognizing the facts. we know that the majority of America is as interested as we are in ‘gittin er goin’ again.. to coin a bushism.
as to your suggestions we’d like to start by blowin a lil time check for those out there not aboard the starship enterprise with us, It’s Four Twenty up in this mug okay - yeah fo twenny.
we’re busy doing homework on your questions - we’d like to pass along a really great website which has lots of history, facts and points to legal precedents involving Hemp and Marijuana.
Robert Nelson has produced “History of Hemp”
first off, lets take a look at a few facts from american history, shall we.
I propose that we start where it all began, on those hemp rigged scooners making their way to prosperity and independence in the colonies. now it’s clear that the ships were bringing them here to work and send something back - but how and what ? that’s the real question. we took that first, and when we look at the economist approach to this we see the facts laid down in “The Emperor Has No Clothes”. yeah.. you remember that lil tome right ?
this is from the Illuminati News - a highly respected and well known conspiracy site:
Marijuana does NOT pose a threat to the general public. Marijuana is very much a danger to the oil companies, alcohol, tobacco industries and a large number of chemical corporations. Various big businesses, with plenty of dollars and influence, have suppressed the truth from the people.The truth is if marijuana was utilized for its vast array of commercial products, it would create an industrial atomic bomb! Entrepreneurs have not been educated on the product potential of pot. The super rich have conspired to spread misinformation about an extremely versatile plant that, if used properly, would ruin their companies.
There they said it, Hemp would ruin the industrialists strangle hold on America’s Tax Base. could you imagine if every one of these vacant lots were planted with Hemp. the community where it exists, could harvest and market their locally grown product to replenish their community; not an outside for profit not people industrial machine.
This I believe is the real reason that Hemp was required to be grown initially by the brits. this could also be the chief reason that taxes were required to be paid in Hemp.
Here’s a few more points that I think are important to clarify why Hemp in America; should be de-criminalized and reindustrialized:
The facts cited here, with references, are generally verifiable in the Encyclopedia Britannica which was printed on hemp paper for 150 years:
* All schoolbooks were made from hemp or flax paper until the 1880s; Hemp Paper Reconsidered, Jack Frazier, 1974.
* It was LEGAL TO PAY TAXES WITH HEMP in America from 1631 until the early 1800s; LA Times, Aug. 12, 1981.
* REFUSING TO GROW HEMP in America during the 17th and 18th Centuries WAS AGAINST THE LAW! You could be jailed in Virginia for refusing to grow hemp from 1763 to 1769; Hemp in Colonial Virginia, G. M. Herdon.
* George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and other founding fathers GREW HEMP; Washington and Jefferson Diaries. Jefferson smuggled hemp seeds from China to France then to America.
* Benjamin Franklin owned one of the first paper mills in America and it processed hemp. Also, the War of 1812 was fought over hemp. Napoleon wanted to cut off Moscow’s export to England; Emperor Wears No Clothes, Jack Herer.
* For thousands of years, 90% of all ships’ sails and rope were made from hemp. The word ‘canvas’ is Dutch for cannabis; Webster’s New World Dictionary.
* 80% of all textiles, fabrics, clothes, linen, drapes, bed sheets, etc. were made from hemp until the 1820s with the introduction of the cotton gin.
* The first Bibles, maps, charts, Betsy Ross’s flag, the first drafts of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were made from hemp; U.S. Government Archives.
* The first crop grown in many states was hemp. 1850 was a peak year for Kentucky producing 40,000 tons. Hemp was the largest cash crop until the 20th Century; State Archives.
* Oldest known records of hemp farming go back 5000 years in China, although hemp industrialization probably goes back to ancient Egypt.
* Rembrants, Gainsboroughs, Van Goghs as well as most early canvas paintings were principally painted on hemp linen.
* In 1916, the U.S. Government predicted that by the 1940s all paper would come from hemp and that no more trees need to be cut down. Government studies report that 1 acre of hemp equals 4.1 acres of trees. Plans were in the works to implement such programs; Department of Agriculture
* Quality paints and varnishes were made from hemp seed oil until 1937. 58,000 tons of hemp seeds were used in America for paint products in 1935; Sherman Williams Paint Co. testimony before Congress against the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act.
