Hey DdC, I wanted to make sure you saw the email below. On Tuesday Greenpeace released a report highlighting the use of toxic chemicals in the making of clothing from several global brands, including the largest fashion maker in the world ZARA. So far we've sent more than 40,000 emails to the company directly urging it to detox their line and commit to transparency by 2020. We broke our goal! Let's not stop now. Help us reach a new goal of 50,000 and send your letter to ZARA right now. Thanks, John From: John Deans, Greenpeace webmaster@greenpeaceusa.org To: dendecannabist@yahoo.com Date: Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 9:00 AM Greenpeace Exposes Toxic Chemicals in Zara, Other Fast-Fashion Brands Dear DdC, ZARA's clothing is polluting the world’s waters. Toxic Water in China It’s time Zara cleaned up its act. Send a message now urging it to detox by 2020! take action today For months, Greenpeace conducted research into many of the world’s top clothing brands and found disturbing news — ZARA, along with several other retailers — is polluting waters in China with hazardous chemicals. Those chemicals then wash into our waters when we rinse our clothes. Most of the fashion industry is treating public waterways like its own private sewers. It’s time we eliminate hormone-disrupting chemicals from the world’s waters before it’s too late. That’s why we’re challenging some of the most popular clothing brands to eliminate toxic chemicals from its process by 2020 — and we need your help. If 40,000 of us send a message to ZARA in the next 48 hours it will encourage the company to take the pledge to detox its clothing and stop the use of hazardous chemicals. Send your message now. Let’s face it, beautiful fashion shouldn't cause toxic pollution. H&M and British retailer Marks & Spencer know that. These companies have committed to eliminating all toxic chemicals from its supply chains and products. But ZARA, one of the world’s biggest fast fashion retailers, remains silent. ZARA is famously responsive to trends and keeps a close watch on buzz about its brand. If all of us can pressure the company to follow in the footsteps of those who have committed to clean up its act, this is one trend it won’t be able to ignore. We know it’s possible to clean up the toxics, we’ve seen it happen before. Thanks to you, the detox campaign secured commitments from Puma, Adidas and other sports apparel makers to clean up their practices and detox their line by 2020. So it can be done, but we’ll need your help. Reach out to ZARA right now with an urgent message to clean up its practices and detox today. As consumers your voice is critical to convincing ZARA and other companies to do the right thing. If the company responds the rest of the industry could follow, so it’s urgent we act now. Thanks for your help, John Deans Greenpeace Toxics Campaigner That's piling stupid onto greed. China could easily expand its hemp fashions without the poisons, as could we. DdC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IjFCGPDyRU"]The Hemp Fields of China President Obama's store sells hemp from Communist China while hemp farming in America remains criminalized While America's economy is suffering staggering losses in jobs and debt, the Obama administration is creating jobs for Chinese workers by selling hemp scarves on its website -- even while industrialized hemp remains illegal for U.S. farmers to grow! Learn more: High on Hemp Hemp Baby Clothing Hemp is a very durable, much stronger than cotton, and a breathable fabric that is often combined with organic cotton in the making of organic baby clothes. Extremely comfortable, the fabric created from hemp is similar in appearance to linen, but far softer; it's also totally machine washable, which is great given the mess that babies often make. Naturally UV resistant, sensitive baby skin will be protected in the warm summer sun. Hemp is grown naturally, without the use of pesticides, and is more ecological than cotton, which uses massive amounts of water to produce - whether it's organic or conventional. Given that fact, you can see why it is a preferred fiber in the making of organic clothing; a one-two-punch to help the environment. Do you know where your clothes were made? Hemp grows well without herbicides, fungicides, or pesticides. Almost half of the agricultural chemicals used on US crops are applied to cotton. Chemical Cotton vs Organic Hemp -1 acre of hemp will produce as much as 2-3 acres of cotton. "Marijuana and Hemp: The Untold Story" Thomas Bouril, 1997 -Cotton crops in the USA occupy 1% of the country's farmland but use 50% of all pesticides. The Emperor Wears No Clothes, Jack Herer, 1993 Hemp vs. Cotton -Environmentally, hemp is a safer crop to grow