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Mary Otto-Chang getting into high spirits

Joined: 28 Jan 2005 Posts: 2 Location: Gex France
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Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 11:13 pm Post subject: Getting the United Nations on Board |
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Dear All, I am a United Nations worker. I have well understood the benefits of hemp for about 30 years. I am currently undertaking research (volunteer) for the development of presentations to several UN agencies - namely the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Food and Agricultural Programme of the United Nations (UNFAO), and UNHIV/AIDS. I live in Geneva and am fairly well connected. I am asking for help on this. The UN is a conservative organization and of course politically sensitive, so I am seeking facts and figures basically to try to convince the powers that be to take a serious look at the benefits of hemp for sustainable development. Please help if you can. If anyone has very factual information on the benefits of hemp and/or contacts in the above mentioned agencies or other UN agencies please let me know.
Respect due,
Mary Otto-Chang _________________ I am a United Nations consultant lobbying for the benefits of hemp to humanity and to the planet. |
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Ferre Cannabis Sacrament Minister.


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Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 11:30 pm Post subject: |
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Hello Mary, welcome onboard.
When you go to the UN University website, http://www.unu.edu and type "HEMP" in the search box a lot of the information is available about the many industrial and other benefits of Hemp. (There are many studies that show clearly how ridiculous our present laws are.)
On this forum is a collection of facts and I'm sure you will find much help from other members as well. _________________ █ Please read the Board Rules and Posting, and you
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Echo Cannabis Sacrament Minister


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Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 11:33 pm Post subject: |
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I did e-mail a couple of industries working here in the UK. Hope it helps and you get feedback.
Thanks for your work. _________________
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Stokes Cannabis Sacrament Minister


Joined: 28 Nov 2004 Posts: 1426 Location: PA
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Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 11:34 pm Post subject: |
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Welcome Mary,
You may find this resource to be useful.
http://www.thc-ministry.net/untoldstory/index.html _________________ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Where love is, there God is also.
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Mystic Power admin THC-Ministry YahooGroup


