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Hemp, From Hippie To Hip
Posted by CN Staff on April 17, 2010 at 04:52:36 PT
By Susan Carpenter, Los Angeles Times
Source: Los Angeles Times
USA -- It's durable. It's versatile. And when it's used in textiles, it's easier on the environment than, say, cotton. Yet its cannabis connection has slowed its widespread use. We're talking about hemp, and, by extension, hemp fashion — a concept that seems like an oxymoron but is quietly being embraced by the mainstream as major designers and clothing retailers take on the material that has long been equated with burlap and granola-munching hippies.
Stella McCartney, Giorgio Armani and Calvin Klein are among the designers who've seen through the smoke and incorporated hemp textiles into their lines. And Whole Foods, Urban Outfitters, American Rag and Fred Segal are some of the better-known stores selling fashion-forward hemp brands, such as Livity Outernational, Jung Maven, Satori and Hemp Hoodlamb, all of which exploit hemp's various attributes in chic items that run the gamut from technical outerwear to dresses that would hardly be the first choice of the dreadlocks-and-doobie crowd."Hemp clothing has definitely come a long way," says Al Espino, the owner of two hemp clothing boutiques called Hempwise in Santa Barbara and Isla Vista. "Ten years ago, a lot of the hemp clothing played on the connection with marijuana with labels saying ‘contains marijuana fabric.' There was a lot of confusion and I think it held back the industry. Now there are a lot of small [fashion-forward] companies. It's gone from a niche market with an illegal drug connection to appealing to the organic and natural crowd."Hemp is an industrial, nonpsychoactive plant that is part of the cannabis family; the fibers are different and stronger than a marijuana plant, making it suitable for textiles.What's drawing designers to hemp textiles are their natural performance attributes and their low impact on the environment. Hemp fibers are highly absorbent, UV resistant, antimicrobial and long lasting. Growing it also requires less water and fewer pesticides than does cotton. Growing hemp in the U.S. has been prohibited since the '50s, so most of the hemp used by American clothing designers comes from China. "It's so high value and so much lower impact in every other way that it eclipses the carbon generated through shipping," said Isaac Nichelson, founder of the Santa Monica-based hemp clothing line Livity Outernational.Eco-chic is a rising tide in the fashion world, and the use of hemp is swelling — aided by technological advances that have produced appealing and increasingly refined hemp textile blends, the most common being hemp and organic cotton and hemp fibers woven with recycled plastic, both of which soften a material that can be coarse.Still, hemp's illicit image is hard to shed. Two teenage girls read the sign for Hempwise and giggled before walking into the shop on a recent weekday to peruse the women's section, which is stocked with slinky hemp-blend T-shirts and Capri pants, and asymmetrical mini-dresses. All of it was set out in displays that play up the "eco" with only the merest hint of "Rasta." A mint green Vespa was parked inside the doorway on bamboo flooring that led to displays of backpacks and wallets, hats and menswear — all made from hemp.One of the brands sold at Hempwire is Livity, which Nichelson started after a friend pointed out that the materials he was using as a clothing designer weren't in sync with his environmental beliefs."I was using nylon, PVC, Teflon — every toxin known to man wrapped up in a garment that we were putting on ourselves and dropping in a landfill later," said Nichelson, who started to look for alternatives and found one in hemp. Eight years later, he's running a multimillion-dollar business that sells outdoor-wear to Whole Foods and Urban Outfitters. On Thursday — Earth Day — he'll be opening his first branded store on Lincoln Boulevard in Santa Monica, so strong is his belief that hemp is "headed straight to the mainstream. Eventually it won't even be perceptible. Hemp is as high performance and functional and as cool and flashy and sexy as any conventional product, but it doesn't impact the planet in terrible ways. More and more, it's going to be incorporated into things where the end user doesn't even know or care it's there. They're just reaping the benefits."Source: Los Angeles Times (CA)Author: Susan Carpenter, Los Angeles TimesPublished: April 18, 2010Copyright: 2010 Los Angeles TimesContact: letters latimes.comWebsite: http://www.latimes.com/URL: http://drugsense.org/url/PtsB18vvCannabisNews Hemp Archiveshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/list/hemp.shtml
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Comment #43 posted by ekim on April 18, 2010 at 07:45:32 PT
new jobs , foods, oils, fuels, ect ect
May 17 - 23, 2010 is Hemp History Week!http://www.thehia.org/index.html
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Comment #42 posted by FoM on April 18, 2010 at 04:59:00 PT
Canis420
I understand your fear.
