Fibre stories: "Cottonization", hemp's future in fabrics in China

The key difference between China and the United States economies
is hemp is legal, researched and promoted in China.

Fibre stories: "Cottonization", hemp's future in fabrics in China - International Year of Natural Fibres 2009



"China's President, Hu Jintao, visits the country's first commercial hemp fibre processing mill - Hemp Research Centre

Zhang Jianchun, Director General of China's Hemp Research Centre in Beijing has a dream: to see lush green plantations of Cannabis sativa growing across 1.3 million hectares of the country's farmland. That would be sufficient, Zhang calculates, to produce up to 10 million tonnes of hemp plants a year and, with it, around two million tonnes of hemp fibre.

Expanded production of hemp, he says, offers enormous benefits for China. First, it would provide a major new source of fibre for the textile industry, reduce dependency on cotton and, in the process, free large areas of cotton-growing land for food production. In addition, hemp cultivation would generate extra income for millions of small-scale farmers in some of the country's poorest rural areas.
China currently cultivates industrial hemp over an area of around 20 000 ha. That is just a fraction of the 5.6 million ha dedicated to cotton (China is the world's biggest cotton grower, with a harvest of some 6.6 million tonnes in 2006). Among natural fibres processed for use in Chinese textiles, hemp output ranks far behind that of wool and silk and of other bast sources such as flax, jute, kenaf and ramie.
"Performance properties". The Hemp Research Centre is working to change that - and restore hemp to its once important place in Chinese agriculture and textiles. Zhang points out that China is the birthplace of industrial hemp: archaeological evidence shows that the plant was grown for fibre some 4 000 years ago, and it was not overtaken by cotton in clothing until early last century."
For more information on hemp textiles be sure to visit the USA Hemp Museum's Textiles Room.  For a deeper understanding on how to use hemp to solve our economic crisis, I urge you to read HEMP FOR VICTORY: THE TRILLION DOLLAR CROP by Richard M. Davis. 

Hemp For Us News - Thank You Michael Phelps

This article is by Debby Moore, Director of Research Hemp Industries of Kansas, sent to the USA Hemp Museum by Rev. Tom Brown who served 5 years for praying with a plant.

"I thank Michael Phelps, and others with winning spirits, for inspiring me to share these thoughts with you. "

Subject: Hemp For Us news

Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 7:18 AM

Knowledgeable of the probability of arrest and prosecution for speaking the truth, my FREE WILL impels my soul to shout, the time for Absolute Decriminalization of the plant Cannabis Sativa L. Hemp is now. Absolutely!

The United States is the only G-8 country, who does not recognize, productive cultivation of this bountiful, and multiple agricultural-business Cannabis Hemp crop.

My body, our bodies, are bio-chemically engineered to receive the nutritional benefits of Cannabis. Dr. Andrew Weil has repeatedly advised, if you want optimum health, you will include in your diet cannabis hemp every day.

Free Will, is stifled by over regulation, numerous rules and punishments. It is my opinion, we can choke the life out of the US economy with a few more rules suppressing Free Will. The aggressive anti-drug war policy of past plenipotentiary, is again contaminating the scientific facts data of the plant, Cannabis Sativa L. Hemp. The United Nations, now in session, deciding the world drug policy of the next decade, with U.S. plenipotentiary of past administrations implementing their strategy, other nations are rejecting to continue failed policy.

Despite, what the U.S. anti-drug profiteers promote, use of Cannabis does not a loser make. Micro-soft, and Michael Phelps, are two extraordinarily successful energies. that immediately come to mind. The Latin motto published on many corporate logo's, "impress your friends, destroy your enemies", is a common occurrence, originating when the first pilgrims took aim at the Native American Indian. The principal teachings of the 1970's Harvard University class, *A RADICAL APPROACH TO ECONOMICS: BASIS FOR A NEW CURRICULUM *ADDICTIONS, DISTRACTIONS DEFINE WESTERN WORLD, reinforce these concepts to disenfranchise humans.

70 years since the state of Kansas wrote the federal plenipotentiary,"if you restrict the cultivation of Cannabis Hemp, it will economically devastate Kansas." The intentional miscommunication of this plant Cannabis, the restriction of Free Will by imprisoning those who speak upto change drug policy, continue. All the legislative body, and media can discuss, is the smoking of the plant, by its media promotional name,"Marijuana". U. S. citizens, should be building houses from the Cannabis crop, creating jobs for farmers, and manufactures.

If Kansas, (who was a major contributor in the cultivation of Hemp initiative, for the "Hemp for Victory" WWII efforts), were to restore Hemp as a respectful agri-business, Kansas farmers would enjoy exceedingly handsome profits, new processors would build new buildings. The state of Kansas could grow their own paper, building supplies, composite plastics, food, animal bedding, insulation, fabrics, 22,000 other products. A very healthy concept, keeping the profits from the Kansas citizens labor efforts, in Kansas.

I have a problem that our plenipotentiary, are given the opportunity, to invest in the business of building prisons, and the plenteous of mega support conglomerates, created to eliminate the Free Will of consuming Cannabis advocates. Ultimately, the same legislators, pass laws, guaranteeing the full-occupancy of the prison industry, feeding there turns of their investments, completely forgetting to honestly pay their own income taxes.

At my local Wal-Mart, I can now purchase lotions and oils made from Cannabis Hemp, to smooth my skin, wash my hair. I can fuel my body with the essential omega three protein acids. I can wrap my self in Hemp fabrics. I can drive a car made of Hemp plastic composites. Economically, not one single American Farmer can enjoy a profit from growing this bountiful Cannabis Hemp crop. All Cannabis Sativa L Hemp raw fiber resources, must be imported into the United States, including the paper, used to make the money you and I spend.