* Henry Ford’s first Model-T was built to run on hemp gasoline and the CAR ITSELF WAS CONTRUCTED FROM HEMP! On his large estate, Ford was photographed among his hemp fields. The car, ‘grown from the soil,’ had hemp plastic panels whose impact strength was 10 times stronger than steel; Popular Mechanics, 1941.
* Hemp called ‘Billion Dollar Crop.’ It was the first time a cash crop had a business potential to exceed a billion dollars; Popular Mechanics, Feb., 1938.
* Mechanical Engineering Magazine (Feb. 1938) published an article entitled ‘The Most Profitable and Desirable Crop that Can be Grown.’ It stated that if hemp was cultivated using 20th Century technology, it would be the single largest agricultural crop in the U.S. and the rest of the world.
I seriously doubt that I’ll find any proof from history that the founding fathers fired one up out behind constitution hall; but if things keep going down this path economically speaking - the present leading fathers will need to hit that 420 break to chill out from the pressure drop; no doubt.
You know Barney Frank (d-ny) Blows One Back.. No Doubt,
I suggest if you don’t have a cool tasty beverage, that you get one. I’m putting my street corner preacher hat on now, so get ready for the ushers to close the doors and the fans to come on up in here.. you know it gets smokey
We Will quote from the book of Reggae Heroes; Chapter - Peter Tosh, who is not a doctor; even though he was called ‘Bush Doctor’ -Chapter Four and Verse Twenty: Tosh Often Said, “It’s good for Asthma, Judges Smoke It, Politicians Smoke It - so if you legalize it, I will Advertise it” .. he was of course speaking of Recreational Marijuana which we aren’t in our post. LOL..
I believe that given half a chance, you’d see Dutch Masters and Philly Blunts Brands employing the talents of DMX; SnoopDogg; and the Marley Brothers; as the spokesmen for a whole new generation. why not ? the market exists and would explode if legalization of canibus accompanied the re-industrialization of Hemp.
Medical Marijuana could be Federalized; allowing Medical Insurance and Medical Care Providers; the ability to comprehensively provide coverage for it’s subscribers legal medical marijuana needs.
the production could take place using gardeners in training programs, within government farming plots; as well as correctional facilities. this would offer a calming and greening perspective to their issues. grow it locally and the prices in the illegal market stabilize. thereby eliminating the illegal market. recently the Swiss voted to decriminalize Heroin use. they did it to remove the stigma of their ‘Needle Park’; seen by the world as Junkies heaven.
Question is, Did it work? apparently so the swiss say.
Marijuana is not criminalized in most of the world; unless there is no regulating mechanism in place to run the operation so to say. Heroin production went up markedly when the afghans got crop help from the americans providing security. I know I know, it’s hard to hear, but co’mon face it, we all know why the americans’ are in afghanistan and it ain’t looking for terrorists. that’s why heroin prices bottomed out globally. why not put the tobacco companies who’s hands are already deep into the issue, in a leadership role, in development here within America.
Who could resist the Marlborough man when he showed up with SnoopDogg, blowing a ‘Kentucky Phat’.
Sweet Minty Jesus - I digress, must be 4:20 somewhere.
give us some power to grow hemp, and as well medical grade legal marijuana. then re industrialize the hemp by-products industries in areas such as Ohio, the Virginias; Kentucky; Tennessee; Arizona, California.
places where there is vast available land and labor costs are low. people will work cheap and there will be a flood of production. thereby producing an immense stream of tax relief, as well as useful products made in the USA; for US consumers.
maybe we could finally stop the Walmarts’ of the world from lowering our standard of living. no one should need welfare, who has a full time job. this could provide a second chance for small companies in small towns all across America. Hemp Products scan the gamut and every level of technology.
Imagine, no more street corner pharmacists. these young entrepreneurs could be put to the real test of making a go at a real legal business. it could be regulated by the Marijuana Stamp Tax. we won’t discuss the tax now, but it could come up in a post here soon.