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Comment #41 posted by FoM on April 18, 2010 at 04:58:29 PT
ripit
If we don't live near these events it's hard to go. I don't mind though. I've never felt like I am missing something.
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Comment #40 posted by Canis420 on April 17, 2010 at 21:23:43 PT:
Today
I found a very small, wild (8 inch), cannabis plant growing on my property...it blew me away. First I thought I'd let it grow for a bit to see how it did in our sandy Florida soil. I went to the store and while I was away I got paranoid and pulled it as soon as I got home. It had female pre-flowers on it. What a shame to think that this wild weed could, if left to grow and observed by neighbors or LEO's, lose me my house. Refreakindiculous!
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Comment #39 posted by ripit on April 17, 2010 at 20:59:14 PT
same here fom
i've never been to anything like it either. i was planning on going to seattle's hempfest back before i was screwed by our legal system.and now i have no clue as to if i ever will get to now.i have always wondered how hemp could/would be used to make fuel,food and fiber at the same time. if i understand what i've read after harvesting the seed for the oil and food uses then wouldn't the plant need to be as they say retted to make fiber from it? couldn't the retting process(vegitation removal) be use to make fuel which leaves the fiber is the last step?and would it really be that hard to make lots of smaller processing plants to do do this across the country instead of hauling it to 1 big plant the way they do with oil refinerys,where the fuel is made and used locally and then the leftover fiber is then sent off to the mills where it would be used to make the cloth or building materials an such.
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Comment #38 posted by FoM on April 17, 2010 at 20:11:12 PT
kenincali
I'm sorry you were disappointed. I've never been to any events like you mentioned. I wouldn't know what to expect.
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Comment #37 posted by Paint with light on April 17, 2010 at 19:42:44 PT
Legal like alcohol has new meaning for me
Alcohol has...industrial uses.....medical uses......recreational uses......Yeah.Legal like alcohol.......and safer too.
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Comment #36 posted by Paint with light on April 17, 2010 at 19:35:27 PT
cannabis fest
I am going to start mentioning more my feelings of the three keys to legalization.Hemp or industrial/farmer/food.....Medical.......Recreational.Separate we may not get it done as soon as we want. We need to start working all three components together more.I am guilty of not always mentioning all three areas when I am engaging someone about the topic.I am going to try to do better.If the conversation is about medical, it should be mentioned that it could put a lot of farmers to work, and it is safer than alcohol.If you are talking hemp to somebody it should always be mentioned that it makes great medicine and it is safer than alcohol.....etc.All three belong together not separate.Like a three leaf clover....or some young cannabis plants leaves.A fest where each has its own area would allow the targeting of the strengths each has and allow those that for some reason aren't interested in other areas to just attend the one in which they are interested.We've got to weave the qualities and benefits of cannabis together to be the strongest it can be.Of course if there is some legal master key(such as runruff's case) I won't complain.Legal like alcohol.......It is the right thing to do.
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Comment #35 posted by Paint with light on April 17, 2010 at 19:08:42 PT
#19
Well you walk into a restaurant,strung out from the roadAnd you feel the eyes upon youas you're shakin' off the coldYou pretend it doesn't bother youbut you just want to explodeMost times you can't hear 'em talk,other times you canAll the same old cliches,"Is that a woman or a man?"And you always seem outnumbered,you don't dare make a stand.Thank you Bob.Legal like alcohol.
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Comment #34 posted by kenincali on April 17, 2010 at 19:02:10 PT:
Disapointed in Hempfest.
I went to Hempfest today in San Francisco, I was quite disappointed in what I saw. I had read the information about it online, and knew there would be a lot of medical cannabis influence. I did not expect it to be completely Cannabis related. There were maybe 2 booths selling Hemp T-shirts, the rest was mainly paraphernalia. I was really hoping there would be a lot more Hemp related items such as building materials, Hemp oil, which I love to use for its balanced omega 6 to 3 ratio's. The event is billed as an event to make people aware of Hemp and Cannabis. I think the wrong message went to the unaware person that happened to show up. I sat in my car and ate lunch, and watched as more people arrived. Several people turned around and headed out as soon as they got close enough to smell the smoking area. I am all for legalization and medical use of cannabis, but I think that if you want to bill a show as Hempfest, you should at least have a lot more hemp related booths etc. Maybe a separate cannabisfest and hempfest would be more appropriate.