Joined: 23 Aug 2004 Posts: 3605 Location: Key West
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Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 12:01 am Post subject: |
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Greetings Mary!
I hope this site is useful to you. It contains the complete book, THE EMPEROR WEARS NO CLOTHES, which actually began the world-wide hemp movement.
Click here: http://www.jackherer.com/chapters.html
The extensive bibliography, alone, is worth your time.
As an added benefit, Jack's organization also offers a US$100,000 challenge to prove them wrong:
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Prove us wrong! Prove us wrong! Prove us wrong!
And we hereby extend our $100,000 challenge to prove us wrong!
If all fossil fuels and their derivatives, as well as trees for paper and construction, were banned in order to save the planet, reverse the greenhouse effect and stop deforestation; then there is only one known annually renewable natural resource that is capable of providing the overall majority of the world's paper and textiles; meet all of the world's transportation, industrial and home energy needs, while simultaneously reducing pollution, rebuilding the soil and cleaning the atmosphere all at the same time... and that substance is the same one that has done it before . . . CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA!
CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA is the only known plant that can be grown from the Equator to the Arctic Circle and to the Antarctic Circle; from the mountains to the valleys, from the oceans to the plains, including arid lands and everywhere in between. CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA is the healthiest plant for the ground out of the 300,000 known species, and the millions and millions of subspecies, of plants on Earth, because it has a root system that grows 10 to 12 inches in 30 days compared to one inch for rye, barley grass, etc. The roots penetrate up to 6 feet deep, pulverizing the soil and making it arable. After harvest it leaves a root system that is mulched into the ground, revitalizing the land and making it live once again. It is the KING KONG of the King Kongs of all plant life.
All of my information about CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA has been taken from Federal and State Department of Agriculture reports, articles from Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Pulp & Paper Magazine, Scientific American, entries from encyclopedias and pharmacopoeias, and studies from all over the world during the last 200 years. This is all public information. The United States government is hiding the fact that 125 years ago, and even as far back as 4000 BC, 80 percent of our economy was based on the use of CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA for paper, fiber and fuel. Ten to 20 percent of our drug economy was based on CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA medicines, 125 years ago.
CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA was part of our everyday life. Virtually every farm and every plot of land in the cities and towns across the United States and the world, from 100-125 years ago and before, had a CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA patch growing. The U.S. government's cover-up of CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA outrages me and it should outrage you, too. I have been studying CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA for over 30 years, and I can't believe how the U.S. government, in 90 seconds in Congress, could outlaw "MARIJUANA" in 1937, without the people realizing they were outlawing CANNABIS/HEMP, the most perfect plant for the planet! They even got other countries to outlaw it, too, after the Second World War and beyond. From 1740 to 1940, 80 percent of all the world's CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA was grown (mostly by Cossacks, who were indentured servants), and then imported from, Russia.
I will again reiterate a few of the facts about CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA, which you already know from reading my book, "The Emperor Wears No Clothes."
CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA was the NUMBER ONE annually renewable natural resource for 80 percent of all paper, fiber, textiles and fuel, from 6,000 years ago until about 125 years ago. Furthermore, it was used for 5 to 50 percent of the food, light, land and soil reclamation, and even 20 percent or more of all medicine. Everyone, from the educated to the uneducated, the farmer to the townsperson, the doctors and the scientists used CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA products and depended on them.75 to 90 percent of all paper used from at least 100 AD to 1883 was made of CANNABIS/HEMP. Books, (including Bibles), money and newspapers all over the world have been mainly printed on CANNABIS/HEMP for as long as these things have existed in human history.
One hundred and 25 years ago, 70 to 90 percent of all rope, twine, cordage, ship sails, canvas, fiber, cloth, etc., was made out of CANNABIS/HEMP fiber! It was replaced by DuPont's newly discovered petrochemical fiber (nylon) beginning in 1937. By comparison, CANNABIS/HEMP is 4 times softer than cotton, 4 times warmer, 4 times more water absorbent, has 3 times the strength of cotton, is many times more durable, is flame retardant, and doesn't use pesticides. Fifty percent of all pesticides are used on cotton, yet cotton uses only 1 percent of the farmland in the U.S! CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA is the most health giving plant on Earth and it doesn't require pesticides or herbicides! It is the healthiest plant for human consumption, and for the Earth itself.
Eighty percent of our economy depended on CANNABIS/HEMP for paper, fiber and fuel, 125 years ago. At that time, it took 300 man-hours to harvest an acre of CANNABIS/HEMP, but with the invention of the brand new HEMP decorticator in the 1930s, it only took 1-1/2 to 2 hours. This is equivalent to reducing the labor burden from $6,000 down to $40 per acre, in today's money. Keep in mind that the cotton gin, in 1793, reduced the man-hours from 300 hours down to 2 hours to harvest and clean an acre of cotton. CANNABIS/HEMP would have taken over the cotton market, as it is far superior to cotton, and pesticide free. The role of CANNABIS/HEMP should be determined by market supply and demand and not by undue influence of prohibition laws, federal subsidies and huge tariffs that keep the natural from replacing the synthetic. I repeat, CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA is the KING KONG of the King Kongs of all plants!
