Hemp Phytoremediation Program Can Help With Gulf Oilspill Crisis

Wisdom dictates that especially when in a crisis, use effective solutions applied at the level of cause. Since our environmental problem is too much pollution, from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes, from Maine to Hawaii, the solution is to use strategies that effectively remove the pollution.

We all know that hemp was helpful in cleaning up the toxins around Chernobyl, and with a bit of planning by a mastermind alliance, can be used to clean up the environmental mess again.  

An immediate end to hemp prohibition will allow us to use this biomass champion in a hemp phytoremediation program.   "Phytoremediation can be defined as the decontamination of soil, sediment or water using plant growth. Industrial hemp, Cannabis sativa L., is renowned for its ability to grow rapdily. In one growing season, fibre hemp can yield 250 to 400 plants per square metre, with each plant reaching up to 5 metres in height. As a result, hemp has been identified as a plant with the potential to serve as a phytoremediator."

The same way hemp was used to clean up the toxins around Chernobyl, we should be using hemp to clean up the toxins from the Gulf of Mexico "oil spill" (more like a volcano) and other environmental crisis situations.

The McGraw-Hill Companies reported in 2000 "Overall, phytoremediation has great potential for cleaning up toxic metals, pesticides, solvents, gasoline, and explosives."  

February, 2000: Chernobyl (Ukraine)  - Using Plants To Clean Soil

"Phytoremediation is a process that takes advantage of the fact that green plants can extract and concentrate certain elements within their ecosystem. For example, some plants can grow in metal-laden soils, extract certain metals through their root systems, and accumulate them in their tissues without being damaged. In this way, pollutants are either removed from the soil and groundwater or rendered harmless."

"In 1998, Phytotech, along with Consolidated Growers and Processors (CGP) and the Ukraine's Institute of Bast Crops, planted industrial hemp, Cannabis sp., for the purpose of removing contaminants near the Chernobyl site. Cannabis is in the Cannabidaceae family and is valuable for its fiber, which is used in ropes and other products...

Overall, phytoremediation has great potential for cleaning up toxic metals, pesticides, solvents, gasoline, and explosives. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that more than 30,000 sites in the United States alone require hazardous waste treatment. Restoring these areas and their soil, as well as disposing of the wastes, are costly projects, but the costs are expected to be reduced drastically if plants provide the phytoremediation results everyone is hoping for."

 

To understand how to use hemp to solve our environmental problems, read the book HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION by Richard M. Davis, founder and curator of the USA Hemp Museum. 

So let's end hemp prohibition now and form a mastermind alliance to use hemp to help us solve our problems now.  HEMP FOR VICTORY!

Hemp For Victory Program Should Be Used For Gulf Oil Spill

The problem of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was created by “experts.” For some reason those responsible for creating the crisis have control over how the crisis is handled, with disastrous results.  The solution is to use common sense and wisdom.

The US was on the victorious side of World War II in part because of the effective use of two tools, hemp and computers.  We have computers, now all we need is the hemp to achieve victory in this and other crisis situations we are solving.

A Peaceful Solution to the oilspill crisis is to reinstitute the old Hemp For Victory program.  That the oil from the Gulf has already entered the clouds is proven on the webeo above. If you are not yet touched by this crisis, unless we do something to fix it, you will be. 

First step to any project of this size is financing.  Though work can begin immediately as a citizens action, the large scale coordination of a Hemp For Victory program would yield dynamically powerful results.
There is a great book by Richard M. Davis of the USA Hemp Museum, on how hemp can fix our economy HEMP FOR VICTORY: THE TRILLION DOLLAR CROP.

PG 41 Call for an Environmental National Guard
PG 95 Bottom paragraph - The high absorbency of hemp hurds
PG 96 Geotextiles - whole page to explains the benefits to the soil of planning hemp.
PG 1O7 Hemp-solvent on the list of hemp uses - 4th line from the bottom
PG 116-117 Hemp can grow in sand and prefers warmer growing conditions.
PG 169 First paragraph Absorbents- last sentence. “Hemp is also used in oil spill cleanup.”