We need to insist our plenipotentiary, support the desires of the many states, whose state voters, have enacted law for medical marijuana to beavailable to its citizens. If we continue our failed path, the judicial system revolving door, our children, and grand children, will pass through, and live in fear of; the laws of disenfranchisement for using are stricted plant. These bad drug policy laws, will continue to destroy our futures, as a whole. Bad laws, which certainly negatively affect the poor in far greater proportions, than the wealthy. Bad laws, which will continue to fill the coffers of the plenipotentiary, corrupting governments, restricting free speech, and destroying the pride of ownership, through seizure. Bad laws, which are much more damaging to the individual, than the use of, cannabis, in itself. Bad laws that put the price of a drug test, and law enforcement expenses, in each and every product we sell and purchase.

I thank Michael Phelps, and others with winning spirits, for inspiring me to share these thoughts with you.

Respectfully yours, Debby Moore, Director of Research Hemp Industries of Kansas

http://www.hempforus.com/

debby@hempforus.com
P.O. Box 48258, Wichita, Kansas, 67201(316) 524 6001

USA Hemp Museum Letter To The Governor

Below is a great letter from Richard M. Davis, founder and curator of the USA Hemp Museum, a private museum with over 1,700 hemp related items. Richard has dedicated his adult life to ending hemp prohibition while researching 50,000 plus uses for the dynamic hemp plant. He is the author of two hemp books, HEMP FOR VICTORY: A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION and the soon to be released HEMP FOR VICTORY: THE WONDER HERB. In this letter Richard's TELLIN' OLD ARNOLD, LET OUR HEMP GO!!!

Tuesday, December 12, 2008

Dear California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger,

It is a waste of our tax money to enforce cannabis prohibition when we have so much violent crime and a budget deficit.

The U.S. Supreme Court this Monday upheld the California’s 4th District Court of Appeal’s ruling that patients enjoy a federally protected property right to their medical marijuana. The main point I would like to make here is that this federally protected property right also applies to hemp. One strategy here is to report this new ruling has changed your mind about hemp and the Feds, and for the cause of global warming you can now support industrial hemp.

What we find in the aftermath of the 1937 Tax Act, is that agricultural production of Cannabis hemp was the probable big target of the law. Hemp (same species as marijuana, different variety) was poised to become the first billion dollar agricultural crop in 1938. Hemp has multiple uses: clothing, textiles, paper, fiberboard, clean biomass fuels, seed protein and oil, and plastics. Hemp had 25,000 viable industrial applications in 1938. We now estimate 50,000 uses for hemp. Now with agricultural production necessary for medicine, what possible reason do we now have to prohibit farmers from growing hemp which may have a medical response, but can not even get you a little high?

Our NAFTA trading partner Canada is now in its tenth year of growing hemp. California would benefit greatly by being the first state to return hemp growing to the American farmer free of the drug war scare. To ignore the bigger picture is to languish in the mistaken belief that the federal government controls everything a state does through the interstate commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution. Our state has the sixth largest economy in the world. California would benefit greatly by forging ahead with hemp growing and research of industrial potential, which is allowed by Article 28, of the Single Convention Treaty on Narcotic Drugs (U.N.), 1961. This is the very treaty on which our federal Controlled Substances Act is based.

All over the world and the United States, the truth about hemp and marijuana is flooding our information highways. We must correct the industrial/political conspiracies, misinformation, and overall mistakes of the 1930’s and legalize hemp and marijuana. Especially considering that “marijuana is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man,” as ruled by DEA law judge Francis Young, in September of 1988.

To be ignorant of the history of Cannabis is to invite bad lawmaking. Cannabis sativa is a plant, not a synthetic compound. Any plan to provide for “safe and affordable distribution...” must take into account that it must be grown as an agricultural crop. Not all people have back yards or extra rooms in which to grow plants, or time to grow with a surprise illness. Given that agricultural production is necessary, history suggests we look deeper into the reasons for the morass of law we find ourselves in now.

The plant Cannabis sativa was illegally controlled by the government, through lies and deception, in passing the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937. Depicted as a fatal and dangerous drug marijuana in the hearings of this Act, Cannabis medicine had been used in western medicine since the 1840, and was known to have never been responsible for a single death in 1927 medical literature. Court review by the Drug Enforcement Administration in 1988, stated, “Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man.” (DEA Docket #86-22). Medical use in China started more than 5000 years ago.

Finally, we have to look at the legal due process questions of putting people in jail for using such a safe, natural herb for personal recreational purposes, while allowing the proven poisons of alcohol and nicotine to be legal. It is obvious to me from a public health standpoint that we would be better off by replacing both these death dealing drugs with a safer alternative. Competition not prohibition is the American way. Prohibition of alcohol produced a black market, prohibition of marijuana produced a black market, and prohibition of tobacco will also create a black market.

Regulation and freedom will reduce criminal activity, and return a valuable medicine called Cannabis to the California community. And of course even the legal drugs are illegal for children.

The barriers to industrial use of hemp for food, fuel, and fiber damage our environment, our farming industry, and our entire economy. They must be removed at once. I appreciate your taking whatever action is necessary to bring clarity and justice to this enviro-economical, constitutional travesty. I would also appreciate a written reply.

Sincerely,

Richard M. Davis, Curator
USA Hemp Museum
Los Angeles, CA 90046

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