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No Compromise
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Hemp and the Environment
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Though the following issue is controversial, we cannot allow
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the type of propaganda that tells us that landfills and nuclear
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power are safe to mislead us from the sustainable possibilities
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of hemp.
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Hemp has been used in everything from papermaking to food
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production for over 6,000 years.
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Hemp can reduce the land needed to produce paper by over 75%.
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This can save over one billion trees per year, while greatly
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reducing the toxicity of paper production. All of this is done
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without the added chore of sorting paper for recycling!
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Virtually all paper produced in the US until the turn of the
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century was produced from hemp. Hemp paper lasts longer than
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other papers. The original draft of the "Declaration of
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Independence" and the Gutenberg Bible are on hemp paper.
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Hemp can produce longer lasting denim, canvass, and linen using
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fewer acres and pesticides than any other plant! While cotton
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uses more pesticides and chemical fertilizers than any other
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crop, hemp produces three times more fiber organically. During the
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1930s, it was estimated that over half of the linens imported
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into the US were made of hemp. Italy still produces fine linens
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made of hemp.
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Hemp can produce more edible protein per acre than any other
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plant including soybeans! The seeds can be used much like soy-
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beans to produce a variety of food products.
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Hemp can also produce 10 to 50 times the alcohol fuel as corn.
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Only 6% of U.S. cropland devoted to hemp is needed to meet all of
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the U.S.'s energy needs freeing it from foreign oil conflicts,
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acid rain, and nuclear waste.
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Over 5,000 textiles can be made from hempfiber while the hurds
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off the same plant produce cellulose which can be used in over
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25,000 products. Meanwhile the seeds and their oil can be used
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to make paints, lamp fuel, lubricants, and be eaten as food.
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SOURCES: USDA film "Hemp for Victory" 1942, Popular Mechanics
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article "New Billion Dollar Crop" February 1938, USDA
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Agricultural Statistics 1916-1942.
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For further information contact NO COMPROMISE, 173 Jackson
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St., Madison, WI 53704. (608) 241-9716.
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(PLEASE COPY AND DISTRIBUTE)
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