HAVE YOU HEARD OF THE KING OF HEMP? I WAS IN A CLASS AND THERE WAS A BOOK THAT THIS GUY WROTE ALL ABOUT HEMP AND ITS AMAZING PROPERTIES AND SUCH.WELL IN THE BOOK AND DOCUMENTARY HE HAD SOME CLAIMS ABOUT VARIOUS PROPTERTIES OF HEMP AND I WOULD LIKE YOU GUYS TO TEST THOSE THEORIES OUT.I found the book or at least a book with some of the claims the title is (The Hemp Manifesto: 101 ways Hemp can save our world.) and The Great Book of Hemp: The complete guide to the eviromental,commercial and medical uses of ... both books were written by Rowan Robinson and can be found on Amazon. IT WAS KINDA INTERESTING BECAUSE THERE WAS SOME CONSPIRACY THEORY ABOUT WHY HEMP AS A PRODUCT WAS IGNORED AS A NATURAL RESOURCE.. SOMETHING TO DO WITH DOW CHEMICAL AND POLITICS...CANT REALLY REMEMBER THE WHOLE SPULE BUT THE KEY TO FINDING OUT IS THE KING OF HEMP ; HE WROTE A BOOK(S) ABOUT HEMP AND SUCH... HOPE TO SEE IT ON THE AIR

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Please turn off the caps lock - there's no need to shout, we're not deaf!

The stem of the hemp plant (Cannabis Sativa) contains long, tough fibers that were once used to make rope, sailcloth, and other such materials. It was once grown commercially. In fact, Charles Town, South Carolina (before it was moved and became Charleston) raised and exported hemp as a major commercial enterprise.

However, there is no conspiracy involving Dow Chemcial. Hemp (see its botanical name above) is the same plant whose leaves and flowers are called marijuana or hashish. It is now illegal to grow hemp in the U. S., even if the intent is to use it for legal purposes - so there has certainly been some political intervention.

The rope and cloth would have fallen into disuse anyway because new synthetic materials are far superior.

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The rope and cloth would have fallen into disuse anyway because new synthetic materials are far superior.

Wrong Mr.Keith...Don't forget that instead of using petroeum to make these products, these are grown. Furthermore, Dow Chemical did have alot to do with it, as well as a one William Randolph Hearst.

Tobacco was never considered a cash-crop, it was "the evil weed from mexico that made a black man as strong as ten men", Cannabis Sativa. Your government-sacntioned history books were modified "as a matter of national security".

"made a black man as strong as ten men" quoted from congressional record circa 1937

See NORML for actual facts protected under the first and second-amendments.

I always thought that although closely related the 'hemp' used in old style ropes & the stuff folk smoke was not exactly the same stuff...

As for the making black men strong thing..

I have smoked the odd splif or four, and NEVER felt strong(er)!

infact most definitely felt a lot less strong indeed!

summer of love anyone?

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The rope and cloth would have fallen into disuse anyway because new synthetic materials are far superior.

Wrong Mr.Keith...Don't forget that instead of using petroeum to make these products, these are grown. Furthermore, Dow Chemical did have alot to do with it, as well as a one William Randolph Hearst.

Tobacco was never considered a cash-crop, it was "the evil weed from mexico that made a black man as strong as ten men", Cannabis Sativa. Your government-sacntioned history books were modified "as a matter of national security".

"made a black man as strong as ten men" quoted from congressional record circa 1937

See NORML for actual facts protected under the first and second-amendments.

Prom, again I am having trouble understanding what you are saying.

Wrong that synthetic ropes are not far superior to hemp ropes and would have led to natural fiber rope disuse? Synthetic fibers, being continuous and able to be woven into intricate patterns allow the production of ropes that are actually replacing wire rope on many high-tech racing boats. 3/16" Amsteel Dyneeda Single Braid has a breaking strength of 5,000 pounds, and 1/2" has a breaking strength of 27,500 pounds. It is also very low stretch, soft to the touch, and coils easily. No rope made of any naturally grown fiber can even come close to such characteristics. Not only that, but it does not rot as natural fibers are prone to do. It is so light it floats.

You can still buy Manila hemp rope, but few do. The marketplace has relegated it to the junkpile. Did Dow and Hearst do that, or did they simply, through capitalist self-interest, promote the inevitable?

And what are you saying about tobacco never being a cash crop? I assume you are referring to Marijuana, for certainly tobacco is a cash crop. When I said Charles Town raised hemp for export, I was speaking of hemp fiber which most certainly was raised and exported.

In regards to the government-sanctioned history books - if there is anything in this country that defies government sanctioning more thoroughly than history/text books, I do not know what it is. Every aspect of the history of this country has been sliced and diced from every philosophical, political, and theological perspective imaginable. Most prominent are those produced by the liberal element of academia in which every skeleton in every American closet has been exposed with evangelical fervor.