If President Obama, who ran on the platform of change we can believe in, would just end hemp prohibition by Executive Order (may I suggest E.O. 420) we could finance the evolution.

Starting a national hemp bank, like what China is doing with their agricultural bank is a great step to empower farmers to plant hemp in toxic areas to aerate soil and absorb toxins.  The organization Farm Aid could serve as a coordination empowerment point for family farmers in this process for financing, growing and market information.

In the book by Attorney Ellen Brown, THE WEB OF DEBT - THE SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT OUR MONEY SYSTEM AND HOW WE CAN BREAK FREE, she explains the advantage of our establishing a national greenback banking system.  Chapter 23 Freeing The Yellow Winkies – The Greenback System Flourishes Abroad

PG 225 “The American system of Franklin, Hamilton and Lincoln was something quite different.  It celebrated private enterprise and the entrepreneurial spirit, while providing a collective infrastructure under which competitive capitalism could flourish. This protective government umbrella furnished checks and balances that prevented exploitation by monopolies and marauding foreign interests, allowed science and technology to bloom, and provided funding for projects that “promoted the general welfare,” improving the collective human condition by drawing on the credit of the nation.”

A 20% tax on recreational grades of hemp would generate a large sum of cash, even if the price came down to $100 an ounce from the record highs of $400-$500 an ounce. Since it's been proven that people will pay a premium, especially for assured quality, the government will do well collected $20 on every high quality ounce sold plus tax income from the 50,000 products that can be made from the hemp plant.

Another place to look for money to fix the oil spill is the savings from our court system by ending the ridiculous War on Drugs.  In  DRUG WAR CRIMES: THE CONSEQUENCES OF PROHIBITION by Jeffrey Miron he explains the billions of dollars that can be saved by stopping this failing program.
There is plenty of research for how to use hemp to solve this problem.

Hemp fibers are absorbent and among the strongest in the plant kingdom. The booms being used to collect the oil should have hemp fibers inside. 

Hemp medicine, which assists with respiratory and digestive problems helps deal with the toxic chemicals people are being exposed to like benzene and methane. The book HEMP FOR VICTORY: THE WONDER HERB is a great museum tour on the subject of how and why we should be adding hemp medicine to our healthcare system.

PG 52 is the list of 250 medical uses for hemp from the 15 years of research by Dr. Tod H. Mikuriya
PG 98 has information on a model we are dealing with what is now called World Trade Center Illness, squamous cell cancers and other illness from exposure to a mixture of toxic materials. “The toxins from the World Trade Center, New York’s open sewers system, many superfund clean up sites, and other environmental problems would benefit from large scale hemp planting in parks, along the rivers, in abandoned lots to draw the toxins from the area and convert it into a resource material.”  
“Stress kills and medical grade hemp reduces stress.  Hemp also contains many essential nutrients that help balance our toxic lives.”

Benzene, methane and other toxic chemicals are in the air, land and water in the Gulf. Hemp medicine can help, yet, we still need to be moving large populations away from that toxic area.

PGS 213-242 Chapters 12 & 13 have lists of books and studies done on the effectiveness of medical hemp. 

Hemp is a wind pollinated plant that has a short growing season and is easy to grow, minimizing the cost for a hemp remediation program to clean the air of toxins from the burning oil off shore. This biomass champion can also supply a low cost source of energy to replace toxic abiotic crude oil, the type that is flowing into the Gulf.

Hemp foods can help replace the hole in the food supply caused by not eating fish from the Gulf or possibly the east coast by the time hurricane season finishes.

Hemp's environment benefits are deep. Hemp’s up to 6' root system aerates soil and converts many toxins into wood. Hemp should be planted in all toxic areas to help clean the soil as part of a plant remediation program like what was successfully done at Chernobyl.

Another book in the HEMP FOR VICTORY series that explains many of the environmental applications is HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION.

PG 91 Con. Dennis Kucinich “There is no reason for us to poison our own planet. Clean energy from Cannabis Hemp would totally solve this problem. Cannabis Hemp does not contain high levels of nitrogen or sulfur. If we burned Cannabis Hemp for electricity and gasoline we would stop releasing sulfur compounds. Because Cannabis Hemp grows very rapidly and is easily harvestable, we could produce all the energy and gasoline we needed from Cannabis Hemp. When that happens, we can start to rebuild our decaying forests and structures without fear that they will be destroyed again.

