Cannabis Sativa is one of the most ancient plants cultivated by mankind. Hemp processing was already developed in China 8000 years before Christ was born. Hemp was first harvested for its seeds, a rich source of amino acids used for food. Then it was discovered that by breaking the stalks, they could use the fibers to make paper, as well as fishing nets and up to 5000 Hemp related products, including of course textiles. The ancient Chinese called their country The Land of Hemp and Mulberry. Mulberry leaves were used to feed silk worms from which was produced the precious silk that only the rich and powerful could afford. Everyone else wore hemp clothing. Hemp was called “ma” by the Chinese, literally meaning plant with two forms, male and female. The Chinese had originally used bamboo to make bow strings, but then they discovered the hemp fiber was stronger and lasted longer. Imperial decrees ordered that certain areas of the land would be exclusively used to grow hemp.

England has been using hemp as a strategic material for centuries. At the beginning of the 19th century, ropes and sails for ships were exclusively made from hemp. But 90% of this hemp was imported from Italy and Russia. The United Kingdom was seriously worried about maintaining its hemp supplies during the expansion of the Napoleonic empire. King George III of England decided to increase the cultivation of hemp and develop its production in the sea ports along the south coast of Britain.

Now, Bridport is a most remarkable seaport. It’s been making, growing, manufacturing hemp, flax, sail cloth, ropes, twines, nets of every conceivable description since time out of mind. And I use the phrase time out of mind because it was used in a charter by King John in 1213 where he wrote to the Bourgeois of Bridport and exhorted them night and day to make cables and ropes of every description. There were frequent wars with France, certainly from early medieval times until of course Napoleonic Wars. And Bridport took part in that span of history.
In 1803 the British navy organized a blockade against France. Napoleon counteracted by signing an agreement with Czar Alexander I. This contract was called the Tilsit Treaty and it explicitly forbade any export of hemp to England and America, therefore depriving them both of the use of hemp towards their sail cloth, rope, and other hemp product used in the war effort. Despite Napoleon’s protests, Alexander I allowed merchants to smuggle hemp to Britain. This is one of the reasons why Napoleon decided to invade Russia. But the severe winter of 1912 forced him to withdraw his troops and led to the end of his empire.

A real fashion began with this look on hemp. Hemp has become so popular in Germany that the market today is very good for us. Some of our textiles come from eastern Europe, from Hungary, Romania, very few from China because we are not yet satisfied with the quality. And we have also our own textiles directly produced here in Germany. I hope it will soon be legal to grow hemp in Germany because a lot of European countries already do it. We still have a very strong bureaucratic system in Germany and for this reason we are not yet allowed to grow hemp. But I think hemp growing will soon be legalized here too.

The main difference is certainly that hemp is an ecological culture. Hemp growing doesn’t need any weed killing, no pesticide. Its raw material grows naturally and it doesn’t need chemical intervention. This is surely the most important thing.

In France you can even build houses out of boards made from hemp fiber. The producers ensure that they are protected against fire and rot. This material is long lasting, has good insulating properties and strong and flexible.

Marijuana history 101, or should I say extremely brief marijuana history 101. It’s big, complicated, and we’ll only be able to scratch the surface. So let’s get started. The first thing that strikes one as odd when looking at the history of marijuana, which is also known as cannabis, is how very much legal it once was. In fact, it wasn’t only legal, it just happened to be one of the largest agricultural crops in the world, including the United States. You see, cannabis can also be hemp. And just what is hemp? Well it’s by and large the most robust, durable, natural soft fiber on the face of this planet. Up until 1883, and for thousands of years before, cannabis hemp was the largest agricultural crop in the world. It has thousands of uses and products. The majority of fabric, lighting oil, medicines, paper and fiber came from hemp. The first marijuana law to exist in the United States was a law ordering farmers to grow hemp. Benjamin Franklin used it to start one of America’s first paper mills. The first two copies of the Declaration of Independence were written on cannabis hemp paper.

Up until the 1800′s, most of the textiles in the United States were made with hemp. 50% of medicine marketed in the last half of the 19th Century was made from cannabis. Even Queen Victoria used the resin abstracts from cannabis to alleviate her menstrual cramps. But the funny thing about industrial hemp was that you couldn’t get high from it. Yet, it was lumped in with the following, which also made little sense…Reefer Madness. In the early 20th Century, yellow journalism had surfaced. Articles depicted Blacks and Mexicans as frenzied beasts who would smoke marijuana, play devils music, and heap disrespect and viciousness on the readership, a majority of which happened to be white. Some offenses included looking at a white woman twice, laughing at a white person, or even stepping on white men’s shadows.

