[Prev][Next][Index][Thread]
Re: Hemp
Joseph St.Lawrence wrote:
>
> Shug <shug@sol.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >If all fossil fuels and their derivatives, as well as the deforestation
> >of trees for paper and agriculture, are banned from use in order to save
> >the planet and reverse the greenhouse effect:
> > Then there is only one known renewable natural resource able to
> >provide the overall majority of our paper, textiles and food, meet all th
> >eworld's transportation, home and industrial energy needs, to reduce
> >pollution, rebuild the soil and clean the atmosphere - all at the same
> >time - our old stand-by that did it all before - Cannabis
> >Hemp...Marijuana.
>
> >Shug
> Don't you think properly managed tree plantations are a better source
> of paper fibre and fuel?
No. Until 1883 75-90% of all paper in the world was made with cannabis
hemp fiber.
If hemp pulp paper process of 1916 were in use today, it would replace
40-70% of all pulp paper, including corrugated boxes, computer printout
paper and paper bags. With a bit of modern technology input into the 1916
process it would be even better.
USDA Bulletin No. 404 (1916) reported that one acre of cannabis hemp, in
annual rotation over a 20 year period, would produce as much pulp for
paper as 4.1 acres of trees being cut down over the same 20 year period.
This process would only use 1/4 to 1/7 as much polluting sulphur-based
acid chemicals to break down the lignin, or even none using soda ash.
Dioxin pollution is avoided as you substitute hydrogen peroxide.
(Dewey & Merrill, Bulletin #404, USDA, 1916; New Scientist,1980)
>Hemp is an annual, likely grown in
> monoculture, and does not prove the erosion control and habitat found
> in well managed stand of trees.
Until 1915 Southern California, Utah and other states used cannabis
routinely to clear fields for planting, as a fallow year crop, and after
forest fires to prevent mud slides and loss of watershed. Hemp seeds put
down a 10 to 12 inch root in only 30 days.
In the formerly lush Himalayan region of Bangladesh, Nepal and Tibet
there is now only a light moss covering left as flash floods wash
thousands of tons of topsoil away. Bangladesh, which literally means
"cannabis-land-people" (it was formerly called East Bengal Province, a
name derived from bhang-cannabis, la-land) signed an "anti-drug"
agreement with the US promising not to grow hemp in the 1970's. Since
that time it has suffered disease, starvation and decimation, due to
unrestrained flooding.
> Trees also produce fruit and nuts --
> useful food produts for both animals and people -- while producing
> wood. What part of hemp can you eat?
> Regards, j
> Only soyabeans contain a higher % of protein than hemp seed, however, the
composition of the protein in hemp seed is unique in the vegetable
kingdom. 65% of the protein in hemp seed is in the form of globulin
edestin. The exceptionally high edestin content combined with albumin
means the readily available protein in hemp seeds contains all the
essential amino acids in ideal proportions to assure your body has the
necessary building blocks to create proteins like immunoglobulins.
Hemp seeds are the highest source in the plant kingdom of essential fatty
acids (linoleic and linolenic) and they are present in the ideal
proportions for humans.
Any more queries I could help you with?
Shug
References:
- Hemp
- From: Shug <shug@sol.co.uk>
- Re: Hemp
- From: es051447@orion.yorku.ca (Joseph St.Lawrence)