facts on... hemp

Hemp is an ancient plant, a generous gift of nature, that has been present on earth for at least 8.000 years. Now we are trying to make our contribution into the hemp cultivation revival in Italy. Everything that is made with cotton, wool or petroleum can be manufactured with hemp: fabric, paper, fuel, ethanol, construction materials, plastic, plexiglas, polystyrene and resin, as well as medicines, cosmetics, food; all this at a very low cost and without pollution. Hemp is resistant, ecological and everlasting. It can be used for more than 50.000 worthwhile commercial purposes.

Jack Herer: "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 was the NUMBER ONE annually renewable natural resource for 80 percent of all paper, fiber, textiles and fuel, from 6000 years ago until about 125 years ago. Furthermore, it was used for five 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. (...) In 1850, 80 percent of all paper, fiber, fuel, and oil were 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)!" (www.jackherer.com).