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Comment #33 posted by HempWorld on April 17, 2010 at 18:39:42 PT
Thank you FoM!
Thank You!
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Comment #32 posted by FoM on April 17, 2010 at 18:24:13 PT
HempWorld
Thank you for the links.
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Comment #31 posted by HempWorld on April 17, 2010 at 18:03:58 PT
Don't Worry Be Hippie!
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Cheddar, don't worry be hippie!
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Comment #30 posted by HempWorld on April 17, 2010 at 17:49:08 PT
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Comment #29 posted by FoM on April 17, 2010 at 17:32:52 PT
Hope, From DamnDirtyHippies.org
Intro to Hippie 101…Welcome class. Your education is about to begin…From Wikipedia…The hippie subculture was originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the early 1960s and spread around the world. The word hippie derives from hipster, and was initially used to describe beatniks who had moved into San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district. These people inherited the countercultural values of the Beat Generation, created their own communities, listened to psychedelic rock, embraced the sexual revolution, and used drugs such as cannabis, also known as marijuana, and LSD to explore alternative states of consciousness.In January 1967, the Human Be-In in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco popularized hippie culture, leading to the legendary Summer of Love on the West Coast of the United States, and the 1969 Woodstock Festival on the East Coast. Hippies in Mexico, known as jipitecas, formed La Onda Chicana and gathered at Avándaro, while in New Zealand, nomadic housetruckers practiced alternative lifestyles and promoted sustainable energy at Nambassa. In the United Kingdom, mobile “peace convoys” of New age travellers made summer pilgrimages to free music festivals at Stonehenge. In Australia hippies gathered at Nimbin for the 1973 Aquarius Festival and the annual Cannabis Law Reform Rally or MardiGrass. In Chile, “Festival Piedra Roja” was held in 1970 (following Woodstock’s success), and was the major hippie event in that country.Hippie fashions and values had a major effect on culture, influencing popular music, television, film, literature, and the arts. Since the 1960s, many aspects of hippie culture have been assimilated by mainstream society. The religious and cultural diversity espoused by the hippies has gained widespread acceptance, and Eastern philosophy and spiritual concepts have reached a wide audience. The hippie legacy can be observed in contemporary culture in myriad forms — from health food, to music festivals, to contemporary sexual mores, and even to the cyberspace revolution.http://www.damndirtyhippies.org/?p=33
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Comment #28 posted by FoM on April 17, 2010 at 17:21:06 PT
Easy Rider - The Byrds - Wasn't Born to Follow
This song sums up what I believe. I guess I'm a hippie at heart. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWhgLjim6Rc
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Comment #27 posted by The GCW on April 17, 2010 at 16:38:07 PT
It used to be said and maybe still is;
You only hurt yourself.When telling a lie or taking things that don't belong to you etc.It only hurts yourself.To the poeple who've made it illegal for America's free farmers to grow hemp:You only hurt yourself. BUT YOU HAVE ALSO HURT EVERYONE ELSE AROUND YOU.-0-Realize the effort to prohibit hemp also is an effort to completely EXTERMINATE cannabis / hemp off earth.And the plant cannabis / hemp doesn't not belong to people who have attempted to exterminate it.Cannabis / hemp belongs to not only all of Us but also to every living creature as it says on the very 1st page of the Bible.Cannabis belongs to GodFOR THE EARTH IS THE LORD’S, AND ALL IT CONTAINS” (1 Corinthians 10:26).
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Comment #26 posted by FoM on April 17, 2010 at 16:24:44 PT
Hope
I don't think of bikers as hippies except if they were like in Easy Rider.
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Comment #25 posted by FoM on April 17, 2010 at 16:22:42 PT
Graehstone
That's a great description of a hippie.
