POPPIES AND HEMP

A thought just hit me...why is HEMP production banned worldwide, while POPPY production is not and flourishes in many countries? Certain varieties and strains of HEMP, but not all, produce THC, labeled a "HALLUCINOGENIC" DRUG, and classified by the United States government as a CLASS 1 DRUG, the same as cocaine and heroin. POPPIES produce a large seed pod which contains OPIUM...also a "HALLUCINOGENIC" DRUG! Here are my thoughts on the subject.

Both OPIUM and MARIJUANA (from HEMP containing THC) have been around for centuries. However, there is a major difference between the production of HEMP and the production of POPPIES. Poppies produce PRETTY FLOWERS AND OPIUM - PERIOD! HEMP produces, in some strains, MARIJUANA...but also produces the longest, strongest fiber known to man! Byproducts from HEMP include many products, including cosmetics, food stuffs (in many forms, including milk, cooking oil, meal), building materials (such as HEMPCRETE, a mixture of HEMP fibers and lime), cloth (such as DENIM, canvas* and many levels of materials suitable for clothing, linens (sheets, etc.), and just about any other uses for cloth that you can imagine, plastics (used by Henry Ford for the Model T!), paper (much stronger and can be produced with only minimum chemicals, far less than wood fiber. Note that the PARCHMENT used upon which to write the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE was MADE FROM HEMP!), rope (much stronger than Nylon or other materials, used, *along with canvas sails, on almost ALL sailing ships for centuries, including the USS CONSTITUTION!), MEDICINES (many forms, including treatment for glaucoma and has been used as a PAIN remedy for thousands of years), COSMETICS (beneficial to healthy skin and hair) and a variety of other products that do not come to mind at the moment and, most likely, applications and products that have not yet been discovered!

OPIUM derivatives are used for a variety of medicines, called OPIATES, such as pain relievers (Lortab, Fentynal, etc.) and a variety of anti-depressants. In the case of the latter, SEVERE DEPRESSION AND SUICIDAL TENDENCIES are possible side effects! ALL OPIATES ARE HIGHLY ADDICTIVE AND CAN CAUSE DEATH! Yet, these drugs ARE PERFECTLY LEGAL, APPROVED BY THE FDA AND READILY AVAILABLE IF PRESCRIBED BY A DOCTOR. Resale of these drugs on the black market is a major problem in the U.S. and other countries.

There are prescription medicines available on a limited basis which are made from HEMP. However, the primary element used in these meds is made from HEMP SEED OIL, WHICH CONTAIN NO...I REPEAT...NO...THC! There is a prescription med which contains a small percentage of THC, BUT THAT IS SYNTHETIC AND PRODUCED IN A LAB! Aside from MEDICINES, however, ALL HEMP BASED PRODUCTS CAN BE SOLD LEGALLY IN THE UNITED STATES...SO LONG AS THEY CONTAIN NO OR LESS THAN 0.3% THC! However, all such products MUST BE IMPORTED and carry a HIGH TARIFF!

What can be concluded from this? My HYPOTHESIS is that, at least in the U.S., the federal government can't figure out how to control the entire process! You see, the naked eye cannot tell the difference between HIGH THC MARIJUANA producing HEMP and ZERO THC (< 0.3%) INDUSTRIAL HEMP! Moreover, ANYONE can grow HEMP in their backyard! Oh, we can grow POPPIES, too...but we cannot easily produce OPIUM!

BIG MONEY KILLED HEMP PRODUCTION IN THE 1930's TO PROTECT THEIR INTERESTS IN CHEMICALS, CHEMICAL BASED DRUGS, WOOD PULP PAPER MILLS (which use massive amounts of CHEMICALS) AND PETROLEUM BASED PRODUCTS...WHICH ALSO USE A LOT OF CHEMICALS! One of the most evident causation of this ban came from E. I. DuPont, after the 1935 development of NYLON, a SYNTHETIC POLYMER used to make CLOTH AND ROPE...made from CHEMICALS! He and a host of other BIG MONEY folks (Eli Lilly, John D. Rockefeller, Randolph Hurst, etc.) persuaded Congress to pass the MARIJUANA TAX ACT OF 1937, essentially banning MARIJUANA, leading to the banning of ALL HEMP production in the United States in order to PROTECT AND EXPAND PRODUCTION OF PRODUCTS MADE FROM CHEMICALS! This was where the BIG MONEY had invested millions, so they HAD TO PROTECT IT so they could make MORE MONEY! No doubt, they also supported Washington lawmakers as well!

Now, it is 2010. The GREEN MOVEMENT dominates every aspect of our lives and has TRANSFORMED the media into AL GORE FANATICS! Building codes are changing rapidly to REQUIRE GREEN MATERIALS AND PROCESSES in buildings, including solar power and dubious "GREEN" building materials and techniques, all designed to result in LOW ENERGY CONSUMPTION. The second side of this is a push for ELECTRIC VEHICLES and BIOFUELS (primarily made from CORN) to REDUCE CO2 EMISSIONS, DEEMED DANGEROUS TO HUMANS BY THE EPA AND DECLARED TO BE A MENACE THAT WILL END LIFE ON EARTH BY AL GORE! [NOTE: More about this in a coming blog.]

GUESS WHAT? What is being IGNORED in all of this is the FACT that HEMP PRODUCES MORE YIELD PER ACRE THAN CORN, TREES, ETC. BY A WIDE MARGIN! Moreover, and I did not mention this earlier (on purpose), HEMP IS A MORE EFFICIENT WAY TO PRODUCE BIOFUELS THAN CORN, GARBAGE, OTHER PLANTS, ETC., BEING USED FOR OR RESEARCHED FOR BIOFUELS TODAY!

Well, there you have it! HEMP IS THE ANSWER TO MANY OF OUR PROBLEMS... BUT BEING BANNED FROM CONSIDERATION BY OUR REPRESSIVE GOVERNMENT DEAD SET ON PROTECTING THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES! CHEMICALS, NOT CO2, HAS POISONED OUR WORLD, OUR BODIES AND OUR MINDS! KEEP IT UP, AND WE WON'T EVEN BE ABLE TO THINK FOR OURSELVES!

POPPIES are NOT THE ANSWER! You can't fix the world with pretty flowers and the mind destroying properties of OPIUM and CHEMICAL BASED PRODUCTS, INCLUDING DRUGS, without destroying us all in the process! HEMP CAN!