Most folks wear clothes, shoes, sleep on sheets, and eat food; in other words We are consumers. the age group of most new consumers does not limit their ability to purchase hemp products. there are lots of hemp toiletries on the market now; hemp baby nappies and clothes; Hemp is a very versatile material and adapts to almost every possibility with a little research.
Remember Henry Ford Made a Car Out of Hemp; why not Ford Motors ? they say they need an economic bail-out.
if would have to be cheaper, and easier to work with for all involved. insurance costs on vehicle crashes would decline because of the resilience of the hemp; which has already been proven to be wayyy stronger than steel.
instead of going deeper into debt in the depressed US economy; I suggest the President and His Advisors think like Ben Franklin, when he tied that key to a hemp string and shouted ‘Eureka’. It was when he was struck with a bolt of lightning that he saw the beauty in the Simple Value of Hemp over Silk.
The Following Info on Early America and Hemp is from the Hemp Museum; a fascinating website and repository.
THE STORY OF HEMP IN COLONIAL VIRGINIA, By Herndon. A Dissertation which includes references to George Washington as a hemp farmer. Excellent history.
Ask yourself this question: How does George Washington get to grow hemp and not the Curator? It gets to the core of the question, what happened in the last 200 years that we lost such an important right, namely the control of agricultural production. This prohibition must come to an end. What an incredible embarrassment it would be to have to explain to George Washington and Thomas Jefferson that they would have to pull up their hemp crops, that would have been the Second American Revolution! Both men were high on hemp as an important crop to replace and rotate with tobacco. It still is.
This carved coin showing a mounted General Washington with a hemp leaf is a recognition that George Washington is also the most famous hemp farmer the U.S. has produced. Washington said, “Make the most of the hemp seed and sow it everywhere.”
Hemp Museum carved coin, donated by sculptor.
The U.S. Constitution and Flag, two of our most cherished symbols were made of hemp before it was prohibited.
Betsy Ross made the first flag of the United States of America out of the finest, strongest fiber available, hemp fabric. “It is also said that the finest laces of the olden days were always made of hemp in preference to any other fiber.” -Herndon, p.154.
>U.S.A. Hemp Museum perfume bottle showing Betsy Ross sewing the first United States flag out of hemp sailcloth.
The real Star Spangled Banner at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C. - and yes it is made of Hemp.
We Want to see the US Economy Bounce Back. we’re sure that everybody wants it to bounce back. what grows like a Weed ? What was the primary product given to the founding fathers to build their economy - Hemp Seeds.
We don’t want to forget the environmental impact and it’s relatable so we’d like to add this lil food for thought as well :
We live in a time of enormous environmental problems: overpopulation by humans, habitat destruction for other species, global warming, deterioration of the ozone layer surrounding the earth, destruction of the rainforests and forests in general, famine, air and water pollution, pollution and over-fishing of the oceans, topsoil loss and pesticide pollution of farmland, reliance on non-renewable resources, storage of nuclear wastes, and many others. 
Using hemp for paper could slow the cutting of forests for paper. Hemp is four times as efficient at producing pulp as trees. Homegrown paper with hemp.
Hemp hurds or sticks after the fiber has been removed. These hurds are reported to be 77% cellulose, whose atomic structure is shown below. The carbon (C) in cellulose is from carbon dioxide (CO2) which plants breath in from the atmospheric gases that make up the air. The plant breathes out oxygen.
The cellulose of plants can be turned into the simplest alcohols, methanol (CH3OH) and ethanol (C2H5OH) both of which are clean burning fuels that can be used in internal combustion engines. See Hemp Bio-fuels Room.
We Believe This video Sums up the Case Nicely; and it’s backed with the best classic Reggae Anthem in the world.
FREE HEMP NOW
(Hear the “Bobo Carnival Retort Soundtrack”. the Videos are the post before this one; same date 12/02/08 - ed)
As an extra bonus - the soundtrack follows in two Playas.
So if there are no further questions Mr Bobo, we believe Class for Today is Dismissed.
Live UP !