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Comment #24 posted by Hope on April 17, 2010 at 16:13:37 PT
I never think of Manson when I think of a hippie
Some people do though. And that's sad.There were a lot of stupid scary low grade "Hippie" and "Biker" movies, too. In the last days of the drive ins that was about all they seemed to show. We'd drive over half of Texas some evenings trying to find a drive in with a movie we could enjoy with the children with us. That's how I know they were out there. Yuck.I never knew a person who purported to the hippie lifestyle that was dirty either. Just the opposite, really. And that is said often. "Dirty hippie". What the? I never knew a dirty hippie... and certainly not their hair. That was a "crowing glory" situation usually, I think. If a hippie was going to have a vanity thing going... it was probably going to be about his or her hair. His or her very clean, very healthy hair!I don't know what I think when I think hippie. I think a lot of things, long hair, headbands, music, poetry, body art, love beads, communes, traveling, farming, jeans, organic foods and fibers, feathers and leather, or vegetarianism, but not bad things. Some people, apparently, just think about drugs and partying when they think about hippies. I don't know why but I don't so much.
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Comment #23 posted by Graehstone on April 17, 2010 at 16:05:56 PT
HIPPIE
HighlyIntelligentPersonPursuingIndividualEnlightenment;)
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Comment #22 posted by FoM on April 17, 2010 at 15:29:48 PT
Hope
I never think of Manson when I think of a hippie. I think of good people who like to be different. Free love wasn't as much a part of it all as some were lead to believe. I love Willie Nelson's hair. We were shopping the other day and I saw a couple grey haired men with long hair and they had smiles on their faces. That's what I think about when I see a hippie.
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Comment #21 posted by Hope on April 17, 2010 at 14:47:10 PT
This gal... Susan
She lives better, she eats better, and she breathes better because of Hippie thinking.
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Comment #20 posted by Hope on April 17, 2010 at 14:46:13 PT
Just in case
That's not my opinion. That's my opinion of what other people have led me to believe they thought... or think. The Hippie movement at the time effected everything in the world... from fashion, clothing, entertainment, food, love the earth... earthness.... homes (geodesic dome, anyone?) and that effect is still well with us and will be for a very long time.
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Comment #19 posted by Hope on April 17, 2010 at 14:42:39 PT
Hippies
I think the dislike or distrust comes from the general fear that they might run nekkid suddenly or kill people like Charles Manson's stupid family or screw around a lot because all that "free love" seemed to them to be about hog wild sex and orgies and such or something like that. And they look "different". Looking different by itself can get you "disliked". Not to mention thinking, acting, or talking different. And the hair! Look at all that hair! "Is that a boy or a girl?" (Remember that?)Life is hard. But sometimes it's good, too.
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Comment #18 posted by Hope on April 17, 2010 at 14:27:24 PT
Kind of like The Red Headed Stranger.
"Yes, hemp is the ugly red headed step child of marijuana..."
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Comment #17 posted by Hope on April 17, 2010 at 14:22:35 PT
comment 5
Lol!
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Comment #16 posted by Hope on April 17, 2010 at 14:11:31 PT
The plant
is something that, so obviously, mankind should make good use of. To think... it's been made use of as a reason to persecute people and so much about it is yet undiscovered.How stupid... how dense... how hard-headed can people be?Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe there's something really awful about it. Something worth killing, hating, fearing, and imprisoning people over. Maybe I'm the one that's dense. Anti-motivational syndrome? Even if it was real and fact based... is it enough to kill people over?I think George Washington himself admonished the citizenry... or maybe it was Jefferson, to make good use of the hemp plant. Actually, I think using it as an excuse to marginalize and hurt and kill and imprison is not a good use of the plant. At all.These guys that have really studied and used the plant. They have made good use of it. They've struggled. They know a lot... but they can't really share what they know with everyone. We don't need to know what they've learned about the plants and strains and effects and growing habits of the plants they've meticulously studied? Maybe because they aren't available to most people anyway, but they are "News"... news of interest to many people. People should know anyway. People are afraid they might get in trouble or start some sort of thundering, overwhelming ruckus, or be accused of promoting use and demand for the plant, or something.. Can't have that. Some people would want it for themselves or their loved one.*sigh*
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Comment #15 posted by FoM on April 17, 2010 at 14:03:30 PT
Why Hippies Aren't Liked
This is just my opinion. The 60s were anti-establishment and not capitalistic in general. The values of community and sharing were important. That isn't what people want nowadays. Money is what they want.
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Comment #14 posted by ezrydn on April 17, 2010 at 13:32:02 PT:
And Others
Let's not forget that the US Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution were both written on HEMP paper! Of course, there's no mention of that in the Smithsonian. "It would confuse the guides." Yeah, to tell the truth.
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Comment #13 posted by Hope on April 17, 2010 at 11:34:02 PT
Susan's a bit haughty...