than cotton. Cotton is a soil-damaging crop and needs a great deal of fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides. "Frequently Asked Questions about Cannabis Hemp" Brian S. Julin, 1994 Textiles & Fabrics -Industrial hemp can be grown on a wide variety of soil types, but tends to grow best on land that produces high yields of corn. "Hemp Defined" North American Industrial Hemp Council (NAIHC) Brief Summary of the Uses of Hemp * Ships & Sailors * Textiles & Fabrics * Paper * Rope, Twine, & Cordage * Art Canvas * Paints & Varnish * Lighting Oil * Biomass Energy * Medicine * Food Protein * Building Materials & Housing * Smoking, Leisure, & Creativity * Economic Stability, Profitability, & Free Trade * Plant Diagram * The Challenge * Footnotes * When Hemp Saved Bush * Ship Rigging * The Greenhouse Effect and the Bureaucrat * G.W. Schlichten and the Decordicator Hemp was used by the pioneers to cover their wagons. The plant was a major crop in Kentucky, Virginia, Wisconsin and Indiana. (Geller and Boas, 1969: 16). "The oppressed should rebel, and they will continue to rebel and raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them and all partial distinctions, exclusions and incapacitations are removed." Thomas Jefferson, 1776. A French nobleman observed that Jefferson had placed his house and his mind "on an elevated situation, from which he might contemplate the universe." American High Society "I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?" - Willie Nelson Willie Nelson: Excerpts on Hemp and the Family Farm Hemp For Houses Harvesting hemp with a grain binder. Hemp grows luxuriously in Texas. electricemperor
New Billion Dollar Crop * Popular Mechanics 1938 * Mechanical Engineering * Kentucky Hemp Fields * The Many Uses of Hemp Cannabis Seeds: The Most Nutritionally Complete Food on the Planet Omega 3: Fish v Hempseed Oil Hemp Oil vs Fish & Mercury Factory farming bon apetite' Starving Babies and Illegal Food Hemp 'Eats' Chernobyl Waste Corporate Supreme Authority over the Environment Investigating agribusiness will soon be a crime States Making It a Crime to Investigate Agribusiness Abuses Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2009is a bill that was introduced in the United States House of Representatives by Ron Paul (R-Texas) and Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts) on April 2, 2009.[1] Also known as H.R.1866, the bill clarifies the differences between industrial hemp and marijuana as well as repeals federal laws that prohibit American farmers from cultivating industrial hemp. Hemp Farming Act of 2007 Introduced in Congress CN Source: PRNewswire February 13, 2007 Washington, DC For the second time since the federal government outlawed hemp farming in the United States, a federal bill has been introduced that would remove restrictions on the cultivation of non-psychoactive industrial hemp. The chief sponsor of H.R. 1009, the "Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2007," is Representative Ron Paul (R-TX) and the nine original co-sponsors are Representatives Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Barney Frank (D-MA), Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), Jim McDermott (D-WA), George Miller (D-CA), Pete Stark (D-CA) and Lynn Woolsey (D-CA). Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2005 109th Congress, 2005–2006 To amend the Controlled Substances Act to exclude industrial hemp from the definition of marihuana, and for other purposes. Search Legislation for Related Bills 13,068 bills matched your search. Hemp, Hemp, Hooray? No Way, Says DEA "The last thing law-enforcement people need is for the cultivation of marijuana-looking plants to spread. Are we going to ask them to go through row by row, field by field, to distinguish between legal hemp and marijuana?" Tom Riley, White House Office on National Drug Control Policy United States National Institute of Health, University of Mississippi marijuana plantation site, showing variation in plant size. A tall fiber-type of hemp plant is shown at left, and a short narcotic variety (identified as “Panama Gold”) at right. Seems it's a very high priority for D.E.A. to keep hemp illegal. Statistics look better mixing the two together. Saving our kids from nutrition and stronger fibers. DdC Cannabis Eradications 99.28% Ditchweed
Hemp Beats Bedbugs! Cannabis Vs Trees Cannabis Vs Dioxins -Hemp planting reduces deforestation and improves the soil upon which it is grown. "Hemp Horizons: The Comeback of the World's Most Promising Plant" John W. Roulac1997 “The Emperor Wears No Clothes” Jack Herer Cannabis:Food,Fuel,Fiber,FARMaceuticals! Czech's and Hemp Ganjawar in Everything Grow Your Own Hemp
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