Of all the 300,000 species of plants on Earth, no other plant source can compare with the nutritional value of CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA seeds. It is the only plant on Earth that provides us with the NUMBER ONE source, and the perfect balance of essential amino acids, essential fatty acids, globulin edestin protein, and essential oils all combined in one plant, and in a form which is most naturally digestible to our bodies.
Prior to the 1800s, CANNABIS/HEMPSEED oil was the NUMBER ONE source for lighting oil throughout the world. Until 1937-38, even paints and varnishes were 80 percent CANNABIS/HEMPSEED oil. CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA is non-toxic and has been used to make high-grade diesel fuel, oil, aircraft and precision oil and even the NUMBER ONE vegetable oil. The U.S. Army/Navy standards purchasing specifications list HEMP OIL as the NUMBER ONE preferred lubricant for their machinery. CANNABIS/HEMP is the best sustainable source of plant pulp for biomass fuel to make charcoal, gas, methanol, gasoline and electricity in a natural way.
In 1850, 80 percent of all paper, fiber, fuel, and oil was made out of CANNABIS/HEMP in America and the rest of the world. This was before the discovery of coal and petroleum for energy in the late 1850s...before the start of the worst permanent pollution ever experienced on Earth... fossil fuel pollution (coal and petroleum)!!
As a medicine, the worldwide use of CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA goes back at least 6,000 years. Remember, 10 to 20 percent of our medicines used to be CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA based medicines. It has been found to be healthy and effective in the treatment of chronic pain, cancer, strokes, glaucoma, multiple sclerosis, sickle cell anemia, AIDS wasting and many other illnesses, including simple nausea, appetite stimulant, anxiety and muscle pains, etc.
On September 6, 1988, the Drug Enforcement Administration's Chief Administrative Law Judge, Francis L. Young, ruled: "Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man," and asked the Drug Enforcement Administration to reschedule it. The DEA refused, keeping it as a Schedule I drug, which they say "has no known medical use"! Thousands of studies have been done all over the world, documenting the medical use of MARIJUANA (England, Spain, Hungary, Holland, and the U.S., just to name a few). No one has ever died from MARIJUANA in over 6,000 years of recorded history... unless they were shot by a COP!
CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA was also used for land reclamation until 1915. CANNABIS/HEMP was planted or left to grow feral as ground cover and on riverbanks, and not intended for harvest. It is the NUMBER ONE plant in history used to prevent mudslides and loss of watershed, and river and soil erosion on Earth. It has been illegal to grow this NUMBER ONE plant in the United States since 1937.What disgusts me the most is how the U.S. government, as well as the people, knew about CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA and praised its value and then look what happened! In literally 90 seconds, the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 passed in Congress. By using the unknown name "MARIJUANA" instead of the familiar name "CANNABIS HEMP", Congress was able to accomplish this because no one knew what plant they were talking about. CANNABIS/HEMP became illegal and was replaced by petrochemical products, coal and natural gas. They made it such a banned and forbidden plant that the words "HEMP" and "CANNABIS/HEMP" were not even taught in schools from the 1940s, 50s and thereafter.
The role of CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA was erased from America's history (as well as most of the rest of the world's) after 1945. To prove it, think... what did you learn about CANNABIS/HEMP in grade school? High school? College? From your parents and grandparents? Nothing! (Unless it was from the underground press within the last 15 to 20 years.) The continuing suppression of this information by the U.S. government places us all in mortal jeopardy. I believe that, in order to save our planet, we must use non-fossil fuel energy. CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA, in conjunction with wind, solar, tidal and hydroelectric power, could save the planet by providing all of our energy, fuel, paper, fiber, and 10 to 20 percent of our medical needs, naturally. It would also reduce acid rain and chemical pollution, rebuild the soil, and reverse the greenhouse effect (no other plant can do this!). CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA was used to make over 25,000 products before it was outlawed in 1937.
Why does the U.S. government want to eradicate this seed, out of all the seeds on Earth? They want to kill the most perfect plant on the planet. We must stop this insanity and demand that the laws against CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA be one hundred percent repealed!!
Federal Attorney General John Ashcroft, Drug Enforcement Administration head, Asa Hutchison, and White House Drug Czar, John Walters, have been given all of these proven facts and yet are still set against the legalization of CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA and recognition of CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIUANA knowledge. For whatever personal reasons, they refuse to believe the facts and are willing to sacrifice the future of our planet and the health of our people by keeping it illegal.
The ban of CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA is so extreme and its intention is to hide the truth. The truth is that out of the 300,000 species, and the millions and millions of subspecies, of plants on Earth, CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA is the NUMBER ONE plant for our survival and quality of life here on Earth. Since September 11, 2001, the U.S. government and Attorney General John Ashcroft have been calling MARIJUANA users "terrorists" and yet the government of the United States has been "terrorizing" MARIJUANA users for the last 65 years! There have been over 14 million arrests for CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA in the last 65 years, in the U.S. alone! 13 million were within the last 30 years!
No one has taken the $100,000 challenge to prove me wrong. Why? Because I am right. The U.S. government has been lying to us since the early 1900s. Do economic interests and the police have more to say than the people about the future of our planet? How angry are you for being lied to by the U.S. government about CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA? Are you willing to make a stand right now? No one can dispute this information and knowledge. YOU have to join me in this fight. Either you are on the U.S. government's side or you are on my side.
Jack Herer
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Follow your Bliss,
Ben _________________ "We are the Ones we have been waiting for."
~Hopi Elder ~
"In Lak'ech"
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Ferre Cannabis Sacrament Minister.