".... all of which exploit hemp's various attributes in chic items that run the gamut from technical outerwear to dresses that would hardly be the first choice of the dreadlocks-and-doobie crowd."This must be in the "Fashion" section of the paper.
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Comment #12 posted by Hope on April 17, 2010 at 11:21:57 PT
John Tyler... I agree.
"I don’t understand why the article kept demeaning the hippies though. They were the pioneers that redeemed hemp and cannabis. They were the visionaries that brought so much progress to the world. It’s like demeaning the eccentric relative that left you a fortune."
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Comment #11 posted by Hope on April 17, 2010 at 11:01:17 PT
there are two completely disparate and important
points to be made in that excerpt I posted from this article."I was using nylon, PVC, Teflon — every toxin known to man wrapped up in a garment that we were putting on ourselves and dropping in a landfill later," said Nichelson, who started to look for alternatives and found one in hemp."And, "Eight years later, he's running a multimillion-dollar business that sells outdoor-wear to Whole Foods and Urban Outfitters."
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Comment #10 posted by Cheebs1 on April 17, 2010 at 10:16:35 PT:
Greed
#8 It is very easy to understand. You , and so many people, just don't want to understand. The greed that is shown by these people is too immense to comprehend so the mind shies away from that and therefore people don't get it. The very richest families in America villified cannabis so that they could outlaw hemp and keep all the wealth to themselves. The country was put on a path to destruction from the elite and they don't care one iota what you, I, or anyone else thinks. Rockefeller, Hearst, DuPont, and the list go on profit from prohibition. There is money to be made in hemp and cannabis but not by them and not enough to relegalize because they would lose money in the long run. Prohibition is not for everyone but does make a certain few rich beyond imagination.
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Comment #9 posted by Hope on April 17, 2010 at 10:14:40 PT
Prohibitionists
Can you understand this?""I was using nylon, PVC, Teflon — every toxin known to man wrapped up in a garment that we were putting on ourselves and dropping in a landfill later," said Nichelson, who started to look for alternatives and found one in hemp. Eight years later, he's running a multimillion-dollar business that sells outdoor-wear to Whole Foods and Urban Outfitters."
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Comment #8 posted by ripit on April 17, 2010 at 10:05:49 PT
why is it so hard for them to see
how this could help so many? with all the different uses and benefits that this plant could bring us why do they continue to fight it so hard?makes no sense to me.when i see in my mind all the ways it could help american farmers let alone the energy,food,textile and medical users it makes me freak out a little.how could anybody with half a mind continue to oppose this?i thnk there should be some kind of televised national debates(not just on collage campuses) with some of the greats behind our cause like willie nelson and tommy chong and reps from different groups like normal and puffum and ssdp!
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Comment #7 posted by The GCW on April 17, 2010 at 07:48:47 PT
Communist Chinese farmers grow hemp
Free American farmers can not grow hemp.And America's largest debt is to China.It's time to RE-introduce hemp as a component of American agriculture.
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Comment #6 posted by BGreen on April 17, 2010 at 07:25:35 PT
Don't blame Wille
It's Larry King who is a rotten interviewer. Most of what he asked Willie could have been found in a Google search referencing the half-million other times he's been asked the same questions.The wanna-be hemp farmers in the US threw cannabis under the bus so I really don't give a hoot about them. They'll win anyway when cannabis is legalized, so I'm not going to shed any tears as I purchase my legal hemp at my local stores grown elsewhere in the world.The Reverend Bud Green
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Comment #5 posted by runruff on April 17, 2010 at 07:24:06 PT
The first to "Bake" at the white house.
Willie was not the first fo light up at the white house and neither was JFK.The first to admit lighting up was Abe Lincoln.In a letter he wrote to Hohner Harmonicas he said," Thank you for my new month organ. There is nothing I would rather do than sit on the back porch of the white house, smoke a hemp cigarette and play my harp!"Sincerely,Abraham Lincoln
President of the United States
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Comment #4 posted by HempWorld on April 17, 2010 at 07:08:39 PT
Still, hemp's illicit image is hard to shed.