There are a number of problems caused by needless fossil fuel use. Cannabis Hemp for energy is the necessity of the future and will soon be in place all over the world. When acid rain goes away the forests will become healthy again. Nature will begin to resume its balance.”

Hemp building materials  are strong, i.e. hemp plastic is 10 times stronger than steel according to Henry Ford.  Hemp plastics and hempcrete should be used to secure the holes in the Gulf's bottom and secure the other wells in danger of leaking, which eventually include all of them. 

Industrial hemp can help build homes and roads in the event we have to relocate large populations on unused federal land because of the potential for coastal cities rendered uninhabitable.

Source blog entries by the USA Hemp Museum of ideas on how hemp can be applied to this and other oil spills (more like a volcano with many vents) are listed below. 

Hemp Can Help With The Gulf Crater Plume Gassing

Hemp Phytoremediation Program Can Help With Gulf Oilspill Crisis

The Hemp Solution To The Oil Crisis In The Gulf

Health Alert: Move Away From The Gulf of Mexico

And finally, on Monday June 21 and Tuesday, June 22nd,  two hemp heroes, Chris Conrad and Richard M. Davis were on the online radio show Time 4 Hemp which is broadcast over American Freedom Radio  discussing the crisis with Casper Leitch on how hemp can help. These interviews reveal even more on how hemp can help us solve our problems.

Get involved if you’re not already.  It's up to We The People to save ourselves.

Hemp For Victory: A Peaceful Solution To Gulf Oil Crisis

The Lord has a sense of humor, really. Turns out a plant that is now illegal holds the key to solving the oil crisis in the Gulf.

From what Willie Nelson calls A Peaceful Solution, nature's hemp plant, we have a full arsenal of tools in this weed's various grades of THC to fight this crisis in fields as vast as medical, industrial, environmental, economic and agricultural.

The potential consequences from this environmental crisis in the Gulf of Mexico and beyond are way too precise to ignore. 

Two important Time 4 Hemp shows, broadcast on the great  American Freedom Radio, the type that can save our lives, literally.  The Time4Hemp shows aired on Monday June 21 and Tuesday, June 22nd, each featuring one of two hemp heroes, Chris Conrad and Richard M. Davis . On the programs they discuss the environmental crisis in the Gulf and beyond with Casper Leitch, co-hosted by hemp humanitarian Joint Host: Kelly Kriston, owner of KDK Distributors on how hemp can help solve the problems.

 

Hemp is a no brainer in dealing with this oil crisis. Since the problem is too many toxins in the environment, the solution is to stop the inflow and clean up the mess.  The hemp plant has a multitude of applications to the problem of the oil industry messing up the Gulf of Mexico and the lives of her citizens. Consider hemp as the illegal solution. The good news is a simple Executive Order signed by the president ending hemp prohibition. As citizens we declare the need for this century's Hemp For Victory program, using the original as the program's nucleus.

How? Here's a few ways for openers?

Hemp medicine, which assists with respiratory and digestive problems helps deal with the toxic chemicals people are being exposed to like benzene and methane. 

Hemp is a wind pollinated plant that has a short growing season.  Hemp foods can help replace the whole in the food supply caused by not eating fish from the Gulf or possibly the east coast by the time hurricane season finishes. 

Hemp's environment benefits are deep as its up to 6' root system aerates soil and converts many toxins into wood. Hemp should be planted in all toxic areas to help clean the soil.

Hemp building materials are strong, i.e. hemp plastic is 10 times stronger than steel according to Henry Ford. A company that specializes is HempPlastic.com , a material that should be considered for use to plug up the underwater volcanoes.

 

Industrial hemp can help build homes in the event we have to relocate large populations on unused federal land because of  coastal cities rendered uninhabitable. An exciting hemp tool is concrete made from hemp.  A good site for more information and purchase is Hempcrete.com

We have 4 blog entries by the USA Hemp Museum, www.hempmuseum.org of initial ideas on how hemp can be applied to this oil spill (volcano).  The museum's founder and curator, Richard M. Davis. Davis is a leader of the groundswell of support for a new HEMP FOR VICTORY program based on the successful World War II program.


