And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
The Big Hemp Lie was spread by William Randolph Hearst. A focus upon why marijuana was illegal is a testament to the underlying treachery the government will foment in the pursuit to serve corporations and punish the people. Congress voted for its illegality in 1937 because it would have injured the profits of William Randolph Hearst, the newspaper baron. The Decorticator, invented in 1861, was the scientific breakthrough that would cheaply process hemp into paper and dozens of other products. The machine was repeatably improved until its usefulness came into a direct conflict with the recent chemical inventions promoted by industrial and government interests. The devise was unveiled in Popular Mechanics Magazine as the tool that would produce “America’s New Billion-Dollar Crop”, namely fiber rich hemp.
Hearst owned hundreds of newspapers and was heavily invested in the sulfuric-pulp process that makes trees into paper. He owned forests, too. He supplied his own businesses with paper and sold paper to other companies across the country. The Decorticator had him very worried so he personally began writing propaganda essays in his papers decrying marijuana as a public health menace that turns normal people into ax-wielding mass murderers.
You didn't get the big picture... the big lie. Hearst painted both the dope and the stuff that has no THC as one and the same. He knew hemp couldn't get you high but but he wanted ALL of it made illegal to protect his wood pulp paper company.
Like, it don't matter, man. Ya know that hemp stuff is how, oh wow, sorry man, that was a nice hit, how we got that saying: "Let's go smoke a rope, man."
Your sentence is odd. "Canvas sails were made of hemp." If it is canvas, how is it made of hemp? If it is hemp, it is not canvas. Canvas and hemp are not the same, so it can only be one or the other, canvas or hemp.
It was canvas woven of hemp fiber. Call it a sail, or a broadcloth, or whatever you like but those boat sails and covered wagons that traversed America were woven from hemp. So were the original Levis jeans. Henry Ford fabricated an auto body made from hemp that was difficult to dent with a hammer. I read somewhere the parchment of the Declaration of Independence was mostly hemp fiber. And Washington and Jefferson used to grow the stuff on their properties.
That is some fine hand stitching right there.
ReplyDeleteThat’s a whole lot of work to secure a grommet.
ReplyDeleteI'll bet it's just enough work to keep the grommet in place, talk about a learning curve!
DeleteMy photographic memory indicates you have posted this before, not that there's anything wrong with that. None the less, it's rather fetching.
ReplyDeleteThe Big Hemp Lie was spread by William Randolph Hearst. A focus upon why marijuana was illegal is a testament to the underlying treachery the government will foment in the pursuit to serve corporations and punish the people. Congress voted for its illegality in 1937 because it would have injured the profits of William Randolph Hearst, the newspaper baron. The Decorticator, invented in 1861, was the scientific breakthrough that would cheaply process hemp into paper and dozens of other products. The machine was repeatably improved until its usefulness came into a direct conflict with the recent chemical inventions promoted by industrial and government interests. The devise was unveiled in Popular Mechanics Magazine as the tool that would produce “America’s New Billion-Dollar Crop”, namely fiber rich hemp.
ReplyDeleteHearst owned hundreds of newspapers and was heavily invested in the sulfuric-pulp process that makes trees into paper. He owned forests, too. He supplied his own businesses with paper and sold paper to other companies across the country. The Decorticator had him very worried so he personally began writing propaganda essays in his papers decrying marijuana as a public health menace that turns normal people into ax-wielding mass murderers.
You conflate the two. Hemp was grown for its fibers, not the dopey qualities. In fact, to puff hemp was like to puff oat hay, but of lower quality.
DeleteYou didn't get the big picture... the big lie. Hearst painted both the dope and the stuff that has no THC as one and the same. He knew hemp couldn't get you high but but he wanted ALL of it made illegal to protect his wood pulp paper company.
DeleteLike, it don't matter, man. Ya know that hemp stuff is how, oh wow, sorry man, that was a nice hit,
Deletehow we got that saying: "Let's go smoke a rope, man."
Dave ain't here, man.
DeleteAccording to nautical legend, the smoking of hemp rope caused the Titanic to be run up athwart the iceberg:
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Your sentence is odd. "Canvas sails were made of hemp." If it is canvas, how is it made of hemp? If it is hemp, it is not canvas. Canvas and hemp are not the same, so it can only be one or the other, canvas or hemp.
ReplyDeleteIt was canvas woven of hemp fiber. Call it a sail, or a broadcloth, or whatever you like but those boat sails and covered wagons that traversed America were woven from hemp. So were the original Levis jeans. Henry Ford fabricated an auto body made from hemp that was difficult to dent with a hammer. I read somewhere the parchment of the Declaration of Independence was mostly hemp fiber. And Washington and Jefferson used to grow the stuff on their properties.
DeleteThat is some amazing workmanship.
ReplyDeleteI'll bet it's a bunch easier than trying to fix one on the move.
ReplyDeleteI'm a Knot Tyer, that is beautiful. a foto I've had for years. read Brion Toss and have an Ashley Book of Knots always near.
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