An Ancient Alternative to Oil



By Zed B. Starkovich

The ONLY way our past foreign policy, and present war, can be justified is if we accept the fundamental premise that WE NEED OIL TO SURVIVE. We must believe that oil is our only source of energy and without it civilization as we know it would collapse. In order to justify our more “precision bombing” must believe that protecting our oil-based economy is the same as protecting the people of America. But its all a lie. WE DON’T NEED PETROLEUM AND NEVER HAVE.

Genocide and the Drug War

By Zed B. Starkovich

I sent this letter to Col. Fletcher Prouty, author of JFK and The Secret Team, as well as the basis for ‘Man X’ in Oliver Stone’s filmJFK (based on Prouty’s book). Col. Prouty served as the chief of special operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Kennedy years and was directly in charge of the global system designed to provide military support for the clandestine activities of the CIA. He was at the epicenter of the events that shaped our history and his work provides an invaluable glimpse into the murky corridors of military power. His patriotism and lifelong service to the people of this country will serve as a true inspiration to anybody interested in the past and concerned about the future of our great nation.

War is a Racket

By Major General Smedley Butler, Forum magazine, September, 1934

WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

Hemp for Victory

By the U.S. Department of Agriculture

Here’s the film our Federal Government made, then claimed didn’t exist. If you think Hemp as a natural resource is a Hippie pipe dream, try not to blow your mind on the truth.

The Ford Hempmobile

Popular Mechanics, 1941

This famous article from 1938 was written just months before congress quietly destroyed the hemp industry by declaring that the “demon weed marijuana” was the most “violence causing drug known to man” and that it “made Mexicans and Negroes rape white women.” When the article finally ran, the promise of a second industrial revolution had been choked to death before its first breath and left to die on the dusty road of history.

The Cannabis/Hemp FAQ

By Brian S. Julin

This hypertext paper is packed with important information and the answers to all your Cannabis and Hemp questions.

Modern Uses for Hemp

This handy diagram shows how different parts of the Hemp plant can be used for thousands of items currently produced with expensive and toxic petrochemical materials and processes.

Pot Shrinks Tumors; Government Knew in ’74

By Raymond Cushing, AlterNet – May 31, 2000

The term medical marijuana took on dramatic new meaning in February, 2000 when researchers in Madrid announced they had destroyed incurable brain tumors in rats by injecting them with THC, the active ingredient in cannabis. The Madrid study marks only the second time that THC has been administered to tumor-bearing animals; the first was a Virginia investigation 26 years ago. In both studies, the THC shrank or destroyed tumors in a majority of the test subjects.

Hydrocarbons vs Carbohydrates: The continuing battle in the United States

The Institute for Local Self-Reliance

Vegetable matter and minerals have competed with each other to become the dominant industrial input for almost 200 years. For the first 150 years, significant advances occurred in the use of both types of material. Then, for a quarter of a century after World War II, hydrocarbons took over almost completely but since the 1980s, carbohydrate-derived industrial products have been sweeping back as a result of technological and political developments.

Hemp, The Great Green Hope

Global Research, June 10, 2011

Industrialists were like scarab beetles, rolling around this giant ball of profit protection, and they ran right over the domestic hemp industry. Hemp presented way too much competition, too much threat to entrenched and entrenching profits. Took a pretty big ball of dung, but the scarabs rolled it expertly, professionals. Except for several years of heavy production during WWII, under the feds’ “Hemp for Victory” campaign—which told the truth about hemp and helped us win the war…not a single acre of hemp has been legally grown in America since 1937. Seventy-four years and counting. That was one enormous ball of dung. The entire hemp-prohibition infamy could be called a dung deal, especially as related to the common good.

Pentagon Built On USDA Hemp Farm

Washinton Post – May 13, 2010

Even as legalized medical marijuana has become more and more commonplace, the industrial hemp plant — with its minuscule levels of the chemical that gives marijuana its kick — has remained illegal to cultivate in the United States.

The Hemp Car Goes Electric

Popular Scienc – Feb, 2011

70 years after Henry Ford’s Hemp built a car “grown from the soil” a new company is using hemp based bio-plastic to build a new breed of cars.

Hemp as an Agricultural Commodity

An excellent report by the Congressional Research Service

Hemp Is Not Pot

It’s the economic stimulus and green jobs solution we NEED.

HEMP FACTS

Compiled by Ezra Soiferman of EzSez.com

The history and future of hemp is now at your fingertips.

Hemp Houses

Hemp used to build carbon-nutral houses in the UK

Henry Ford’s Hemp Car

Newly found footage of the car that was “Grown from the soil.”

This Hemp based bio-plastic car was 10 times more impact resistant than steel, and had a Diesel engine that ran on hemp methanol fuel.

Study on hemp published by Reason.org

May, 2008

Research Shows Hemp Can Fight Heart Disease

Oct. 2007

Soy’s New Competition – Hemp

L.A. Times – May, 2007

Promising Research Into Hemp as Energy Source in Finland

Helsinki Sanomat – May, 2007

Inventors of Hemp Ice Cream – Living Green Before Their Time

Toronto Star – May, 2007