Dr. Bonner arrested for hemp protest

[Nastarana]

http://www.alternet.org/environment/...bition/?page=2

He uses tons of hemp oil in his famous soaps, which he has to buy from Canada.

As he points out, the Chinese govt. "which shoots you" for MJ use, permits the growing of millions of acres of industrial hemp "and they can tell the difference."

[Nastarana]

http://www.alternet.org/environment/...bition/?page=1

There is the link to the beginning of this article.

oops, That would be Dr. Bronner. I may start buying his products.

American farmers need to be able to profit from industrial hemp growing.

What is in it for me? On the grubby personal level, I want comfortable, mildew resistant, wears like iron hemp fabric to make my gardening clothes.

[gulfcoastguy]

Good! Not growing it is idiotic. The fiber makes greats blue jeans, paper ect. The seed produce a high quality oil that can either be eaten or used for biodiesel and the seed themselves are edible. They are low in fertilizer and pesticide use.

[Nastarana]

Hemp would have been the right and best choice for tobacco farmers looking for another crop. but, it was not to be. Instead, they went into, or were forced into, I am not sure which, confinement chicken cooping.

[San Antonio]

I love Dr Bonner soaps.

[RedZone]

This is not a subject for Ploitics of Food. This thread has been moved to Off Topic.


Public discourse regarding the many challenges at hand seems to be ominously absent except for a small minority of concerned individuals (my own opinion). I commend all of you for taking the time to wrestle with these challenges, many of which are obviously much more controversial than common gardening issues which are addressed in the other sub-forums, but please let us love our fellow countrymen enough to engage in thoughtful, courteous and productive dialogue with them rather than letting our emotions get the best of us which will only lead to angry division and unproductive discourse.
Originally Posted by AlaskaMan
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[Mulligan Man]

Originally Posted by Nastarana

Hemp would have been the right and best choice for tobacco farmers looking for another crop. but, it was not to be. Instead, they went into, or were forced into, I am not sure which, confinement chicken cooping.

What?

[gulfcoastguy]

Redzone I disagree, hemp produces a very edible oil and hemp seed is edible as well. The rest of the plant is usefull for nonfood uses.

[Nastarana]

I understood that hemp oil is edible, and hemp oil and seeds have been eaten for literally millenia. I truly thought that hemp is a food and fiber crop.

[shadetree]

Christina Pirello, of Christina Cooks, uses hemp oil frequently in her cooking.
As a side note, I believe Dr. Bronner himself died in 1997, if I'm not mistaken.