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Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 12:08 am Post subject: |
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Yep, and also HempFlax adds a few $$$ with a same kind of offer...
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HempFlax’ Challenge
HempFlax will wager 100.000 euros to anyone who can provide proof to the contrary of the following proposition.
‘If the greenhouse effect were to be reversed by a ban on all fossil fuels and their derivatives, or if their use were to come to an end, and no more trees were allowed to be felled in order to prevent further deforestation, then there would be one natural resource able to supply the greater part of the world’s demand for products such as paper, food, textiles and construction material. This annually renewable resource can also provide energy to the industry, transport and the home. Meanwhile, the soil and the atmosphere on Earth can be restored and pollution reduced. This sustainable resource does it all at one time and is an old acquaintance: cannabis – hemp.’
You are a consumer, retailer, manufacturer, banker, politician, journalist, human being. If you do not refute the above proposition, taking responsibility for the environment will be your duty too. By effectively supporting hemp as you go. Help HempFlax.
http://www.hempflax.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=55&PN=1
Website: http://www.hempflax.com
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Also on their site, Hemp fuel vs Petrol
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Stokes Cannabis Sacrament Minister


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Pantagruel Cannabis Sacrament Minister


Joined: 16 Jan 2005 Posts: 47 Location: Nijmegen-Holland
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Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 12:01 pm Post subject: |
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High Mary,
I have to add some more information here about industrial hemp that relates directly to my background; the company I work for:
www.hempflax.com
On this site there is video's and many things to see and read, so you can see that industrial hemp is a reality (in most parts of the world now accept for maybe the US). In Europe the official fiberhemp industry is united in association called the European International Hemp-processors Association one that represents 90% of all industrial hemp produced and processed in western Europe:
www.eiha.org
This link gives you 1st class scientific data, check it out
Wish you succes
greetings,
Alan _________________ If in your soil it takes to heaven A thousand thanks be given; And say in the land, it goodley goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows. |
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ReverendCaveGrower Cannabis Sacrament Minister


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Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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the publisher of http://www.cannabisculture.com/ might offer archive access from past publications that could be usefull. _________________ Reverend Cave Grower |
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Rev. Chazman Cannabis Sacrament Minister


Joined: 15 Nov 2003 Posts: 1403 Location: Illinois - USA
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Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 11:44 pm Post subject: |
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With all the excellent links/info already posted here for you I wont add more. Just want to wish you well on your task. It is something that needs to be done for the benifit of all mankind. Look at the hangry children in the world that could be fed and clothed by the hemp plant.
I wish you the best.
Peace _________________ I praise good thoughts, good words, and good deeds and those that are to be thought, spoken, and done. I do accept all good thoughts, good words, and good deeds. I do renounce all evil thoughts, evil words, and evil deeds. ---Avesta: Yasna
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RogerChristie Cannabis Sacrament Minister.

Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 1098 Location: Hilo, Kingdom of Hawai'i
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Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 10:19 am Post subject: Basic commodities |
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Hello Mary,
Aloha and welcome to the THC Ministry. We're very happy to see you here with such an open mind.
I think of 'basic commodities' when I think of industrial hemp and its thousands of beneficial products. Food, clothing, shelter, medicine, fuel, soap, plastic, paint and on and on and on...
When I researched 'basic commodities' recently on a google search I saw that much of the impoverished world today lacks the very most basic commodities like noodles, soap, firewood, protein, cooking oil, lamp oil, etc., etc. All products that hemp could provide the raw material for. An example: the nation of Zimbabwe's people are down to one meal per day lately! To think that they're not allowed to grow hemp to survive is, well, it's not a pretty picture.
I sadly think that conscious prohibition of cannabis hemp is the preferred way of starving the poor of this world right off of the planet. Policy makers just can't be that stupid, can they?
Prohibition of cannabis hemp is genocide. There is zero second choice for the poor. It's either grow hemp, or die. Simple as that. (You're surely much more cordial in your communication methods, fortunately.)
Cannabis hemp is God's way of providing wonderful, healthy, abundant basic commodities for the masses. Please succeed in your quest, Mary. We pray for your well being and your effectiveness.
Much respect,
Roger
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entropical Full member