And this ended up leading up to a law in the form of a tax stamp. A tax stamp that would not only include marijuana, but also hemp and cannabis medicines. It speculated that hemp’s potential for an abundance of new products was going to be in direct competition with other sources. And this added to the refer madness, led to eventual downfall of all forms of cannabis. Popular Mechanics Magazine had actually prepared an article entitled, New Billion Dollar Crop. Hemp was touted as being able to produce more than 5,000 textile products from its threadlike fiber and more than 25,000 products from its cellulose, ranging from dynamite to Cellophane. It’s superiority as a source for paper was also becoming known. Especially with the development of hemp processing equipment. Now the new marijuana tax act was all fine and dandy, except for one thing. If you wanted to grow hemp, you needed to buy a stamp. But they weren’t giving any out, to anybody. And so, in effect, all forms of cannabis became illegal. Things pretty much stayed that way until WWII, when the Government decided that hemp once again, was a good thing, and produced a video…Hemp For Victory. But by the time the war was over, hemp again became bad. And in 1948 when the marijuana law once again came into question, Congress recognized that marijuana was made illegal for the wrong reason. It didn’t make people violent at all. It made them pacifists. The communists would use it to weaken America’s will to fight. Congress now voted to keep marijuana illegal for the exact opposite reason that they had outlawed it in the first place. And all through the years, report after report, commissioned by everybody. From the Mayor of New York to the President of the united States, has come back with a view that marijuana should have no criminal penalty attached to it. Yet, marijuana as remains illegal today as it did over 70 years ago.

Dwight Eisenhower once spoke of a “military industrial complex”. Have we built up a marijuana prohibition complex? When Nixon got into this, with this war on drugs he had things he wanted to do, he had an agenda. A lot of the information was kept and warehoused in the library of Congress and also at major Universities was actually recalled and destroyed. The Nixon report that came out through his administration was called the Shafer Report.

And then when it came back saying marijuana was essentially harmless, he total ignored it, said, ‘we’re going to launch a war on drugs anyways’.

1970, beginning the war on drugs, 76 New Jersey troopers became detectives, I was one of them. They designated one third of us to undercover, I happened to fall in that one third, That’s where I spent the next 14 years of my life. What we were targeted on, was the pot smokers.

There are many, many police officers however, who believe that it ought to be legalized, regulated, and controlled. They see the hypocrisy between our existing laws relating to alcohol and marijuana, in their day to day life, shift after shift, and they get it. But they don’t want to lose their jobs. They don’t want to lose their promotion to Sargent or the assignment to detectives. They want to be a chief someday and they don’t want to piss off the people in power. Judges, lawyers, prosecutors, defense lawyers, prison guards, there’s all of those people in the criminal justice industry. Are their being protected? Well in a sense, yes they are. Defense bar, similarly we make money, the more things they prohibit, the more money we make.

If you’ve been caught, a young person in the U.S. with so much as one marijuana cigarette, you can’t get a loan or grant from the government to go to college. If you’ve been convicted of murdering somebody, or raping someone, no problem. You go right down and they’ll give you the loan. I guess the message is, it’s OK to rape and murder a village, just don’t go and smoke a joint afterwards.

Chase Manhattan Bank, the Rockefeller Bank in Paris seized the assets of their Jewish depositors and then ordered Hitler to tell them to do it, which of course he did. The Nazis who run this country ordered Hitler around. Hitler represented a dictatorship of the rich bastards of the largest corporations of the power elite against the democrats who think society ought to be run for the people and for the benefit of the people. But the most powerful Nazis were not in Germany they were right here. The Rockefellers and the Harrimans, the Fords and the Duponts, helped to create Hitler, helped to promote him and armed his. And they didn’t lose World War II. Hitler did, the German people did, the Jewish people did… But the Rockefellers and the Harrimans, the Fords and the Duponts, they won.

As we saw in JFK II: The Bush Connection George Herbert Walker Bush helped to supervise the assassination of President Kennedy. And from that moment on his political future was made. He was a made man. He lost the race for Senate, they gave his a seat in Congress. He lost again for the Senate, they gave him a job at the White House. He lost the primaries to Reagan, they made him Vice President and he ruled while Reagan napped for eight years.

He says there’s medical proof that THC kills cancer cells. Rick Dwyer says Simpson’s hemp oil killed his father’s cancer and other diseases. It took the fluid off his lungs. It repaired the prostate. It did so many things for him, he doesn’t even take his insulin now for his diabetes because it controls his diabetes.

Hemp has been used in medicine for nearly 5,000 years!

Cannabis and hemp traditionally have been used to treat alcoholics, recovering drug addicts, and it hasn’t changed over the years. They’re still using it today in some cases, but most medical facilities don’t recognize it. I believe they don’t recognize the product because of the disinformation that’s been handed over the years. It’s touted as an illicit drug rather than a medicine. In the research that we have, the most amazing part of the product is the medicinal value to it.

When we began, Rick asked me to find out if there was any detrimental effects to hemp oil. As we searched we couldn’t find any. And the research kept coming back with all the good aspects of the medicine. That is we kept looking and we ran into Dr. Guzm n’s in Spain who has done research since 1999 into the hemp oils. The International Cannabinoid Research Society has been researching it for seventeen years. They have research papers from various researchers and research organizations including Health Canada. And with our research we haven’t been able to find anything detrimental. Everything is beneficial from the oil.

The chemo and the radiation just kills everything inside of you. It doesn’t give you a chance to live. And then when I look at my hemp oil that’s why I am sitting here today telling you that hemp oil does work.

The more money you spend on cancer, the more cancer you get. And the reason why, is there has been virtually no movement in the field of prevention. …You wait til’ they get the cancer and then you try and treat it. As such the more drugs are bought the higher the profit. Now the more disease there is the greater the profit.

On January ’07 my father came to stay with my wife and I because his cancer had become unmanageable. He could not stay alone anymore. At this point the man had fluid in both lungs, couldn’t even hardly walk around, his breathing had gone down to 70% and he was on his last legs. We started him on the treatment, and inside of three months the cancer was completely gone and between that he got nothing but better.