How Hemp Threatens the Corporatocracy
Submitted by fyl on Mon, 2013/03/11 - 07:18.
With the recent legislaiton in Colorado and Washington to legalize pot and hemp, Kentucky's interest in industrial hemp, and Guatemala's interest in decriminalizing we have brought up both pot tourism and industrial hemp production for Nicaragua here.
An RT editorial gives us a bit of perspective on why industrial hemp is a problem for the corporatocracy. The video, available on youtube is likely to surprise even people who have done a lot of previous research. (For me, the biggest surprise was Henry Ford's accomplishment.)
Industrial hemp is produced in many places including China but, to the best of my knowledge, nowhere in the Americas. While hemp should not have been a victim of the war on drugs, it clearly was. With reality setting in, it is likely industrial hemp will regain favor in the west but Kentucky will not be able to meet the needs or even compete with the low wages here for manufactured products based on hemp.
While some will just see cheap labor producing paper or clothing, there are many high-priced products including food products that can be produced. Clearly, there is a lot of potential and a relatively low cost of entry into producing many hemp-based products.
Iran too...
I read this the other day;
http://dailycurrant.com/2012/12/14/iran-plans-legalize-marijuana/
"Iran’s parliament approved a bill that would allow Iranian citizens to purchase up to 2 ounces of marijuana from private, state-licensed stores and cafés.
The proposed law taxes marijuana up to 25 percent. Commercial marijuana growers would need to apply for a permit from the Iranian Ministry of Agriculture."
-Doug ©
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate
Hemp (S.A.)
Not sure what you meant per "in the americas" but hemp comes from Canada and there are hemp farms in Uruguay ( Una empresa uruguaya abre el debate para explotar cannabis industrial), though not a lot of press on it or the resulting Latin American Hemp Trading. I think Kentucky is actually following North Dakota (see ND's Agricultural Commissioner Backs Hemp). For an account of what happened with industrial hemp crops on U.S. Native American land see the documentary film, Standing Silent Nation (Movie Trailer for Stanind Silent Nation) - as the topic even more controversial in that location is sovereign land. I am not so sure it really was a "hemp car" per Henry Ford. No doubt, Ford was bent on crops and materials and alternatives, but the car in question was a composite and the formula has since been "lost" (see Henry Ford's Soybean Car and Suit). Though not a hemp-based work, a recent book reveals Ford's many interests in raw materials and plant investigations, etc. This is Greg Grandlin's account of Ford's biggest failure. In the late 1920's Ford tried to establish his corporate model city in the middle of the Brazilian Amazon to supply his own rubber. One big culture clash, to say the least. See Fordlandia – The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City; an NPR account, Fordlandia: The Failure Of Ford's Jungle Utopia