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THE SOLUTION TO AFGHANISTAN'S OPIUM?
Earlier this year the head of the United Nations drugs control agency said efforts to tackle Afghanistan's growing drugs trade were failing. The UK-based development agency Spirit Aid offers a radical solution to the problem.
During the 1990s, five or six provinces in Afghanistan were cultivating opium poppy.
Since the fall of the Taleban, that number has increased to 28 out of 32 regions. That is a major factor in worsening violence this year as people struggle to survive and fight for control of this illegal, socially damaging but lucrative resource.
Afghan farmers produce opium that is sold for some $2.3bn, according to United Nations estimates.
Its value is vastly inflated beyond that by the time it reaches its western consumers.
Despite this, Afghanistan remains one of the poorest places on Earth.
Collectively the farmers receive less than half a per cent of the wealth generated by their illegal crops. Much of the revenue ends up with local militias.
Environmentally friendly
The organization I work for, Spirit Aid, has developed a plan to replace Afghan opium - 75% of the global supply - with industrial hemp.
Hemp is a fast growing, legal cash crop that presents a host of immediate benefits to Afghan society, including a potentially lucrative source of foreign exchange earnings.
Hemp can be used to produce heating and cooking fuel, thereby ending the need for people to cut down and burn their remaining forests during severe winters.
Using hemp in this way would also help prepare areas of land for future tree planting projects.
It is part of the same family as cannabis, and the leaves of the two are indistinguishable.
But there are other benefits to cultivating hemp.
Renewable energy
At the moment many Afghan children are malnourished. Hemp produces a fruit boasting the nutritional qualities of soya, oily fish and wheat combined.
Hemp can produce quantities of wood equivalent to four times that of trees over a similar period of time. This biomass can be used in the production of clean, renewable energy, biodegradable plastics and building composites.
Hemp is currently being grown for these purposes in 36 countries around the world, including Canada and some European Union countries.
If hemp could be successfully introduced in Afghanistan we believe that:
* Those who depend on the 90,000 hectares of land dedicated to opium poppies in Afghanistan would instead be able to cultivate industrial hemp to provide heating, shelter, food and would have an alternative source of revenue
* Communities in the West would no longer be flooded with cheap heroin in this supply-driven industry
* The world would become a cleaner, healthier and more secure place as the need to cut down old growth forests and burn the remaining oil, coal and gas reserves is reduced.
Unique opportunity
Industrial hemp is perhaps the only economically and environmentally viable alternative to opium cultivation in Afghanistan.
It presents an opportunity to satisfy the immediate fuel, fibre and monetary requirements of two million farming households struggling to survive in one of the most dangerous countries on earth.
Hemp cultivation also presents a unique opportunity for environmental improvement in Afghanistan.
Crucially the international community has a moral obligation to prevent a Colombian-style "war on drugs" from taking hold in Afghanistan because if this happens we can be certain the violence, and supply of opium, will never end.
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Here is a link I found to their web page:
http://www.spiritaid.org.uk/latest.asp
You might also be able to seek contacts within the European Union and the European Parliament on this. You might also try contacting Chris Conrad, author of Hemp: Lifeline to the Future.
http://www.chrisconrad.com/
Here is also a swedish organisation working with hemp, trying to introduce it in a similarily conservative society that strongly support the idea of a drug free society.
http://www.hampa.net/eng/index_eng.htm _________________ "Rastafari is not a faith which can be converted to. No one person can say, 'This is exactly what the Rastafari doctrine is,' because the beauty of the faith is that it is seen through the eyes of the beholder...it is a way of life, which, like life itself, continues to grow in mind, body and spirit." |
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Fyrefly1 Cannabis Sacrament Minister


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Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 5:36 am Post subject: |
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Yayyyyyyy!
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"All truth passes through three stages: first it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third it is accepted as self-evident."
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entropical Full member

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I just remembered.. the International Journal of Drugs Policy, April 2003 (Vol. 14, Issue 2) might be of interest. _________________ "Rastafari is not a faith which can be converted to. No one person can say, 'This is exactly what the Rastafari doctrine is,' because the beauty of the faith is that it is seen through the eyes of the beholder...it is a way of life, which, like life itself, continues to grow in mind, body and spirit." |
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