MARK M ALDRIDGE "Community Advocate" SA - HEMP / CANNABIS EXPOSED" a.userlink { color: #253741; } a.userlink:visited { color: #6a818c; } a.userlink:hover { color: #005e85; } font[size="1"] { font-size:10px; } font[size="2"] { font-size:13px; } font[size="3"] { font-size:16px; } font[size="4"] { font-size:18px; } font[size="5"] { font-size:24px; } font[size="6"] { font-size:32px; } font[size="7"] { font-size:48px; } .GuestBookMessage { font-family: Arial; color: #000000; font-size: 13px; } .GuestBookMessageRow { font-family: Arial; color: #000000; font-size: 12px; } .GuestBookHeader { font-family: Arial; color: #000000; font-size: 12px; } .div-text-footer-color { color:#000000; } .div-text-footer-container a, .div-text-footer-container a:visited, .div-text-footer-container a:hover { color:#000000; } Is our environmental and financial saviour Hemp? Before you start reading or you read the headline and accuse me. as has become the custom, of promoting drugs, here is a photo of Hemp, the plant used for thousands of safe applications, and the plant that I argue has industrial applications in Australia. It is not a drugWith over 15,000 known uses of hemp, the only one debated in as a drug, which is only one of 15,000, yet it is the only one being used by millions of people all over the world, and because of this all other uses are all but banned. Just think to yourself how stupid that statement becomes.You need Flash Player in order to view this.jQuery(document).ready(function() {vp.website.createVideoPlayer('mediaPlayer_43fac910_d046_4b59_92d7_451b41b13631', 'https://www.youtube.com/v/FYieF8LHmO0', 230, 295, true);});Mark Aldridge addresses Hemp Rally in AdelaideMark M Aldridge addresses the Hemp rally in Adelaide South Australia as an Independent candidate, and member of the Alliance AustraliaABC EXPOSES THE TRUTH "Click here" The truth is coming out ")For thousands of years up until the 1950’s Hemp was one of the most important plants on the planet, easy to grow, using little water, leaving the soil ready for the next crop and has many industrial and medical uses, along with many uses that benefit the current environmental debate. Medicines, textiles, paper, bio fuels, biodegradable plastics and food stock, and yet open debate appears of the agenda, with the whole “Clean and Green” in the lime light an educated parliament would be investigating what is best for the people and the environment rather than sweeping educated debate under the rug. With big industry having such a huge say in our society at a political level, it is no wonder hemp is of the agenda, as the benefits of a hemp industry would be far spread and accessible for many different industries and primary producers. In South Australia there has been much debate on the growing of cotton using dwindling river water resources, alternate crop alternatives, and general land productivity, let alone huge money for alternate green projects, yet hemp is not even debated as any alternative. Henry Ford had the answers many years ago, when one of his first cars was not only made from hemp fiber, but also run on hemp oil, Rudolph Diesel himself designed the diesel engine to run on hemp oil, something I do not remember learning in school, so how long has the truth been off the agenda? “Why use the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we can get the equivalent of forest and mineral products in the annual growth of the fields?” Henry Ford Henry ford was speaking of ethanol and bio diesel, both Ford and Diesel opposed big oil, and rightfully so, and so should any who look forward to a renewable future. One must wonder how years of recent debate on the climate and Co2 has never given rise to public debate on hemp, not just because of its clean applications, but its known ability as one of the best carbon sinks."Imagine if the politicians of the day, had backed Ford and Diesel, what would be powering our energy needs today, how many old growth forests would still stand, and would good old Co2 been enduing attacks on its good name as plant food?" Construction products such as medium density fiberboard, oriented strand board, and even beams, studs and posts can be made out of hemp, fibreglass and vehicle body panels, the list is huge as are the financial benefits for Australia. Because of hemp's long fibers, the products will be stronger and/or lighter than those made from wood. With deforestation such an important issue, and such a high price being allotted to forests for their stored Co2, via carbon trading initiatives, how could the use of hemp as both a carbon sink and an alternate textile be over looked? Even today BMW is experimenting with hemp materials in automobiles as part of an effort to make cars more recyclable, it is hard to believe that over 25,000 materials used today could be made from hemp, but only silence at the request of ingrained multinational greed. A quick Google of the word, finds thousands of educated articles, from vehicles driving thousands of klms on hemp bio fuels, many medical break through’s including cancer cures, increased demand for hemp from the paper, recycle industries and our struggling primary producers. While the Ideal plant is overlooked, the present diversions of important food drops to appease clean fuel production, is nothing but genocide in a starving world. I find it hard to believe any government would allow synthetic cures to replace the natural products when the natural medicines have less if any side affects, even worse there has never been a hemp/marijuana related death, yet the government bans hemp, while endorsing tobacco and alcohol products? I need not continue to list all the benefits or even to address the recreational use which seems to dominate debate in this country, what we should all demand is open and honest dialogue on the many possible uses of hemp in our society, with out the usual biases left over from the prohibition of the 1950’s. It is also not amusing that those who opposed hemp and worked towards its demise as a household product are the very same players that benefited from its demise, and if we look at the beneficiaries of carbon trading, the same names appear. Hemp has been an important part of human society for thousands of years, and has always been a very beneficial crop and remains that way today; the only self-interest we should allow as a society, is that of what is best for the people, by representatives that remember that fact. Mark M Aldridge Independent Candidate and Proud supporter of the “Australian Alliance”You need Flash Player in order to view this.jQuery(document).ready(function() {vp.website.createVideoPlayer('mediaPlayer_c440bde8_3d15_4266_815f_2ae3dfb9ab25', 'https://www.youtube.com/v/kzTYqzjggP8', 675, 577, false);});hemp 0001vid from my original channel..still as relevant as it ever was. I had this book (which is awesome) loaned it out and never saw it again..