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LOTUS ECO ELISE









Prototype Lotus Elise







The Eco Elise , released at the British Motor Show in 2008, uses a host of sustainable materials to make up the body and trim, including hemp, "eco wool," sisal and a new high-tech, water-based paint.









WOW! Hemp is the miracle plant of our time, breathing in 4x the carbon dioxide (CO2) of trees during it's quick 12-14 week growing cycle. Trees take 20 years to mature vs 4 months for Industrial Hemp! Our forests are being cut down 3x faster than they can grow! One acre of hemp produces as much cellulose fiber pulp as 4.1 acres of trees!!! (Dewey & Merrill. Bulletin #404. U.S. Dept. of Age. 1916)







This historic hemp house in Nagano was built in 1698. It is now recognised as a Japanese national heritage site. It was left to the village by Mr. Nakamura, its former village chief who founded the Asa no Yakata hemp museum.







Open Tue-Sun, 9:00-16:00 except the 4th Tuesday of every month or after a National holiday.



Administration office phone: 0261-29 2580





1807: Napoleon signs Treaty with Russia to cut off all legal Russian Hemp trade with Britain. but the Czar refuses to enforce the treaty and turns a blind eye to Britain’s illegal Hemp trade.



June 24th, 1812 Napoleon invades Russia to try and put an end to Britain’s main supply of Russian Hemp but by the end of the year the Russian winter had decimated most of Napoleon’s forces. Did you know that the Royal Navy relied on Russian Hemp to stay afloat during their war with the U.S.? (the War of 1812)







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built to help American farmers by using cellulose grown on the land, such as southern slash pine fiber, straw, ramie and HEMP. This plastic car comprised 70% cellulose with 30% resin binder. On his large estate, Ford was photographed among his hemp fields. The car, 'grown from the soil' had an impact strength 10 times stronger than steel at 2/3 rd's the weight for better economy (

Popular Mechanics, 1941

) Alcohol prohibition prevented Mr. Ford from powering his fleet with "plant-power".





"Why use up the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down if we can get the equivalent of forest and mineral products in the annual growth of the hemp fields?" - Henry Ford



















Why is it still illegal to grow hemp in the United States of America when many other industrialized nations have embraced the many economic uses & benefits of industrial, non-cannabis hemp? It's only a matter of time before hemp becomes a mainstay of our economy & helps to clean up our environment.









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Hemp sails & rope carried Columbus to the Americas in 1492. Columbus boat carried hemp seed for use in case of shipwreck to grow crops for raw materials & as a source of nutrition.







* George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and other founding fathers GREW HEMP; (Washington and Jefferson Diaries). Jefferson smuggled hemp seeds from China to France then to America. Hemp was in such demand in the colonies that taxes could be paid in hemp & fines were levied against farmers who did not grow hemp!



* Benjamin Franklin owned one of the first paper mills in America and it processed hemp. Also, the War of 1812 was fought over hemp. Napoleon wanted to cut off Moscow's export to England (Emperor Wears No Clothes, Jack Herer).



* For thousands of years, 90% of all ships' sails and rope were made from hemp. The word 'canvas' is Dutch for cannabis; (Webster's New World Dictionary).



* 80% of all textiles, fabrics, clothes, linen, drapes, bed sheets, etc. were made from hemp until the 1820s with the introduction of the cotton gin.



* Until 1883 more than 3/4 of the world's paper was made from hemp fiber. Hemp crops produce nearly 4 times as much raw fiber than equivalent tree plantations! Hemp paper is finer, stronger & lasts longer than wood-based papers. Bank notes & archival papers are made from hemp paper.





The first Bibles, maps, charts,

, the first drafts of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were made from hemp (

U.S. Government Archives

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The first crop grown in many states was hemp. 1850 was a peak year for Kentucky producing 40,000 tons. Hemp was the largest cash crop until the 20th Century; (

State Archives

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* Oldest known records of hemp farming go back 5000 years in China. For more than 1000 years before the time of Christ until 1883 AD Cannabis Sativa was our planet's most important industry for thousands of products & enterprises producing the overall majority of the earth's fiber, fabric, lighting oil, incense, fibreglass replacement, lightweight sandwich boards, composite woods, kitty litter, potting mix, nappies, feminine care products, fuel, medicines & paper, as well as a primary source of protein for humans & animals.







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Rembrandts, Gainsboroughs, Van Goghs as well as most early canvas paintings were principally painted on hemp linen.









* In 1916, the U.S. Government predicted that by the 1940s all paper would come from hemp and that no more trees need to be cut down. Government studies report that 1 acre of hemp equals 4.1 acres of trees. Plans were in the works to implement such programs (Department of Agriculture).



* Quality paints and varnishes were made from hemp seed oil until 1937. 58,000 tons of hemp seeds were used in America for paint products in 1935; (Sherwin-Williams Paint Co. testimony before Congress against the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act).





placed a tax on the sale of Cannabis. The Act was drafted by

and introduced by

(D) of North Carolina on April 14, 1937.











* Hemp called '

.' It was the first time a cash crop had a business potential to exceed a billion dollars (

Popular Mechanics, Feb., 1938

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* Mechanical Engineering Magazine (

Feb. 1938

) published an article entitled 'The Most Profitable and Desirable Crop that Can be Grown.' It stated that if hemp was cultivated using 20th Century technology, it would be the single largest agricultural crop in the U.S. and the rest of the world.







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Hemp is fully international: "Canamo" in Spanish, "Chanvre" in French, "Konoplya" in Russian, "Hanf" in German, "Kender" in Hungarian, "Tai Ma" in Chinese, "Cinepa" in Romanian.





Everybody knows the Japanese currency, the yen (¥). In Japanese it is pronounced en and it's kanji also means circle, or round. There is an anecdote that this fact prompted U.S. General McArthur to set the initial yen-dollar exchange rate at 360 yen to the dollar, for there are 360 degrees in a circle. True or not, the Yen are called what they are called because they literally used to be circles with a hole in the middle, just like a washer. In fact two of the yen coins in circulation today, the 5 yen and 50 yen coins are still like that. The reason for the hole is that coins used to be lined up on

hemp

strings and carried around like that. In historic Japan (as in China before) everybody's wallet used to be a piece of hemp, the most durable and trusted natural fibre known to man







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The Chernobyl Nuclear Plant Reactor 4 in the Ukraine caused severe radioactive contamination in April 1986. Industrial Hemp has been used to remove contaminants from the soils, called

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Hemp cultivation and production do not harm the environment. The USDA Bulletin #404 concluded that hemp produces 4 times as much pulp with at least 4 to 7 times less pollution. (Popular Mechanics, Feb. 1938).