Below are a short series of research from the Museum, with much more to follow. Please add your thoughts as we re-institute the Hemp For Victory program.

Hemp Phytoremediation Program Can Help With Gulf Oilspill Crisis

Hard Link: http://www.h4v.blogspot.com/2010/06/hemp-phytoremediation-program-can-help.html


Plant hemp to help clean soil and air. Hemp's 6 foot root system aerates soil and was used in Chernobyl.

The Hemp Solution To The Oil Crisis In The Gulf

Hard Link: http://www.hempnayer.blogspot.com/2010/06/hemp-solution-to-oil-crisis-in-gulf.html


Plug up the holes and cracks with hemp plastic and hempcrete. Use hemp fibers to clean up the oil.

Health Alert: Move Away From The Gulf of Mexico

Hard Link: http://www.nayerpod.blogspot.com/2010/06/health-alert-move-away-from-gulf-of.html  


Benzene, methane and other toxic chemicals are in the air and water in the Gulf. Hemp medicine can help, yet, we still need to be moving large populations away from that toxic area.

An overview, the first piece of this research

Hemp Can Help With The Gulf Crater Plume Gassing

Hard Link: http://www.hempnayer.blogspot.com/2010/05/hemp-can-help-with-gulf-crater-plume.html


HEMP FOR VICTORY

Tell the President's Men - Use Hemp To Help Heal Deepwater Oil Spill

That hemp can help clean up the oil spill and shift us from toxic energy is a no-brainer. The President has called for ideas, yet pretends not to know how hemp can help us solve our problems. Below are a few ideas for how hemp can help with the oil spill followed by more information on the people who the President is calling on for solutions. 

1.  Use hemp fabrics and fiber fluff to absorb surface oil and reign in slicks.

2.  Use hemp plastic, 10 times stronger than steel according to Henry Ford, to plug up the holes.  Hempcrete can be used to entomb the damaged pipe. A great work on plastics that is out of print but there is a copy at the USA Hemp Museum is from the series "Speaking of Plastics" THE STORY OF CELLULOSICS.

3. Shift to hemp biofuel and biomass, solar, algae, hydro, magnetic and other clean, safe and in some cases free energies.  Nature supplies us with all the energy we need in non toxic forms.  A touch of common sense can create a positive energy policy where oil spills and mining accidents are reduced based on lack of demand for toxic energy.

4. Use hemp foods to fill the upcoming hole in the food supply caused by a dramatic reduction in seafood production. Delicious, nutritious and easily renewable.

5.  Empower family farmers to grow hemp on unused federal land.  Hemp is an easily renewable, quickly growing crop with over 50,000 industrial, recreational, religious and medical uses.

6.  Use hemp's economic empowerment muscle to repair damage done to the economy by the oil spill and other contributing factors.

7.  Build a "Mastermind Alliance" of folks who know how to use hemp to help us solve our problems.

Share these ideas and others with the President's team of great minds charged with resolving this crisis.

The USA Hemp Museum has a mini museum for $250 that contains many samples of hemp products like those mentioned here, books and other hemp samples for educational presentations.  Richard M. Davis, the museum's founder and curator, sent President Obama a free mini museum last year, along with the three books in his HEMP FOR VICTORY series A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION, THE WONDER HERB and THE TRILLION DOLLAR CROP.  So far, no word back.

Here's the key non BP players: 

Energy Secretary Steven Chu, a Nobel prize-winning physicist, 

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar 

Another article on oil spill members:

Jonathan I. Katz, physics professor at Washington University

Richard L. Garwin is also a physicist and consults the U.S. government on military technologies

George A. Cooper, former professor of civil engineering at Berkeley. Cooper cooper@ce.berkeley.edu

Alexander Slocum, a mechanical engineering professor at MIT slocum@mit.edu

Tom Hunter, former director of the DOE's Sandia Laboratory.

Click here to post your thoughts on healing the oil spill. 

For more on hemp please visit the USA Hemp Museum.