Especially when the US federal budget is devoted to continue to demonize it!Yes, hemp is the ugly red headed step child of marijuana. And except for this article in the LA times it is not talked about anymore, now it's all about legal pot. I was disappointed that my good friend Willie did not go into hemp on Larry King. Except it's all about pot! Go figure.Hemp is now legally cultivated in Canada for over 10 years, but if you live in the US you can't have it! What a glaring hypocrisy and a tribute to the fact that this country, the US is still run by the fascist corporations!Hey Al, my bud, I am glad you got some coverage in this article! See you tonight at Michael Rose!
HempFarm.com
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Comment #3 posted by FoM on April 17, 2010 at 06:54:19 PT
Excerpt: Willie Nelson on Larry King Live
April 16, 2010KING: I guess the great Willie Nelson. Don't forget that terrific album will be out Tuesday, and he is on tour right now. He is a long-time advocate of legalizing marijuana. There are a lot of people in that ballpark now. The late William F. Buckley was one of the leaders of that movement. California and other states are talking about legalizing it so they can tax it. You ever think it's going to happen?NELSON: Sure. It's just a matter of time and a matter of the economy. And I think the way the economy is now, it's helping to come along, because if you do tax it and regulate it, there is a lot of money there that can be used for whatever we need it for, for education, for different things.KING: The late Lenny Bruce said once, "Marijuana will be legal some day because every law student I know smokes it." Do you think it will be legal?NELSON: I think so. And, you know, California votes on it in November. And there is the old saying as California goes, so goes the nation, so...KING: To me, it was Maine.NELSON: OK. Let's change to it California.KING: OK. Another twitter question. Lots of them by the way tweeting. We mention you, the tweets came in. Asking about pot smoking. Basically, how much and how often?NELSON: Well, you know, I have changed my habits a little bit. My lungs -- and I smoked so much, you know, and I'd roll and smoke and roll and smoke. But I did get congestion from it. And I was wheezing, in the night and coughing. So, I switched over to a vaporizer, which you don't get any smoke and you don't get any heat. And for a singer, someone's lungs, it's much, much healthier.KING: It's not pot, right?NELSON: Oh, yes. It's pot in a vaporizer. But you -- when you, you know, when you pot it in, you're getting vapors, but not heat and not smoke.KING: Does it have the same effect?NELSON: Yes, it's even stronger, I think.KING: Did you ever fear that it might be harming you?NELSON: Well, I kind of questioned myself all the time. And I was kind of like my own canary in the mine. And I was watching because I smoked cigarettes one after the other from the time I was this big.KING: Still smoke?NELSON: No. I threw those away. I rolled up 20 joints and put it in my chesterfield pack and started changing my habits.KING: Could you smoke like a few joints and go on stage and sing?NELSON: Oh, sure, sure. But I have a huge tolerance for it that maybe everyone doesn't have. But yes, it doesn't really.KING: Did you ever go with stronger stuff?NELSON: No. No.KING: So, you would recommend it. It wouldn't harm you, it wouldn't bother you if people you knew smoked it?NELSON: You can overdo it. You can hurt your lungs by putting anything into your lungs that has heat and smoke in it. Yes, you can overdo it. But as far as being as dangerous as cigarette smoke, no.KING: Did you smoke today?NELSON: Do I smoke cigarettes?KING: Did you smoke pot today, today, this day?NELSON: Yes, sure.KING: You do? Before you came here?NELSON: Yes.KING: So, you have pot in you right now.NELSON: Yes. You could arrest me.KING: This state?NELSON: Give me an enema test.Complete Transcript: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1004/16/lkl.01.html
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Comment #2 posted by John Tyler on April 17, 2010 at 06:53:45 PT
hemp
I’m glad to see that a lot of people have latched on to the value of hemp. One of the reasons hemp was outlawed and vilified was because it competed with cotton and the newly emerging synthetic fibers created by the DuPont Corporation. Now hemp is coming back in a big way, and I’m glad about that. (So shouldn’t we be able to grow our own?) I don’t understand why the article kept demeaning the hippies though. They were the pioneers that redeemed hemp and cannabis. They were the visionaries that brought so much progress to the world. It’s like demeaning the eccentric relative that left you a fortune.
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Comment #1 posted by Cheebs1 on April 17, 2010 at 06:43:35 PT:
Fear
This is what the elite fear. In my opinion, this is the reason that cannabis is illegal. Anything that can be made from petroleum can be made from hemp. The elite don't want the average person to know that so they keep everyone focused on the psychoactive plant of the family instead of the most benign beneficial plant known to man.
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